The Culture: BDubs Show The Receipts

Early this past week Dunder Moose had BDubs on to talk about 1:1 Timekeeping, proper play, and the receipts showing that the Bros are right.

BDubs is great at this stuff.

"It's great to know that I'm better at playing than Gary (Gygax)" is fantastic Rhetoric, and a perfect response to anklebiters using purloined authority to attack the Bros.

A lot of the objections involve an incorrect premise: "This is about a story."

It's a wargame.

There may be a team. They have an objective. They have limited resources (time, material, personnel) to employ in pursuit of that objective. The time it takes (in game time) is what it is; that is the tab that the players run up for the mans participating, and that tab is paid off by putting the participants into Time Jail after the fact. The catch? Those mans are protected (as are the deeds done) from contradiction or other intervention. It is, simply put, a Canon Event and cannot be changed.

This becomes obvious once Player-v-Player action goes down. Suddenly all these "rules don't matter" complaints go away because no one wants to lose Because Reasons; they'll suck it up if they lose fair and square by the rules.

And there's so much more to gain when players drive the bus like this.

As this spreads beyond Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, Adventurer Conqueror King, and Classic Traveller there's going to be more and more receipts produced and published proving the superiority of proper campaign play- and how unfit for purpose most tabletop "game" products are, as they are not complete games.