Bad Axe game is a small RPG publisher with the motto "Games With Grit". According their website, "We set the mood that the world is a dark and dangerous place -- then provide the rules to make it so. We keep things dark, stark, and focused on the character and the action -- two-fisted, kick-in-the-door gaming." The partners include Benjamin Durbin, Andrew Hale, Bob Iliff, Brad Kelley, and Keith Pogue. They started with the "Heroes of High Favor" race books, but are probably best known for the low-magic variant ruleset in Grim Tales, and more recently the attempt to fix the problems in the d20 3.5 system in Trailblazer.