If you’re looking for the newest edition of the HackMaster role-playing game, just CLICK HERE to be transported to an epic world of endless adventure!

As for the previous HackMaster 4th edition, our license agreement with Wizards of the Coast has ended. This means that certain rulebooks (those that used licensed material from AD&D products once published by TSR) are now unavailable from our web store. But don't worry - many are still circulating in your local and online game stores, including Amazon.com! Of course, you can still purchase other, non-licensed HackMaster 4th edition products here (just scroll down this page to view)!

HackMaster 4th edition Info and Links:

Quite simply, HackMaster 4th edition is a fantasy role-playing game with an edge, that was licensed from the hallowed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons core rules. And even though we took a wrecking crane and a crowbar to those rules, we certainly didn't take the opportunity to alter the rules lightly. Players of the original AD&D game will find HackMaster 4th edition comfortably familiar, yet also new and exciting.

The Basics

Example of Play

Downloads

HackMaster Association

HackMaster Errata (PDFs)

HackMaster Errata (forum)

RPG.NET REVIEW

Converting AD&D characters to HackMaster 4th edition (PDF)

Converting AD&D characters to HackMaster 4th edition (this was a fan-made Excel spreadsheet - sorry, we don't have password information for it)

Congratulations! In a world where there is no shortage of mediocre games, you've managed to find one of the true gems. Furthermore, if you've ever played a fantasy role-playing game based on a d20 combat roll and armor class, you already know how to play this game! And while this is the 4th edition of the HackMaster game, in another time, another edition or an alternate universe, this could easily have been called "3e." It's the 1st/2nd edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) with new crunchy bits and a whole lot of fresh attitude.

The HackMaster 4th edition roleplaying game is the game of choice for those that know the difference between ordinary and epic. This is the game for YOU. You're not ordinary; you're extraordinary. For those of us that live in a world that forces us to conform, to abide by the rules day in and day out; for those of us that suffocate in our daily routine of breakfast cereal and ham sandwiches; for those of us that slave each day in our cubicle working for the Man; those who would be heroes if it were not for the constraints of reality, we present... HackMaster.