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Post by Scott on Sept 21, 2015 21:37:37 GMT -5
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Post by geneweigel on Sept 22, 2015 10:07:31 GMT -5
That intro of character introduction sounded like a campaign that I joined in the 1990's. Mental note: Never let anyone have character intros.  |
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Post by Scott on Sept 22, 2015 20:53:24 GMT -5
The players can knock themselves out if they want, but I usually don't bring it into the game until the PCs hit around 5th level.
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Post by geneweigel on Sept 23, 2015 6:23:11 GMT -5
Its the same low fantasy takes every time because the game says you can't have anything yet. I have yet to hear a "from along line of adventurers" as a character background.
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Post by GRWelsh on Sept 23, 2015 9:07:15 GMT -5
I'll check it out. Over the past few months I've been listening to quite a few D&D game play podcasts and/or Youtube recordings. Mark introduced me to Nerd Poker, which is a D&D podcast by Brian Posehn and his friends, who are other actors/comedians. I listened to it for a while, but I got tired of it -- I just couldn't follow the story, and I wasn't into the whole Spelljammer-ish vibe. I listened to the PAX sessions with Christopher Perkins as the DM and they are fairly amusing. But they are more like showmanship and playing to an audience than just D&D game play. I found one you guys might want to check out -- they play B2 with Basic D&D rules (Moldvay edition). www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SOc_JxT-o |
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Post by Scott on Sept 23, 2015 13:52:07 GMT -5
It (Critical Role) reminds me of something Eric would run.
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Post by Scott on Sept 23, 2015 13:52:48 GMT -5
I'll check out the B2 game when I get a chance.
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Post by geneweigel on Sept 25, 2015 19:40:07 GMT -5
You know? After watching these things I feel like I should have received a "Youtube D&D Game Life Time Achievement Award"! Seriously, the pink haired guy just lost me with going over the details of how the game is played. |
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Post by Scott on Oct 1, 2015 8:14:57 GMT -5
I tried the B2 game. It didn't grab me. The personality of the DM didn't grab me. It was almost a too forced.
But I am now tossing around the idea of trying a podcast, or some YouTube videos.
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Post by geneweigel on Oct 1, 2015 21:26:38 GMT -5
Yeah, I still feel compelled to do something although I always wanted to do something informative because I think that I overdid the "let it roll" technique of filming.
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Post by GRWelsh on Oct 3, 2015 12:43:42 GMT -5
Yeah, you guys should do it, just so there are some game play examples out there that don't feel like 3e/Pathfinder/4e/5e or otherwise modern gamers "dabbling" with old school.
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Post by geneweigel on Oct 3, 2015 23:24:26 GMT -5
I think that my 2nd attempt at a YouTube video session was more informativ e than I remembered. I poured through the video files for the last few hours and I noticed that I had text scrolling over the video describing what was going on.
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Post by Scott on Oct 4, 2015 7:19:29 GMT -5
Do you think Eric would mind broadcasting games from his store?
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Post by GRWelsh on Oct 4, 2015 9:37:04 GMT -5
I'll ask him.
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Post by geneweigel on Oct 4, 2015 10:52:25 GMT -5
I remember the original idea for making those videos was from Gary. When I had told him about the "bad D&D badly poking fun at itself" video that some off-the-street player asked me to show Gary (because that player saw me online talking frankly with Gary on ENWorld). Afterwards, Gary said there was a lack of game videos out there. The second video, even though Gary had passed, was driven by the inertia of the first video being ultimately a presentation for Gary and sort of petered off on the third video.
Moving forward, I think that I need a new approach or rather an aim. Kuntz was always babbling about the market but that is just the wrong approach in my mind. I think the concept is there but it needs to be directed at "Gary in absentia" rather than aimed at any "kickback" from a "market". I was always pro-old league (Kuntz, Gygax brothers, etc.) but these people are doing their "market products" and it doesn't involve my interests anymore. I think the ideal YouTube D&D video has to present real people and how D&D has turned into a pile of crap.
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Post by GRWelsh on Oct 4, 2015 12:21:09 GMT -5
I liked those "Gene Weigel's DUNGEON LIVE" videos you did, and I was sorry that you pulled them down. Although it was sometimes difficult to follow exactly what was going on, I thought they were fun and captured a certain style. If I remember right, when you were DMing, it was sometimes hard to hear you.
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Post by GRWelsh on Oct 23, 2015 9:48:59 GMT -5
Scott, Eric said he wouldn't mind if you ran a one-shot game from his shop and did a podcast or Youtube video it. In his words he said: "I've never been killed by YouTube before!"
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Post by geneweigel on Oct 23, 2015 11:09:08 GMT -5
I liked those "Gene Weigel's DUNGEON LIVE" videos you did, and I was sorry that you pulled them down. Although it was sometimes difficult to follow exactly what was going on, I thought they were fun and captured a certain style. If I remember right, when you were DMing, it was sometimes hard to hear you. Before "the ring passed out of all knowledge", I had edited the video with it fresh in my mind. I think watching the first video (the one with my cousin fucking around in the foreground) is annoying because of the white noise, and him eating & drinking is making my elocution totally lost. I wonder if I can remaster the audio somehow. Boy, that seems like it would be a chore. |
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Post by geneweigel on Oct 23, 2015 13:10:00 GMT -5
I'm currently remastering the second quarter of the original game session video from 2007. The white noise is almost non-existent but there are a few artifacts that seem louder (whirling whoops and electronic burps here and there) but are not that distracting.
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Post by Scott on Oct 23, 2015 13:49:56 GMT -5
I think I'd go for 2 or 3 recording devices to minimize that hazard.
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