The project funded within the first few hours, and Monte Cook Games has an excellent reputation of delivering on their Kickstarters, so backers can pledge with confidence. You can reserve your copy of A Strange Box beginning at the $120.00 pledge level through March 17th.
From Monte Cook Games:
One of the first questions we get asked at every convention is whether we’re going to do a boxed set for The Strange like we did for Numenera. Because of that, we asked fans of The Strange to let us know how much they’d like to see this. They responded enthusiastically. Since we love The Strange and its fans at Monte Cook Games, we decided to give them the most spectacular experience with The Strange that we can create with a deluxe boxed edition.
As you can probably imagine, we want to make it absolutely beautiful and crammed full of all the coolest extra content we can come up with: character sheets, XP cards with a brand new design, and maybe even a gorgeous cloth version of the Ardeyn poster map, if we hit some stretch goals. We did it once before, and with your help, we’re going to make that dream a reality again, this time to create a deluxe boxed edition of The Strange!
(Already own The Strange? Don’t worry—we’ve got some things that will interest you as well as those new to the game.)
Critically acclaimed, The Strange was nominated for the Origins Award for Best New Roleplaying Game and received 3 ENnie awards, including awards for Best Setting, Best Game, and Best Art. A novel of The Strange is about to hit store shelves, called Myth Of The Maker.
One of the cool things about not selling this box through retail stores is that it doesn’t have to be marked like a retail product. We can leave off the bar codes and sales text and that sort of stuff. That means the entire outside of the box can just reflect the amazing esthetic of The Strange. So we’re going to make it look awesome—front, back, and sides! The box itself will be of sturdy design, with a deluxe linen finish. It’ll be a great way to carry The Strange around, and it’ll look absolutely wonderful on your game shelf.
The books in the box will all be softcovers. With the exceptions noted in the table above, their content is not different than the existing hardcover rulebook, so if you already have that, it’s not new material. And, conversely, if you don’t own The Strange yet, this box gives you all the game content you’d find in the hardcover. It’s the same game either way. The difference is in the format.
We think an ultimate boxed set edition could be so much more than just that, though. What we want to do is create a boxed set so deluxe that its mere existence will seed an entirely new recursion. As stretch goals are reached, the content described as already being in THE STRANGE BOX will be improved by additional components!
