Threat

I set out to replicate the kind of horror or adventure movie where a group of skilled but flawed people are trapped in a dark place with a terrifying threat waiting to snatch them at any moment.

I also wanted to experiment a bit with an ensemble cast, so there’s plenty of intrigue, dark secrets, and broken relationships among the cast to keep things interesting.

It’s fast, cyclic, and incredibly lethal; your pool of actors essentially serves as hit points. So don’t get too attached.

• AW-style tiered resolution, with an assembled modifier.
• Playbooks, with fillable character sheets*.
• Abstract Round structure, with the flexibility to direct like a movie.
• Ensemble play; you control one of six actors at a time, jumping between them.
• Quite a few tables.

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