Known Game Hacks?

[dm4hire]

I'm wondering what games people know have been hacked and where to find the info? I know of the following:

Various Dragon Age hacked stuff at Dragon Age Oracle

Official sanctioned Cortex Plus Hacker's Guide

 

[Morrus]

I've seen the word "hack" used recently with games. What does it mean? It seems to have snuck up on me without explaining itself!

 

[dm4hire]

I've seen the word "hack" used recently with games. What does it mean? It seems to have snuck up on me without explaining itself!

People basically taking a rules system and stripping out the setting info and gearing it toward a different genre or setting. There is a Star Wars hack for Dragon Age for example. Often they have a small rules set you use in addition to the original or in place of.

 

[Morrus]

Ah. New words for old things!

I'll slip this over to the appropriate forum for you.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Dungeon World is a hack of Apocalypse World.

Monster Hearts is also a hack of Apocalypse World.

Is Bruce Cordell's The Strange considered a hack of Numenera?

 

[Morrus]

Presumably most d20 games are hacks of D&D 3E/3.5?

 

[Viking Bastard]

My personal definition of a game hack is when you house rule a game into becoming a different game (and on purpose).

 

[Nytmare]

I know that there's a Jedi version of Dogs in the Vineyard floating around out there.

 

[Razjah]

I have seen E6 or Epic 6th referenced as a hack. If it classifies, it is my favorite. 3.5/Pathfinder and making it much lower leveled, controlled, and more grim and heroic.

 

[dm4hire]

E6 counts. Star Wars hack of Dogs sounds interested. Nytmare do you know where it might be found?