Hello DMNs! First off, thank you so much for your warm welcome of all our new content- we're so excited to start sharing it with the world.
Our first episode of Between Two Turns premieres tonight at 8pm on www.twitch.tv/webdm with guest James Introcaso! I got to ask him a few of your questions as well as a bunch of my own. If you miss the stream, not to worry, it'll be out on youtube and podcast, and I'll get it up here on the patreon feed as well.
I'm recording more this Saturday, so I wanted to open the floor for questions!...
2022-05-12 17:06:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! We've got a special one for y'all today - Pendragon Notes is a show that Jim Davis and his fellow Pendragon player Colin have talked about doing for a very long time, and this week they filmed a sort of test show, a proof of concept...a pilot, if you will, where Jim and Colin use Pendragon as a jumping-off point to engage their considerable body of collective knowledge to talk about history, legend, and whatever other weird shit they can think of.
As you can see between yesterday's update and this, we're currently in a he...
2022-05-06 12:03:33 +0000 UTC
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Hey there DMNs! Wanted to check in with you briefly this week, as those of you in the know will surely notice we've been a little MIA this week. This week we've been juggling a lot of revisions, a sick household, and have to cut the week short to attend a memorial service, so we couldn't fit in a livestream. We are hoping to have a podcast for y'all tomorrow, but if it doesn't happen, we wanted to let you know AND give you the inside scoop for some things we've got in store starting next week!
--Tuesday Nights at 8 PM EST will be
2022-05-05 18:44:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! As promised, we've got a special SPELLJAMMER ep with our best boy Pruitt! So thrilled that his time off lined up with this momentous occasion. The guys spend some time talking all about SJ and answer some of the questions we couldn't get to in our genuinely almost-too-busy live stream on Wednesday (check it out here if you haven't caught it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0yIdukiEe0)
It's so good to have Pru with us this week, and we look ...
2022-04-29 17:50:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! I'm sitting down with Mike Shea, who you may know better as Sly Flourish this weekend and would love to hear the questions you'd most like him to answer!
2022-04-27 19:33:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! We're gonna talk about all kinds of stuff tomorrow live on YouTube! We got Pru on board, and *knock wood* we will also have a patreon podcast for y'all all about spelljammer with Pruitt as well on Friday!
Follow tomorrow's live show here: https://youtu.be/c0yIdukiEe0
2022-04-26 21:54:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs!
Slow week in the D&D world, huh? JK! There have been soooo many announcements since we last had a podcast! The fates conspired against us, and we we had to record before D&D Direct, but we chatted about WotC's acquisition of D&D Beyond and a bit about what we expected D&D to announce yesterday.
Kind of glad it worked out this way. Now, next week's pod can be all about what's coming up for D&D because holy shit. It was a big day!
We also got to answer some of your questions! Here they are...
2022-04-22 14:14:49 +0000 UTC
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Hello all! Here's your ad-free audio for this weeks show- it's all about TPKs and the lessons we've learned from them. Tell us about your TPKs, fam!
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Have you ever had a TPK? Jim sure has, and believe it or not, they taught him good lessons about how to be a better dungeon master, D&D player, and lover of ttrpgs. Here's our TPK DnD stories!
Get the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG:
2022-04-20 19:27:19 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your great questions for James Introcaso!
Our next interview will be with Dael Kingmill, whose YouTube Monarchsfactory is one of our faves in the ttrpg space. Do you have questions for her?
2022-04-16 14:44:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! Today we're dreaming about a world Jim's working on - one called the Sea of Dreams! This is the kind of conversation we have together, like, all the time in regular life as we think through our various campaigns and projects, and we thought you might like to hear how that goes down in its early stages. This particular world is for an open-table library game Jim's gonna be running in his personal time, but who knows! Maybe one day we'll write some of these wacky islands up.
What questions do you start with when you're worl...
2022-04-15 14:32:43 +0000 UTC
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Hello all! Posting this week's pod in just a bit, but before that, I wanted to give you an update on your new show and get your help for our first episode!
Thank you for all of your great name suggestions! Y'all gave us a lot to think about and there are so many great titles. The one we're gonna go with is *drumroll*
BETWEEN TWO TURNS!
I love this one because it works on many levels- the tone I'm hoping for with the show is one of people having a chat during a game, between two turns if you will. Plus, for those of you ...
2022-04-15 13:15:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey DMNs! We've got another live show coming up on YouTube this Wednesday- this time Jim's gonna be talking about dungeon encounters! We're also going live earlier in the day because a) we think more people might be able to make it to a lunch time thing and b) Emma's getting a very overdue haircut and her hairdresser won't move it again
We'll be going live on Wednesday at noon eastern time! Join us!
2022-04-11 19:48:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs!
As we teased in our last podcast, we've got some new shows in the works! One of them is an interview show where I, Emma, will be interviewing TTRPG designers and creators. We're going to begin recording this weekend, and we only have one problem: we can't think of a name we like! So we thought, as Web DM's brain trust, you might like to have some input! If we pick your name, I can shout you out on the show and if you want I will send you some stickers and a thank you note.
So what do you think we should name the sho...
2022-04-11 19:36:38 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! How are ya! We've got a shorter pod for you today - we all had a cold at the start of the week, which means we had to record later and go as long as we had energy for, but that is not for lack of enthusiasm on the topic!
Jim is preparing to run an open table game at a library in his personal time, and so we're talking through considerations for running a game with a revolving queue of players of various ages and skill levels in a large group with a very firm time limit. It's a challenge! Have any of you ever tried your ha...
2022-04-08 14:39:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey there DMNs! Got a fresh new monster vid out today - so here's your ad-free audio version! So happy to get more of these monster shows out. Enjoy the BASILISK! (and peep the coupon code in the description for all you MCG fans!)
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Basilisks are iconic mythical monsters found in so many TTRPGs, including every edition of Dungeons and Dragons, and we love them. Unpetrify your mind and get lots of new ideas to inspire you about the basilisk.
Final Days to back Tidal Blades: 2022-04-07 17:47:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello Web DMNs! How are you all doing on this, the first Friday in April? You'll get no pranks from us today, but you will get some answers to some excellent questions. There's a loose theme to these questions that I didn't really appreciate until after the recording was over, which is how to go about adding layers of complexity - to a subsystem, to a game, to a rulebook, etc. Ultimately, it's a question (like many in gaming) that come down to taste and table, and it's one of the dials we like to consciously adjust as we play games. It's a s...
2022-04-01 13:03:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! We're gonna be alternating weeks of live and pretaped videos for a bit while we build back more of a backlog. That means that tomorrow we're gonna get back to dungeon design live with what to put in your dungeon! Jim is using a megadungeon to aid in this discussion, but the principles applied work for dungeons of any size.
Join us at 3pm eastern time, (an hour later than we have been this week), hang out and ask questions and enjoy some time with Jim Davis and a dungeon! Follow link here: 2022-03-29 16:35:41 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! Today we continue the conversation about Warhammer by discussing what may be Jim Davis' favorite RPG and setting - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay! We discuss the wargame and the beloved games we've played in WFRP 2e and 4e. There's something about this game that we keep coming back to as an inexhaustible font of fantasy inspiration. Those of you who have played, do you agree?
Timestamps:
4:22 - John Petersen: Here is my cool idea for a new homebrew magic potion!!! What do you think?
16:12 - Laura: Could you ple...
2022-03-25 13:26:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello all! We're back with our regularly scheduled programming with a fresh new monster show all about TROLLS! We love them because, well, they're f*cking disgusting. But if your players know exactly how to deal with them, they lose a lot of their horror appeal. So we dig into them! What they are, why it's cool, what the issues with them are, how to deal with them and, at the end, a whole mess of TROLL TIDBITS - inspirational nuggets that didn't quite fit but we wanted to share nevertheless.
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2022-03-24 19:06:00 +0000 UTC
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WAUUUGH! Hello Chaos Marines! Our sacrifice to you, our blood gods, today is something we expect will be near and dear to some of your hearts - Warhammer 40k! Jim grew up loving it, and Emma has a soft spot for it too. We haven't played in a long time, so those of you that are more up on it - what's your take on the state of the game now?
Time stamps (in case you'd like to paint the podcast red to make it go faster)
5:27 - Billy Lamberti: For the new year, I want to learn and play the One Ring TTRPG 2nd Edition. I find it very ...
2022-03-18 12:43:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey DMNs! If you feel like thinking about creating dungeons, come hang out with us! We're live now: https://youtu.be/_may0uQhJwc
2022-03-16 18:08:23 +0000 UTC
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Today at 2, Jim Davis is designing a dungeon over on YouTube!
We've talked about how to do this conceptually, and we've always been asked for a real-time demonstration. Now is the time. Follow here: https://youtu.be/_may0uQhJwc
2022-03-16 13:53:43 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! Thank you for being here! We hope you're doing well.
A couple updates for ya:
--We've got an update on Weird Wastelands over on Kickstarter that features tons of art if you'd like to see it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/webdm/worlds-of-web-dm-weird-wastelands/posts/3447875
Progress on the manuscript is going very well! Our work is under intensive review and we're making ...
2022-03-11 16:01:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! We wrapped up our sandbox last week, so this week we're taking questions live over on youtube! Also gonna be discussing the newly dropped UA with all the dragonlance options!
Join (or watch the VoD) here: https://youtu.be/1f2BjQsUNGg
2022-03-09 19:01:18 +0000 UTC
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Good morning DMNs! We hope your week has gone well and that this last day is running apace! If it's lagging, put on this podcast! It'll help move things along. We're talking about pacing! Pacing is really really important to the success of a game, and when it goes pear-shaped, an otherwise fun game can totally grind to a halt. It's also one of those skills that is put squarely on the GM's shoulders and is actually a bundle of skills all rolled up into one - it's the ability to describe, to be prepared, to present decisions, to read the room,...
2022-03-04 16:22:07 +0000 UTC
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We are LIVE on youtube showing you how to make encounter tables and rumors for your #dnd and #ttrpg games! Join us now: https://t.co/pvZE7Ej7Vu
2022-03-02 19:06:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey there DMNs!
Thank you so much to those of you who were able to attend our lil live chat on Friday night! I wanted to throw up an audio version for those of you who want to listen and not faff about on YouTube. Due to the medium this is a bit less polished than our regular podcast - there is some audible typing and the volume levels change about halfway due to some readjustment we needed to do - but it's an enjoyable and worthwhile listen nevertheless if you wanna have a listen.
Some links Jim mentions over t...
2022-02-28 19:03:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs!!! Please join us now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcPpTWRJZ6c
2022-02-26 01:31:10 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
Our live q&a will be starting in just about an hour! We'll be sharing a link here on Patreon. If you can't make it, don't worry! You'll be able to access the vod and we'll throw up an audio version in the coming days, too.
See you soon!
2022-02-26 00:25:14 +0000 UTC
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Hello DMNs! How are y'all doing?
We're laying out our magic circle and beginning the incantations because we'd like to summon you to a live q&a hangout tomorrow, February 25th at 8:30pm eastern! Thought we'd mix it up a bit from just a podcast. Join Jim and Emma and we'll all experience the present moment together and discuss our favorite hobby for a glorious 60-90 minutes. When it's over, we can release an audio version, too.
Hope you can join us!
2022-02-24 16:06:22 +0000 UTC
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