Where I introduce my newest project that is in the world, "Secrets of Arn."

This ambitious project is designed to capture how Blackmoor was and continues to played, honors the high trust environment, and turns a game into an experience. Plus, you get a sneak peak at the cover art!

https://flintlocksandwitchery.blogspot.com/2024/03/secrets-of-arn.html?m=1

#ttrpg
#fkr
#osr
#NSR
#hightrusttrad
#HighTrust

@SJohnRoss I have never heard anyone else use #Trust in the way I think you mean it, so it is difficult for me to parse "Trust is a spectrum…" and apply it to my experience. It is still difficult for me despite having begun #TTRPG with White Box.

I get 'spectrum' and I wouldn’t game with people I don’t trust, so that couldn’t be what you mean. I eventually read through all your posts on the subject and I think I get it now, but honestly… maybe the reason the pixels are invisible is that the #HighTrust vs. Trad games issue is not on a gamer's radar?

But I have been a #solottrpg player for so long the issue may be masked by the strength of the "solo vs. 'you and 3-5 friends'" spectrum. I am always curious about different perspectives on things I think I understand, though.

Your pixels aren’t invisible to me.

Mulling discussions with @SJohnRoss about #HighTrust play from a few days ago, I should concede I rushed into assumptions about what that framework has to mean. Unsurprisingly, I saw it as validation of my own preference for distributed authorship and off-the-cuff improv, things it turns out are anathema to Ross's High Trust Trad approach. Not that either approach is invalid, but it shows I should, as always, be less glib when flinging out buzzwords.

"High Trust Gaming," an interesting framework that I'm trying to learn more about. Succinctly, "Low Trust" assumes the participants are insincere bastards who need be corralled and controlled, whereas "High Trust" accepts that they're reasonable people willing to openly cooperate. The rules-light, OSR, and FKR direction I've been trending towards over the years definitely feels High Trust. I've found some old mentions of theses ideas, but as yet haven't found a foundational source. #HighTrust