Teos Abadie

I liked it.

Yeah, and it's open to folks who have alpha access, some creators and folks who backed their crowdfunding. And you may recall, we talked about this before, like a number of companies were part of that crowdfunding effort and working together to fund the whole platform. And so you can find what those companies are doing there as well. But it's neat to start seeing this coming along.

It is, of course, a very, very tough thing to take on YouTube. And there are a number of groups who try. It is difficult to take on Twitch or any of these. But that focus on our hobby space is something kind of unique and interesting. And so we'll look forward to seeing how this progresses.

So, you know, it's funny. I'm usually not anxious. I'm pretty level. I, you know, like sort of shockingly, maybe we could say annoyingly. So like I'm kind of like, whatever, it'll be fine. You know, until because I'm not immune.

And so there have been times when, you know, I can think of a couple like in graduate school where there was one time where I was going to speak about the wonders of our school. And I really liked our school. I had like 20 ideas to talk about. But we had like 15 people, all students talking. And I was last. When it got to me, there was nothing to say. And I should have said, I love our school.

Everybody's covered everything. You know, if you have specific questions, come up and talk to me. And instead, I tried to ad lib just magically hoping something would come to my head. And it was just like my brain started talking to itself. You know, I was in that 3D space of trying to say things out the mouth while thinking. And it was the worst. So I'm not immune to it, you know.

And sometimes when I go on specific types of shows or something, I'll get a little more nervous. So there are a couple of things that I've read about and that I think are helpful.

um if you're doing a thing like an appearance or whatever if you can work out that kind of release of tension right of like kind of getting your body flowing can be really helpful to to keep you kind of feeling good to be in a positive mind space prevents anxiety build up um coming up you know having your plan be simple Right. So it's not like 20 things you need to remember, but just that simple.

I'm going to talk about this. Here's some points I can make. I don't have to make all of them. But, you know, something like that, that you can feel pretty if you feel comfortable about your plan and it doesn't feel overly convoluted, you'll usually do well. And I do that a lot for work meetings. Right. I don't have to cover everything. I don't hold myself to some high impossible standard.

Just something simple and streamlined like that will help me.

some strategies as teos just said or some paths you can follow if things start going wrong we'll move in this direction and everything will be fine with dming right and i do a lot of you and i both do a lot of dming in public and so one of the things is just stay busy right so you don't sit there and create dead air time you want to just get into it and say okay everybody hey welcome here's what we're going to play i'm looking forward to seeing everybody you know let's start with me painting the scene and getting right into character introductions and okay now let's do this and tell me about that and you just

One foot in front of the other keeps it all going, so there isn't that moment you have to sit there and go, oh my god, what do I do next? You just execute on that plan, keep yourself busy. Yep. Yep.

I love this, Sean. It's fantastic. yeah this is this is great and and i i mean i think everybody i would suspect everybody struggles with to some extent you know the more you play about thinking about this because you you of course have those moments where somebody who's so incredibly skilled makes an impassioned, you know, plea with all the right points and rolls a one.

And so what do you do with that one? Right. And, and the, the, the, you know, a thing that you often hear and that you sort of want to do as well, you know, let's roll first and then role play. But, but actually while that works for combat, because all the questions are there,

It doesn't tend to work for role-playing scenes, kind of diplomatic type situations, because you often are thinking of the plan as you go or talking back and forth with NPCs or various players. So it's hard to do the role up front because sometimes you don't know exactly when to roll, right? So you do a bunch of construction and then you make that role.

And so it's very hard process-wise to say, make me a role for this scene. Now, what it can actually do, if you do that, you shortcut the scene.

right often because you well i succeeded i rolled a 20 so who cares you know i make a great point about the blah blah blah and now you missed out all the cool drama or you rolled that one or something else really low and now the player feels like they just go well i insult their you know so-and-so their partner and we're done here and and and again you miss out on the actual drama of play if you roll first right so it's it's tough it's a tough conundrum

you know to tease out exactly what is or isn't encouraged there I want to say if I recall correctly that it sort of has the like you know but consider other factors right which is what a lot of games do which is the easy way out of all this right because you're you for good reasons are afraid to dictate one of these choices that you've presented because all of the choices can it sometimes I think be the right choice

And if your game tries to prevent it, then it creates a problem. But I will say that different games have different ways of exacerbating this problem, right? Like spy games are a great example where they will say and even like Star Wars and games like that will often do this where you're the pilot. You're the face, right? The charisma person. You're the gun person. You're the infiltrator, right?

It gives you these very clear roles. And games from Shadowrun to Spycraft to Star Wars, they all have these kinds of things. And it cements this idea of this is what you're good at. others are not good at. But depending on the system, that may or may not be true to a lesser extent. And of course, the dice can still carry or the plan can carry.