Blake Ryan on streaming and recording rpg’s
I’ve ran about 50 sessions online, most available on youtoobz
One thing I like to do is I can screen share location pictures, large scale maps and npc portraits (usually famous people in sepia) to give fuel to the theatre of the mind, condiments to shared meal you might say.
Most of my games have been with The Gauntlet, where rule questions are generally typed into chat so verbal is mostly in-character. Everybody mutes themselves unless they are talking to remove excess audio clutter. Spotlight is shifted often to keep people engaged, and bio-breaks every 60-90 minutes is standard.
I am massively in favor of recording games and I shall tell you why – during the 90s i played and ran hundreds of games, like 2-4 a week. Some of them were great fun, some of them were a goddamned trainwreck, but they are really starting to blur thanks to the distance of time.
But with youtube etc, you can go back and watch the stories you created, learn from the lessons, and laugh at the bizarre situations that evolved. Even stuff that happened 2 years ago I can rewatch and go wow i’d forgotten that, that game was a cracker!