My Philosophy
Recently I reconnected with a friend of mine and we talked about where we had been chilling out online. I mentioned that I was in a discord server for ttrpg people who are leftists who like telling edgy jokes but don’t like saying slurs so it was a pretty good place to chill. She then asked me if there are any hot takes from that server about ttrpgs, I explained that the main thing was that we believe adventure design is just as if not more important than system design. She then said “I want to know more about what that means as a mode or philosophy of play?” So I explained and I guess I want to elaborate on it somewhat and do it as a blogpost, and a slightly wankery one I guess. This is the first tenant, and something that went unspoken but does inform a lot of how I see the world. Folk art practices are just as legitimate as commercial art practices. We interact with folk art storytelling all the time when we interact with friends and family because people like tellin...