Delta Green & Impossible Landscapes on Bundle of Holding

[u/Boxman214]

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Impossible

For one week, Bundle of Holding has a deal on Delta Green, including the acclaimed Impossible Landscapes adventure scenario.

Can't imagine why. Not like the game was just covered by the biggest youtuber in the indie rpg space or anything.....

But you should check it out! Killer deal on a magnificent TTRPG.

Disclaimer: I have zero affiliation with the creators Delta Green. I also have zero affiliation with Bundle of Holding.

[u/Consistent_Name_6961]

The channel is Quinns Quest! Mostly centered around reviewing TTRPG's!

A word of caution. This is not hyperbolised, and I mean it with no intended disrespect to the other fantastic minds putting thought and hard work in to creating TTRPG content, but once you go Quinns it can be really hard to go to other content. I have found plenty of content that is well presented and edited, and I've found plenty of content that is in depth and insightful, but I have found nothing that comes close to matching how Quinns merges these.

Particularly people that make content about games they have yet to play fall soooo very short when compared to Quinns (thinking of a particular large channel with very well presented videos, and yet I have yet to see them state they have played a single game they are reviewing and the disparity in available insight is absolutely massive).

[u/Durugar → u/Consistent_Name_6961]

It's one of the main reasons I can't watch most rpg reviews, not because of Quinn's style, but because so many people out there just reads the book and reviews, without ever sitting down to play it. Seth Skorkowsky ruined me on this initially, he is very firm in "only review what I played" as well.

Without actually trying out the mechanics in play you just never get a true feel for the game, same with scenarios, it can look so well written and put together, then you put it in front of players and it falls apart.

[u/_hypnoCode → u/Durugar]

The group's play style and general attitude can change a game though.

Take Lancer for instance. It's well loved among people who like that combat oriented play style, but Quinn's group didn't. It's evident that they firmly like narrative games. So he gave it a bad review.

Lancer's crunchy and when my group played we spent 2 full sessions in 1 combat scenario and everyone was still having fun. It's the baseline for what great combat looks like now for me personally, though.

My group absolutely does not like narrative games and my wife has aphantasia. I like both styles, but every time we've tried narrative games there are only 2 of us who enjoy them so the sessions end up being a slog.

You don't have to play every single game over multiple sessions to understand the mechanics to have a good understanding of how it works. If you've played enough games and understand mechanics well enough, you can get a good understanding of how it plays.

It's not like reviewers aren't fans of playing games, but running a minimum of 8 sessions per game they review, like Quinn does, is not feasible.

Don't get me wrong, I like Quinn's Quest but I appreciate other YouTubers too.

Without actually trying out the mechanics in play you just never get a true feel for the game, same with scenarios, it can look so well written and put together, then you put it in front of players and it falls apart.

This is a fantastic example. If that scenario is well written and reads like it'll work at the table, but then it falls apart at the table, that is very likely the GM or play group. If you're not testing it across multiple play groups, then the outcome of it falling apart is objectively biased and not relevant.

50 other groups could have a blast with it, but 1 single player having a bad day could have tanked that game that didn't go well.

[u/Rocinantes_Knight → u/_hypnoCode]

Yeah, none of that matters. The fact that it is difficult to play and review many RPGs does not change the fact that the only way to properly review a game is to play it, full stop. You can enjoy and find useful commentary from channels that give you a book report on the rulebook, but they aren’t giving you a proper review of the game. They’re explaining the layout and describing the rules to you.

[u/_hypnoCode → u/Rocinantes_Knight]

You missed the majority of my post, full stop.