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Black Jam: post-apocalyptic OSR to the table from ND Hobbies: a complete RPG and three-act campaign built on The Black Hack. Scavenge JamCraft tech, uncover Skull Corporation's schemes, and settle the fate of a goddess-forsaken world. #rpgPdfSpotlight #rpgs #blackHack #osr #postApocalyptic
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/scifi/rpg-pdf-spotlight-black-jam?utm_source=mastodon

Black Jam: post-apocalyptic OSR to the table from ND Hobbies: a complete RPG and three-act campaign built on The Black Hack. Scavenge JamCraft tech, uncover Skull Corporation's schemes, and settle the fate of a goddess-forsaken world. #rpgPdfSpotlight #rpgs #blackHack #osr #postApocalyptic
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/scifi/rpg-pdf-spotlight-black-jam?utm_source=mastodon

Hack the #BlackHack
https://itch.io/jam/the-black-hack-10th-anniversary-jam
and maybe dual wield game jams by also joining #RPGenesis in the same week 🤘
https://itch.io/jam/rpgenesis2026

#ttrpg #osr

Yet another game jam I shouldn't join, The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Jam, starts in August:

https://itch.io/jam/the-black-hack-10th-anniversary-jam

#TBH10th #TTRPG #OST #BlackHack

RPGaDAY2025 - Day 8 - Explore
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2025/08/08/rpgaday2025-day-8-explore/

#BlackHack, #Fantasy, #OSR, #RPG, #RPGaDAY2025, #Ttrpg, #Undergloom

Some kind soul made this online SRD for the Black Sword Hack

https://blackswordhack.github.io/

These are the sort of wonderful things that happen when games use Creative Commons licenses.

#TTRPG #OSR #BlackHack #BlackSwordHack

Just ran my final session of a 2 and a half year Black Hack campaign, set in the Lumberlands, an OSR setting based on North American lumberjack lore.

We all had a good time, but it's still a little bittersweet to end a good campaign.

Along the way, I maintained a map of the campaign setting, marking the locations of all of the campaign's major events:

#OSR #TTRPG #Lumberlands #BlackHack

Just ran my penultimate session of my #BlackHack game. Next week, I'll be ending a two-and-a-half year campaign.

It's been genuinely satisfying.

#TTRPG

For my face to face #TTRPG group, I just ran a one-shot of Star Trek: Bad Captain, the free Black Hack-based comedic Star Trek RPG.

I ran the adventure - "The Negotiator" that I posted about a while back.

Lost 3 diplomats and 2 redshirts.

Here's the adventure (with a link to download the game as well)
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2019/06/24/star-trek-bad-captain-the-negotiator/

#BadCaptain #BlackHack

In a roll-under #TTRPG like The #BlackHack or #CairnRPG, is there some mechanism I've missed to adjust difficulty? Seems odd to have the same chance of success for everything you roll with a given attribute. #OSR #RPG

In a roll-under #TTRPG like The #BlackHack or #CairnRPG, is there some mechanism I've missed to adjust difficulty? Seems odd to have the same chance of success for everything you roll with a given attribute. #OSR #RPG

I've been running a #BlackHack campaign for two years now, and I've been enjoying it, but I'm starting realize how hard it is to kill a player in that game.

If a player's HP hits zero, they roll a D6. Only a 6 causes actual death. Anything lower is consequences.

I'm starting to wonder if this makes characters a little too safe. Won't change it for this game, but may for future campaigns.

#TTRPG #OSR

My Black Hack campaign was originally supposed to be 6 months, but is now closing in on 2 years.

It's set in Lost Pages' Lumberlands zine setting, and as it goes along, I've been updating a map for the players of all the major places and events they've encountered. When the campaign's done, I may have it printed.
#TTRPG #OSR #Lumberlands #BlackHack

For a long-running Black Hack campaign, I made a little pocket dimension full of evil, post-apocalyptic clowns. Wrote up the details here:
https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/11/23/apocalypse-clowns/
#TTRPG #OSR #BlackHack

For a one-shot of the Black Sword Hack, I've made my own custom cheat sheet. Free to download in US Letter & A4 versions

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2023/10/04/a-cheat-sheet-for-the-black-sword-hack/

#TTRPG #CheatSheet #BlackSwordHack #BlackHack #OSR

#ttrpg #ttrpgs #rpg #ttrpgDesign #pulp #blackhack

Played my first 'black hack' hack using Pulp! I am Lady Jaguar, a modern day (1935) jungle girl protecting her forest from poachers with her trusty companion Princess Snarl, an albino jaguar.

The system is extremely light on rules (which is the point!). The character sheets give just enough extra abilities to feel different.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the session so far but I'm leaning more towards the GM's ability rather than the system for me.

Finally got around to setting up my first face to face #TTRPG campaign in a while.

Posted on Reddit for players, both in LFG and the local group, and am now waiting for responses.

I've even set up a quick paper.wf page as an introduction.
https://paper.wf/pinellas-black-sword-hack/introduction-to-the-game

Might also set up a local Meetup account - not sure if it's worth the effort.

Any other ideas about how to attract players would be appreciated.

#LFG #BlackSwordHack #BlackHack #Florida #stpetersburg

Finally got around to setting up my first face to face #TTRPG campaign in a while.

Posted on Reddit for players, both in LFG and the local group, and am now waiting for responses.

I've even set up a quick paper.wf page as an introduction.
https://paper.wf/pinellas-black-sword-hack/introduction-to-the-game

Might also set up a local Meetup account - not sure if it's worth the effort.

Any other ideas about how to attract players would be appreciated.

#LFG #BlackSwordHack #BlackHack #Florida #stpetersburg

@takeonrules

You said
"Then bust out #DCC #blackSwordHack #blackHack #OSE #whiteHack #intoTheOdd or some such thing."

This is called a "bait and switch".

Please do not assume ignorance in this conversation. You're allowed (encouraged!) to like different things but I'm also allowed to like different things. OK?

@Sandra @[email protected]

@takeonrules

You said
"Then bust out #DCC #blackSwordHack #blackHack #OSE #whiteHack #intoTheOdd or some such thing."

This is called a "bait and switch".

Please do not assume ignorance in this conversation. You're allowed (encouraged!) to like different things but I'm also allowed to like different things. OK?

@Sandra @[email protected]

My #Lumberlands campaign is heading into the home stretch, and I've been updating the campaign map every time they encounter something new. It should make a nice souvenir for the players when it's done.

The map itself is just a modified 19th century map of the Kennebec river in Maine.

#OSR #TTRPG #BlackHack

I just ran a session of my weekly Black Hack game. One of my players was on trial for a crime.

There aren't any specific rules for that, so I decided to run the whole thing as a combat.

I treated Guilty and Not Guilty verdicts as monsters with hit points.

Players could come up with various tactics and ideas: Novel arguments, witnesses, evidence, etc. If the argument worked (they made their hit roll), it did damage to the Guilty verdict. Better tricks & arguments would do more damage.

The NPC prosecutor could do the same, attempting to do damage to the Not Guilty verdict.

The first side to reduce the other to zero HP would win.

We didn't actually get through the whole trial (Players blackmailed the DA to drop the charges), but the system seemed to work quite well.

The PC, incidentally, was actually guilty.

#TTRPG #OSR #BlackHack

I just ran a session of my weekly Black Hack game. One of my players was on trial for a crime.

There aren't any specific rules for that, so I decided to run the whole thing as a combat.

I treated Guilty and Not Guilty verdicts as monsters with hit points.

Players could come up with various tactics and ideas: Novel arguments, witnesses, evidence, etc. If the argument worked (they made their hit roll), it did damage to the Guilty verdict. Better tricks & arguments would do more damage.

The NPC prosecutor could do the same, attempting to do damage to the Not Guilty verdict.

The first side to reduce the other to zero HP would win.

We didn't actually get through the whole trial (Players blackmailed the DA to drop the charges), but the system seemed to work quite well.

The PC, incidentally, was actually guilty.

#TTRPG #OSR #BlackHack

Just got my Kickstarter copy of the Cthulhu Hack - Second Edition

It uses the OSR Black Hack ruleset for Mythos adventures, which I'll admit sounds terrible, but in practice has become my favorite way to run Mythos and horror adventures.

It uses D20 low-roll stat rolls for most tests, but uses a usage die for sanity and investigations.

Like Trail of Cthulhu, you get clues automatically. In Cthulhu Hack, you just spend Smokes (social interactions) and Flashlight (research or searching) usage dies. In practice, I find it's quite elegant.

#CthulhuHack #BlackHack #OSR #Cthulhu #NotDnD #TTRPG

Two #ttrpg games in two days (#BasicFantasy and #BlackHack in #UltravioletGrasslands). Great start to the week.

Had some theatre of the mind issues that I need think through though. I was describing a situation to my players and we just weren't agreeing on a shared theatre, basically.

Just ran a #BlackHack one-shot in my Undergloom setting.

The plot was basically a Fistful of Dollars in a underground town, split between the Mole-Folk and the Underkin.

#TTRPG #OSR

Just ran a #BlackHack one-shot in my Undergloom setting.

The plot was basically a Fistful of Dollars in a underground town, split between the Mole-Folk and the Underkin.

#TTRPG #OSR

My #Lumberlands #BlackHack campaign has been active for nearly a year. As we go along, I've been filling in a map of all of the major locations the players visited.

The original setting has no map, so I modified a old map of Maine.

It serves as a quick campaign log, and eventually as a nice memento for when the campaign ends.
#OSR #TTRPG

My #Lumberlands #BlackHack campaign has been active for nearly a year. As we go along, I've been filling in a map of all of the major locations the players visited.

The original setting has no map, so I modified a old map of Maine.

It serves as a quick campaign log, and eventually as a nice memento for when the campaign ends.
#OSR #TTRPG

Just ran a one-shot of Black Sword Hack, just out of KS. I liked it quite a bit. All of the extra combat maneuvers, Spirit Alliances, and Demonic Pact rules give it a nice flavor. Definitely revisiting this one.

Since the game is heavily Moorcock inspired, I used a old Stormbringer adventure - "The Fang and the Fountain" from the Perils of the Young Kingdoms book. It's suitably grim, through I had to trim it a little to fit in a one-shot.

#TTRPG #OSR #BlackSwordHack #BlackHack

Just ran a one-shot of Black Sword Hack, just out of KS. I liked it quite a bit. All of the extra combat maneuvers, Spirit Alliances, and Demonic Pact rules give it a nice flavor. Definitely revisiting this one.

Since the game is heavily Moorcock inspired, I used a old Stormbringer adventure - "The Fang and the Fountain" from the Perils of the Young Kingdoms book. It's suitably grim, through I had to trim it a little to fit in a one-shot.

#TTRPG #OSR #BlackSwordHack #BlackHack

Been messing around with a custom character sheet for the #BlackSwordHack

Still a WIP

#TTRPG #CharacterSheet #OSR #BlackHack

Been messing around with a custom character sheet for the #BlackSwordHack

Still a WIP

#TTRPG #CharacterSheet #OSR #BlackHack

I recently got the updated PDFs of the 2nd edition Black Sword Hack.

It's a lovely streamlined version of the #BlackHack designed to run Michael Moorcock-style fantasy.

I'm going to try it out this week, by running an old Stormbringer adventure as a one-shot.

Haven't decided on which one yet.

#TTRPG #OSR #BlackSwordHack

I recently got the updated PDFs of the 2nd edition Black Sword Hack.

It's a lovely streamlined version of the #BlackHack designed to run Michael Moorcock-style fantasy.

I'm going to try it out this week, by running an old Stormbringer adventure as a one-shot.

Haven't decided on which one yet.

#TTRPG #OSR #BlackSwordHack

Because of this, when my players advance a level, they are very often left broke or in debt. Being in debt usually means they owe someone a favor, which usually leads into a side quest of some kind.

Because of this, I always keep a number of little mini-scenarios ready to go.
(2/2)

#Lumberlands #TTRPG #OSR #BlackHack

Because of this, when my players advance a level, they are very often left broke or in debt. Being in debt usually means they owe someone a favor, which usually leads into a side quest of some kind.

Because of this, I always keep a number of little mini-scenarios ready to go.
(2/2)

#Lumberlands #TTRPG #OSR #BlackHack

I've been playing a game of the Black Hack RPG in the Lumberlands setting for about a year.

One of the quirks of the Black Hack is that to level up, you have to go to a tavern, buy a round of drinks, and tell stories. You have to roll D6s equivalent to your current level to determine how much gold you're spending.
(1/2)

#BlackHack #OSR #TTRPG #Lumberlands

I've been playing a game of the Black Hack RPG in the Lumberlands setting for about a year.

One of the quirks of the Black Hack is that to level up, you have to go to a tavern, buy a round of drinks, and tell stories. You have to roll D6s equivalent to your current level to determine how much gold you're spending.
(1/2)

#BlackHack #OSR #TTRPG #Lumberlands

I shall now take a moment off to back 'A Home Reforged'; a dwarven-themed OSR zine, about reclaiming and rebuilding one's home, based on The Black Hack. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahomereforged/a-home-reforged

#rpg #osr #blackhack #zine

I shall now take a moment off to back 'A Home Reforged'; a dwarven-themed OSR zine, about reclaiming and rebuilding one's home, based on The Black Hack. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahomereforged/a-home-reforged

#rpg #osr #blackhack #zine

I was playing "DnD" with my kid tonight and he decided his god's name is "Ted". I am so proud right now.

#gaming #ttrpg #dnd #blackhack #parenting