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commented that "actual play, which has grown in popularity since well before the pandemic, has often pulled in Hollywood types to fill seats at the table. But neither SAG-AFTRA nor AMPTP is regularly involved in the productions that Polygon spoke with, and therefore they will not be affected". Justin
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million monthly downloads, and ranked highly on Apple podcast charts. By 2021, there were hundreds of actual play podcasts. Many web festivals, such as New Jersey, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Cusco, and New Zealand, "now include actual play categories, and many have scholarship programs".
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highlighted that "web fest selections are quickly becoming one of the best places to discover the undersung 'ambitious middle' of actual plays — that is, shows that aspire to the same storytelling heights as the most popular troupes, but that lack the resources of time and production budget".
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that "the boundaries and barriers that have traditionally kept TTRPGs hidden behind an opaque divide have come tumbling down" and that actual play "long-form narrative is reshaping itself as an expression of both players and the audiences that accompany them on the journey ahead". Curtis D.
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for excellence in tabletop gaming named the concept of actual play as that year's award winner, marking the first year the award was not awarded to a game, organization, or individual. Academic Emily Friedman, writing for
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The Adventure Zone podcast has been delighting listeners for years with its blend of exciting fantasy storytelling and sharp comedy, and it's moving into a new dimension with the release of a new graphic novel from First
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on the "upcoming 24-hour Dungeons & Dragons Adventure streaming channel" are impacted by the strike as they "fall under SAG's Electronic Media contract, and are thus shut down". However, other actual plays such as
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TTRPG publishers have engaged with actual plays by licensing shows based on their products, running their own, incorporating content from actual plays back into source material, and
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has said that LGBT representation has been more easily incorporated into actual plays because they are often produced by independent creators and distributed online. The site named
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as responsible for making actual play shows "their own genre of entertainment", and has since become one of the most prominent actual play series. Another popular series is
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that hire talent and airs on a closed platform (i.e., one that's not open to anyone to post content on) are impacted by the SAG-AFTRA strike". In August 2023,
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Friedman also commented that the largest "actual plays have viewer numbers that are the envy of some television networks". Amanda Farough wrote for
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and most Actual Play shows that air exclusively on YouTube and Twitch do not appear to impacted by the SAG-AFTRA strike, while productions like
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system. Wizards of the Coast has also published collaboration sourcebooks based on actual play shows, such as the
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Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop RPGs and Fandom
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The Adventure Zone is a side-splitting and heart-filled fantasy animated comedy series
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Watch Us Roll: Essays on Actual Play and Performance in Tabletop Role-Playing Games
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are actual play shows with casts that are entirely made up of people of color.
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partnered with Wizards of the Coast to create a podcast of a few 4th Edition
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Gaming Sexism: Gender and Identity in the Era of Casual Video Games
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Hedge, Stephanie; Grouling, Jennifer, eds. (2021). "Introduction".
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Actual plays have contributed towards improving representation of
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as two examples of actual plays which include LGBT characters.
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as dungeonmaster (DM), features an all-women group of players.
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were not impacted by the strike. Christian Hoffer, for
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dedicated to role-playing games. With the emergence of
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people in media more generally. Entertainment website
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videos of individual gaming sessions by random groups
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Index

Actual Play
Live action role-playing games
Role-playing games

Tabletop
Live action
Video game
Forum
Campaign setting
Character creation
History
System
Diceless
Generic system
Theory
GNS theory
Threefold model
Terminology
Actual play
Adventure
Gamemaster
Player character
Non-player character
Statistic
Campaign settings
LARP groups
Artists
Designers
Publishers
Games

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