We're In Danger

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Platform Physical
Release Date 8/7/2025
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Description

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.
  • Three 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.
  • 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.

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.
    • This Isn't Happening: Survivors of the apocalypse defend against annihilation.
    • Second Contact: Futuristic envoys discover and communicate with strange alien civilizations.

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