A GM not burdened with an over-abundance of knowledge.

My two daughters wanted to play D&D, so we bought the starter set. I ran the game for them. Two sessions in, they got bored. I didn't. I went on Roll20, found a group, and offered to run the game. Turned out they'd been playing for five years. They owned every book. None of them would GM because they didn't think they knew enough.

I ran the game with nothing but the Phandelver box set. I hadn't even read the Player's Handbook. We had a blast.

Then a barbarian stood in a fireball because the maths said he could survive. Something broke. Fantasy shouldn't be superheroes. I left D&D, found the OSR, and discovered games where danger is real and dice are honest.

You don't need permission. You don't need to know enough. You run the game, you write the game, you make the video. The starter set is enough.

I met Scott through ICRPG. We've been playing together for six years. He wrote a game called Old Swords Reign and wasn't going to release it. He pulled it and asked me if I wanted it. I rewrote the whole thing. I'd been playing games for three years. I had no right to write it. That's the point.

The channel started as a way to have content ready for OSWR's release and became reviews because I kept finding amazing indie books that nobody was covering. I only review things I genuinely like. Every video is honest enthusiasm, never obligation.