The Culture: When The Chief Calls Out The Grif(f)t

And yes, Griff is a cunt who exploited an aging man for his own gain. Shame.

Griff deserves no credit for the results that have been developed by the BrOSR. He has always advocated for conventional play. In his documentary he asked leading questions to lure Blackmoor players into endorsing the precepts of conventional play. In his “scholarship”, he has made unsupportable claims about early seventies play to intentionally cut BrOSR practices out of the narrative. He has frequently contradicted BrOSR claims. And finally, no one could possibly have developed the gameplay approach of the BrOSR by primarily using his work as a guide. The idea that what I call Braunstein play dynamics are fundamental to D&D is original to me and is (as my critics would tell you) something this is foreign to the doctrine and understanding of both David Wesely and Rob Kuntz. I am the only person in rpg history to make such a claim and the BrOSR is the first group of gamers to ever explain how to use the David Wesely's Braunstein idea to solve the problem of how to play at the stronghold tier in a d&d campaign. This is original work and no documentary put together by Griff ever explained how to do such a thing.

- Jeffro Johnson

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Deserved call-out on Jeffro's part.

The smart thing for Griff to have done was to lean into it, to accept this as a positive that would feed back into his own project, and encourage this revival because that positive PR would then reflect back on him and lead to increased interest in (and thus revenue from) his documentary work.

But that would entail Griff not being a bottom-feeding faggot, and we aren't in that timeline.

Now Griff has to be all about that lie for the rest of his days or his purloined credibility is shot, and he won't be able to build on what he wrought and then sullied.