I agree with this 100%, I think this is a really great thing to do, but also… I don’t think it’s hard to find a wide variety of adventures of different types that are to my taste, which is part of my issue with this post? Now, it seems that I have broader tastes than the blog’s author, but I regularly hear about more cool and exciting adventures than I could ever possibly play. Like, part 2 of the post feels inextricably bound to part 1, the author has a hard time finding adventures they like because they have very narrow taste in adventures.
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EXACTLY.
when I first read that article, my first thought was trying, as gently as possible, to comment on that blog: “um, i think YOU are actually the problem here”.
I even typed some stuff out and then was like, why am I doing this? he didn’t ask for it. I am not his shrink.
like, I don’t BELIEVE in Marxist materialism. but if I was reading an adventure and I starting noticing the goblins forming a dungeon collective, etc. (I dunno… whatever would happen in that world), I would understand what the author was trying to do, and I would take on/absorb that world and gladly play in it. as long as it was well done! self consistent, etc.
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And to be clear, that’s fine! There are plenty of things I have narrow taste in. It’s OK to like the things you like. But part 2 of the post feels like they’re blaming the hobby for not sharing their taste, like there’s some kind of problem because other people like other stuff. Adventure modules are actually pretty diverse, even within the kind of narrow confines of OSR play. Just on my desk right now I have a module that’s a pub crawl, an investigative module inspired by fairy tales, an adventure focused on overland exploration and dungeon crawling in a vanilla fantasy setting, a faction based adventure set in a forest and village, an explicitly Marxist adventure set in and around a tiny town… the list goes on. These adventures definitely do have things in common (the OSR style of play is, itself, a pretty narrow preference), but they also do a lot of different things.
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EXACTLY AGAIN.
its not wrong to not like something, but then again:
In response to this blogpost I have started a thread on lesser-known adventures.
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I don’t think it’s a blame thing as much as like, “here are the social structures that make it harder to find things outside the dominant preferences.” which to some degree is always going to be the case, definitionally, but i’d expect some sympathy for niche preferences and the difficulty of satisfying when you’re already within a niche hobby.