The Ghost Hack (2020)

Publisher's blurb:

You lived. You died. It didn't end there...

You're a ghost and you're still bound up in your Mortal Coils: people who need you, people who hate you, people and places you can't leave behind.

You have powers, the crafts of your ghostly Trade, along with the mighty Soulfire. But yet, you Rot. The Grave calls you. Days by day and year by year, your soul decays.

Perhaps the answer lies beyond the Living World, in Hades. There are Infernos there and Paradises too, cities of the Dead and mysteries to solve.

Can you survive your own death?

Welcome to The Ghost Hack, a a new take on the '90s games that let you roleplay the monster! In The Ghost Hack you will find:

• Four different classes of ghost to choose from
• A range of crafts your ghost can use
• Rules for your Mortal Coil that ties you to the Living World
• Usage die mechanics to cover the power of your Soul, the extent of your Rot and the health of your mortal attachments
• Rules for combat, chases, NPC antagonists, the realm of Hades and different styles of play
• A nice character sheet and flow charts

This indie RPG is based on The Black Hack by David Black and its vampire derivative The Blood Hack by Matthew Skails.

The system is very simple: you test 6 Stats (the classic STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA) for all actions and sometimes roll Usage Dice (Soul, Grave and Mortal Coil) which degrade every time they come up 1 or 2.

The game provides background material for the Afterlife and 4 playable character classes along with ghostly powers in 3 ranks. The booklet concludes with equipment and NPC stats for encounters along with exemplar character sheets and 3 flowcharrts for the few complex procedures in the game.