The Culture: The Leading Man In The Hobby Talks To Mr. Wargaming

Jeffro and Jon Mollison had a chat yesterday.

It's good to see that the Bros are not yet a static, spent force. There is dynamism yet in the scene, as solutions are being refined into Best Practices and Best Practices are in turn refined to be tailored to specific use-cases.

This is what all those Totally Played For 40+ Years people should have been doing all this time but inexiplicably failed to do (mostly because they're Boomers), but they didn't so someone else picked up that crown they threw into the gutter, cleaned it off, and put it on their own head with predictable effects.

Jeffro's the most experimental of the Bros. That's why he's usually running the scene through, for lack of a better term, Violence of Action ("Violence of action means the unrestricted use of speed, strength, surprise, and aggression to achieve total dominance against your enemy.") as applied to redevelopment of forgotten hobby game techniques.

That doesn't hold for all of them, nor should it, but it is clear from this interview why he's the leading man in the hobby and thus the one responsible for creating the viable alternative to what Sorcerers By The Sea wants things to go. The rest of the Bros just pick up what he puts down and runs with it in their own directions. Collectively, this is how the Real Hobby gets to clear out its space and hold it against the oncoming collapse of the Cargo Cult of Conventional Play once SOBS does its Big Move and pulls out of Tabletop entirely.

More people are going to end up going down the road he paved, just as more people are catching up to me about SOBS, Conventional Play, and the (lack of a) future for the hobby. I agree with Jon that the sign of success will be the Questing Beast sorts plagarizing the Bros (as they have before) in an attempt to grift off of a promising trend. I look forward to that, as I look forward to calling them on it and posting the receipts proving their theft and fraud (and thus thwarting their clout-farming).

The next few years are going to be wild, folks. Hope you're ready.