What is your favorite web RPG series or show that IS NOT Critical Role? Tell me what you watch
What is your favorite web RPG series or show that IS NOT Critical Role? Tell me what you watch
What is your favorite web RPG series or show that IS NOT Critical Role? Tell me what you watch
I tried watching and listening to a few different shows, but they're all honestly boring as frick. It's way more fun to just play or read the game instead of being a filthy secondary.
True bestie. No matter what group I check, what system they're playing, and what they're doing, I've just never been able to get into watching others play ttrpgs. It's a bit different live spectating, but then I get to but in with the occasional snarky comment, so I'm actually slightly involved. Still, I just can't seem to find the joy in podcasts or shows. Glad for the people who can though, I guess.
I feel the same with one exception. First part of penny arcade’s acquisitions incorporated was very entertaining. Every other campaign is people bumbling about, talking over each other, or awkward silence, and zero party chemistry. I dont think serious campaigns ran by amateurs lend themselves to streams, maybe there are some other funny ones floating around that arent bad.
I don't think good campaigns make for good streaming. I can't get into any game I watch because I'm thinking critically about how it's done but I can't think of any campaign I've ever done being good to spectate no matter how much I enjoyed it
Legends of Avantris isn't too bad. At least gave us some of the best lines from Chuckles the Clown and Gideon.
I like what the Alfabusa group makes or I believe it's called Ogre Poppenang? I like the focus on stories in their audiologs and how it shows their characters personnalities. They all feel so fleshed out and you're never bored listening to them even when they act obnoxious or lolsorandom. When they tell stories about what they went through, paranormal ecosystem or just rumors they really make it interesting. I tried listening to L.A. By Night too but frankly they don't have the same energy at all. All the celebs and the guests just made me quit at like episode 5 or so. Especially the guy with the purple hair and the asian girl. The only guy I liked a little was the black man playing this swell charismatic vampire him and the gm. But eh listening to a real game is pretty boring imo, if you're going to post it somewhere you could at least edit it to make it appealing. Also I didn't find this "myth storytelling" side I found in Hunter the parenting and that kinda put me off. I'm still open to recommandations if you got some as I didn't try much.
LA by Night is carried hard by the GM, Jason Carl. The monster actor who plays Jasper the Nosferatu is also a blast.
Yeah I agree but at the start he was absent a lot so I forgot about him.
Dragon Friends.
Its an australian based liveplay podcast played on stage with a live studio audience. They have a mainline campaign that has 9 seasons currently, each season is around 20 episodes and each episode is 45-1 hour.
They also have some twitch streams of a side campaign, a few one offs of non-DnD games, yearly christmas specials etc.
They are a lot of fun, all of them are comedians
There are two DMs, one who runs the story and one who plays NPCs.
Three of the main cast started off not knowing how to play the game. And they all roast the main DM.
They also have live background music
Honestly it's hard to explain, you would just have to listen to it for it to make sense
Based Dragon Friends, bro. They did a round of Paranoia, too, which is well worth listening too and a good introduction to their specific brand of humour.
Their bardic inspiration song was good, and the girls are hot, but that's pretty much it.
i thought the girls were generic quirky sjw twitter users but the girl who plays Nixie is a straight up cosplay thot. her instagram is filled with pics of her showing her ass
I think she also was the one (cos)playing Drizzt in one short
No other series perfectly encapsulated the nature of the game. In the sense that they had to start over like twice, did nothing but make cheap references and it ultimately never went anywhere.
>the THIRD reboot they did
>which also ended abruptly
the pain...I loved the hell out of this series when I was a kid.
Third reboot?
>>>/vt/
the only one i listen to is dungeons and daddies. imo the first season was a little too gay, but the second season is a little too not gay enough
its mostly not a BDSM podcast, its an actual dads isekai
I was surprised to find out Anthony Burch was behind this one. He's surprisingly not that bad as the DM, but also he's not the most obnoxious homosexual in the room for that game.
One thing ive always wondered and feared, is it THE anthony burch? The sister lusting reddit writer?
>not the most annoying guy in the room
Im guessing you mean the guy playing henry oak, but i disagree. He really comes into his own later in s1 and most of s2, hes actually very good at playing someone who's axious and panicking character and is almost always the most consistently in-character and goal-oriented.
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The Guild
It was actually fun, in the way how The Gamers were fun
>b-but mmorpg
Doesn't fricking matter, it was perfectly applicable to the hobby. It also had the most moronic singing number ever, which still is the ringtone for the librarian, so I know this week's game is cancelled before even picking the phone.
I became a fake grog because of Counter Monkey. Wish Twitter didn't brainrot him
Frozen Frontier.
It's modified 2nd edition. The story follows an expedition to a magically frozen lost continent. Their goal is to loot the lost kingdom and over the series they learn more and more of its history.
Great cast and chemistry between them. The only issues are logistics discussion can drag on in the early episodes and one player gets insufferable for a 5 episode stretch in the middle for no real reason
Shut the frick up, AML
Glass Cannon Network - Get in the trunk.
None of them, why would I do that? No game is better than bad game is better than watching someone else's game
i like Dimension 20. Wish more of their campaigns were on youtube because frick paying for a subscription to Formerly Known As College Humor
I watch the Dungeon Dudes, needed something to listen to at work and got caught up to the current episodes. Season one was kind of mediocre but I liked the factions and mystery. Season two started strong but was a bit of a slog during the vampire and werewolf arc stuff. Long story short there was like 5 different things before the players were going to confront a vampire and it got a bit slow. I am really liking their new stuff but now unfortunately have to wait each week. I tried to get into Critical Role's first season but was confused.
I thought RollPlay - the West Marches was awesome.
It had, of course, the main problem of an open table: sometimes it got players who just wanted to make dick jokes and be the center of attention.
But in general, the players were cool and got into the game and some set long term goals for his characters. The GM ran a folk horror style game, with his dark and weird world lurking just outside the village walls. And yeah, again, sometimes the players ruined the tone, but mostly it was great to hear.
Is there any good M&M podcast?
>Is there any good M&M podcast?
I found Vanguard pretty decent. It's got that gritty home campaign feel as opposed to all the overproduced shit nowadays. The players are kind of moronic and I mean that in a good way, their inexperience and ineptitude ends up making their characters all genuinely come across as bumbling novice superheroes with fricking no clue what they're capable of, which the GM actually holds them accountable for. One of the best early episodes happens because the party fricked up and beat a bunch of suspected criminals unconscious without ever actually announcing their identity or making an arrest, so they have to obtain confessions since their hard evidence is all inadmissible.
That's the kind of thing I'd love giving my players a hard time about in a home campaign and would love to see how they come up with a solution but in a more scripted show you know they'd just handwave it to keep """"the plot"""" moving.
I actually enjoy the world of IO channel a frickton
Glass Cannon.
I don't watch their D&D or Pathfinder. I like them because they do Traveller, Cthulhu, Delta Green, Deadlands, etc.
I watch none because I find most women in these show to be absolutely unbearable to watch.
DingoDoodles
Dice Camera Action. Chris Perkins is a solid DM and the group gel together really well, plus Anna Prosser is ridiculously pretty and actually knows what she is fricking doing with her character, unlike certain Critical Role personalities I could name.
Is that going again, or did it get dumpstered for good after the Projared thing?
Dumpstered for good.
I like the Viva La Dirt League campaign and the Mystery Quest channel.
VLDL NPC DND is good. They basically share one braincell, with one extra between Adam and Ben.
Picrel is the only watchable one
Shitty slapdash plot isn't good no matter how you excuse it
I do like this guy a lot. He's a bit much sometimes, but I'm just jealous I don't have energy like he does.
I used to try and watch Glass Cannon and stuff but those frickers cannot help themselves from making dumb jokes for attention instead of keeping the game momentum going, and with the voice chat delay it's jarring and annoying. Just play the game, ffs, why do I have to skip forward 15 to 20 minutes in every video to get to the gaming
Glass Cannon was great until they fricked everything up by swapping to PF2e mid campaign. 4
Are there any good CofD/World of Darkness/even Exalted ones that are NOT done by charismatic wastelands or obnoxiously alphabet (subtly alphabet is fine)
I've been banned from commenting their videos, and added to their ignore list on their Emails because I kept posting the nasty shit I wanted to do to the two women.
You idiot, you’re supposed to do that on their individual accounts
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcklDAKsYtv7Dz_Xr5Uh1LfsBDwiA0YvL&si=Qd1LPu55SqB_ySFn
It took a bit but they are better at it now
I wish more people use the 2d20 system tho, hard to find people that plays Conan on YT (frequently enough)
I just go on twitch and find some low viewer count, low production value group of normal looking dudes. I prefer watching the group of average joes over some theater actors or people who think their comedians, it feels like a real game you'd be playing with friends or people at the LGS.
>Try listening to a new podcast
>Hear a woman speak
>Immediately close it
Anyone else do this?
Yes, it's 99% of the time a huge red flag.
Dimension 20 is good, solid GM and good cast dynamics, anthology series style with them changing settings and sometimes systems every campaign, though there are a few settings they return to. It's a cast of improv actors so they switch between IC and OOC pretty well.
It feels appropriately dramatic for a show by professionals, but some set pieces and character moments seem TOO planned. I refused the believe the GM is THAT good. Could be though.
Cthulhu and Friends was great in its initial seasons, but they lost their best actor(?) a couple seasons in and it was kind of souless after that
Is there a reliable way to get access to D20 shows? I'm not fricking paying for a dropout subscription
Film Reroll. Sad what happened to Pitr though.
What happened?
I'm a bit fan of Find the Path. The players are fine enough(with some exceptions but they're few and far between) but their DM Rick is absolutely fricking phenomenal. Genuinely one of the best dm's I've seen.
I have four:
>Mystery Quest
Inheritor to Yogsquest. Angory Tom hosts short sessions in various RPGs with a rotating cast of Yogscast members as the players. Sessions are pre-recorded. Strong on banter and silly jokes.
>Adventure is Nigh
Formerly Escapist, now on Second Wind. System is D&D5e, but it doesn't get in the way. Jack Packard is the DM and he has made a very silly world. Sessions are pre-recorded and enhanced with animation in the style of Zero Punctuation. Heavy on humor.
>Keep on the Borderlands Reviewcap
Mages Musings recounting a B2 campaign run in OSE. The host is a wizard hand puppet called Merlinstergandledor. Other visuals are mostly paper pawns arranged on a mat with terrain drawn in dry-erase marker. Good episode structure. Equal parts silly and informative at times
>Dungeon Minister
An Anglican priest doing a recap of his family's BECMI game. His players are his kids and his wife. Production quality and gags increase as episodes go by. Wholesome.
Name 1 successful RPG web series where none of the cast have trooned out. I legit can't.
I Hit It With My Axe
I don't think the Unexpectables have done anything like that.
I figure this is as good a place to ask as any.
I have broad questions, but I have been flirting with making a show to help advertise my own game system to a wider audience. I'll need to find a 101 on it, but my question to you all in the meanwhile is what are some things those shows do that you really wish they didn't? What about them grinds your gears? What do you wish they would do more often?
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Better question: Why are watching RPG webseries? Why do you care about what's happening in other people's tables?