My regular Tuesday group is experimenting with recording our sessions. So this week we're streaming it as part of the test.

If you've been considering running an EotE game online or just curious how it works, this could be semi-informative.

Stream starts around 7pm Pacific and goes till about 11pm http://www.twitch.tv/liloki

Caution: adult language and occasional NSFW chatter... use of headphones advised.

Disclaimer: While an experienced GM, I make no claim of being awesome at it. Also, we are still working on incorporating more of the Roll20 functionality to our game over time.

More Disclaimer: We amuse ourselves, we make no guarantee we will amuse you.

well ****! I'd LOVE to watch, but I have to actually hit the sack soon. Will there be a recording I can watch later or is this a live or nothing deal?

If everything works properly, there will be a recording. We're experimenting with this so it's a new thing to us. i.e. we may eff it up and break things... which would mostly be on me.

I'll be sure to post an update if there ends up being a working recording.

....aaaaaand we're live

recordings happened. probably better that way versus live since they clip any of the buffering lag going on.

also, we were boring. sorry. guys got virtual stage fright and nowhere near the usual crazy talk. apparently the lesson here... just do it without telling ppl they are on stream.

That sadly is what people do. If people know they are being watch, then they act differently than they would if they were alone or in a group of close friends. We see it in life as well as entertainment media.

As weird as it sounds, there was a psychological scientist in 1938 who wanted to study how differently people acted in public and in private. The experiment: Hide under the beds of university students and listen to all that was said in private and see how it differed to what was said in public. Very weird and creepy...but it proved that people do act differently when alone or in small social circles they are familiar with.

Just because the first session didn't go as well, don't shrug it off. Sometimes it takes time for people to find their feet and to ease up to the idea that they are being themselves on camera.

Yeah, you make a good point. It will probably just take time for them to "forget" that it's on and start acting normal again.

One of my players and I were thinking it was the epic troll we pulled too... we had the rest of the long-time players in a state of temporary rage when they found out that he wasn't going to play an ewok (which we had been telling them for a past couple weeks) but instead we made one of their previous enemies into a PC which he will now be playing. The reactions were priceless though even if it caused some long moments of silence for the hour to follow the reveal.

Oh that's a good one! I have to remember that one for any future sessions I run.