The Culture: Lancer, Braunstein, & Something For Consideration

Gelantinous Rube went on with Dunder Moose last night to talk Lancer and Braunstein.

Rube having a filter for prospects is a good idea. I'll be revisiting at the Clubhouse next week because this filtering mechanism and procedure is a load-bearing feature of the Clubhouse, but for now let's focus on the immediate utility.

This is the sort of thing that we're going to see more of now that BROZER is out and people are going to do this themselves because Conventional Play fails to satisfy.

What we're going to need is the ability to discriminate. Each Referee has an upper limit on what he can handle, and filtering out players that (a) would be a net-drain on the campaign, (b) would be a problem player, and (c) would not enjoy what you want to run sounds cruel or mean but being up-front like this respects everyone's time by declaring from the get-go what Is and what Is Not regarding the campaign.

You'd think this was the norm, but there's several YouTube channels making years of content all about the fact that this is not the case.

Yes, I think you should be selective, be discriminating, and be upfront about doing this. Your experience as Referee will be better. Your experience as a player will be better. Your time in either role is better respected, and the quality of play is improved by filtering out the bad fits before the fact.

This filtering process, scaled up, is the Prospect Procedure for gaining admittance to (and membership in) the Clubhouse.