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Hey,
I tried searching but my search-fu was weak, so:
This might be a stupid idea, but has anyone done anything with the narrative boxes in APs, in the sense of pre-recording NPC dialogue boxes and playbacking them? Furthermore, have you guys shared any such recordings?
If the community recorded things and then shared them, then we could playback the narrations to our parties with a voice that isn't our own. I wonder if that would increase the immersion, when the players hear some completely different person's voice than the DM's. Or would a disembodied computer-played voice de-immerse people?
I was thinking something along the lines of, someone takes all of, for example, Belor's dialogues from RotRL, records them with his own voice, then shares them on Youtube, and then all community members could playback Belor's dialogues.
Some DMs probably quite enjoy doing different voices so obviously this isn't for them, but for DMs who feel that acting isn't so much their thing and who are unsure about their different voice abilities. If you feel uncomfortable trying to do different voices, or if you have a speech impediment that makes it difficult to portray different characters, for example, then something like this could be useful to some DMs?
Legacy of Fire has tidbits adventure background in each volume and somebody did record themselves narrating them, like a campfire story. Search around the LoF forum and you'll find it.
Good thought, but I've not seen it.
I've actually thought that something similar to this might actually be kind of a cool project for PFS, with the same people doing all of the "box texts" for the specific recurring NPCs (mostly the Venture Captains assigning the missions). Given an even greater sense of continuity.
Might be something the online-play community has looked into a bit more as they are already doing their game play on a PC, so it wouldn't really be much more immersion-breaking.
-TimD
That does sound like a cool idea, actually. Put it up on a website, almost like a podcast site, but with just the different voiceovers you can dl and playback at the table?
I'm not sure it would work with the Community Use Policy as it currently stands, but I also doubt this was a possibility that was foreseen when writing it.