Black Sword Hack – Ultimate Chaos Edition

https://www.themerrymushmen.com/product/black-sword-hack-ultimate-chaos-edition/

Anybody take a look or already tried it?

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8 Comments

Norton_Glover@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y

Ran it once, plan to run it again. It's genuinely wonderful.

It takes the basic Black hack system and adds lots of excellent weird fantasy flavor - demon pacts, weird technology, intelligent cursed weapons. Perfectly captures the whole Elric-style fantasy genre.

It's also got tables for creating a fantasy world and a fantasy city.

It packs all of this into a mere 57 pages.

fredzBXGame@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y

I posted a good video about it here it is... https://youtu.be/vNP67cPs50w it is definetly worth the price

GrumblingGM@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Ran it twice already and really enjoying it. Not my favourite game for a long campaign, but it's a good option for my biweekly one shots.

HexedPress@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

What holds it back in terms of long campaigns?

GrumblingGM@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Honestly, mostly personal preference.

Black Sword Hack is a pretty narrative rules-light system, and while those are great to bring to the table when I'm just running a game at my FLGS or RPG Club, for a long term campaign I'd rather have a few more campaign tools and deeper systems. So for my long campaigns I use systems like Forbidden Lands, ACKS, WWN, or at minimum OSE with something like Into the Wild bolted on.

HexedPress@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y

Gotcha!

koopacommando@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y

I am personally loving reading it, and looking forward to run it with a few friends who are fans of Elric

JerkyIsSuperior@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Ran a public game, group had a blast. It's very easy to run, but the spells/powers look Like they might be easily be exploitable given a more powergamy group.