If you’ve been looking for a way to support the Alexandrian without using Patreon — or if you just want your support to be focused on producing more (and better!) Youtube videos — then you should become a Member of the Alexandrian Youtube channel.
I’m launching our membership program today. In addition to loyalty badges, emotes, and Alexandrian Discord+ access, once we have 30 members we’ll begin producing member-exclusive Youtube Shorts. At 100 members, we’ll begin producing full-length members-only videos, starting with the completion of the long-awaited D&D 1974 retrospective series.
Projects like this are, in fact, exactly why I’ve decided to start a Youtube Membership program. There are a lot of cool Youtube projects I want to tackle, but which are prohibitively complicated and expensive. To make them a reality, I need to be able to expand how many hours per month my team can dedicate to Alexandrian videos.
For just $5 a month, you can become an Alexandrite and get all the benefits above. Producers willing to chip in $20 per month will get extra perks, including onscreen credit in the videos and early access to new videos.
On Friday night, So You Want to Be a Game Master won the Gold ENNIE for Best RPG Related Product and the Alexandrian won a Gold ENNIE for Best Online Content. The Alexandrian is now an ENNIE Award-winning Youtube channel!
The bad news is that there’s yet another Hasbro / Wizards of the Coast scandal.
This video is exactly what you think it is… and also something completely different.
Has the Candela Obscura Quickstart convinced me to run the game? And will it convince you? Should you take the time to check out this new roleplaying game from Critical Role and Darrington Press? Why is Candela Obscura a game afraid of its own shadow? ENnie Award-winning designer Justin Alexander dives into the controversy.
This week’s Advanced Gamemastery takes a first look (and then a much closer look!) at what it’s like to run a sandbox campaign. I use a D&D-esque campaign as the example, but the lessons can be applied to almost any RPG.
This is the third installment in the series. I’ve been very humbled by everyone’s excitement to see more of these videos! While I know it’s a cliche, it remains true that subscriptions, likes, and comments make a big difference in helping the channel grow! You can help bring these videos to a wider audience by training the algorithm!
If you’d like to keep helping the channel, though, can you do one more thing for me? Share the video! Whether that’s just texting it to someone you think would love it or posting it to social media, that would be huge!
I’d also love to chat about sandbox campaigns.
What have been your best/worst sandbox experiences?
What sandbox campaign have you always wanted to run/play?
The second Advanced Gamemastery video has been released! The Goblin Ampersand is a simple technique that you can use to supercharge the concept for any RPG scenario!
I talked about this a bit last week, but while our first video dived into the venerable concept of the Three Clue Rule, I wanted the second video in the series to present something completely new that hasn’t been seen on the Alexandrian before. In the long-term, the series will be a balance of these elements: Presenting the fundamentals of game mastering in new ways and to a new audience, but also diving into entirely new tips and tricks! And many videos will be a blend of both. Next week, for example, I’m hoping to combine a new introduction to sandbox campaigns with a few insights that will be very familiar to long-time readers of the Alexandrian!
Last week I also talked about how important it is for a new Youtube channel to have engagement with its videos: Subscriptions, likes, comments. I was overwhelmed by the outpouring of support! Thank you all so much for supporting me and the Alexandrian! And I’d really appreciate it if you’d do it again for our second video. Train the Youtube algorithm so that it knows how much you care about the Alexandrian and the algorithm will help introduce these ideas to an even wider audience!
