RPG session videos

[DouglasCole]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I'm thinking of, say, a twenty minute digression to discuss marine invertebrates, with Web searches.

Edit that part out, I'd say.

[trooper6]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

Edit that part out, I'd say.

If you are presenting an edited experience as opposed to a live streamed experience. GeekandSundry has examples of both live streamed and edited RPG sessions, and I much prefer the live streamed.

Titansgrave is edited.
They cut out all the extraneous chatter so it is a much tighter, focused experience. On the one hand, you don't get digressions into Monty Python, you don't get long planning discussions, you don't get long shopping trips. On the other hand, I think planning discussions and shopping trips are parts of the game and I found myself not enjoying the streamlined experience as much as the live streamed experience.
Titiansgrave, because it is edited, can do fun little special effects things. It will have digital representations of die rolls, or how much damage a person took. It showed animations and things that made it more like other story media (video game/film)...that is cool...but I don't need it for my RPGs and I don't mind not having it.

Critical Role is live streamed.
Nothing is edited out. This requires the players to be a bit more disciplined, but apparently that happened naturally with the awareness of them being live streamed. This also does mean that there have been sessions with quite a bit of time taken up with shopping and planning rather than combat...but again...I think shopping and planning is an important part of the game and having those moments has made me more invested in the characters (as opposed to just the combat moments). Not having it edited also connects me to the players, not just the characters, because I get to learn something about their personalities in their digressions. Also, I find things flow better unedited. I don't miss the development of in-jokes, etc.
Because it is live streamed, I can also participate in the Twitch chat room and create community with other people who are also watching live. Now this requires GeekandSundry to have a slew of moderators to delete hateful or inappropriate posts, but the community aspect I think is very valuable...and seeing how much money Critical Role fans have donated to various charities is evidence of the efficacy of this approach as well.

Now...that said, I've come to see there is another form of live streamed game, that I've only seen once, but didn't really enjoy. That one would be typified by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBoEYxhFEI
In this version, everyone is virtual. Played through Roll20 and Google+
One one is in the same location...and I prefer watching people who are, for the most part, in the same room.

[DouglasCole]

trooper, I'd cut the 30 minute digression on marine invertebrates. I'd leave the planning and Monty Python discussion.

I did this in my most popular Firing Squad interview - the discussion with Steven, Sean, David, Matt, J. Edward Tremlett, Christopher Rice, and Andy Vetromile about writing for Pyramid and GURPS (still worth watching, I might add). There was a very long digression on making and getting paid for maps that didn't really add value to the interview. It was a giant session of "inside baseball."

All sorts of other stuff I kept. I also didn't try and bring the hammer down on my guests to re-steer the conversation. But I judged that that part needed to go in order to keep audience interest. I'd still make that call.

[mehrkat]

I know this is necromantic to some extent. but it seems directly related and adds to it

I got a wild hair and just searched for GURPS videos on Youtube and found this video.

Its a really good example of combat in the first video it seems to be a whole collection but I've only seen the first combat. Including regular explanations of what is going on (they had a new to GURPS character) Its pretty interesting to listen to.

Gurps: The Fall of Brekhan Session #1 (FULL)
https://youtu.be/HpplF94pk_8

[sir_pudding]

I've considered doing this (or audio) but I worry that the technical aspects would detract from gaming time, and that editing would be onerous. Also that something I do would either create a misunderstanding about GURPS or even make the game look unappealing.

[Cpt_Clyde]

Dude! I am routinely googling for videos of GURPS play as I love listening to this stuff while working. If you have a regular group and the means to record please do! I wouldn't worry about editing it at all. It is simply fun to listen in on other people's games and live vicariously through them as I currently have no time to play and don't have a group.
As for being afraid that your flavour of game is not a misrepresentation of what you THINK GURPS should be: you could always simply put a sentence in the description saying "Our style of GURPS gaming".
It would even serve to prove to the uninitiated how flexible a game GURPS can be.
do it man. DO IT!! .....please.

[lachimba]

Originally Posted by philosophyguy

Watch the PAX Acquisitions Inc games. Live play by celebrities with an amazing GM, Chris Perkins. It's true that they have a live audience, but they didn't do any video editing until the last couple of seasons.

Exactly.

Though IMHO it's a boring game played by interesting people.

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Clyde

Dude! I am routinely googling for videos of GURPS play as I love listening to this stuff while working. .... It is simply fun to listen in on other people's games....

No doubt you've already found this, but in case you haven't stumbled across it, The Film Reroll Podcast folks do something you might enjoy. The fact that they use GURPS (albeit in a very pared down, fast-paced version of it) is a bonus.