The Culture: There Is A Professional Side To The Hobby

This is where I remind you that there is a professional side to the hobby.

That's right, the counterpart to travelling around the map and swording monsters for their loot is military training for warfighting officers.

You want to know one of the many reasons for why I say that this is not a Narrative medium? Here you go: this is the civilian-allowed counterpart for what people get paid to do, and (as our host Perun notes) when they fail to learn from it massive fuckups that wreck lives for GENERATIONS happen. Yes, the better ones also account for small factors (i.e. PCs in our parlance) operating on their own for their own ends, but that's unfortunatly rare these days and its shows in the results.

This is what Braunstein grew out of. This is where the hobby comes from. It is only right and proper to conclude, and the receipts prove, that the hobby is a wargaming hobby where those who engage in it properly gain acumen and habits that serve to improve their daily lives and career prospects.

This is why I have no patience for, or tolerance of, the naysaying wannabee novelists and pixiefucker degenerates crying how this isn't "fun" (i.e. a consequence-free power fantasy) or "a story" (i.e. their Mary Sue masterbation fodder). This is a game; games have rules and procedures that determine what you can and cannot do, and games have winners and losers determined by who hits what Win Condition first. Being a 52nd Level Troon Gooner punching the minions of Hugo Boss in the neck does not change that. Neither does changing the rules Because (Bullshit) Reasons mean that you're not a cheating faggot that should have their hand chopped off (like they used to do in Vegas).

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