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Black Sword Hack – Ultimate Chaos Edition

3 years ago by copacetic to c/osr

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Anybody take a look or already tried it?

Norton_Glover 6 points 3 years ago

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.

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fredzBXGame 4 points 3 years ago

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GrumblingGM 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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HexedPress 1 point 3 years ago

What holds it back in terms of long campaigns?

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GrumblingGM 3 points 3 years ago

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.

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HexedPress 1 point 3 years ago

Gotcha!

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koopacommando 2 points 3 years ago

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

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JerkyIsSuperior 1 point 3 years ago

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.

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