The Heroes & Hardships Core Rulebook hardcover is available at the publisher's website. 

Any Setting! Any Character! Any Adventure! Anything You Can Imagine!

Heroes & Hardships is a universal roleplaying game that allows gamemasters to craft any story they desire. Heroes & Hardships contains many options to facilitate diverse styles and genres of play; GMs can easily create standard fantasy, sci-fi, modern, historical, and super hero games. And of course, feel free to readily mix and match all of these genres in any way they see fit. 

In Heroes & Hardships you will find:

A universal RPG system suitable for any setting or genre;

• Extreme customization, from optional rules to hundreds of character options;
• Tightly designed game systems that work seamlessly together or apart;
• Dangerous and tactical combat, with optional rules for simpler forms of violence;
• Two interconnected magic systems for wizards and super heroes alike;
• Vehicle creation and combat;
• A bestiary full of medieval, fantasy, modern, and sci-fi adversaries;
• Extreme quality, from AAA game industry artists & layout;
• And much more!