Fictional (at least, now)
RPG produced by
Hard 8. It seems to be a
mish-mash of
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and
Rolemaster. Two related games are
Spacehack, the Hackmaster
space opera game, and
Cattlepunk, the
Wild West game.
It's also the name of a class of swords in Garweeze World: see hackmaster +12, also Knights of the Dinner Table.
July 20, 2001: The Hackmaster RPG is no longer fictional. The game as released is a parody of AD&D 1st edition, but knowing that, at the heart, the game is all about meeting stranger new monsters in exotic lands, killing them, and taking their stuff, and throws many pretenses of being a "dramatic" game out the window.