@Taskerland The thing I wish I'd written down was my reasoning.

Like I can see huge evolutionary leaps in PC design and rules crib sheets for homebrews. Iterations of worlds and plots for second versions and attempts, but I never wrote in the margins

"I have replaced HPs and Sanity with Mental and Physical Health because..."

(but imagine on a grandiose scale)

@Taskerland Most magazines still exist, archived, but it's impossible to get the sense of developing argument from binge reading them. They feel historical not living. Gaming culture isn't just forgotten though, it was actively conspired against. The GM as a concept to be sidelined is a definite corporate conspiracy.

@Taskerland The problem with a lot of my reasoning is when read back from even my more meticulous notes probably just sounds like the "Uullaaaaa" noise from Jeff Wayne's musical version of the War the Worlds.

@Taskerland Out of curiosity, what is your favoured style?

@Taskerland you are Trad for OSR gamers but OSR to Ess John xd

@ZDL

@Printdevil @Taskerland I once lost a trove of Polish RPG data because my hard drive said goodbye and I got scammed by a company that was supposed to fix it and never got it back. Now I keep thing in at least two devices at once. And some as physical stuff

@vdonnut I'm not really OSR... I was drawn to NSR stuff because it is rules-light and pays lip-service to the ideas of simulationism but I think either that window has closed or I imagined it being open in the first place.

With regards to EssJay, I think we are broadly aligned on practice (not surprising, Risus was my go-to game for years) if not on rhetoric.

I suspect if he ever puts out a list of high-trust adventures, I'd enjoy them more than I do modern OSR ones.

@ZDL

@Taskerland I ran games with no connection to the broader hobby for a decade. Going online never came with the expectation that anyone else's games might be similar.

The only mistake is searching for the truth of what games were like for 'Generation X, decade Y, system Z'. Those truths are American fables.

@vdonnut @Printdevil @Taskerland this reminds me that I really need to back up my external drives again

I think important RPG information should tattooed on Rod Steiger

@shimminbeg @vdonnut @Taskerland

@Taskerland @Printdevil no, I tried to move the case through official channels and had engaged "consumer ombudsman" - translator tells me i this is how they call it in your lands?

In the end the procedure was so complex and bureaucratic that I stopped at some point. Some pictures and documents were lost but it was a really bad time for me on many levels and I just couldn't engage in something requiring this much thought and energy. I just bashed them in every social media I had at the moment xd

I'd never use a recovery service here, there isn't a single one of my drives that wouldn't get me done for "possessing information likely to be of use to..."

And the PSNI love a quota.

@Taskerland @vdonnut

Youtube is awash with radicalised opinion froth about games.

@Taskerland @malin

@Taskerland I'm split down the middle. In many cases I like trad with GM (although I don't like adversarial GMs, but rather prefer facilitator of even collaborative ones). I agree that overall I like rules-light (or at least rules-consistent: C&S5 is not rules **light** but it has two, very simple to describe, core mechanisms to learn instead of dozens) over rules-heavy/inconsistent because nothing drags me out of character faster than rolling endless dice and consulting endless tables.

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@Taskerland But, too, I sometimes find the simulationist/trad world a bit stifling in terms of actually getting an interesting story out of them. So even in those games I like having some form of metaprocedure (like the best-named "ass-saver points" from CORPS at minimum).

And I'm unabashedly a fan of games like the FU-derived ones, or FATE or the Spark-derived ones.

But I can't stand the PbtA/FitD/whatever ones, both from what I can understand of the design and for the paired culture.

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@Taskerland @vdonnut I could not find a coherent definition of what NSR even meant, to be honest.