Publisher's blurb: Hireling is a dungeon exploration game about desperate everyday people in a semi-historical weird fantasy setting. Players are Hirelings hired by a big Hero to help explore a dungeon rumoured to contain both riches and ruin. Just when the game starts the Hero dies ingloriously. The Hirelings have a once-in-a-lifetime golden opportunity to ease their worries, and their only choice is to grit their teeth and delve into the dark.