Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games.
, has a side gig as a Keeper of Arcane Lore. That doesn't mean you should knock on his door next time you're in the market for a dark ritual to summon Yog-Sothoth—it means he runs a mean game of Call of Cthulhu.
In play, this makes for some powerful moments. It's great to see the players react to someone showing up in a straitjacket to sit on the floor in front of them and pretend to have had their brain broken by cosmic horror."Being able to have other characters embodied by people who aren't you and having them bouncing off the player-characters as well, that's a lot of fun. Roleplaying games are essentially collaborative storytelling with your friends.
While actual-play series like Critical Role and The Adventure Zone paved the way, shows in other genres like Dimension 20 and both Bookshops and Graveyards of Arkham have continued their good work of successfully turning tabletop roleplaying games into popular entertainment, reaching viewers who don't necessarily have an RPG campaign of their own going on.
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