So, not counting those livestreams or taped shows where people play D&D (or reality shows where they appear to play D&D), are there any youtube channels with RPG-themes that you watch? What are they? reviews? something else?
I follow several crafting channels. DM Scotty and others as we all share an interest in crafting tiles and decorations for RPG sessions. All sorts of interesting approaches and techniques using simple materials to get some really nice effects. I also follow some LARP series. Least the ones that dont come across as elitist idiots. Theres some pretty good ones that give a look into LARPs big and small, simple and intensely high production.
I watched a few Puffin Forrest videos thinking that they might have value, but I was completely wrong. Whenever the narrator talks about adventures he has been in, it just sounds very artificial and contrived. Very fake. Unbelievable.
I've watched pretty much everything that passingly interests me on AJ Pickett's channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/AJPickett). He seems to know everything there is to know about D&D and especially in the view of Forgotten Realms, but he does it all. Spelljammer, Planescape, you name it. He mainly does monster lore stuff, but he probably does some crafting too, but I haven't watched those. I think that he deserves more recognition than he does right now. D&D5e official Lore You Should Know segments pale in comparison!
Quote from: jeff37923;1032898I watched a few Puffin Forrest videos thinking that they might have value, but I was completely wrong. Whenever the narrator talks about adventures he has been in, it just sounds very artificial and contrived. Very fake. Unbelievable.
I watch Puffin Forest for entertainment, not guidance.
Stuff I watch - only Matt Colville reliably, but I'll check out Taking 20, Arcane Forge, Rocks Fall (Everyone Dies), G33ks Like Us (me & 50 to 200 other viewers - some interesting stuff on mental health & RPGs from a clinical psychiatrist).
For actually learning stuff though it's more Lindybeige/Shadiversity/Scholagladiatoria - channels which discuss D&D-related stuff I can use in my game. I tend to already know more about 'art of GMing' than most Youtube GMs, Matt Colville the main exception, but from eg Scholagladiatoria I learn a lot about historical swords & armour, from Lindybeige military history - great stuff recently on the battles of the Punic Wars - and Shadiversity swords/dragons/castles - he's especially great on castle design. His discussions of what weapons fantasy races would actually use were great too. I also watch Metatron for Roman Empire stuff. Overly Sarcastic Productions does both history & writing/plot videos which are also useful.
I'm subscribed to Questing Beast, a decidedly OSR channel. It's made by the guy who wrote Maze Rats. He does reviews of old school products and the occasional interview.
Other than that, no. There is usually nothing I gain from watching YT videos about RPGs.
Outside of DnD there was the 6th World Podcast for Shadowrun lore and rules.Real life intruded and they've stopped for now. Interesting in that they would often have freelancers on and explain the origins of some of the lore. Also Complex action is nothing but current edition SR rules.
I like Uncle Matt's GM Studio. He does do sessions there as well, but the main draw of the channel are the interviews with designers.
Matt Colville's (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkVdb9Yr8fc05_VbAVfskCA) Running The Game series.
Quote from: Nerzenjäger;1032911I'm subscribed to Questing Beast, a decidedly OSR channel. It's made by the guy who wrote Maze Rats. He does reviews of old school products and the occasional interview.
Other than that, no. There is usually nothing I gain from watching YT videos about RPGs.
I'm also subscribed to Questing Beast. Great guy. Also Runeslinger (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPNsDvSNFQuknLu_8sakzLQ) who does reviews of new products (usually things he's backed on Kickstarter).
Quote from: S'mon;1032906I watch Puffin Forest for entertainment, not guidance.
Stuff I watch - only Matt Colville reliably, but I'll check out Taking 20, Arcane Forge, Rocks Fall (Everyone Dies), G33ks Like Us (me & 50 to 200 other viewers - some interesting stuff on mental health & RPGs from a clinical psychiatrist).
For actually learning stuff though it's more Lindybeige/Shadiversity/Scholagladiatoria - channels which discuss D&D-related stuff I can use in my game. I tend to already know more about 'art of GMing' than most Youtube GMs, Matt Colville the main exception, but from eg Scholagladiatoria I learn a lot about historical swords & armour, from Lindybeige military history - great stuff recently on the battles of the Punic Wars - and Shadiversity swords/dragons/castles - he's especially great on castle design. His discussions of what weapons fantasy races would actually use were great too. I also watch Metatron for Roman Empire stuff. Overly Sarcastic Productions does both history & writing/plot videos which are also useful.
I follow those as well. Great real info there. I'd also recommend Knyght Errant and Metatron. Some good stuff there too, though Metatron's sound usually isn't very good.
Uncle Matt's chats with game designers are pretty good. Reminds me a bit of Jim Wampler's defunct Designers & Discourses podcast.
Questing Beast's reviews are pretty good, as are his drawing tutorials. I got a lot better at doing mountains with his help.
Seth Skorkowsky does really good Call of Cthulhu adventure reviews. He's one of the few reviewers who only reviews after playing, so he has good insights of how the game actually went at the table. However, his how to GM videos are pretty awful.
Speaking of how to GM videos, I watched some of Colville's stuff when he first launched and was unimpressed and kind of annoyed with his presentation. But apparently he's become a big deal. Maybe I should give it another try.
And I've been watching the Lindybeige/Shadiversity/Scholagladiatoria/Knyght Errant/Metatron videos as well. I'd love to find more channels just focused on historical stuff.
Quote from: under_score;1033408I watched some of Colville's stuff when he first launched and was unimpressed and kind of annoyed with his presentation. But apparently he's become a big deal. Maybe I should give it another try.
I don't think they have changed much.
I mostly like his engaging enthusiasm and the way he introduces elements of old-school play to newbies. He seems much much better than nearly all the other Youtube GM advice-givers to me. I don't recall learning anything significant from his vids, but as I said, for learning things a non-RPG channel like Shadiversity or Lindybeige tends to be much better. I think everything major I've learnt about how to GM in recent years has come from blogs, with
The Alexandrian probably the standout.
Interesting. I'm considering trying to start-up a youtube show. It would be something like a cross between the old CNN "Crossfire" and This Week In Stupid, but for tabletop RPGs. Trying to settle on a co-host.
Quote from: RPGPundit;1033623Interesting. I'm considering trying to start-up a youtube show. It would be something like a cross between the old CNN "Crossfire" and This Week In Stupid, but for tabletop RPGs. Trying to settle on a co-host.
Geez. I find the idea of you starting to do YT very compelling, but please don't go too far down the Sargon route. I can read news articles by myself, thank you.
While not A role playing Chanel I find table top minions to be quite helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/user/tabletopminions/videos
Quote from: Nerzenjäger;1033633Geez. I find the idea of you starting to do YT very compelling, but please don't go too far down the Sargon route. I can read news articles by myself, thank you.
I think the video I released today is a good example of the kind of stuff I'd be doing.
Can I be a shill for a minute, please?
We've got our Dragon Magazine video series we're slowly adding to
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBpF9TanYKg0pdodFBdqRrN69tw3IRc89
Had a brief run back over the holidays, and we're doing another run over the summer. Basically, we're working on the videos when we're not doing our podcast :)
I'm doing some, usually about Ye Olden Dayes, and they're really boring.
Quote from: S'mon;1033424I don't think they have changed much.
I mostly like his engaging enthusiasm and the way he introduces elements of old-school play to newbies. He seems much much better than nearly all the other Youtube GM advice-givers to me. I don't recall learning anything significant from his vids...
I checked out some Colville vids last night, and this seems pretty spot on to me. The first 5 minutes of each 20 (or so) minute video was actually kind of helpful, with a few interesting suggestions. After that, they tended to degenerate into a deep-dive into complexities of fine distinctions present in 5e specifically, which I found less useful and which I'd think might be a little too involved for a newbie. I think the lesson there again is to keep it short and to the point.
I follow a few YT non-play channels.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1F4eMw3W_rHBfxf9_m1hbw - How to be a great game master - plenty of good GM tips and tricks from a South African ex-pat living in Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMl19aDv5e_2l_AeJRXp2g - Jim Murphy, who is a friend of Matt Colville and someone he considers one of the 2 best GMs he knows. Old School sort of guy.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkVdb9Yr8fc05_VbAVfskCA - Matt Colville, nuff said.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLzgnQu3OWn31g2PebQV5Q - Nerdarchy, good general gaming channel, though it can get a bit shilish at times.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwQ6cSVDLklOoQ8VSMsxp5Q - Matt Finch: the man, the myth, the legend.
Quote from: Nerzenjäger;1032911I'm subscribed to Questing Beast, .
Very good youtube channel IMHO, although I think Ben was a bit unfair about
Lion & Dragon.
Quote from: bayonetbrant;1043336We've got our Dragon Magazine video series we're slowly adding to
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBpF9TanYKg0pdodFBdqRrN69tw3IRc89
Now THAT I will be checking out! :cool:
I used to listen to
Happy Jack's RPG Podcast and
Fear the Boot for a while. I lost interest in the latter pretty quickly but Happy Jack's kept me interested for a couple of years. Not any more though. Not at all.
I believe one of the participants of Happy Jacks became a presenter of Nerdarchy, which is just one big friggin commercial.
This is a decent piss take out of that sort of thing.
[video=youtube;sExTt4j69zI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sExTt4j69zI[/youtube]
Quote from: RPGPundit;1033623Interesting. I'm considering trying to start-up a youtube show. It would be something like a cross between the old CNN "Crossfire" and This Week In Stupid, but for tabletop RPGs. Trying to settle on a co-host.
Do not under any circumstances take Russ Morrisey's (Morrus of EN World) new podcast as a guide it seems to be pure unadulterated crap and he's only put out one episode and already asking for Patreons to buy into the pile of steaming turds.
Quote from: Mike the Mage;1044548Now THAT I will be checking out! :cool:
thanks!
we'd be interested in hearing your thoughts :)
Quote from: S'mon;1032906I watch Puffin Forest for entertainment, not guidance.
Stuff I watch - only Matt Colville reliably, but I'll check out Taking 20, Arcane Forge, Rocks Fall (Everyone Dies), G33ks Like Us (me & 50 to 200 other viewers - some interesting stuff on mental health & RPGs from a clinical psychiatrist).
For actually learning stuff though it's more Lindybeige/Shadiversity/Scholagladiatoria - channels which discuss D&D-related stuff I can use in my game. I tend to already know more about 'art of GMing' than most Youtube GMs, Matt Colville the main exception, but from eg Scholagladiatoria I learn a lot about historical swords & armour, from Lindybeige military history - great stuff recently on the battles of the Punic Wars - and Shadiversity swords/dragons/castles - he's especially great on castle design. His discussions of what weapons fantasy races would actually use were great too. I also watch Metatron for Roman Empire stuff. Overly Sarcastic Productions does both history & writing/plot videos which are also useful.
Got into Shadiversity a few months ago (enjoyed his videos on medieval houses), didn't know about the others but I'll be looking into their channels tomorrow.
Well, my channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFzZEZe6s6OR90Ud7PvTWeA) has now started to blow up thanks to the 'dndgate' hysteria!
Quote from: bayonetbrant;1043336Can I be a shill for a minute, please?
We've got our Dragon Magazine video series we're slowly adding to
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBpF9TanYKg0pdodFBdqRrN69tw3IRc89
Had a brief run back over the holidays, and we're doing another run over the summer. Basically, we're working on the videos when we're not doing our podcast :)
Dragon #47 up today
http://grogheads.com/featured-posts/19359
I should bring up also that the 'crossfire type talk show' is now happening. It's had 3 eps so far in fact. It's called Inappropriate Characters (https://www.patreon.com/InappropriateCharacters), and co-stars James Desborough and Venger Satanis.