I was going to mention Chi-Chian. My vote goes to The World Tree. A game set on an infinite tree where the gods can be found walking amongst the residence.

Quote from: JeremyR;969535That was something of a latecomer covering that ground. The first was Bureau 13 (which even used the term "X-files" long before the series, albeit in a different context) And there was Pandemonium where you played tabloid reporters investigating tabloid style weirdness. Conspiracy X old hat when it came out.

Yeah, but the question was what was the weirdest setting you ever saw. Not what was the weirdest setting released first or weirdest setting ever. I've ever seen or int he case of Pandemonium, heard of those games.

Quote from: Voros;969523This /thread

Gotta agree, that's weird.

Oh, I forgot one. Tales from Crypt: the rpg: You played people trapped by the Crypt Keeper (a being of god like power) and forced to play out the roles he selects for you in his twisted tales while you try to discover the means to escape.

Honorable mention to Bunnies and Burrows. The setting itself is actually fairly mundane, the default character type is odd though.

Quote from: JeremyR;969535it's just Gnosticism (the religion) turned into a game.

I think anyone who's into Kult knows that already... But saying that it's not weird compared to conventional RPGs is inaccurate in my opinion.

JAGS Wonderland.

Reality is divided up into a number of different planes, called Chessboards.  Insanity is required to go deeper than our own plane.  The further down you go, the weirder things get - you might run into walking hammers from Pink Floyd's The Wall.  When you descend, a reflection of you takes your place and starts trying to do the same thing you're doing, which can and probably will end up with your character waking up in an asylum or jail.

All of the critters from Alice in Wonderland are present, some considerably more powerful than others.  Some of them toleratea humanity, many of them want to unmake reality.

A lot of great ones already mentioned (Savage Worlds: Low Life, Noumenon, Hellas, JAGS Wonderland).

Mechanical Dream - Every night dreams become tangible things for good and bad, before fading away.  Every day you try to find or earn some drug/food/energy to stay alive.  A giant wall surrounds your (finite) world, with a pendulum-like sun-thing over head.  You live in enormous trees, capable of holding a city in a branch; the trees are just plants in an ecosystem of giants.  Technology... is complicated.  (honestly, I'm probably remembering some things wrong, but the gist is the same)

The Strange - Earth is part of a dark energy telepresence network that's fallen into ruin thanks to "planetovores" (things big enough and powerful enough to destroy planets in the network).  Earth's first line of defense are recursions, virtual worlds based on... well... it gets tricky.  Your job is to explore these recursions and make sure nothing threatens earth through them.  

Lesser Shades of Evil - A transhuman theocracy imploded, and you're one of the "angels" left over to deal with it all.  I mention it mainly because it takes the current tropes of "transhumanity is awesome" and shits all over them.  But in an interesting way!

Quote from: san dee jota;970079The Strange - Earth is part of a dark energy telepresence network that's fallen into ruin thanks to "planetovores" (things big enough and powerful enough to destroy planets in the network).  Earth's first line of defense are recursions, virtual worlds based on... well... it gets tricky.  Your job is to explore these recursions and make sure nothing threatens earth through them.  

I didn't list The Strange but now that you mention it. It is a odd setting in a few ways, odder than the 'typical" alternate universe hopping premise. In that light I guess I'd add the surreal Daytrippers rpg

QuoteLesser Shades of Evil - A transhuman theocracy imploded, and you're one of the "angels" left over to deal with it all.  I mention it mainly because it takes the current tropes of "transhumanity is awesome" and shits all over them.  But in an interesting way!

I'll have to take a look at this.

Quote from: jan paparazzi;969245What is the weirdest (and possibly the coolest) setting you ever saw in a rpg?

That question depends on one's opinion on the question, "how weird, is gonzo-ism?" There are more than a few games that are more than a little 'weird for the sake of weird,' and that can be almost pedestrian, depending on your viewpoint. I mean, take The World of Synnibarr -- hollowed out planet Mars turned into nuclear powered spaceship and populated by winged laser bears is pretty outlandish, but is it weird or just random? Same with RIFTS-- post-apocalyptic setting with cthulu beasts, Ley lines, supernatural nexus areas like the Bermuda Triangle, the Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge, world full of juicers and cyborgs, vampires and 'glitterboys' in power armor. Weird or just science fantasy kitchen sink?

Quote from: Brand55;969280That's an easy one. The answer is Mutha Oith, from the Low Life rpg.

So, humanity went and offed itself a long time ago, leaving Earth to be inherited by all manner of creatures like cockroaches, worms, snack cakes, and Smelfs and Horcs from this other world called Middle Oith. Thus, we have Earth turning into Oith, an absolutely batshit-insane fantasy/post-apocalyptic world where a sentient Twinkie can go off adventuring in the innards of a dead monster the size of Greenland or take a trip to marvel at the seemingly bottomless Keister of Gawd that sits at the center of the world's map. It also has the distinction of being the funniest, most enjoyable read of any rpg book I've ever gone through.

Beat me to it. Good call.

Quote from: Nexus;970084I'll have to take a look at this.

Oh yeah....

Nexus the Infinite City - It's basically a big city where -everything- happens.  Aztec gods have talk shows to sell their miraculous wares (and they work!) and bribe people into following them.  Super villains (the Dr. Doom types) form a group of actual medical doctors who just want to be left alone by the people they once lorded over.  Turn a street corner and you find some guy who specializes in making a living selling transdimensional media (you know, like extra seasons of a show you thought got cancelled too soon).  It's kinda' like Over the Edge (another great weird setting) but more hyper.

Quote from: Willie the Duck;970111That question depends on one's opinion on the question

Meh.  If you spend too long considering subjective opinions, -everything- is weird and thus -nothing- is weird.

I mean a game about ancient warriors who can cast harness mysterious cosmic energies to fighting giant sentient flying reptiles (which clearly violates biology and physics both) in order to find some item that is bigger on the inside than the outside is pretty freaking weird to be honest.  It's also a D&D game about an elf wizard fighting a dragon to loot a bag of holding.

Rifts and Synnibarr are good and weird I'd say.  They're perhaps not that -obscure- though.

Corporia strikes me as pretty oddball. Arthurian knights, magic and a pinch of cyberpunk. For that matter, Shadowrun is a pretty oddball combination of setting elements.

Quote from: The Exploited.;969248Godsend Agenda is definitely a different take on Supers. Unknown Armies is another game that is really original.

Kult - Hellraiser meets something nastier than the mythos.

Abandon All Hope - Event Horizon meets hell.

Spite/Dread - Raphael Chandler's take on a shadow holy war where the apocalypse is nigh (with the influence of heavy metal!).

Stalker - after a bizarre event certain zone on the Earth are left defying logic.

Mutant Epoch - Gonzo post-apocalyptic game where anything goes.

Belly of the Beast - Playing inside a gargantuan creature after civilization has been eaten.

A/State - Semi Victoriana extreme poverty mixed with tech. Not to mention the unknowable creatures that now stalk 'The City'.

Sorcerer - You've got tremendous powers to control but you're bound to a demon. Bummer...

Lacuna - The government has found a place that exists in our collective consciousness as we sleep. But who the fuck are the 'spider men'? And what's in the Lacuna. Not a complete RPG per se but one of Sorensen's finest creations.

Don't Rest You Head - Insomniacs begin to see the cracks and truth then travel to a nightmarish realm where they get bizarre abilities.

Vexith - Huge character options as well as some very strange character races to play.

Sla Industries.

Probably not the weirdest games around to be honest, but that's just off the top of my head.

OMG belly of the beast sounds terrific!

Quote from: Psikerlord;970253OMG belly of the beast sounds terrific!

Those all sound pretty interesting to tell the truth.

Quote from: san dee jota;970079Lesser Shades of Evil - A transhuman theocracy imploded, and you're one of the "angels" left over to deal with it all.  I mention it mainly because it takes the current tropes of "transhumanity is awesome" and shits all over them.  But in an interesting way!

Sounds interesting.

Deep Carbon Observatory manages to make the Underdark weird again. Stuart's latest is all about his weirdo Underdark.