Patchwork Newsletter (Vol 2, Issue 31)

August is here! This week I wrote the Destined Heroes Play Style. Most popular posts on the blog this week were Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, Running Red Dragon’s Tale, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Playing the Social Game, and Daggerheart Hexcrawl Rules v1.0. I’ve been at Flerkcon all week so I’m full of good gaming vibes. Subscribe to get this newsletter in your email inbox every Saturday! Table of contents Discord discussionsBlog Posts to ReadProjects to Download and BookmarkPlay reportsPoem Discord discussions The perennial discussion of why we spend so much time thinking and talking about game systems when system doesn’t matter raised its head. We have excellent arguments on both sides, since system clearly matters sometimes, but, as elmcat put it, “it often doesn’t make much of a difference if you play dungeons and dragons or dragons and dungeons.” With regard to my post this week about play style, I’m thinking that system probably matters more the more it impinges on what you…