12-05-2018, 06:15 PM
You'll notice that Twitch and live play videos are a huge part of Greyhawk's resurgence. If you're not on Twitch or YouTube and not using video to reach your audience, you're missing out on today's most important and effective online marketing medium.
It's also important to be on newer social media platforms such as Reddit.
Unfortunately, this is probably limiting Blackmoor. If you search for videos on YouTube, there are no Blackmoor live play videos and there is almost no related content other than clips from forthcoming documentaries, a couple of reviews of adventures such as Temple of the Frog, and one person's review of the Blackmoor D20 campaign setting books.
If you can do interviews or work with some video content creators such as WebDM, Nerdarchy, Matt Colville, The Mighty Gluestick or other Twitch and YouTube streamers, that could help build exposure and share links to the Blackmoor community.
Beyond this, until someone steps forward to create Blackmoor videos on the setting, its history, available adventures, live play, and how DMs and players can use it in their games, it's going to remain relatively obscure.
Hopefully the documentaries will help the cause, but it will take much more than they can provide on their own.
Personally, I've been wanting to start a D&D-related YouTube channel for the past 18 months, but I haven't invested in the hardware and software yet. I don't know if I will ever have the time to launch a full effort. I'm also not as qualified as many other players and DMs. I only played a little bit of D&D in the mid-1980s and early 90s, although I had quite a few rulebooks and adventures and read many of the early novels.
But then I was away from the hobby for all of 3E and 4E. I've played regularly since the release of 5E in 2014, but my experience is still rather limited. In fact, I have never played or run a session in Blackmoor. I intend to change that soon, but I've been quite busy playing in a Greyhawk campaign for more than two years now.
However, if I end up launching a channel, I will certainly cover some Blackmoor-related content to share the original Blackmoor group's role in the history of the game and encourage people to consider the setting for their home campaigns.
It's also important to be on newer social media platforms such as Reddit.
Unfortunately, this is probably limiting Blackmoor. If you search for videos on YouTube, there are no Blackmoor live play videos and there is almost no related content other than clips from forthcoming documentaries, a couple of reviews of adventures such as Temple of the Frog, and one person's review of the Blackmoor D20 campaign setting books.
If you can do interviews or work with some video content creators such as WebDM, Nerdarchy, Matt Colville, The Mighty Gluestick or other Twitch and YouTube streamers, that could help build exposure and share links to the Blackmoor community.
Beyond this, until someone steps forward to create Blackmoor videos on the setting, its history, available adventures, live play, and how DMs and players can use it in their games, it's going to remain relatively obscure.
Hopefully the documentaries will help the cause, but it will take much more than they can provide on their own.
Personally, I've been wanting to start a D&D-related YouTube channel for the past 18 months, but I haven't invested in the hardware and software yet. I don't know if I will ever have the time to launch a full effort. I'm also not as qualified as many other players and DMs. I only played a little bit of D&D in the mid-1980s and early 90s, although I had quite a few rulebooks and adventures and read many of the early novels.
But then I was away from the hobby for all of 3E and 4E. I've played regularly since the release of 5E in 2014, but my experience is still rather limited. In fact, I have never played or run a session in Blackmoor. I intend to change that soon, but I've been quite busy playing in a Greyhawk campaign for more than two years now.
However, if I end up launching a channel, I will certainly cover some Blackmoor-related content to share the original Blackmoor group's role in the history of the game and encourage people to consider the setting for their home campaigns.