We will stop the bulldozers

This game is set in Clear Creek, Kentucky. 

It can take place anywhere along Appalachia, but I recommend West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, or the Carolinas. Strip mine country, coal-land, dark mountain teeth. It is 1972. 

You will need two players, a stacking block game, 1D4, and a piece of paper, or another way to track resources. This can be done by pen and paper, through tokens, or by turning down a D6. If you use dice, you will need 3D6 each.  

You will create characters, setting up your place in Clear Creek. Next, you will create the stacking block game together, helping develop the setting and your motives. Third, you will play the main game, pulling blocks and describing the challenges and setbacks between your two characters. When the tower collapses, the game is over.

This is a game about resistance.

It is the story of the real women and men who stood, laid down, and used their bodies to stop the bulldozers in Appalachia. They are still fighting. Many of these women are legendary. They are our mythos. The stories of Southern resistance echo through muddy valleys in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and the Carolinas.

 Through all of the south. 

This game is free,  even the designed version, but if you would have paid for it, consider a donation to the Yellow Finch  Tree Sits, which have occupied the forest in Danville, Virginia for two years, stopping the continuation of the Mountain Valley Pipeline through the Appalachians. They are led by women, trans, and indigenous activists. 

bit.ly/supportmvpresistance