I haven't played it yet, but I received the PDF for BREAK!!, so I translated the character sheet for later. I most likely won't translate the character creation rules, it's like half the book ^^".
Christian Buggedei kindly allowed me to share my unofficial translation of the player materials for his roleplaying game Mail Order Apocalypse, in which all work has been automated, leading humans, who can't earn money anymore, to organize heists against delivery drones and robotized factories to get their hands on some of the produced goods.
I took part in a playtest of the game at LasgnaCon 2019 in Glasgow, and took some cues from the setting when creating the Univers Partagé Éphémère. I hope to explore it further using the final version of the system soon.
I'm not too fond of The Black Hack, and the last game using this system I played was rather disappointing. Why, then, did I buy Black Sword Hack: Ultimate Chaos Edition? My understanding was that the game was going to be published under the Creative Commons Attribution licence, and I wanted to support the initiative. Alas, that was not to be, only the rules were released under a free licence, not the rest of the game :-(.
Once again, I'm translating a character sheet hoping that I'll never be asked for compensation by a copyright holder down the line because I reused layout and illustrations to make the game accessible to more players. I'm sure there would be plenty of interesting stuff to be done had the game been completely freed: write pregens illustrated with the book's characters, publish follow-ups to the included modules, make supplements using the same layout…
The same is true of CRACK by the same editor (whom I otherwise greatly appreciate). "CC BY 4.0" is displayed proudly on the cover, but the credits only apply the licence to the text.
But let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, it's a step in the right direction. I merely hope that one day we might be able to reuse game illustrations and layout as easily as we now can reuse text.
Back to the character sheet, I only translated a single format (A5, full colour) because that's enough for my one-shot this week. The game's author being francophone, the full range of formats will most likely get and official tanslation soon anyway.
