Trying To Be Kind

It’s like 3am at Denny’s the night before a humanities final & the conversation has rolled around to the Quality scaffolding of TTRPG as endeavor in this world.

Three semi anonymous creators in the independent RPG space take a deep and nuanced look at a recently publish book ‘Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge- by William J. White that reviews in detail one of the spinal early RPG designer forums. As the name implies, they work hard to look at the good as well as the bad, and manage a very insightful and entertaining discourse. On the down side, after three episodes, I still no very little about who these three are or why their opinions matter. They also have a tendency to bandy about acronyms and terms from RPG design theory without always defining them. Even so, if you have an interest in an important part of the development of modern RPGs, this is an excellent place to start.