James O'Grady (WhatHoSnorkers)

An interesting idea. A bit like Lords of Midnight but set in an unnamed African country. The chief is dying and his Golden Mask which his the sacred symbol has been stolen. As a result the country is falling apart. Worse still, rebels from the country to the south are invading looking for supplies. 5 characters travel around on foot or by jeep looking to save the place. So far, so good. Nice ideas like food and water and petrol, and that wild animals block movements of all, unless they're killed by poachers. Radio huts provide intelligence of enemy movement. But there's no map. Bits of the landscape are unnamed. Only one character can pick up the medicine (that's fine), and only one character can pick up pieces of the map to find the mask. The others... can't DO anything. They can't recruit chiefs, they can't pick up bits of map, so what use are they? It could have been so much more.