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As much as I love Cypher System-- it's a truly fantastic game-- the lack of material on 'realistic' subtle cyphers has always made it more of a challenge to run modern, historical, or near-future hard science fiction settings using this system. I'm super-happy to see that the new edition is...

Yes, you too can create characters and set out adventuring on a heroic story arc, taking you from zero to permanently deranged gibbering idiot.

Agree 100%. Like I said, I can see how what doesn't bother me might be problematic for others.

That's a fair criticism which can be levied from various points of view against almost any fictional setting, I suppose. I never felt like John Wick was trying to provide commentary on real-world history or politics with his Theah setting, apart from his explicit statement that 'slavery is bad...

Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. I don't think I would have bothered running the game at all if some friends who hadn't ever roleplayed before hadn't begged me to run it-- and I don't think I would have enjoyed running it so much had they been grognards like myself who held deeply...

I love 7S2e, which is weird because I hated it when I first read the books. I literally put them on my shelf for a decade and forgot about them. But then last year I had some new players-- new to roleplaying, not new to 7S-- who saw the books on my bookshelf, asked a few questions, and then...