Here I am arguing against the split into the various sub “camps” of current RPG culture. I used to believe in this divide, too, but now I’m convinced the differences are just talked up and don’t really exist except as tags, not inherently better or worse than tags such as “solo”, “rules lite”, “gonzo” and all the other ways of splitting it up. The tags remain important for some people to “find their crowd” but that’s far weaker than saying that these are the most important splits in RPG culture.
My actual favourite category would actually be “64 pages or less for rules, setting and adventure”! 😅
I generally agree with you in that 1) I absolutely feel they have a lot of value as tags and 2) they shouldn’t be used to put people in camps.
But otoh, it’s human nature to group people together based on arbitrary tags. So I don’t see how you can avoid the in-group/out-group behaviour while still keeping the terms around as tags.
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@kensanata @GrumblingGM@lemm.ee
Tough one. When I’m running CWN, an OSR Cyberpunk, I’m honestly more interested in posts from BX players (regardless of setting), rather than posts from Sprawl or Shadowrun players - who are playing Cyberpunk but with very different sensibilties. The BX posts can help me run the game while Sprawl posts at best can serve as setting inspiration, which I don’t really need.
But it’s probably useful to always specify additional tags beside just OSR or Indie.
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@kensanata @GrumblingGM@lemm.ee Sorry. I wasn’t sure what the best way was to use Lemm.ee and Mastodon, so I made an account on both, but I guess it’s confusing if I’m using the same name and pic both places. :P Still learning how to Fediverse.
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