Pyramid Review
Disaster! 1PG Survival Adventure!
Published by Deep7
Written by Todd Downing & James Stubbs with Gavin Downing, Michelle Downing, Ron Dugdale & Colin Fisk
Cover by Todd Downing
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Disaster! 1PG Survival Adventure! is one of publisher Deep7's older 1PG titles that has been updated in the wake of the release of The 1PG Companion: A Toolkit For Deep7's Beer & Pretzel's RPGs. Indeed this is Version 3 of Disaster!, which has been tidied up and given new material that can be used in conjunction with The 1PG Companion. As its title suggests, the theme of this 1PG is disaster, specifically the disaster movie of the 1970s, though of course, there is nothing to stop its contents being run in the here and now.
Thus we are in the era of funk and disco, atop The Towering Inferno, upside down and capsized in The Poseidon Adventure, due to crash land at Airport '77, and once off the jumbo jet, shaking all over from the Earthquake. Then again, Disaster! could be run to the electronic vibe of the latest Technotronic soundtrack, all while the cast is fleeing at Speed from Dante's Peak, before getting caught in a Twister. But really, Disaster! is a tribute to the silver screen oeuvre of Irwin Allen.
In comparison with other 1PGs, Disaster! casts the player characters as fairly ordinary folks. In keeping with the genre, foremost among these are members of the Emergency Services: the police, the fire-fighting crews, and the paramedics. Even so, they do not play . . .
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Article publication date: March 5, 2004
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