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Live One-Shot:
Trekker Treat

October 20, 2023 • Doors: 6:00 PM • Start: 6:30 PM
Witches & Wizards Arcade • 1214 Eugenia Street, Columbia, MO 65201


Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent:
Episode 10

October 29, 2023 • Start: 6:00 PM


Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent

Four mix-matched adventurers traverse the realm of Lawbrand: a gritty, industrialized world where heady religion and ancient magic are in constant contention…  all the while, the Auroboros writhes just beneath the surface, biding its time.

Episode 10

October 29, 2023 • 6:00 PM

Episode 11

November 22, 2023 • 6:00 PM

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Detect Nerd is a group of friendly nerds dedicated to encouraging community among other friendly nerds with a general but not exclusive focus on tabletop gaming. Detect Nerd presents live-on-stage gameplay, a streaming adventure campaign, outreach events to encourage new gamers, and social meetups for nerdy people.

We include game players and game managers, plus audiences who enjoy entertaining and improvisatory performance, creative artists and collaborators, and anyone who just wants to feel comfortable being around other nerds.

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May 16, 2023
Detect Nerd on KBIA's "Thinking Out Loud"

A great afternoon chat with "Columbia's Voice of NPR," Darren Hellwege. Topics include: Detect Nerd; nerds; nerd-adjacency; other.

https://www.kbia.org/show/thinking-out-loud/2023-05-17/thinking-out-loud-detect-nerd

Also check out this segment from earlier in the year with KBIA's Abigail Ruhman:
https://www.kbia.org/2023-01-09/one-local-group-seeks-to-build-community-through-dungeons-dragons

March 1, 2023
Excellent Detect Nerd profile in the Columbia Tribune

Thank you to Aarik Danielsen for the very thoughtful and accurate profile of Detect Nerd. And check out Dani Mondloch's great photos, too!

"Detect Nerd is casting a benevolent spell on Columbia... Forged around common interests — namely, Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop games — the local collective takes its preoccupations public. Detect Nerd hosts live-streamed campaigns, movie meet-ups and in-person events that, to hear its founders' descriptions, take the form of a real-time trust fall, involving a delightful alchemy of storytelling, improv comedy and community-building."

View the full article at https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/lifestyle/things-to-do/2023/03/17/enter-the-world-of-detect-nerd-a-columbia-gaming-collective/70007989007/

Coming Soon!

Party Insight:
Talking Episodes 6–10 of Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent

November 5, 2023 • Start: 6:00 PM

Live One-Shot:
Supperware II

November 10, 2023 • Doors: 6:00 PM • Start: 6:30 PM
Cafe Berlin • 220 N 10th St, Columbia, MO 65201

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