Cypher System Design Diary

Here’s a secret: I don’t really like dividing stories (or anything, like music) into categories. I don’t like walking into […]

Games, obviously, are meant to be fun. And yet we still put up with a lot of things that many

The game is called Cypher, so if we’re monkeying with the rules, we’d better make sure that cyphers work in

As I wrote a bit ago, our own experiences as designers, alongside what we’ve heard from players, have prompted some

When modifying a rules set, most people focus on what’s changing, but just as— if not more—important is what remains

When you drive a car and something doesn’t work precisely the way you think it should, you notice. Maybe you