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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SigmaOne" data-source="post: 6483370" data-attributes="member: 6748799">In my opinion, RPGs absolutely are watchable. I've watched many hours of RPGs on Youtube, and listened to many hours of podcasts. They're great; I enjoy them as much as watching whatever I watch on Youtube. The ratio of good to bad is about the same for general media, though: that is, much of it is totally unwatchable. A handful of people with poor recording devices and skills, and who aren't very good or interesting roleplayers (or don't have the more general "entertainment" or "personality" skills to support them) are just going to be bad. These people would make pretty bad videos no matter what they were doing, and that has little to do with roleplaying. People with poor editing skills or who simply aren't on top of things to keep the game moving forward are also a major problem.  But the AI folks are outstanding, and they're not actors --- just entertaining and generally good communicators. Harmontown is strictly amazing, especially Spencer Crittenden's style of DMing a live game. The Drunks and Dragons folks put a lot of work into it, do good editing, and are in general just fun folks to listen to. Most recently, I've watched hours of Rollplay R&D Dungeonworld; it was expertly DMed and overall a tight productions. Very enjoyable and I'm looking forward to watching more. No topic or activity is unwatchable, because there are always many many people who love that activity but aren't able to be as directly involved in it as they'd like, and there are always at least some people who will do a good job producing it. There is evidence for this in that some of the more popular "broadcasts" are receiving support from their watchers; Drunks and Dragons had enough fans to organize their own convention this year. Right now (and for the past two or so years) a good live-play RP video or podcasts is one of my first choices in entertainment.</blockquote>

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