From the Introduction: Welcome to Desperate Journeys the role playing game of perilous travel! Desperate Journeys is a story telling game designed to tell the tale of a group trying to complete a mission through dangerous country. This could be the tale of heroic fantasy where the heroes must deliver an artifact to save the world, or a post apocalyptic tale of crossing to the other side of a ruined city to take control of gasoline refinery or anything in between.