Fictional Games
Since the comic centers around a community of role-playing gamers, the characters are seen playing many games that are analogues of real-world games (some of which were then published as real-world games). They include:
- Hackmaster, a fantasy role-playing game like Dungeons & Dragons, but even more baroquely complex. Hackmaster games are typically set in Garweeze Wurld, a reference to Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. It is the game most often shown being played. Kenzer and Company has published multiple real-world versions of the game, including supplements with names taken from the comic (e.g. the Hacklopedia of Beasts guides to the monsters of Garweeze Wurld).
- Spacehack, a science-fiction role-playing game like Traveller. One early storyline features the Knights' Spacehack characters travelling through a rift in space to Garweeze Wurld, where they encountered their Hackmaster characters.
- Scream of Kachooloo, a horror role-playing game closely modeled on Call of Cthulhu.
- HackNoia, a modern-day espionage role-playing game like TSR's Top Secret.
- Heroes and Zeroes, a superhero role-playing game like Champions.
- Cattlepunk, a Western role-playing game like TSR's Boot Hill. Kenzer and Company has published its own Western-themed game named Aces and Eights.
- Dawg: The RPG, a role-playing game, designed by B.A. Felton, where the characters are dogs of various breeds, similar to Bunnies & Burrows, which featured rabbit characters.
- Vampyres: Lords of Darkness, a live-action role-playing game like White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade.
- World of Hackcraft, a massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game set in Garweeze Wurld, modeled on World of Warcraft.
- Spelljacked, a fantasy-themed collectible card game like Magic: The Gathering. Spelljacked is depicted as Hard Eight's failed attempt to cash in on the CCG craze; they were later forced to practically give away their remaining stocks of cards.
- Fairy Meat, a miniatures game designed by Pete Ashton about cannibalistic fairies. Later published as a real-world game.
- Risque, a board game of world conquest modeled on Risk.
- Island of Kataan, a board game of building and trading modeled on The Settlers of Catan. When the Knights play it, most of them are baffled by its complete lack of rules for combat.
- "TreasonHackers", a RPG that mimics "Paranoia". It only shows up in the animated YouTube videos, and Brain thinks its a joke due to the high lethality rate.
- RoadHack, a post-apocalypse highway game of car-to-car combat ala The Road Warrior clearly based on Car Wars.
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