Tuesday night saw Dunder hosting guys playing with Scuttifer Mike.
What did they talk about?
In this AAR of an epic D&D Braunstein campaign, @mikepewpew's players come on to tell about the secret order of druids facing an impossible choice: feed the slumbering horror at the world's core... or watch everything burn. What started as a simple mission to gank a linkboy, spirals into betrayal, kidnapping, and a blood-soaked ritual at ancient ruin that ignites faction wars, sets the Players against each other, and changes the game forever. You won't believe the players' ruthless decisions—and the consequences coming for them. Did they save the world, or doom it? Dive into the drama, PVP breakdowns, and DM insights. If you're into gritty fantasy RPGs with real stakes, hit play now
Mike wrote about it here.
This is what happens when players play all sides of a campaign's conflicts. Sometimes they are all on one team. Sometimes they are against each other. This was one of those scenarios where players aren't going to be all on one team, but instead are in a Prisoner's Dilemma complicated by a clear incentive for withholding information.
Read the linked Substack article. Someone had to be sacrificed; either the intended patsy gets got, or someone else does, or everyone does. Lots of incentive to defect, but catastrophic consequences for no one getting got.
That's something that Conventional Play cannot do and will not do because they cannot conceive of play being anything but the Get-Along Gang chasing the ruby, especially if they think this is a performative themepark experience where they expect to win as soon as their emotional self-indugence is met.
The Real Hobby is far greater than that, and that's why the #BROSR is succeeding.
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