What you see is what you get. Its a little generic set of images of buildings and structures at slightly different lighting. Its worth adding to collectors. I got it for free.

I bought The Black Hack 2e out of masochistic curiosity because it was advertised with many reviews as a popular “rules lite” "keep-it-simple-stupid" streamlined yet comprehensive & eccentric Old School Renaissance DnD retro-alternative. I wanted to find out why it was popular and how it was organized. I am not disappointed for those purposes. However, I’m still wrapping my head around what’s in it worth integrating in my DnD homebrew from blackhack 2e. Some of the tables are ridiculous. Fore example In the “MONSTERS & OPPONENTS A GUIDE TO CREATURE ENCOUNTERS” there are 2 1d6 tables for “THEY ARE” & “WITH” for every monster. Some of that is kitsch, tacky, raunchy and as lame as the blotchy grotesque artwork. For example the entry for Humans if you roll 2,2 THEY ARE “Making rubbings of things” WITH “a Pig in a Dress” Every bizarre random table with limited possibilities is just begging the DM to go WTF? and write their own result tables with way more results. Its a book that appeals to the RPG person who is either content with the kitsch or thrives on being agitated by that kitsch satire to write and make his own. I can’t honestly say I would ever want to participate in this game by the book.

This is a nice nostalgic sense of an expanded version of the original ADnD 1st edition Dungeon Master's Guide Appendix A that I authentically loved. Thank You.

Definitely appeals to anti-Railroad adventure style people. Its a concise cute brilliant utility and method to keep the flow of sponteneity and creativity going for multiple choices. GM's shouldn't deny players to roam freely with unforseen unknown surprises. You don't really absolutely need to get the odd 30 sided dice for this book. Just roll 1d10 + 1d6(1-2 = 0, 3-4 = 10 & 5 -6 =20) for equal probability as a single d30 die.