Over at the RPGnet Forums someone named Deacon Blues has posted “SNAKES ON A PLANE - The Roleplaying Game of Personal Discovery, Dire Combat, and Motherf&*%ing Snakes.” Here’s a bit from the instructions to the “SnakeMaster” running the game:
As the Snakemaster, it’s your duty to keep the characters moving. There will be a great temptation by the players to keep the characters in their seats. Since dialogue doesn’t incur the risk of snake attacks, they may just sit there screaming, “Oh god, we’re going to die” or “Can’t somebody do something?” or “Get these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane!”
Do not allow this to happen! You must constantly confront the players with events that challenge their characters’ Stories. Get them out of the seats. They should be running up and down the aisles, screaming and fighting and carrying on. Throw things at them to force them to act. Every action they take brings with it the risk of snake attack, and snake attacks drive the narrative.
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[...] I’m personally of the opinion that this is something of a scam, but I’ve gotten enough emails about it in the past few weeks that it seems time for me to put it online. Previously I’ve talked about role playing games, and video games, but this is the first time anyone’s brought up a board game. A webpage is purporting to sell a board game called Cobras in the Cockpit based on, well, let’s let them explain it: Imagine all the creature movies you’ve ever seen that featured snakes. And imagine all the action movies you’ve seen that were set on planes. Now, imagine all of these movies were magically spliced together into one fantastic airplane-full-of-snakes movie. That would be the most incredible movie of all time…. That great, mythical movie is called “Cobras in the Cockpit…” This game is about that movie. At the same time, it’s a parody of all the snake movies you’ve ever seen, plus all the airplane movies you’ve ever seen. This game can be all of those things. It’s that good. [...]