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<blockquote data-quote="Beale Knight" data-source="post: 1964414" data-attributes="member: 7033"><p><strong>About Hackmaster</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The roots of Hackmaster are in the comic, "The Knights of the Dinner Table," a black and white book that started as a strip. KoDT is about a group of gamers and probably 80% of the art involves them sitting around the table during a game. This is one of the funniest and beloved depiction of gamers in all the excentricities and is almost at issue 100. </p><p></p><p>The game they play inKoDT is called Hackmaster, and it's basicly 1st edition AD&D with a lot of complications thrown in for the sake of storyline humor. A few years ago they people that produce KoDT, Kenzer Company, noticed there seemed to be enough interest in Hackmaster that they decided to turn their story-device parody of 1st AD&D into an actual pen and paper rpg. And so they did. And it seems to have been a pretty good seller.</p><p></p><p>I've never so much as opened up one of the rulebooks, but from what I understand Hackmaster plays very much like 1st AD&D, but with a number of extra layers of rules and spells and monsters and other etc, all to match specific references the comic book made over the years. Some people consider it nothing more than a parody game, others play it with as much seriousness as any other non-parody rpg. </p><p></p><p>Much more information can be found at Kenzer's web page: Kenzerco.com</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beale Knight, post: 1964414, member: 7033"] [b]About Hackmaster[/b] The roots of Hackmaster are in the comic, "The Knights of the Dinner Table," a black and white book that started as a strip. KoDT is about a group of gamers and probably 80% of the art involves them sitting around the table during a game. This is one of the funniest and beloved depiction of gamers in all the excentricities and is almost at issue 100. The game they play inKoDT is called Hackmaster, and it's basicly 1st edition AD&D with a lot of complications thrown in for the sake of storyline humor. A few years ago they people that produce KoDT, Kenzer Company, noticed there seemed to be enough interest in Hackmaster that they decided to turn their story-device parody of 1st AD&D into an actual pen and paper rpg. And so they did. And it seems to have been a pretty good seller. I've never so much as opened up one of the rulebooks, but from what I understand Hackmaster plays very much like 1st AD&D, but with a number of extra layers of rules and spells and monsters and other etc, all to match specific references the comic book made over the years. Some people consider it nothing more than a parody game, others play it with as much seriousness as any other non-parody rpg. Much more information can be found at Kenzer's web page: Kenzerco.com Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]
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