The Culture: When They Confess That They Suck At The Game

I am not be surprised that the Boomer OSR folks are not good at the game. Merely that they are this shameless about.

Joe's video complains got Tenkar to respond.

It would help if they stopped thinking they were smarter than the game.

It would help if they played a proper game also.

But the fundamental error is a failure to Read The Fucking Manual, to think through how the rules and procedures work, and to consider that the game is not a pile of LEGO to fuck with as they please but rather a purpose-built machine designed to be operated in a specific manner to produce a specific result just like games in all other media are.

Joe's complaints come down to "I don't have enough players playing all sides like the game is meant to be run, and I don't run the game properly, so I have to do it myself and I suffer from cognitive overload."

Play a different game, Joe. You want a game without hexcrawls and megadungeons? Current Edition is right there, Joe. You don't even need to give Wizards of the Coast any money. You can poof and faff about as you like because it's not like WOTC actually does proper game design, expecting you to do unpaid labor for them which they then appropriate and sell back to you. But that would damage your Boomer OSR self-identity, wouldn't it?

May I then, to salve your ego, offer you another alternative? Go ahead, buy it Joe; plenty of Endless Product Slop to satisfy your CONSOOM PRODUCT habit and you can rest assured that the designer has as much contempt for Reading The Fucking Manual, Playing The Fucking Game, Best Practices, and Proper Design as you do so you'll get along just fine.