Iadace and welcome to Cypher Chronicles. Happy Easter! Happy Spring!
Exciting News and Interviews
- The Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter is picking up steam and heading for the finish line on April 1st. Each stretch goal you knock down adds cool stuff to your list of rewards, so how many more rewards would you like? If your answer is anything except none, then tell everyone you know about this campaign. Let’s make this last week count!
- Speaking of counting, thank you for making Loot Wednesday a success! Every backer of the Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter campaign at JUST A PDF level and higher now gets 10 free glimmers. Holy cats, what a great deal!
- We are honored that the Cypher System was a runner up for the BoardGameGeek 2015 RPG Game of the Year. Congratulations to all the runners up and winners!
- Listen in as Meghan Dornbrock of ±Modifier and MCG’s Bruce Cordell talk about the Cypher System.
- Want to see the Cypher System in action? The Saving Throw Show, with the ever-awesome Tom Lommel, will be live-streaming a post-apocalyptic science-fantasy game Monday night. Tom (who you might also recognize as the Dungeon Bastard) took part in our Instant Adventure event at Gen Con last year, and he was incredibly entertaining—so you know this will be fun. There might even be a little something special for backers of our Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter, so be sure to tune in!
- “If you’ve been looking for an age-appropriate way to get your kids to take their first steps into the larger world of role-playing games, No Thank You, Evil! is a fantastically creative option.” Read Kelly Knox’s full review of No Thank You, Evil! on Geek & Sundry.
- Join Monte Cook at Games and Stuff on April 16th to celebrate the store’s 16th anniversary! As an ULTIMATE RETAILER backer of Numenera: Into the Ninth World, Games and Stuff has asked Monte to visit their store to help them celebrate 16 years of, well, games and stuff!
- Check out our Special Feature: Bring a Setting to Life to read Shanna’s thoughts on the creative process of giving life to a setting and characters.
Crowdfunding Campaigns and Other Things We Love
- Look who is now in charge of Gnome Stew, the award-winning multi-author blog about tabletop RPGs: John Arcadian, MCG’s freelancing Clever jack Who Talks to Machines. If it isn’t already one of your daily staples, please try the (Gnome) Stew!
- Want a chance to be in the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie and help Support the Lake Stevens Boys and Girls Club?
- MythosMonsters – A Lovecraft Art Book & Coloring Book by Jacob Walker: “I have collected my daily Lovecraft drawings and a few paintings into a 64 page high quality art book and accompanying coloring book.”
Get Inspired
- Excited for Worlds of the Cypher System? Can’t wait to play a god? Well, check out these two Gods of the Fall characters.
- Will scientists clone a dinosaur just in time for the release of Predation? Ok, probably not. But the recent finding of a fossilized pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex brings us one step closer to dino DNA.
- Ganza Gaming Episode 3: GM Intrusions
- Uh oh. What If You Accidentally Started the Robot Uprising?
Inspire Us
Got something you’d like to see published in Cypher Chronicles next week? A cool blog post you’ve written about our games, scientific news that inspires your The Strange campaign, an Atlas Obscura photo that makes you dream of the Ninth World, a Kickstarter campaign that kindles your imagination, a charity event near and dear to your heart…share whatever you think would inspire Team MCG and would also be a good fit for Cypher Chronicles. Send your recommendations to [email protected] (submitting a recommendation does not guarantee publication).
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