⚔️ World of Weirth ⚔️

world-of-weirth.itch.io/the-wargame-pa… I wrote a zine about the ideas & philosophy of Dungeons & Dragons as a war game campaign. It's free, check it out!

Catching up with #D26 youtu.be/KPI2n44ZtV0

@thecriticaldom @ShirePropaganda There is a lot of history here, I haven't finished going through it! miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/…

@ShirePropaganda It's been like reading the code in the Matrix. What I am hoping to come across is some reference that the Minneapolis gamers had Featherstone's book War Games (1962) because it mentions Hyboria and some of how they played it. Bath's Setting up a Wargames Campaign (1973).

Tony Bath even came up with the monetary system we use for D&D? One would have expected the English system just for familiarity.

@petedix57 @Mikeachim youtu.be/LhxOAU8iNis?si… Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about this either

@Mikeachim He did it as a solo album, we saw the tour which was also good. Worth checking out, especially if you like that sort of music.

I thought I knew the story of the "lost world" off the east coast of Britain, inhabited by Mesolithic people until rising sea waters engulfed it around 8,000 years ago... But I didn't know about the *tsunami*. Holy hell. 1/

Something showed up with my wife's perfume: 1d10 wilderness encounters! (roll of 1 - roll again, roll of 10 - GM's choice)

If anyone is interested in a 1977 Traveller Clubhouse let’s chat!

I dislike this style of GMing. An open world that happens with or without the PCs is my jam - as a GM and player. I want the world to be real, not staged. And the players to make the decisions. #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

@ShirePropaganda @RuleOfThule @td10rpg Yes, I can't get a straight answer as to whether or not the follow-on Napoleonic game or campaign was ever really intended to happen. I believe DW wanted the participants to *act as though it was a Campaign*, because ppl playing a 1-shot play differently than ppl in a long game.

@WorldofWeirth @RuleOfThule @td10rpg Wesely did repeat the scenario to try and figure out why the rules hadn't (or afterwards, had) worked as he had expected, and later runs the same scenarios at cons, but I don't believe that rules out the original campaign purpose of the idea

It's been a little while since I've talked about Echo Lake. I haven't given up or forgotten about it. I'm still thinking deeply about it, writing under only auspicious stars, and in doing so, I realized something very important to this game: The X-Files is a Braunstein.

@RuleOfThule @td10rpg Arneson applied the N-player strategy game format AND the 'one-to-one identification of player & character' to the traditional map-based wargame campaign. This was the synthesis that made the braunstein concept actually work.

@RuleOfThule @td10rpg Arneson's first Blackmoor event, a "medieval braunstein", was designed to feature Faction- & Domain-scale activity with the troop action baked in (Blackmoor Foundations, p. 4) specifically as part of the Castle & Crusade Society wargame campaign meta-map.

@RuleOfThule @td10rpg Grigg Morfan doesn't want you to know this

@RuleOfThule @td10rpg "one-to-one identification of player and character" was not unique to Braunstein. Michael Korn's Modern War in Miniature & Tony Bath's Hyborian Campaign both used this concept.

@td10rpg David Wesley's greatest contribution was not the braunstein parlor LARP, it was inviting Dave Arneson & Duane Jenkins to attend, so they could subsume the N-player/N-objective conflict paradigm into map-based wargames. Blackmoor (medieval) & Brownstone,(Wild West), respectively.

@td10rpg Mulder and Scully are the "Independent actors", with individual objectives that may or may not conflict. They exist and operate in a persistent environment under a fog of War. You could refer to an episode as a type of braunstein, but the series is definitely a campaign.

@jaggerode @CRShipp @TheBasicExpert1 x.com/Hermes2110/sta… I'm not going to debate the nature of reality with some goofball on Twitter.

@jaggerode @CRShipp @TheBasicExpert1 The "moron Goobers" are unable to participate in a debate because they do not fully understand (or they pretend to not understand) the topic. Their arguments are purely performative.

This is a common and very wrong view I see narrative addicted GMs make. As if me connecting different roll results and player actions to actually make sense is similar to chatgpt meaninglessness. It actually makes player choice matter because what they do becomes integrated into the game world and its history. That's the opposite of what these goobers mean with this argument and it shows they don't understand the opposing position. They would be incapable of restating my position without a moronic strawman. They act like their railroad obsessed method of running high prep games has not been the norm since the mid 80s or so and sandbox or club style gamers are ignorant of their position and arguments. We are very aware. There is nothing prep addicts and narrative addicted GMs can say that we player action driven referees like myself have not heard or even once believed. We've heard it. We don't care. We think your strawman arguments are bad. You are incapable of actually understanding a different view despite your "No wrong way to play" bumper sticker philosophy. So no, low prep player driven club games still have meaningful stories. In fact, they have more meaning to the players involved than your gaslighting the players into thinking they are playing a game when they are actually being tricked to follow a script.

@BlackDragonCan @ericbabe3 For a couple of years my players were infamous for exploring 3/5 - 4/5 of a dungeon and then deciding to turn around and leave before they hit any kind of big payoff.

@ericbabe3 Exactly. It’s the fact they could have missed it that makes it special. You get it

How to succinctly put the difference between story focused gaming and sandbox style gaming? Mercer gives the example of wanting the party to touch an item and have a vision, so if they avoid the encounter he would have them feel a tugging to draw them back in. That's it