Jason's Game Thread
Jason Morningstar:
My game's coming along. Here's the introduction:
A rag-tag group of would-be heroes are thrown together on a harrowing journey of survival - and self-discovery!
Danger Mountain! is a game that emulates disaster films from the 1970s. These films, like Earthquake (1974), Flood! (1976), Fire! (1977), The Swarm (1978) and When Time Ran Out (1980), capitalized on a growing environmental malaise and blended it with age-old B-movie melodrama. The results were roundly terrible in retrospect, but terrible in a really fun way.
The general plot of these films is very simple. In some peaceful village on the edge of the wilderness (usually, for the convenience of the film-makers, a desert community in southern California), an outsider arrives with nefarious plans that will despoil the pristine environment. As efforts among the good-hearted local populace to stop them ramp up, we see troubling signs of an impending disaster. It may be man-made or natural, but the signs are all there, and the few unhappy Cassandras who have the data, experience, or wisdom to see it coming are roundly ignored. Before the evil outsiders can follow through on their rapacious plan, disaster strikes! The best and luckiest then lead a seat-of-the-pants effort to save lives and cope with the destruction, racing against time to prevent some greater calamity along the way.
In Danger Mountain! you will be playing the iconoclastic residents of a little town nestled high in the mountains, on the edge of civilization. Urban sprawl from Los Angeles beckons from one direction and the vast southern California desert from the other - and in between, a bulwark between the City of Angels and untracked wilderness, is the majestic and dangerous peak of Danger Mountain.
So a dozen pre-set characters, all pointed at each other, an uncertain countdown clock to get to the disaster, then a bunch of freeform rescuing using scarce resources after it hits. There isn't mojo enough to save everybody, so hope the people you care about don't show up early, when it is hardest. It is all avocado and burnt orange.
Bryan Hansel:
I'm digging this, and I love the cover you did for it.
Jason Morningstar:
I've got a draft here.
Jason Morningstar:
Yay no editing.
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASJOjr5ibbpLZGY1YjY5ZnZfMTE4ZzRybmRwZjQ&hl=en&authkey=CN_EieIC
Kevin Allen Jr:
I don't know how you get so much out so quickly.
The bit at the end there, the optional more supernatural rules, totally cool.
Also, the swarm, how was that never a movie.
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