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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 59391" data-attributes="member: 1106">A DM designing a campaign for Hackmaster needs their tongue very firmly planted in their cheek.&nbsp; Most DMs tend to see their campaign worlds and adventures as very serious undertakings indeed, as if they were thwarted novelists or something - Hackmaster is not the right toolkit to do this sort of thing.If you can get over this mental hurdle, and can jive with the idea that verisimilitude and game balance isn't always the straightest line towards having a good time with your mates, have a look at it.Hackmaster is basically 1E (and a fair bit of 2E) with buckets of &quot;cool fun stuff&quot; tacked on in the form of rules, monsters, spells and (importantly) attitude.&nbsp; Character creation takes a lot longer, but the results are funky enough to be worth it.&nbsp; The array of goodies in the GMG and Hacklopedias is staggering.I think that running GDQ straight with the Hackmaster rules would kind of miss the point - you'd want to inject HM monsters in there at least, and possibly overhaul the adventure somewhat in other ways to make it fit the theme of the game.Another consideration: Drow are wusses who hide underground in HM - Grunge Elves are their evil counterparts on the surface who kick ass and take names, and consider the drow to be a bunch of cowards.&nbsp; I doubt GDQ would be affected much by this (they're hiding underground like a bunch of cowards in that, too) but you can see how this detail would alter the attitude of the PCs to that adventure, and the way you'd play the drow...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 59391, member: 1106"] A DM designing a campaign for Hackmaster needs their tongue very firmly planted in their cheek. Most DMs tend to see their campaign worlds and adventures as very serious undertakings indeed, as if they were thwarted novelists or something - Hackmaster is not the right toolkit to do this sort of thing. If you can get over this mental hurdle, and can jive with the idea that verisimilitude and game balance isn't always the straightest line towards having a good time with your mates, have a look at it. Hackmaster is basically 1E (and a fair bit of 2E) with buckets of "cool fun stuff" tacked on in the form of rules, monsters, spells and (importantly) attitude. Character creation takes a lot longer, but the results are funky enough to be worth it. The array of goodies in the GMG and Hacklopedias is staggering. I think that running GDQ straight with the Hackmaster rules would kind of miss the point - you'd want to inject HM monsters in there at least, and possibly overhaul the adventure somewhat in other ways to make it fit the theme of the game. Another consideration: Drow are wusses who hide underground in HM - Grunge Elves are their evil counterparts on the surface who kick ass and take names, and consider the drow to be a bunch of cowards. I doubt GDQ would be affected much by this (they're hiding underground like a bunch of cowards in that, too) but you can see how this detail would alter the attitude of the PCs to that adventure, and the way you'd play the drow... [/QUOTE]

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