To Stand Out, This TTRPG Podcast Network Chose The Risky Route Of Avoiding D&D

“[GCN] started out as ‘Let’s just play [Pathfinder,] the game that we know and the game that we love, because if we’re infectious about how much we enjoy this game, listeners–whether they even play the game or not, [will listen],” Lavallee told me over a video call.

“We’re always shocked by how many people listen who have no interest in ever playing,” he continued. “If we can share our infectious joy of playing, people will feed off of that, and that’s what they listen for. And then it wasn’t until the pandemic [in 2020] that we were like, ‘I wonder if we could finally start playing other games,’ because we saw that everyone else in the space was pretty much just playing D&D. There were a couple of offshoot things here or there, but it was [mostly] D&D, and then we were playing Pathfinder. I said, ‘Let’s start playing everything else.'”

Continue Reading at GameSpot



Read Full Article At Source