Rise Up!

Rise Up! is a journaling tabletop role-playing game that asks you to put yourself in the shoes of a Collective for a year and fight for the right to dream of an alternative to the meat grinder of late capitalism. You won’t play a hero kissed by destiny, but an entire community, made up of ordinary people who share ideals and an idea of the future that is very different from the one served up to us. The community will be represented by nine individuals, each representing a link of a chain that is not meant to close and restrict, but to connect and share. Each month, you will face new challenges that will test the resilience of your collective. Perhaps you found fellow fighters in the unions, but the next protest could be seen as undermining your chances of dialogue with management. Maybe it’s yet another eviction attempt, as the fear and fatigue of the Picket members increase, while hope fades. Every choice you make will create tension. Narrative tension, of course, but also between idealism and realism, between struggle and dialogue, between visibility and vapid theatrics. Your victories will never come easy. Maybe they will never come. But when they do, they’ll feel real.