Rising Action is a roleplaying game for two players where you play a pair of rivals having an ever-escalating battle where their past and passions collide. Inspired by action anime and JRPG cutscenes, it is designed to produce dramatic encounters that can be played in 1-2 hours from character creation to the end of the fight. Rising Action features a game of battle of wits played with a deck of playing cards that frames the scene and prompts players to incorporate exciting imagery and emotion into their description.
Rising Action also includes:
- A quick world building and character creation procedure
- Two prewritten scenarios and pairs of characters to jump straight into
- Prompts to inspire characters, locations and situations primed for a bout
Words, design and layout by Aki of Aki’s Perspectives.
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