Yak-Hack

The Ideal Games Debater Hey, you there! Are you into debating, reviewing or designing games? Do you find yourself alienating everyone you talk to or engage with? Are the people who agree with you all gigantic assholes? I get it, taking a stance and defending it is fun, exhilarating even, especially in those moments where you've really humiliated and "destroyed" another person because of how "good" you are at debating. Maybe it reflects badly on you as a person in some circles, but why should you care? You won, you were correct, and at the end of the day, the truth is what matters. Except, of course, that we aren't really talking about truth at all, but a set of assumptions that bad-faith debaters are making about what roleplaying games are, how they exist in the real world and how to evaluate them. Those assumptions can be challenged, and circumvent a lot of toxic, divisive debate. Challenging those assumption might be hard, because you've built yo...

OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE UR-CORPSE GAME: The Black Hack 2nd Ed. by David Black SETTING: Fever Swamp by Luke Gearing LANGUAGE: Swedish PLAYERS:  Disa as the Fighter " Pravoslav "Pravvo" Storáková " Elliot as the Wizard " Eberhardt "Nubbe" Brúntz " Jonas as the Cleric " Bohumil Storáková " PREFACE: I had not intended to write a play-report when I started this adventure, so the details are muddy. This won't be a session-by-session retelling, and I might be missing something or misrepresenting stuff. If you are looking for a review: it is very good . This is going to be part a record of a fun mini-campaign and part musings on how stuff could've been done different. Mostly by me, but also stuff about the module and the system. I've decided to split it up into 2 (or more) chapters to keep each post from being overlong. Part 1. Preparations and Translations Fever Swamp, in T...