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<\/h5>\n<\/h5>\n\u201cHands down the best RPG rules system and setting I’ve ever run.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole ability to basically go anywhere that one could
\npossibility want to go, from any fictional world or alternate setting
\nor imaginary realm, is amazing.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cAfter reading The Strange from cover
\nto cover, I am looking forward to running and playing
\nThe Strange\u00a0as much as any game I have ever played.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Monte Cook and Bruce R. Cordell, in their first major collaboration, bring you\u00a0<\/i>The Strange.<\/i>\u00a0It\u2019s an RPG set on Earth, in the modern day. But a few people\u2014a very few people\u2014have discovered how to travel to other places. They call them\u00a0recursions<\/i>, and they\u2019re like limited pocket dimensions with their own laws of reality, connected to Earth via a dark energy network beneath the normal matter of the universe. A dangerous, chaotic network they call the Strange.<\/p>\n
Recursions spawn from the myths, legends, and fiction of humanity, so the setting of virtually any story, film, or novel could form a recursion, as could any mythical realm or place of legend. They aren\u2019t entire parallel universes\u2014they\u2019re limited in scope, rarely larger than a continent and sometimes not much bigger than a city block. Often the denizens aren\u2019t even self-aware, but are little more than automatons going through the motions of their fictional world.<\/p>\n But sometimes, in the larger or more mature recursions, they have the spark: Self awareness. Sentience. The ability to form their own motivations and agendas.<\/p>\n And some of those beings understand that they aren\u2019t alone in the Strange. Some of them know about Earth, and the limitless universe beyond it. And some of them are very, very dangerous.<\/p>\n In our own world, there are individuals who secretly travel to these recursions\u2014perhaps for adventure, perhaps for profit. But there are others with more nefarious motives, and conspiratorial organizations operating in the shadows, looking to exploit the Strange and its recursions for their own ends. And some of them are also very, very dangerous.<\/p>\n Your character is quickened; you\u2019re one of the ones who can travel into Earth\u2019s shoals to discover and explore the seemingly limitless recursions around our world. Oz. Barsoom. Asgard. The Dreamlands. The Victorian London of Sherlock Holmes. The setting of your favorite novel or movie. Worlds even more exotic or bizarre, driven by laws of magic, psionics, or weird science. When you visit these worlds, you adapt to them, taking on some of the physical aspects and knowledge of the natives. You become, in part at least, a different version of yourself.<\/p>\n What will you find when you venture into Earth\u2019s shoals? And what will find you, as you travel into. . .<\/p>\n The Strange\u00a0is driven by the Cypher System, the same Origins- and ENnie-Award-winning game engine that powers\u00a0Numenera. In fact, it\u2019s almost entirely compatible with\u00a0Numenera<\/i>\u2014you can borrow creatures, foci, descriptors, cyphers, and other elements from the one to use in the other.<\/p>\n Like\u00a0Numenera,\u00a0The Strange\u00a0is a 416-page book with everything you need to play. Its production values, layout, and artwork are every bit as mind-blowingly awesome as\u00a0Numenera\u2019s. It comes with two poster maps. And there\u2019s a\u00a0Player\u2019s Guide<\/i><\/a>\u00a0as well\u2014it\u2019s 96 pages but at the same low price point as the\u00a0Numenera Player\u2019s Guide<\/i>. And if you\u2019re still not convinced, you can\u00a0download a free preview\u00a0and take a look inside the book!<\/p>\n![\"OBS](\"http:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ardeyn-Map.jpg\")
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