Beneath our seeable reality is a muscular alien mesh that organise a serial of pocket universes , each with its own physical laws and bizarre denizens . It ’s shout The Strange , and this young tabletop RPG from Monte Cook Games will take you there .
Fresh off the success ofNumenera , Monte Cook Games has begun ontogeny of a new RPG calledThe Strange . It takes place in a present-day Earth , but this Earth exists in parallel of latitude with a electronic connection created by an ancient foreign race . This internet , ( which is recognise as The Strange ) allow users to create small existence know as recursions , each of which need its own internally consistent set of law of nature and rule .
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The Strange is build using the same rule set created for Numenera , a streamlined organization based on straightforward D20 rolls . The Kickstarterfunding The Strange has already tripled its initial goal . It marks the first official collaboration between longtime ally and RPG veterans Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell . In fact , the setting was originally pitched by Cordell as a position to plant a serial of short tarradiddle or novels .
Beings and creatures from The Strange endeavor to attain “ prime worlds ” like Earth . The heavy menace are planetovores , beast that assay to scour Earth and other prime worlds of all life . But humans who know about The Strange can travel through recursions and admission astonishing baron .
Initially , two large recursions will be detail . The first , Ardeyn , is actually a monumental on-line computer secret plan that was used to moderate The Strange when Earth first became connected to it . It is a world of phantasy and magic with an ancient chronicle , but at the same time it ’s a modern computer game that ’s only exist for a few years . The second recursion , Ruk , is a sort of recursion traveling ship that “ crashed ” unfathomable ages ago . It ’s home to all mode of flakey alien and extradimensional creature .
Players can potentially produce their own recursions ( which brings to mind the old Lords of Creation RPG ) , and this setting could theoretically contain every fictional universe you ’d worry to visit . It ’s sure enough a gravid opportunity for genre hopping , and I ’m look forward to seeing what strange worlds Cook , Cordell and company conjure up .
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