What up DMNS!
It is Friday again, and, lo it is good. We've got JD &P answering some Qs for all y'all today, and I think it's a great one- not just because it's my (Emma, hi!) husband and one of my best friends in the world talking. It's really good. Y'all ask the best questions. I am gonna try to give you time stamps for said questions below and I am bolding your names because that makes it more exciting and you can be sure to listen if it's your question (apologies if I mis...
2020-12-04 20:42:51 +0000 UTC
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What ho DMNs! We've got our ad-free version of our public podcast here for ya, and it's more Tasha's talk! NGL, this one is a lil spicy. We talk about the DM facing stuff, pretty much everything we can manage beyond the subclasses we talked to all y'all exclusively about last week on the patreon pod.
If you like the public pod, please consider looking up Web DM Talks on your usual podcasting app and leaving a review!!
Have a great week y'all! Stay warm and keep...
2020-12-02 22:01:01 +0000 UTC
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What up DMNs! It's cyber Monday and I have spent all morning adding things to our merch store! We've now got die-cut stickers, mugs, totes, and more.
I've made a special coupon for y'all - CYBERDMN - that will get you 20% off everything at the store for all orders through Saturday, December 5
Here's the store: https://teespring.com/stores/the-web-dm-apparel-store...
2020-11-30 19:20:09 +0000 UTC
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What up DMNs! We've got the ultimate Black Friday deal for you: almost two hours on the subclasses in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything!!! Make a sandwich, relax, and listen to JD & P's takes on the subclass options in the newiest D&D Book. Woohoo!
2020-11-27 18:33:58 +0000 UTC
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Happy Thanksgiving, DMNs! If you celebrate the holiday, we hope you're having a good one.
We are supremely grateful for each and every one of you. The ability we have to connect here on Patreon has kept us going creatively, mentally, and practically through this difficult year. Thank you for being here.
May you all roll a crit on your Turkey roasting check! Seems like a Wis save yeah?
2020-11-26 17:50:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey there DMNS! Here is your gloriously ad-free patreon version of this week's public podcast, Web DM Talks! As always, we hope you enjoy it, and if you do and you are a regular podcast listener, please be an absolute peach and give the public version a review on your podcasting app of choice!
Also, be sure to check out the post just before this one with Jim Davis' NPC Prep Sheet for all y'all to use, enjoy, and give feedback on if you like!
Yeehaw!
2020-11-24 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! We have a new bonus type for all y'all, never been done before, but it will not be the last - we have a WRITTEN DOCUMENT to help you in your games! This week's shows are all about playing better NPCs, and so Jim is sharing his planning sheet with y'all right here. Click for the pdf! We will get this laid out professionally and make it publicly available someday, but all short publishables will always be right here FREE for y'all.
LINK: 2020-11-24 16:21:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! Random question, but what episodes stand out to y'all as really successful podcasts we've done here on patreon? Which ones did you find the the most useful and/or enjoyable to listen to
Thank you for your insight!
2020-11-21 17:33:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! We've got a chill pod for y'all today! Jim and Emma are here answering YOUR questions about the following:
-How to fill out random encounter tables expanded
-TTRPGS with interesting religions?
-How to get your players to play something else (for once?!)
- How to create cultures and societies that make sense and aren't frisbee deep
Keep your questions coming and seriously, hope everyone out there is doing ok!! It's a rough time for many of us, but w...
2020-11-20 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Here's this week's Web DM Talks for y'all! Enjoy!
2020-11-18 01:42:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! Ad-free podcast coming at y'all shortly, but in case anyone wanted to know, wanted to let you know our episode of The Big Bad is live right now! This is a series by the Wandering DMs that is competitive dnd, which inspired us to think of Co-DMing in a whole new way. Jim, Emma, and Pru are all there along with Rudy Basso, who is an awesome friend and gamer. Worth a watch if we do say so ourselves...
2020-11-18 01:39:21 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! Hope you're enjoying your weekend. We are filming a bunch of shows next weekend, and we wanted to give y'all a chance to ask more fantastic questions! So what's on your mind?
2020-11-15 16:09:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey there DMNs! We've got a positively DIVINE podcast for you today, a deep dive into religion in D&D, what it means to us, what you can take from real world religions to inspire you, a bit about Jim and Pru's background, why clerics are weird, and what the guys think religion would look like if it were fully realized in a D&D world.
Join us in worshipping at the altar of RPG, and have a great weekend.
Bless you all.
2020-11-14 02:18:57 +0000 UTC
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Heyo Patrons! Here's your ad-free version of this week's Web DM Talks! Random tables and why we love them and why we think you should too!! Yeehaw!
2020-11-10 19:26:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey there DMNs!
We're thrilled to have you here with us for another week! It's been a doozie! We are making more progress in the last batch of Qs that you Aed us - when we started we thought we'd get to em all and we tried valiantly. Some of the topics include:
--alternative initiative systems
--fantasy games in modern settings
-- how to set level when a PC dies?
--More campaign ideas than could ever be played
-- magic above level 9
--expanding...
2020-11-07 02:31:44 +0000 UTC
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Giddyup! Here's the ad-free version of our new public podcast. If you really like it, we'd be much obliged if you would go over to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web-dm-talks/id1534624846 and leave a review!
We appreciate y'all so much. Tell us what you think of the pod!
2020-11-06 20:27:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! quick note - I know we normally get the podcast out earlier and I am behind on Web DM Talks. It has been A WEEK in more ways than one but today seems like a pretty good day, and i'm catching up. Gonna have the ad-free version of Web DM Talks up for y'all in just a few minutes and the Patreon pod will be up later tonight.
How are y'all doing? I would genuinely like to know!!
Emma
2020-11-06 20:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Happy Halloween DMNs! Tomorrow your power is at its apex, and we are so grateful that you're here with us.
By request, we are giving you HORROR STORIES with all three of us!!! Many of you have noticed we reference some horrible, no good, awful play experiences earlier on in our gaming lives. Today....we're talking about them.
These stories are 100% true, 1000% helped us grow as gamers and people, and 10000% messed up. To that end: Content Warning - Hard drug use, sexual ...
2020-10-30 20:32:52 +0000 UTC
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What up DMNS!
We're back with a new Web DM Talks all about making monsters relevant in your world, why you'd wanna do that, and how we do it in a way that doesn't bloat prep, plus a question from one of you lovely folx!
2020-10-26 22:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNS! We've got a good one for ya today - first we start off with some responses to your responses about a question in last week's episode and how to move away from combat for XP exclusivity in D&D, and then around 33:00 we start to talk about DUNGEONS, their various types and how Jim Davis goes about creating them.
Next week, we've got HALLOWEEN HORROR TABLE STORIES with all of us! Have a great week, y'all, and stay safe out there!
d1000 stocking table found he...
2020-10-23 18:33:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! Hope you're doing well!
We've got a podcast for ya, and BEAR WITH US. It's all gonna be ok. Jim and Emma DO discuss the Cats movie, but first we answer some of your questions which relate to, well, stress in the time of 2020. How to reconcile feeling weird about mindless violence in your games, how to dole out secrets, and what to do when you just run out of gas for playing before you're ready.
And then we get to the main topic. Like most of our film/tv ones, ...
2020-10-16 16:52:24 +0000 UTC
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What ho, DMNs! Here's the ad free version of our brand spankin' new public podcast for ya, Web DM Talks! Today the guys are talking about the oft-overlooked merits of co-dming. And then we answer a patron question about what to do when your players are a buncha GOOFS who don't take anything seriously.
Our podcast is off to a great start, but if you'd like to help it grow even more, we'd love it if you could look it up (it should be everywhere except iheartradio by now!) and give us a 5...
2020-10-12 20:05:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! We've made it to the end of another week, and we have another podcast for you!
First we answer questions from Amanda about how to make the most of short sessions, then we answer Danielswords about their player's fear of failure, and then around the 40 minute mark we get into a topic of our own devising!
This week's video and public podcast are about how ability scores might affect portrayal or decisions made by PCs. While we were shooting that show, we started talkin...
2020-10-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey DMNs! Here is the ad-free version of our very first public podcast just for y'all. We hope you like it! Audio quality is a bit wobbly around 40 mins because it was our first time producing in a new way and we're ironing out all the bumps! We're talking about how to RP low ability scores, how to do it in a way that is interesting, respectful, and doesn't make it super un-fun to have a dump stat.
We hope you enjoy it! if you do and you've got time it would really help us out if you c...
2020-10-07 18:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNS! Wanted y'all to be the first in the world to hear what's next for Web DM!
As announced earlier in the week, our co-creator and producer Travis is stepping away from an active role in Web DM. We wish him all the best with his future projects and will joyfully share them with you.
This change has been an opportunity for us, the three active partners at Web DM: Jim, Pruitt and Emma, to evaluate how we want to grow Web DM, and we're ready to share these updates with you....
2020-10-03 17:53:59 +0000 UTC
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What ho Demons!
We've got more answers to your questions today, along with what is likely to be one of the stranger and more rambly openings.
We answer questions about how to prep effectively, Jim's favorite TTRPG story, and more.
2020-10-02 16:43:07 +0000 UTC
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Hi y'all! We're hosting a charity game today- Jim is running and Pru is playing along with these awesome folks! We teamed up with Monte Cook Games for this event and we are using Arcana of the Ancients. The game is at noon Eastern Time on twitch.tv/webdm
We're raising money for two Covid Emergency Relief Funds in Austin, TX.
We'd appreciate your support by showing up, sharing on social media if that's a thing you do, or giving if you are moved to.
If you're interested in ...
2020-09-26 14:35:58 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! Hope this podcast finds you well. It's a Jim n' Emma one, schedules got in the way of having Pru on yet again this week, but it's a fun one because we answered your excellent questions!
We started with some older q's and then got into what y'all gave us this week.
Question topics: Quantam Ogres, THAC0, Rules light game for students, Academia and RPGs, Players who don't get along, DMs too obsessed with balance, murder hobos and contrarians (which is totally my n...
2020-09-25 17:53:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! Wanted to see if y'all had any more questions for us! Anything you'd like to hear about? Jim and I are gonna do a podcast this morning and we're not sure what we should talk about. So we thought we'd put it to y'all.
2020-09-23 13:23:32 +0000 UTC
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What up DMNs! We've got Pruitt BACK, hooray!!! We're talking more on failure, but first, we talk a lil about birthdays as this was recorded on Wednesday, Jim's 40th birthday!! Then we get some updates on Pru's game and do a very cursory first look at Rime of the Frostmaiden!
Around minute 25, we get to the fail talk, where we talk about how to "fail forward" at least in regards to how to handle players' failed rolls.
Take care DMNs! Hope you're well.
2020-09-18 16:33:41 +0000 UTC
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