Fight with Spirit
For your all-purpose sports story, Fight with Spirit: a Sports Drama RPG, by Storybrewers, uses a combination of deck building for matches and a series of team-based relationships to create a fully fleshed out world for your sports team to play in. The game is incredibly fleshed out, tackling the tropes of the genre multiple ways, from figuring out who your coach is (and why he mysteriously retired from professional play) to developing your team’s backstory… and establishing their rivals. With an episodic, scene-based gameplay structure, Fight with Spirit provides space for personal moments of drama amid the high-stakes matches that truly stand out as this game’s mechanical triumph.
