Hack & Slash

It's very simple. There are many important things cybertechtronically enhanced secret agents need to do:  Buy illegal tanks with railguns. "Convince" the guy down at the bowling alley that h...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-sector-turn.html

 So, Sinless is in print That's not all.  You get assets, and you can use them to do things. Like Morgana. You're smart. You have seen an action movie. Someone knows an explosive g...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2024/04/sinless-in-print.html

 I just want to share some of the art from the project.  Get your own copy: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/472142/Sinless HACK & S...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2024/03/on-sinless-art.html

  So, obviously a D&D clone uses a d20 right? We know there are certain expectations for certain types of games. Cyberpunk uses a d6/d10 system with edge case weirdness. Shadowrun uses giant ...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-dice-and-mechanics.html

  I watched a video where a Walmart peeper toucher was chased through the store and shot with an electric gun. The body-cam showed the officer take the Walmart peeper toucher to the police sta...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-walmart-peeper-toucher-and-arrival.html

Get the PDF here on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/472142/Sinless Print on DTRPG and Amazon coming shortly. Sinless is an original human-written and human-illustrated cyber s...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-sinless-released.html

Isn't it disappointing that only digital files are on sale at DTRPG? So I've dropped the prices of print copies of my books! Bestial Encounters Caused By Monstrous Inhabitation is now 19....

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2023/07/on-osr-christmas-in-july.html

 One of the following statements is true. There are ten million empty houses in the United States, and only around 900,000 homeless Pods of orcas are organizing and attacking fishing boats of...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2023/06/on-changing-landsacpe.html

Are modern gamers objectively less creative than old-school gamers? Here over at Monsters and Manuals, Noisms discusses some of the agency-sucking, mind-reading, poorly presented, 'Gotcha!' ide...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/10/on-creative-crocodile-conundrum.html

Evelyn writes in: > "In Pandemic, how the players communicate with each other influence > and change the game a lot; since the main challenge of the game is > to co...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2012/09/on-reader-mail-table-talk-communication.html

A completely different Nick than yesterday writes: "Do you use a "Find Traps" skill for your thieves? Reading your materials, I can't really tell. I know you favor description and discovery thr...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2014/01/on-reader-mail-find-traps-skill.html

'J' writes in again with another question. "One of my players wants to bypass the game-play by saying 'I search everything'. I've responded in the past by asking them to be more specific, but ...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2013/03/on-reader-mail-comprehensive-search.html

 Sinless is just going great. Everyone is working, we've got people playing, the final parts are getting shored up; it's exciting. Years ago, I noticed someone whose work reminded me of Hall...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2023/04/on-mace.html

Sinless has just been amazing guys. If you haven't checked it out, you should back now. Campaign ends Friday.  It's around 700 people, which is enough for success you know? It's a big en...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2023/03/on-final-48-hours.html

 Sinless combat is so cool! I remember, once, during a game of 4e Dungeons and Dragons, I had enough time between rounds to calculate every one's average basic attack damage (since all our enc...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2023/02/on-sinless-combat.html

  Honestly, I'm so chuffed. I isolated and read a lot as a child, and when I imagined the future as someone who made these rpg books it seemed like a fantasy. It's amazing every day I wake...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2023/02/on-sinless-update-and-gameplay-loop.html

 Sinless is LIVE https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agonarchartist/sinless

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2023/02/on-sinless.html

I've played a lot of adventures. I've never been able to easily find out what happens in an adventure without playing it. I've always wished someone talked about the adventures that they've be...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-sunless-citadel-stroll.html

I've played a lot of adventures. I've never been able to easily find out what happens in an adventure without playing it. I've always wished someone talked about the adventures that they've bee...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2019/04/on-sinister-secret-of-saltmarsh-stroll.html

So that happened.  Bestial Ecosystems created by Monster Inhabitation is out .  I'm getting better at it. There was something off about the softcovers, so it'll be a few days on those. Amaz...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2022/05/on-ecology-completed.html

 Hey all. I've been busy writing. It turns out that when you write for a living, it's hard to write on a blog. The good thing is, there's actual professional work coming out.  First, I've...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-future-coming.html

So, anyone that updates a blog regularly is a writer. Regular updates to a blog equate in word count to a novel or two a year. So what is it that makes us bother? I mean, if one were going to w...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-why-bother.html

The seminal work on this topic is done by Victor Raymond in Fight On #2 & #3 It's Citizen Kane all over again. It says it right on the cover of Dungeons and Dragons Volume 3 of Three Boo...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2018/02/on-so-called-wilderness.html

AGGRESSIVE DENIAL It's hard to let go of your preconceptions. Like, it's giving up an addiction hard. I know this will be a bitter pill for some people, and others will find themselves amazed t...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2019/10/on-rules-of-game.html

This isn't about bad-wrong-fun. The discussion yesterday about behaviors we've all come across at the gaming table are not gaming problems. They are related to cognitive distortions. I get that...

http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2019/10/on-explicit-procedure-of-play.html