Quote from: TrippyHippy;971300It's a Savage World, post apocalyptic setting where the inhabitants of 'Mutha Oith" are largely evolved from their involvement with...well...shit. Cockroaches, worms etc.

It's written by artist, Andy Hopp, with a very distinctive visual style.

Quote from: Brand55;971310It's a crazy fantasy game set in a post-apocalyptic Earth (called Mutha Oith) after humanity blew itself up where people play intelligent snack cakes, cockroaches, aliens, mutated animal combinations, worms, and other similarly weird races. There's a number of types of "magic" but they all have some sort of twist as well; instead of alchemists, for instance, you have people who brew up all sorts of weird smells that have special properties and keep them bottled up until they need to be unleashed. The art and humor are really great, though a lot of it falls on the rather immature side.

Here's a review thread on rpggeek that gives a solid, quick overview of the first edition of the game, which is the one I have: https://rpggeek.com/thread/432928/review-low-life

Okay, that is pretty different...

Quote from: Nexus;971314Okay, that is pretty different...

It is super fun.  Just weird and cartoony.

Quote from: joewolz;971476It is super fun.  Just weird and cartoony.

Nothing wrong with that. Hell, its probably describes a good chunk of the games I've run.

Exquisite Replicas is quite weird. Not as weird as something like low life of course.

The premise is that people start disappearing and then end up being replaced by 'hollow' versions of themselves. Characters begin to notice the changes to loved ones or friends, etc.

My DCC setting is probably the weirdest setting I've ever played.

I always thought GURPS Fantasy II: The Mad Lands was pretty weird. The whole Winnie the Pooh connection was . . . disconcerting.

Quote from: The Exploited.;971718Exquisite Replicas is quite weird. Not as weird as something like low life of course.

Another Abstract Nova game, same folks as made Noumenon, Heaven and Earth, and other freaky stuff.

I like the Abstract Nova stuff. They go all out.

Quote from: worrapol;972068I always thought GURPS Fantasy II: The Mad Lands was pretty weird. The whole Winnie the Pooh connection was . . . disconcerting.

I'd never even heard of this.  It sure looks nuts.

Quote from: RPGPundit;972553I'd never even heard of this.  It sure looks nuts.

I always got the impression that once GURPS Fantasy II didn't fly off store shelves SJ games actually sat back and looked at it and realized for once "yeah we thought it was cool, but we're really weird and most gamers (even weird ones) are just gonna be confused" and tried real hard to forget about it. For all that Robin Laws seems to be a big wheel in gaming and a trend setter, nobody seems to talk about GURPS Fantasy II much, a bit odd since I thinks it's his first published game entirely his own writing as opposed to say Over the Edge with Tweet, or Feng Shui with all the input from the Daedalus guys.

I know that on the surface it isn't that weird, but bear with me...

Wormwood, for Rifts

At first glance, its a standard, humans vs Demons setting on another world. There are a variety of demons and humans have various magical and technological means of dealing with them.

However, there is more to it than that.

The humans are antibodies of the planet itself, to which the demons are a viral disease. And the body is slowly dying as the humans are losing.
The planet, being a living creature, has no soil or plants or stone. Depressions in its skin form ponds and lakes. Cilia makes forest-allegories. There is no natural wildlife, other than parasites and symbiotic organisms.
Human magic is based off of summoning the planet to provide something. Want food? Ask the planet for worms. Want shelter? Ask the planet to form a hollow pimple.
The demons live in living cities/parasites that crawl along the surface, while humans live in pimple domes. Demon controlled areas tend to be hotter than human areas because that area of the planet is "fevered."

Further, it's connected to Earth through magical gateways, so black powder weapons and motorcycles are used, although uncommon. There are hundred foot tall mecha made of planet-resin summoned from under the surface. There are sky pirates who fly on the backs of gigantic insects and "fish" for people with giant hooks and lines.

One of the main classes fuses magical worms to their tongue in order to cast magic.

And tying it to Rifts, everything is MDC. SDC doesn't exist on Wormwood.

It was probably Rifts best setting, but was terribly unpopular, probably because it was hopeless, dark, and unsettling. The artwork was amazing and grotesque.

Quote from: worrapol;972625I always got the impression that once GURPS Fantasy II didn't fly off store shelves SJ games actually sat back and looked at it and realized for once "yeah we thought it was cool, but we're really weird and most gamers (even weird ones) are just gonna be confused" and tried real hard to forget about it. For all that Robin Laws seems to be a big wheel in gaming and a trend setter, nobody seems to talk about GURPS Fantasy II much, a bit odd since I thinks it's his first published game entirely his own writing as opposed to say Over the Edge with Tweet, or Feng Shui with all the input from the Daedalus guys.

Well, I guess that confirms a bit of what I felt about Laws, that he's better when there's someone to keep him in check. Monte Cook is the same too, really, though in a different way.

I think gurps I.O.U. deserves mention for weirdness potential.

Quote from: RPGPundit;972947Well, I guess that confirms a bit of what I felt about Laws, that he's better when there's someone to keep him in check. Monte Cook is the same too, really, though in a different way.

So the George Lucas of the gaming world?

Quote from: Harlock;973115So the George Lucas of the gaming world?

good one