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Weather the Cuckoo Likes (Over the Edge Series)

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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.