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Okay so let& #39;s talk about this.

How important or necessary is it to be versed in the larger #ttrpg game design canon for your own design process?

If a creator tells you "Pbta? Fitd? I don& #39;t know what that is...", what would your reaction be?

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And I& #39;m not asking whether knowing the touchstones of the industry is beneficial. I think we can all agree that it& #39;s always good to diversify your familiarity with different systems.

I& #39;m asking if it& #39;s *necessary* to know those touchstones.

To give a bit more context: Currently my only contact to the design community is on Twitter. I can& #39;t do discord and I haven& #39;t been in this long enough to know the Forge or Google+ or the like.

That also means that I have some glaring holes in my knowledge about the larger space.

Great question!

1) Necessary for writing good games (I know, more of a rhetorical question)

2) Necessary to be able to participate / being recognized as a legitimate creator. https://twitter.com/mthsblgr/status/1260601103017750533?s=19">https://twitter.com/mthsblgr/...

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So, I know that there will probably be no one actually arguing that you NEED to know certain games to be able to call yourself a game designer.

However, what I& #39;d just like to bring to the surface by this is more the idea of: What kind of role does our design canon fulfill?

And going off of that: Would you deem it necessary to follow specific blogs / YouTube channels / sub community discussions / relevant creators& #39; Twitter accounts to be able to be recognized as a Serious Designer (tm)?

I& #39;m being a little facetious here (note to self: look up what facetious means before sending tweet)

I know that y& #39;all are good people, and many of us are very critical about elitism and gatekeeping.

But I think we don& #39;t talk often enough about those aspects in the context of the sometimes quite academic sides of the indie sphere.

A philosophy student who hasn& #39;t heard of Kant would probably earn some strange looks.

What are we doing to avoid that in our space?

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