Recent content by Fenris-77

My tastes run to lighter games these days, so say, Shadowdark instead of 5E. There's also a difference for me between more complex games I already own and understand versus the pain of learning a new system of the same complexity.

D&D and other dungeonesque games are an interesting use case. If we look at D&D or most OSR games and posited a well-developed city setting, like that of Blades with lots of strong theme and strong factions, I think that you could probably run a very similar game in a very similar way. Cities...

This is all very fraught. I don't want to add anything else to high feelings so I'm going to gracefully back out of this thread.

No, what you're doing is judging a whole bunch of people you don't know based on those few visible people. The vast majority of people who buy and play OSR games probably don't even know who those people are. Go ahead and judge people who are actually guilty of things as harshly as they deserve...

I mean that what the behavior of those individuals has to say about the wider OSR community, by which I mean all those great folks who play and don't post on forums or discord is probably overstated. Painting the group because of the behavior of the few is some nonsense.

Yeah yeah. :LOL:

I think this might be true of people who are 'online' but I don't think it's true of the community at large.

I hear we have a lot of, you know, pulp and paper and such, so yeah.

ecumenically exfenestrates.

Yeah, pretty much. The whole concept is a bit fuzzy, so don't worry about not knowing exactly what's being asked, that's kind of the point.

God no, those bad actors need to be identified as such, loudly. But sometimes the internet just goes on and on about them, and not to any great positive use IMO. Past a certain point the attention isn't as helpful as silence, if that makes any sense. Of course, telling people not to speak of he...

Well, we're back to pondering. If that's how the system hits you then it's probably not going to be as much fun as other systems. I don't ponder and I love the system. It is what it is I guess. 🤷‍♂️

I guess what I'm saying is that in some cases I think the attention drawn to those bad actors by endless internet shouting is, at least in some part, serving to continue to float their boat. Attention whores gonna whore if you'll forgive the language.

I have no interest in supporting bad actors in any way, but I also don't think they speak for the hobby. Creators of a certain status in the RPG scene have a presence that, IMO, far outweighs their actual impact outside of the internet. Let them fade away, I say.

That's interesting. I'm the opposite. I can't stand D&D-type stat-skill binaries. I hate it. It creates all manner of issues (perhaps the most famous being the Acrobatics and climb example). I think that flex in a skill system is almost always way better than the alternative. I care way more...