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Wednesday Show Audio - Tool Proficiencies

The day after Jill fixes Pruitt up with the perfect woman, Pruitt shocks Jim and the Tool Time crew by proposing marriage on air. 

Input Needed!

Hey y'all, I am drowning in options and I need some help! Looking at expanding merch items (and including possibly offering some as rewards!) and being the never-buy-anything-fun kinda lady I am, I'm entirely unreliable in terms of predicting what kinds of Web DM Merch people would actually want.

I intend to do a more proper poll on this ...

Web DM Podcast 157 - On Failure

What ho, DMNs!

First off, our thoughts are with our West Coast patrons - hope you're all staying safe and secure. We know some of you have had quite the time of it this week, and if there's anything we can help with, let us know.

These are tough times for everyone everywhere. If anyone needs to unsub because of hard time...

Web DM Podcast Episode 156 - Vancian Magic

Heya DMNs!

How are ya! We're teetering on the brink of a long weekend here in America and wish you all well. 

We've got an hour and change of Jim Davis' defense of Vancian Magic! His thesis: it has a lot less to do with D&D magic than most people argue, and that D&D doesn't take it far enough.  

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Wednesday Audio - RPing New Characters

 A jealous Pruitt strikes back at Jim and Professor Jim with a vengeance by spreading the word about their May-December affair, which climaxes at a costume ball.   Meanwhile, Rogers gives the rest of the gang papers to fill out on a perfect mate profile for a psychology project, and Screech ends up getting the same mark as Alex.&n...

Web DM Podcast Episode 155 - Realism, Simulationism, and Verisimilitude

What up DMNs! We're going almost maximum philosophy for you today. This is the beginning of a conversation about the philosophy of gaming, GNS and the Big Model and why Jim feels it helps him understand why he games and what he likes when he does.

Big model wiki:  2020-08-28 16:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Web DM Podcast 154 - Star Trek

Qapla' Demons!

*Spoiler Warning: We talk about plot points in literally every iteration of Star Trek except Discovery and that new animated thing that just came out.*

This is kind of a new thing here, y'all - we're talking about some of the finest TV in all of nerdy popular culture: Star Trek. We've been meaning to discuss it for ...

Wednesday Audio - Skill Challenges

Skill Challenge HYPE!

 Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jonathan Pruitt) is a young apprentice Jedi knight under the tutelage of Qui-Gon Jinn (Jim Davis) ; Anakin Skywalker (Trogdor Burninator), who will later father Luke Skywalker and become known as Darth Vader, is just a 9-year-old boy. When the Trade Federation cuts off all routes to th...

Web DM Podcast 153 - August Q&A 2: The Q-ening

Good afternoon, DMNs! How goes it, friends?

We've got Jim and Emma here with a breezy podcast where we answer more of your fantastic questions! Open to all tiers again! 

Some notes:

The word Emma was trying to go for at the beginning here was flaccid. 

The link Jim refers to when explaining encounter turns is h...

Web DM Podcast 152 - August 2020 Questions 1

TGIF Demons! Y'all ask so many good and high caliber questions for our shoot warm-up and we want to answer every single one.  This is the first part of that! Jim and Emma got through roughly the first half, so check it out! Lotsa good ones. Making this available to all tiers so if you are a basic tier patron and you asked a question you can...

Wednesday Audio - Variant Skill Checks

Hello DMNS! I'm so sorry this is late. Patreon has been kinda buggy from my side of it this week, and I thought it posted on Wednesday, but I see now that it didn't! Here's our talk about variant skill checks/alternate ability scores when rolling skill proficiencies. Fun fact: this was one of the hardest videos we've ever had in terms of SEO jus...

Your Help Required- Warm up Questions

Hello patrons! We're shooting 4 more shows today, and we need some warm up questions! We will answer these to get us comfy on camera and will invariably answer all of them on this week's podcast!

Edit: Thank you so much all! We had a great shoot and all your support and enthusiasm really helps us! Our podcast this week (and maybe next wee...

Web DM Podcast Episode 151 - Experience Points

Hail, DMNs!

Hope you've had a good week! Here's a podcast for ya - Jim and Emma talk about experience points, and why we think they're kinda good and deserve more love than they get in most 5e games anyway. Plus, Jim reveals that he knows how to tie a bindle.

What's your stance on XP? Also, how long are your sessions? We're curiou...

Web DM Podcast Episode 150 - Weapons and Armor

What ho, DMNS! We've made it through another week, and we're almost 7/12ths through 2020.

This week's episode is thinking through weapons and armor as they exist in IRL and some ways to bring more of that combat realness to your DnD and RPG games.

A quick note:  The audio on this one is slightly rougher than we like - the fi...

Wednesday Audio - Mythic Odysseys of Theros

In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings...
A land in turmoil cried out for a hero.
He was Pruitt, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle.
The power...the passion...the danger...
His courage will change the world.

Web DM Episode 149 - Martial Arts and Mechanics

Good morning, DMNs! How are all y'all today?

We're back with Jim and Pruitt discussing Martial Arts and Mechanics! For those who don't know, Pruitt is an accomplished Taekwando athelete and former instructor and he shares his knowledge to the max on this one.  This is a concept-a-thon.  If there are any of these concepts you'd ...

Web DM Episode 148 - Video Games and TTRPG

TGIF Demons! I don't know about you, but it's been a tear your hair out kinda week, and I (Emma) is very glad it's about to be over.

The highlight of this week was this conversation we had, about video games and TTRPG.  I'm not gonna lie, it's a RAMBLER.  We're all over the place. We're talking about video games' connection to T...

Wednesday Audio - When to Roll

Kenny Rogers' Roasters sets up shop across the street from Jim and Pruitt's apartment. Unfortunately, their unusually large chicken sign causes problems for everybody. Pruitt and Jim wind up switching apartments because of it. 

Wednesday Audio - Player Roles

What roles do you usually take on? 

Web DM Episode 147 - Answering the Rest of Your Warm Up Questions

Happy Friday DMNs! Today we've got another JimN'Emma for you - answering every one of the warm up questions (the ones that got to us before Thursday morning anyway!

Emma was feeling kinda low energy, but Jim Davis more than makes up for it.  If you have more questions, don't hesistate to ask as always, because we love answering them...

Warm up Questions?

Hey y'all! Emma here, we're gonna be shooting for the next couple days (from home but with proper cameras!!)-- I've been working with Trav to transform Jim and my's murderish basement into a proper ish studio!

Do y'all have any questions you've been thinking about that the guys can talk about to warm up?

Cheers y'all! We love you...

Web DM Episode 146 - Session Zero

Happy Friday DMNs! We're getting back from our break and we're at you with a fresh one on Session Zero, but not after an unexpected-yet-rewarding discussion about chicken sandwiches, and a rundown on some games we've been playing.

Sesh 0 stuff starts around 29:40. 

 Have a fantastic weekend, and Andy- Hope your PF2e Sessio...

Info needed: Session Zero

What questions/thought do y'all have about season zeroes? Recording shortly!

Web DM Podcast 145 The Who is Your Character Show

Hello from the past, DMNs! We are on vacation as your read this but we got this all set for you to make sure we didn't leave you hangin' while we take some much-needed time off!

This is another weird Jim and Emma one. WHO IS YOUR CHARACTER? Is it you? Is it your character? Is your character your avatar, the vessel through which you yours...

Wednesday Audio - Pulp Fiction

Fun fact: This was the last show we had from our pre-covid shoot.  We don't know when we will be able to shoot in person again. 

Wednesday Audio - Fey Wild

This concludes the great Catch-up on show audio of 2020! My plan from here on out is to make Show Audio available with every show release! Thanks for bearing with me while I posted tons and tons of these!

We will be going on break starting tomorrow, but not before we get a vid out and i get the ...

Wednesday Audio - Make Your Worlds Feel Real

The intro gag doesn't really work if you can't see it, but it's ok.

Wednesday Audio - Mounted Combat

 The Polish Hussars (/həˈzɑːr/, /həˈsɑːr/, or /hʊˈzɑːr/; 2020-06-16 18:21:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Wednesday Audio - Using Real History

Jim and Emma head to a Nazi-controlled castle in Austria where Pruitt is being held. Jim finds Pruitt and frees him only to be quickly captured by Colonel Travis.

Wednesday Audio - Unicorns

 The Last Web DM is a 1982 American/British/Japanese animated fantasy film about a unicorn who, upon learning that she is the last of her species in the world, goes on a quest to find out what has happened to the others of her kind.