Acquisitions Inc. switching to Daggerheart

[Agamon]

Ha! When I'm trying to gauge the actual gameplay for something, doesn't help when the players and GM look like they had to audition for it.

No offense to Matt Mercer or other professionals, but they aren't representative of typical.

Not wrong there. Those are meant to be entertaining, and too many people newer to roleplaying look at it as a typical example of play.

 

[Agamon]

You think so? I think their players are unusually charismatic. Plus, they're rarely argumentative or disruptive (many are also influencers), at least not as often as groups of...more regular people.

IMO, the use of a camera coupled with the promise of being streamed changes the entire dynamic. People are more performative when they know they're on camera, especially people who ARE performers.

P.S. No, I'm not suggesting recording people without their knowledge, haha!

I've heard that there are some groups that don't really care about views, they just know that being in an actual play means players show up more often

 

[Vael]

There's a bunch of LP posted in the Daggerheart subreddit, that's the place to go to find a listing. I can't comment on quality of the various ones, but there's no shortage of them.

 

[Maxperson]

Ha! When I'm trying to gauge the actual gameplay for something, doesn't help when the players and GM look like they had to audition for it.

No offense to Matt Mercer or other professionals, but they aren't representative of typical.

Depends on where you are. Here in Los Angeles I spent 15 years playing in a game with voice actors, actors, models and other industry professionals. Heck, my DM was on one of CR's one shots. I'm certainly no voice actor or actor, but my roleplaying ability definitely improved from playing in that game.

There are a LOT of entertainment folks that play RPGs here in Los Angeles.

 

[Maxperson]

I mean, they are somewhat better at silly voices.

I mentioned above that I played with a DM who is a voice actor and other voice actors. Listening to Critical Role has made me aware of something. Voice actors use the same/similar voices for the same/similar personalities. The voices will have virtually the same cadence and wording. Maybe when they are in classes learning to be voice actors they learn deep voiced guard #3, and high nasally coward #6 or something.

 

[Parmandur]

I mentioned above that I played with a DM who is a voice actor and other voice actors. Listening to Critical Role has made me aware of something. Voice actors use the same/similar voices for the same/similar personalities. The voices will have virtually the same cadence and wording. Maybe when they are in classes learning to be voice actors they learn deep voiced guard #3, and high nasally coward #6 or something.

Performance practice, across art forms, iperates heavily om tradition and shared technique.

 

[Maxperson]

Performance practice, across art forms, iperates heavily om tradition and shared technique.

I've been listening to CR campaign 2 in my car when I go places and I'm constantly flashing back to various NPCs in my old DM's games when I hear Matt use certain voices for his NPCs.