#257: Social Media in the RPG Industry

This week, Morrus, Peter, and Jessica talk about using social media in the RPG industry. In the news, Critical Role sells out Wembley Arena, ENnie Award nominations are in, Paizo and Mirrorscape bringing Augmented Reality to RPGs, and more! Plus a brand new sketch about the intrepid archaeologist Montana Drones!

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News

Critical Role Appearing at London’s Wembley Arena https://www.enworld.org/threads/critical-role-appearing-at-londons-wembley-arena.698718/

USA Today article on Ashley Johnson restraining order against Brian Wayne Foster https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2023/05/23/ashley-johnson-restraining-order-brian-wayne-foster-the-last-of-us-critical-role/70250246007/

Level Up A5E Actual Play Sponsorship https://enworld.live/sponsorship

Level Up A5E Actual Plays for July, August, & September 2023 https://enworld.live/newsblog/sponsored-level-up-advanced-5th-edition-actual-plays-ban4s-eg2yf

Mirrorscape and Paizo Partnership for Augmented Reality VTT https://www.enworld.org/threads/paizo-news-collab-with-mirrorscape.698693/

Steps to a Hero from Periapt Games on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/steps-to-a-hero-a-lifepath-system-for-5e-fantasy

Star Trek Adventures Captain’s Log Solo RPG https://www.enworld.org/threads/play-star-trek-by-yourself-in-this-new-solo-version-of-star-trek-adventures.698717/

News Digest for July 14, 2023 (Blade Runner RPG book announcements, Defiant RPG from Magpie Games) https://www.enworld.org/threads/news-digest-for-july-14-2023.698743/

Cairn from Yochai Gal https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/330809/Cairn?affiliate_id=36142

Spider-Verse expansion for Marvel Multiverse Roleplaying https://www.enworld.org/threads/spider-verse-expansion-coming-for-marvel-roleplaying.698691/

Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants preview https://www.enworld.org/threads/glory-of-the-giants-first-look-giant-ticks-player-options-tables-tools.698703/

Data from a million DnDBeyond character sheets https://seedofworlds.blogspot.com/2023/06/player-class-stability-from-1m-d-beyond.html?m=1

ENnie Award Nominees for 2023 https://www.enworld.org/threads/here-are-the-2023-ennies-nominees.698646/

ENnie 2023 Voting https://vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2023/

Asians Represent Podcast “Has WotC Fixed the D&D Monk?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u03o11iyWmE

The Verge article: OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in EU if it can’t comply with future regulation https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating

Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 https://www.owlbear.app/

Level Up: Monstrous Menagerie VTT Tokens https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/443894/Level-Up-Monstrous-Menagerie-VTT-Tokens-A5E?affiliate_id=36142

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Social Media for RPG Publishers

EN Publishing Linkin (similar to Linktree) https://linkin.bio/enpublishingrpg

Morrus’ Linktree (includes personal and professional social media) https://linktr.ee/morrus

EN World/EN Publishing on social media:

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@enworldlive/

Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/enpublishing

Facebook (EN Publishing) https://www.facebook.com/enpublishingrpg

Facebook (EN World) https://www.facebook.com/enworldrpg

Twitter (Morrus/EN World) https://twitter.com/Morrus

Twitter (EN Publishing) https://twitter.com/enpublishingrpg

Bluesky (Morrus) https://bsky.app/profile/morrus.bsky.social/post/3k26sz7wftg2a

Mastodon EN World server http://chirp.enworld.org

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/enpublishingrpg/

TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@enpublishingrpg

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