I'm definitely more of a systems-enjoyer than you are but I wholeheartedly agree with the characterization of the systems content mill for The Gauntlet. At least Brindlewood Bay has a collection of official mysteries but I can't find anything similar for The Between, and I just can't really see enough differentiation between most of the upcoming systems to really justify making them rather than writing actual adventures to use for the games they already have
That was such a fresh read. I’ve played Dark and read Gold and shelved it. Dark is quite intentional: “how long and deep you can go before you lose”. It was interesting, defeat was baked in. Gold has no purpose besides extending the mechanics over long play, for a style of play that doesn’t benefit of those mechanics.
Gold vs any OSR, flips the script on the gameplay: what is played becomes narration, and narration is what you play — and that isn’t good.
I'm definitely more of a systems-enjoyer than you are but I wholeheartedly agree with the characterization of the systems content mill for The Gauntlet. At least Brindlewood Bay has a collection of official mysteries but I can't find anything similar for The Between, and I just can't really see enough differentiation between most of the upcoming systems to really justify making them rather than writing actual adventures to use for the games they already have
That was such a fresh read. I’ve played Dark and read Gold and shelved it. Dark is quite intentional: “how long and deep you can go before you lose”. It was interesting, defeat was baked in. Gold has no purpose besides extending the mechanics over long play, for a style of play that doesn’t benefit of those mechanics.
Gold vs any OSR, flips the script on the gameplay: what is played becomes narration, and narration is what you play — and that isn’t good.