The Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter is coming from Monte Cook Games, and they sent me an exclusive teaser and some images for the upcoming Kickstarter. The project starts on Monday the 29th of February. UPDATE - the Kickstarter has now launched.
Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter
The Cypher System is an incredible game engine that delivers all the narrative power and ease of play of Numenera to any campaign you want to run. The content in this Kickstarter will provide at least two full years of awesome Cypher System campaigns—plus the tools and content to build your own incredible games—all straight from the minds of the legendary Monte Cook Games creative team. We’re brewing some awesome books, and if this campaign does well, we’d add more cool stuff, like expanded rules and maybe even some fiction.
Gods of the Fall: Awaken your divine spark, claim a dominion, and become a god in a fantasy world in which the heavens smashed upon the Earth like a vengeful star.
Predation: First figure out how to survive the dark and dangerous world of the Cretaceous Period using the technology of the future -- high-tech weapons, advanced science, and bioengineered dinosaurs -- and then worry about the asteroid that history says wipes out all life on earth.
Unmasked: They say you're insane. Dangerous. That you suffer from Dissociative Mask Disorder. Your parents and the doctors and the press and the military. They can’t believe what’s happening. They can’t believe what you can do.
In the Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter campaign, you’ll be able to back your choice of these campaign settings—each a hefty, 192-page hardcover—or all them. In our previous campaigns, stretch goals have allowed us to add additional titles to the lineup, and we’re hoping to do the same thing in this campaign. Among many other ideas, we’d like to expand upon the content in the Cypher System Rulebook, add some support for The Strange—and maybe even build upon the fiction line we launched in the Into the Ninth World Kickstarter campaign.
The "generic" Cypher System Core Rules is probably one of the games that I am happiest about getting last year at Gen Con. If you're looking for a robust, contemporary RPG to power your games at home, and you don't want a pre-existing setting like Numenera or The Strange (even though both are really evocative settings), you need to check out the Cypher System Core Rules. Now, with this Kickstarter, if you need the guidance you will know how to frame your own worlds in the rules as well.
