game eater blog

there's a lot of ttrpg discourse out there. i have seen too much of it. Eventually you start to see it converging on a pattern of:

(I) "A game that does X can't exist"

(II) "And if it did, nobody would like it"

(III) "And if they did, they shouldn't"

each of these is annoying but at least the first two can be disproven, the third has to be a whole clash of philosophies. dueling in lava, choral soundtrack, the works

now you can refer to arguments you see as Category 1/2/3 Totalizations, if you so desire