DM of Doomstone 1e AD&D Campaign. Might-makes-right supremacist. #brosr respecter. Christ is Lord. Russian Orthodox
Oct 3 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Everybody that matters is talking about TNB. Bdubs and Jeffro have been insisting on braunstein play as a solution in contrast with the patron solo play dynamic of 2021-2022 brosr. There’s a lot of talking past each other right now. I believe TNB is fundamentally a mindset. 1/
A lot of people haven’t read or played enough to understand. There are two different types of games being called braunstein right now. The issue is at a higher order than most people regularly think. It’s a conflict between Rule-Bound Braunstein vs Rule-Informed Braunstein.
Sep 10 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
A lot of the hatred facing the brosr is a reaction to the social hierarchy of the bros forcing the realignment of the hobby with traditional (ie masculine) structures instead of the feminine ‘do what thou wilt but thou wilt not judge’ paradigm of the last 60 years.
Within this feminine paradigm the only hierarchy allowable is a mythological veneration of the ‘mothers’ of the hobby — ie Gygax, Arneson, Wesely, et al. All are equal so long as they validate the ‘sisterhood of fellow gamers’.
