ContrarianTook a detour into #modeltrain scales while researching gaming #miniatures, and now Reddit is showing me train-related posts.
Turns out that train layout backstories can be just as goofy as #TTRPG setting lore.
More grist for my theory that all forms of play trend towards roleplaying eventually. "Historians" who keep adding things like "Chicago improv" and "Victorian parlor games" to the "ancestry" of #TTRPG are ignoring the possibilities of independent invention and convergent evolution.
Footnote: My limited #modeltrain research suggests that #HOscale modelers would definitely be the ones who add the wildest details to their setting and lore.
https://www.trainworld.com/shop-scale/ho-scale/figures-and-details/sexy-scene-figures.html
mespiqueI'd like to add this to the origins theory of TTRPG: "the make-believe games we played with my mates when we were 8yo."
Quasit@contrarian
I suspect it all derives ultimately from the "let's pretend" games that we all played as children.
I suspect it all derives ultimately from the "let's pretend" games that we all played as children.
Nathan@contrarian rpg nerds got nuthin' on train nerds.
Face Thumb@contrarian Is Bradford Valley Lumber Co really Bradford Valley Lumber Co without camp C? Do better, model train people.