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HackMaster is a role-playing game produced by Kenzer & Company. It started out as a fictional game, a parody of Dungeons & Dragons played by the characters of the Knights of the Dinner Table comic strip by Jolly R. Blackburn. The characters in the comic play HackMaster 3rd Edition.
Kenzer & Company received many requests from fans of the comic to produce an actual HackMaster game, but initially they thought that licensing Dungeons & Dragons would be impossible. However, when they asked Wizards of the Coast about creating a derivative work, they reached an agreement that lead in 2001 to the publication of HackMaster 4th Edition, sometimes ironically referred to as the most realistic and complete set of role-playing rules in existence.
Whereas Wizards of the Coast simplified the rules for 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons, removing arbitrary limitations and streamlining play, Kenzer & Company took the opposite tack, creating a loving parody of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First Edition rules. Despite more complex rules, even more arbitrary limitations, and a byzantine character creation process, HackMaster is a very playable game.
HackMaster won the Origins Game of the Year Award in 2002.
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HackMaster is also a noted piece of software for the Palm OS that allows extra software (usually that manages the low-level hardware), such as software to enable desk accessories to be run on the operating system, which is normally not possible.
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