Hold your Own
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Hold your Own is a one-page no-prep role-playing game for 3-5 players.
It's a time and place not unlike the one in which you¸ the players¸ grew up: a dark mirror of the decade of your youth. You play as a group of friends at the cusp of adolescence. Life is hard. You're unpopular and unwanted. All you've got is each other.
But it gets worse: A strange menace threatens to devour everyone you know. And nobody believes you¸ not your teachers¸ not your parents. It looks like it's up to you to save your home.
Stats Number of players: 3-5 Age of players: 16+ Length: 2-4 hours per game session Page Count: 1 Release Date: May 2020 Inspired by Hold Your Own¸ Kate Tempest¸ Poem Geiger Counter¸ Jonathan Walton¸ RPG Fiasco¸ Bully Pulpit Games¸ RPG Stranger Things¸ Matt and Ross Duffer¸ TV-Series It¸ Stephen King¸ Movie Other Sharkbomb Games
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