The Culture: One By One The Old Priors Fail To Hold Up

This, like the Professor's videon on Homlett, has the wrong premise.

The wrong premise here is Get Along Gang doing everything together vs. a Referee who does all the work.

You can make the biggest sandbox ever. Players will only go where they perceive either advantage or (more often these days) where the frustrated novelist in the big chair wants them to go- even if this is not intended, this is what happens every single time.

The issue is that this model does not dispense with the Conventional Play norms of being You & The Boys in the basement. The Real Game avoids this because players, especially those not at the table, can and do act in manners that disrupt the flow of events on the map intentionally and to a specific effect.

Total Non-Stop Braunstein fixes all of this. Everyone of these people will be catching up in the next few years as they are dragged, kicking and screaming, to admit that the Bros are right for no other reason than doing what we've been doing and seeing the results for themselves.