Shows
The Overprepared DM33 - Triggers & Distractions w/ @HorrorBecomesThem - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest MahoneCapone (@HorrorBecomesThem) talk about horror game settings, inspiration from media, session 0, in game signals for topic changes, yoink and twisting ideas, randomly placing things and how to come back from them not fitting in the game, party distractions, AND MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on...
2023-08-0954 minThe Overprepared DM32 - Managing Toxicity & Pay-To-Play w/ Larnce Hicks (LoreDragon) - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Larnce (@LoreDragonPlays) talk about toxicity at the table, how to be confrontational and protect your players and table, crossing the line, pay to play tables, running games people pay for, how to set boundaries, AND MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok...
2023-07-081h 02
Dungeons & TalkshowsD&T: Happy Eldritch Birthday! ft: Nick (The Over Prepared DM)Dungeons & Talkshows is a D&D/Tabletop rpg podcast bringing you monsters, news and homebrews in the casual style of friends at the table. With exciting guests. Sometimes going on side tangents then pulled back to the point much like a home game. Join us as we explore the far reaches of the hobby from monster lore, homebrew, community news and the diverse perspective players, DMs and non-players alike in this one of a kind podcast. This week: Dad joke bards, Orion's birthday and dnd marines? Youtube: TheNerdMilitia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtE0Wq8ro...
2023-06-151h 44The Overprepared DM31 - Main Character Energy & Terrain w/ @The_Other_Matt_ - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Matt (@The_Other_Matt_) talk about characters created to be real, collective motivation, singular motives, player backstories, facilitating fun, killing players, terrain building & reusing terrain, main character energy, how to be confrontational with players, how to approach difficult conversations, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN...
2023-05-081h 00The Overprepared DM30 - Table Conflict & Descriptions w/ DeAngelo Murillo - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest DeAngelo (@That_DeAngelo) talk about maps, pacing encounters, managing a table and people at it, table conflict, being the facilitator, and MORE!Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnlineand...
2023-04-0353 minThe Overprepared DM29 - Chaos & Mapping w/ Patty O Furniture - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Patty (@PattyOFurniture69) talk about modules, scaling encounters, mapping encounters, reusing maps, silly roleplay, being silly within combat, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnlineand watch Jen live...
2023-03-0247 minThe Overprepared DM28 - Assumed Competence & Planning Stages w/ Donovan - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Donovan talk about eating while playing, hosting dinner events in game and at the table, themed areas to promote eating at a table in character, story telling and book reading, cliffhangers, bouncing ideas off others, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta...
2023-01-241h 01The Overprepared DM27 - Eating & Story Telling w/ Albyon Absey - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Albyon (@AlbyonAbsey) talk about eating while playing, hosting dinner events in game and at the table, themed areas to promote eating at a table in character, story telling and book reading, cliffhangers, bouncing ideas off others, and MORE! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, I...
2022-11-2058 minThe Overprepared DM26 - High Levels & Pets w/ Chirag from @DesisNDragons - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Chirag (@DesisNDragons) talk about high level characters and narrative control shift from DM to players, power creep and anime, changing the story based on the player's guesses about what is happening, telling players what you expected them do, reworking monster stats and boss battles, lair actions, pets, and so much more! Catch us every other Sunday (as much as we can) for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow t...
2022-11-0158 minThe Overprepared DM25 - The Illusion of Choice & Pantheons w/ Logan from TheRedHareInn - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Logan (@theredhareinn) talk about everything in the view of story telling at this tavern, writing a module for yourself, shifting prepped session in front of players that go the opposite direction, character development for one shots vs campaigns, railroading character development, illusion of choice, players helping with world building and pantheons!Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter...
2022-09-251h 00The Overprepared DM24 - Humans & Using real World History w/ MADMANMATTIGAN - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Matt (@MADMANMATTIGAN) talk about blending in NPCs to your story, reusing the world you built for new stories that effect that main game or other games, lore dumping, humans and other races, Priapos, using real history and media in world building, utilizing one shots to build out your world, making mistakes, and of course, mimics. Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the...
2022-09-0447 minThe Overprepared DM23 - Season 2 Finale LIVE - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) give a recap to the second 10 episodes of The Overprepared DM, recounting great points and memories with all the lovely guests, and answer questions from the chat during our third live recording of an episode on twitch.tv/JenIsOnline !There will be 3 weeks in between this upload and the first episode of Season 3, so in the mean time, send us messages, leave a review, find us on socials ~ anything! We would love to hear from you!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter...
2022-08-151h 26The Overprepared DM22 - Living Worlds & Backstories w/ Keith from Fire&Dice - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Keith (@Fire&Dice) talk about railroading stories, creating NPCs and where to begin, interesting quest givers OTHER than bartenders, PCs forgetting about NPCs, and the DM forgetting an NPCs way of being and voice, and we talked a lot about integrated player backstories into a campaign, how to help PCs write backstories, and a few things to do when a PC doesn't have a backstory!Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics...
2022-07-2450 minThe Overprepared DM21 - Relying on Maps & Twitch w/ Josh from NPCVoices - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Josh (@NPCVoices) talk about bringing back in person rituals with playing D&D, Streaming D&D, finding your voice, taking an acting class, immersion on twitch, minis and terrain and relying on it, letting the dice talk, making the bones of the world, overprepping descriptions, and of course - the amazing big boody boblin.Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast...
2022-07-1053 minThe Overprepared DM20 - Milestone Vs. Experience & Adding New Players w/ Gup from TheGoldenMug - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Gup (@TheGoldenMug) talk about reading the entirety of modules, knowing your player's playstyles, foreshadowing, having multiple arcs versus one overarching story, having a table of players with different playstyles/personalities & adding new people who don't fit, experienced based games versus milestone based games, working with players to give them what they want, and characters learning new things in game! Catch us MONTHLY for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Fo...
2022-06-2658 minThe Overprepared DM19 - Seeking Feedback & Playtesting Homebrew w/ René from DragonRocRPG - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest René (@DragonRocRPG) talk about homebrew, creations, and how to take feedback. Why it's important to constantly seek feedback, and all the various projects that Rene works on! Catch us MONTHLY for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnlineand watch Jen li...
2022-06-1255 minThe Overprepared DM18 - The 5 Senses & Hyperfixation w/ BreannaFlaim - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Bre (@BreannaFlaim) talk about hyperfocusing on what players MIGHT do, existential anxiety about the players seeing through your preparation - so you prepare MORE, top to bottom and bottom to top descriptions, how to do it, and the 5 senses. We also talk about con-characters, expanding your world to fit multiple stories, and MORE! Catch us MONTHLY for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddm
2022-05-2847 minThe Overprepared DM17 - Misinformation & Rolls w/ PondPlays - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Pond (@PondPlays) talk about reusing notes and names, diversifying cities, political structures, Themed Games, other games with dice and cards, using modules, and pranking players!Catch us every other Sunday/Monday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnlineand watch...
2022-04-171h 02The Overprepared DM16 - 1000 Listens LIVE Celebration - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) answer questions from the chat during our second live recording of an episode on twitch.tv/JenIsOnline !THANK YOU FOR 1000 LISTENS OF OUR PODCAST! THAT'S HONESTLY SO COOL. YOU GUYS ROCK!send us messages, leave a review, find us on socials ~ anything! We would love to hear from you!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnlineand watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with...
2022-04-031h 33The Overprepared DM15 - Politics & Board games w/ April Hill - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest April (@Stiletto_Assassin) talk about reusing notes and names, diversifying cities, political structures, Themed Games, other games with dice and cards, using modules, and pranking players! Catch us every other Sunday/Monday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnlineand...
2022-03-0649 minThe Overprepared DM14 - Immersion & Dark Themes w/ NearlySquid - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Austin (@NearlySquid) talk about power gaming and how to work with player's preferences, multiclassing, immersing players in online games (in 10 minutes! ~), and one shot preparations, also dark themes and making people comfortable. Catch us every other Sunday/Monday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at...
2022-02-071h 00The Overprepared DM13 - Winging It w/ Tim from BlackwaterDND - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Tim (@BlackwaterDND) talk about rolling dice more often than not, DM roulettes, side quests without overpreparing, improvising, motivations, WINGING IT, getting the party interested in side stories, session zero and planning, engaging shy people, and making the party RUN!Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and...
2022-01-2453 minThe Overprepared DM12 - Wish & Cliffhangers w/ The_Nart - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Dylan (@The_Nart) talk about mixing and matching editions, rules, travel time, talking your way out of situations, tables, cliffhangers, and the wish spell along with the deck of many things!Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) ...
2022-01-021h 03The Overprepared DM11 - Season 1 Finale LIVE - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) give a recap to the first 10 episodes of The Overprepared DM, recounting great points and memories with all the lovely guests, and answer questions from the chat during our first live recording of an episode on twitch.tv/JenIsOnline !There will be 4 weeks in between this upload and the first episode of Season 2, so in the mean time, send us messages, leave a review, find us on socials ~ anything! We would love to hear from you!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter...
2021-12-051h 22The Overprepared DM10 - Consequences & Boundaries w/ ArcanePriest - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Moony (@ArcanePriest) talk about players running games, saying no, telling people to look at the situation they are trying to pull off from an outside perspective, changing campaigns based on character's actions/letting go, emotional responses from players and telling great stories without hurting people in those stories! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT...
2021-11-2253 minThe Overprepared DM9 - horror stories & inspiration w/ BrightDystopia - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Bright (@BrightDystopia) talk about "yes, but" versus "yes, and", large party horror stories, player engagement, not rolling dice during roleplay, roleplay heavy games, death saves, and taking other content for inspiration! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) ...
2021-11-0358 minThe Overprepared DM8 - Tactics & Permanent Damage w/ Just2Casual - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Jay (@Just2Casual) talk about prepping before games, bonds and hooks, tacticle aspects of D&D, making characters utilizing resources while dungeon diving, special moments and limit breaks of players, permanent damage, narrative combat, and efficient characters versus playing the characters! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok...
2021-10-0649 minThe Overprepared DM7 - Homebrew & Mechanics w/ @Mendarii - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Faye (@Mendarii) talk about homebrew and game mechanics; how not to break them! We talk about Tiers of Play, campfire chats in the world, questions to ask your players when they are making their characters, and the ease and difficulty of writing in and out players/characters!Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH...
2021-09-191h 06The Overprepared DM6 - Toxic DMing & Trust w/ GeorgeWAmbush - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest George (@GeorgeWAmbush) talk about overcomplicating exposition, players NOT having fun, rooting for players and being on their side, balancing party splitting, running games with intention, building trust with players, toxic DMing, communicating with your players, and random encounters! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all...
2021-08-2251 minThe Overprepared DM5 - Combat Engagement & Pacing w/ TummyNumNer - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Sumner (@TummyNumNer) talk about Big Bad Evil Guys (BBEGs), whether or not to make the BBEG and world cooler than the players, FUDGING rolls as a DM, character deaths, ret-conning stories and actions, and combat engagement + Pacing of battles! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and...
2021-08-1553 minThe Overprepared DM4 - Player Stories & Limitations w/ Aaron from QuestVault - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Aaron (@QuestVault) talk about important NPCs versus random NPCs, building the world with your player's stories, limitations and frameworks for players in the worldbuilding process, how to listen to your players wants for the game, mental health, and DM dont's! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit...
2021-07-2558 minThe Overprepared DM3 - Metagaming, NPCs & Voices w/ MickArcade - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Mick (@MickArcade) talk about metagaming, bending stats and games to be new and unique, NPCs, modules, and using preexisting content and making it yours, making NPCs, voicing NPCs, and getting players comfortable with using their own voices! Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other...
2021-07-111h 04The Overprepared DM2 - Resources & Deaths with HiAdventure - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline), Nick (@EmoAasimar), and our guest Sebastian (@HiAdventure) talk about how to improv, great resources for helping us prep, recycling content, memes, session zeros and investing players in the setting, playing vs. performing, PC (player character) Deaths, and SEBASTIAN'S COMIC SECRETS! ~ Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us! Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media...
2021-06-271h 04The Overprepared DM1 - Intros & Experiences - The Overprepared DMJen (@JenIsOnline) and Nick (@EmoAasimar) talk about who they are, their first OVERLY PREPPED DM experiences, powergaming, sessions 0s, and other topics wrapped together as a great introduction to the new Podcast, The Overprepared DM. Catch us every other Sunday for a new episode with all sorts of topics, featuring different guests and answering your questions and broaching your topics if you reach out to us!Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddmCONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline...
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