(Hey mods, if this needs to be in advertisements I totally understand if it gets moved)
Hi folks! I've had my own classic D&D and classic RPG channel for a while now. It's here, specifically:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs3EPNjwUlyNokf3_IfAqfw (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs3EPNjwUlyNokf3_IfAqfw)
I started it on Facebook when the Andromeda Strain hit last year as a way to stay in touch with my friends who tabletop gamed, and dovetailed it into livestreams to my Youtube channel this year.
I'm slowly but surely creeping up towards 1000 subs. The way youtube works, when I hit 1000, there's a lot more tools that are available for creators (better thumbnail system, the ability to do polls, better non-video engagement, etc.)
My content is exclusively hobby related, I have lots of livestreams (5 a week) and I'll be uploading interviews I've done with other creators back last year on Facebook (and doing more as time goes on), including people like Jim Ward, Darlene, Al Hammack, Paul Stormberg, Tracy Lesch and many others! I'll be uploading those soon, as the bulk were on Facebook initially.
I would like to celebrate reaching 1000 subscribers by hosting a virtual mini-con! A whole day+ of games, DM'ed by yours truly, along with my co-host on Wednesdays, Kyle Schuant. We'll run games like Traveller, Twilight 2000, of course OD&D and AD&D, Gamma World, and some new stuff that interests us. I think Kyle would be up to running a game of Conflict, his action oriented combat RPG, as well.
So if you haven't already subscribed, please visit the link, subscribe, and hit the bell icon. Feel free to check out my previous videos, and thanks in advance!
e: Fixed the link!
Linky no worky
Quote from: JeffB on June 14, 2021, 06:37:25 PM
Linky no worky
Fixed it! Thanks for catching that.
Add one more sub.
While I love the RPG edition choices, your Black Box playlist made the subscription a no-brainer: I feel like I'm looking at my own music CD collection. Nice choices!
<edit> Speaking of playlists, might want to consider breaking your RPG videos into playlists as you seem to have a some themes going throughout your recent videos and it would be nice to have the categories broken down. An introduction video on your home page about what your site is all about would be good. Would probably help with subs and views for those not privy to this forum.
Quote from: rocksfalleverybodydies on June 16, 2021, 02:22:30 PM
Add one more sub.
While I love the RPG edition choices, your Black Box playlist made the subscription a no-brainer: I feel like I'm looking at my own music CD collection. Nice choices!
<edit> Speaking of playlists, might want to consider breaking your RPG videos into playlists as you seem to have a some themes going throughout your recent videos and it would be nice to have the categories broken down. An introduction video on your home page about what your site is all about would be good. Would probably help with subs and views for those not privy to this forum.
Thanks! Yeah, the WT! Black Box is something special.
I've got to take some time and organize my channel better, too, so thank you
very much for your suggestion.
Any chance of an Odysee mirror? Migrating away from YouTube.
Quote from: Zelen on June 16, 2021, 10:25:29 PM
Any chance of an Odysee mirror? Migrating away from YouTube.
I'll never say never. I don't think I've got the bandwidth to split a 3-way livestream, so it'd be archives.
It's a fucking brilliant show. You guys should watch it. We tell you the right and proper way to play. Also we talk a lot of bollocks, like today.
Just subscribed. Thanks for sharing this.
Quote from: rocksfalleverybodydies on June 16, 2021, 02:22:30 PM
While I love the RPG edition choices, your Black Box playlist made the subscription a no-brainer: I feel like I'm looking at my own music CD collection. Nice choices!
Seeing the Young Gods video immediately piqued my interest. Getting that WTBB was like a defining moment of my teenage musical life. Subbed.
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on June 17, 2021, 06:47:39 AM
It's a fucking brilliant show. You guys should watch it. We tell you the right and proper way to play. Also we talk a lot of bollocks, like today.
I don't know if it's youtube or Kyle but that thumbnail is brilliant. Towards the end of last night's livestream Kyle was talking about NPCs in the ongoing Conflict campaign, and that jolly looking fellow in the upper left is an insurgent, reading an IRC pamphlet on the rules of acceptable behavior in warfare. I commented that if he could follow it, he might be a little confused. "Wait,
don't shoot when they throw down their weapons and put their hands up? When would be a better time? They've disarmed themselves and made themselves bigger targets!"
But yeah, we have a lot of fun.
This afternoon's stream, I'll be creating a FASA Star Trek character! It'll be a hoot.
Quote from: Bedrockbrendan on June 17, 2021, 07:24:53 AM
Just subscribed. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks! The Mini-convention draws ever closer! :)
Quote from: shoplifter on June 17, 2021, 09:07:00 AM
Quote from: rocksfalleverybodydies on June 16, 2021, 02:22:30 PM
While I love the RPG edition choices, your Black Box playlist made the subscription a no-brainer: I feel like I'm looking at my own music CD collection. Nice choices!
Seeing the Young Gods video immediately piqued my interest. Getting that WTBB was like a defining moment of my teenage musical life. Subbed.
ENVOYE!
:)
Thank you for subscribing!
Bill has been doing a run of "How to play AD&D" videos. Here he goes into the rarely-read, often-ignored back of the Player's Handbook. If this were read by players (and DMs!) more often, they'd have more productive game sessions. It also answers, indirectly, a lot of the weird misconceptions people have about AD&D.
We did some more Conflict play. Bill's Lt Walters continued his adventures in Frankistan, hunting down the GRU operative Girkin.
If you need any clip art for a special occasion I made this. You're welcome to it. (https://i.imgur.com/kc1KVeS.png)
Quote from: palaeomerus on July 28, 2021, 11:23:58 PM
If you need any clip art for a special occasion I made this. You're welcome to it.
(https://i.imgur.com/kc1KVeS.png)
I don't know if I can use it but it's fuckin' hilarious! Thank you for the laugh today! :D
In which we solve all your gaming problems. By reference to AD&D1e. In a rambling, roundabout manner.
I appear about twenty minutes in, he started without me!
cool, gonna start watching some of your vids!
Subscribed today. Will need some time to catch up - and thanks for the reciprocal subscription. You will NOT need much time to catch up. ;)
The most important ones are of course Wastrel Wednesdays, where I join in. Here's the playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVB1UFf6Px1iW6f6iKTEELkuQPtLtA1kC).
This week we discuss
The Morrow Project, and a recent
Conflict game session.
Someone once said that my studio looks like a survival bunker full of gaming material.
I thought the Christmas lights would soften the appearance a bit and give it a holiday feel.
Spoiler alert: they did not alter that feeling at all.
Today we're going to talk about the hexcrawl generation method hinted at in AD&D1e, and work through an example of making a starting town and building out from there.
14 OGRES, TWO OGRE MAGES, IN A CASTLE, SURROUNDED BY 12 TROLLS.
Sometimes the dice tell a story.
Sometimes that story is "The Shining"
Next to the village of Vincentburg. Obviously the poor ogres and trolls are just worried about gentrification.
Whenever I hear the words "Ogre Mage"; it's a classic tip off, that someone is playing true old school D&D. You never hear modern edition gamers, talking about Ogre Mages.
Ogre magi have their source in oriental myth. Whenever a player talks about diversity, we can search the world's myth and legend and present them with a new, different and horrible monster.
Inclusivity is important.
I like to pretend the three wisemen in the manger were Ogre Magi. Makes things more fun. Balthazar, Gargamel and Melchior, the OG's.
I always miss your guys livestreams dangit.
They're all there, stored for posterity. I've got a playlist here (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVB1UFf6Px1iW6f6iKTEELkuQPtLtA1kC).
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on January 27, 2022, 12:57:45 AM
Ogre magi have their source in oriental myth. Whenever a player talks about diversity, we can search the world's myth and legend and present them with a new, different and horrible monster.
Inclusivity is important.
Yeah, the college kid 5e gamers in my class were surprised when I told them that ogre magi were simply the original version of oni in D&D, dating back to the 1970s.
Tomorrow on Bill's stream we'll be discussing this book, and why AD&D's armour class is the best system. As well as the usual talking bollocks.
Take some time off and listen in.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60767
Thanks always of course to my brilliant co-host, Kyle, for bumping this. I hope everyone is still enjoying the videos. I'm enjoying making them, and if I could get Kyle on every show, I would, because he's the greatest co-host in all the land.
Bill's channel continues to grow. He puts up 5 streams a week, along with some other stuff as it occurs to him.
On Wednesdays I usually come along and put in my two copper's worth. Today we did a playthrough of
Conflict. The team had a training scenario (so if their characters "died", they wouldn't die) of rescuing hostages from a bank robbery.
I'm glad channels like this exist, where folks can occasionally be exposed to solid older or weirder games that would otherwise fly under the radar. It's probably good for the OSR and the hobby more generally.