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Old School Hats: OSH in the Wild West
I need to put up a post about Old School Hack hacks pretty soon, and give you guys a spot on the sidebar. Awesome work!

Comment by kiznit August 2012 permalink
Monster Manual Sewn From Pants Hack
Yeah, I'm a big fan of Scrap Princess, she's a really fun gamer.

Comment by kiznit July 2012 permalink
Welcome to the Forums!
That sounds awesome, I love hearing about people playing OSH with kids.

Comment by kiznit May 2012 permalink
A cool setting: fallen moon.
Neat!

Comment by kiznit May 2012 permalink
Is the admin here?
Okay, the software is finally updated, with a whole host of new spam-fighting options. People should also now have the ability to flag posts as well if they seem spammish. Thanks for your patience with this, guys. Sorry I've been a little bit …

Comment by kiznit April 2012 permalink
My Game-Master Game Prep sheet
That's pretty cool! Only thing I might suggest is thinking about picking a different name in order to avoid potential confusion, since Hackmaster is actually another fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.

Comment by kiznit March 2012 permalink
New Book: "Fictive's Portable Pantheon 2012" Released!
This is amazing work, Andrew! Nice project, I like your take on Religion a lot.

Comment by kiznit March 2012 permalink
Is the admin here?
The vanilla software is like two years overdue for an update, and the spammers are getting in. I cleaned up what I saw but I really need to sit down and upgrade the forums. Vanilla isn't the best supported system out there so this is a long and…

Comment by kiznit January 2012 permalink
Per Arena
I'm not sure. I think they might. The important thing is that per-arena Talents that move you between Arenas don't refresh themselves. They're refreshed once you've moved after you've used them. How you move after is never…

Comment by kiznit December 2011 permalink
Catalogue of OSH Material
Hey folks, Beetle made a form-fillable Word Template for Old School Hack characters, check it out here: http://www.oldschoolhack.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/OSH_Character-Sheet.dotx

Comment by kiznit December 2011 permalink
Welcome to the Forums!
Not without me upgrading the forum technology, which I've only been meaning to do for, oh, five months now. Something a lot of people do is post it on their google docs and just share the link, too.

Comment by kiznit December 2011 permalink
Can OSH work with solo play?
All sounds great!

Comment by kiznit December 2011 permalink
Half Arena Attacks
It's okay to be in the minority, man! Like I try to insist, the "right way" to play OSH is the way you and your group want to play it.

Comment by kiznit December 2011 permalink
Can OSH work with solo play?
You could try putting Awesome Point generation in the player's court too - Like FATE points, the player can "ask" for Awesome Points by trying to do dangerous or heroic things, and getting them if they succeed, or something. You coul…

Comment by kiznit December 2011 permalink
Welcome to the Forums!
Post it right here! You can host it on Mediafire or any other datahost you like, and link to it using html code. Let me know if you need any help with it.

Comment by kiznit December 2011 permalink
Attribution
I think that's enough. I would like to think that most of the ideas shared in this forum are shared in the same spirit of the game, which is "use 'em how you want, make the game your own".

Comment by kiznit November 2011 permalink
New Book: "Fictive's Talents and Templates" Released!
Dude! This is amazing, I'd say it looks like you've played as much Old School Hack as I have at this point!

Comment by kiznit November 2011 permalink
What program do you use?
I use Adobe Illustrator, mostly because that's what I'm most comfortable with. It has PDF-optimizing tools built in, which I'm only now managing to come to grips with (and still have a lot to learn!).

Comment by kiznit September 2011 permalink
Thoughts on the next tier.
On a first pass, everything looks pretty awesome, and if warms my heart to see people take the system and run with it like this. It's going into the pile for "stuff to look at way closer" as I work on the next tier this winter.

Comment by kiznit September 2011 permalink
Hirelings
Neat!

Comment by kiznit September 2011 permalink
Three Cheers for Old School Hack
So glad to hear it!

Comment by kiznit September 2011 permalink
Welcome to the Forums!
I am also interested in tweeking this rule set into a sci-fi version. I know that you indicate that these rules are open source, but I would still like to ask permission before I steal them from you openly. Not for resale or mass marketing, just f…

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
Impeded
Yes. I believe on the move action card, it says if you're impeded then that's when you get a counter-attack.

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
Impeded
It's (hopefully) implied. If you failed to impede, how could you be cornering someone in an entirely different arena?

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
DMing for a rotating roster of players
You could easily discard the "everyone has to reach 12 spent Awesome Points" rule, and have people level up individually. The mechanic is there to encourage mutuality of Awesome Point giving in the in-game endeavors, but it's not cru…

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
Interrupting focused talents
To clarify why, I think the fact that the action failed to begin with is probably player punishment enough. However I'm not above engaging in some rat-bastardly Bowl-feeding to make such a failure complicate things worse somehow.

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
Multiple Actions in One Round
In this sort of situational case, I usually just go ahead and reward description, desire and enthusiasm with a free extra action if it's not counter to my own outcome desires (almost always the player desperately requests paying for it with APs…

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
Interrupting focused talents
I usually rule that like it says for the Arena Talent, a Rested talent is only "used up" when it is used successfully.

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
Awesome point spending
In my games, I tend to keep Attack Rolls kind of sacred from Awesome Point spending, because I think that's a "thrill point" of dice-rolling. Purely personal preference, of course.

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink
Congratulations on the Gold ENie!
Thanks, guys! I wouldn't have won if it weren't for people embracing the game, you guys are awesome.

Comment by kiznit August 2011 permalink

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