Gamers exPlane YouTube Series - Season 2

Here's episode 2, on GM prepping styles. Some really good advice.

Additional formatting to announce the next speaker, and with persistent name tags.

Season 2, Episode 2


Podcast version will be up in ten hours or so. Edit: Podcast has been pushed out to the usual haunts.

Thanks again for pulling these together, Q. Cool stuff!

Another means of prepping I should have talked about -- just soaking yourself in appropriate media. I know a GM who runs mostly PbtA and FitD style games -- games where traditional prep is non-existent or very light, and he swears by watching movies, reading books, listening to music, reading comics and otherwise marinating himself in the genre he's about to run / emulate. And the other stuff I don't think any of us really go in to -- searching for an saving the right images, maps, portraits, etc.

I'm behind on my posts. Two more episodes are up, with some modifications to the presentation as suggested by the viewers.

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Season 2, Episode 2 - On GM Prepping Styles

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Season 2, Episode - When do you want to GM or play in a RPG?

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Podcasts have been uploaded too.

Episode 4!

An interview with Gamersplane.com user @Falconloft. We discussed his history with RPGs and Play by Post gaming, how gaming works for him, with just a little bit of 13th Age fanboying.

Player vs Player - Qralloq v Falconloft



Also published as a podcast in the usual haunts.

I was in the mood for some listening today, so I watched this episode - great work, you two! (I'd love to watch more, but I just don't ingest podcast-adjancent stuff well, get easily distracted.) For all that I'm not into noir, it was very interesting to learn of it staples and the like, and I share Falconloft's love for 13th Age; his fault, since I learned of it from him.

So how are these noir game plans going, @Falconloft? ;) Did you play it since November/December? Or still cooking it up?
Also loved the mention of Feng Shui. It needs love, I wish there were more Feng Shui games on the site.

...The only problem for me is the audio balance in this episode. Falconloft is so much quieter than you, Qralloq, and listening in headphones was a fine line between either not hearing the words of getting slightly deafened. I found the balance in the end though, so it's still great!
(Also you lost n in Falconloft in the YouTube title. :P)

Falcoloft!

Agreed, good episode, cool takes on gaming in the frame of PbP, 13th Age, PbtA, etc. Very curious as to whether @Falconloft has kept looking for a Noir system... there are lots of them out there. I too love Noir, and in fact perhaps the best one-on-one PbP I've ever played in was a Noir game where I (the player) wrote the whole thing in first person, Sam Spade style. Loved it. We used this:



...now pretty hard to find. But there's also Noir World, Gumshoe / Cthulhu Confidential / Trail of Cthulhu, The Big Crime, and A Dirty World. And generics like Fate and SWADE can also be tuned down a bit to work, IMO.

Edit: Forgot about Secrets & Lies and The Noir Hack, as well.

And of course, sitting here watching myself, I recall the name of the program I was trying to remember... TableSmith. Seriously, it is a great time-saver. Check it out and tell Bruce I sent you! It's a $10 Shareware program, but it isn't crippled and you can use it limitlessly, with just a nag about every five rolls. But really, it's well worth the price.

Episode 5!

I discussed with nine GamersPlane.com users the idea of balancing scenes between combat/action, intrigue/drama/dialogue, and mystery/investigation.

YouTube link



Podcast version had also been uploaded.

I think I have the planning done, just have to find time to try it out!

Episode 6: Dealing with games that seem to be slogging along.

Episode 6 on YouTube and podcast version out, too.

Episode 7: what is you favorite RPG system for play by post?

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Podcast available, also.

Thanks again for editing these together, Q. Good stuff.

Episode 8: Player versus Player with WarDomo



Podcast version also available

Episode 9: Player vs Player with BedzoneII



Podcast version also available

And the Season 2 Finale, my interview with WhtKnt, followed by a review of the new character sheet options, and a special behind the scenes look at Games exPlane.

I like seeing these and putting faces to names! Very entertaining, thanks for making these!