Oh man so true.

It’s been super interesting to see which players really cottoned to the social landscape of (my) TOR and which ones did not. The combination of Company Goal and a world where folks are mostly decent, I think, fucked with their expectations so much that half my players felt frustrated and maybe didn’t have that much fun.

There’s definitely something to be said for the grim satisfaction of crushing your opposition in Burning Wheel, but this game ended up being the opposite of that experience.

Meanwhile, at least one and very often two of my regulars keep bugging me to run BW again. Now I’m thinking about how I might do it in such a way as to foil their urge for that grim satisfaction! Which makes me a terrible person, maybe. Customer is always right, etc. blah.