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. One of the other PCs reminds you ofsomeone you used to know. Skill: Youre trained in all tasks involving 1. might also have knowledge of machinery, so the character could be flavored with technology. 11 Adroit Cypher Use (108) Danger Sense, page 124Choose four of the abilities listed below (or 11 Free to Move (143) Surging Confidence,from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. Against your better judgment, you joined the other PCs because you saw that they were in danger. 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. Chapter 10: Equipment.with regard to an urgent question, problem, or Genius: You have an Intellect Edge of 1, aobstacle youre facing. SPECIAL ROLLS For more on the types of Typical physical weapons come in three weapons that characterscategories: light, medium and heavy. Fire, page 64 suitable for every genre. Because this bookof 2 wants to use their Onslaught ability to create covers so manya bolt of force, which costs 1 Intellect point. following list of options, choose how you became table. If the GM refuses First-tier warriors have the following abilities: the intrusion, the player doesnt spend the 1 Effort: Your Effort is 1. After yourHowever, if they had not applied some Effort, character purchases four character benefits, theythey would have failed because their roll (8) advance to the next tier. Explorer, page 27 flavors everything you do. undertake a potentially dangerous task alone. 13 You have traveled extensively, and during that time you accumulated quite a collection of strange souvenirs. 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. This is called the Game, page 206 This chapter provides a brief explanation of how easing the difficulty by two steps. Sometimes, an Explorer is a teacher,a scientist, a detective, or an investigativereporter. Long distance is farther off. Might 10 Special Abilities: Choose four of the abilities Speed 9 listed below. Pre-order the Cypher System Rulebook from your local brick-and-mortar game store, and Monte Cook Games will send you the PDF version for free. 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. In some ways, Not everyone can be brilliant. 8 Heroic 30 A task that normal humans couldnt consider (but one that doesnt break 9 Immortal the laws of physics). You might not 11 Concussive Blast (121) be a wizard, but you know the basicshow it 11 Fetch (139) works, and how to accomplish a few wondrous 11 Force Field (143) things. Selecting any of these options counts The verb is called your focus. Once you start putting together tweaking things here and there is a breeze. You know how to use weapons and defend yourself. If a special abilityexplained in the ability description. The powers that be took notice and are paying close attention. Skill: You are eager to learn. Now you bear their mark. 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. 2 Your brother is the lead singer in a really popular band. Its priests and worshippers, although small in number, respect and admire your talents and potential. What you hold in your hands is a guidebook. can use your Might Edge to reduce the cost For information on of one of those uses of Effort, not both. 7 You received assistance from a secretive organization, which paid for your schooling. Report DMCA DOWNLOAD as PDF DOWNLOAD PDF heavy weapons are hindered. attack that inflicts damage, whether a sword, a They can choose to apply one, two, or three crossbow, a mind blast, or something else. Youll use parts of it to (but probably not all) of the kinds of games youbuild the game you want to play. within immediate distance. Mary rounds out her points of Speed. 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. schemes of others and occasionally convince Skill: Youre trained in all tasks involving them to believe youeven when, perhaps, theypositive or pleasant social interaction. So applying two levels of Effortpoints from that stat Pool, but not from other costs 5 points (3 for the first level plus 2 for thePools. Group Role: Explorers sometimes work alone,but far more often they operate in teams withother characters. For example, the cost heavy armor, which isnt an action) or happenmight be given as 2+ Intellect points. That as part of another action (such as adding firemeans you can spend more points or more damage to your weapon damage, which happenslevels of Effort to improve the ability further, as as part of your attack action). Jumpy: +2 to your Speed Pool. You like to think the instruction they gave you prepared you for anything. Trained, page 207 Specialized, page 207 The Cypher System uses a twenty-sided die A skill is a category of knowledge, ability, or(1d20) to determine the results of most actions. (Just as in a sentence, the noun Reduce the cost for wearing armor. You still die if all yourthrough your gruff exterior to the person you stat Pools are 0.really are. 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. This will ease his Speed defense rolls if he has both He wants to use a large combat knife (a knives out (the shield counts as an asset). way to ensure that11 Adroit Cypher Use (108) you have exactly the11 Arc Spray (110) Might defense: Used for resisting poison, character you want. d20 Background 1 You were a star high school athlete. They might even take leadership roles. Exact positions arent that they already have. One of the PCs approached you to learn even if its not your turn. There are ten degrees of difficulty. These were quite popular, both for their settings and for their rules. feet. of oddments. Now they seem to want a lot more from you. A skill can never decrease a tasks difficultytarget number of 3, but a difficulty 4 task has a by more than two steps.target number of 12. The difficulty of your attack roll depends on how powerful your opponent is. While avoiding an entirely different situation, you walked into your current situation. When you roll a natural 20 (the d20 shows 20) and the roll is a success, you also haveHeavy weapons inflict 6 points of damage, a major effect. who goes first in combat) are hindered. Inability: Youre a sprinter, not a long-distance You gain the following characteristics: runner. Usually defined at the beginning byvillains or opponents. If a character attacks acreature, the player makes an attack roll. You get activating a device (that you already understand) Armor from wearing physical armor (such as a to erect a force field. These areof your own into it first. trained in perception-related tasks. Cypher System characters are built from the concept up. It doesnt matter if the cultist is 20 facts, wondrous secrets, powerful artifacts,feet (6 m) or 40 feet (12 m) awayits simply answers to mysteries, or solutions to problemsconsidered short distance. somewhere and decided to check it out for Trivia: You can come up with a random fact yourself. Applying one Your Edge can be different for each stat. Stalwart: +2 to your Might Pool. In the course of the combat, it quickly want for your type, as changing the character. Choose two of the abilities listed below (or Some Speaker abilities, Special Abilities: Choose four of the abilities listed from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. 3. I pulled the contents of that In some ways, this book is a companion book together from the Cypher System games volume to a book that I wrote called Your Best that existed at the timeNumenera and The Game Ever. horror. You are Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From the trained in Intellect defense tasks having to do following list of options, choose how you became with losing your sanity or equanimity. so why bother? The target number is always three times you are specialized, you ease the difficulty by twothe tasks difficulty, so a difficulty 1 task has a steps. Combat flavor makes a character more martial. involved in the first adventure. You turn around too quickly, but you end upyoure physically attractive, or maybe you use knocking the weapon from your foes hand. So a PC can take a weakness of 1Cat, granting her a final Speed Pool of 18 and in Speed to gain +1 to their Might Edge.training in balance. This is by far the11 Parry (168) most commonly used defense task. This helps speakers get others to do what needs to be done. A socialized, you took the time growing up to them. Youre nearly certain the PCs will fail without 3. 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 the end, shes gracefuland quick, charismatic, and hardier than she Normally, you can have a weakness only in ainitially thought thanks to her drive. The Cypher System Rulebook releases in early August, but you can reserve your copy nowand get a great deal! Most characters start with a Pool of 9 3. Chaotic: Once after each ten-hour recovery roll, if you dont like the first result, you can reroll a die roll of your choice. Assets can never decrease a tasks difficulty by more Character skills, favorable circumstances, or than two steps.excellent equipment can decrease the difficultyof a task. The Explorer frequently leadsthe way, blazing the trail. The type of defense is sometimes the bestabilities with a different one from a lower tier. The Cypher System Rulebook includes advice and special rules for nine different genres. The 448-page Cypher System Rulebook gives you all the character options, equipment, game rules, special coverage of key genres, creatures, NPCs, and cyphers you need for any game. 11 and a Might Edge of 0. 3. You cant choose the same ability more than addition, you can replace one of your lower-tier True Senses, imply a once unless its description says otherwise. Dont worry about or manipulated. But at the heart of it all is that 1-to-10 scale. An Explorer flavoredwith skills and knowledge could be a fieldscientist. It does matter if the (such as where the kidnappers are keeping theircultist is more than 50 feet (15 m) away because victim or how the PCs repair the starship). His character is not particularly smart or and asks the GM if he could use it in his leftcharismatic. thinking about your personal honor, how best to Inability: Youll try anything once, but quickly maintain it, and how to defend it if challenged. want to be defined byYoure a smooth talker and a charmer. This fate might You gain the following characteristics: be yours alone, or you might be dragging along Open Mind: +4 to your Intellect Pool. certain technology abilitiesspecifically those An Explorer with stealth flavor might be a thief, that make the character a flamboyant starship while a Warrior with stealth flavor might be an pilot. I pulled the contents of that In some ways, this book is a companion book together from the Cypher System games volume to a book that I wrote called Your Best that existed at the timeNumenera and The Game Ever. your Speed Edge of 2, it costs only 3 points. character tough but a little slow. Players have that one character idea that information, and so on, will hopefully make your would be their best character ever, if they could games more fun and your stories richer. For example, instead of being good at your characters life. Whenever you inflictdamage, you can choose to inflict 2 fewer pointsof damage to ease your next attack against thatfoe. 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. 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. The Cypher System is a slick, simple, generic game engine. Your former comrades dont understand you, but they respect you. You understand people, so you can fool advantage. You dont have to apply Effort if you dont want For example, lets say you have a mental blast to. They told you not to ask too many questions, and that seemed fine to you. 11 Your older sibling is an infamous character who has been disgraced. 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. 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. focus. a new skill. 2. Now he inflicts 6 points of damage withso he can inflict extra damage with his big knife. different one from a lower tier. Shes between their Pools on a one-for-one basis. The concepts of strength, This stat determines how smart, knowledgeable, endurance, constitution, hardiness, and physical and likable your character is. For example, a leather thus negate the need for a roll. 3. Join our newsletter below! 11 Expert Follower (137) stat points into her Intellect Pool and 3 into 11 Grand Deception (146) her Speed Pool; her stat Pools are now Might Fast Talk, page 138 11 Lead by Inquiry (157) 8, Speed 12, and Intellect 14. and GMs will use this book, but more than It can be anything. You talked your way into the situationknowledge, or understanding is hindered. Cypher System Rulebook Pdf Free. You might be a Rugged Warrior who Stands Like a Bastion. Created for the hit RPG Numenera and later used in The Strange, the Cypher System is the roleplaying game engine lauded for its elegance, flexibility, ease of use, and focus on narrative. 16 While exploring a remote location, you saw something strange youve never been able to explain. One of the other PCs recruited you for yourforaging, hunting, and finding safe places to rest unique talents.or hide. At adenine new Starter Set, a DELUXE Key System Rulebook, also two striking new choose books, like campaign has something for everyonenew fans and Cypher System experienced alike! Inability: Being so receptive to others Skill: You are defense minded, so you are thoughts and moods makes you vulnerable to trained in Speed defense tasks. Learn more about what Genius: You have an Intellect Edge of 1, a 11 Distortion (130) you carry and how its used 11 Erase Memories (136) in Chapter 10: Equipment.Might Edge of 0, and a Speed Edge of 0. You gain the following characteristics: You gain the following characteristics: Generous: Allies who have spent the last day Energetic: +2 to your Speed Pool.with you add +1 to their recovery rolls. Some need new rules to convey thesome now and save others for your next game. Decreasing the Skill, page 19to play the game, and its useful for learning the difficulty of a task can also be called easing a task.game. 9 You served as an envoy for a powerful and influential person in the past, and they still look upon you with favor.10 You have an annoying rival who always seems to get in your way or foil your plans. automatically succeeds. overarching story (or linked stories) with the same player characters. During the game, Rays Warrior willdamage) and a .357 Magnum (a heavy pistol that be hard to hithe is trained in Speed defenseinflicts 6 points of damage but requires the use rolls, and his extra knife eases his defense rollsof both hands). 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. For example, they might know that for sneaking around, infiltrating places they dont their science fiction game, they want a type belong, and deceiving others. The character stands atop a boulder and one level of Effort would cost 3 points, but strikes downward at the beast, and the GM rules you subtract your Speed Edge from that cost, that this helpful tactic is an asset that eases the reducing it to 0.) Individual Role: Although Explorers can beacademics or well studied, they are first andforemost interested in action. And the more like and what kinds of experiences they want distinct your setting is from genre tropes, the Chapter 8: Focus, to have. Your impulsiveness likely gets you into trouble. They put11 Resilience (176) 3 additional points into their Might Pool, 2 into11 Run and Fight (179) their Speed Pool, and 1 into their Intellect Pool;11 Seize the Moment (181) their stat Pools are now Might 13, Speed 11, and11 Skill With Attacks (183) Intellect 10. Skill: You have made a study of the world. Any task to hear or notice sense, maybe you can see just a few momentsdangers around you is hindered. Check Cypher System - Revised Edition from alex m here. Your cruel streak mayderive from bitterness brought about by yourown struggles and disappointments. 2 You studied in a school infamous for its dark, brooding instructors and graduates. He decides that the character gives Ray an extra medium or heavy weapon. Characters can advance up to the sixth tier. If you have a d10 (a ten-sided die), you can use it instead of the d20 to roll numbers between 1 and 100.12Part 1CHARACTERSChapter 4: CREATING YOUR CHARACTER 14Chapter 5: TYPE 20Chapter 6: FLAVOR 34Chapter 7: DESCRIPTOR 38Chapter 8: FOCUS 60Chapter 9: ABILITIES 95Chapter 10: EQUIPMENT 201Chapter 4 CREATING YOUR CHARACTER Speed could be thought This chapter explains how to create characters Might governs actions from forcing doors of as Speed/Agility to play in a Cypher System game. If your Armor reduces the damage from an attack to 0, you If theres no roll, theres no chance for failure. 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. and more. Shoot a photo of the receipt and email itto csrpreorders@montecookgames.com. and do not get an XP for it (you still get an XP to 2. You might have had a serious Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From the But if youre constantly accident, a harmful mutation, or just poor following list of options, choose how you became genetic luck, but you are incontrovertibly ugly. They did update object damage to the damage track created in ND/D, which was in my opinion much easier and more intuitive to use. Each benefit costs 4 XP,would have been less than the tasks original and you can purchase them in any order, buttarget number (9). Sometimes one adventure can be accomplished in aGame master (GM): The player who doesnt run a session. You established a close bond with another award to another player). character creation will be. You prefer to barrel Intellect Weakness: Any time you spend points off. A player can exchange points 33Chapter 6 FLAVOR Chapter 9: Abilities, Flavors are groups of special abilities the In the end, flavor is mostly a tool for the page 95 GM and players can use to alter a character GM to easily create campaign-specific types by type to make it more to their liking or more making a few slight alterations to the four base Unless otherwise noted, appropriate to the genre or setting. Otherabilities should not be changed. encounter. true face. Inexplicably Unbroken: An inactive, ruined, or presumed-destroyed device temporarily activates and performs a useful function relevant to the situation. 14 You worked the gardens in the palace of an influential noble or person of wealth. You blew all of your money and now find You gain the following characteristics: yourself strapped for cash. You gain the following characteristics: Tumultuous: +4 to your Speed Pool. High fantasy? You may Skill: You are trained in deception. One of the other PCs did a favor for you, Inelegant: You have a certain lovable charm.and now youre repaying that obligation by You are trained in all pleasant social interactionshelping them with the task at hand. In any event, an Explorer bravely facesnew challenges and gathers knowledge to sharewith others. Your charismatic ways helped get one of since.the PCs out of a difficult spot a long time ago,and they always ask you to join them on new BRASHadventures. player intrusion just happens. remembering or memorizing things you experience important throughout directly. Galaxy-spanning space opera? 13 You belong to an exclusive organization of Explorers whose existence is not widely known. You seek to escape your shame and take up are villainous traits and Skill: Youve got a certain bull-like quality. 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? or space opera are fine, but in the end, what is important is the specific setting. Skill: Youre trained in all tasks involving physical performing arts. however, its effectively canceled out by their Danger Sense (and vice versa). The Strange - System Cheat Sheet. 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. Just as the characters in movies, novels, and TV shows grow through their own subplots, Cypher System players may choose arcs to pursue, tying their characters personalities more closely to the overall story and engaging the players even deeper into their characters and the campaign. And the character types in chapter 5 are designed to If you like the Cypher System but dont be tailored and reshaped. yourself) is hindered. 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. Follow the instructionsto accomplish a task, you apply Effort. The GMdecides that Rays first cypher is a pill thatrestores 6 points of Might when swallowed,and his second is a small, easily concealed 23Magic here is a term ADEPT Group Role: Adepts are not powerful in used very loosely. Youll even get the PDF a little early. The PCs were looking for someone else, 2. To get more targeted content, please make full-text search by clicking. 8 You went to a prestigious university on an athletic scholarship, but you excelled in class as well as on the field. In to reinforce the setting. 3. You gain the following characteristics: Additional Equipment: You see through the GM intrusions, page 408 Personable: +2 to your Intellect Pool. Pure happenstancebecause you just go you.along with the flow of things and everythingusually works out. not they achieve that goal.Party: A group of player characters (and perhaps some Campaign: A series of sessions strung together with anNPC allies). might move with the prevailing mood, swinging 4. The Cypher System Rulebook even makes it easy to customize your own types and foci. This Edge from the total cost of applying Effort. For me getting the 2nd edition was a no brainer as Cypher System is joint favourite with Fantaji (an excellent universal rpg by Anphropos Games Publishing). Or a Charming Speaker who Bears a Halo of Fire. For example, you might have designed In chapter 7, youll find guidelines for creating it such that fire magic is always evil and in the new descriptors. If you can rate a task between 1 and 10, you can run the Cypher Systemeven if your adventure goes in a completely unexpected direction, or youve had no time to prep. The universe is a cold, uncaring place, 3. )difficulty by one step (or just easing the difficulty, 7TASK DIFFICULTY Target No. You know a smattering of people in many locations. 13 You trained for a time with a group of influential Adepts, and they still look upon you with fondness. More often, one adventure is multiple sessions.character, but instead guides the flow of the story and runsall the NPCs.Nonplayer character (NPC): Characters run by the GM. Skill: You are trained in Might defense actions. Check it out! You can pick38DESCRIPTORS Cruel Hideous Mad Descriptor Dishonorable Honorable MechanicalAppealing Doomed Impulsive Mysterious SkepticalBeneficent Empathic Inquisitive Mystical StealthyBrash Exiled Intelligent Naive StrongCalm Fast Intuitive Perceptive Strong-WilledChaotic Foolish Jovial Resilient SwiftCharming Graceful Kind Risk-Taking Tongue-TiedClever Guarded Learned Rugged ToughClumsy Hardy Lucky Sharp-Eyed ViciousCraven VirtuousCreative Weird 2. 20 Your father is a high-ranking officer in the military with many connections. | Site by Clockpunk Studios, Special rules and advice for nine specific genres, including fantasy, modern, science-fiction, horror, superheroes, and post-apocalyptic, Four character types, each easily customized to the needs of your setting, 50 descriptors and more than 90 foci, along with all the tools to create new foci, Loads of equipment and hundreds of cyphers and artifacts, Great GM advice on adapting the Cypher System to a variety of settings, and onrunning fun, engaging, fast-paced, easy-to-GM game sessions. You are trained 3. helps round her outshes good in all kinds of 11 Absorb Energy (108) situations. Inability, page 207 Enterprise, page 245 Sam still needs a descriptor and a focus. 4 While traveling alone, you saved the life of a powerful person. None require customization if you dont want to do that. If a task is hindered, it increases thethe Game, for a more in-depth treatment. varies with different schools of thought, but in 2. You probably have a dozen books and recalling details of geography that you read abouttravelogues about the world on you at any time. you take only 1 point of damage. They brought you to your current 1. That lowers the target number to 3. 3. For a listtarget number to 3. For example, your focus might mean that youretrained in sneaking, in climbing and jumping, or in social Remember that if you gain a skill that youre alreadyinteractions. However, no starting stat Pool page 155first-tier abilities with Interaction Skills (deceiving should be higher than 20.and persuasion). You have no idea how you joined the PCs. difficulty by one step. the Cypher System in many ways. They may still be alive, but youd be hard pressed to find forgiveness. When your character really needs in chapter 5. creatures, aliens, mutants, automatons, animate plants, and so on. nearby, you have to physically stop yourself from bulling on ahead. CYPHER SYSTEM RULEBOOKCREDITS Designers Monte Cook, Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K. Reynolds Additional Designers Shanna Germain, Robert J. 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