I've always seen OSR as a study of, "what if the rules didn't matter? What could we imbue meaning onto then?"

I'm always taken aback, though, when I don't profess to be having a wonderful Christmastime, and somehow I'm the grumpy asshole who's trying to ruin Christmas.
I don't mind if you want to have a merry christmas. But I'm not

I am aware this isn't necessarily the most common experience, so generally I keep to myself and keep out of the way of stressed parents who I'm sure are trying their best to recreate their childhood memories for their own kids.

Dunno if I'm cool, but HELLPIERCERS looks cool as heck and I love to write hexes

Yeah but not opossum, the Australian Brushtail

I feel like this misconstrues what constitutes a game mechanic.

"Roll 2d6" isn't a game mechanic, it's a player action. It's a single act that has been divorced from its context, and in a particular context, for a particular purpose, 2d6 can be better or worse than 1d12.

I've been hearing that the new Digimon is better than both of them

I cleared as much as I could but as it has been locked there's a lot I can't change

I don't know if this is the correct stance, but I'm proud to call it an Illuminated game, and I am super grateful to Spencer Campbell for being the giant whose shoulders I could stand on to create something that, I think at least, is incredible. Thankyou. 6/6

So I added in the Illuminated by LUMEN graphic. I didn't hesitate and I don't regret it. It has evolved and morphed from its roots but those roots exist. The fact that it no longer looks like anything like Light actually doesn't bother me. I think it's a feature, not a bug. 5/?

I was suddenly hit with a flood of memories about discussions about people quoting their influences and the benefits of transparency when it came to the genetic history of games. Not only that but I feel LUMEN, like PbtA, is more of a vibe than a strict mechanical framework. A stance on design 4/?

At some point I had unconsciously decided that this game had evolved beyond being a LUMEN game. After seeing Spencer discussing game design and remembering the deep dives I was doing with earlier versions of the game, I pulled out the LUMEN SRD. 3/?

This is until I went to put together the final version to send to the printer. I went back over the digital file to make sure there were no glaring errors, and of course I have been over this file a thousand times so I didn't find anything. But I had seen a post from @gilarpgs.bsky.social 2/?