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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8424152" data-attributes="member: 16586">[ATTACH=full]145170[/ATTACH]This is my bookshelf. There are many like it, but this one is mine. There are many sorts of games here. OSR games, Forge games, traditional games. Games with dense setting material. Games with low resolution setting. Games with dense mechanics. Games with a lighter touch. Each provides a unique value and is the result of incredible design effort (which should be respected). Each justifies its existence, not by replacing the experience provided by another, but by providing a different one with its own unique value proposition.I could have lengthy conversations about each of these games, when I would use them, when I would not. What sort of players are uniquely suited to each. What each brings to the table. The discipline involved in the process of playing or running each.What I am looking for is a distillation of FKR that shows the unique value it brings. When you would use it instead of something else. When you would not. Something that shows its value as its own thing and not as a superior form of something else. Something that respects the discipline and craft of different forms of play. How do I integrate into my overall understanding of roleplaying games? Where does it fit? Provide me with an integrative understanding that respects the value other games bring to the table. Show me how to do it in a way that is not just 'Do whatever man'.To me what I'm seeing of the FKR reminds of the "intuitive" training types you see in the strength sports space. People that look at the various disciplines (body building, Olympic lifting, power lifting, strong man) and opt to almost randomly take what they want from each thinking they'll get similar results. Basically they argue that all the thought, experimentation, and practice that athletes in each discipline have put in has no real merit or value. I just lift bro. It's easy.I hope I am wrong about that. I hope that FKR has something new to offer. That it's experience is different in the same way D&D 5e is different from Blades in the Dark. That it does not put itself up as a replacement for the rest of the hobby.</blockquote>

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