The Uncanny Highway

“Talk to long-time truckers and aging bikers, and you will hear stories of U.S. Route 28 – a road that, officially, doesn’t exist. Don’t try to locate it on any map or road atlas – you will not find it. Nonetheless, sections of it seems to wind improbably through every state of the continental U.S. Just as strangely, its oddly meandering path somehow avoids every major city except Detroit. Exits for U.S. Route 28 can be found along almost every Interstate, yet a person can drive their entire life and never see one.

The missing, the lost, and the desperate haunt Route 28. They inhabit its odd motels, staff its bizarre roadside museums, and drink in its shadowy bars. Many who pass along the road continue on to their destinations in blissful ignorance, unaware of how lucky they are. But an unfortunate number learn the full extent of the horrors that lurk amid the truck-stops and diners on that mysterious highway. Others, born in the small towns that lie along the Highway, have never known anything else but a life where alien abductions are a regular occurrence, and hook-handed killers are all too real. The road and its inhabitants constitute an entire slice of the nation that interacts primarily with itself – and only in limited ways with Ordinary America.”

The Uncanny Highway is a complete tool kit for a psychotronic road trip across America, in the Groovy Era of bell-bottoms, boogie vans, and 8-track cassettes!

Game Masters and Solo Gamers get everything they need to create a sandbox-style road-crawl through the gonzo United States of the Swinging Sixties and Groovy Seventies.

Run your games with the included Ready Rules of the Road, a compact but complete role-playing system suitable for both solo and group play. Or use any RPG that can handle games set in the 1960s and 1970s.

Players on the Uncanny Highway experience life as the truckers, bikers, runaways, journalists, musicians, hippies, fugitives, and assorted lost souls stranded together on a road where every American legend appears to be true.

The Uncanny Highway concerns 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. It is not meant for anyone too young to watch one of those movies!