Wandering Adventure Party

establishment bonfire.Labour as is, is just small c conservatives, wanting very little to change "except some vague warm feelings"@Taskerland @vortiwife

@Printdevil *chef's kiss*

@Taskerland Yes, or getting called tagless provocateurs by snobs

@Taskerland I agree, though I don't have any specific bones to pick with the quality of books produced for the OSR. Both OSR books and D&D books are of about equal use to me (which is to say, mostly limited to the flip-and-browse level).It's the weird revisionism that makes me want to snarl at them.

@Printdevil @Taskerland If it helps, I can hear our recycling bins being collected at this very moment.

*punch punch kick*@RogerBW @Taskerland

@Printdevil @RogerBW @TaskerlandFor the curious, the subheadings are:Be open and honest about your scheduleShow up on time and stay for the durationParticipateShare the spotlightState and respect boundariesThink in the long termPlay willing detectives and ask for fun mysteries to solve

@satsuma @RogerBW @Taskerland @PrintdevilIn the case of mysteries, changing the truth around at random is basically akin to fudging stats or dice rolls. Not everyone is cool with that, or are only OK with it in certain contexts. Certainly, I'd advocate for "is there any way a clue related to the scenario I had in mind could *possibly* show up at the donut shop of all places?", just not randomly warping the game world to make the mystery center on the place or its employees.

@cybergoths @pteryx @Taskerland It's the codifying that makes it feel irrelevant to me. I only game with good GMs and the occasional great GM, any others I remove from my gaming. Codifying decent-GM habits is just killing trees needlessly, IMO.Good campaigns: those I respect. I think several good things have been published _for_ Gumshoe.Like with many RPGs, the core book amounts to a stone in a pot of decent stone soup.

It's difficult to get house insurance because it's liable to flooding. See maps passim.@cumush @devilsjunkshop @Taskerland @vortiwife

@Taskerland I started my first run a couple of weeks ago and this is so true. There is an in-game tutorial database that has never answered even one of my questions. I'm enjoying it anyway but it really feels like you are thrown into the game without much care

Amber Simplex, it just flares up from time to time.@Taskerland @Tim_Eagon

@fragmad Money, beyond that I'm all out of ideas.

As Sean Locke once said, I don't mind abuse as long as it's accurate.

@Kobiac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_press_association Like Alarums and Excursions.

*shifty look*@Taskerland @RogerBW

@cumush Well... I am almost entirely unemployable *blushes bashfully* @Printdevil

@devilsjunkshop Looksmaxing Aragorn @Printdevil @vortiwife

@Printdevil That is very evocative @HeyeBodo

@Taskerland Personally I think a lot more amazing work was done in the pages of the A&E APA than was done on The Forge. This is because the very format of an APA requires people to think before responding to things or writing ideas, whereas forum posts can flare up into hostility and toxicity at a moment's notice.