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Cypher System / Looking to see how other GMs handle this.
« on: August 25, 2014, 04:18:00 pm »
Some abilities let the player choose the effect of an ability. In The Strange for instance the Sinfire Blast let's you choose to do Might damage or a lesser amount of intellect damage that ignores armor. In other cases the abilities are AoE, I can't recall one from Numenera right off the top of my head and I don't have my book handy. Anyway when they make the choice have GM's been allowing the choice to be made per target or that the choice applies to all targets? I house-ruled that in the case of things like Sinfire Blast where you have to pay for each extra target that the choice can be made per target but with most AoEs it is harder to justify that sort of fine target selection and there usually is a single cost rather than a surcharge per target.

Any way it has worked for my games but I was just wondering what others were doing?

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No all I got in a physical copy was the main book and the plate--but MCG got me all fixed up.

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Just got my Hardcopy today--sadly my book plate was missing >:(

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The Strange / Re: 9 Worlds in One
« on: August 09, 2014, 05:00:17 pm »
I had heard of thei concpet being kicked around after the Strange was announced. If nothing else Numenera can be a Recursion created by Fictional Leakage. under those rules it is no less "real" that any other recursion and can have just or nearly as many people with the spark as does Earth as a prime world, just like Aryden does.

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I too have am still waiting on my core but I was so excited I read right through the PDF. It lived up to my expectations. [Possible spoilers--you are warned]

I have to admit up from I was even more hyped about this than Numenera, the concept of hopping "worlds" and changing to suit that world is just appeals to me in way I can't describe.

The concept of fictional leakage is a beautiful "rule" for something most GMs do anyway and that is "steal" or borrow ideas from our favorite properties. Here is "license" to send your players to all those "worlds" you and they have wanted to visit.

I was a bit taken aback by how different the stats on the classes were. I had liked in Numenrea how the stats did not all total to 28 points and thought this was a great departure from the trend in RPG's that all classes have t be numerically the same to be balanced (a trend I despise btw). So I was shocked a bit to see that all of the classes have their pools at 28 points, once I read further and saw that their starting edge counts are not numerically balanced I was happily surprised. It shows the depth of how you can play with the types in the Cypher system.

The new Foci are very nice and I never had any doubt that the setting stuff would be great. One thing you can always count on from Monte Cook and this is awesome settings, the man knows how to weave a world.

All in all I see Mr Cook back at the Eninies again next year.


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