History TabletopGame / TheHardWay

* CloningBlues: Some characters in ''The Hard Way'' are clones. Clones are not treated well in the CrapsackWorld of this game -- they're used as slaves on the moon by their military masters, they're harvested for organs, and Yuppies and MICOM officials use them as sex-toys.

* {{Cyborg}}: Created through use of dead soldiers by MICOM (see {{Zombies}}).

* {{Zombies}}: Undead GI's, dead soldiers brought back by MICOM scientists.

* ActionHero: Pretty much all your characters, male or female. Especially if they pick the Badass main background.

''[[http://livresdelours.blogspot.com/p/in-english.html The Hard Way]]'' is a freeware 80s action movie inspired tabletop RPG by Kobayashi that takes place in a dystopian setting inspired by ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', ''{{Film/Scanners}}'' and other movies. It uses parts of Rafael Chandler's Disciple 12 rules from the ''Books of Pandemonium''.

!!This game provides examples of:

* {{Badass}}: One of the main backgrounds for your character, which allows you the use of all weapons features.
** BadassDriver: Anyone with the Driver secondary background.

* PsychicPowers: The Freak main background is used for characters who were experimented on by the military and developed psionic abilities. In combat, they're primarily used to make their opponents' heads go boom, ''Scanners'' style.

** RapeAndRevenge: What many characters with the "Raped" Trauma will likely be seeking. "Your therapy involves the use of a shotgun. At close range."

* UnfriendlyFire: One of the Nightmares involves having to frag your commanding officer to save your squad.

* LoveHurts: One of the Traumas involves having a character's spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend leave them for a Yuppie or MICOM official. This makes them a {{Yandere}}, of course.

** RapeAndRevenge: What many characters with the Rape Trauma will likely be seeking. "Your therapy involves the use of a shotgun. At close range."

* PsychicBlockDefense: A minor background allows you to block out enemy psychic powers.

* LoveHurts: One of the Traumas involves having a character's spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend leave them for a Yuppie or MICOM official.

* {{Amnesia}}: One of the Traumas.

* CloningBlues: Some characters in ''The Hard Way'' are clones. Clones are not treated well in this game -- they're used as slaves on the moon by their military masters, they're harvested for organs, and Yuppies and MICOM officials use them as sex-toys.

* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: The US is nowhere near the bastion of democracy that it once was.

* TheSquad: Your party belonged to the same squad during the war.

The setting is straight out of a corporate-fascist America nightmare: the US, China and the Soviet Union are in a three-way conflict for the last remaining natural resources of the world. 90% of the population is poor, and the 10% that aren't are in charge. MICOM (the '''M'''ilitary-'''I'''ndustrial '''COM'''plex) and the Yuppies have taken over the government and suppressed political dissent under the "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Freedom Act]]." HOMSEC goons are black-bagging people and sending them to FEMA camps. Manhattan has become a giant state penitentiary. Chinese-Americans are being interned because of the current war against China. Survivalists, death cults and racial supremacists thrive outside the big cities. And pretty much everyone has slave wages, potato chips and TV sets. Meanwhile, the rest of the world isn't much better than America -- Europe has become a fortress that will shoot you if you try to come in, the Soviet Union will shoot you if you try to come out, China shoots everyone who tries to come in or out, and the rest of the world takes sides or gets glassed with tacnukes, and outside of Soviet, MICOM or Chinese influence, have regressed to a medieval level of technology (if CNN is to be believed, that is). In space, the Soviets have Mars, which is currently a growing collectivist nightmare; the US has the moon, which is a research facility run by MICOM with several colonies still being built around it; and the Chinese have sabotage. Travel in space is mainly limited to those who can can afford it (the moon) and Soviet supply ships (Mars).

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Every character has one, both from their experiences in the war (Nightmare) or from trying to reintegrate (Trauma).

''The Hard Way'' is a freeware 80s action movie inspired tabletop RPG by Kobayashi that takes place in a dystopian setting inspired by ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'', ''{{Film/Scanners}}'' and other movies. It uses parts of Rafael Chandler's Disciple 12 rules from the ''Books of Pandemonium''.

''The Hard Way'' is a freeware 80s action movie inspired tabletop RPG by Kobayashi that takes place in a dystopian setting inspired by Escape From New York, Scanners and other movies. It uses parts of Rafael Chandler's Disciple 12 rules from the ''Books of Pandemonium''.

* GangBangers: One of the many enemies you'll face.

* TheMenInBlack: HOMSEC goons in general.

The Hard Way is a freeware 80s action movie inspired tabletop RPG by Kobayashi that takes place in a dystopian setting inspired by Escape From New York, Scanners and other movies. It uses parts of Rafael Chandler's Disciple 12 rules from the ''Books of Pandemonium''.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: [=SCANDOGs=], MICOM-sponsored psis who hunt their own kind.