The book is divided into three parts: *Advice and Examples – A few pages suggesting which tables to roll and how to interpret them with examples. *Random Tables – The tables used to create the game. *Glossary – The majority of the book. This is very useful to English students interested in gaming.
The book suggests the following Table rolls:
Game World Setting (p7) 1 roll Tone (p7) 1 roll Things (p8) 2 rolls
Adventure Opposition (p9) 1 roll Action + Thing (p9/8)* 2 rolls
*My own experiments suggest that using Action + Thing results in poor combinations and that Action + People / Places is more useful.
Below I will include my rolls and the Game World / Adventure that resulted from it. REMEMBER: These rolls are not meant to limit your imagination but to inspire it. If a roll seems out of place or doesn't interest you, re-roll or just ignore it. Story is important, not obedience to the die results.
Game World
Setting - 78 - Snowed-In Town
Tone – 18 – Conspiracy
Population - 16 - 100
Thing - 34 – Gang Warfare
Thing - 79 – Steam Punk – Reroll
Thing - 71 – Ruins
Tech – 02 – Agriculture
Adventure
Opposition – 47 – Mercenaries
Action / People – 8 / 66 - Brainwash Prisoners
Action / People – 6 / 40 - Blackmail Healer
Game Name: Fatal Thaw
Game Description: At the edge of civilization, an arctic research station has gone silent. Having dug up ancient seeds from the ice, the scientists have accidentally released brainwashing spores. Now, a group of mercenaries have been sent to rescue any survivors and recover containable samples. But what if this was wasn't an accident? Could a shadowy organization have planned this and for what purpose?
Notes: Many of the rolls suggested to me a story like the classic movie The Thing or the more recent The Thaw: a small arctic station where people are behaving strangely and have turned on each other. “Gang warfare” suggests small groups fighting each other for territory around the station. “Ruins” suggest that something ancient has been dug up and whatever it was destroyed people here long ago before the Ice Age. I rerolled "Steampunk" (I didn't think it fit the setting) and adapted “Agriculture” to mean that plants had importance in the story, not that this takes place in ancient times (although the backstory related to the ruins could). “Blackmail Healer” is still a mystery but probably will figure into the greater conspiracy.