Invisible Sun Design Diary 8: Emergent Story
When designing a roleplaying game (or setting), one of the first questions you ask yourself is, “What do characters do […]
Invisible Sun Design Diary 8: Emergent Story
Publish and Sell Your Own Cypher System Creations!
Your NPCs are always memorable, with interesting backstories and personality quirks. You’ve populated your campaign with strange and unique monsters.
Publish and Sell Your Own Cypher System Creations!
Invisible Sun Design Diary 7: The First Session
When I created Numenera, I wrote in a design diary that I didn’t like character creation. I said that I
Invisible Sun Design Diary 7: The First Session
Invisible Sun Design Diary 6: We Need Secrets
I’ve written in other venues about the “thrill of the hunt.” And by that, I mean the hunt for that
Invisible Sun Design Diary 6: We Need Secrets
Invisible Sun Design Diary 5: The Vislae Ghost Play Experience
I’ve always known that in the world of Invisible Sun—the Actuality—death is not what we think it to be here
Invisible Sun Design Diary 5: The Vislae Ghost Play Experience
Words Like Magic: My Secret Card Trick for Writing a Book
I’m a poet by nature. My fellow poets and I used to play a game called, “I Can Break Your
Words Like Magic: My Secret Card Trick for Writing a Book
Invisible Sun Design Diary 4: Long Form Magic
Spells, rituals, and so on in RPGs rarely feel like magic in fiction or real world occult studies because they’re usually
Invisible Sun Design Diary 4: Long Form Magic
Invisible Sun Design Diary 3: Visual and Tactile Design
I am learning as much or more designing Invisible Sun as I have during any other design. It’s as though
Invisible Sun Design Diary 3: Visual and Tactile Design
Invisible Sun Design Diary 2: Acquiring Different Abilities with Different Experience Points
Depending on your point of view, it’s either enlightening or disheartening to look behind the curtain of a game’s
Invisible Sun Design Diary 2: Acquiring Different Abilities with Different Experience Points
Invisible Sun Design Diary 1: Stats
Although Invisible Sun has been in the works for a long time, only now am I actually putting words to
Invisible Sun Design Diary 1: Stats
The Guiding Hand
One of the components of the Black Cube of the Invisible Sun game that we haven’t talked about much
Seventeen Invisible Sun Stories
I typically avoid the term “adventures” with Invisible Sun, because the stories told in this game are often not the
Seventeen Invisible Sun Stories