When you sit down to play a tabletop RPG, your initial thought is on what character you are going to play. After that you think about who you are playing with, what characters they are playing, and how your characters will interact. Over the series of a campaign, your bonds with the other characters become almost more important than whatever the game designer can throw at you. What happens, though, if you take away the stability of a static party? What if you make a campaign where the world progresses every game, regardless of whether you are at the table or not? I want to test this with a new campaign.
[Read more…]Renovating my Blog Process
Blogging has never been my strong suit. In fact, I am REALLY bad at maintaining a regular schedule on most things beyond a few weeks. Something disrupts the habit and I lose my rhythm, resulting in the whole effort flopping. This year I have a new goal on my blog to post once a week. To help myself out, I have developed a new process and some new rules for keeping up with my writing.
[Read more…]Vary your Twitch Chatbot Command Types!
I’ve previously talked on my blog about lessons I’ve learned through streaming that I’d learned through trial and error. (Psst… here and here!) One thing I didn’t talk about there, however, was how valuable a tool a streamer’s chatbot can be when used well. When I visit someone’s channel, I like to watch not just the streamer, but their chat. More often than not, I see a bot just quietly pinging away about “please support the stream” and “join my Discord” at regular intervals. That’s an underutilized tool. Let me give you a couple ideas on how you can vary your chatbot commands to increase its utility within your community.
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