Love this post because it is so completely the opposite of my experience, I'm amazed. Its wild that you experience the world this way.

Maybe something like a pointcrawl might be easier? I guess it depends on which parts are the boring ones.

I understand the point that good mechanics are hard to make, and if you're intent on having the "best mechanics" I guess at the table is a bad time to do them.

BUT they're also fun to make, that's part of the artform, isn't it? The fun is getting to try out a thing and see how it goes.

Mechanics are these amazing little mental machines - little bits of text that run in your brain and use random numbers or tokens or points or whatever to generate story. They are NOT the enemy! They're your lever, your wrench, your fulcrum, your inclined plane, everything you need to tell a story!

this is what incenses me, like, please...fuckin...play literally any other game I am begging you osr types

i call the osr a mind virus created by satan to destroy TTRPGs as an art form and I'm not joking, it has destroyed one or two generations of talent completely

clear scope

Not that OSR is always good at that

I... May have made a mistake.

It does!

best D&D I've played was when the only notes I had access to were a picture of the dungeon map on my flip phone

This rules.