Simple, elegant yet covers a wide area of ideas and captures the litature it draws from.

love this game perfect to play a moorcock themed eternal champion type game or I may try a more fafhrd and the gray mouser type game though like most games will hack/house rule to my own desired game probably just adding more backgrounds and making hit points con + 1d6 to start also a mooks rule i.e low level foes killed by succesful hit no dam roll for when I need the pc's to feel heroic. would be nice to see a character sheet online to download if you ever do a second edition do not alter much pretty good as is.

Thanks for the quick reply I stand corrected now I know about your site have downloaded the character sheet , keep up the great work.

An awesome Black Hack hack, this game keeps his promises about flavour and mood, and the background-based character creation gives them a lot more context than it might seem. One of my go-to games when I get an OSR itch to scratch.

I really liked how BSH takes a much harder approach with TBH. The game is easy to understand, the doom dice system is interesting and defo adds more pressure to the game, and frankly the magic system is just pure creativity with chaos. I also love the "pie system" (like NGR), or, Trait system as per tiny d6. It's easier to leave options to the players. Clear cut rules are always bent anyways.

Artwork is also fab. I love this little addition to my collection. Thank you for your hard work! Brilliant stuff!

The game seems to be done to complement the use of existing extensive Elric manuals.

It has good ideas to use in any game but everything is explained half-way. Which is a problem since the game has half a dozen sub-systems:spells, demon pacts, spirit pacts, rune weapons, weird science, cosmic gifts and finally, the action economy, which seems to be taken from brp and not from black hack.

For reference I've read both black hack editions and DMed Sharp Swords and SSpells, a black hack clone.

Black Sword Hack is yet another great example of the family of Black Hack games delivering excellent experiences around an easy and fun core. Black Sword Hack utilizes an excellent Doom mechanic that is built around TBH's usage dice system that measures how the characters are tempting fate. In effect it's a blackjack system where players will always be tempted to draw one more time but at the risk of going bust, becoming doomed, and being put in real jeopardy. This is just one example of an evocative and thematic mechanic in Black Sword Hack that is also fun for its game implications. Additionally, this book does a great job of giving instructions for building your own world imperiled by the loss of balance and a drift toward a doom by Law or Chaos for campaign play which is both thematically interesting and useful for getting playing almost immediately.

Fantastic adaption of the Black Hack that really hammers home the Sword & Sorcery vibe. I especially like the origins and backgrounds mechanic, that let you build out a character without beingi tied to a class. Doom and Pacts are a really intersting take on the warlocks and wizards of classic fantasy, tying part of your magical ability to a demonic pact is ingenious and really fits the flavor of the game.

All in all this is a must have for any fans of Conan, Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser, or any of the classic S&S stories!

Comme souvent avec cet auteur, un jeu concis et efficace. Plein de bonnes idées qui émulent le genre annoncé. Facile à lire même avec un niveau d'anglais léger comme le mien. Je recommande fortement !

As often with this author, a concise and effective game. Full of good ideas that emulate the announced genre. Easy to read even with a light level of English like mine. I highly recommend it!

Like a doomed black sword, a sharp and powerful compact game, perfectly balanced between mood & system.

Another sharp designed game mechanics by Kobayashi. A game which emulates perfectly the genre (desperate end of times law vs chaos struggle Moorcock´s style). Based on the Black Hack 2, BSH adds and twists to the system goes straight to the heart of the universe: doom (die), cunning and desperate heroes, demon or spirit binding, weird science, how to build a world torn apart by Law and Chaos, role of the Balance and an introduction adventure to pack it all... a must have if you are interested by simple, straightforward yet sharply tuned mechanics and of course, dark and baroque fantasy.