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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6072512" data-attributes="member: 63">Wil Wheaton has managed to make a decent YouTube series called Tabletop, wherein geek celebrities play games. With enthusiastic editing and an emphasis on people being funny and cracking jokes, it ends up being pretty entertaining. And it helped me grasp how <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJxQ0NbFtk" target="_blank">Fiasco</a> could be played.Do you think it's possible to make a show about people gaming that would be entertaining to outsiders? Would it work better with one-shot style games, or could you ever design a storyline entertaining enough to keep people watching an ongoing campaign?I've got this wild idea for a Price is Right style gameshow, where random people get called into the game until their PC is killed. Y'know, the sort of Running Man/Hunger Games-style entertainment we apparently have desired since the dawn of time. If you're editing afterward, you can combine a lot of camera angles and use the best footage, then gloss over the parts that were slow but important with montage shots and narration, probably with cool graphics and music. But if you film it in front of a live audience, you'd need some sort of scoreboard to help people keep track of what's going on. So maybe the Price is Right isn't a good model. Maybe something more like Jeopardy, where you earn a chance to go on, and then you play for the whole session.Prizes? Returning winners? A different dungeon every week? &nbsp;Or what about something less life-and-death, and more &quot;This week, on . . . &quot;? I bet we could get hundreds of people to chip in $5 apiece to get Kevin to record his D&amp;D sessions, since then they'd update faster than this storyhour. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Not sure that would cover expenses, though.What do you think?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 6072512, member: 63"] Wil Wheaton has managed to make a decent YouTube series called Tabletop, wherein geek celebrities play games. With enthusiastic editing and an emphasis on people being funny and cracking jokes, it ends up being pretty entertaining. And it helped me grasp how [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJxQ0NbFtk]Fiasco[/url] could be played. Do you think it's possible to make a show about people gaming that would be entertaining to outsiders? Would it work better with one-shot style games, or could you ever design a storyline entertaining enough to keep people watching an ongoing campaign? I've got this wild idea for a Price is Right style gameshow, where random people get called into the game until their PC is killed. Y'know, the sort of Running Man/Hunger Games-style entertainment we apparently have desired since the dawn of time. If you're editing afterward, you can combine a lot of camera angles and use the best footage, then gloss over the parts that were slow but important with montage shots and narration, probably with cool graphics and music. But if you film it in front of a live audience, you'd need some sort of scoreboard to help people keep track of what's going on. So maybe the Price is Right isn't a good model. Maybe something more like Jeopardy, where you earn a chance to go on, and then you play for the whole session. Prizes? Returning winners? A different dungeon every week? Or what about something less life-and-death, and more "This week, on . . . "? I bet we could get hundreds of people to chip in $5 apiece to get Kevin to record his D&D sessions, since then they'd update faster than this storyhour. :) Not sure that would cover expenses, though. What do you think? [/QUOTE]

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