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Your Game: Strange Revelations Pairings

Your Gameis a regular column that talks aboutgetting the most out of your RPG experience, including GM and player advice. Since Strange Revelations is coming out soon, we thought we’d provide some suggestions for prepping these Instant Adventures to play with your friends or family over the holidays, or whenever. Those of us here in […]

AetherCon and Midwest Game Fest!

Going to any cons this weekend? We are—two of them, in fact! In the virtual space, we’ll be at AetherCon IV, which runs from tomorrow (Thursday, November 12) through Sunday. MCG’s Senior Designer Bruce Cordell and Art Director Bear Weiter are both guests. Bear is on the Painting by Number: Getting Started as an Artist […]

Monte Says: Don’t Skip the GM Section

Monte Saysis a regular column in which Monte talks about topics related to the Cypher System—or anything else on his mind! I know how it is. You’ve been gaming for years. You’ve played a million games. When you pick up a new game, you read the character creation rules and figure out all the great […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 44-2015

Iadaceand welcome to this week’s Cypher Chronicles! Thanksgiving is coming up, and we have some great products to recommend to you for gaming with your family and friends during your Thanksgiving break, but first, let’s dive into some exciting news and interviews! Exciting News and Interviews MCG Summer Flash Sale!Lots of cool, hard to find […]

Announcing the MCG Summer Flash Sale!

If you like cool things (including stuff you can’t normally get) and great deals, we have some goodnews for you: The MCGSummer Flash Sale is coming soon! “But wait!” you’re saying. “It’s November. What makes thisa summer flash sale?” That’s a good question. We had a really great summer—we released some very cool stuff. Including […]

Special Features: 13 Halloween Movies

Special Featuresis a regular columnin which MCG team members discuss projects they’re working on, interesting MCG activities, or things that inspire their work. This column was written by Monte. Halloween, of course, was last weekend. I love Halloween. Scares, pumpkin carving, candy, costumes—what’s not to like? Coupled with Daylight Savings Time Fall back (the day […]

Beyond the Book: Asset Limits

Beyond the Book is a regular column discussing ways to use the Cypher System to run a great game. In the Cypher System, the GM sets the difficulty of an action. The player uses skill and Effort to reduce that difficulty. A skill can reduce the difficulty by either 1 or 2 steps. Effort can […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 43-2015

Iadaceand happy Halloween! May all the ghosties and ghoulies you face this weekend be as frightened of you, as you are of them! Welcome to this week’sCypher Chronicles! Product News What if your character in The Strange isn’t from Earth? What if she came here from one of those recursions—or what if your campaign […]

Alternate Origins

New Descriptors from the Shoals of Earth In The Strange, characters frequently change as they travel from recursion to recursion. A Stealthyvector who is Licensed to Carry on Earth might become, through the process of translation to a fantasy-like recursion such as Ardeyn, a Stealthyvector who Slays Dragons. Or a Stealthy vector who Integrates Weaponry […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 42-2015

Iadaceand welcome to this week’sCypher Chronicles! Product News Only three days left to get in onThe Strange Bundle of Holding,which includes everything you needfor a complete campaign across the Chaosphere at a deep discount AND 10% of the proceedswill be donated to Human Rights Watch. Don’t miss out! MCG wants to send you a trick […]