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Cypher Play Season 2018-2: Building Amber Keep

The new season of Cypher Play officially starts on October 1st! Cypher Play is our organized play program—new adventure scenarios from MCG, available only in game stores, and played in game stores to build a community of active gamers. If you’re interested in trying out Numenera for the first time, keen to find new Numenera players in your area, want to experience a mini-campaign built specifically for the launch of Numenera Discovery and Numenera Destiny, or just want to get in a bit mor...

Cypher Play Season 2018-2: The Keep in the Badlands

The new season of Cypher Play officially starts on October 1st! Cypher Play is our organized play program—new adventure scenarios from MCG, available only in game stores, and played in game stores to build a community of active gamers. If you’re interested in trying out Numenera for the first time, keen to find new Numenera players in your area, want to experience a mini-campaign built specifically for the launch of Numenera Discovery and Numenera Destiny, or just want to get in a bit mor...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 36-2018

October is shaping up to be crazy for Numenera—crazy awesome! Let’s have a look at the month ahead of us! You can get Cypher Chronicles, and other MCG news, delivered right to your inbox!

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Numenera Crafting Made Easy

Numenera Destiny introduces robust salvaging and crafting rules that let characters convert the remnants of the prior worlds into beneficial devices for exploring, building communities, or crafting structures, vehicles, cyphers, or even their own artifacts. The new crafting rules feature “recipes” that player characters (PCs) can acquire or develop, called plans. Each plan has a description of how resulting device will function.

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Invisible Sun

Due to overwhelming demand, Invisible Sun is out of stock. Sign up to be notified of potential reprints or other Invisible Sun news. A roleplaying game of surreal fantasy, secrets, and magic that is truly magical.

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NPC Personalities on the Fly – Part 3

This is the third of three articles about quickly creating nonplayer character (NPC) personalities. You can find the first article here and the second article here. Sometimes you draw a blank when trying to think up an interesting trait for a person or character.

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Running Games For Kids: Some Tips and Tricks

MCG is on our End-of-Summer Break this week, so we’re bringing you a web article from the archives: Shanna Germain’s advice on running games for kids! This co-designer of No Thank You, Evil!

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 35-2018

MCG is on break next week! Get an insight into what we’re doing to recharge our batteries. Plus, we round up a ton of great streaming shows to watch, and inspiration of natures scientific, artistic, and downright mysterious.

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NPC Personalities on the Fly – Part 2

This is the second of three articles about quickly creating NPC personalities. You can find the first article here. An easy way to make a quick nonplayer character (NPC) memorable is to take a character trait and exaggerate it.

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Building Tomorrow

Uncover the secrets of yesterday to build a better tomorrow Terrible beasts. Abhumans. The iron wind.

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