1 day ago · Life · 0 comments

Everyone has a homebrew ruleset, and everyone wants to show it to other people, or at slap it around until it's presentable. And a lot of people are interested in your fantasy heartbreaker. When you first published your "Version -1.0", the world was a very different place, and the niche of a niche of a niche that talked about retroclones and hit dice and the grossest monsters a creative biologists can imagine was a little different too.Ten years ago, on May 7th, 2016, we were introduced to the Goblin Rules of Gaming. Since then, partially because of the conversational tone and DIY spirit, partially because it distilled good parts of E6 and old school D&D, in overwhelming part due to accidents of history, people have hacked and rehacked glogs of their own, and it became a very happy gaming scene, with active blogs, daily discussion, friendships, the inevitable sprinkling petals of loves blossoming, and general goodwill.It's bad to mythologize the history of your niche social scene. I…

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