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<blockquote data-quote="TheAlkaizer" data-source="post: 8067983" data-attributes="member: 7024893"><p>I've been thinking about this for awhile and I'm curious to see if others feel this way. Before I say anything, I want to be clear that this is not meant as an attack on anyone, I simply am observing something and want to see if maybe my judgment is too harsh.</p><p></p><p>In the past few months, I got out of my <em>DM isolation</em> if you could say, and began taking interest in online resources. YouTube video, website, blogs, podcasts, boards. This includes ENWorld. ENWorld has been great and I've found numerous blogs of amazing quality both in content and analysis. </p><p></p><p>Obviously, I will refrain from naming any specific content creators but I was appalled by what I consider a poor quality of content for both YouTube and Podcasts.</p><p></p><p>If we start with YouTube, it's mostly clickbait videos with top 10s, guides on how to play a class and <em>very </em>basic level GM tips. There's a few good channels, Matt Colville being one of them but everytime I try a new channel they share these super obvious tips and tricks that you can literally find within the first quarter of the DMG. Most videos are quite long and when you take a moment to see what information you were really given for sinking 15-20 minutes, well, it's quite disheartening. The exception would be channels for crafting tokens, miniatures and terrains; there's some seriously great channels covering these topics. But DMing stuff? Yeah, the presentation is often cringe and/or the content is of low quality.</p><p></p><p>I moved to podcasts. Podcasts have always been a great media for me to get a little deeper in certain topics. So after the debacle that was YouTube, my expectation were a little bit higher. Once again, after trying a couple podcasts, I was disappointed. Some didn't seem so bad, but had such terrible production value that I couldn't bear to keep going. Others had great production value but would literaly just read stuff off the manuals. Dedicate a full episode to beholders? Let's take 20 minutes to read the beholders entry from the MM.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I'm being too harsh? Maybe I just found the wrong content creators? Maybe it's just video and podcasts format not being great for that stuff and maybe I should stick to blogs and boards?</p><p></p><p>I'm curious to see what's everyone's take on this; and maybe even get a few recommendations?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheAlkaizer, post: 8067983, member: 7024893"] I've been thinking about this for awhile and I'm curious to see if others feel this way. Before I say anything, I want to be clear that this is not meant as an attack on anyone, I simply am observing something and want to see if maybe my judgment is too harsh. In the past few months, I got out of my [I]DM isolation[/I] if you could say, and began taking interest in online resources. YouTube video, website, blogs, podcasts, boards. This includes ENWorld. ENWorld has been great and I've found numerous blogs of amazing quality both in content and analysis. Obviously, I will refrain from naming any specific content creators but I was appalled by what I consider a poor quality of content for both YouTube and Podcasts. If we start with YouTube, it's mostly clickbait videos with top 10s, guides on how to play a class and [I]very [/I]basic level GM tips. There's a few good channels, Matt Colville being one of them but everytime I try a new channel they share these super obvious tips and tricks that you can literally find within the first quarter of the DMG. Most videos are quite long and when you take a moment to see what information you were really given for sinking 15-20 minutes, well, it's quite disheartening. The exception would be channels for crafting tokens, miniatures and terrains; there's some seriously great channels covering these topics. But DMing stuff? Yeah, the presentation is often cringe and/or the content is of low quality. I moved to podcasts. Podcasts have always been a great media for me to get a little deeper in certain topics. So after the debacle that was YouTube, my expectation were a little bit higher. Once again, after trying a couple podcasts, I was disappointed. Some didn't seem so bad, but had such terrible production value that I couldn't bear to keep going. Others had great production value but would literaly just read stuff off the manuals. Dedicate a full episode to beholders? Let's take 20 minutes to read the beholders entry from the MM. Maybe I'm being too harsh? Maybe I just found the wrong content creators? Maybe it's just video and podcasts format not being great for that stuff and maybe I should stick to blogs and boards? I'm curious to see what's everyone's take on this; and maybe even get a few recommendations? [/QUOTE]
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