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Ready, Nerd, Go! 011: Take the Crossbow, Leave the Cannoli

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop role playing games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for this episode:

  • Character weaponry.
    • How do you start with your weapon?
      • Choosing your attack method
        • Melee
        • Ranged
        • Magic
      • Improvising weapons
        • GM discretions
    • Sliding scale of complexity for the attack method

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 009: “To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don’t have to kill your feelings. It’s enough to kill hatred within yourself.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for this episode:

  • Metacurrency
    • What are they?
    • Terms (action points, fortune points, benefits/a bene)
    • How they work
    • Use case example
  • Tweaking the rules to use the points
    • General tweaking of when they are used
    • How to adjust for the use of metacurrency
  • Different types of metacurrencies
    • Individual action points
    • group action points
  • Should you use metacurrencies?
    • How strict are you going to be in the roleplaying?
    • How does your group want to play?

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 008: “Fear is an illness. If you leave it untreated, it can consume you.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop role playing games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for this episode:

  • Character death.
    • That’s it. There’s a lot of talk about killing a character, how to recover as a player and how and when to insert a new character.

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 007: “People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop role playing games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for this episode:

  • Dice
    • What types, what do you need?
      • Physical vs virtual
    • How much do you need to spend on a set?
    • Misbehaving dice and urban legends.
    • Should you buy game specific dice sets?
    • “You’re stealing my luck!”
  • Dice equipment
    • Towers, and the joy of anticipation
    • Trays and the curbing of enthusiasm
  • Common table rules with dice
    • Cocked die?
    • Die landing off the table?
    • Cheater dice or specifically weighted dice

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 006: “If I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for this episode:

  • What you want to play verses what you get to play.
    • Collections on the shelf, getting a group together.
    • Alien Colonial Marines verses Pathfinder 2e.
  • Playing a game in an established fiction.
    • Does the system make a setting more enjoyable?
    • A tangent on D&D and Stranger Things.
  • Introducing new players to systems.
    • Playing with Math Rocks (also known as dice).
  • Book sizes, complexity and amount of books required.
    • Add ons verses editions.
    • Player/GM created tools.
    • Fan ideas, creator collaboration.
  • Book layouts and presentations.

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 005: “Courage Is Found In Unlikely Places.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for the fifth episode:

  • How do you decide on what game to play?
    • When the table thinks the game is bad…
    • Is it just you, or is the table not enjoying the game.
  • Wait, what do we do if we don’t like the game?
    • Rebooting the game to a certain part.
    • Is the game unsalvagable? Why is that?
      • Characters, plot, tone or the rule system?
      • Is it the GM’s style or is it the game style?
      • Transferring characters from one game
  • How to make an unenjoyable game enjoyable.
    • As a group
      • Rewinding time to when we had fun.
      • Giving the players agency.

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 004: “Deeds Will Not Be Less Valiant Because They Are Unpraised.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on table top role playing games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other table top RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for this episode:

  • Creating a character
    • Generally speaking…
    • Premade characters.
    • The life path system.
  • Building a character
    • Class.
    • Personality.
    • Equipment.
  • Backstory ideas
    • Where do they come from?
    • How important are they?
  • What if I don’t like the character?
    • Adjusting
    • Giving up.

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 003: “Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other table top RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for the third episode:

  • Game Masters
    • Do you need them?
  • Can you play and also be a GM?
    • DMPCs
  • Building an Adventure
    • The illusion of choice
    • Hooking the players to a story
    • “Above the table”
    • Prepare, but not too much.
  • Playing without a GM
    • What does that even mean? Aren’t those just board games?
  • Finding a GM?
    • Solo play games

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.
Email: ReadyNerdGo@gmail.com

Ready, Nerd, Go! 002: “It’s a dangerous business, going out your door.”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy’s newest podcast focused on tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for the second episode:

  • No gaming vs okay gaming vs bad gaming. Not all games are going to be for you.
  • What is a Session Zero, and why is it important?
  • Are there ways to avoid things I’m uncomfortable with in a game?
  • But nerds are weird…
  • Red flags

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.

Ready, Nerd, Go! 001: “And So It Begins”

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Welcome to Ready, Nerd, Go! Graphic Policy and Board Game Today’s newest podcast focused on tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs), hosted by Alex and Enko. With the rising popularity of D&D and other tabletop RPGs, we wanted to help folks who are interested in learning about the hobby take their first steps.

On the docket for the first episode:

  • Who are we? 
  • Getting started playing RPGs; 
    – What you need
    – Where to find a game?
    – Should you be afraid?
  • What’s the difference between D&D and RPGs?
  • Do I need to know how to create a character? There’s too many things to think of!

Music by Alex Grohl from Pixabay.

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