Fantasy Hack

So I finally decided to get off my ass and write an RPG. I've probably started and abandoned a dozen of the things in the twenty-odd years I've been gaming, but I always knew I was never going to finish them, that "designing games" for me really meant "killing time fiddling with mechanics until I get another gaming group together".

This time, though, I really believe I can finish this game. Whether it's any good or not is another question entirely, but I'm resolved to have fun writing it regardless.

Fantasy Hack: A Game of Kicking Ass and Telling Stories is (to quote my own introduction) "...a deliberately unsophisticated swords & sorcery role-playing game in which players take on the roles of adventurers -- mighty warriors, cunning thieves, mad-eyed sorcerers -- who battle fearsome monsters and sinister villains for gold and for glory... and sometimes even for Good."

Absolutely nothing about this game is unique or ground-breaking in any way; it's not meant to be. It's got classes. It's got levels. It's got Hit Points and Armor Class. It's got a "setting" that pretty much boils down to "there's monsters; go kill them!"

Fantasy Hack is my attempt to recreate what Red Box Basic D&D meant to me when I was eleven... before I actually played it -- and reconcile that with my "grown up" liking for games that offer greater player empowerment and minimal emphasis on GM fiat.

You might even call it a Story Game... as long as you understand that the "story" you make with it is going to be something like Hawk the Slayer.