Episode 175 Streamed Live Tuesday January 23, 2023
Main Topic: Divide -Divide-Divide The Hobby!
https://youtu.be/L9pDhntGoVY?t=30 (sample of the song “Divide” by
Disturbed)
Bravo Mr. Boivin: https://youtu.be/u20Wuj5gMY0
What is wrong with just accepting the natural division of folks in the
hobby? (i.e., BrOSR, 4D, Basic DD 1st-3rd level, 3.X epic tabletop
skirmish, Sparkletroll Barista D&D, etc.) Let them do what they want
and screech about being Elite, who cares? Shouldn’t we all just try to
be excellent to each other? Maybe we should try to be excellent in our
chosen playstyle?
Let’s be elite in our own preferred play style, if possible, whatever
that may be. Can Big Geek Con begin to be the play we attempt to achieve
excellence in our style of play?
This may include some Gatekeeping, but only as it pertains to folks
trying to horn in on your fun by bringing in some other style you do not
enjoy or maybe do NOT want at your table. We can and should still nerd
rage but try to pursue this excellence, if nothing else just for
ourselves. If it helps others then so be it. Plus, it’ll be fun to
debate who are the true elites of TTRPGS!
More Settings & Adventures and Less Systems!
Inspired by a Facebook post I commented on and then was commented on by
the following:
Bitty Jen(username on Facebook)
“Respectfully, I’ll pass.
As mentioned earlier, there are more than enough
rulesets/variants/clones/combo-rewrites..etc etc
But good luck with yours.
What the community really
needs are competent writers of modules/campaigns who don’t take
themselves too seriously, and don’t try to reinvent the wheel with
stupid gimmicks.”
New systems are not bad may be but less valuable to some these days than
new settings/adventures/modules/Pop-in Principles/System neutral.
Randy: “I do not deny the gamer fascination and love of new
systems/games, but I’d like to see ore settings a la Savage Worlds
business model over WoTC and many others endless array of supplements
then Rinse&Repeat for each new edition.
System neutral is ,for me, superior since it will never require
updates/new editions and will be evergreen.
Experienced DMs would find more value from Adventures/Modules/Settings
than new systems in general if they have a long running campaign…yes, I
am speaking for them.
Of course, some GMs like other game systems for cannon fodder.
Now gamers, in general, cannot resist the new shiny, but in the realm of
the OSR, it has been said many times...who needs another clone retro or
otherwise? What about Monte Cook’s Arcana Unearthed/Evolved style
‘systems? Too much like retro-clones, I guess.
But the monetary drawback is 1 DM – 1 purchase…how to monetize such
settings and adventure modules to the players?
What could a player be offered besides a new system?”
Report from Big Geek Land
Big Geek Con 2
September 20-22, 2024
Friday Noon-11pm, Saturday 8a-11pm, Sunday Noon-6p???
Considering get-together at the attached Uno’s Friday & Saturday 9pm
till close to play, wind down, meet-n-greet.
Location: Four Points by Sheraton Saginaw: 4960 Towne Centre Road,
Saginaw, MI 48604
+1 989 790 5050
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