Even... you know... the Amber Pope has to work at things to get better. If he can do it... I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog that I have been running games for something like 30 years now.  Several years after I started, I became a teenager.  Those of you that are older reading this, I … Continue reading The Continual Improvement Mindset →

Creatures start on page 312 of the Revised Cypher System Rulebook (Red Cover Copyright 2019). There are additional books for other settings, Numenera has three bestiaries currently, The Strange has one, and Invisible Sun has one (Teratology), if you want to look at those. My focus with this blog post, though, is going to be … Continue reading Mischief and Mayhem: Making Creatures and NPCs your own →

... in the Cypher System Jumping from one car toward another while capping the driver through the roof? I'll take Bad-ass Super-spies for $500, Alex I have heard the story countless times.  For whatever reason, the one that sticks out most recently lately is the Dungeon & Dragons adventure book Curse of Strahd.  A group … Continue reading Why Game Balance Doesn’t Matter… →