For the uninitiated, a grognard is a person who likes older style wargaming. The usage suggests a person who is older, set in their ways, and somewhat curmudgeonly. Often preferring how things used to be in the systems they grew up playing.
Generally speaking, they prefer a crunchy game with high mortality and grit, as opposed to a looser system with a narrative or character-driven focus.
For a term in more active use, I submit "crunchy" since I just used it. A game's crunchiness describes how complex the rules are - essentially how much number-crunching players have to do in order to play.
I bet "grognard" is only used by grognards now
For the uninitiated, a grognard is a person who likes older style wargaming. The usage suggests a person who is older, set in their ways, and somewhat curmudgeonly. Often preferring how things used to be in the systems they grew up playing.
Generally speaking, they prefer a crunchy game with high mortality and grit, as opposed to a looser system with a narrative or character-driven focus.
For a term in more active use, I submit "crunchy" since I just used it. A game's crunchiness describes how complex the rules are - essentially how much number-crunching players have to do in order to play.