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Time is a Resource that we don't have much of in our lives so how can we make sure that every moment of that time that we use for TTRPGs can be used to create the most joy and fun around our tables? That is exactly what we are here to talk about and discuss today.

We talk about how you as a Game Master can improve every single aspect of GMing by using time effectively. From taking a few seconds in the game to think about reactions and outcomes to taking needed week-long breaks from TTRPGs altogether to beat D&D and TTRPG Game Master Burnout. There is a lot to cover when it comes to making sure your TTRPG moments are the greatest they can be but we are here to help with this episode.

Our Midroll Music is "Midnight Tale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Our Outro Music is "Ascending the Vale" Kevin MacLeod (imcompetech.com)

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In this episode, we talk about if you should split your D&D and TTRPG Parties. This is a meme as old as Tabletop Roleplaying itself and came from the first Editions of D&D where characters would run through dungeons and splitting the party just increased the difficulty of each encounter. But TTRPGs evolved since then, so is it still true to never split the party?

We discuss everything around Splitting your D&D and TTRPG Party. Spoiler Alert: We believe you should and sometimes will have to split the party. So we talk about when you should or shouldn't do it, how to do it as a player, and how GMs can split the party to achieve certain narrative, dangerous and suspenseful moments at the table.

If you ever asked yourself: "Should we split the party in my D&D Game?" This is the episode for you!

Our Midroll Music is "Midnight Tale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Our Outro Music is "Ascending the Vale" Kevin MacLeod (imcompetech.com)

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Today we talk about ways you can make your D&D and TTRPG combats more interesting, difficult, and engaging by using monster and enemy tactics.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to use tactics and how even the most simple tactic can already have a great impact at your tables. We also discuss how you can come up with tactics easily for every single monster and enemy by just using them the way they are already designed.

We discuss and advise on creating tactics and the most simple ways to spice up your combats and make your players sweat. We talk about what different Monster features mean and how they would be using their features to their advantage or how a simple structure and a leader on the enemy's side can already make combats better for everyone involved. We talk about how they heighten immersion, make the world feel more natural, and create a sense of complexity in your world too.

Our Midroll Music is "Midnight Tale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Our Outro Music is "Ascending the Vale" Kevin MacLeod (imcompetech.com)

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You can find us on the Web under these Links:

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Today we talk about the reason why TTRPGs are becoming bigger and bigger and more and more mainstream. Obviously, there are many reasons working together here but we are here to talk about the aspect that experience plays.

In this episode, we talk about the difference between consuming content and experiencing content and why our world has evolved from just wanting to consume specific content to make the experience of said content unique and exciting. This is where TTRPGs play a crucial part for us since they are a way to experience, create and explore our own content without many extra requirements.

We discuss what it means to consume content and why the experience of content consumption and creation is different and more important in todays world. We talk about the factors that lead to this development like Social Media and the Availability of the Internet and bring it all back around to talking about why TTRPGs are such amazing tools for everyone to use. We give out advice on creating and heightening immersion at the table, how to experience a story rather than telling it, and what you can do to make your games spectacles no one will ever forget.

Our Midroll Music is "Midnight Tale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Today we talk about how you can hand the right magic items to your D&D and TTRPG players to reward them, spotlight them and level them up. We also answer questions like: "What Magic Items should i give out?" or "How many D&D magic Items are too many?"

In this episode, we talk about magic items in D&D and how generous you should be in handing them out to your players to not boost their power too much but to still make them feel rewarded and powerful. If you ever asked yourself the question of what kind of magic items, how many of them, or how powerful they should be this is the right episode for you.

We discuss what it means to be generous and if there is something like being too generous or not generous enough when it comes to magic items and rewards for players in D&D. We highlight that different TTRPG playstyles will call for different levels of generosity and that players should have some say in what way they are rewarded. We give out advice on creating the right balance of power and danger using magic items and rewards, how you can work with your players to create the best magic item rewards possible, and what you can do if you ever gave your players too many magic items.

Our Midroll Music is "Midnight Tale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Why Your World Matters is back!!

This is the 4th Instalment of Why Your World Matters - A TTRPG Worldbuilding Panel aiming to bring together creative people to discuss creating more immersive, wonderful, inclusive, and creative worlds.

Why Your World Matters message is simple, everyone can be creative and create wonderful worlds and stories. This time we once again bring you 5 new Content Creators that create Podcasts, Streams, Books, and Worlds for you to enjoy, they reveal their techniques for creating worlds, what inspires them, and how you too can create even more wonderful things.

Click here to get to know our amazing Cast:

Sage:

https://twitter.com/sage_steam

https://www.twitch.tv/steamsage1

Kendo:

twitter.com/kendomakesfilms 

twitter.com/TalesYetTold 

https://www.instagram.com/TalesYetTold/

twitter.com/namelessdomain 

twitch.tv/namelessdomain

Amber:

https://twitter.com/thespacejamber

twitch.tv/thespacejamber 

https://www.tiktok.com/@thespacejamber

Nathan:

https://twitter.com/Reckless_Attack

https://www.twitch.tv/recklessattackstudios

instagram.com/recklessattackpodcast 

https://www.youtube.com/@reckless_attack

Lys:

twitter.com/daunt_lys 

twitch.tv/dauntlys 

ko-fi.com/dauntlys 

youtube.com/@dauntlys

Kaiya:

twitter.com/mirror_lock 

mirror-lock.itch.io

Organized by us and Jason Zollinger/ChillTouchRPG, find Jason here: https://twitter.com/ChillTouchRPG / https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Jason%20Zollinger

As always remember that this is a Stream Recording and not Original Podcast Content and this was Streamed on November 5th of 2022.

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WE'RE FINALLY BACK!!

Join us today as we start Season 2 of DoubleDM, where not much changed and we are still doing the same discussions in the same format!

This time we talk about how to always improve as a Game Master, that you are never the perfect Game Master and can always seek to improve your skills to weave even greater stories, craft even grander worlds, or roleplay even better villains. There is always something you can do and improve on but it's important to look back once in a while too to appreciate where you came from and what Mistakes and Past Experiences helped you the most in becoming who you are today.

We discuss making the best of every moment at the table and playing with a focus on improving your games to have the best time possible and give advice that will help you in shaping future sessions to come and especially how to evaluate the games you played and moments that happened.

Our Midroll Music is "Midnight Tale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 

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We're supposed to be on break but we need to talk about the news now so we thought to at least make a short update including all the information currently available and what we are doing with the information available and also Wizards just updated on D&D Beyond so it's the perfect time to upload. :)

This new OGL is not about empowering their own game and its creator space but an attempt to control and squash the market in their hands to make D&D not only the world's greatest roleplaying game but the world's only roleplaying game. Wizards of the Coast has shown their intent to control and with this short update, we want to just tell you what that means for us, you, and the content creation space.

Please make your voice heard and support an #OpenDnD in whatever way you feel comfortable, cancel your D&D Beyond Subscription, File Support Tickets with Wizards, and talk about this online and offline. If you want to look further than D&D and play new games I encourage you to do so too.

Please inform yourself further using these links:

Linda Codegas Original Article: https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634

Roll For Combats Leaked Document: http://ogl.battlezoo.com/

DnD_Shorts E-Mail Post: https://twitter.com/DnD_Shorts/status/1613576298114449409

Paizo's Community Announcement of ORC: https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v?Paizo-Announces-SystemNeutral-Open-RPG-License

The Newest Leak discussed by DnD_Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjbBuZafv4c

One of the earliest instances of Discussion around this happened on the Nerd Immersion Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgWlPcyi34U&t=0s

Wizards newest Update on the OGL and their first response to community backlash: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-game-license-ogl

There are countless other videos, blog posts, articles, and podcasts out there by all kinds of creators which I encourage you to check out as well.

#OpenDnD #StoptheSub #DnDBegone 

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It's been 2 years since we started DoubleDM. Thank you for joining us on this incredible life-changing journey into TTRPG Content Creation. This episode is us looking back at the amazing 2 years we had and what we learned about Content Creation, TTRPG Game Mastering, and just us as Human Beings. We talk about how our lives, our Game Master Style, and our Content changed in those 2 years and talk about what it means to us that we have been able to produce content for you all this time. 

(I'm getting a little teary-eyed writing this Description)

This episode also features some of the best things, practices, and ideas we have learned about content creation and D&D and TTRPG Game Mastering and kind of serves as a recap of 99 Main Show Episodes. We also look into the future of DoubleDM and what will happen next for us in the next 2 years of Content Creation.

Once again, thank you for joining us on this journey and we hope we can stay together for another 2 amazing years.

Reminder: We're on break till February 6th and won't be releasing any Main Show Episodes (there might be other Content dropped) 

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Website, Twitter, Instagram, Ko-Fi

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Join us for this episode where we talk to Alec Azzam a Professional TTRPG Game Master and Content Creator.

Professional Game Masters run TTRPGs and D&D for a living and today we talk about what it means to get paid for running a session of D&D. Alec runs 12 to 15 sessions of TTRPGs a week and with that Alec runs more games a week than most of us do in a month. We talk about how he is able to balance all that and what it means for a session to be a paid session. We ask Alec all kinds of questions many people have when they first meet a Pro GM and also dive deeper into how to get started as a Pro GM, what it means to be a professional GM, and how being a professional GM changes your views about playing and running games than a normal kitchen table game master.

For more information see these timestamps:

9:00: Let's meet Alec Azzam

12:30: How do you prep as a Pro GM?

16:30: Whats the difference between Hobby and Job GMing?

24:30: How does being a Pro GM work?

34:00: Does it ever get boring?

39:00: Pro Gming is a new concept how does it feel to be in this new field?

45:30: How much of Pro GMing is D&D?

47:30: What happens before Session 1?

56:30: Consume a lot of Content

60:00: Don't plan for the party

You can find Alec with these links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Alec_Azzam

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/alec_azzam

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/alec_azzam

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