Feedback on FLARE AGAINST THE VOID
This! 100% This!!!
As a community we keep going around in circles, someone pops up with an idea so we cut them down because it doesn’t quite match the preconceived notions we’ve got. We argue, we both go our separate ways, and no one learns from the encounter. A thousand of us screaming into the void, many saying similar things. I started designing after the Forge and Story Games, and all those places that I’ve heard people talk about. I’ve been looking for good communities, to discuss ideas, to share, and to understand what makes this hobby of ours tick without getting bogged down in sociological definitions and debate over minutiae. You’re right about the OSR, as I understand it, it was a backlash against Forge ideas… but it’s stayed relatively coherent over the years. Only a few other communities rival it in the indie scene… the “Powered by the Apocalypse” crowd, maybe the “Forged in the Dark” crowd, the “Fate” crowd… but all these groups feel like independent sects claiming that everyone else is heretics. It’s half the reason I joined this jam, to see what other visions are out there.
Thanks for writing this.
I don’t even know if you wanted a critique or discussion on the manifesto, but I’m going to try to add some ideas to every entry that gets posted.