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<blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 8299543" data-attributes="member: 6910340"><p>When we launched, the intention was to be an entirely in-person company. It's a side project for my theater company, so we did theatrical, site-specific games with live actors as NPCs, lighting, live music, custom-crafted props and handouts, etc: <a href="https://cast-party.com/live-events/" target="_blank">Live Events</a></p><p></p><p>The pandemic largely shut all that down, obviously. We did manage to do one small, socially-distanced outdoor game event in September 2020 when the numbers here in NYC were very low.</p><p></p><p>We pivoted to running online games in April 2020 and the business quickly blew up. We started by running a TON of free games so that people could sample our quality and we have found that to be an important element of our business plan.</p><p></p><p>For online games, the software really varies by DM preference, but MOST of our DMs use the following:</p><p>Roll20 for maps & tokens & sometimes the official adventures</p><p>DNDBeyond for character generation & management</p><p>Beyond20 (free extension for Chrome & Firefox that allows DNDBeyond to communicate with Roll20 for rolls, initiative, etc)</p><p>Zoom or Discord for voice and/or video (Roll20 offers this but it's notoriously bad)</p><p></p><p>Barring catastrophe, we will return to in-person games with a big event in September or October.</p><p></p><p>One other note: we have an actual play podcast of Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, which we hoped to use to promote the pro DMing by showing off our play style. In fact, the opposite has happened - our pro DMing is way more visible than the podcast, and lots of people only find out about the podcast because of the pro DMing. Podcast: <a href="https://cast-party.com/category/podcasts/" target="_blank">PodCast Party: Descent into Avernus</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Burnside, post: 8299543, member: 6910340"] When we launched, the intention was to be an entirely in-person company. It's a side project for my theater company, so we did theatrical, site-specific games with live actors as NPCs, lighting, live music, custom-crafted props and handouts, etc: [URL='https://cast-party.com/live-events/']Live Events[/URL] The pandemic largely shut all that down, obviously. We did manage to do one small, socially-distanced outdoor game event in September 2020 when the numbers here in NYC were very low. We pivoted to running online games in April 2020 and the business quickly blew up. We started by running a TON of free games so that people could sample our quality and we have found that to be an important element of our business plan. For online games, the software really varies by DM preference, but MOST of our DMs use the following: Roll20 for maps & tokens & sometimes the official adventures DNDBeyond for character generation & management Beyond20 (free extension for Chrome & Firefox that allows DNDBeyond to communicate with Roll20 for rolls, initiative, etc) Zoom or Discord for voice and/or video (Roll20 offers this but it's notoriously bad) Barring catastrophe, we will return to in-person games with a big event in September or October. One other note: we have an actual play podcast of Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, which we hoped to use to promote the pro DMing by showing off our play style. In fact, the opposite has happened - our pro DMing is way more visible than the podcast, and lots of people only find out about the podcast because of the pro DMing. Podcast: [URL='https://cast-party.com/category/podcasts/']PodCast Party: Descent into Avernus[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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