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Apr. 21st, 2019 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariThe difference between Prokopetz and basically everyone else on Tumblr who posts about tabletop roleplaying games isn’t specifically that he posts about games other than Dungeons and Dragons. What makes Prokopetz unique is that he posts about one-and-done games with minimal prep time. Tumblr is all about the massive settings where you create one character and then keep playing them for years, or else wargames where you field an army of hand-painted miniatures.
I don’t have any thoughts on this as a player, but if I were making games, I would much rather have Prokopetz as a customer. Prokopetz buys a game, finishes it, and then buys a completely different game. With a typical Tumblrite, the only way to keep selling things is to come out with more expansions and prestige classes. The more they have, the less space there is for you to fill, and that feels like a death spiral waiting to happen.
(The one weird exception: Tumblr was briefly into Ten Candles. I don’t know why.)
I don’t have any thoughts on this as a player, but if I were making games, I would much rather have Prokopetz as a customer. Prokopetz buys a game, finishes it, and then buys a completely different game. With a typical Tumblrite, the only way to keep selling things is to come out with more expansions and prestige classes. The more they have, the less space there is for you to fill, and that feels like a death spiral waiting to happen.
(The one weird exception: Tumblr was briefly into Ten Candles. I don’t know why.)
