There’s an old axiom, ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Even in creative pursuits this still sometimes comes to pass, where the only way to press forward on multiple ideas is to combine them into a single much wilder idea. Such was my solution to a constraint presented by my gaming group’s annual “Beach Weekend”, our excursion to Delaware to play RPGs and drink beer for three days straight that’s been going on (mostly) uninterrupted since 2012. We are blessed with numerous members who want to GM, especially when it comes to the event that consistently produces some of our most memorable one-shot games. This year there were six interested GMs, meaning that our typical slots (one slot each day and night for each of the three gaming days) were going to one person apiece. I would get a single slot this year, whereas in previous years I could usually finagle two (and sometimes got as many as four, which may have been too many). This is not a problem, except that I always have more ideas for games than I have time to run them. As we were planning, I was trying to choose between games. Do I run a game with a neat module I’ve been wanting to try, like Mothership? Or do I go for a high-concept one-shot that we really wouldn’t be able to play online, like the Jenga-tower horror game Dread? And then, of course, I thought to myself “wait a minute…”