@Printdevil I think so too, to everyone what they like but it is a mix to me. I like to play OSRish games because they present challenges up for player creativity and storygames because they let us all work on the world.

To me not being in-character and proclaiming what NPC says is a tool for managing pacing. The same with using not complex system - it allows better control of the flow. Both combat minigame and pointless in-character talk would bore me to tears on these recordings

@Taskerland

I think there is a definite structural issue with "RPG on screen" and always has been. If you go towards my style, you're going to get a radio play, with a seriously atonal mix of bad and good actors and fairly terrible voices (and possibly a contract with Big Finish) it would be nigh on impossible to get to work for other people to enjoy. And how do you show and tell all the table litter without a press kit. Youtube has created a style of gaming which shouldn't exist.

@vdonnut @Taskerland

The number of things I've been diagnosed with over the years slipped into the realm of "accused of"

perils of working with Clinical Psychologists I suppose.

I dislike referencing anything during games, which is why even in rules heavy things like D&D I always make sure everything is crib sheet ready, and spellcasters have all their spells in a book made up and and accessible, just for them. A good GM knows what *they* need to make a game run smooth.

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@Taskerland

Speaking from observation in my limited bubble, I imagine, that a lot of people „watching“ these streams aren’t actually paying attention.

It‘s like when people used to leave the TV running in the background for company or distraction.

Still, though, you have to admit these dudes are producing absolute trash for cash and it actually works. The whole thing is incredibly inane and overall pretty remarkable.

@Printdevil @Taskerland @vdonnut "And this is me"

@Taskerland oh, you were one of these friends XD

@Taskerland I can almost hear the facepalms

My characters are all gentle suffusions of loveliness characterised by pacifism and a lack of guile

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That sounds like an Alan Bennet character

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@Taskerland I think that's a bit person by person not even table by table. I know people who hate speaking in first person and people who love "the bit". You can't enforce that at the table with proscribing against some player styles. I think bringing it all together is the GM's job. That's part of the director role. "Tim likes pretending he is a Piglen Lord, Tony wants to make plans, Poppy wants to do maps of her house, and Ian is a prick" you just juggle it to maximise the groups enjoyment.