fuck the story

The meaning of my blog's name is twofold. At least. More reasons may come up later. First, it's sincere. Fuck the story. Don't play RPGs for the fucking story, don't use plot armour, don't let the GMs rail the fuck out of your fun just to serve some perverse, narrative agenda, don't throw the rulebook in the trash just because the setting doesn't suit your homebrew. Play it as written, reveal its strengths, or if we're talking about 5e, realise why the fuck it's the worst plight in RPGs, and the most absolute shitfest in the storytelling toolbox after whatever MCU inflicted upon us. Fuck the story, play for you, play for your friends, your table, your insecurities, your whatever. Gaming is about people. Yes, obviously, you turd, if your table demands a beautiful 5-arc narrative with internal strife, do railroad that shit. But make it about yourselves. Stories are nothing if not communicated for our pleasure, enrichment of spirit, suffering, emotional...

 I'm Spyros, a lot of people know me as Sagjer (nickname stuck since middle school), some few have called me Hakim for reasons I never understood. Let's go to the whole identity declaration. I'm Cretan of Turkoarab descent, most likely from Ottoman pirates that settled in south Chania; as far as we know at least. I grew up in an awful suburb of Athens, have lived in Crete for about a decade, and generally aim to retire there - if it doesn't go full resort mode like the rest of this cesspool called Greece. I've studied Physics (quit, hated all of it besides Climatology), Marine Engineering (quit, left me with a phobia of the sea that I managed to overcome after 11 years - 2 weeks prior to this post actually), electric bass, and History of Science (loved, still do, went on and got a History of Science MSc, and started doing my PhD with an absolute moron, and then quit that shit). I quit a lot of things. I get bored easily, I think I master them quickly, I lose interes...