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Breaker One-Nine! If you’re going to ride on The Uncanny Highway, The Ready Rules of the Road Player’s Version is your bag! It’s your ticket across the strange United States of the Swinging Sixties and Groovy Seventies, on a highway where even the weirdest American legends are true. If you are just running a Player Character on the Uncanny Highway (and not GMing or playing Solo), you only need this PDF to get started on your trip down legendary U.S. Route 28.
The Ready Rules of the Road – Player’s Version includes:
- An introduction to the Uncanny Highway setting.
- Easy, step by-step rules for character generation.
- Character concept tables to quickly determine your character’s name, astrological sign, occupation, and motivation.
- Character templates to create Truckers, Psychics, Parapsychologists, and everybody in-between!
- Groovy-Era Equipment lists.
- A light, but versatile rules system that can handle everything from car chases, to picking up a one-night-stand.
- Complete rules for creating (and avoiding) Paranormal Effects.
- Character advancement rules.
- An example of game play.
- A sidebar of Groovy-Era slang.
- The Uncanny Highway Playlist.
- The Ready Rules of the Road Character Sheet.
Plus, the entire text is released under the ORC license, so you can create your own extensions and modifications.
If you already have the free Play-Test Version of the Ready Rules of the Road, this is the full-release Player’s Version. There are some differences in terminology between the two versions, and procedures have been streamlined and improved.
Note: The Ready Rules of the Road concern 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. This game is not meant for anyone too young to watch one of those movies!
If you are going to Gamemaster or play Solo on the Uncanny Highway, get The Uncanny Highway – Blue Plate Special Edition PDF (which also includes the complete Ready Rules of the Road).
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