The Black Hack Second Edition Classic Monsters book project is now live on Kickstarter. Classic Monsters is designed to support and enhance your Black Hack games. It features over 200 monsters, drawn from B/X and First Edition sources of the The World's Most Popular Fantasy Role Playing Game, all converted for use with The Black Hack.
Check out the project page here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1730454032/the-black-hack-second-edition-classic-monsters
Friday 12 June 2020
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Black Pudding 6 Print Edition Out Now!
The print edition of Black Pudding 6 is now available to order from the Squarehex site using the following link:
Wednesday 1 January 2020
Squarehex 2019 Review and 2020 Plans
2019 was a good year for the business.
The two highlights for me were getting The Black Hack Second
Edition rewards sent out to our Kickstarter backers and The
Black Hack picking up a Silver Ennie award at GenCon. Ongoing
sales of The Black Hack have been strong and we now have 2
distributors in the US (Exalted Funeral and Noble Knight) and in the
UK Leisure Games are carrying stock. We should also soon have copies
of The Black Hack in general UK distribution via Asmodee.
Once the main work associated with The
Black Hack was over it was nice to get back to a few smaller
Kickstarter projects to fund print runs of several notebooks and
booklets. In addition to the Kickstarters I'm always on the lookout
for small niche publishing projects. In the last few years I've had
the pleasure of printing material featuring the creative talents of
Kristian Richards, James West, David Black, Dyson Logos, Charley
Phipps and Karl Stjernberg. In 2020 I'll be helping Fish in the Pot
with the UK/EU distribution of their one page dungeon zine.
During the year we managed to attend 5
conventions (Hammerhead, UK Games Expo, Barrage, Chillcon and
Dragonmeet). I hope to do a few more shows than that in 2020, but
they are very time consuming and apart from the Expo and Dragonmeet
the financial rewards are fairly small.
I start 2020 with a Kickstarter project
(Combat Counters) to complete which should be finished by the
end of February. Then I want to run a follow-up project for The
Black Hack to fund a booklet of classic monsters which will be a
useful supplement for GMs running modules from other OSR/original
games. After that I would really like to tackle a reprint of The
Lichway. I first talked about my plans for that project in 2015.
Although that was a long time ago, when you consider the adventure
was first published in 1978, it's still the recent past really. I
have done more groundwork on the project over the last 4 years, but
more importantly, my ideas on how to best present the adventure have
evolved considerably. In between these major projects I should still
have time for a few small projects to produce paper pads, booklets
and more 2.5D dungeon expansions.
When I started Squarehex I set a very
low financial bar for the business. Essentially, I wanted a hobby
business that would allow me to print niche items with little regard
for how commercially viable they were. That sounds more reckless than
it is in reality as I've never lost money on a project. Indeed all my
Kickstarters are planned so I know the exact weight, cost and postage
for every item before I start. The business has now almost reached
the point where it could be a full-time job. If you'd told me at age
20, 30, or even 40 that I could be doing this for a living at the age
of 50 I don't think I would have believed it. Even though the pay is
a fraction of what I used to earn in the corporate world, I think I'm
now in that small group of people who get to do a job that doesn't
really feel like work. Thank you to everyone that has supported our
projects or bought things from us via the webstore or at a convention
in 2019. I hope we can tempt you back for more in 2020.
Happy New Year!
Peter Regan
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