Hard Time quickstart rules

“Nobody move! This is a robbery! Everybody down on the floor... Now slowly take out your phones and throw them on the floor... we are not here for your money. We are here for the bank’s money. Your money is insured. We don’t want to harm anyone, so don’t do anything stupid, and this will be a cool story to tell your grandkids...”

HardTime is a game about planning and committing Hollywood-style heists in a noir world that looks frighteningly like ours. All the characters need is a cold gun and a certain moral ambiguity. People are to be used and abused, to get the cash. The plots are filled with the usual twists and double-crosses we love so much in movies. The gunfights feel real, and the action is intense. Will the criminals get away with it? Will the cops catch the bad guys?

There are bank heists to plan, drug dealers to rip off, and corrupt cops out to collect. HardTime is a game where you look hard or look down.