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| Tabletop, I Choose You!; A new Youtube playthrough series | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 27 2014, 01:33 AM (7,564 Views) | |
| DMMike | Jun 27 2014, 01:33 AM Post #1 |
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Update 24-10: Added new episode Hello everbody, My name is (DM)Mike, and a couple of weeks ago I came across Pokémon Tabletop United, and oh boy was I hooked. The system is brilliant, the setting is amazing, and the community seems extraordinarily nice. I wanted to play this game, but not just that, I wanted to spread the word on both this game and a program some of you will be familiar with called Roll20. It allows you to play tabletop games online. And so now I am here to announce to you a Youtube series in which a couple of friends and myself play Pokémon Tabletop United. I'd love for you guys to check it out, tell me what you think, and give me pointers as to how to run the game better. I've already learnt a lot from the first session, so many of the errors we make in the first 4 episodes will be errors I won't be repeating (like me saying that Pokémon die when they receive 6 injuries. I don't know why I thought that was the case, but obviously that should be 10 injuries). So here it is, the first episode: Tabletop, I Choose You! Full list of episodes: Spoiler: click to toggle The next play session will be livestreamed at http://www.twitch.tv/RockingGeckoProductions. Check out this link to find out when exactly, or type !ptu in the twitch page's chat, and Moobot will tell you how long before we will play again! Edited by DMMike, Nov 28 2014, 09:26 AM.
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| Revlar351 | Jun 27 2014, 02:54 AM Post #2 |
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Very entertaining. Looking forward to more. (beep boop) |
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| DMMike | Jun 27 2014, 04:45 AM Post #3 |
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Thank you very much! The quality of the program will only go up when we have more episodes recorded. For instance, I've banned Rob from using a fan when we're recording. Never again. |
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| Elemental Knight | Jun 27 2014, 05:53 AM Post #4 |
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Ooh. I may have to watch this tonight after work. So, not having seen this yet: It sounds like you haven't GM'd PTU before. Have you GM'd PTA before? Have you been a GM before period? What's your tabletop experience and background? Knowing this might help with giving you the advice / pointers you asked for - knowing, y'know, what level we should be aiming those at. |
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| DMMike | Jun 27 2014, 07:14 AM Post #5 |
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I have played DnD as a DM for about 10 years now and have played several other systems like Marvel Heroic Roleplay and Warhammer Fantasy RP. This is my first experience with Pokemon tabletop though, so I'm as fresh as Pokemon Dms come. |
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| Revlar351 | Jun 27 2014, 07:27 AM Post #6 |
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My initial concern would be to ask if you've tried since the session posted to run route movement in a more abstracted manner. Maps are good, but outside of combat, moving based on overland speeds and turn by turn seems to me like it would drag the game to a crawl. It'd also mess with any class that assumes this, like Survivalist, which assumes you'll be spending nights within specific routes, and that can't really work well in a 100mx100m mapped route, without some help from the GM. Then again, the current format is entertaining to watch, I just worry it may not be very entertaining to play. Edited by Revlar351, Jun 27 2014, 07:28 AM.
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| DMMike | Jun 27 2014, 07:34 AM Post #7 |
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Longer routes or travel will be broken up into multiple maps, and the transition between these maps is what will take time. Those transitions are where they will have walked for a couple of hours and stuff like that, so they will always end up on one of the maps, but the time between the map they were on and the one they'll be on may lapse significantly. Either way, if things turn out to be boring or repetitive, I'll cange the format. |
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| DMMike | Jul 1 2014, 09:01 AM Post #8 |
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I have updated the OP to include the latest episode, and will continue to do so every time a new episode gets aired. Additionally, I am happy to be able to tell you that the next recording will be livestreamed! Friday 11th July we will be streaming from 8 PM CEST, which is 11 AM PDT. We will be streaming for 3-4 hours, most likely! The twitch channel we'll be using can be found at www.twitch.tv/RockingGeckoProductions. |
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| Twilightwings | Jul 1 2014, 01:15 PM Post #9 |
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I must watch this, shall leave better reply here once I have. |
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| Jarulso | Jul 1 2014, 02:59 PM Post #10 |
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Resident LIBRE WRASSLER
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The temptation for a campaign entitled 'Pokémon: The Musical' is overwhelming. I love this so far. |
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