The Last Hand: A Horror Role Playing Game is a standalone, GM-less, no-prep RPG for 2 to 6 players intended for a single session of play. Taking on the role of struggling survivors, you must work together to escape an unknown horror that slowly reveals Its true nature as It pursues you, while hedging your bets to be the one to make it out alive during the epilogue.
Emulating aspects of Texas Hold 'Em, you will take turns as the Dealer leading scenes, deciding how the cards affect the story, and adding details to the creature to realize what has been released upon the world.
The game facilitates the combination of warranted distrust and obligatory cooperation that is a staple of the horror genre. You can survive, but you must work together and there will likely be casualties.
It is out there, and It will stalk you relentlessly. Don't be one that gets left to die.
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Turns out Father Jenkins was right with all his doomsayin' about the end of the world.
Seems like the rapture was more fiery in his sermons, but whatever's out there sure as Hell feels like It's punishin' us. Not sure what It is, but somethin' lurkingin townhasbeen killin' most that cross Its path and drivin' those It don't to join in the hunt.
Nobody that's seen It survives, or at least not as the same person they were. Them that don't die become Its servants, lyin' and manipulatin' folks into going out and meetin' the same damned fate.No way to avoid it s'far as we can tell.We're just delaying the inevitable.
We got a few people holed up in the church, using it as a safe house. Been a few days since It came. We got food an' water for now, but soon we're gonna have to go outside. Pump more water from the well, find whatever food ain't rotted in the general store.
Some folks are bein' optimistic, sayin' God'll save us. We just have to wait It out. Other folks are thinkin' these might be our last few moments in this here world. I guess all we can do is try to survive and find out who's right.
Each day that passes makes me think the odds ain't in God's favor.
The Last Hand is a storytelling game, a lot like Fiasco but for horror movies. It draws inspiration from play-to-lose horror games like Dread, Ten Candles, and The Zone. However, unlike those games, in The Last Hand you play-to-survive. There is a creature pursuing you, and the obstacles will become overwhelming. However, in The Last Hand some characters can survive during the epilogue, you just may need to turn on your fellow survivors to not be left behind.
It's zero-prep, providing a one-shot horror experience where you create troubled characters from questions and discover elements of the creature that stalks you as you play. The horror is built-in while you tell the story.
Creating characters is as easy as rolling on a table of questions you'll answer to create haunted characters with troubled pasts or using the table as inspiration to write your own.
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