The Last Caravan: A Cars and Aliens RPG (Digital)
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"Look, I know what happened with mom -- but the world's ending. Come to the cabin. Bring your physics textbooks, bring some canned goods, find a gun if you can. We need you now."
ENnie Award Nominee 2025: Best Game & Product of the Year
The Last Caravan is a cars and aliens tabletop role-playing game about a midwinter road trip in the wake of an alien invasion. Starting from the East Coast, you and your fellow travelers will navigate a shattered North America. You’ll explore landscapes transformed by xenoflora, search abandoned towns and crashed spaceships, discover the otherworldly technology called Harmonics, negotiate with newly-formed factions both human and alien, outrun hostile pursuers, and fight for the future of your world.
Your story is about normal people finding heroism under extraordinary pressures. It’s about relationships tested by a crisis, and rediscovering what matters when the world is ending.
Your people need you. Will you join the caravan?
Find the physical edition via Mythworks here!
Follow our upcoming kickstarter campaign here!
Download the character and vehicle sheets for free below, under "demo"!
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Community Copy
We want to provide some community copies of The Last Caravan! I want to get this game to folks' tables, and am so excited to see folks already jumping in! If you do take a community copy (and even if you don't) it would mean lot for you to leave a review!
Note that this does not apply to Mythworks purchases of physical copies! This is only in the digital ecosystem. :)
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I just started a three-traveler (for now, at least) campaign and am having a lot of fun playing as the Atlas for this.
Now, to be fair, I'm doing my best (still meager) impressions of Ted and Carson running this show, but the streamlined, minimalist mechanics make it wonderfully easy to hit the road quickly without all the cruft and cognitive overhead of some games.
Ted, this game is beautiful: physically, mechanically, and spiritually. Setting these scenes feels like exploring a loss and reaching for hope. You have brought together and made something wonderful, I could not be happier for you.
Paneer, thank you for this wonderful review! I look forward to hearing about your game.
Hi.
Sorry for asking, but maybe it possible to get community copy?
Big congrats for the ENNIE nominee, Ted and team!
Thank you so much, Zerodan! We're surprised and delighted!
My group is loving the system and writing so far, just finished session 0. I was wondering if you had a more easily printable copy of the Map from page 152-153 ? Thanks
I have already had the pleasure of playing the free introductory version of the game and thoroughly enjoyed it!
Unfortunately, due to the current exchange rate between the US dollar and my local currency, purchasing the full version at this time is financially prohibitive for me. The significant difference in currency value makes the cost considerably high. Is it possible to provide a community copy?
Thank you!
Hey there! We just added some! if they're all taken by the time you see this, message me directly :)
Hi there. Do you ever offer community copies for schools? I run a TTRPG club and think they'd like trying this one out. If not, no worries at all. Thanks for your time.
for the second innocent character sheet the special abilities try and keep up and no heroes here have the same text
Yes I found the same mistake
Bug Report: On page 58, UNKEEP PHASE, there was step 1.
'Add to the Caravan’s Noise', but on page 59, it followed with step 3.
'Spend Fuel, Advance', so where was step2?
Hello! Thank you for this game. Is there a dedicated Discord?
Lovely art and layout, Ted and team.
Are bookmarks on the menu for this? I enjoy reading through so far, but for a digital asset the bookmarks are pretty basic nowadays and the copy I downloaded from here has none. It’s not necessarily a deal breaker for me because I can add my own I suppose. But for 19.99 for a pdf, it’s kind of an expectation for myself and many others I know who purchase digital books.
Thanks so much for reaching out. We would very much like to bookmark the pdf, but haven't yet started that process. Your comment is moving it up on the priority list!
A Most Excellent Experience! The game quickly immersed us in its setting and atmosphere. The concept of playing as survivors on a road trip really resonated with the players. While aliens never directly appeared during the short campaign, the constant references and anticipation of their presence created a tense and suspenseful atmosphere, even without explicit encounters. Then the mechanics of the game really helped drive home (pun) the road trip experience. Characters and their abilities were very smooth but dynamic enough to keep senior players and junior players entertained and present. Overall the "road trip" & "alien apocalypse" story links combined with the game phase mechanics really created a memorable organic team like chemistry that we will always share... like any good road trip does.
What a beautiful description. Thanks for sharing your experience, and for supporting the game from early on! Hope you all get a chance to play around with some of the more overt alien element sometime. Would love to hear what you think.