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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8387857" data-attributes="member: 7032025">I only watched the home game video and the start of the stream, no time to watch more, but I completely agree that these guys are just playing together as friends, and in the end, apart from the fact that Matt does great voices and one or two have character voices, I have to make an effort to remember that they are voice actors, they look like players to me. Good players who are having fun, but I've seen tons of them over the years.Exactly the same for me. The one thing that they do really well, though, is not letting the tension down during play, and I think that's a credit to Matt as a DM, but I also think that knowing that they are streaming also helps to keep up the pressure.For me, apart from the great voice acting of some, this is the only major difference that I see with the way have been gaming since the end of the 70's, the fact that there is no lull in the game. We have digressions, we have sequences where only a few of the players are engaged, sometimes only one and the DM, sometimes really long in character discussions of options that turn up into endless series of &quot;what if&quot; and end up being really boring even for us, no one would watch that on stream...Again, I have not watched much, but I completely agree, so far (I'm only up to episode 5), it's been a nice but fairly standard dwarven town, a fairly classic dungeon and fortress, etc. The one thing that stands out are the NPCs, and for me that would be the one advice to get, make your NPCs interesting, but honestly the way it works at our tables and that I see mimicked in the show is when the NPC is &quot;adopted&quot; by the PC. So maybe that's the trick, find the NPCs characteristics that will make it be adopted by the party, in whatever role makes it the most fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8387857, member: 7032025"] I only watched the home game video and the start of the stream, no time to watch more, but I completely agree that these guys are just playing together as friends, and in the end, apart from the fact that Matt does great voices and one or two have character voices, I have to make an effort to remember that they are voice actors, they look like players to me. Good players who are having fun, but I've seen tons of them over the years. Exactly the same for me. The one thing that they do really well, though, is not letting the tension down during play, and I think that's a credit to Matt as a DM, but I also think that knowing that they are streaming also helps to keep up the pressure. For me, apart from the great voice acting of some, this is the only major difference that I see with the way have been gaming since the end of the 70's, the fact that there is no lull in the game. We have digressions, we have sequences where only a few of the players are engaged, sometimes only one and the DM, sometimes really long in character discussions of options that turn up into endless series of "what if" and end up being really boring even for us, no one would watch that on stream... Again, I have not watched much, but I completely agree, so far (I'm only up to episode 5), it's been a nice but fairly standard dwarven town, a fairly classic dungeon and fortress, etc. The one thing that stands out are the NPCs, and for me that would be the one advice to get, make your NPCs interesting, but honestly the way it works at our tables and that I see mimicked in the show is when the NPC is "adopted" by the PC. So maybe that's the trick, find the NPCs characteristics that will make it be adopted by the party, in whatever role makes it the most fun. [/QUOTE]

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