It’s been a while! Sorry, not really been able to post lately, but back now, and better late than never. -Jim
What do you want out of TTRPGs? No, that doesn’t matter. What do I want out of TTRPGS? Yes, that’s the important thing. Let’s find out!
A few years ago I was pitching a videogame to a room of swarthy videogame veterans. Beards, fortunes, you know the type. You have probably heard of these people. They had a lot of experience, and even more opinions on the experience of others. Anyway, the conversation came around to an already established game, how it was successful, and why. The general drift of things was that it didn’t matter how good or bad any individual element of the game was, because overall it fulfilled the sort of experience that gamers wanted, and had always wanted, and would always want. That, they said, was a good pitch: addressing a popular gamer fantasy. I had to agree.
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Lost in the hills of Somerset, this Rossignol searches for meaning among the clattering of small plastic bones.