We're In Danger

We’re in Danger is a tabletop roleplaying game that pits a group of would-be survivors against life-threatening Dangers. Danger is an all-purpose term used to describe the deadly villains and obstacles players must overcome. The game takes inspiration from a variety of sources, and aims to create fun, flexible, cinematic experiences across a variety of genres. 

• Want a slasher game in the vein of Halloween, Dead by Daylight, or even Jaws? Use Danger to represent Michael Myers, the Trapper and his bear traps, or even a giant shark.
• Want an apocalyptic game like The Walking Dead or Fallout? Use Danger to represent zombie hordes, radioactive mutants, and violent human factions.
• Want a slow-burn supernatural horror game like Amnesia or The Witch? Use Danger to represent demonic possession, malicious ghosts, and scheming cultists.
• Want sci-fi and action in your horror game, like Event Horizon or The Thing? Use Danger to represent the extra-dimensional denizens of hell or amorphous, shapeshifting aliens.
• Want a disaster game without the horror, like Twister or Dante’s Peak? Use Danger to represent environmental threats like tornadoes, volcanoes, and planet-killing asteroids.

We’re In Danger is scenario-based and focuses on high intensity one-shots using a custom d6 dice pool system. Think of a scenario as a movie, a short story, an arc of your favorite comic, or a video game. A scenario is self-contained and centers on the plight of characters whose odds of survival are bleak.

However, like any successful movie or video game, sequels are always an option. If you want a longer campaign, you might play a franchise. In a franchise, you run multiple, linked scenarios that include surviving characters and deadlier variations of the same Danger.

What You Need

• Several six-sided dice. Five is ideal.
• A character sheet.
• One person to run the game (GM).
• One or more people to play the game (PCs).
• Two to five hours for a scenario.

What You Get

• Core rulebook for We’re In Danger.
• Form fillable character sheet.
• Four premade scenario sheets:
  • Love in the Time of Viscera sees a group of college students headed to a remote woodland cabin for some relaxation. Twenty years ago, tragedy struck the area, and history continues to haunt the mountain in the most violent and disturbing ways.
  • Maws of Death takes place on Harmony Island, a summer tourist destination where people swim and sail in the bright waters. It is also the home to a shady oceanic research facility whose experiments threaten to destabilize the ecosystem.
  • Virgil's Summit is a small town with a big problem. The mountain on which it rests is a long-dormant volcano that's ready to awaken. As a geological survey team arrives to assess environmental danger, locals reject science and warning signs.
  • WRIP in Ypsilanti follows members of a classic rock radio station as an alien invasion unfolds in their eastern Michigan city. Mixed reports, strange lights in the sky, robotic enemies on the ground. But the music never stops rocking. OK, maybe it stops...
• Genre Kit: Heckboy. Play as powered and mutant characters versus titanic Dangers. Use scenario and worldbuilding tables to inspire your play.
• Genre Kit: Ball Season. Victorian and Regency socialites versus schemers and folk horrors.
• Genre Kit: This Isn't Happening. Survivors of the apocalypse defend against annihilation.
• Genre Kit: Second Contact. Futuristic envoys, soldiers, and scientists discover and communicate with strange alien civilizations.
  

What's Coming

• Custom artwork.
• "Genre Kit" supplements that add new mechanisms, new Dangers, and tools for worldbuilding, scenario creation, and improvisation.
  • Oldheart: Corrupted hospitality workers sacrifice patrons to an evil and defiling a noble and righteous Entity.

Come Discuss & Play We're In Danger

• Adventures in Lollygagging Community Discord