Last updated May 18, 2024.

• updated links to The Hero Hack and ESP & Eyeliner

A page for The Black Hack by David Black.
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TBH Official

• 3RD Party TBH guidelines for using the OGL for 3rd party products, high res logos can be found here
• Additional Things (FREE) variants, alternatives and optional rules
• Berserker class (FREE)
• David Black’s blog additional thoughts (i.e. about guns and ammo)
• Megagonzo Monster Generator
• Squarehex shop where you can get the paper version
• TBH Form-Fillable character sheet PDF (FREE)
• The Black Hack Sorrowset & GM’s Screen an urban micro-setting and a GM screen in PDF format
• The Black Hack the game in PDF from DTRPG

TBH Adventures

• Campfire Tale for The Black Hack introductory adventure for 1st to 3rd level characters for The Black Hack Second Edition and Labyrinth Lord
• Catacombs of the Invigorating Dirge (1 Page Dungeon) (FREE) by Michael Raston
• Noises in the Old Theatre adventure and quick-start ruleset for The Indie Hack (TIH)
• Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome (FREE) a one-page dungeon by Jeff Call
• Solo-HACK-tastic! a four level dungeon of solo adventuring action, requires ‘The Black Hack’ core rules
• Swords Against Chaos Part 1: Crimson Curse adventure for 1st level characters
• The Black Sword of Shem (FREE) Conan-inspired adventure by Brian Wille
• The Cthulhu Hack: The Dark Brood adventure for The Cthulhu Hack
• The Cthulhu Hack: The Haunter of the Dark adventure for The Cthulhu Hack
• The Cthulhu Hack: Thro’ Centuries Fixed adventure for The Cthulhu Hack
• The Goblin Gambit - The Black Hack version adventure for 3-4 low level characters
• The Sanctuary of the Sorcerer -The Black Hack edition
• The Solo Hack 11 solo adventures
• They Met In A Tavern (PWYW) adventure with pregens

TBH Classes

• A Hack of Class seven lightweight classes: Assassin, Bard, Druid, Illusionist, Monk, Paladin, and Ranger; by Brett Slocum
• City Druid class (FREE)
• Class Hacks by Zach H. (FREE)
• Clever Title Using Hack & Class eight new character classes
• Fiends and more classes by Mark Chance (FREE)
• Gnome and Human Race and Wizard Class for Barrowmaze The Black Hack (FREE) by Mike Evans
• Monk class (FREE) by Jay Garrick
• More classes and articles by Joel Priddy (FREE) Buck Roger classes, Ray Guns and more
• Runecaster (FREE) custom class by Dave Sealy
• Skills and Classes from 5e (FREE article) by John Payne
• Subclasses for The Black Hack (FREE) a quick conversion of Dyson Logos’ random subclasses to The Black Hack by Dave Bendit
• The Arcane Warrior: A Warrior/Conjuror for Elves (FREE) by Brett Slocum
• The Class Hack 2: Eclectic Boogaloo 15 Additional Traditional and Racial Classes
• The Class Hack 10 additional Classes inspired by the Original 1970’s game
• The Eight of Wands: A Class Hack for The Black Hack eight alternative character classes inspired by 5e
• The Guild Dog character class (FREE) randomly generated murder hobo by Michael Raston
• The Hubris Alchemist- Black Hack’d (and new Alchemical items) (FREE) a new class
• The Race Hack additional classes
• The Summoner (FREE) by John Payne
• The Zealot (FREE class) by Klint Finley
• TheStreamlife Class Hacks (FREE) 10+ class hacks
• Unofficial DCCRPG Hack (FREE) by Chris Wolf
• Warriors V2.0 - Now with Feats! (FREE) feats for the Warrior class; by Ava/sh I.

TBH House Rules

• Dylan’s House Rules for the Black Hack (FREE)

TBH Rules

• 1-page TBH Rules (FREE) by Steven Muchow
• Background table (FREE) by Tore Nielsen
• Black Hack Boons (FREE) a simple system for character customization by Thiago Abdulmassih
• Black Hack and Slash adds options for combat, four modular ections (Combat Stances, Combat Options, Weapon Qualities, and Combat Manuevers) with a list of sample weapons
• David Schirduan’s supplements (FREE) The Black Hack one-page reference
• Henchmen house rules by Chris C.
• Hireling Rules article (FREE)
• Jeff Call’s TBH stuff (FREE) classes, house rules etc.
• Mass Combat for The Black Hack (FREE) by John Payne, here are more thoughts
• SKYSKIMMER (FREE) intergalactic fantasy setting for TBH
• Skills house rules by Mario Cordova (FREE)
• Strange Powers (FREE article) level-less spellcasting list
• TBH Armor Hack (FREE) by Jeff Call system to replace the armor points with a reduction die
• TBH Level Zero Funnel (FREE) by Mike Evans
• The Knack Hack three skill systems
• The Unearthed Hack a collection of variants and extras that includes rules for Character vs Character combat, new armor types, and adding non-human races as special features of a class, or as stand alone classes (Elf, Dwarf, Halfling, Bugbear, Frogling).
• Wham Krak Swish (PWYW) simple combat add-on by Norbert Matausch

TBH Beasts

• Black Hack (Cyber) Bestiary (FREE) expanded bestiary for cyberpunk Black Hack games, featuring Sewer Gators, Vice Cops, Juicers and more by Richard Balmer
• Bladimir Bartholomew’s Binder of Bestial Beasties - For The Black Hack monster manual
• Creature Feature Quarterly vol.1 (Black Hack Edition) 13 new monsters with an OSR feel for your Black Hack game by Jeremy Hart
• Fuzion Monsters (FREE) by Michael Raston, plus a method to create own monsters
• The Beast Hack 2: Monster Madness
• The Beast Hack 3
• The Beast Hack 60 monsters
• The Drac Hack a creature list
• The Zombie Hack: SCRATCHER ZOMBIES (PWYW) a new zombie type for The Zombie Hack

TBH Character Sheets

• Cthulhu Hack character sheet (FREE) by Mez Toons
• Functional Half-Letter Character Sheets (FREE) by Dylan Ross
• Google Sheets character record for playing over Hangouts (FREE) by Dylan Ross
• Modified character sheet (FREE) by Dylan Ross
• Pocketmod Character Sheet (FREE) by Nathan Treme
• TBH Half-sized sheet (FREE) by Freddie Dickinson
• TBH Pocketmod charactersheet (FREE) by Ben Patterson
• TBH Roll20 Character Sheet (FREE)

TBH Characters

• Paizo-inspired Pregen Characters (FREE) by Josh Mannon
• Random Character Generator (FREE) by David Johnston
• Starting Gear generator (FREE) by Mike Evans
• The NPC Hack a collection of 40 Non-Player Characters for use with TBH
• Weapon and Armor Generator for Sword and Sorcery (or Sword and Planet) for Black Hack (and other systems) (article, FREE) by Mike Evans

TBH SRDs

• The Black Hack SRD (FREE), available in English and other languages curated by Bruno Bord

TBH Hexcrawl

• Black Hexes (Volume 1) expands on the basic toolkit of the Hex Hack by adding in encounters, mini-adventures, fiction and full scenarios, including one for level 10 PCs
• Black Hexes (Volume 2)
• The Hex Hack sandbox campaign supplement

TBH Miscellaneous

• Cyber.net.ica - The Black Hack version Cyberpunk source material
• TBH Combat Calculator (FREE) by Robin Bagust
• TBH Custom Screen (FREE) by Jake Parker
• The Black Hack Google+ community (of course it’s free’)
• The Black Hackzetteer unofficial zine for TBH
• The Gnomish Embassy TBH blog posts (FREE)
• The Item Hack collection of magical items
• Tiddlywiki with rules and resources (FREE) html document as a download by John Clayton

TBH Standalone Games

Fantasy

• Bluehack a spin on Holmes Basic D&D (Blue Box)
• Extinction a stand alone RPG of Sci-Fi survival horror
• Fantasy Hackbreaker some elements from Fate, six classes
• Golgotha a game of interstellar exploration and scavenging
• Heroes & Monsters aims to be a more user-friendly version of TBH, inspired by Moldvay’s Basic D&D
• Heroic Fantasy a TBH spin for more heroic play, new classes etc.
• Infravision (FREE) a fantasy heartbreaker version of TBH by Peter Kissner
• No Class Hack - RKG-BH1 replaces broader Classes with specific abilities and enhancements called Edges, free sampler, character sheets, Corruption Die Drop Table (with background), Corruption Die Drop Table (print-friendly)
• Orange Hack a TBH/Microlite hack
• Portal Rats standalone game of planar adventure
• Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells (PWYW) sword & sorcery based on TBH, Whitehack and DCC
• The Basic Hack (PWYW) kid-friendly/newbie-friendly TBH
• The Blackest Hack (PWYW) a version of The Black Hack optimized for evil player characters.
• The Crying Hack The Crying Blades hack
• The Elf Hack characters are all Santa’s elves in a battle with the forces of the Grump
• The Grimm’s Fairy Hack (PWYW playtest rules) players take on the roles of children from our real world who find themselves lost in a dangerous, magical realm
• The Petal Hack (FREE) Tékumel hack by Brett Slocum
• The Phantasy Hack (FREE) JRPG hack by Sean Smith
• The Quest Hack (FREE) a Sword & Sorcery inspired hack that moves beyond the classic stats
• The Rat Hack (FREE Alpha) by Dustin Ratliff
• The Three Class Hack 2.0 (PWYW) Whitehack character classes for TBH
• The Zero Edition (Zebra) Hack White Box Hack by Brett Slocum

Modern

• ESP & Eyeliner (FREE) by J. Pikliz’s supplement inspired by Stranger Things
• Ghosthackers (FREE) Unofficial Ghostbusters hack by Jonathan Linneman, serial numbers filed off
• Librarians of Doom _ The Black Hack edititon
• Monster Force - The Black Hack Compatable play monsters as a government task force
• The [REDACTED] Hack modern espionage
• The Adventure Squad loosely based on and inspired by a toy line from the 1970’s that included 12’ action figures with life like hair and kung fu gri
• Character Sheet for The Adventure Squad (PWYW)
• The Bikini Hack based on all of the fun beach and surfing movies of the 60’s
• The Cat Hack urban fantasy hack where you play cats
• The Front World War II RPG by Mark A. Hunt
• The Kid Hack characters are all children in a battle with the supernatural world that only they can see
• The Modern Hack TBH hack in the modern world
• The Noir Hack Film Noir hack that requires the base game
• The Normie Hack (FREE) for low or non-magic settings; by Nathan Treme
• The Vigilante Hack
• A CITY FULL OF SINNERS - Game Master’s Guide for The Vigilante Hack From Bloat Games

Historical

• How The West Was Hacked: The Weird Wild West Black Hack Compatable RPG
• The High Seas Hack swashbuckling adventures in the Caribbean of the late 17th and early 18th centuries; the Golden Age of Piracy
• The Pirate Hack 2e play pirates
• The Pulp Hack (PWYW) play in a world of spies, private, eyes, masked heroes and mad scientists

Anime/Manga/Cartoons

• Cosmic Warriors (PWYW) for Saturday morning cartoon shows and shounen manga games
• The Anime Hack anime-inspired hack with 8 new classes
• The Anthropomorphic Fighting Animal Hack You and your team of Evolved Animals use Martial Arts to fight crime and your Villain Rivals!

Post-Apocalypse

• Furies of the Barrens RPG post-apocalyptic sci-fi game based on TBH
• The Rad-Hack a game set in a weird, post apocalyptic future where Mutants, Robots, Psionics and Humans team up against the dangers of the wasteland in search of Tech, Slugs and Adventure! LULU print copy here, free SRD here
• The Wasted Hack post-apoc game, it has some supplements, too: WLB Presents: The Lost and Forgotten Volume One (PWYW) and Miserable Wrecking Wreckers
• The Wasteland Hack Special Edition Expanded post-apoc hack
• The Wasteland Hack Settlers Pack (FREE) supplement for the Wasteland Hack
• Waste-Land Beasts and How to Kill Them collection of post-apocalyptic foes
• The Zombie Hack
• Water Hack (FREE) post-apocalyptic TBH-inspired game but more on a nightmarish/parody/nonsensical manner

Cyberpunk

• Mirrorshades hardcore cyberpunk game
• The Black Hack: Cyber-Hacked! simple rules for hacking, cyberware, car chases, drugs, and guns

Sci-Fi

• Hack Wars (FREE) unofficial Star Wars hack by Peter Frain
• Shifter Bots Transformers hack by Jacob Ross
• Star Trek: Bad Captain (FREE) a fan hack for classic Star Trek by Jeff Call
• The Empire Strikes Hack (FREE) unofficial Star Wars hack by Thomas Williams, link is for the latest playtest version, here is newer draft (not playtested), and here is a charactersheet
• The Gene Hack adventures set in science fantasy worlds of mutation, chaos, and flux
• The Mecha Hack titanic war machines game
• The Space Hack sci-fi hack by Kirt A. Dankmyer
• The Starrunner Kit- The Black Hole Edition: A Sci-Fi Space Toolkit sci-fi space adventure for TBH
• The Stellar Hack a sourcebook you can use on its own or to add to your other OSR space games
• The Stellar Hack - Starlite (FREE) sci-fi hack in space

Horror

• From Unformed Realms system-free supplement for Chtulhoid horror (Cthulhu Hack)
• The Blood Hack Vampire hack by Matthew Skail
• The Cthulhu Hack standalone product for horror games
• The Cthulhu Hack: Convicts & Cthulhu (PWYW) supplement for the Cthulhu Hack
• The Hunter Hack (PWYW) a collection of magic weapons, monsters, and rules for running a Black Hack game about tracking and hunting giant monsters in the wilderness
• The Jack Hack a game of trying to beat the odds in the depravity of late Victorian London
• The Penny Black (PWYW) supplement for ‘The Jack Hack’
• The Great Game political intrigue for ‘The Jack Hack’ (needs TBH core game)

Supers

• The Four Color Hack comic book adventures
• The Hero Hack (FREE) J. Pikliz’s 1980’s superheroes hack
• The Powers Hack a supers hack
• The Super Hack action-packed four-color Superhero game

Miscellaneous

• Macchiato Monsters ZERO Whitehack/TBH and some new ideas by Eric Nieudan
• The Indie Hack TBH hack with ‘indie’ ideas (details which are like Fate aspects), not TBH-compatible, online SRD, post/review by Jonathan Henry
• The Shower Hack (FREE) Stupid Shower Thought for The Black Hack