This new fantasy Mt.

This new fantasy Mt. Everest adventure is so authentic there's a white person on the cover looking to exploit the mountain for their own gain.

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  1. Benjamin BaughJuly 13, 2017 at 7:19 AM

    are there frozen dead dudes strung out along the climbing course acting as macabre landmarks, piles of human excrement, and heaps of garbage too?

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  2. Casey G.July 13, 2017 at 7:23 AM

    I sure hope so.

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  3. T. FranzkeJuly 13, 2017 at 7:47 AM

    Oh man

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  4. Richard GJuly 13, 2017 at 7:49 AM

    Not only white but evidently early modern European, based on their armour.
    generations of hatred for the local mountain dwellers, who try to forget their shameful history appeasing wrathful gods.
    so that's a great example of concision over clarity, but at least they're not enlightened guardians of the mountain's purity?

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  5. Casey G.July 13, 2017 at 7:56 AM

    I'm a little reluctant to judge (but not enough to not post at all), but maybe the adventure itself is fine? My idea of an Everest-inspired adventure would be a LotFP wilderness nega-dungeon with all the things Benjamin Baugh mentions. The only reward for survival being able to say you'd done it.

    Also good would be Counter-Colonial style, with the players being the locals seeking a way to stop all these outsiders from fucking up their mountain.

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  6. Benjamin BaughJuly 13, 2017 at 7:57 AM

    Casey G. I love the idea of a local faction killing climbers and making it look like accidents.

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