A roleplaying game of mystery and hardboiled action in a city that never sleeps.

In Hard City, character creation is swift and simple, generating competent yet flawed individuals and focusing on what sets them apart as they walk the fine line between right and wrong. Fast action resolution places the emphasis on the momentum of the plot, while the sandbox setting provides evocative hooks for adventures – fight crooks, rescue the innocent, thwart blackmail plots (or start them!), or uncover corruption in the Mayor’s office.

Stalk the mean streets of a world filled with two-bit thugs, hard-nosed gumshoes, intrepid reporters, gangsters, and femme fatales, all doing what they must to survive in the concrete jungle. With trouble around every corner, a secret on every lip, and a gun in every pocket, danger is never far away in the hard city.

Features:

* Inspired by the novels of such authors as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, and by both classic Film Noir (such as The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon) and more modern hardboiled crime movies (such as Chinatown, The Getaway, L.A. Confidential, and Sin City), Hard City taps into an enduring genre.
* A ‘pure’ hardboiled Noir roleplaying game – no horror, no weird science, no superheroes – just ordinary people doing the best they can in a world of crime and corruption.
* The sandbox setting provides evocative hooks that allow players to build the city they want – whether it’s pre-war Berlin, post-war Los Angeles, Capone-era Chicago, or anywhere else – and to tell the kinds of stories that appeal to them the most.