Inability: Youre inventive but not charming. They face gravedangers and terrible obstacles as a routine partof life. Your students remember you fondly. You with capable individuals in the hopes of repairing some people want their are trained in tasks involving breaking things. Individual Role: Although Explorers can beacademics or well studied, they are first andforemost interested in action. Its the noun of the sentence I am an adjective or a lower tier. The Cypher System Rulebook releases in early August, but you can reserve your copy nowand get a great deal! When the chance for success, you can apply Effort bysomething requires you to spend points from spending 3 points from your Speed Pool. 4. have a Speed Edge of 3 and you apply one level The PC stabs their spear at the rat, which is a of Effort to a Speed roll, it costs you 0 points level 2 creature and thus has a target number from your Speed Pool. An Adept flavored with combat in a science fiction setting could be a veteran of a thousand psychic wars. involved in the first adventure. 15When applying Effort to Every character has an Effort score, which MULTIPLE USES OF EFFORT AND EDGE melee attacks, you have indicates the maximum number of levels of Effort that can be applied to a roll. THIRD-TIER SPEAKER 11 Inspiring Success (154) 11 Recruit Deputy (175) A Speaker with Choose three of the abilities listed below (or 11 Shatter Mind (182) Discerning Mind has from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. At higher tiers, they can often take on otherwise. Charles M. Ryan has written or contributed to titles in nearly every class of tabletop gameboard games, card games, trading card games, miniature games, and roleplaying gamesover a 25-year career in the game industry. This includes any kind of creature as a goal put forth by the PCs and at the end by whether orwell as people. description for each listed ability can be found in 11 Anticipate Attack (110) If this is inappropriate chapter 9, which also has descriptions for flavor 11 Confounding Banter (121) and focus abilities in a single vast catalog. The Strange - System Cheat Sheet. CRAVEN However your gift works, youre creativeyou code, write, compose, sculpt, design, direct, or Courage fails you at every turn. FOURTH-TIER MAGIC ABILITIES FIRST-TIER MAGIC ABILITIES 11 Elemental Protection (133) 11 Blessing of the Gods (114) 11 11 Closed Mind (119) 11 Entangling Force (136) 11 Pry Open (172) 11 Hedge Magic (149) 11 Magic Training (159) FIFTH-TIER MAGIC ABILITIES 11 Mental Link (161) 11 Premonition (171) 11 Create (122) 11 Divine Intervention (130) 11 Dragons Maw (131) 11 Fast Travel (139) 11 True Senses (194) SIXTH-TIER MAGIC ABILITIES 11 Relocate (176) 11 Summon Demon (188) 11 Traverse the Worlds (194) 11 Word of Death (200) Theres very little to COMBAT FLAVOR gain by flavoring a Warrior with combat. And the more like and what kinds of experiences they want distinct your setting is from genre tropes, the Chapter 8: Focus, to have. Some people call it a "rules-light" system, but it has all the power and sophistication of games that are much more . You were in the right (wrong?) 2. activities. Speed 9 Friendly NPC: An NPC you dont know,someone you dont know that well, or someone Intellect 11you know but who hasnt been particularlyfriendly in the past chooses to help you, though You get 6 additional points to divide among Your charactersdoesnt necessarily explain why. In points into each stat Pool, giving her a Might addition, you can replace one of your lower-tier Pool of 9, a Speed Pool of 11, and an Intellect Onslaught, page 167 abilities with a different one from a lower tier. true face. Inabilities: Inabilities are like negative skills. Begin your adventure! 1. 13 You trained for a time with a group of influential Adepts, and they still look upon you with fondness. 19 You know a local merchant very well. 3. advantages that itothers enjoy listening to your voice. 19Chapter 5 TYPE In some roleplaying Character type is the core of your character. Might could be thought and choosing three aspects that determine your of as Might/Health characters capabilities. Using one of wish.these abilities is an action unto itself, and theend of the abilitys description says ActionSKILLS probably best to run it past the GM first, but in general, the most important thing is to choose skills that areSometimes your character gains training in a specific skill appropriate to your character.or task. want to create your own setting, check out the games Numenera or The When making alterations, worry less about Strange, or the books Gods of the Fall, game balance and more about telling the stories Predation, and Unmasked, as well as the you want to tell and allowing the players to create upcoming titles The Stars Are Fire, Stay and play the characters they want to play. Both players setting to use, based on what genre you want. On the other hand, if along headfirst through life and let other people from your Intellect Pool, it costs you 1 more you play such a character worry about things. The National Security Agency ( NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). A Speaker with combat flavor in a fantasy setting36 would be a battle bard. Youll even get the PDF a little early. You are trustworthy, fair, and forthright. One of the other PCs asked your opinion of the mission, knowing that if you thought it was a You gain the following characteristics: good idea, it probably was. You believe that youre being hunted, and Cruel, and Dishonorable the details. For of Effort. It might harm and hidden devices, or the user or one of their allies for a round, or a gadgeteer character activate a dramatic and distracting side effect for with a utility belt full a few rounds. trained in perception-related tasks. to your stat Pools. Normally, that would cost 3 points from attacks, its always about your Speed Pool. | Site by Clockpunk Studios, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The GMs Chair, Planar Character Options for Cypher System. but you have no experience in more physical in horror games. them well. Bruce R. Cordell, Monte Cook, Sean K. Reynolds. For example, if you apply Effort careful targeting. 6 Your grandparents raised you on a farm far from bustling urban centers. Skills so the character can plug into the ship directly and can take piloting and computers as skills.34FlavorFIRST-TIER STEALTH ABILITIES TECHNOLOGY FLAVOR The small numbers you see after abilities11 Danger Sense (124) Characters with a flavor of technology typically throughout this book11 Goad (145) are from science fiction or at least modern-day are page numbers11 Legerdemain (157) settings (although anything is possible). You INTUITIVEare trained in any task involving geography orhistory. 4. In a fantasy world they might be wands or potions, but in a science fiction game they could be alien crystals or prototype devices. Your descriptor places your character in APPEALING Species as Descriptor, the situation (the first adventure, which starts the campaign) and helps provide motivation. They also choose Practicedfrom a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. The choice was between your tattered life and helping others. you, or something else. 7 You failed disgracefully at your initial studies with your teacher and now proceed on your own. It Youre attractive to others, but perhaps more page 59 is the adjective of the sentence I am an adjective important, you are likeable and charismatic. share a quick meal. The group answered your cries for help thrown into the mix. They sometimes possess abilities that facilitate overcoming supernatural things Modern/Horror/Romance: psychic, occultist, challenges. Choose two of the abilities listed below (or from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. 18 You published a book about some of your exploits and discoveries, and it has achieved some acclaim. Before making the points of damage. Probably not.player might have to roll to see if the character XP to another player and justify the gift (perhaps That kind of needlessslips, trips, or stumbles as the result of moving the other player had a good idea, told a funny joke, specificity only slowsso far so quickly. Youll use parts of it to (but probably not all) of the kinds of games youbuild the game you want to play. Roll a d20 or choose from the following list to determine aspecific fact about your background that provides a connection to the rest of the world. They for easy reference.11 Opportunist (167) excel at using, dealing with, and building11 Stealth Skills (186) machines. ADEPT STAT POOLS Stat Pool Starting Value Might 7 Speed 9 Intellect 12 You get 6 additional points to divide among your stat Pools however you wish.24TypeADEPT BACKGROUND CONNECTIONYour type helps determine the connection you have to the setting. There are ten degrees of difficulty. Selecting any of these options counts The verb is called your focus. Subtract your Intellect Edge from roll first and then decide to apply Effort if youthe activation cost, and the result is how many rolled poorly.points you must spend to use the mental blast.If using your Edge reduces the cost to 0, you can Applying more Effort can lower a tasksuse the ability for free. Although Cypher seems to be a nice RPG system, their shitty PDF layouting makes me sick when creating characters, specially when choosing their abilities. Each example showcases a player Recovering points insuperior in that stat. You can also spend available to spend on applying Effort.points from one of your stat Pools to decrease atasks difficulty (see Effort, below). talented characters.yourself well groomed. The ones you choose from will probably depend on the setting and genre of your game. This Edge from the total cost of applying Effort. Listening to Skill: You are naturally inventive. Although an 11 Fling (141) Adept flavored with magic is still an Adept, you 11 Force at Distance (142) might find that swapping some of the types 11 Summon Giant Spider (188) basic abilities with those given here tailors the character in desirable ways. his blade. Unexpected Gift: An NPC hands you a physical Cypher Use: You can bear two cyphers at a time.gift you were not expecting, one that helps put Weapons: You can use light weapons withoutthe situation at ease if things seem strained, orprovides you with a new insight for understanding penalty. to use one of the following player intrusions, If the game youre provided the situation is appropriate and the GM playing has none of agrees. This sometimes means that warriors take on leadership roles as well, at least in combat and other times of danger.20Type PLAYER INTRUSION ago, allowing you to attack all three as a single GM intrusion, page 408 action. The Cypher System Rulebook releases in early August, but you can reserve your copy nowand get a great deal! In other words, you dontthe worst from people so you wont be surprised suffer the effects of being impaired until youwhen they prove you right. 2. You Skill: You are trained in pleasant social join the other PCs because they offer a way out of interactions. The PCs recruited you after learning about Suspicious: +2 to your Intellect Pool. 13 You have traveled extensively, and during that time you accumulated quite a collection of strange souvenirs. The full description for each listed ability can be found in chapter 9, which also has Chapter 9: Abilities, You get 6 additional points to divide among descriptions for flavor and focus abilities in a page 95 your stat Pools however you wish. You mightbe a hard pragmatist, doing what you feel youmust even if others are worse for it. Joining the PCs gives you an opportunity toto care, and you may even enjoy the pain and escape justice for a crime you committed.difficulty the person experiences if theyve doneyou wrong in the past. 15 Your uncle runs a theater in town. Some need new rules to convey thesome now and save others for your next game. noun who verbs. You can choose from four character types in chapter 5: Warriors, Adepts, Explorers, and Speakers. In fact, she begins to develop a backstory that involves FIFTH-TIER ADEPT graceful, lithe movements that she incorporates into her spells. names like Warrior or Explorer dont always Superhero/Post-Apocalyptic: hero, brick, bruiser feel right, particularly in games set in modern Flavor, page 34 times. 11 Matter Cloud (161) 11 Mind Control (162) For her descriptor, Jen chooses Graceful, 11 Projection (172) which adds 2 points to her Speed Pool, bringing 11 Rapid Processing (174) it to 13. Fantasy, science-fiction, horror, modern-day, and superhero settingsplay any setting you can imagine with the Cypher System! 4. Your type is who your What a player intrusion can do usually character is. For information about when or how you perform theexample, lets say an Adept with an Intellect Edge action. While preparing for their games, and at the game table, Cypher System GMs spend their time and mental energy thinking up exciting and creative adventures, settings, encounters, twists, NPCs, and creatureswhile spending only mere minutes on numbers and stats. how they affect combat happens based on the circumstance. following list of options, choose how you became involved in the first adventure. Putting out the small fires now prevents following list of options, choose how you became them from becoming one big fire later. She decides to be somewhat her role in the world and Choose two of the abilities listed below (or well rounded, so she puts 2 of her additional expectations in the game. When your character really needs in chapter 5. Or you may receive Inability: People dont like or trust you. Enter your email address and we'll shoot you an email every time a new article is posted on the Monte Cook Games website. Most times, you back down Inventive: +2 to your Intellect Pool. down ideas so you can develop them later. character and the setting. 1. The stat embodies how much physical Every player character has three defining quickness, movement, dexterity, and reflexes. attack by one step (to difficulty 1). However, you have a Speed You can use Edge for a particular stat only Edge of 2, so you subtract that from the cost. Additional information Anything choose instead to introduce a dramatic event In the Cypher System, players make all die rolls. Save existence as we know it by bending reality to carry out the perfect heist. close-combat weapons, and you can use them to attack anyone within immediate distance. These areof your own into it first. Chapter 10: Equipment. You gain the following characteristics: Tumultuous: +4 to your Speed Pool. item, two moderately priced items, and up to four inexpensive items. Simply pick the types, descriptors, and foci that are appropriate to your setting, and exclude those that arent. However, no starting stat Pool page 155first-tier abilities with Interaction Skills (deceiving should be higher than 20.and persuasion). ahead through time, or maybe youre just good Inability: When you see something interesting, at reading people and extrapolating a situation.you hesitate as you take in all the details. Normally, it would cost 5 roll, you can use your Intellect Edge to reduce the Special Damage, points from your Speed Pool, but after subtracting cost of one of those things, not both. Just Desserts: When the GM gives another player an experience point to award to someone EMPATHIC for a GM intrusion, that player cannot give it to you. Combat and action are not a Speakers strong suits, so other characters sometimes have to defend the Speaker in times of danger. Special rules and advice for nine specific genres, including fantasy, modern, science-fiction, horror, superheroes, and post-apocalyptic. Explorer, page 27 Other Options: Players can also spend 4 XP to Speaker, page 30 purchase other special options in lieu of gaining The noun is your character type. Thisaddition, you can replace one of your lower-tier happening to their PC. If you additional types of What if you applied two levels of Effort to the spend 1 Intellect point to activate your mind damage, see Damage Speed roll instead of just one? Other times, your character can choose a skill trained in, you become specialized in that skill. A Warrior flavored with skills and knowledgemight be a military engineer. Shes a bit of a con artist. You fall down,of the land swiftly, size up threats and allies, but you trip your enemies as you crash into theirand assess situations with accuracy. Cypher System Rulebook*OP Hardcover - August 5, 2015 by Monte Cook Games (Author) 93 ratings Hardcover $83.10 15 Used from $38.68 1 New from $83.10 Brand New in Factory Packaging. these, or not, as you wish. experience, understanding, and sometimes belief of others. You have an inability with medium always visible as a faintweapons and heavy weapons; your attacks with glimmer surroundingmedium and heavy weapons are hindered. your mind. That would ease the attack every time You could choose a skill that incorporates more than you used it. An Explorer with combat flavor in a historical game might be a pirate. You take things at face value and Inability: Any Intellect defense task is hindered. This11 Parry (168) flavor can distinguish a SIXTH-TIER SKILLS AND scientist and a medicalSIXTH-TIER COMBAT ABILITIES KNOWLEDGE ABILITIES doctor, for example, who both might be11 Greater Skill With Attacks (147) 11 Skill With Attacks (183) Explorers at their core.11 Mastery in Armor (161) 11 Skill With Defense (183)11 Mastery With Defense (161)SKILLS ANDKNOWLEDGE FLAVORThis flavor is for characters in roles that call formore knowledge and more real-world applicationof talent. If a special abilityexplained in the ability description. Your memory is sharp, and you beginning character. Anyone who is ready for Weapons: You become practiced with light,violence, or even potential violence, might be medium, and heavy weapons and suffer noa Warrior in the general sense. PCs and decided to join the group to see if you Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From the can sense it again and uncover the truth. social situations and control them to avoid 1. the sentence I am an adjective noun who verbs. Modern/Horror/Romance: police officer, soldier, Most Cypher System You can choose from four character types: watchman, detective, guard, brawler, tough, games, like Numenera, Warrior, Adept, Explorer, and Speaker. Skill: You are trained in all tasks involving 3. Your former commander remembers you well. However, points for the first level of Effort plus 2 points for the additional points are dealt to all targets in the the second level minus 1 point for their Edge). a new skill. task matters when using Effort. You suspect that the other PCs wontstrong points. fantasy genre, it might not work for your fantasy setting. The PCs were looking for someone else, 2. Last, they choose Knowledge Skills and select11 Capable Warrior (118) geology and biology to help during interplanetary11 Expert Skill (137) explorations.11 Increased Effects (153)11 Read the Signs (174) Sams Explorer can bear two cyphers, which11 Runner (179) in this setting involve nanotechnology. Espionage? Roll a d20 or choose from the following list to determine aspecific fact about your background that provides a connection to the rest of the world. Now that character can choose single vast catalog. Afterward, on your nextinformation related to the mission, having heard regular turn, any action you take is hindered.you were an expert. A beautiful new offering produced by Monte Cook Games for Cypher System Revised, Claim the Sky was written by our trio of temptation and trouble, Monte Cook, Sean K. Reynolds, and Bruce R. Cordell. Depending on whatplus two expensive items, two moderately priced 11 Scan (179) you work out with youritems, and up to four inexpensive items of your 11 Shatter (182) GM, the energy shieldchoice. That costs 3 points from their Might Pool, Effort to accomplish a special effect, such as reducing the Pool to 8. little charming. Check it out! Enablers either is modified, and theyll Sometimes the point cost for an ability has a function constantly (such as being able to wear let the players know.+ sign after the number. Chapter 4: Creating Experience points are used primarily for Your Character, page 14 character advancement (for details, see Chapter 4: Creating Your Character), but a player can also spend 1 XP to reroll any die roll and take the better of the two rolls. distinct settings are usually the most fun, the most memorable, and the most likely to engage Bears a Halo of Of course, not everything in this book is your players. Or maybe you just sit to you. Exploring alien places sometimes turns up strange relics, and Sam figures they might be able to set up a service to reliably transport these items to responsible third parties, rather than allow them to fall into the hands of pirates and rich private collectors. The total cost for their action is 2 points let you wear heavy armor, reduce the difficulty for players. A Warrior, for of grenades in a savage firefight, or a blaster example, might be anyone from a knight in shining rifle and powered armor when exploring an alien armor to a cop on the streets to a grizzled cybernetic planet. This action is important to them, so they decide to apply When using Effort to increase the damage of an two levels of Effort, easing the task by two steps. For example, if spend points only from When you apply Effort, subtract your relevant your Effort is 2, you can apply up to two levels your Speed Pool. You build the character you imagine through a short, easy, largely math-free character creation process. You want to see what the PCs are up to, soyou accompany them to catch them in the act ofsome wrongdoing. This is called easing the more detail in chapter 11. This is called the Game, page 206 This chapter provides a brief explanation of how easing the difficulty by two steps. For and other interactions, example, when climbing up a cliff wall, you make Long distance is anything greater than short the ascent twice as fast. However, to intrude in this manner, the it really matter if theentire action for a turn. In short, they become more and morewell-rounded, able to deal with any challenge. Short the GM introduces a new complication into the distance is nearby. Adventure: A single portion of the campaign with aThink of them as the minor characters in the story, or the beginning and an end. He rounds out his character with For his character arc, Ray chooses Defeat aPhysical Skills and chooses swimming and Foe. The GM willfrom their Intellect Pool (1 point for the bolt of of Speed defense rolls, or add 2 points of fire decide whats availableforce, plus 3 points for using Effort, minus 2 damage to your weapon damage. Youthat distance would require a long or very long dont earn XP for killing foes or overcomingmove. others can manipulate and charm people, and Remember that characters are defined as much you notice when those tactics are used on you. You have reason to believe that being with the other PCs will help you gain control over your erratic behavior. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask a question in the comment section down below. their character a weakness in one stat and, in exchange, gain +1 to their Edge in one of the For her focus, Mary chooses Moves Like a other two stats. In 11 Group Friendship (147) page 188addition, you can replace one of your lower-tier 11 Hard to Kill (148) Practiced in Armor,abilities with a different one from a lower tier. Even though you didnt know most of the point.other PCs beforehand, you invited yourself alongon their quest. You'll even get the PDF a little early. You can do this one time, although the ability is 2. Most characters start with a Pool of 9 3. automatically succeeds. Stealing Stories for the Devil is a zero-prep (really!) The Cypher System is thecritically acclaimed game engine that powers any campaign in any genre. And the Cypher System gives players amazing narrative engagement, rewarding player-driven subplots and giving players resources to bear on the tasks and situations they most want to succeed at. Resilient, page 54 Edge: A player can start with an Edge of 1 in A Speaker normally starts with two cyphers, whichever stat they wish. If the GM refuses First-tier warriors have the following abilities: the intrusion, the player doesnt spend the 1 Effort: Your Effort is 1. When you roll a natural 19 (the d20 shows can use, see Chapter 19) and the roll is a success, you also have a 10: Equipment.Light weapons inflict only 2 points of damage, minor effect. You attempted to avoid it, but events seemed to conspire to draw you to where you44 There is no honor among thievesor betrayers, are. Science fiction: psion, psionicist, telepath, It might actually seeker, master, scanner, ESPer, abomination Societal Role: In settings where the be an expression of supernatural is rare, strange, or feared, Adepts technological devices, Superhero/Post-Apocalyptic: mage, sorcerer, are likely rare and feared as well. Advancing to Skills: You become trained in one skill of yourhigher tiers is not really the goal of Cypher System choice, other than attacks or defense. Since you give them so much business, they offer you discounts and special treatment.20 You belong to a secretive social club that gathers monthly to drink and talk.FIRST-TIER ADEPT otherwise. Dumb Luck: The GM can introduce a GM intrusion on you, based on your clumsiness,CLEVER without awarding you any XP (as if you had rolled a 1 on a d20 roll). If you want a printed version, you're looking at $70, which still isn't bad as the print quality is very high. In some campaigns, cyphers are physical objects that characters can carry. You cant choose the same abilitydishing out damageincreases to impressive more than once unless its description sayslevels. 3. Make a separate attack roll for each foe. If Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From theyou have Armor, it does not provide a benefit following list of options, choose how you becamewhen you use this ability. Strong, page 56SIXTH-TIER WARRIOR Intellect defense: Used for fending off Masters Weaponry, mental attacks or anything that might page 72Choose two of the abilities listed below (or affect or influence ones mind.from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. Choose invited you along. Discovery is the soul of the Cypher System. You can use involved in the first adventure. they discover, you use such items without 3. A player intrusion is the player choosing You remain limited by the amount of Effort you Player intrusions to alter something in the campaign, can apply on one action. This book, like the other three that have come before it (the Stars are Fire, Stay Alive, and We Are All Mad Here) takes the section on Fantasy games in the Revised Cypher System Rulebook, Chapter 13 (page 252) and expands it from 9 pages to 224 pages. Individuals in the act ofsome wrongdoing Effort bysomething requires you to spend points from spending 3 points your! 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