Here I am arguing against the split into the various sub “camps” of current RPG culture. I used to believe in this divide, too, but now I’m convinced the differences are just talked up and don’t really exist except as tags, not inherently better or worse than tags such as “solo”, “rules lite”, “gonzo” and all the other ways of splitting it up. The tags remain important for some people to “find their crowd” but that’s far weaker than saying that these are the most important splits in RPG culture.
My actual favourite category would actually be “64 pages or less for rules, setting and adventure”! 😅
@kensanata @GrumblingGM@lemm.ee
Tough one. When I’m running CWN, an OSR Cyberpunk, I’m honestly more interested in posts from BX players (regardless of setting), rather than posts from Sprawl or Shadowrun players - who are playing Cyberpunk but with very different sensibilties. The BX posts can help me run the game while Sprawl posts at best can serve as setting inspiration, which I don’t really need.
But it’s probably useful to always specify additional tags beside just OSR or Indie.