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Comrades: A Revolutionary RPG

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"Playing Comrades was a good reminder of what really matters…. If you too dream of a day when there are no more billionaires, then playing this game can help you keep your eyes on the prize." —Gita Jackson, Kotaku

Comrades is a tabletop RPG about life in the revolutionary underground. Based on the Apocalypse World engine, it pits players against a corrupt government, forcing them to fight from the shadows to free the people from their chains. 

Playing as characters like the Soldier, the Student, the Propagandist, and the Worker, your comrades will mount rallies, stage coups, evade the secret police, and fight fascist goons. A campaign of Comrades can take place in any setting the players dream up—modern or historical, real or imagined—giving them a chance to create a revolution all their own. 

Designed by the author of the bestselling Deadball: Baseball With DiceComrades uses simple rules to tell complex stories full of hope, deceit, danger, and betrayal. Taught quickly and run easily, even by novice GMs, Comrades is as fast and dirty as revolution itself. 

This 162 page rulebook is available in PDF, softcover, and gorgeous premium hardcover. It includes:

  • Ten playbooks embodying different revolutionary archetypes, including the Demagogue, the Mystic, the Artist, and the Brute
  • A guide to the game’s core rules, which keep the action hurtling along at a breakneck pace
  • Instructions for teaching the game and running the first session
  • A guide to GMing Comrades and making your revolution come alive with minimal between-session prep
  • A complete campaign setting, "Khresht: 1915," that will allow you to start playing immediately
  • Countless examples of play

Your revolution is at hand. It’s time to join the party.


A Note About Content: Like most RPGs, Comrades deals with violence, murder, and mayhem. However, because a campaign of Comrades takes place in a world not far from our own, the rulebook advises players to treat deadly encounters with the seriousness and respect that they deserve. This game does not advocate for political violence, and is instead designed to help players explore the limitations of the use of force for political ends. The GM is told to, "be unsparing about the ugliness and pain that comes with your party’s march to power," and reminded that, "murder may be effective, but that doesn’t make it right."


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February 25, 2024 10:32 pm UTC
Important question: Does this game handle the part where, after you’ve won the revolution, you now manage to run the country without falling back into the same old problems of Secret Police, Vanguard-Party Dictatorship, cronyism, etc — in other words, does this game give you the chance to actually actively *be* the good government you fought for and do it right, or is the game only about the revolution itself (with the offscreen results more likely to follow how they generally have in the real world)?
Don’t take this as snark, please — I’d honestly like to play a version of the Soviet Union where they did what they said they would, and didn’t fall back into just another brand of tyranny.
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Alexandre P March 03, 2023 1:23 pm UTC
Is there a way to adapt the game for two players only (1 game master + 1 player)?
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Cincy R March 22, 2022 6:07 pm UTC
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Just got this and it looks awesome--curious if anyone knows of any modules or settings not suggested in the existing rules? I am working on creating something but I always like inspiration from other sources.
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