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Dark Times Call for Dark Heroes T-shirt
$25124 purchasedThe photo tells you everything you need to know! Screen-printed on a soft, durable, high-quality cotton-poly material, this shirt encapsulates the attitude of this campaign's titles, and shows off your Cypher System love in style! Available in sizes S through 5X.Edit -
Deluxe Cypher System Dice
$5562 purchasedIn recent years we've designed stunning premium dice for specific Cypher System-based games, such as the Old Gods of Appalachia and The Magnus Archives RPGs. Now we're making a set that will grace your game table no matter what Cypher System campaign you run! These handsome metal dice look almost like they're glowing from inside—you really have to see them to truly appreciate the effect. You get all the dice you need for use with the Cypher System: one d20, one d6, and percentile dice. The d20 bears the Cypher bug on the 20 face, and special markings on the 17, 18, and 19 faces—making it easy to identify results that have special effects in gameplay. The dice come in a dice box and are truly unique and beautiful, with a wonderful heft in the hand and an elegant glow. You'll love them!Edit -
GM's Campaign Notebook
$3053 purchasedInspired by the deluxe feel of the GM's journals we offered for the Old Gods of Appalachia and The Magnus Archives RPGs, this is a great aid for building intense, engaging campaigns—you'll wonder how you lived without it! Outside, the debossed cover has a lustrous feel, while inside, it's filled with terrific prompts for building and recording your adventures, specifically tailored to the needs of a Cypher System GM. The deluxe features are rounded out by a ribbon bookmark that—like the entire journal—is both elegant and functional. In addition to the journal in print, this add-on also includes this title in PDF.Edit -
Cypher System Rulebook
$7037 purchasedThe award-winning Cypher System is flexible, fast-paced, and built to make life easy on the GM. Any campaign, any character—if you can imagine it, the Cypher System makes it easy. This add-on gets you a physical print copy of the 448-page Cypher System Rulebook—everything you need to run the Cypher System, including the complete rules, character and campaign generation, loads of advice and optional rules for a variety of genres, creatures, cyphers, and more. (Every pledge level includes the Cypher System Rulebook in PDF.) This title already exists, so your copy will be delivered early. The Cypher System Rulebook in print is included in the [[Try out the Cypher System]], [[Explore the Cypher System]], and [[All In: Embrace the Cypher System]] pledge levels.Edit -
Cypher System Playmat
$3070 purchasedIn the Cypher System, players roll all the dice. And there aren’t a great many tables or charts a GM needs to reference during play. So many gaming groups prefer an alternative to the traditional GM screen, one that removes the barrier between GM and player. The Cypher System playmat is a beautiful centerpiece on your gaming table. And it’s also practical: along the edges there’s reference info of interest to the GM and the players—things like damage track and special roll result info, task difficulty, distance definitions, and other things players and GMs sometimes look up during play. It’s all there in front of you so that you can focus on your story, not on flipping through the book. The pleasant fabric surface with non-slip rubberized backing gives you a great die-rolling surface. It’s well-sized at 24″ x 32″, large enough to show of its art and information nicely, but not too big for your gaming table. The stunning artwork by Katerina Ladon really shines. The Cypher System playmat is a gorgeous and useful centerpiece for any Cypher System game! This item is delivered early.Edit -
Character Portfolios (set of 5)
$2031 purchasedA lot can happen in a campaign. Your character is more than a collection of numbers—they have a story to tell, details to record, and friends (and adversaries!) to note. The Cypher System Character Portfolio does the job of a standard character sheet, and so much more. At 24 pages, it records all your character’s pools, abilities, skills, cyphers, and everything else you find on a regular character sheet. But it also gives you room for notes, sketches, character arcs, and details about those abilities. Jot down thoughts about your character’s appearance and mannerisms. There’s plenty of room for details about connections to the other PCs in your party along with people, creatures, objects, and locations you meet in your adventures. Keep a campaign journal, or make maps and sketches of places you’ve been. The Cypher System Character Portfolio is perfectly sized to give you plenty of space within, but without taking up too much space on the gaming table. It’s printed in full color on heavy matte paper that takes pencil and eraser easily. Even the cover is easy to write and draw on, making every player’s Character Portfolio unique from the outside in. You'll never go back to a laserprinted character sheet! The print version comes in a pack of five—enough for the whole party. You also get it in PDF, in two versions: Form-fillable for use on devices, and printer-optimized. This title is delivered early.Edit -
NPC Deck
$2065 purchasedBreathe life into an infinite variety of NPCs—for any campaign! Whether you're fleshing out characters during game prep, or need a bit of inspiration when a game session goes in an unexpected direction, the 100-card NPC Deck helps you breathe life into your NPCs with details of their appearance, personality, abilities, and possessions—even their names. Just draw a card—each card gives you a first and last name (as well as a fantasy name alternative); details of appearance, demeanor, and personality; modifications to the NPC’s level; and a distinguishing feature or item. The deck includes 100 distinctive ready-to-use NPCs for a vast variety of roles. Or create an infinite variety of NPCs by drawing several cards and mixing elements from the results. Either way, use them as described, or riff on the suggestions with your own ideas. You'll never be short of inspiration! NPCs in the Cypher System are so easy: just create a role to fill—shopkeeper, mobster, duke’s seneschal, street urchin, ship captain—and assign the NPC a level. With the NPC Deck, the details that bring the character to life are just as easy! In addition to the deck in print, you also get this title in PDF. This title is delivered early.Edit -
GM Intrusion Deck
$2081 purchasedGM intrusions are part of what makes the Cypher System so fluid, fast-paced, and narrative-focused—and a real joy to GM! A good GM intrusion introduces an unexpected factor that spices up a scene, creates a turning point in an adventure, or throws a little wrench into the PCs’ best-laid plans. Sometimes GMs prepare them in advance, but often they occur spontaneously, where the GM sees a cool opportunity or a d20 roll results in that dreaded “1.” But coming up with just the right intrusion on the fly can sometimes challenge even the best GM’s creativity. At the table, or in prep, it helps to have a little inspiration! The GM Intrusion Deck gives you 300 intrusion ideas on 100 cards. Each card offers a combat intrusion, a social intrusion, and an intrusion for miscellaneous situations. Need an intrusion on the fly, or some inspiration when planning your game? Just draw a card. Or draw two or three, and pick the one you like—or just use them to inspire some other great idea. Save time and effort, and free your creativity with the GM Intrusion Deck! In addition to the deck in print, you also get this title in PDF. This title is delivered early.Edit -
The Weird
$5536 purchased10,000+ incredible ideas that will make your game—any game!—even more engaging and memorable! A magical bow that creates snakes and looses them like arrows. A sorcerer whose powerful spells feed off their own brain tissue, slowly killing them. A man accompanied by the (friendly?) floating eye of a slain demon lord. A sword that inflicts wounds that scream. A gun that fires intelligent bullets. The Weird contains more than 100 lists of ideas, each over 100 entries long—that’s well over 10,000 (more like 12,000) mind-bending bursts of inspiration. The lists are organized by genre, so you can easily reference those best suited for your game, whether it’s science-fiction, horror, fantasy, or whatever. Use them during game prep or on the fly to build great characters, encounters, or campaigns. And they're all exactly as weird as you need. You may want something completely over the top—or maybe your campaign is a bit more traditional. Not every game calls for the same level of weirdness. There are different kinds of weird, and they aren’t just a hierarchy or a matter of degree. They have different moods, different tones, and different uses in a game. The Weird puts every prompt into a category: Interesting, Surprising, Gonzo, and Whimsical. The Weird is an amazing game aid no matter what genre, or even game system, you're into. In addition to the book in print, you also get this title in PDF. This title is delivered early.Edit -
The Darkest House
$5550 purchasedA descent into horror for the game you're playing right now! The Darkest House is an mega-adventure that takes you into a unique realm of horror. It’s made for the game you’re already playing, to be integrated into your campaign regardless of the setting or game system. And it's uniquely optimized for a rich, powerful experience that's immersive for the players and easy on the GM—whether you play face-to-face or online. The Darkest House will chill and frighten your players like no other RPG experience. But along the way their characters will have experiences that make them stronger, deeper, richer, and more powerfully bonded as a party. The Darkest House includes enough content for many, many sessions of play. It's a mega-adventure of sorts, a challenge and a mystery that enters your campaign perhaps as a single experience, or perhaps as a recurring element. Use it as a spooky interlude, or a major campaign theme, as best fits your game and the experience your players have within its walls. And you get it in two compelling formats. The hefty hardcover is a conventional book, while the digital version is a unique app optimized for use with online games—it puts all the information for each room in a single screen, making it easy for the GM. And both versions make it easy to access and share scores of player-facing images, maps, handouts, and even sound files. This add-on gives you both the book and the digital version. This title is delivered early.Edit -
Cypher System Bestiary
$5072 purchasedScores of awe-inspiring creatures in an amazing presentation! Mystify, frighten, and challenge your PCs with this stunningly illustrated collection that gives you an almost infinite array of encounters. Dozens and dozens of inspiring creatures familiar and new are detailed within the Cypher System Bestiary's pages, along with oodles of variants and customization options. And now Cypher System creatures, always easy to run, are even easier! A streamlined stat block helps you quickly reference everything you need to run the creature at the table. But delve deeper, and the creature entry is chock full of lore, fascinating details and supporting information, and options. Find a myriad of ways to customize the creature, with different names, alternate special abilities and traits, interesting looks, distinct motivations, companions or pets, lair designs, unique mechanics, and more. Many of the listings have fold-out pages to put even more useful and inspiring information at your fingertips! In addition to the print book, you also get the Cypher System Bestiary in PDF. This title is delivered early.Edit -
Adventures in the Cypher System
$4025 purchasedShowcasing the Cypher System's elegant handling of different genres and types of adventures, this hardcover anthology features a variety of adventures ready to use as one-shots or as part of your campaign. Science fiction, fantasy, horror—it's all covered here, including adventures that revisit fan-favorite settings like The Strange and Predation. (But you don't need those titles to enjoy the adventures.) In addition to the print book, you also get the Adventures in the Cypher System in PDF. This title is delivered early.Edit -
Any Genre, Any Campaign Library
$2808 purchasedGet an entire library of truly awesome Cypher System books and save $70 with this campaign-exclusive discount! Each of these 224-page hardcover titles looks at the full breadth of its genre, explores ways to make great campaigns in that milieu, offers optional rules and GMing tricks, gives you creatures, cyphers, and character options, and presents a ready-to-use campaign setting and a couple of adventures. Stay Alive! digs into horror; Godforsaken explores fantasy; The Stars Are Fire takes you into the realm of science fiction; We Are All Mad Here looks at fairy tales; Claim the Sky is all about superheroes; Rust and Redemption takes you into the post-apocalypse; and It's Only Magic explores modern magic and fantasy. Its a total of over 1,500 pages of great Cypher System content (each book is a 224-page hardcover that retails for $49.99). In addition to the print books, you also get these titles in PDF. This is a great deal, but the [[All In]] pledge level, which includes all of these books, is event better! These books will be delivered early. Supplies are limited.Edit -
Explore Ptolus Bundle
$19011 purchasedDive into Monte's masterwork campaign setting and save nearly $40! Ptolus is an amazing high-fantasy city, presented in incredible detail and steeped in lore and atmosphere. Navigate its labyrinthine streets—and equally labyrinthine politics. Delve into the extensive dungeons below. And maybe, when you're ready, ascend the Spire that looms overhead, the heart of an ancient and restless evil. Ptolus is a critically acclaimed masterpiece fantasy city. Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire is a 672-page (yes, you read that right) deluxe-format hardcover—with dozens of handouts and props and an additional 300+ pages of downloadable content. It's deeply immersive and complete, and astonishingly easy to use. There's enough content to run multiple, full-length campaigns! A Player's Guide to Ptolus introduces players to the setting and is a guide to character creation. A set of five Ptolus Character Portfolios lets the entire party record their characters and exploits in organized style. The Ptolus GM Screen Bring this amazing city to life with easy access to notable groups and characters, encounters, details of Delver’s Square, travel and provisioning options, and loads of other info that makes presenting the richness of Ptolus effortless for the GM. The Ptolus NPC Deck pulls 100 of the varied and dynamic characters from the book into a handy format that includes key details for the GM plus an image to show the players on the reverse of each card. In addition to the print products, you also get these items in PDF. These titles will be delivered early. Supplies are limited!Edit -
Venture into the Planes Bundle
$11016 purchasedTake your Cypher System fantasy campaign into the planes and save $20! A cursed moon hurtles through the multiverse, crashing from one plane to the next, never at rest, forever fleeing a catastrophe that predates existence itself. Behold the Planebreaker! The enigmatic Planebreaker visits all planes, all demiworlds, and all dimensions. It's home to the city of Timeborne, home to refugees, planar travelers, and residents from across the planes, and its trail forms a path that can be traveled to access the infinite range of worlds the Planebreaker has visited. Path of the Planebreaker details Timeborne, the Planebreaker, the path, and dozens of strange and exotic planes of existence. It's a lavishly illustrated 240-page hardcover that retails for $54.99. The Planar Bestiary brings you scores of creatures from across the planes, encountered in their home environs or when they find their way into our world. Use this book for any game that includes weird creatures—every Cypher System creature is compatible with any Cypher System game! This 160-page hardcover retails for $44.99. Planar Character Options delivers scores of new choices for creating characters native to, or touched by, the planes. It's a $29.99 softcover. In addition to the print books, you also get these titles in PDF. These titles will be delivered early.Edit -
CSRs for Retailers
$1050 purchasedHey, retailers. We don't have to tell you that distribution's in pretty bad shape, and lots of retailers tell us they have trouble getting the Cypher System Rulebook. We've got you covered! This add-on is a bundle of three copies of the Cypher System Rulebook, at a retail-friendly discount. They will be delivered early. This is for print product only. PDFs are not included. This add-on is only offered to brick-and-mortar retailers.Edit -
Starter Sets for Retailers
$451 purchasedRetailers, if you're having trouble getting product through distribution, we can help! This add-on is a bundle of three copies of the Cypher System Starter Set, at a retail-friendly discount. Although the Starter Set isn't available at the time of this campaign, it will be when we begin fulfillment of early rewards—so you'll get your Starter Sets at roughly the same time as they're available through distribution. This is for print product only. PDFs are not included. This add-on is only offered to brick-and-mortar retailers.Edit