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Portland Oregon Trail

Portland Oregon Trail

Portland Oregon Trail is a GMless polymorph Funshot TTRPG. Traverse the landscape of the United States of America on the epic road trip fueled with coffee, cryptids, and capitalism!

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Portland Oregon Trail is not a celebration of manifest destiny and settler colonialism. It’s a goofy road trip across the country in a beat-up vehicle with a bunch of other weirdos on a mission to fight for what this country really stands for. It’s a love letter to all the freaks, misfits, and cryptids that call this land home.


Like in the OG Oregon Trail game, you might have to ford a river in your Ford and you’ll definitely be contracting a variety of illnesses. But the main obstacle between you and Portland will be capitalism. Your characters have limited resources (and no health insurance), and your roles as societal misfits will make you a target for capitalist villains who hate that you don’t follow their rules. In this game, though, conformity is as good as death.

Leave normal in the rear view mirror and keep it weird on the Portland Oregon Trail!

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9th Level Games
9 days ago
🎉 That’s a Wrap on Portland, Oregon Trail
Thank you to everyone for your support. We’re excited to dive into the full layout and production on this. 

Bonus 

We JUST missed our final stretch goal by under $500, so we decided to unlock it anyway!!! So you’ll get all 3 digital adventures as rewards. 

Next Steps

In our next few updates we will finalize and share the ultimate playlist with backers. Then we’ll start voting on the character playlists.

Backers surveys are expected to go out in January after the expected 2027 shipping rate increase. This way we can include the most accurate shipping costs. 

Expect monthly updates through this process. 

Keep it weird y’all,
~9th Level Gamea 




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9th Level Games
13 days ago
👽🌲🚙 Final Week on the Trail - Playlist update & more!
Travelers -
It's the FINAL WEEK on the Portland, Oregon Trail. Here's what's happening this week.


🎵 Ultimate Road Trip Playlist 

Since there were SO MANY good songs we have decided to make the final vote a REDEMPTION VOTE of songs that were close but didn't quite make it in. We did make the executive decision to add Public Enemy to the final list! And we had a tie for vote three between the last 3 songs so we put them all in! 

➡️ Redemption Vote is live now - CLICK HERE TO VOTE 

🚙 Here are the songs that made it in so far!  
  1. Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
  2. Highway to Hell by AC/DC 
  3. Highway Star by Deep Purple
  4. Country Roads by John Denver
  5. Radar Love by Golden Earring 
  6. Carry on My Wayward Son by Kansas 
  7. Running Down a Dream by Tom Petty 
  8. Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears 
  9. This is America by Childish Gambino 
  10. Tom Sawyer by Rush
  11. Fight the Power by Public Enemy 
  12. Private Idaho by The B-52s
  13. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
  14. Sweet Home Chicago by The Blues Brothers 
  15. Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus 
  16. American Idiot by Green Day
  17. Take it Easy by Eagles 


🎲 Pre-Gen Character Votes 

Don't forget to vote for your favorite d4, d6, d8, and d10 characters! Go to the POLLS section or click on the images below. 


Stretch Goal Achievements 

We're VERY close to unlocking the $35K bonus playlists. Let's push this week to get Heather's adventure to you all. Please SHARE the campaign to help us meet our goals! Use this link



Carry on my wayward backers...

~9th Level Games
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9th Level Games
17 days ago
🎵🔥 Ultimate Playlist Vote #4 is live - REDEMPTION!
We know that pitting 20 awesome songs against each other was going to cause some TRULY AMAZING songs to just miss the cut. Our 4th and final vote for the Ultimate Playlist for Portland, Oregon Trail will feature the 15 songs that almost made it.

‼️Vote below or CLICK HERE. The TOP 5 songs will make it on the playlist. Get your vote in by Monday! 

Round 4 Redemption Songs (in no particular order): 

  1. I am the Highway by Audioslave
  2. King of the Road by Roger Miller
  3. Wherever I May Roam by Metallica
  4. Hit the Road Jack by Ray Charles
  5. Don't Lets Start by They Might Be Giants 
  6. Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil 
  7. Tear the Fascists Down by Woody Guthrie
  8. Tennessee by Arrested Development 
  9. Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show 
  10. Surfin USA by The Beach Boys
  11. United States of Whatever by Liam Lynch
  12. Money by Pink Floyd 
  13. Society by Eddie Veder
  14. This Land is our Land by Woody Guthrie
  15. Roadrunner by The Modern Lovers

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9th Level Games
19 days ago
It's Been 2 Weeks! Playlist songs, more votes, and new achievements!
It's been 2 weeks since we launched the Portland, Oregon Trail campaign. Thank you so much for backing! 

🎵 Ultimate Road Trip Playlist 

The first two voting polls ended, here are the first 10 songs:  
  1. Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
  2. Highway to Hell by AC/DC 
  3. Highway Star by Deep Purple
  4. Country Roads by John Denver
  5. Radar Love by Golden Earring 
  6. Carry on My Wayward Son by Kansas 
  7. Running Down a Dream by Tom Petty 
  8. Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears 
  9. This is America by Childish Gambino 
  10. Tom Sawyer by Rush

➡️ Vote 3 is live now - CLICK HERE TO VOTE

Pre-Gen Character Voting is Live! 

You'll have from now through Oct 22nd to vote. The top votes of each character role will be what we base our pre-generated characters from. 


d4 The Nerd - Click here to vote
d6 The Hipster - Click here to vote
d8 The Activist - Click here to vote
d10 The Punk - Click here to vote 

🎉 Stretch Goal Achievements 

Next up to unlock:

We'll create a playlist for the nerd, hipster, activist, and punk. You'll be able to vote on the song list!




Keep it Weird! 
~9th Level Games
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9th Level Games
23 days ago
🎵Ultimate Playlist Vote #3 is Live!
Happy Friday!

This next vote focuses on songs about states and cities in America. The TOP 5 out of these 20 will make it onto the final playlist. Every song here is good so this is going to be tough for you! Good luck!

‼️Vote in the poll BELOW or CLICK HERE.



Round 3 Voting Songs (in no particular order): 

1. Oregon Trail by Woody Guthrie
2. Tennessee by Arrested Development
3. Mississippi Queen by Mountain 
4. Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show
5. Sweet Home Chicago by The Blues Brothers 
6. American Girl by Tom Petty
7. United States of Whatever by Liam Lynch 
8. Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
9. Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus
10. California by Phantom Planet 
11. American Idiot by Green Day 
12. Small Town by John Melloncamp
13. Dune Buggy by Presidents of the United States of America 
14. Ventura Highway by America
15. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
16. Take it Easy by Eagles 
17. Alaska by Maggie Rogers
18. Carolina on my Mind by James Taylor
19. Private Idaho by The B-52's
20. Surfin' USA by The Beach Boys 
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9th Level Games
26 days ago
🐸 Portland, Oregon Trail Week 1 Recap - Playlist vote results & achievements
Over 500 backers on the Trail in just one week! Thank you so much! ICYMI, here's what happened during week one: 

🎵 Ultimate Road Trip Playlist 

The first of our voting polls for the Ultimate Playlist ended and we have our first 5 songs! 
  1. Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
  2. Highway to Hell by AC/DC 
  3. Highway Star by Deep Purple
  4. Country Roads by John Denver
  5. Radar Love by Golden Earring 

Vote 2 is live now - CLICK HERE TO VOTE. 


🎉 Stretch Goal Achievements 

Next Up
Unlocked so far





Thank you for your early support of this project! 
~9th Level Games 
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