#TheMcHack

It’s Thursday night.

It’s #D&D night.

Queue tiny espresso cup, ruddy mysterious music, and…

The Curious Curse of Ogdar’s Reach.

#TTRPG #OSR #TheMcHack #OSE #BX

The Bakku and the Barrow, part 2 After defeating the skeletons, the group heads through a black marble archway. It is smooth and etched with reflective runes. The room ahead could be seen, with flames flickering around the edge of…

In case you didn’t know, I wrote a simple B/X-adjacent ruleset called #TheMcHack. My in-person group are currently play-testing, and the latest blog post can be found here: mysticmog.blog/2025/11/04/t...

You can buy The McHack on #DriveThruRPG for a single US$, just search “McHack”.

#OSR #TTRPG

Hello #OSR #TTRPG friends! The second book in #TheMcHack range is now live on #DriveThruRPG!

Monsters & Treasure contains around 80 creatures, both new and old, as well as McHack-specific Treasure Tables, all for the bargain price of $2:

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5379...

Cheers,
Mog

Hi #TTRPG #OSR friends. My simple newbie-friendly, solo-friendly, ex-5e-friendly OSR ruleset #TheMcHack is currently $2 pdf on @drivethrurpg.com. An Iron Age sword-and-sorcery can be used as a stand-along game or companion to other B/X-style games.

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The McHack - Rules Tome - Mystic Mog | DriveThruRPG.com The McHack is a simple, fast, B/X-style game for sword-and-sorcery adventures. featuring original classes, a familiar d2

Hello #TTRPG #OSR friends, my McHack Rules Tome is now available as a PWYW pdf from #DriveThruRPG.

The McHack Book 1 - Rules Tome:

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5363...

Simple, fast-paced, solo-friendly, and easily compatible with other B/X-style games.

Cheers,
Mog

#TheMcHack
#Sword&Sorcery

Session 1: Bye Bye Ny We started off from our small (population: 100, give or take) wilderness settlement of Ogdar’s Reach. This hill fort provides, meagerly, the bare necessities of life but nothing more. It is a drear…

Hello #TTRPG #OSR friend, the write-up of our first official play-test session of #TheMcHack up on the Mystic Mog Blog. The revamped, POD-able rule set will be added to the site soon (the pdf beta version of the rules is, as always, available on the site for free!

mysticmog.blog/2025/08/10/s...

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I ran the first test of my BX-compatible house ruleset #TheMcHack last night. The game ran smoothly and at a good pace. A good deal of fun with one party fatality.

These rules are definitely a work in progress but they are available for free from my blog: mysticmog.blog. #OSR #OSE #TTRPG

Well, I guess #TheMcHack didn’t get nominated for an Ennie, then?

Also, what is an “Ennie”? Asking for a friend.

Rules: Mages How can we make Magic Users (Mages) better? To my mind there are three problems we can work on: hit points, armor and weapons, and magic. Hit Points I have never understood why magic users have suc…

Hello #OSR friends! A new post is up on the Mystic Mog Blog. This one covers my design choices for the Mage class in #TheMcHack

mysticmog.blog/2025/06/05/r...

Hello friends, after a burst of posting in the last couple of weeks I’m going to be offline for a while - taking a trip back to Blighty to see my folks with Mrs Mog. Once I get back my hope is to get out a bunch of posts about the major design decisions in my little game #TheMcHack. Be well

Yay! The mini character sheets I designed for #TheMcHack arrived! A simple, minimalist design for maximum “eyes-up” gaming. #OSR #RPG #sword-and-sorcery

The Mystic Mog Blog Home of The McHack RPG

Hello #OSR #RPG friends, an early version of my rules-light sword-and-sorcery BX Hack #TheMcHack available to download for free at mysticmog.blog. I hope you enjoy it.