Monsters

Of course, in Roadside Picnic, the motivation to enter the active zone is salvage and discovering alien technology.

But there's a less well-known example of this fiction, which is the 2010 film Monsters, and that involves two people travelling through an infected zone in Mexico.

It's got a great soundtrack by John Hopkins and the writer and director is Gareth Edwards who then did Rogue One and most recently Jurassic World Rebirth which my son can't stop talking about.

So Monsters is another example of land distortion following an extraterrestrial visitation but the plot is actually about the journey through rather than studying or fighting the area.

specifically it's about a journalist escorting his boss's daughter from Central America back to the US and owing to a series of mistakes and bad luck they end up with no choice but to travel through the zone of course if it's a game scenario with role players you need to omit all the bits in the run-up to the journey itself because the film's protagonists have so many opportunities not to put themselves in a terrible predicament and they fail at each step and I think that your players would probably end up fighting you on that, and you wouldn't get them to go through the zone after all, which would make for a short adventure.

But anyway, I thought it was a good example of the type.

It really does feel like a war film kind of thing.

But then you compare that to Monsters, like the the horror thriller where it's like, um, aliens attacking and it's like monsters has got characterization and plot lines and, um, uh, like, uh,

arcs and stories.

Yeah.