Hit the Road, Jack is a solo/duet game of adrenaline rush and creeping terror. Of chasing and being chased, of being forced to face your sins or to leave them all behind. It is a game of cat and mouse between two characters that we call the Jacks.
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You fucked up.
You fucked up something big.
And now the big house, the law man, the devil and all his little hellions are chasing your sorry ass down.
Time to hit the road, Jack, and get gone.
Jack be Nimble
Hit the Road, Jack! is a solo/duet game of adrenaline rush and creeping terror. Of chasing and being chased, of being forced to face your sins or to leave them all behind. It is a game of cat and mouse between two characters that we call the Jacks. This is a game that mentions blood, violence, drugs, crime, and death - both deaths you choose and deaths you don’t.
Jack Be Nimble is the sinner, the criminal, and the one being chased.
Jack Be Quick is the lawman, the aggrieved, and the one who chases.
This is their journey cross-country across an empty stretch of highways. By drawing tarot cards and responding to journaling prompts, you will be able to flesh out the nature of these two Jacks, their relationship, and how they deal with whatever the road throws at them.
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What's in it?
We are launching a physical edition of the original digital edition of Hit the Road, Jack in the form of a tuck box, 22 tarot-sized cards, instruction and gameplay cards, and simple player markers. All editions of Hit the Road, Jack feature the following:
Solo or duet roleplaying as Jack Be Nimble (the one being chased) and Jack Be Quick (the one who chases)
Variable game lengths of Short, Medium, Long, allowing players to enjoy a journaling game without extensive burnout
Forty-four prompts based on the upright and reversed Major Arcana, both probing into a character’s psyche as well as giving them situations on the road to handle
A narrator speaking directly to the player characters, providing not only instruction but snark, judgment, and occasionally compassion
Gameplay and thematic inspiration from Long Haul 1984 (think of Jack as Long Haul’s greased up troublemaker cousin)
