This not-quite-a-role-playing-game requires players to sit around telling fantastic (but completely true!) stories. Players may attempt to trip up another player's story by wagering a token ("But the Prussian Army had dissolved by that time, m'lord, so you could not have possibly fought it single-handedly"), whereas the storyteller must counter with another token (and an excuse) or swallow their pride...

Featuring more than 150 creatures and characters, The Strange Bestiary is lavishly illustrated and wildly imaginative. Find creatures encountered on Earth along with those native to the recursions of Ardeyn, Ruk, Crow Hollow, Atom Nocturne, and others. Plus scores of creatures that fit any recursion operating under the Laws of Magic or Mad Science, or from worlds seeded by Earthly...

Monte Cook and Bruce R. Cordell, in their first major collaboration, bring you The Strange. It’s an RPG set on Earth, in the modern day. But a few people—a very few people—have discovered how to travel to other places. They call them recursions, and they’re like limited pocket dimensions with their own laws of reality, connected to Earth via a...

The Strange Cypher Deck, XP Deck, and Creature Deck are terrific game aids that make it easy to randomly determine and track transient items.The Strange Cypher Chest brings them all together in a single print product that gives you all three decks plus a great way to store them! The three decks come in a sturdy rigid box, sized to sit neatly...

Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor. Excalibur, Aladdin's lamp. The picture of Dorian Gray. You know they're out there. Items of power, both legendary and forgotten, forged by the same mythology and fiction that spawned the recursions in which they await discovery. What would you do with a lich's phylactery, the ring of Odin, a vorpal sword, or the spellbook of...

Translating to a new recursion? It’s not just about visiting—it’s about becoming a part of it. About becoming a different version of yourself. Players want options—especially in The Strange, where their characters’ foci can shift with each new limited world they visit. Character options are what In Translation delivers! This book provides a bounty of new material and new choices...

Beneath the orbits and atoms of our natural universe lies a network of dark energy. Those who have learned to access and navigate this chaotic sea have discovered an almost endless set of "recursions" in the shoals of our Earth: Worlds with their own laws of reality, reflected from human experience or imagination, given form in the swirling Chaosphere of...

What'the hardest part of running a roleplaying game? It has to be the preparation. You can't just spontaneously say, "Let's play a roleplaying game unless someone's already spent hours preparing an adventure for the group. But what if running a great game didn't require any more effort for the game master than it does for the players? What if you...

From the back of the book: Spiral dust is a transcendent, wonderful, and orgasmic high. That's what users claim, eyes wide to reveal blue fractals instead of irises. Spiral dust addiction is on the rise. But why? Who is the Dustman who deals this strange substance from the shadows? And why do heavy spiral dust users tend to disappear without...