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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 45-2018

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Give the Gift of Great Gaming on Cypher Monday!

Games make good gifts. Great games make great gifts. Today, on Cypher Monday, we’re making it easy to grab some great games—as a gift to a loved one, or to yourself!

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 44-2018

The MCG staff is off today, enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday, so this week’s Cypher Chronicles is a short one. If you’re here in the United States, we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying the holiday weekend! The 2018 Holiday Gift Have you checked out the 2018 Holiday Gift?

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A Gift For You, or Gifts for Charity—the 2018 Holiday Gift!

It’s the season of giving, so let’s make it a great holiday season for some great causes! Continuing an MCG holiday-season tradition, here’s the 2018 MCG Holiday Gift! We’re giving you a $5 coupon for the MCG store.

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 43-2018

Beautiful things still must reach their ends. Today we celebrate the final day of the Kickstarter to reprint Invisible Sun. Tonight we air the finale of the streamed Invisible Sun series, The Truth Bleeds at Twilight.

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Why We Play Invisible Sun

If you’ve ever fallen in love with a game, you’ve probably pitched it to a game group or potential players, or simply been asked what’s so special about it. I find that my gaming pitches have three overlapping components: What is this game about?

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 42-2018

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Who Are You, Vislae?

Invisible Sun extracts you from Shadow–the mundane, magic-less world around us right now. You step into the Actuality–a land of surreal fantasy under the light of many suns–as a fully-fledged magic user called a vislae. Vislae tend to lead interesting lives, delving into reality-bending secrets and traveling to mind-bending locales, but they’re also people, with unique relationships and desires and goals, both great and small.

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 41-2018

Wowza. This week has been a big one for us–gamers getting together for charity, Callisto 6 show coming to its season 1 finale (plus a raffle), The Strange officially being brought under the Cypher System umbrella (plus a sale), and exciting new things Invisible Sun! Invisible Sun gets even tastier for your eyeballs Like the beautiful glowing lure of an anglerfish, I made tons of player aids, props, and visual aids to channel my nervousness when I was a beginning GM.

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A Strange Sale!

Cypher System, meet The Strange The Strange is MCG’s roleplaying game that sends you exploring limited alternate dimensions—recursions—based on human myth and fiction. The setting of your favorite novel or movie. Asgard.

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