Numenera and The Strange have been a monumental winner for Monte Cook Games , and now the center rule that drive both plot will be licensed to other game designers and released as a multi - genre RPG tool case . The first prescribed licence is the fantasy noir Shotguns & Sorcery .
One of the great things aboutNumenera , aside from the science - fantasy setting ( andThe Strange‘s trippy techno cosmos - hopping ) , was the leisurely to grok , fun to wreak ruler system of rules . It put a peck of government agency in the players ’ men , but also gave the GM the power to make crazy , originative wrenches into the story . The use of Gamma World - esque temporary exponent and ability keep matter weird and propel encounter forward .
A system like that can be somewhat easily adapted to a short ton of different options , so why not release mass after volume of Cypher System variants ? That ’s one possibility , and a reason MCG has begun certify the Cypher System to 3rd company publishers . The first one to be announced is Shotguns & Sorcery , found on the series of novel by Matt Forbeck . Here ’s howthe already successful Kickstarterdescribes the world :
scattergun & Sorcery is set in Dragon City , a depressed and gritty illusion urban center build on top of and at bottom of a wall - off mountain and dominate over by the Dragon Emperor . Legions of zombi scratch at the thinned Harlan Stone of the Great Circle every hour of the night … Robbing the ruins that lay outside the Great Circle is illegal , but it ’s the sound way for people with questionable talents with runic letter - enlace scattergun to keep the gold flow . And most daytime it perplex sell firedrake center to the nut who apply it to fuel their magics , or hiring out as muscle for the dwarven gang .
The 300 - varlet hardcover marrow book has a December 2015 departure date . you’re able to get a taste of the world of Shotguns & Sorcery bydownloading Forbeck ’s short story Goblintown Justicefor free . Top Image : Shotguns & Sorcery front cover byJeremy Mohler .
If you ’ve got some idea for your own ways to change over the Cypher System to a unexampled genre or setting , but you ’re not quite challenging enough to license and publish your own RPG , MCG has you covered . The Cypher System Rulebook , schedule for summer 2015 , will be more than a generic RPG system — it will contain tons of new character options , genre specific dominion , setting melodic theme , and advice for running the game in your scene of choice . “ It will draw in part from content already published in Numenera and The Strange , but tailor that to bring in different genres , and summate hundred of unexampled types , word form , foci , creatures , cryptograph , and genre - specific rules elements , ” as the insistence liberation so compactly puts it .
But that ’s not all that ’s going on with Monte Cook Games these solar day . They also justlaunched a Kickstarter for a boxed setof Numenera . Since the North American gaming market does n’t seem to bear producing boxed set for retail sale , this is something of a boutique firing , only available through the KS . you may get an empty loge to take for the Numenera material you already have , get a box with the basic Numenera box in case you do n’t have them yet , or get a deluxe boxwood that I suspect is going to be literally bursting with all the crazy stretch goal they ’re design to wad in there .
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