Welcome back to DMNastics, the gym for Dungeon Masters to work out their minds.

I'm one of your host, DM Neal, aka Joe.

I'm the other one.

Can't take him anywhere.

That's the GM Tim.

I don't think I've ever let you introduce me properly on your own podcast.

No, it's fine.

Someone I know and love who will interrupt me constantly, but that is fine, because we can also comfortably sit in silence.

So I willingly accept the interruptions.

But today, we will start a new series entitled Between Two Screens.

Such a good title, man.

I really don't want it to be as unhinged as between two firms.

I don't think we're the wrong two people then to start this off.

Definitely watching the outros makes you feel better about the whole between two friends.

It's more like what this will actually probably end up being.

Imagine only the outtakes from between two firms.

It's that.

But one of the things that I realized is that, like, and we've brought it up so many times on the podcast is that a lot of the DM process before, during, and after is very silent, very personal, very lonely at times. Like, if we want to get to the darker elements of it, but like a lot of it just happens by yourself. And you don't realize how other people are doing it. It's why we always

shout out the idea of watching other people run games, finding someone you enjoy seeing what

their preparation process is, going to con games, doing as much as you can to experience other people being dungeon masters.

So what we're going to do here is we're actually going to talk about

prepping for our games, just more generally.

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