Review + Actual Play: Potvory

tl;dr: a rules-light game of playing creatures of Slavic myth, an interesting lens, something different to the usual adventurers. Potvory is a tabletop adventure role-playing game which offers "a new look at traditional Slavic mythology through a queer lens" as per the cover. I backed it during the Kickstarter originally as it came from a local team and I do like interesting zines. I had the great good fortune of getting to play it at a recent con that was being run by the authors. The game was not actually run by them themselves but we got to play it with the full bells and whistles special kickstarter edition that had some nice little things like a tear off character pad and reference cards for all of the player character spirit archetypes including one Kickstarter exclusive (who was a little bit too eldritch horror for the table). The zine has a chunky card cover with glossy print and it feels good in the hand. The book is nice and simply laid out with great margin notes calling…