So I just finished running my third session of my Hack, Desks in the Dark. The game felt very different in very good ways. It’s hard to pinpoint why because there were a lot of differences. I did make some big rule changes to help the flow of the game, but also I think the players started feeling more comfortable with the rules. I also ran 2 shorter pieces of mischief instead of one larger one, and because I was a bit drained on gaming from doing game chef all week, I loosened up a lot on the game structure which allowed the students to dick around a lot more. The second piece of mischief was also the first time the group decided to reject all of my mischief options for something they wanted to look into themselves (in this case they wanted to emotionally destroy a teacher to see how the school puts them back together). Too bad it’ll be a month till the next time we play. In any case, here are my updated rules, I’d love to hear what you guys think.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B511-yaR3CdxSjNPbExZWDZpWVU/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B511-yaR3CdxSjNPbExZWDZpWVU/view?usp=sharing