Running The Strange. I am a huge fan of Numenera, but The Strange took a bit before it hooked me. When I first read the setting book it sort of seemed like a kinda cheesy way to do genre-hopping campaigns; this week it's pirates, next week it's the zombie apocalypse, the week after it's superheroes. But when I actually got a chance to play it at BigBadCon I enjoyed it immensely - the setting really does hang together if you do it right and it provides a way to play in these alternate universes in interesting ways. The game is really about discovering and exploring these different worlds and telling stories about how their inhabitants collide with earth in interesting ways; getting to play different genres is just a nice bonus that gives the game flair and a hook. Anyway, I've enjoyed the game a great deal, as much as Numenera, and that's a pretty high bar 😀 #rpg #cyphersystem #thestrangerpg #montecookgames
