Dangerously Untested: DCC Inspired House-rules for The Black Hack

Some silly house rules I cooked up a couple years ago for a campaign that never really took off. Looking at it now there’s some stuff I think would be rather fun and might actually work. But I’ll probably never know since I’ve gone in a different direction with stuff. Thought I’d share so it wasn’t just another random document waiting to be deleted some day.

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Love this! While looking at my bookshelf I realize: Black Hack 2e was my first OSR style system, DCC is the current favourite of my players (and they want to play mothership next :smile: )

BUT I would have never thought of playing a DCC adventure with the black hack! And as it seems the conversion is very easy! :exploding_head: I got so many and much more adventures for DCC (and yes I really like them and their writing style as well) that this combination makes even more sense!

To port the funnel idea from DCC is of course a ‘no brainer’ (see OSE carcass crawler for example) but you also ported the main ideas of the DCC classes, and I think really successfully!

This is a great conversion that not needs to hide (and get lost) on some hard drive! put it on itch or DriveThru I think it has the level! :slight_smile:

Do you think its possible to somehow use DCC spells in the black hack? That would be a next logical step for me (in porting/converting stuff thats special for DCC)

anyhow, awesome stuff here

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Thanks! Yeah, Black Hack can run just about anything without too much trouble given the ‘Every Monster’ ideas on page 80 make quick rough conversions easy. DCC monsters don’t really follow a normal HD logic so just eye ball it and go. You really can’t mess it up. Who cares if a monster is a little more or a little less powerful? Your players will probably just want to kill it.

I did think about DCC magic but decided the magical side effects in TBH was enough to scratch that itch at the time. The full spell tables weren’t something I was prepared to fiddle with, but I was eyeballing the patron stuff pretty hard.

Thanks again for positive words!

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