In Why We Fight you will each build a Crew of 4 characters from the Community Alliance, a growing movement of eco-punk communities creating a more just and compassionate world.
You'll learn who they are and what they care about as you discover vibrant communities, and a natural world untamed. Travel through rewilding lands, safe-guard people and nature, and push back against the White Fist, a fascist militia trying to force people back into their dystopian society.

GMless, designed for soloplay and up to five players, with zero-prep. You’ll have a Crew and Mission started within 15 minutes, allowing you to save lives, prevent disaster and create a new balance.

Get Creative on the go and gain the advantage even as the underdog in fast-paced, tactical, guerrilla style combat where your enemies adapt to your actions as they fight to complete their own Objectives.

Whether it's building community gardens or solar energy grids, rewilding golf courses or caring for those who need us, we're building the world we wanted from the start. A world where nobody has to "earn" their right to live. Where "how do I get by?" is replaced with "how do we make it better?". We’ve spread through cities and forests alike, putting the means to thrive into any hands willing to hold it, to nurture the spark of this brighter future.

Together we are creating a network of safety for all, because the idea that there isn’t enough to go around is a fallacy spewed to keep us hungry. We might not be able to have it all, but we can make sure all have enough.

So we will keep pushing back, freeing the shackled, teaching the eager, and caring for our planet.

You'll play a Community Alliance "Crew", a ragtag band of eco-punks focused on saving lives, building trust, and creating stability in a post-civil-war landscape.

As you play, you will learn more about your crew, but they start off as strangers even to you. Each crew member has a name, two descriptors, and a skill they specialise in. One of them will have the reason they're fighting. As you travel together and push back the white fist, you will uncover more about these characters, discovering their pasts, passions and fears, while you help shape their future.

The old ways are clawing back, and if nobody stands up to beat back the White Fist, a hedge-fund backed fascist militia trying to take control, there'll be no stopping them! These paramilitary brutes strike vibrant, prosperous communities, burning crops and stealing precious supplies, bodies left in their wake. The spectres of starvation and sickness plague the recovering lands. People are becoming desperate.

Orchestrated by the manipulative Guiding Hand, they've set up 'Protectorates', steel walled compounds that opened their doors and promised food, clothes, shelter, medical care, and the safety of law and order… all for the price of labour.  

Yet how much food is your labour worth? Whose labour is worth the better homes, the few luxuries they import in? When is someone worth the medical care to save them? The Guiding Hand, proclaiming itself limited by those anarchic scavengers outside the walls, control their people with the very scarcity they've created. All the while, the goods their workers make depart across the oceans in boats and planes to grease the palms of those in charge.

You may be out numbered and out-gunned, but with careful co-operation you'll use opportunities to strike Vital Operations and strip them of their power, stopping them before they entrench their cruel regime.

Put together a Crew in under 10 minutes, they'll pool their diverse range of skills and experience to save lives and face down the White Fist! 

You’ll develop your Crew as they travel, shaped and empowered by their experiences and unique personalities, and better overcome the challenges ahead. You'll record this journey in your Mission Journal!

Whether it’s helping civilians get by in a war torn world, protecting the land with its new chance to flourish, or fighting back for a chance at something better, you’ll face a variety of challenges on your way to your goal. 

Handle what you discover your way, combining your Crew’s specialties and personalities to make a difference, balancing risk and reward, and maybe even reach your mission with something to help you turn the tables.

Finally you’ll reach your destination—a vital part of the White Fist’s operations—and overcome the challenge in your effort to uproot the oppression that threatens everyone’s freedom.

You’ll be out numbered and out gunned, but with careful planning, close co-operation, and working with the strengths of your new-found comrades, you might just have what you need to push them back! 

Are you ready to get out there and make a difference? Okay, here's how we do it!

Both the Why We Fight - Core Book and Why We Fight: Direct Action - Quickstart Book PDFs, bundled with all the unlocked 'One-Shot Adventure' PDFs!

The physical tree-forged A5 book of Why We Fight: Direct Action - Quickstart Book, plus both the Core and Quickstart Book PDFs, every unlocked One-Shot Adventure PDF, and our beautiful set of dice, revolutionary stickers and the Community Alliance patch!

Both Why We Fight physical books with their PDFs included for free, but also the dice, stickers, character sheet tear-out booklet, and every unlocked One-Shot Adventure!

We're also offering a collection of special social goals... 

Help us spread Why We Fight and we'll give back in true eco-punk style! By supporting a grassroots movement that focuses on the restoration of our ecosystems!
We're working with Tree Sisters.org, an ethical, community focused activism group that funds planting projects, nature-led solutions, and empowers women and indigenous communities! Help us make that solarpunk impact both in-game and in real life, and we'll donate SDR funds (separate to the funds raised for this project!) for every single update to any of the goals below.
Even if you're a low-fi renegade who shuns the social medias, take a minute to check them out anyway, they're doing great work!

Help us and we'll help the world! Every 25 combined Likes and Reposts adds a Tree, each Tree is a £5 donation!

Help us and we'll help the world! Every 25 combined Likes and Comments adds a Tree, each Tree is a £5 donation! For every 10 Story Shares we'll add another!

Help us and we'll help the world! Every 20 Discord users that join and share their own Why I Fight Discovery, we will add +1 Tree, and add another £5 donation!