What are good Twitch streams for actual plays and/or reviews of indie rpgs? Help me, I am an old!
Indie RPGs on Twitch?
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Are there any that you have found that you enjoy currently and if so what do you like about them?
Eric Vulgaris has an extensive collection of indie games on their YouTube and is frequently a cast member and show runner of indie RPGs.
They are also a Gauntlet member!
I wonder if @EricVulgaris would have more suggestions in this area!?
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I’m a fan of Off the Table. They focus on their players and the game being played, have a lovely and mindful community and give a lot of new people access to streaming and ttrpgs considering their size and enthusiast nature.
The breadth of games being played is there, the games matter and they demonstrate a way to play that’s welcoming, vulnerable and built on friendship.
The second game they ever played (not just on the channel, most of the folks on it) was Burning Wheel and it ran for quite a successful three seasons. It’s a real good place that acts against gatekeeping.
Summer’s tight 2h Tuesday sessions of Urban Shadows and the Monsterhearts 2 podcast are probably the easiest/most accessible way to enjoy the play on there.
Also, lots of smooches.
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I have literally no idea how to find anything on Twitch, but I know all the kids are doing it, don’t forget to throw lilies on my coffin, for it is I, your gay grandpa.
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I like Hijos Del Rol which has a mix of actual play and interviews with designers and does episodes in both English and Spanish.
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Wandering in as a confused old person: I know vidya games twitchers often play modded versions of games that allow the chat to mod the game. Are there are indie games out there/ twitch streamers that hacked indie games to allow this interaction?
I would love to see a Twitch stream in which the chat (as adults) could throw bits to move Labels.
The Gauntlet’s very own @Pat_P has a channel called fictive fun that i’m lucky enough to be on sometimes - we have just started a game of Monster Hearts! https://www.twitch.tv/fictivefun
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I know I heard an RPG Twitch streamer talking about this on a podcast a little while back. It might have been on Gaming Closet? They were running some form of D&D Arena Combat game where the audience could contribute buffs to the characters or something. It sounded like both a neat idea, and something I’d hate 
I really like the idea of using Twitch to demonstrate and interest people in RPGs, but I’m still not really sold on expressly running RPGs as an entertainment medium for third parties. It’s why I really like the Gauntlet AP, because they feel like games actually being run for and by the people sat at the table (because they are!) I think it would be cool to run some games in Twitch where the audience could chill out and chat in the margins - kinda like we already often do in hangouts games - but I worry that letting the audience “demand” interaction might break the magic circle a bit. But hey, I’m definitely prone to a bit of cloud-shouting from time to time so take that with a pinch of salt
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RPGs-as-performance also makes me nervous, but games where there is a fiction-audience like Passiones, Storm Riders and WWW… I could be interested to see them hacked to incorporate a twitch audience.
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I know one Twitch stream I saw (Weekly Affirmations, which covered a lot of indie RPGs) would ask the chat to choose a random option from a table, rather than rolling a die. Is that the sort of thing you’re asking about?
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Not really, I was thinking of actual Twitch integration of the interactions.
That’s totally fine to feel that way but it might be its own thread?
Anyway, Off the Table, Actual Play and Fictive Fun all do this, they focus players first, game second and the audience as a presence as distant third in comparison.
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I used to do a lot more short form (one shot) indie rpg content branded under Once Upon A Game. Hundreds of episodes showcasing scores of indie rpg games are on my YouTube (www.YouTube.Com/EricVulgaris)
Off_thetable as mentioned above has really carried the torch when it comes to this lately. I think Sean Nittner’s actual play channel does good stuff too.
Really though, in 2019, no one’s really focusing on the story game stuff like I was doing AFAIK.
plenty of people have pbta series or even a few doing stuff like lady blackbird. scratticus does a ton of variety, the phantom rollbooth does a lot with monte cook games, and unmadegaming does stuff with modiphius.
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Primetime Adventures meets PbtA? 
Happy Jacks has done Apocalypse World, MOTW, Call of Cthulhu, Spirit of 77, Masks, Warhammer Fantasy. https://www.twitch.tv/happyjacksrpg/videos
That DND Podcast has done Dungeon World, BITD, MOTW, Burning Wheel, Dresden Files to name a few. https://www.twitch.tv/thatdndpodcast/clips?filter=clips&range=all
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I have tried to get OBS to work with me for Twitch streaming and failed, so I stream Sunday afternoons on YouTube Live instead. We just finished a campaign of Masks and this weekend we’re kicking off Urban Shadows!
https://www.youtube.com/user/0rklord
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Ooo… nice! Reminder set!
Also, only 4 more subscribers for that perfect number for the Tainted.
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