A Couple of (Longwinded) Thoughts
Apropos of nothing and in no particular order... = = = = = Of all the kerfuffles in the hobby right now, there are two that make less than no sense to me. There's the rather curious bulldada about inclusion (read: having people of color in illustrations and women wearing something that isn't bikini battle armor) that leaves me scratching my noggin, touched on in earlier posts now and again. Of late, this has been joined by some odd feud between OSR and 'story' gaming, which is really odd...and over which I have ceased following certain people simply because the rhetoric employed got a bit too excessive. Let me sum up. I am very fond of OSR. It's part nostalgia, since if you tell me that a game has 6 stats generated by rolling 3d6 for each, uses a d20 to hit, and has Armor Class involved, I have a fair idea of how this is gonna play out. There's something comforting in knowing that I can enjoy this without having to dedicate what free time I have to le