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The Overprepared DM

The Overprepared DM

Jen

Jen (JenIsOnline) and Nick (EmoAasimar) discuss the ins and outs of being a Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dragons! We are both online friends, streamers, and DMs! We started this podcast to discuss all sorts of things with each other and guests~
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Jen (@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 podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Matt!
Twitch - @MadmanMattigan
Twitter - @MADMANMATTIGAN

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Jen (@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 on twitter!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Josh!
Dungeons & Dragons - @NPCvoicesInstagram - @NPCvoices
TikTok - @npc.voices
Twitter - @NPCvoices

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Jen (@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!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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Twitch: @HorrorBecomesThem

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Jen (@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!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Sumner:
Twitch - @TummyNumNer & @Fateful_Encounters
Instagram - @TummyNumNer
Twitter - @TummyNumNer

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Jen (@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!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Matt!
Twitter: The_Other_Matt_
Twitch: The_Other_Matt_

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Jen (@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!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Albyon!
Website - http://albyonabsey.com
Twitter - @AlbyonAbsey
Instagram - @AlbyonAbsey
Reddit - @AlbyonAbsey
Discord [Click Here]
MORE LINKS HERE

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Jen (@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!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Logan!
Twitch - @theredhareinn
YouTube - The Red Hare Inn
Instagram - @theredhareinn
Twitter - @theredhareinn

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The Overprepared DM - 23 - Season 2 Finale LIVE - The Overprepared DM
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08/15/22 • 86 min

Jen (@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!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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Jen (@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 if you reach out to us!
Follow the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Keith!
YouTube - Fire&DiceInstagram - @Fire.And.Dice
TikTok - @fire_and_dice
Twitter - @_fireanddice

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Jen (@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 the podcast on twitter!! @overpreppeddm
CONNECT WITH JEN on Twitch, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, Reddit, and all other social media platforms at (click!) @JenIsOnline
and watch Jen live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @FeywildAndOut
CONNECT WITH NICK on Twitter and Insta at
@ EmoAasimar
and watch Nick live on Twitch playing D&D with (click!) @SWGamingSociety

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CONNECT WITH OUR GUEST, Chirag!
Twitch - @DesisNDragons
YouTube - DesisNDragons
Instagram - @DesisNDragons
Twitter - @DesisNDragons

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FAQ

How many episodes does The Overprepared DM have?

The Overprepared DM currently has 33 episodes available.

What topics does The Overprepared DM cover?

The podcast is about Dungeons, Dnd, Dragons, Fiction, Selfhelp, Youtube, Talkshow, Dungeons And Dragons, Dungeon Master and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on The Overprepared DM?

The episode title '26 - High Levels & Pets w/ Chirag from @DesisNDragons - The Overprepared DM' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Overprepared DM?

The average episode length on The Overprepared DM is 59 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Overprepared DM released?

Episodes of The Overprepared DM are typically released every 21 days.

When was the first episode of The Overprepared DM?

The first episode of The Overprepared DM was released on Jun 13, 2021.

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