Stealth flavor, page 34 11 Adroit Cypher Use (108) SECOND-TIER SPEAKER 11 Discipline of Watchfulness (129) Followers, page 233 11 Experienced in Armor (136) Choose two of the abilities listed below (or 11 Flee (141) The small numbers from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. could have logically read or seen in the past. are called enablers. the player makes a defense roll. a Pool, page 218who has a Might Pool of 16 is stronger (in abasic sense) than a character who has a Might 2. Probably not.player might have to roll to see if the character XP to another player and justify the gift (perhaps That kind of needlessslips, trips, or stumbles as the result of moving the other player had a good idea, told a funny joke, specificity only slowsso far so quickly. and more. Inabilities: Inabilities are like negative skills. descriptions for flavor and focus abilities in a single vast catalog.WARRIOR PLAYER INTRUSIONS 11 Bash (112) 11 Combat Prowess (120)You can spend 1 XP to use one of the following 11 Control the Field (121)player intrusions, provided the situation is 11 Improved Edge (151)appropriate and the GM agrees. The group answered your cries for help thrown into the mix. Make a separate attack roll for each foe. might move with the prevailing mood, swinging 4. Its a straightforward combat, although they often wield catch-all for the kinds Fantasy/Fairy tale: wizard, mage, sorcerer, cleric, abilities that provide excellent combat support, of wondrous, possibly druid, seer, diabolist, fey-touched both offensively and defensively. You might be a Rugged Warrior who Stands Like a Bastion. Choose one of the abilities listed below (or from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. overshadowed by thethe way. 6 Intimidating 24 A task worthy of tales told for years afterward. For each level of and has an Effort of 3, an Intellect Pool of 13, Effort you apply in this way, you inflict 3 additional and an Intellect Edge of 1. Societal Role: Not all Explorers are outtraipsing through the wilderness or poking aboutan old ruin. Because you easily helps you, or it hurts your enemies. terrible fate. Another PC recruited you while you were on your best behavior, before realizing how chaotic you were. You slip, butsee things for what they are, you get the lay its just in time to duck an attack. The character stands atop a boulder and one level of Effort would cost 3 points, but strikes downward at the beast, and the GM rules you subtract your Speed Edge from that cost, that this helpful tactic is an asset that eases the reducing it to 0.) An Adept flavored with combat in a science fiction setting could be a veteran of a thousand psychic wars. As a result, you have Graceless and awkward, you were told that youdenough cash jangling in your pocket to purchase grow out of it, but you never did. The more unexpected the result, the happier you are. them with the task at hand. Chaotic: Once after each ten-hour recovery roll, if you dont like the first result, you can reroll a die roll of your choice. 5 You trained in an isolated monastery. This is enough to buy you some time for a better solution, alleviate a complication that was interfering with your abilities, or just get you one more use out of a depleted cypher or artifact. Applying one Your Edge can be different for each stat. Individual Role: Warriors are physical, To further massage the four types for better use action-oriented people. For example, if a character is trained You can also decrease the difficulty of a givenin climbing, they turn a difficulty 6 climb into task by applying Effort. Enablers either is modified, and theyll Sometimes the point cost for an ability has a function constantly (such as being able to wear let the players know.+ sign after the number. 18 Your best friend is also an Adept. 3 out of 5 rating for Cypher System Rulebook As a standalone rulebook the "Cypher System" is pretty solid and some of the new rules and gaming tips included are pretty cool. Because youre quick, you canyour home and your life behind. If you are author or own the copyright of this book, please report to us by using this DMCA report form. )difficulty by one step (or just easing the difficulty, 7TASK DIFFICULTY Target No. That book is a system-agnostic Strange. 49, The words you are searching are inside this book. truth, even this kind ofdo as you wish. 12 Your greatest discovery to date was stolen by your arch-rival. You suspect that the other PCs wontstrong points. As fit and healthy as you are, the signs of wearshow in the myriad scars crisscrossing yourbody, your thrice-broken nose, your cauliflowerears, and any number of other disfigurementsyou wear with pride. 15When applying Effort to Every character has an Effort score, which MULTIPLE USES OF EFFORT AND EDGE melee attacks, you have indicates the maximum number of levels of Effort that can be applied to a roll. Join our newsletter below! The target number is always three times you are specialized, you ease the difficulty by twothe tasks difficulty, so a difficulty 1 task has a steps. This gives the character a bunch of They also heal more quickly and can operate additional skills: searching, listening, climbing, better when injured. Stat Pool Starting Value Your characters Might 10 starting equipment is A few player intrusion examples are Speed 10 as important as their provided under each type. Inability, page 207but the GM rules that characters in this Moves Like a Cat,campaign start with only onesomething Cypher Use: If a character gives up the ability page 73creepy relating to their background. Seemed like a good idea at the time. statistics or stats. These stats are Might, attacks, sneaking around quietly, and throwing a Speed, and Intellect. seriously hurt or killed), your appearance, you excel at sneaking about that will be annoying, unnoticed or disguising yourself. 45It can be liberating and FOOLISH You gain the following characteristics: really fun to play a foolish Unwise: 4 to your Intellect Pool. Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From the 4. Choose a descriptor in chapter 7. 43Misfortune and suffering do not move you.When another endures hardship, you find it hard 4. For a listtarget number to 3. This is called applyingcost. Your Might Edge reduces the cost of second level), applying three levels costs 7 pointsspending points from your Might Pool, but it (3 plus 2 plus 2), and so on.doesnt affect your Speed Pool or Intellect Pool.Once a stats Edge reaches 3, you can apply onelevel of Effort for free. The other PCs earned your trust by helpingyou when you needed it. You probably have a dozen books and recalling details of geography that you read abouttravelogues about the world on you at any time. (Just as in a sentence, the noun Reduce the cost for wearing armor. should not. Pure happenstancebecause you just go you.along with the flow of things and everythingusually works out. You know all the actors and watch all the shows for free. You accompany them torepay them. You suspect that the only hope you have of Sneaky: +4 to your Speed Pool. You can rest EFFORTto recover lost points from a stat Pool, and somespecial abilities or cyphers might allow you to When your character really needs to accomplishrecover lost points quickly. For example, if youre trained in lying and later gain an The Cypher System has no definitive list of skills. subtle movements that convey an individuals Skill: You are trained in intimidation. good rule of thumb develop yourself as you saw fityou grew strong is that impulsiveness or quick, or you honed your mind. cypher system rulebook pdf freeThank you for reading Minedit. Narrow Results Product Type Core Rulebooks All-in-One Rulebooks Game Master Rule Guides Player's Guides Quickstarts GM-less Game Guides Format File Type PDF Languages Publishers Black Book Editions Deep Light Games Full Moon Enterprises Monte Cook Games Thick-Muscled: +2 to your Might Pool. The cypher is solved. For example, instead of being good at your characters life. 11 Retrieve Memories (177) 11 Usurp Cypher (195) 11 Reveal (178) This doesnt make 11 Stasis (186) ADEPT EXAMPLE the character any less powerful or special, but THIRD-TIER ADEPT Jen wants to create an Adepta sorcerer for a it says something about fantasy campaign. not they achieve that goal.Party: A group of player characters (and perhaps some Campaign: A series of sessions strung together with anNPC allies). Rather than hurting you (much), itthem but are rarely fooled. Your type helps Add 2 to your recovery rolls. who goes first in combat) are hindered. activity relating to a task, such as climbing, Asset, page 209Whenever a roll of any kind is called for and no geography, or persuasiveness. want to see or do. You'll even get the PDF a little early. supernatural element. ADEPT STAT POOLS Stat Pool Starting Value Might 7 Speed 9 Intellect 12 You get 6 additional points to divide among your stat Pools however you wish.24TypeADEPT BACKGROUND CONNECTIONYour type helps determine the connection you have to the setting. In any event, an Explorer bravely facesnew challenges and gathers knowledge to sharewith others. Any task involving your own.social interaction is hindered. Her Adept is smart and quick. You showed up when and where you did onthat character gains the benefit as if you were a dare because, hey, you dont back down fromtrained even if you are not trained or specialized dares.in the attempted task. Victorian horror? Ask the other players what genre they setting, the easier this is to do. feet. Otherabilities should not be changed. Usually defined at the beginning byvillains or opponents. honor by a parent or a mentor. enthusiasm. For example, a spear difficulty of 0. This aptitude doesnt necessarily mean that drawbacks) that comecall to explore the wreckage of past civilizations, youve had years of formal education, but you have from your descriptorto discover new peoples, new places, and learned a great deal in your life, primarily because will eventually bewhatever bizarre wonders you might find along you pick things up quickly and retain so much. 10 You used to be a teacher. inabilities as negative skillsinstead of being Skill: You are trained in pleasant social one step better at that kind of task, youre one interactions. This means youre physicalbut also probably knowledgeable. You can even choose a skill takes this form: I am a [fill in an adjective here] based on your characters special abilities. In a fantasy world they might be wands or potions, but in a science fiction game they could be alien crystals or prototype devices. For this character, Onslaught, Ward, FOURTH-TIER ADEPT and Scan are all spells she has mastered through years of training and study. social situations and control them to avoid 1. 15 When you were young, you were addicted to narcotics, and now you are a recovering addict. He also becomes trained in jumping and breaking inanimate objects. information in a more direct way, feeling a Pleasant social interactions are hindered. You might have had a serious Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From the But if youre constantly accident, a harmful mutation, or just poor following list of options, choose how you became genetic luck, but you are incontrovertibly ugly. 9For more information such as knocking down your foe, stunning them, Short distance is anything greater than on special rolls and or taking an extra action. RANGE AND SPEED All weapons and special abilities use these terms for ranges. down ideas so you can develop them later. If you want to convey the experience of being extremely powerful and using those powers to protect the world from aliens, you want superheroes (maybe with a dash of science fiction). The full description for each listed Your characters starting ability can be found in chapter 9, which also has equipment is as importantFirst-tier Adepts have the following abilities: descriptions for flavor and focus abilities in a as their starting skills. CYPHER SYSTEM RULEBOOKCREDITS Designers Monte Cook, Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K. Reynolds Additional Designers Shanna Germain, Robert J. 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Walker, Chris Waller, Cathy Wilkins, Ben Wootten, Kieran Yanner 2019 Monte Cook Games, LLC. The system is designed to help you as a starting point. Just as the characters in movies, novels, and TV shows grow through their own subplots, Cypher System players may choose arcs to pursue, tying their characters personalities more closely to the overall story and engaging the players even deeper into their characters and the campaign. 4. This is similar to a minor effect,and you must use two hands to attack with but the results are more remarkable. In the supernatural. You stumbled into the PCs as they were you out of the blue so you can sort them in an discussing their mission, and they took a liking electronic document. However, theyou are prepared for any eventuality. Choose two of the abilities listed below (or from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. 1. Very long distance is really far off. In 11 Foul Aura (143) you see after abilities addition, you can replace one of your lower-tier 11 Knowing the Unknown (156) throughout this book abilities with a different one from a lower tier. Any task to ascertain anothercharacters motives, feelings, or disposition ishindered. Thanks to your clever behavior, you Skill: Youre trained when using special have an additional expensive item.abilities that influence the minds of others. Rarely, youll need to roll a number between determine the level of 1 and 100 (often called a d100 or d% roll), which you can do by rolling a d20 twice, using the last cyphers (page 377). roll and one level to its damage, two levels to the you sometimes use brute To increase your chance for success, you decide attack and no levels to the damage, or no levels force and sometimes use to apply one level of Effort, which will ease the to the attack and two levels to the damage. If a creature attacks a character, the player makes a defense roll. noun who verbs. You can choose from four character types in chapter 5: Warriors, Adepts, Explorers, and Speakers. Specific, page 60 everyone gets what they want out of the game. Adventure: A single portion of the campaign with aThink of them as the minor characters in the story, or the beginning and an end. set of rules that empowers them. Because cyphers are always different, the characters will always have new special powers to try. Even someoneovercome a challenge or by demonstrating how as brash as you knows that friends sometimesto do so yourself. See the Anything else that reduces difficulty (help fromTask Difficulty table (page 8) for guidance in how an ally, a particular piece of equipment, or somethis works. Lying and cheating are no way to get Skill: Youre trained in initiative actions (to aheadthese things are for the weak, the lazy, or determine who goes first in combat). More details Skill: Youre trained in all tasks involving 2. your problem.48DescriptorINQUISITIVE INTELLIGENT Your descriptor matters most when you are aThe world is vast and mysterious, with wonders Youre quite smart. Pool of 14. Regardless, you are willing to do whatever it takes to get your own way. This includes deception, if the shames you, your cowardly nature proves to deception involves a narrative youre able to tell. Effort: Your Effort is 1. single vast catalog. A Guarded Adept who Keeps a Magic Ally. I was anxious going back and forth, needing to remember the page I was reading before. GRACEFUL You have a perfect sense of balance, moving and speaking with grace and beauty. 6 Your grandparents raised you on a farm far from bustling urban centers. different descriptors). involved in the first adventure. You instigated the whole thing and Butterfingers: 2 to your Speed Pool.convinced the others to join you. Subtract your Intellect Edge from roll first and then decide to apply Effort if youthe activation cost, and the result is how many rolled poorly.points you must spend to use the mental blast.If using your Edge reduces the cost to 0, you can Applying more Effort can lower a tasksuse the ability for free. (Effort is described ina difficulty 5 climb. when you express a lighthearted, self-deprecating 4. You were in the right place at the right time. the right, smart thing is more. So if you want to speak French, thats the same as being trained in biology or swimming. If they do so, they dont get the 2 XPany cultist in the general meleetheyre all from the GM, and they must also spend 1 XPwithin immediate range. 13 Your best friend is a teacher or scholar. Listening to Skill: You are naturally inventive. standard challenges in the course of play. You gain the following characteristics: a predilection for Versatile: You get 4 additional points to divide 4. cant have more than one weakness, and you cant have a weakness greater than 1 unless the For her character arc, Mary chooses Fall From additional weakness comes from another sourceGrace. If a player has no XP to spend, they cant use a player intrusion. Societal Role: Speakers are frequently political or religious leaders. For [fill in a noun here] who [fill in a verb here]. Descriptor, page 38 example, if your character can make an Intellect Type, page 20 roll to blast an enemy with mental force, you Thus: I am an adjective noun who verbs. For can become trained in using that ability, easing example, you might say, I am a Rugged Warrior Focus, page 60 the task of using it. Its called magic and has a lot of the trappings of magic, but While genres are useful categories to organize it would be simple to change the name to your thoughts, what youre actually going to psionics, mutant powers, or whatever your create is a setting. thinking about your personal honor, how best to Inability: Youll try anything once, but quickly maintain it, and how to defend it if challenged. Further, youto investigate the weird. You can also create your own fact. You talked your way into the situationknowledge, or understanding is hindered. 2. You mugger hits you with a knife for 2 points of can even ease the difficulty of an attack on a foe damage while youre wearing a leather jacket, to 0 and succeed without rolling. 17 You own a small bar or restaurant. You can also create your own fact.d20 Background 1 One of your parents was a famous entertainer in their early years and hoped you would excel in the same medium. to your stat Pools. area attack, such as the explosion created by an Thanks to their Intellect Edge, applying the Effort Adepts Concussion ability, you inflict 2 additional costs only 4 points from their Intellect Pool (3 points of damage instead of 3 points. 6 You served in the military with honor. If you choose a skill that you who Controls Beasts or I am a Charming are already trained in, you become specialized Explorer who Focuses Mind Over Matter.Recovery roll, page 218 in that skill, easing related tasks by two steps Warrior, page 20 instead of one. Skill: Youre trained in any action taken to All tasks related to pleasant social interaction are escape danger, flee from a dangerous situation, hindered. Inability: Your big, strong body is slow to react. alongside the old Cypher System Rulebook without much issue at all. attack by one step (to difficulty 1). Combat Prowess,11 Finishing Blow (140) page 12011 Magnificent Moment (159) Ray still needs to choose a descriptor and a Improved Edge, page 15111 Murderer (165) focus. The descriptor making a characters species their descriptor. For instance, an becomes damaged and moves two steps down long as it fits both your intrusion indicating that the cypher just the object damage track. You are trustworthy, fair, and forthright. For example, in the middle of combat, avoid the cumbersome the GM might inform the player that they drop their need for precision. In 11 Group Friendship (147) page 188addition, you can replace one of your lower-tier 11 Hard to Kill (148) Practiced in Armor,abilities with a different one from a lower tier. 25GMs are always free to SECOND-TIER ADEPT SIXTH-TIER ADEPT pre-select a types special Choose one of the abilities listed below (or Choose one of the abilities listed below (or abilities at a given tier from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. Any initiative actions (to determine involved in the first adventure. 2. (If he had chosen Physical Skills, page 170WARRIOR EXAMPLE jumping as one of his physical skills, the Strong descriptor would have made him specialized inRay wants to create a Warrior character for a jumping instead of trained.) Cyphers give characters single-use abilities frequently gained and spent, adding variety to the characters capabilities and providing exciting new approaches and options. Espionage? Youre trained in any task related to creating a narrative (such as a story, play, Yet for all that fear dogs you and possibly or scenario). addition, you can replace one of your lower-tier addition, you can replace one of your lower-tier In the fantasy setting of abilities with a different one from a lower tier. They are on a mission Object damage unexpected complication for a character, of their own and cant stay longer than it takes track, page 116 the player spends 1 XP and presents a to help out, chat for a while after, and perhaps solution to a problem or complication. 3. Your cruel streak mayderive from bitterness brought about by yourown struggles and disappointments. Cruelty: When you use force, you can chooseto maim or deliver painful injuries to drawout your foes suffering. Group Role: The Speaker is often the face of the group, serving as the person who speaks for all and negotiates with others. They remain channeling spirits, power-wielder, master, psion, telepath hidden, shadowy figures. Inability, page 207 Enterprise, page 245 Sam still needs a descriptor and a focus. Physical reflexes. Its my goal to give you the tools to have your best game ever. [3] The first edition of the rulebook was published in September 1987, and the ninth and current edition was released in July 2020. members from threats. You asked politely if you could join the other doing the wrong thing. Youre well versed attacks are hindered. Generally Moving Toward Perfection: You add 1 to yourspeaking, even first-tier characters are already Might Edge, your Speed Edge, or your Intellectquite capable. Additional information Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From the 3. You have no idea how you joined the PCs. You are involved in the first adventure. 3. Using one of wish.these abilities is an action unto itself, and theend of the abilitys description says ActionSKILLS probably best to run it past the GM first, but in general, the most important thing is to choose skills that areSometimes your character gains training in a specific skill appropriate to your character.or task. None require customization if you dont want to do that. You believe the only way the PCs will Inability: Your suspicious nature makes you succeed is if you are along to protect them.unlikeable. Most of the time, the difficulty d20 against the associated target number. 1. For example, when game doesnt have toMedium weapons inflict 4 points of damage. following list of options, choose how you became involved in the first adventure. who was in dire need. starting equipment isyou for a favor in return afterward, depending on as important as theirhow much trouble they go to. A player can exchange points 33Chapter 6 FLAVOR Chapter 9: Abilities, Flavors are groups of special abilities the In the end, flavor is mostly a tool for the page 95 GM and players can use to alter a character GM to easily create campaign-specific types by type to make it more to their liking or more making a few slight alterations to the four base Unless otherwise noted, appropriate to the genre or setting. There is no setting or broad categories, and we use them in this bookworld here. The Explorer frequently leadsthe way, blazing the trail. 19 Your sister owns a store and gives you a hefty discount. You told your friend that nothing couldfollowing list of options, choose how you became scare you, and nothing you saw would changeinvolved in the first adventure. Its not in your nature to carehappiness. jumping down from a ledge, you land smoothly be about combat.Medium weapons include swords, battleaxes, on your feet, or when trying to persuademaces, crossbows, spears, pistols, blasters, and someone, you convince them that youre smarterso on. Further, even if one or more of the targets Spending those points reduces their Intellect resist the attack, they still take 1 point of damage.16Creating Your CharacterPool to 9. 27EXPLORER BACKGROUND CONNECTION Your type helps determine the connection you have to the setting. There is a reward involved, and you need manner.the money. Because you easily see things for what they are, you get the lay of the land sw . In from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. For example, types. a new skill. Discovery is the soul of the Cypher System. They can talk their way out of danger and even use their words as weapons.30TypeSPEAKER BACKGROUND CONNECTIONYour type helps determine the connection you have to the setting. This is in part due to the elegant, math-free simplicity of the system, and in part because of the players roll all the dice approach, which shares the mechanical burden with the players. These areof your own into it first. For example, if you A beginning character is fighting a giant rat. Against your better judgment, you joined the other PCs because you saw that they were in danger. Skill: You are trained in disguise and stealth You have a hard time tamping down your tasks. The flavors available are stealth, technology, magic, combat, and skills and knowledge. Players have that one character idea that information, and so on, will hopefully make your would be their best character ever, if they could games more fun and your stories richer. (Normally, applying of 6. When making character who has an Effort of 3 can apply up to ranged attacks, you may three levels of Effort to reduce a tasks difficulty. Youre still in great shape, but those were the glory days, man. One of the other PCs bullied you into But others dont mind or hand-to-eye coordination is hindered. The ones you choose from will probably depend on the setting and genre of your game. A characters Ease, page 207 The game master sets a difficulty for any given level of skill is either trained (reasonably skilled)task. The special options are as follows: of the sentence, thats where well start this discussion. This book, like the other three that have come before it (the Stars are Fire, Stay Alive, and We Are All Mad Here) takes the section on Fantasy games in the Revised Cypher System Rulebook, Chapter 13 (page 252) and expands it from 9 pages to 224 pages. The two of you get together weekly to chat and smoke. It's not too late to make a late pledge. Whether a negative qualitythrough seemingly supernatural means or just You gain the following characteristics: like Clumsy, but ina way with words, you can convince others to Smart: +2 to your Intellect Pool. Special Abilities: Choose four of the abilities Adept abilities require atlisted below. performed an action that saved a life, and so on). 11 Jump Attack (156) page 17111 Curious (123) 11 Mastery With Defense (161) Knowledge Skills,11 Danger Instinct (124) 11 Parry (168) page 15711 Enable Others (133) 11 Physically Gifted (170) A character cant apply11 Escape (136) 11 Take Command (188) Effort or other abilities to11 Eye for Detail (138) 11 Vigilant (196) any task they accomplish11 Foil Danger (142) using Expert Skill or11 Hand to Eye (148) SIXTH-TIER EXPLORER Tough As Nails.11 Investigative Skills (155)11 Quick Recovery (173) Choose three of the abilities listed below (or11 Range Increase (174) from a lower tier) to add to your repertoire. as history or geology. 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