Cypher Chronicles

News, images, updates, and more from Numenera and The Strange.

[conceptvault]

Sojourner of Worlds By Chang Yuan For The upcoming Torment: Tides of Numenera

[cypherchronicles]

Gods! Dinosaurs! Superheroes!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/worlds-of-the-cypher-system

[dice-corner-of-shame]

“I caused my owner to trip + attract the attention of a brain sampling robot…and I helped!”

Greetings all! It’s your friendly neighborhood moderator.  My there are so many new people since I last made contact.  So hello and welcome to all of you.  We are well past 1,000 followers at this point (in fact we’re closing in on 1,700). and I’m afraid school got a little too busy for me to put together a give-away.  I will be putting one together soon (I hope) now that I’m going to exam week. I could not maintain this blog without all of you lovely followers.  And I absolutely love getting dice shame submissions from you!  Please, Shame your dice, shame your friend’s dice, and submit them! Happy holidays, keep rolling, and don’t panic, because crit happens!

[lonelloid]

Drago del Buio, Stella Soave, Ombra, Sette Giorni di Sangue commissioned characters from a LARP, ‘Numenera’

[ineeddiversegames]

Olivia is a Super Smart Princess who Experiments With Science. Rowan is a Cool Robot who Plays With Ooey Gooey Things. They just found out that their friend Wiffle has been captured by saw-toothed witches deep in DragonSnot Falls! They’re the only ones who can enter Storia and save Wiffle—how will they do it? It’s all up to them!

No Thank You, Evil! is tabletop game of creative make-believe, adventure, and storytelling. In No Thank You, Evil!, each player creates a character based on a couple of cool, descriptive, imagination-firing traits. The Guide (a special role often played by a parent or older sibling) presents a dilemma, and the players set off on an adventure of the imagination. Along the way they use their character’s special skills, companions, and equipment to overcome obstacles—perhaps fighting a slime monster, winning over the suspicious mayor, or beating a rabbit at a race.

Whereas conventional board games constrain players’ actions, No Thank You, Evil! sets kids’ imaginations free: Their options are limited only by what they can think up. Together, the players create a story as they work together to make their way through the adventure!

For the Little Kids, the Grown-ups, and Everyone in Between

Read more on the KickStarter Page, and click here to BACK this Project

[wesschneider]

You all know about No Thank You, Evil, right?

It’s a new RPG aimed at families by Monte Cook Games.

Its Kickstarter going right now and it looks like it’s going to be great!

From the site:

No Thank You, Evil! is tabletop game of creative make-believe, adventure, and storytelling. In No Thank You, Evil!, each player creates a character based on a couple of cool, descriptive, imagination-firing traits. The Guide (a special role often played by a parent or older sibling) presents a dilemma, and the players set off on an adventure of the imagination. Along the way they use their character’s special skills, companions, and equipment to overcome obstacles—perhaps fighting a slime monster, winning over the suspicious mayor, or beating a rabbit at a race.

Whereas conventional board games constrain players’ actions, No Thank You, Evil! sets kids’ imaginations free: Their options are limited only by what they can think up. Together, the players create a story as they work together to make their way through the adventure!

So check it out! No Thank You, Evil Kickstarter.

[cypherchronicles]

No matter your age, you can play a pony!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/no-thank-you-evil-a-game-of-make-believe-for-famil

[cypherchronicles]

Lochtopus! Art by Cathy Wilkins.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/no-thank-you-evil-a-game-of-make-believe-for-famil

[ronamis]

Oi, lads! I’m up for some commissions, if you need me. Full price info here: http://ronamis.deviantart.com/journal/Updated-my-journal-454958475

You get 5% off if it’s for you Pen&Paper game!

You get 10% off if it’s Planescape or Numenera

[tormentrpg]

No Thank You, Evil! a Game of Make-Believe for Families

A game of make-believe for creative kids and their families from the team that brought you Numenera and The Strange

The latest title from Monte Cook Games has hit Kickstarter, based on the Cypher System!

[cypherchronicles]

No matter your age, you can play a pony!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/no-thank-you-evil-a-game-of-make-believe-for-famil

[ineeddiversegames]

Olivia is a Super Smart Princess who Experiments With Science. Rowan is a Cool Robot who Plays With Ooey Gooey Things. They just found out that their friend Wiffle has been captured by saw-toothed witches deep in DragonSnot Falls! They’re the only ones who can enter Storia and save Wiffle—how will they do it? It’s all up to them!

No Thank You, Evil! is tabletop game of creative make-believe, adventure, and storytelling. In No Thank You, Evil!, each player creates a character based on a couple of cool, descriptive, imagination-firing traits. The Guide (a special role often played by a parent or older sibling) presents a dilemma, and the players set off on an adventure of the imagination. Along the way they use their character’s special skills, companions, and equipment to overcome obstacles—perhaps fighting a slime monster, winning over the suspicious mayor, or beating a rabbit at a race.

Whereas conventional board games constrain players’ actions, No Thank You, Evil! sets kids’ imaginations free: Their options are limited only by what they can think up. Together, the players create a story as they work together to make their way through the adventure!

For the Little Kids, the Grown-ups, and Everyone in Between

Read more on the KickStarter Page, and click here to BACK this Project

[cypherchronicles]

Can No Thank You, Evil! The newest family game from Monte Cook Games, LLC 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/no-thank-you-evil-a-game-of-make-believe-for-famil

[joeslucher]

New piece for Monte Cook Games!

[cypherchronicles]

Monte Cook Games’ Response

It's been a few days since our open call for discussion regarding the petition at change.org, so we at MCG wanted to give you an update on our response to the situation.

Since the petition went up, we’ve read everything we’ve found on the Internet about the issue—and we’ve been saddened by the malicious words from some of our supporters and our critics. But thankfully there have also been some considerate, intelligent, thoughtful voices coming through the fray and those are the ones we want to listen to.

We have also been interacting with cultural appropriation and Native American resources, organizations, and experts outside of the Internet about the matter. Of course, the real world moves much slower than the Internet does, so these conversations are taking some time.

Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,

Monte Cook Games

[gaymemaster]

Look what I got today! Can’t wait to try this baby out!

[ivorythorns]

Stories from the Table: Numenera

On Sunday night, we played more Numenera!  And it was pretty much everything I wanted it to be and more, because Travis (who used to be in my Wednesday group but went AWOL due to real life last July) showed up to play.  The only sad thing was Will didn’t get to do or say much last adventure.  This should be remedied somehow.

Let’s see…  There was an awful lot of bickering this game, and that was absolutely lovely.  At one point, our GM told us to “keep up the banter” because he was looking for something, which made us pause because we thought he was being sarcastic — but, no, actually, he was looking for something and he did want us to keep bickering like an old married couple.  Keith and I are pretty good at this thing, and I approve.

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