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If you watch many tutorials on video creation, one of the primary lessons you learn quickly is that audio makes or breaks your production. Low quality video is troublesome, but generally doesn’t chase away viewers (unless its really annoying). Low quality audio however rapidly chases them away. It is very easy to forgive poor lighting, low resolution, or even skipped frames, but it is nearly impossible to ignore cracking sounds, low volume, static, or any other audio issues. To this end, although the gear doesn’t need to be top quality, it is very important to consider your arrangement and processing…
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The first part of any streaming setup is of course the gear and software necessary for the production and collection of footage and audio, and a means to broadcast or record. My philosophy, both due to budget limitations and practicality, has always been to do as much as possible with as little as possible. Many people believe you have to spend thousands of dollars to have decent material – that simply isn’t true. For reference, consider that the expensive top of the line gear today will be tomorrow’s discards. Used equipment only a few years old can be just as…
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Its been many years, but we finally managed to get together for a round of Star Wars X-Wing, using the latest version of the rules. As usual, we opted for an overly complex mission plan, with a 4v4 battle between 4 players – 2x Rebels, 1 Scum, and 1 Empire. Add to this our general lack of knowledge on the game – after several years many of the rules and specifics where foggy at best – and the game ended up running much longer than hoped. In the end, we did not complete the battle, and only a couple of…
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A set of figures I had printed and ready to go a while ago finally got some game time with the presentation of my Purple Worms. Obviously, these are non-standard representations, and the coloration is a bit different, but they were still almost immediately recognizable by the group. The coloration is based off the current Extinction Curse campaign, with the group venturing into the irradiated Black Desert – the sand is an ashen grey, so I felt it appropriate for the upper surfaces of the worms, keeping the purples to the lower belly. The dozens of tiny claws and large…
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This last weekend had a slight change in our schedule – due to personal events we opted to switch the regular game to Saturday instead of Sunday, which gave us an unusual opportunity to have an extended game. Instead of our normal 5 hour session, we instead managed to reach nearly 9 hours, plus a 1 hour food break. This of course made the resulting video file far larger, but I was able to publish it to YouTube by late Sunday. The group seemed to have quite a bit of fun, even if the game was rather combat heavy. The…
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Going to be spending several upcoming posts on the subject of live-streaming. Specifically focused on my lessons learned and efforts around live streaming our RPG sessions, but honestly it can be applied to a great many different options. I am by no means an expert, but thru trial and error and many YouTube videos, I have adapted my process into what I believe to be a fairly solution solution. Since your particular situation no doubt is different, take my suggestions and claims as such – only a starting point. Hopefully much of my process will apply, but some you will…
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Without touching any of the usual mummy-related jokes, I present the most recent foe the Carrion Crown group encountered. This ancient corpse was hiding in one of two sarcophagi, waiting for the group to engage and be distracted, before emerging to attack. Unfortunately, the group was more than capable and quickly dispatched the creature – even managing to avoid the dreaded mummy rot. The figure is a simple paint job of contrast paint – if anything I went overly simple and didnt even bother with any details. At the time, it was just too small of a figure to bother…
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For the past several weeks now, I have swapped over to a Twitch format for our gaming schedule, which I think upload to YouTube after the fact. So far, this is actually working quite a bit better. Although the audience is still non-existent (not unexpected), it does streamline my own workflow quite a bit. Twitch streaming tools are a bit more user friendly, meaning I have at least a chance to be engaged and can fairly easily automate most of the other pieces. At the same time, I create an offline recording of the event, which I can then quickly…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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