CRACK! est un système libre, gratuit, simple et fun pour mener des aventures sur le pouce. On peut le trouver sur le site The Merry Mushmen ou à télécharger.

WHY THIS GAME?

Ever since the seventies the original game’s rules were a language for everyone to express their creativity within a common framework. But recently, the Warlocks of the Seashore and the Hasbeen Brotherhood have grown resentful of this lingua franca they don’t understand. They think it slows their effort to hoard all the gold in the realms. Well, fuck’em.

For lack of a better solution, which will surely come later, we propose this simple system. It uses terminology and procedures strangely similar to those we already know, but that shouldn’t draw the ire of the Licensing Tower of Evil upon us poor mushroom folk. CRACK! is a complete game. It is meant to support your own creations so that fans of the original game and of its clones can use them.

Even if you don’t play CRACK! at your table, you are welcome to use it to make your creations more easily and widely usable.

Any adventure, setting, random magic hats table, tentacley creature, or character type written in the language of CRACK! can be understood by any of us.

That is our only goal.

Precisions about the licence: you can reuse the text of the rules of this game for anything you make and distribute commercially or not.

You cannot reuse the art. We ask the title of your products be easily distinguishable from CRACK! Use “CRACK!” (you may even find the logo on our site if you want to use it) but please just add something like a subtitle or a tweak to differenciate it from our “original CRACK!”.

For example, “Unarcan Earthana: Player Options for CRACK!” or “CRACK!: The Kip and the Bordello” are both alright. Just “CRACK!” is not.