Publisher's Blurb:
A Grim Hack is a Hack System for grim settings, perilous adventures, and pseudo-historical feels that wears its influences on it's sleeve. Grim Hach provides streamlined rules system based on old school Grim & Perilous Fantasy Games from the 80's and 90's. It provides the basic ruleset to get your gaming group started quickly and playing right away.
The rules are straightforward with no implied setting details requiring specific mythologies or cosmologies. You will find it simple enough to incorporate mechanics and ideas from other games into this ruleset.
The players take the role of common folk pulled into something much bigger than their everyday lives. This game is not about leveling up skills and abilities to become an unstoppable force. Few characters will be accomplished fighters and even those trained in combat will find that their lives are truly at risk in a fight. While using magic won’t suddenly cause you to sprout tentacles from your back or to go instantly mad, the supernatural forces are dangerous and invoking them can result in a mental trauma or even death. This is a game about common people fighting against the impossible.