I've been engaged with the role-playing games industry (such as it is) since before there was the web. Which probably dates me pretty horrifically. I wrote a little bit for White Wolf during the 90s, did a little thing for Big Eyes Small Mouth, and a whole lot of consulting on other products along the way. My bedroom is a disturbing library of role-playing games and wargames from the last several decades, and I really appreciate the modern move toward electronic distribution and storage. It means I get to have a lot of things at my fingertips without having to put up any more bookshelves.

There is something really important to keep in mind about this new "public performance"-style of role-playing game, and that is that it's not really something you can aim to reproduce at your table. In fact, they have a lot of terrible habits that make for great and compelling viewing but for lousy play. Lots of railroading, meta-gaming, and other things which often remove the sense of playing in the moment, which make them really hard to watch for me. I have had more enjoyment watching people livestream their Warhammer 40K tabletop battles than I have watching people role-play in these large, critically acclaimed presentations.

Add that to the fact that I've largely gotten away from what is considered "traditional gaming" for the most part in favor of things which are GM-less, often randomizer-less, and almost entirely unplanned and it's been a long time since I've been their target demographic.

Come on over and join the Community, look at some of my back postings on the Steem blockchain because I've written about RPGs a lot more than the Community has been around, and hopefully you'll find something you find interesting. If you get really bored you can watch/listen to some of the actual play bits my group did on Youtube years ago.. In particular the Kingdom and Microscope bits might break your brain, being pretty different architecturally than many trad games.