Lindybeige

This was shot ages ago, and was a gargantuan effort of editing. Thankfully, I had two students to help me out. Here is the set-up episode, in which we set up the characters and situation. After this, there will be three episodes of the drama playing out, and if we find the time, a 'drama-cut' versio

I've noticed that a lot of YouTube videos effectively have two titles: one in the text on the thumbnail and another in the listing, which gives us two bites of the cherry. I'm not sure that either title here is great, though. Anyway, this one is for role-play gamers, fantasy writers, and students of

The last in the current run of scenery videos. There will be more one day, but this is enough for now. You may note that the thumbnail has been used before. One of the comments in the last dungeon scenery video was that I would get far more clicks if I showed the whole layout than with an arty compo

It is a follow-up to the other recent one on dungeon scenery, which I hoped crafters of that sort of thing would find inspirational. I have called it 'More Inspirational Dungeon Scenery' and you can decide for yourselves which word in that title is described by 'more'. Yes, the title on the thumbnai

I haven't done one on this topic for years. Here, I take you through the scenery I made at my last house, which has been sitting on the shelves, waiting for the day. Model dungeon scenery to inspire the would-be evil overlord, part one. (YouTube)

Episode two now. I intend to release the whole series in one go, to please the binge-watchers of the world. Nice end scene! i wonder about how much of the discussions between the scenes to leave in. It sometimes go on a bit, but part of what the video is doing is showing the creative process. I have

You are getting to see this before the rest of the world, which will get it in a day or two. Possibly someone here will spot and report an error that I can correct. This was a big project for me - many months in the planning, many months in the equipping and recruiting, a one-day shoot with the cast

Er, well, it's quite long, at least: I ramble about magic in fantasy worlds. If people could use magic, would they still be superstitious? What would they use magic for? Where would the power for the magic come from? I think the second half is better. Nice jacket? Fantasy Magic: superstitions, uses,

Sorry this one was so late, everyone. The first version of it got hit by a copyright claim, and I had to re-edit it, and the second one had inexplicable SFX trouble (for very simple SFX). Anyway, this is me in my costume that is a nod to the original cover of the HG Wells novel, wittering on about i

Back to making things at long last! I motor-mouth my way through hacking up bits of plastic foam, and make some model scenery. Making models with a hot-wire cutter (YouTube)

Another long one. Twenty to thirty minutes, we agreed, and then it over-ran a bit. Getting to do this sort of thing is a great perk of my job. The man who gave us Call of Cthulhu, and Doom: Sandy Petersen (YouTube)

This one goes 'live' tomorrow, but you get it a day early. It's another LARP one, dealing with an issue that some people have surprisingly strong views on. Who can play an elf? LARP's thorny issue (YouTube)

This took four very long days to edit. I do hope you like it. Sorry about the picture quality. Downton Abbey - the Live Action Role Play version (YouTube)

And now, after what I hope is long enough for you to recover from the last one, spend some time with your family, and breathe some country air, here is the latest: a video of speculative biology. How a cyclops could see in 3D (YouTube)

And now, role-play gaming (sort of) - a discussion of what it's like to experience being someone else. Two LARP characters who taught me about life (YouTube)

I'm back from several trips away, the last being to Switzerland, where I shot a fair few videos. All going well, this will mean an increase in my video output soon. Anyway, this one's about role-play gaming, which is one of my interests. The video describes a new game which has an innovative approac