thread: 2011-07-06 : I <3 the OSR...
On 2011-07-12, Vincent wrote:
...Which is not to say that they're not ALSO being intentionally and/or subconsciously obscure and provocative. They are, after all, a bunch of human people doing human people things. I can only presume that they promote simple options into best practices and best practices into immutable principles, and give their ideas emotionally challenging names to excite the excitable and repel the timid, and portion out their insights measure by measure instead of making a big generous gift of them, and all those other things I try not to do but manage to do anyway. It's the nature of the thing.
Also, they're new, as design movements go. Their first batch of games are just now in publication - their My Life with Master, their Universalis. Their publications over the next like 2-4 years will tell us a lot more.
