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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PHATsakk43" data-source="post: 9650762" data-attributes="member: 7041071">Well, I guess I'll start this thing off.First, I've never attempted one of these before, so I'll just lead with that caveat.Alright, I decided to do this somewhat live. I've done a hard skim of the pamphlet, and that is exactly what it appears to be. Its a scant 60 pages. Of those 60, there is an amazing amount of weird white space. I'm not talking barely filled with text pages, like, pages with nothing whatsoever on them. Occasionally just with a page number. Even the ones without page numbers are counted in the pagination. Out of the 60 pages, you may have 48 that have anything of value and much of that includes the cover art and table of contents.I'll be honest. I'm not an art critic. That said, the cover is pretty much what it should be. You have a early Chainmail inspired black and white drawing with some rather anachronistic for its era font. There is a centurion fighting a bullywug while a Renaissance statue male bod with a wizard's head grafted on floats above the combat between the frog and Roman. Looking more towards the reader than the action below, this figure I think, represents the übermensch GM who will be bringing those fortunate enough to play into the one, true way to play. It’s fine I guess. We later find that the two in combat are actual factions that will be described later, so this is actually a scene depicting a potential scenario.As for the Table of Contents, you'd think that would come shortly after the cover page, but no, you get your first pointless, blank page. This one is not numbered (the cover oddly is numbered "1") but the following page is numbered "3". Which implies that, yes they included a completely blank page in an electronic document. We will see this over and over, which pads the page count in an already slim volume. Anyway, there is a title page with a copyright of 2024 and another blank page. On page 5, we finally get something. A quote from one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vi%C3%A8te" target="_blank">François Viète</a>, of whom I had never heard.I'll provide a snippet:Behold, the art which I present is new, but in truth so old, so spoiled and defiled by the barbarians,Well, that definitely sets the tone. I came in expecting a bit of arrogance. It's well layered throughout, so I was not disappointed. Given what I had seen of BrOSR stuff, primarily from other blogs I found linked on Jeffro's homepage, arrogance was the least of what I was concerned I'd find. So, I'll be honest. I wasn't sure if I was going to get a game or a manifesto. I honestly was expecting the latter. And while I'll admit there is plenty of pontificating, dogwhistles, some nearly audible, and more clear virtue signaling, it doesn't dwell on any of them long enough to make you want to completely give up. It just tosses some stuff out there where it really doesn't need to.Anyway, first content and nothing to do with BROZER yet. Another blank page, pg 6, and finally get to the contents on pg 7. So, for those keeping track, more than a 10th of the physical book behind us and no content. One page covers the entire work. The chapters are hyperlinked which is a nice touch. It looks like there are a couple pages of meta, in the first chapter, titled, "WHY IS OUR BRAUNSTEIN SCENARIO FREE?*1" Followed by some introductory chapters, chapters listing major and minor factions, and some rules chapters at the end. The indents on the chapters are a little screwy.[ATTACH=full]404313[/ATTACH]The two faction headers are tabbed to the left of everything else, which looks like it makes sense for the factions, but after the last minor faction the indent stays the same but it appears that "Map of Brozer" is probably not a minor faction. The title of the last chapter answers some questions. "Battle Rules for Old School Fantasy Games" as the last chapter in the pamphlet definitely makes me think this is just a way to sneak people into playing Warhammer with you. Well, I suppose that may be just as detrimental as grooming people into political extremism. You'll probably go broke faster with Warhammer. So, next post, we'll find out why we're shouting about the pamphlet being free.</blockquote>

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