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ShortQuests -- individual adventure modules! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed to plug in to your game.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="djotaku" data-source="post: 9881266" data-attributes="member: 7054471">You know how hollywood will suddenly focus on the same thing from all studios? I think it's the same thing, but YT and D&D. I think couple that with the legit surprise overnight hit of Daggerheart and it's people being opportunistic. To avoid most of that nonsense I recommend Ginny Di, Pointy Hat, D&D Shorts, Zee Bashew, and Bob World Builder. While I think Professer DM almost always has great content he does tend towards click-bait titles, his protests to the contrary notwithstanding. Also, as everyone said on p5 of this thread - if this is your job and you constantly have to come up with new content, it's hard if you've not found a niche. Ginny does cosplay, music and advice; Pointy Hat does long-form examination of species/classes, and so on. If you're just generic D&D content - it's a hard world out there. WoTC just isn't doing enough often enough to make money making content. And newbie content is only needed for so long. 99% of the stuff I post to YT is video game LPs in an attempt to raise money for Extra Life. It's not my job; it's not even my side hustle! (5 or more years ago YT changed their conditions for getting paid and I don't have enough subscribers and/or minutes viewed per .... some time period) I remember when I was learning OBS and Twitch seeing constant complaints by people who had playing video game on Twitch as their day job. They got an audience by playing Game X. WIll that audience follow them to Game Y? Because they are SOOOO bored of this. It made me happy I wasn't doing this for a living. The other 1% of stuff I post is TTRPG related. For a simple 20-30 minute video it takes me 3 to 5 times as much time to write up an outline (I prefer to adlib vs script), film it, edit it, add any graphics, add subtitles, and get it uploaded. And I'm just talking. I don't have all the props that Ginny does or the insane amount of meme clips that Point Hat does. I could never enjoy doing this as a job. (Not unless my wife was supporting me)And this doesn't even get into the frustrating aspect of the constantly changing YT algorithm. There are tons of channels I subscribed to (and even clicked the bell) that YT doesn't notify me about. It's much more about what I've been recently watching - which could be nuts if I was using YT to learn how to fix something in my house (and now it thinks I only want repair stuff) or was trying to catch up on some news.</blockquote>

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