HARDCASE Mini: Escape the A! is meant to be both a newbie-friendly way to get started with HARDCASE and a way to test out some rules for a potential revised edition of the game someday. It’ll be pay-what-you-want for the entirety of May, to act as a reference document for this - the first HARDCASE Game Jam!

I want to see other people tackle this setting and its mechanics, like Binary Star Games did with HARDPLACE and Charles Gillespie did with HARDSCRABBLE. 

Have an idea for a new Label, more CONQUEROR Islands, or maybe a novel way to get paid? Got some killer new Cybernetics you think folks would enjoy - or some *awful* ones we’d love to hate? Entries can be as small as a roll table or as big as a whole new space station to visit, whatever your little HC heart desires. I’ve only got a few restrictions:

• Absolutely no AI use. Make it yourself!
• Please, don’t set anything in Spindle City. I’m going to get to it someday. 
• Don’t be a bigot or a shithead. This game hates the corporations and petty tyrants who are killing us all (along with the world we share). It respects trans people, immigrants, the disabled, the unhoused, and others on the margins, even if it depicts abuses against them by those with power.

Otherwise, go nuts! I’ll even say that more Mysteries in the style of HARDCASE: TRUTHSEEKER (or expansions on other ideas from that supplement) are fair game, as is anything from the current corebook. Don't feel like it needs to have shiny layout or a bunch of art, either! Just submitting something is more than enough <3