The Black Hack: A Preview of the Bard from the forthcoming The Class Hack

After purchasing David Black's THE BLACK HACK from Gold Piece Publications, I've begun developing other classes for the game for a product called THE CLASS HACK (I didn't know that OneBookShelf.Com didn't greenlight new publishers on weekends or it would already be on sale). Hopefully it will be available from Cross Planes Game Studio on Monday.

Here is a preview:

       BARD

Starting HP : d6 + 4

HP Per Level/Resting : 1d6

Weapons & Armor : All, Leather, Magic 

Chainmail 

Attack Damage : 1d6 / 1d4 Unarmed or

Improvising 

SPECIAL FEATURES 

Rolls with Advantage when being charming,

performing delicate tasks, climbing, hearing 

sounds, moving silently, recounting legends and 

lore, understanding written languages and 

making music.

LEVELING UP

    Roll to see if attributes increase, roll twice for 

       STR and DEX or WIS.

ARCANE SPELLCASTING

Beginning at second level, Bards can cast a

number of Divine Spells a day, see the following 

page.

SPELLBOOK

     Bards start with a large spellbook containing a

total of 1d4 spells from the Level 1 and 2 Divine

Spell lists. 

I tried to stick closely to the ADnD 1E version so this Bard is a mix of Fighter, Thief, and Druid.  The Fighter is felt most in the use of all weapons and when they level you can Roll for Str AND Dex for improvement.