DUST Protocol

The government tried to contain it.

When that failed, they tried to erase it.

Beyond abandoned highways, forgotten mining towns, and weathered KEEP OUT signs lies the DUST: an ever-expanding region where reality has begun to unravel. Strange creatures roam the desert, impossible anomalies rewrite the landscape, and artifacts of an unknowable origin lie waiting to be discovered. Every expedition pushes deeper into the unknown, and few return unchanged.

Officially, none of it exists.

Under the classified initiative known as Project JANUS, the government abandoned the impossible task of containing the DUST long ago. Instead, it buries the truth beneath missing records, redrawn maps, and carefully manufactured explanations. Entire towns have vanished from public memory. To the outside world, there is nothing to see.

You are a member of The Network, a loose alliance of explorers, scientists, mechanics, hunters, and survivors who refuse to let the truth disappear. Armed with film cameras, cassette recorders, field journals, and whatever weapons you can carry, you'll venture into the DUST to document the impossible, recover anomalous artifacts, rescue those who never made it home, and hold back the horrors slowly spreading beyond its borders.

DUST Protocol is a tabletop role-playing game of exploration, survival, and weird horror set in an alternate 1990s American Southwest, where forgotten roads lead to impossible places, every mystery hides another beneath it, and sometimes the greatest victory is making it back alive.

One part Roadside Picnic. 
One part Tremors. 
One part Delta Green.

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