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Post by dm1scotty on Mar 24, 2013 23:11:33 GMT -5
I have uploaded some DM Scotty live game vids and I have a few more to upload. Enjoy if you are in to this kind of thing.
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Post by anthonyroma1969 on Mar 29, 2013 4:39:05 GMT -5
I found it enjoyable to watch. For starters, unlike other vids, I could actually SEE the game play area. It made it easier to keep track of the conversations that were going on. Second, I picked up a few tips that I would like to use with my game for my players.
If you make more, I will watch them.
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Post by nubaumpalemoon on Mar 29, 2013 11:26:37 GMT -5
I found it enjoyable to watch. For starters, unlike other vids, I could actually SEE the game play area. It made it easier to keep track of the conversations that were going on. Second, I picked up a few tips that I would like to use with my game for my players. If you make more, I will watch them. I have to agree. I watched the first one the other night and found it very interesting. I will be catching some of the others in the near future as well.
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spiralbound
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Post by spiralbound on Mar 30, 2013 10:16:08 GMT -5
Since people appear to enjoy these videos, I recommend you keep making them periodically. I however will side with you on this one DM Scotty. I agree with your comment at the beginning of part one, it was boring. Perhaps not "watching paint dry" boring as you put it, but I didn't have the stamina to watch four half hour videos of a single combat session.
I watched the first 15-20 minutes of part one, saw one of your players use the movement stick, and then skimmed quickly through the rest of the videos, looking for an interesting or instructive event. You guys all had a blast, and I bet I would have too had I been seated at your table, but watching other people take their turns in a D&D combat which I wasn't participating in didn't make for riveting entertainment.
I suggest you make future play session videos as highlight reels. I don't care to watch 1 1/2 hours of people discussing their bonuses, action combo options, or rolling their dice (no matter how cute the individualized dice towers are), but it could conceivably be interesting to see how specific situations are handled in game with respects to the gridless system. In all honesty, 90% of your video wasn't gridless-specific, it was generic 4E table talk which could have been any group's play session. So, other than listening in on the group chatter, as amusing as that may have been, there wasn't (in my opinion) two hours-worth of gridless-specific instructive or even illustrative content.
Don't get me wrong, as an example of a play session video, it was very well done. Good lighting and sound, great focus on the table action, and so on. I just don't find such videos interesting. Obviously, others got more out of it than I did though, so don't feel you need to take my comments to heart. ;-) I'm not trashing your video, I just wanted to let you know you're not alone in your opinion of play session videos.
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slurpy
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Post by slurpy on Mar 30, 2013 16:58:32 GMT -5
Although highlight reels would take a lot more work, so we won't hold it against you if you say, "Too bad!"
(And that thought has nothing to do with me being selfish and preferring that effort being placed into crafting vids instead, I promise. Nope, not at all!)
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Post by danielc on Mar 31, 2013 1:12:20 GMT -5
One minor thought: What I find in many of the "watch us play" videos on YouTube that is missing is context. Often the class, stats, ideas, and in a few cases, even the layout is missing. Scotty's at least I could follow what is happenng. An interestng adjutment could be to have the character sheets available here to look at and allow an even greater level of context.
Just an idea.
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