We interrupt our regularly-schedule commentary on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 1st Edition to bring you this livestream.
Last night, Jeffro Johnson appeared on Gelatinous Rube's channel to talk about How To Win At D&D and the #BROSR.
Try as the OSR and its associated hangers-on might, the #BROSR has forced the paradigm to shift and with it the discourse on what makes a proper D&D campaign.
What you see here is what Jeffro is like ordinarily, and what the discourse within the scene is like. Someone tries something, takes it where it goes, finds the fail state and reports back on what went wrong and how. This is "Fail Faster" in action, spread across multiple campaigns.
That is why the scene succeed so much so fast, and with the assistance of others able to quickly disseminate core ideas to wider audiences--you're welcome--the shills in the Influence Sphere are compelled to act or get outflanked and overcome.
What broke through? Look at Questing Beast and others have already attempted to steal credit for.
- 1:1 Timekeeping
- Braunstein campaign play
- Rules-As-Written play
There's more, and as the #BROSR shows by doing that what it cares about is mastering the game as it is you'll see more of this coming up, more people attempting to get out in front of it (more channels, more products, etc.), and higher-status people/products doing so (e.g. Colville's recent video).
This is what people do not get. This is an attempt to see what the game is, and the only way to do that is to play it as it is because the full game only comes up when the machine is in operation due to those full effects being an emergent property. Few can see just by reading how the game really is, and the criticisms prove it- that made in good faith, that is (and so few of them are).
It is good that Jeffro published this primer, and I look forward to the full tome when it's ready.
(I linked to the publisher's sales page above; hit it up and give Pilum Press your money.)
It was a good listen. I heard the last 30 minutes of it and then joined the Ash discord. I would like to observe some actual play at some point but first I have to solve Discord.
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