Reply To: Open gaming mini license

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*sigh* Such a nice thing to see that a random thought can become a thread for thought.

With all the analysis of the past to the present for future forecasting I’m thinking that the hobby as a whole can be summed up to the actions we take. Like any nerd culture there are the ‘posers’ who hang on for the social clout of being different and not conforming to the social norm. These are the people who just say they are into the topic of gaming and don’t do. You can find them if you look. The hobby is making and doing. Putting physical material together, laying down paint, writing for world building as fluff/rule sets or even constructing mental models that exist as digital media.

Perhaps this is a revolution to the hobby as far as doing. No more ‘hanger’s on’ as when RPGs became popular and everybody wanted to do it. Maybe now we’ll see some blowback from the ones who wander further afield and push the envelope into deeper places of what we imagine. Kingdom Death (as a one stop shop) and numerous designers on myminifactory or cgtrader are good example of this with the development of their body horrror aesthetics. Honestly there’d be no “safe” mainstream market producer for their products. GW nerfed Slaanesh models for that very reason and Nurgle is still pushing it (there can be all the gonnecocca-syphi-herpil-AIDS with intestinal prolapse and festering putrescence but don’t dare show bare genitalia or alien mutation of the human form). I think that videogames like Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Dark Souls have made these grittier design elements cool in the same way that White Wolf brought the edge to TTRPGs.

Now we have the chase of the cool kids behind the first adopters that explore dark reaches. Transhumanist biohackers are probably sitting around their 3D printers and reveling in their finds as we amble along in developing means by which Joe/Jane Average can swallow new tech to amuse their children while working their lives away.

Sorry for the tangent… just more wandering thoughts after seeing a great response to the initial post.