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A Black Hack Setting Builder

A Specification for Human and Machine For the human using this file Give an AI model three things in one message: 1. This specification. 2. The Black Hack rules (any edition). Markdown is better than PDF because tables survive intact; the open game content text is at github.com/brunobord/

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The Mountain Doesn’t Prove the Trail

A few weeks ago, David Yamane, a sociology professor at Wake Forest University, posted a slide he uses to introduce his classroom policy on generative AI. On one side were the things he wants to emphasize in class: questions, process, understanding, intention, originality, curiosity, humility, empathy. On the other were

The King's Own: Three Scenarios

Three scenarios for Hunters, Denizens, and other folk caught in the middle ONE: THE NEST IN THE HOLLOW The King's Champion is elsewhere. The nest is not. Ten Hunters, one nest, ten turns. The question is not whether the Crown spends the hunting party. It is whether the

The Ratchet and the Pendulum

A response to David Greene's "Yesterday is Today is Tomorrow" David's list got me. It was supposed to. Duck and cover. The Missile Crisis. Three assassinations. Gas lines. Watergate. He asks how much your heart rate went up reading it, and mine did, and

Kaiju!!!

A Team Bravo variant. One enormous creature. One city in the way. Requires the Team Bravo core rules; everything below is the difference. You will need a 24" table, dice, a tape, one appropriately threatening object, counters for the defenders, and 8–12 Post-It notes. A plastic dinosaur

Mance Lipscomb: An Appreciation

Or, Notes From Someone Who Just Got Here Credit where it's due: Nancy found him. Earlier this year she came home from Goodwill with a copy of Mance Lipscomb, Volume 5 on Arhoolie, five bucks or thereabouts. She has the ears in our house. I first heard the

At an Office Pace

A setting for TiGGR. A branch office. Not headquarters — a satellite, three or four hours from anyone who matters, in an industry that has been described as declining for longer than most of you have worked here. The product is unglamorous and the margins are thin and the branch has

The Signature

She cannot tell you whether she read it. That is the part nobody puts in the brochure. Marilyn will say she reviewed the file, and she will not be lying, and the sentence will not be worth much. The psychologists who study this have a finding that ought to be

Chain Home Low

Mike Babb and I go way back in the world of teeny tiny independent bands and record labels that released 7" singles (and the occasional compact disc when budgets permitted) once upon a time in the 1990's. We had CD and vinyl collections, MP3 audio compression was

The King's Own

Nest-clearing by royal decree. The King's Champion is indisposed. The task falls to the Hunters. A table, six-sided dice, a ruler, a string. Any models you like. THE CORE The core is physics and does not change. Cards say what a figure is. Scenarios say why