Welcome back to the Dungeon Master’s Roundtable!
This episode was recorded on September 13th, 2011
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Click here to download the episode
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Hosts:
Thadeous C (@ThadeousC)
Randall W (@Deadorcs)
Tracy H (@SarahDarkmagic)
Sam D (@DMSamuel)
Guests:
James Stowe (@jamesstowe)
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Topics and Mentions:
- James Stowe – Website
- James Stowe page on RPGGeek (lists products in which he is given credit)
- Fiasco
- White Wolf
- Necromancer Games
- D20Monkey (Brian Patterson)
- OnlineDM’s Website
- Adam Page’s Post (@blindgeekuk)
- Tiers in the gaming community – what does it mean?
- The use of twitter in the gaming community
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Twitter Questions:
- @onlineDM: What advice do you have for people who want to submit material to publishers? (here is a great compilation article posted on a WotC community site by @alphastream)
- @Darkpatu: What are your thoughts on buying and training feats and skills outside of level, both in story and role-playing.
- @DnDJester: I’m planning to go to my 1st gencon in 2012. What do I need to know? How much $ do I need? Hotels cost what?
- @triskaljm: when you’re designing, how much testing do you put it through?
- @Hzurr: Setting tailored PC themes in neverwinter; do we want these for all settings, or was it a nice one time thing?
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Awesome contribution from James Stowe. Good episode guys!
Thanks – it was great having him on! It was a very fun episode to record.
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One of my favorite examples of how having many “fans/followers” is unsupportable is this form response that Robert Heinlein used to respond to fan mail. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/12/just-personal-enough.html
Thanks for the fun podcast.
Regarding the managing of many fans/followers and limited feedback: makes perfect sense.
Despite the talk of limiting replies, I salute your clique in the amount of replying you all manage to do. I’ve only tweeted a handful of times to some of 4g4e and some your comrades, but I found the response rate to be surprisingly high. You seem to be friendly folk and hang with other friendly folk. Keep up the fun & good work!
As a C-list D&D blogger there’s one (small) point you forgot to mention regarding tiers in the gaming community: investment.
I’m not well known: if something I write gets 100 reads I call that a “win” and I’ve barely hit the 4-digit mark of readership. But I also don’t have a dedicated site and other writers helping me add content bringing back readers every day to see what’s new. Plus the time (or help) needed to make a professional and sleek looking site with a neato-keen logo.
I’m not investing the cost of webhosting or a domain name in spreading the Jester David/ @DnDJester brand. Instead, I post on a free Community site of variable content of which I have no control and a dubious reputation amongst some. There are advantages (building enough rep to be asked to write something for Dragon was a big-ass plus) and disadvantages (1/8th the followers of any of the 4G4E crew and likely website 1/8th the hits).
Not that throwing money at the internet is guaranteed fame… you still need to write: write something worth reading and write it well.