The Uncanny Highway is a complete tool kit for a psychotronic road trip across America, in the Groovy Era of bell-bottoms, boogie vans, and 8-track cassettes!
Game Masters and Solo Gamers get everything they need to create a sandbox-style road-crawl through the gonzo United States of the Swinging Sixties and Groovy Seventies. Dig it!
- Includes The Ready Rules of the Road, a compact but complete roleplaying system suitable for both one shots and multi-session play – alone, or with a group.
- Or, use the Uncanny Highway with with any RPG that can handle games set in the 1960s and 1970s.
- You get clear, step-by-step procedures for both group adventures and solo play.
- Over 340 logically arranged Generator Tables allow for a completely Player-directed trip through Weird Americana.
- Roll randomly on the Generator Tables, or use them as selection lists to inspire your own creativity. Supports a minimal-prep play-style that lets the GM spontaneously detail the Uncanny Highway in the course of game play.
- Over 12,000 miles of road, in 140 Sections of Highway stretching across the weird and wonderful U.S.A.
- Geographical information is provided for each Section of Highway, along with overviews for eight distinct regions of the continental United States.
- Historical sidebars help you bring the Groovy Age to the modern world.
- Infinitely reusable and replayable.
- A complete system of fill-out Road Maps and Location Record Sheets creates a living, persistent, and consistent world.
- Completely cross-referenced and hyperlinked, with a text-centered layout designed for fast reference of necessary information.
Players on the Uncanny Highway experience life as the truckers, bikers, runaways, journalists, musicians, parapsychologists, hippies, vigilantes, psychics, fugitives, and assorted lost souls stranded together on a road where every American legend appears to be true. Far-out!
- Investigate truck stops filled with shocking secrets, have one-night-stands at haunted motels, and wonder where that isolated gas station gets the meat for its “famous” barbecue.
- Visit small towns and trailer parks filled with eccentric characters and potential adventures.
- Puzzle over wacky billboards, investigate mysterious abandoned cars, visit heartbreaking roadside memorials, and stop at strange mystery spots where cars roll uphill.
- Have CB radio conversations with passing truckers, and find out why you should always look under your mattress!
- Go to the drive-in and see “Machine-Gun P.T.A Versus Dracula”, read in-game newspapers, watch strange pirate TV stations, or listen to firebrand preachers on the radio.
- Visit amusement parks staffed by androids, and see roadside museums filled with oddities.
- Have a meal at a roadside diner shaped like a giant hamburger. Its probably not just a front for the K.G.B.!
- Encounter hook-handed killers, strange cryptids, bizarre extraterrestrials, and the famous creatures of American legend.
- Run screaming from roadside houses inhabited by murderous cults, and escape old churches turned into secret government laboratories.
- Learn what the farms on the highway are really growing!
- Pick up prophesy-spouting vanishing hitchhikers – or thumb your way along the road yourself.
- Shop at roadside souvenir shops where you can definitely buy more than you bargained for.
- Wonder why it sometimes rains fish and foreign coins.
- Feel the romance of the open road.
This Blue Plate Special Edition of The Uncanny Highway has minimal artwork derived from Public Domain sources, and is offered at a special price to give you the full Uncanny Highway experience – without costing all your bread! And it’s released under the ORC license, so you can build your own extensions and modifications. Bitchin’!
The Uncanny Highway concerns the same themes as the exploitation, horror, science-fiction, action-adventure, and psychedelic movies that played in drive-in theaters and urban grindhouses during the 1960s and 1970s. It is not meant for anyone too young to watch one of those movies!
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We’ll be talking and answering questions about our new Groovy-Era road-crawl setting The Uncanny Highway, and The Ready Rules of the Road RPG system. If open-world road tripping across the strange United States in the Swinging Sixties and Groovy Seventies sounds like your bag, you’ll want to check it out!
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