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Message: <blockquote data-quote="oswallt" data-source="post: 5959145" data-attributes="member: 63970">I think the games with Chris Perkins as DM are by far the best I've seen.  (Except for the UK one, that was pretty boring.)  I think those have pretty much set the bar for good video podcasts (vidcasts?).You bring up a good point khantroll.  My groups plays with battle mats and minis, but we often just use a blank grid and a black marker.  Or sometimes just a pencil sketch on note paper.  I don't think that would be very visually appealing and I'm not sure it would actually add something beyond just audio.  Something to think about.I realized today that I said I had found some vidcasts, but I didn't say which ones.  Here's what I've found so far:The official D&D 4e videos with Chris PerkinsI think these are the top of the scale right now.  Chris is an entertaining DM to watch as well as listen to and the elaborate terrain is cool.  If I had to find a nit to pick it would be that they don't edit out any of the awkward silences or the bickering.  The pace stayed fast, so there wasn't much of that kind of stuff.  I think that goes to show that a good DM does a lot to make a game fun to watch.I Hit It with My Axe (D&D with pornstars)This is kind of different in that they are usually only 5 or 10 minutes, but they have a lot of the good things from the WotC videos.  The DM is entertaining and the terrain, while not as elaborate as the WotC games, is pretty cool.  I also like that they don't just show the game, but cut away to talk to the players.  The downsides are that they are so short, they cut away a lot, and it usually winds up being "PORNSTARS!!! that just happen to be playing D&D."Thursday KnightsThey stream their sessions live and have a picture-in-picture showing a wide shot of the room inset with the battle map.  I think the 2 camera set up is nice and it's an idea worth stealing.  On the minus side, they just kind of turn on the camera and then do their thing.  There's not a lot of consideration of there being an audience.  Sometimes there's 30 to 45 minutes of them walking around, getting snacks, etc.Dungeons and Dragons 4E Adventures (BensRPGPile.com)They use some pretty cool terrain, but that's all you ever see.  The camera only points at the table.  It makes it a little hard to follow along when they're not in combat.Let's Play DnD (Wolfshirt on Vidler)They use a virtual tabletop and the vidcast is just a screen capture of that.  I haven't watched very much of this one, but they don't seem to use pre-drawn maps.  They use cool color tokens, but the map is just lines on a grid.</blockquote>

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