The Roundish Table
ROLE
Executive Producer | Narrative Lead | Director
DESCRIPTION
The Roundish Table is a variety actual-play podcast. I am currently the GM for our first campaign, SynthCity Chronicles, which uses the NetBattlers system in a setting that I have created. I also work as the EP, handling all logistical tasks, and sound design for the final product for each episode.
YEAR
2023 - Present
GENRE
Actual Play Podcast
PLATFORM
Audio
This is the over-arching plot outline made for the SynthCity Chronicles, outlining the recurring themes to be included in each session and episode as well as what changes over each arc.
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This campaign is meant to be a coming of age story, but with the twist that we continue to see the lives of the player characters as they come into each different age, from young school children to teenagers to young adults. We also get to see how they are impacted by the changing world they live in and how they can impact the world.
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With the antagonists of Synonymous, we also get to see how desperation can cause drastic actions that may be regrettable in the future. In later parts of the campaign, we also see how this desperation can also make people susceptible to manipulation from those with malicious intent through the lens of a sci-fi aesthetic inspired by Saturday-morning cartoons and campy-but-serious early 2000's anime dubs.
This is a placeholder video and text to be later updated to reflect the actual project.
Running production for a podcast requires a lot of planning, Here is a copy of a spreadsheet that we used to track when all players and myself were available for recording times. Blacked out dates would be days when I was not available to GM and for all other days, players would check the box to indicate if they were available or not that evening.
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I also make sure that all players are ready to record on time and upload their recordings to the appropriate drive once each section is finished. From their, my editor Jason would download the individual recordings from each player and edit them down to usable recordings for each session. Jason then mixes them all together appropriately into a single file, exports it, and then shares it with me.
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At that point, I take each mixing and divide them up into different episodes with breaks in the middle for shout-outs and promos, as well as announcing any new things coming or handling general "house-keeping" concerns that listeners may have, I also add in any background music or sound effects to create a cohesive and immersive auditory experience for our listeners during this stage.
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Once each episode has been finalized, they are then published on a release schedule to major platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
