Whither Reddit? In the meantime, here’s a place to chat up old school revival (OSR) and new school revolution (NSR) style TTRPGs.
My name is Todd aka Hexed Press and I am the current caretaker (have I always been the caretaker?). Here are some other places to find me, if you are so inclined:
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.
I posted a good video about it here it is... https://youtu.be/vNP67cPs50w it is definetly worth the price
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.
What holds it back in terms of long campaigns?
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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I am personally loving reading it, and looking forward to run it with a few friends who are fans of Elric
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.