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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 38-2018

Your Best Game Ever We want every game to be your best game ever, and speaking of such, you’ve got to check out this gem of a story from Bruce (from 2014). What is Your Best Game Ever? As we’ve said, it’s not a rule book, but a tool book.

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November: Gamehole Con

Gamehole Con is the largest tabletop gaming convention in the upper Midwest. Monte and Shanna are both guests this year, running games and panels you won’t want to miss: Monte’s Event Schedule Friday November 9th 11:

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November: U-Con

U-Con is an annual gaming convention in Michigan, including all kinds of gaming events: tabletop, role playing games, board games, miniatures, Live Action Role Playing, and more. Darcy is a guest this year, and she’ll be running some events!

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Living Machines and Artificial Dimensions

Building Tomorrow is replete with salvaging and crafting rules that let characters convert the remnants of the prior worlds into beneficial devices for exploring, building communities, and crafting structures, vehicles, cyphers, or even artifacts of their own. It introduces additional ways to challenge communities, and specific new communities with full stats, too. The sourcebook provides new options for followers.

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October: Big Bad Con

Big Bad Con is a tabletop and live action gaming convention featuring fantastic games in Walnut Creek, California! Darcy is a guest this year, and she’ll be running events along with several fantastic Asset Team members. Join us at some of these events:

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 37-2018

It’s Darcy here with creature features and more cool stuff this week in Cypher Chronicles! You can get Cypher Chronicles, and other MCG news, delivered right to your inbox! Enter your email address and click the Subscribe button in the right-hand column, and you’ll never miss a post.

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Nonhuman Followers

The follower rules introduced in Numenera Destiny assume that the player characters (PCs) are selecting human followers (or creatures that are close enough to human that their species doesn’t matter), but there are many kinds of nonhuman creatures in the Ninth World who might be willing to help a PC. An explorer Jack might save the life of an injured culova, who, in gratitude, pledges to help them. A resourceful Wright might subdue a mastigophore and reprogram it to guard them.

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Numenera Discovery and Destiny

They say there have been eight worlds before ours. Eight times the people of this planet, over vast millennia, built their civilizations, reaching heights we cannot even fully imagine now. They spoke to the stars, reshaped the creatures of the world, and mastered form and essence.

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Numenera Player’s Guide

Amazing characters, the wondrous Ninth World, and the game rules to explore it with. Create characters, explore the Ninth World, and learn the basic rules of the Numenera roleplaying game with this inexpensive player’s guide. It’s perfect for getting a taste of the game, having an extra reference on hand at the gaming table, and building new characters.

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Vislae Kit

Due to overwhelming demand, the Vislae Kit is out of stock. Sign up to be notified of potential reprints or other Invisible Sun news. Everything one player needs for Invisible Sun.

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