Questions: 

1. Can you share any examples of scenario based games that you play or have played? What do you think makes them work well or not?

2. Please share ideas from your work, context, organisation or network awareness of scenarios and feminist care practices that you would love to see reflected in these decks (e.g. situations requiring collaboration that you wish you had a game to play through or care strategies that you feel strongly about).

3. How do you imagine care cards interacting with the other decks to move gameplay forward? Can you anticipate any issues or problems in the game play of the cards in either of these decks?

Card descriptions:

1. Scenario Deck – Presents real-world-inspired climate crises rooted in different geographies and movement contexts (e.g. heatwaves, forced displacement, extractive industry threats, infrastructure collapse). Each scenario sets the stage for gameplay and defines the immediate conditions players must navigate together, drawing from lived experiences of feminist organizing on the frontlines of climate injustice.

2. Care Deck – The core strategy deck of the game. Each card represents a concrete action, practice, or shared resource from feminist responses to crisis (e.g. healing justice circles, mutual aid kitchens, seed banks, trauma-informed facilitation, water-sharing networks). Players begin with a hand of Care cards and must collectively decide how to respond to each scenario and challenge. Some cards require collaboration or role-specific abilities to activate, reinforcing interdependence and the principle that no one survives alone. The Care Deck is how players transform crisis into collective action.

Questions:

1. Reflect on any role play games (especially board and card games) that you like or dislike and share the reasons why?

2. Please brainstorm ideas from your work, context, organisation or network awareness of challenges or community organising roles that you would love to see reflected in the game (e.g. common obstacles encountered in collective organising and the different roles people take on in responding that represent varying strengths and weaknesses)?

3. How can the role cards and challenge deck best be used to strengthen the collaborative nature of this game? Can you anticipate any issues or problems in the game play of these cards?

Card descriptions:

1. Challenge Deck – Introduces structural and interpersonal barriers that emerge during crisis (e.g. state violence, misinformation, internal conflict, burnout, unequal access to aid). Challenges complicate the scenario and often escalate across rounds. They require the group to pause, reassess, and draw on care strategies with intention and solidarity. This deck highlights the systemic forces that shape — and are often reproduced during — climate emergencies.

2. Role Deck – Assigns each player a distinct community-based role with specific strengths, knowledge, and limitations (e.g. Healer, Organizer, Food Grower, Communicator). Roles influence which Care cards a player can activate and how they collaborate with others. They reflect the diversity of contributions needed to sustain collective survival and encourage a dynamic, relational gameplay style rooted in mutual support.

Questions:

1. Share a feminist ancestor from your work, context, organisaton or network awareness that you would love to see on these cards? What is the wisdom they bring to this subject? Note that this doesn’t necessarily need to be an individual, but could be a collective or movement too!

2. Share any reflection questions or even a memory of a reflection session that has stayed with you. Are there particular reflection questions you think important to help participants learn from the game and connect it to their organising contexts?

3. How do you think wisdom from feminist ancestors and reflection question prompts could feature in gameplay to encourage dialogue and strengthen the educational value of the game? Can you anticipate any issues or problems arising with these cards?

Card descriptions:

1. Feminist Ancestors Deck – A special support deck featuring guidance from feminist figures — well-known and lesser-known, living and passed — who offer players insight, encouragement, or strategic boosts in moments of difficulty. Each card includes a quote, short biography, and gameplay effect (e.g. restore Hope, cancel a Challenge, unlock an extra action). This deck reminds players they are never alone — they are held within a long lineage of resistance, wisdom, and care.

2. Reflection Deck (optional) – Offers short prompts for collective or individual reflection, linking in-game decisions to real-world experiences. Prompts may be used between rounds, after particularly difficult choices, or as a closing activity. This deck is designed to support learning, deepen political analysis, and invite players to carry insights into their organizing, workplaces, or communities beyond the game.