Cypher Design Diary: Designing the Game We Want to Play
When you drive a car and something doesn’t work precisely the way you think it should, you notice. Maybe you […]
Cypher Design Diary: Designing the Game We Want to Play
The Statement
One of the things that makes The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game, currently crowdfunding and under development, so exciting for us
A Guest for Mr. Cypher: Cypher System Rules and The Magnus Archives
As I’ve worked on The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game, I’ve deviated from the standard Cypher System rules that many of
A Guest for Mr. Cypher: Cypher System Rules and The Magnus Archives
Break on Through to Another Plane
Path of the Planebreaker is a planar sourcebook for players and GMs filled with the wonders, terrors, mysteries, and treasures of
Break on Through to Another Plane
ISSUE #1: BROOD X IS BORN | Claim the Sky Designer Playtest Report
We wanted a fresh at-the-table experience to help guide our design on a book dedicated to superheroes. So, here’s what happened during our first playtest of Claim the Sky, where we played our original heroes in a session run by Monte.
ISSUE #1: BROOD X IS BORN | Claim the Sky Designer Playtest Report
Game Design Challenge: Converting Ptolus Part 2
Converting Ptolus wasn’t simply a matter of opening the original files, updating the rules information, and sending the revised files off to the printer—it took a lot of work and attention to detail, all with the dual intentions of preserving the feel of the original Ptolus and making sure that the new versions were as user-friendly as possible.
Game Design Challenge: Converting Ptolus Part 2
Game Design Challenge: Converting Ptolus Part 1
Converting Ptolus wasn’t simply a matter of opening the original files, updating the rules information, and sending the revised files off to the printer—it took a lot of work and attention to detail, all with the dual intentions of preserving the feel of the original Ptolus and making sure that the new versions were as user-friendly as possible.
Game Design Challenge: Converting Ptolus Part 1
Making Crises Exciting in First Responders
First Responders promises to make scenarios dealing with a major crisis or disaster as gripping as any other RPG scenario. This
Making Crises Exciting in First Responders
Inside The Origin
The Origin is a companion sourcebook for Claim The Sky. Whereas Claim The Sky presents a world in which superheroes are a fact of
A Look at Boundless
Like its forerunner genre books (The Stars Are Fire, Stay Alive!, We Are All Mad Here, and Godforsaken), Claim the
A Look inside Claim the Sky
Want a glimpse into what we’re planning to do with superheroes in the Cypher System? Here’s an annotated outline for Claim
Giants Beneath the Stars
I’m sure it’s no surprise that I’m a life-long fan of science fiction. That means I consumed the sci-fi contents