{"product_id":"the-strange","title":"The Strange","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eMonte Cook and Bruce R. Cordell, in their first major collaboration, bring you\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003e \u003ca style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/store\/product\/the-strange-corebook\/\"\u003eThe Strange\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003erecursions\u003c\/em\u003e, and they’re 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/store\/product\/the-strange-corebook\/\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91250 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: initial; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; vertical-align: middle; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ardeyn-Map.jpg\" alt=\"OBS Email Ardeyn Map\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eRecursions 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’t entire parallel universes—they’re limited in scope, rarely larger than a continent and sometimes not much bigger than a city block. Often the denizens aren’t even self-aware, but are little more than automatons going through the motions of their fictional world.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/store\/product\/the-strange-corebook\/\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91252\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: initial; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; vertical-align: middle; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Landscape-Ardeyn.jpg\" alt=\"OBS Email Ardeyn 1\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eBut sometimes, in the larger or more mature recursions, they have the spark: Self awareness. Sentience. The ability to form their own motivations and agendas.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eAnd some of those beings understand that they aren’t alone in the Strange. Some of them know about Earth, and the limitless universe beyond it. And some of them are very, very dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/store\/product\/the-strange-corebook\/\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91253 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: initial; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; vertical-align: middle; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/The-Strange-Bestiary-5-John-Petersen.jpg\" alt=\"OBS Email TS Bestiary 1\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eIn our own world, there are individuals who secretly travel to these recursions—perhaps 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/product\/the-strange-corebook\/\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91251 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: initial; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; vertical-align: middle; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Eschatology-Code-1-Matt-Stawicki.jpg\" alt=\"OBS Email Eschatology\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eYour character is quickened; you’re one of the ones who can travel into Earth’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eWhat will you find when you venture into Earth’s shoals? And what will find you, as you travel into. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/store\/product\/the-strange-corebook\/\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91254 size-full\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: initial; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; vertical-align: middle; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/The-Strange-Logo.png\" alt=\"OBS Email TS Logo\" width=\"450\" height=\"135\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eThe Strange\u003c\/em\u003e is driven by the Cypher System, the same Origins- and ENnie-Award-winning game engine that powers \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eNumenera\u003c\/em\u003e. In fact, it’s almost entirely compatible with \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eNumenera\u003c\/em\u003e—you can borrow creatures, foci, descriptors, cyphers, and other elements from the one to use in the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lato, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: #333333;\"\u003eLike \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eNumenera\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eThe Strange\u003c\/em\u003e is a 416-page book with everything you need to play. Its production values, layout, and artwork are every bit as mind-blowingly awesome as \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eNumenera’s\u003c\/em\u003e. It comes with two poster maps. And there’s a \u003ca style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/store\/product\/the-strange-players-guide\/\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003ePlayer’s Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e as well—it’s 96 pages but at the same low price point as the \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eNumenera Player’s Guide\u003c\/em\u003e. And if you’re still not convinced, you can download a free preview and take a look inside the book!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Universal Distribution","offers":[{"title":"English","offer_id":45412198351078,"sku":"0","price":69.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0663\/4301\/0534\/files\/thestrange.jpg?v=1728552400","url":"https:\/\/abyssgamestore.ca\/fr\/products\/the-strange","provider":"Abyss","version":"1.0","type":"link"}