Good lighting and clarity, but the audio is pretty low. Peeking at OBS it's showing an average around -30 db. That's going to be very hard for people to hear who are on mobile. Remember too DH is designed so you can do whatever. You, as the GM, CAN still make the world and everything in it if you want to. The core design of DH though is so that you 'share the burden'. That can greatly reduce the amount of prep time the GM needs to do. Also DH is aimed at a more TTRPG new player/GM, so sharing that load not only helps speed up things to get to the actual playing of the thing, but it makes it specific to that group, as well as incorporating ideas from, hopefully, everyone, so everyone feels included in making this thing what it is. Even if you use a premade setting with modules (like there were 2 in the beta material so far) your group's playthrough will be different from someone else's due to those open ended segments. As opposed to something like a D&D game which says this is X, that is Y, and groups playing will have far fewer differences between them. We may yet see an Exandria setting with DH, but I'm betting we won't. It's their own new system, with their own new world. I think we will see a restart of a new world setting they will be playing in when they do the December live stream. They probably won't carry the characters over since they will be, I think, randomly created for the stream, but I'd put high bets that will be the world/setting they use for whatever DH campaign they start following it. Also, I'd bet a big part of not using it is to be their own thing. Exandria started in Pathfinder and then moved into D&D, so there's an association with those game systems. For that reason alone I think they will want to avoid it. (And I wouldn't be surprised if even print material differs from D&D and Pathfinder layout and 'trade dressing', like the typical parchment colored pages you see with those.)
Hello! Courtney here. First of all thank you for the audio advice, we are still learning and it’s much appreciated. Figured we didn’t want to stop putting out content in the meantime😊 Im quite excited about the shared worldbuilding and you make some great points, very much looking forward to seeing what different groups end up coming up with and the difference that may have on the kind of stories they tell and the adventures that unfold😮 I can see why it’s not for everyone but we’re gonna try and win over ol Sam here 😂 We’re planning on checking back in once we start playing and really get a chance to experience gameplay with the shared worldbuilding at its core! I also agree with you, I’m in love with Exandria and there’s definitely still stories to tell (and threads I hope we get wrapped up) but I believe they’ll start fresh and highlight this more unique aspect of the RPG (at least in terms of the most popular within the space rn) when the new stream begins. Very exciting stuff either way! 😊🎲
Good lighting and clarity, but the audio is pretty low. Peeking at OBS it's showing an average around -30 db. That's going to be very hard for people to hear who are on mobile.
Remember too DH is designed so you can do whatever. You, as the GM, CAN still make the world and everything in it if you want to. The core design of DH though is so that you 'share the burden'. That can greatly reduce the amount of prep time the GM needs to do. Also DH is aimed at a more TTRPG new player/GM, so sharing that load not only helps speed up things to get to the actual playing of the thing, but it makes it specific to that group, as well as incorporating ideas from, hopefully, everyone, so everyone feels included in making this thing what it is. Even if you use a premade setting with modules (like there were 2 in the beta material so far) your group's playthrough will be different from someone else's due to those open ended segments. As opposed to something like a D&D game which says this is X, that is Y, and groups playing will have far fewer differences between them.
We may yet see an Exandria setting with DH, but I'm betting we won't. It's their own new system, with their own new world. I think we will see a restart of a new world setting they will be playing in when they do the December live stream. They probably won't carry the characters over since they will be, I think, randomly created for the stream, but I'd put high bets that will be the world/setting they use for whatever DH campaign they start following it. Also, I'd bet a big part of not using it is to be their own thing. Exandria started in Pathfinder and then moved into D&D, so there's an association with those game systems. For that reason alone I think they will want to avoid it. (And I wouldn't be surprised if even print material differs from D&D and Pathfinder layout and 'trade dressing', like the typical parchment colored pages you see with those.)
Hello! Courtney here. First of all thank you for the audio advice, we are still learning and it’s much appreciated. Figured we didn’t want to stop putting out content in the meantime😊
Im quite excited about the shared worldbuilding and you make some great points, very much looking forward to seeing what different groups end up coming up with and the difference that may have on the kind of stories they tell and the adventures that unfold😮 I can see why it’s not for everyone but we’re gonna try and win over ol Sam here 😂 We’re planning on checking back in once we start playing and really get a chance to experience gameplay with the shared worldbuilding at its core!
I also agree with you, I’m in love with Exandria and there’s definitely still stories to tell (and threads I hope we get wrapped up) but I believe they’ll start fresh and highlight this more unique aspect of the RPG (at least in terms of the most popular within the space rn) when the new stream begins. Very exciting stuff either way! 😊🎲