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Never forget what they took from you. This hobby used to be Peter Cushing in a smoking jacket. Look at it now. We can make this a gentleman's hobby again, though.

It's that time again. You know what to do.

@RumpDM @dLsd_25 @DunderMoose @Travis_Fauber @DoomstoneCrom These are elegant solutions to practical problems. Any Bros familiar with ACKS have thoughts about using a proficiency, like Diplomacy or Military Strategy, to modify GOSS rolls? If it's on the General Proficiency list everybody has access and would reflect cunning leadership.

@lambo_dan94349 @dLsd_25 @DunderMoose @Travis_Fauber @DoomstoneCrom No problem. Combining them gives the ref a bit more control over the milieu and may help drive convergence in the desired way.

@RumpDM @dLsd_25 @DunderMoose @Travis_Fauber @DoomstoneCrom Thanks Rump! You're the best.

Downtime post on the Substack, and I go on a tad of a rant about GOSS, SEEN and Farmdweebing...

@Nobleshield @EricDiaz_RPG If players came into the game without complex backstories, they would accept that their bad play led to their PC death. You can just make a new PC. They are free.

@Nobleshield @EricDiaz_RPG But since “character death is a fail state” for the DM for some reason, the entire premise of the game is thrown out from the start. Decisions don’t matter because the DM won’t let you die, even if it is your fault.

I almost feel like I've been gaslit by the OSR.

@lambo_dan94349 @dLsd_25 @DunderMoose @Travis_Fauber @DoomstoneCrom To combine, ref rolls GOSS and tells the player what to write (true report, misinformation, partial truth, framing, etc)

@DunderMoose @Travis_Fauber @dLsd_25 @DoomstoneCrom I've been reading about GOSS and SEEN. If I wanted to use them in my 1:1 campaign how would I combine the two in practice? Player rolls GOSS and writes SEEN or ref rolls GOSS and player writes SEEN or...? Exciting stuff, thanks for sharing. The Bros are very generous!

When #TheHybroianAge started focusing on naval adventures, I had to learn a section of the rules I was not familiar with. It was sort of the point but mostly it was because pirate games are really fun. With a lull in the naval action, I had the chance to write something. #BROSR

@Nobleshield Yes. Tactical play can be good, but we really weren’t equipped for it.

@RumpDM I also feel a huge part of long combat is using a grid and figures. But haven't tested that theory yet.

@Nobleshield I played a Ranger. “I run over here and target this guy and this guy. Roll attack. Roll damage.” Then I would wait 10 minutes while Greg considered his Bard options (which never involved casting sleep)

@Nobleshield If combat takes two sessions to run, it’s either a days long siege or your group or DM just can’t make decisions.

@Nobleshield Someone else said it, but I enjoyed my time playing 5E back in 2018 but I knew something was missing; the things I wanted in the game I played in were all things being offered by the BrOSR. 5E is an incomplete game.

@RumpDM And both say "if you like anything about D&D after 2000 you're Satan" lol

@Nobleshield This is why “finding the right way to play RPGs” is such a more meaningful goal than “designing the perfect RPG system for what somebody wants.” Because you can’t even attempt the latter until you have finished the first.

@Nobleshield Meanwhile real people don’t have the time or social capital to string their friends along this OSR journey with them. The OSR creator class truly truly truly truly is just a collection of grifters. Players are marks and victims.

@ViktorGorchev Unfortunately this response proves to them that you are a racist. If you were on “their side” they would Expect you to have a private/public crash out where you accuse others of the same, DM someone 30 times in a row Saying you weren’t racist, etc

The clarity and profundity of @Bdubs1776's unassuming statement is the launching point for understanding the cutting edge of RPG conceptualization. Here's how it wrecks a hard-sought conclusion I reached years ago: