“I’m a fag, I’m a Jew, how do you do?
That’s MISTER Anarchist to you.
You think your scene’s dead, but mine got killed
By some dimwit’s ‘Triumph of the Will’

From the all-ages shows to the full wet bars
To the front line squats of the culture wars
I'm not gonna hit you with the dogma or the lecturing
This is a purely personal thing.

You see, Pirate Jenny didn't have no friends when those bulls, they came for her
And Sally Bowle's man, he got pushed up against the wall
Now every time I see a Swiss bank I spit!
You say "resist control"? Well, I mean it!
Cause it was come as you are, in the cattle cars
And not a damn thing you can do about it
'Cept remember!”
- The World/Inferno Friendship Society, “Ich Erinnere mich an die Weimarer Republik”

Resist & Remember is an anti-fascist tabletop roleplaying game by Devon Oracz dedicated to honoring, memorializing,  and commemorating those who stood up in the face of fascism, bigotry, and tyranny--and all too often paid the ultimate price--by interactively telling their stories.

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Resist & Remember: Weimar is the first or "pilot" Uprising of Resist & Remember. Uprisings are places & times where the downtrodden and oppressed fought back and lashed out against the establishment that disenfranchised and persecuted then. Resist & Remember: Weimar contains the entire game and engine "Resist & Remember" in addition to all the Weimar-specific material, as will any future Uprisings (which I plan on creating only if Weimar is successful). Ideas I'm excited to develop into Uprisings include the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York, and the 1992 Rodney King riots in L.A., as well as one more visit with the NSDAP focused on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. But for now, I'm concerned solely with this first Uprising. 

Resist & Remember: Weimar--is a roleplaying game built into five narrative Acts. The first four of these Acts cast the PCs as artists, barflies, Communist and Anarchist partisans, filmmakers, performer, socialites, writers, and other assorted trouble makers weathering the sea change in culture and society in Berlin from the last days of Weimar Republic through the rise of Nazi Germany. There, you will rub elbows with German artists, thinkers, creators, and other personalities, whose life trajectories parallel those of your characters: some will make it out alive, others will not be so lucky.  

Weimar Berlin at the end of the 1920s and beginning of the 1930s was a progressive, liberal cultural hotbed of radical new ideas in art, music, architecture, and writing, as well as a divided political battleground with Anarchist, Monarchist, and National Socialist partisans fighting in the streets (the early 20th Century equivalent of Black Lives Matter clashing with Trump supporters, although nearly every day). The New Woman shook up the societal landscape, with German girls that were more sexually liberated and independent than ever before. At the same time, cabaret performances and theater were racier and more politically controversial than ever, and people of color were the trendiest musical acts at bars and night clubs. 

In many ways, the Weimar Republic was much like the modern West. In any case, Weimar Berlin was one huge party, until the party was over.    

All of this "Divine Decadence" was viewed by the Nazis as degenerate.

Resist & Remember: Weimar explores and educates about the Weimar Republic, the political and societal factors behind the Nazis' rise to power, explains how the machinations of the Weimar Republic's democratic process resulted in Hitler's election to the office of Chancellor of Germany, and faces down the Nazis' consolidation of power and the terrors which followed.

• Act I of R&R: Weimar takes place from September, 1930 to November, 1932, the last days of the Weimar Republic in Berlin. 
• Act II takes place on the night of the Reichstag Fire, February 27th, 1933. 
• Act III covers the Gleichschaltung--known as Nazification in the west--that took place between 1933 and 1935. 
• Act IV takes place on Kristallnacht. 
• (The setting of Act V is a surprise.)

Resist & Remember is designed so that each player in the game group acts as the GM of one act.

Promotional Art by Colton Muheim.