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TENSION
0500 HOURS. A militia group has hidden a bioweapon in a major city. Your team of covert operatives has 24 hours to locate and disarm the weapon or millions will die. TENSION is a rules-light tabletop role-playing game of covert operations and ticking clocks. Of mounting stakes and unrelenting stress.  Players are a team of covert operatives on the trail of a doomsday weapon. Manage a finite pool of resilience points to accomplish daring actions and use PC features to stay alive just long enough to save the day.  Created for the One-Page RPG Jam 2003. 
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