Dicebreaker closing? Where to get your TTRPG news!

Morrus

Well, that was fun
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With the news going around that another TTRPG news outlet is closing (Dicebreaker, this time, after iO9 closed its TTRPG coverage last year), I thought it would be helpful to talk about what sites you can get your TTRPG news from.

(No, not social media--I'll take that for granted--or actual publisher sites, but what news sites with articles etc?)

Here's some that I use.

TTRPG-specific
Tabletop Gaming in General
Other But Also Covers Some TTRPGs

There are others of course! Let me know which you use!
 

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I am guessing that most people will do what they do for other kidns of news: let some influencer tell them what's happening. But without actual journalists and outlets, that information gets less reliable and more opinionated. Do we really want D&D Shorts telling us what is going on, rather than Lin Codega? I don't.
 




Only if you assume free is always bad and paid is always good.
It isn't that, it is that if people can't make a living finding and disseminating true information, we will ultimately end up in a world without truth -- but we will still have people talking endlessly in search of our attention and outrage.
 

It isn't that, it is that if people can't make a living finding and disseminating true information, we will ultimately end up in a world without truth -- but we will still have people talking endlessly in search of our attention and outrage.
The problem is capitalism.

I’m pretty sure Shorts makes a good living from YouTube. Also, it’s weird you assume Shorts is disseminating false information.
 


It isn't that, it is that if people can't make a living finding and disseminating true information, we will ultimately end up in a world without truth
aren’t we there already? Esp. given that you can get quite far and make a lot of money as a professional liar… we reached that point years ago
 

Dungeon Craft speaks extensively about the problems and possible solutions to turning YouTube tabletop channels into legitimate news sources. What you need is some combination of what Rascal is doing but in video form, and with a mastery of both long and short form videos.

There was a big Kickstarter for a tabletop news YouTube channel, but it seems to have pretty much died completely after December of last year. My suspicion is that if they'd gone with a much smaller team (like Rascal, which is a phrase I'm going to go back to a lot), it might have been something they could grow, rather than trying to make a big splash up front but needing to pay a ton of people (relatively speaking).
 

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