rine

Stuck in the backlog of games

Living in Korea, blogging about games, TTRPGs, and other things I want to fixate on.

PFP credit to: https://twitter.com/Seharuuchan


I'm not saying I don't understand people reflexively pushing back against people telling them that no, Hasbro is going to keep fucking you, just quit DnD. Sunk cost is real, content creators tend to build around a brand.

However: For players and DMs, switching is near zero cost, don't support that shit, go play an indie game, you'll find tons more love and you can play a new thing every month if you wanted and never run out.

For content creators: Just like people who make videos/streams/content around a single video game, you are tying yourself to a company for your livelihood, without the company just giving you money. I know its easy to slap #DnD on something and have it get a modicum of views, but just like with actiblizzards various fuckups, soon as they fuck you you're just fucked.

Besides, the best games to play are the ones where someone is thrilled you're playing what they made. One person told me they were running a game in my old Nasu system and I was through the moon and gave them all my old DM notes so they could work it out. If the owner of a game's response to you playing their system in front of an audience is 'pay me', they can fuck right off.


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in reply to @rine's post:

Hell if you're worried about not having a #NameBrand like, there's a Witcher and Dragon Age and Game of Throne and so on RPG. There's Cyberpunk or (god help you) Shadowrun or Star Trek Adventures or Star Wars. There's superhero games, games based on your favorite video games that were a passion project for some Itch creator, there's stuff for Street Fighter, or Xenoblade Chronicles, or even friggin Pokemon and Avatar the Last Airbender.

I know I made that whole post a few weeks ago about the "just play another game" thing, but man, it's never been a better time to at least look.

Right exactly! Knowing what I know now I'd much rather run The Sprawl or Runners in the Shadows, but the name recognition issue holds up so many people

Now I gotta look up Hard Wires Island to see what that's all about.