Our Last Best Hope is a game about a crew of people on a mission to save Humanity from a terrible Crisis. 

***UPDATES ABOUT THE PROJECT***

- New Stretch Goals: Learn to Play Videos ($12,000) and Playmats ($14,000)

- Short Fiction Anthology "We Are Dust" (Unlocked $10,000 Stretch Goal)

- New Authors for our $10,000 Stretch Goal, New Missions for the funded Expansion, Google Air Demo Announcement

- Expansion/Companion Book (Unlocked $6,000 Stretch Goal) 

Our Last Best Hope is tabletop roleplaying game for three (3) to five (5) players that takes about two hours to play. During the game, you and your friends will play through a classic disaster movie, like Sunshine, Deep Impact, The Core, or Armageddon, where your characters are the stars. Each game is unique, as your group confronts a new Crisis with a new set of characters and a new plan to save the Earth. 

While playing Our Last Best Hope, you might:

...launch into space to stop a meteor from destroying all life on Earth.

...drill to the center of the Earth to restart its molten core.

...navigate zombie filled cities to stop a nuclear holocaust.

Regardless of the Crisis, you, and your crew, are our last best hope. 

Our Last Best Hope does not require a GM, nor is there any preptime required before the game starts. Inspired by roleplaying classics like Fiasco and Polaris, Our Last Best Hope is designed to be played as a one-shot epic game that will leave your gaming group with incredible stories.

We're raising funds to produce a professional version of our entry into the Game Chef 2012 contest.  With the help of our layout staff, the final version of Our Last Best Hope will feature revamped rules, new resolution mechanics, and three distinct mission profiles for use in the game (The Arctic, Space, and Zombie Apocalypse). Back our project and help make this unique game a reality!

Stretch Goals:

Since we got to $6,000, we are creating the Our Last Best Hope Expansion Book, featuring new Playsets for use with the game, hacks of the game that alter the mechanics in order to create new styles of play, and advice for your group about how to make the most of your play together.

All backers who have pledged at least $25 will get the PDF of the expansion, while backers who have pledged at least $50 will get a physical hardcopy. We've also opened up a new reward level at $15 called MISSION CONTROL STAFF for our $10 backers who want to get both PDFs.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US REACH THIS GOAL!

Since we reached $10,000 in pledges, we'll also publish "We Are Dust," a collection of short stories set during various Crises. Our writers, including EDDY WEBB, JR BLACKWELL, JASON CORLEY, CRYSA LEFLAR, WILL HINDMARCH, FILAMENA YOUNG, DAVID HILL, MONICA VALENTINELLI, MATTHEW MCFARLAND, and ROBERT WIELAND will craft a selection of stories set in various apocalyptic scenarios, exploring what it means to be human at the end of Humanity.

The PDF of "We Are Dust" will be available to all backers who pledge at least $15, and we'll mail a softbound copy of the book to all backers who pledge at least $50. 

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US REACH THIS GOAL!

Rewards:

We've got a ton of awesome rewards available for our backers, including:

Custom "Our Last Best Hope" Mission Patches

Custom Dice, Flash Drives w/exclusive digital products, and Story Points

Captain's Jacket (Male / Female)

Who We Are: 

We're Magpie Games, a tabletop roleplaying game company based in Cambridge, MA. We hope to inspire a new generation of roleplayers to create emotional, expansive stories…without rolling too many dice. You can read more about us on our website, like us on Facebook, or follow us on Google+. 

This year we released our first game, The Play's The Thing, with the support of our awesome Kickstarter backers. We are so thankful for the community that sprang up around that game, and we're hoping to build the same kind of community around Our Last Best Hope. We hope you'll join us!