Weather the Cuckoo Likes (Over the Edge Series) [Paperback]

Robin D. Laws (Author)

Book Description

Series: Over the Edge Series | Publication Date: December 1994

This is the weather the cukoo likes, armored division submissive to vernacular the world into a gambling birdhouse velocity.

The Cut-Ups Project is the Al Amarjan wing of the Chaos Boys, an international (and interdimensional) group devoted to thwarting the plans of Control Addicts everywhere. If you know Al Amarja, you know it's full of control addicts!

The Cut-Ups don't attack the various conspiracies they oppose, but instead strike out at the very fabric of reality on which all of their insidious plans depend. As a sourcebook, Weather the Cuckoo Likes will bring you along on the Cut-Ups' outrageous exploits. It features:

* Descriptions of individual Cut-Ups, from the Andalusia Dog to noted game designer Robert "Doc" Cross;
* Foes of the Cut-Ups, including the unfathomable Koanhead;
* The Coatless Code, which guides the Chaos Boys (and also fits very nicely on a placemat);
* Optional Cut-Up Rules: a completely new approach to game mechanics, for OTE or any other game, based on little scraps of paper with words on them;
* Cut-Up Technology: fringe devices, from the Cut-Ups Machine itself to the Collective Unconscious Swizzle Stick;
* Two Complete Adventures, to throw your PCs right into the zany fringes of Reality that the Cut-Ups call home!

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Atlas Games (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188780112X
• ISBN-13: 978-1887801126
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,077,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Free-form RPGing with a twist of Will Burroughs, June 15, 2000

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Andrew C. Johnson (Saint Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weather the Cuckoo Likes (Over the Edge Series) (Paperback)

This unparalleled sourcebook for the surreal RPG _Over the Edge_ explains to us the meta-game of OTE - the underlying struggle of Control over Chaos. Also, the canny game moderator will be able to read WtCL a few times, gain illumination, and thus add a little bit of William S Burroughs and funkiness into an already quite odd RPG.

WtCL concerns itself principally with the battles of an odd fringe conspiracy on the island of Al Amarja - the Cut-Ups. The addition of this particular group into a campaign will either make for a firm (if whimsical) ally against the forces of Control, or a determinedly frustrating foil for your campaign's Control Freaks. The Cut-Ups' (and their umbrella group, the Chaos Boys) purpose is to be an eternal watchdog against the forces of control on the conspiracy-ridden island of Al Amarja. If things begin to tip too far in the way of any one group, their mandate is to rewrite reality - with the help of the Chaos Funk inventions of the Really Quite Angry Kid.

Ranging from an old grandmotherly sweetheart that is nigh-impossible to harm because she's just that sweet, to her son whose cutting words literally kill, the fighters for all things Chaotic and Brownian (James Brown, that is) are well-described and deep - any moderator worth her salt is going to have a lot of fun with these folks. An analysis of their motives (the Chaos Code) and their history is also included - excellent writing. Laws obviously put a great deal of thought and sweat into this, and you can begin to see the seeds of his later hit, _Feng Shui_, in the pages of WtCL.

Add to this an excellent treatise of the nature of Control Addiction, some fun scenarios dealing with Control and Chaos, and a way to roleplay using words cut from magazines and books rather than dice, and you have what is probably the best supplement for Over the Edge in current existence.