WorldCon is coming up next week and let me tell you I have a PACKED schedule. If you're in Anaheim and wandering around @laworldcon.bsky.social come say hi!
I'm going to be talking about Vamps, TTRPGs, fanfic, and appalachia. Basically all the stuff I love!
![The best part of starting Systems Matter discourse is that it’s binary: either the system you use to play games matters, or it doesn’t. Easy enough to choose a side and argue your opinion with vim, vigor, and personal experience. You can sometimes get insights into certain design philosophies when Systems Matter discourse pops up: the fruitful void, POSIWID (the purpose of a system is what it does), references to Peterson’s Elusive Shift, whether or not a system is a combat simulator, a dissection of the history of games design, and even discussions on the contemporary understandings of OSR vs Story Games (another timeless source of discourse, which I categorize as Systems Matter, but some may disagree [this is, of course, another form of discourse! Well done, you’ve solved my Systems Matter Discourse riddle]).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hirrlurhtw63wxfkkclgstmq/bafkreic52gqx6itnztm7sdadwgfbt6jat6rgedf4zxtotewgdlk4s34zru)
![an discord screenshot of high gardener otso [played by lin] saying, using out of character brackets [[ fucking cowboys i stg ]]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hirrlurhtw63wxfkkclgstmq/bafkreifnsanz3fl5zu524lpugh46skehdupamrvwsqlu56bbpz5nvvn6gi)
