Fictions & Fragments

I'm taking the long way around to another Cypher System hack. There is a lot to love about the Cypher System; in this case I want to emphasize the ease of creating NPCs and other entities by level. The Cypher System uses levels to abstract everything outside of player characters. They're generally rated 1-10 with 10 being the best. When you compare 2 things and they have different levels, the one with the higher level wins. You can make quick decisions based on that system or do things in a more granular fashion using these same rules. So here are some things I want to lay out in Cypher System for a monster battling setting. 1. Easy monster creation and ways to classify weakness/strength based on type. This would be something like: Splash (Level 3 Water Mon) Water Type is Strong against Earth types and Weak against Wood types. 2. Character Types based upon Monster Battling. Revising the default types of Cypher (Warrior, Adept, Explorer, Speaker) to be based around...

No Thank You, Evil! (NTYE) by Monte Cook Games (MCG) is a lot of fun. It's designed for kids, but they let adults play too. I've had the opportunity to play it adult-to-adult and to run it for mixed groups and I love it. Like all games I love, I want to do more with it. There's  a Netflix show called True and the Rainbow Kingdom that is incredibly popular with our kids. The premise of the show is that the protagonist, True, a young girl who lives in the Rainbow Kingdom, solves problems that occur with the help of magical wishes, each of which is a tiny being that reminds me of a Pokemon. They all have names and special powers which are useful in different situations. In NTYE you get 3 Treats at the start of the session, which you use to ask your Companion to deal with problems. The Companion is a Robot Dog, a Big Bad Wolf, a Little Sibling, etc. and they are the conduit through which players access Cyphers, a staple of MCG designs. These are always fun and creative ways...