This beautiful, exciting new corebook replaces and expands on the original Cypher System Rulebook. It’s improved and different-but it’s not a second edition. The rules are not being changed, and all existing Cypher System supplements (including titles for The Strange and Numenera) remain fully compatible with this new corebook.

Sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and more—great adventures from across the Cypher System! Showcasing the Cypher System’s elegant handling of different genres and styles, this hardcover anthology serves up an exciting variety of adventures. Science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, superheroes, horror, and more—it’s all covered here, giving you a wide range of options and moods. Many of the adventures take you into fan-favorite Cypher System settings, such as Predation, The Strange, and Numenera. They’re easily integrated into an ongoing campaign but also make great one-shots—you don’t need anything other than this book, and the Cypher System Rulebook, to fully enjoy their atmosphere, mysteries, exciting encounters, and amazing storylines. The adventures inside this hardcover book include: * Ghosts of Ironsaddle: In the weird (old) west, a group of bounty hunters wanders into a deserted town. There they discover threats that linger unquietly—perhaps, in this case, “ghost town” isn’t just a saying. * Going Mad: Everyday modern characters come face-to-face with their own incipient transformation into something superheroic. Set within the world of The Origin. * The Fox and the Crows: The PCs are invited to help a fairy tale princess save a king from himself during a royal ball. * Bake Me Another Body: Characters inhabiting the world a billion years from now try to find who killed them inside a million-year-old ruin. Set within the world of Numenera. * Tomorrow’s Messenger: Descended from time-travelers stuck in the Cretaceous Period, the characters discover a message in a time anomaly from someone who needs help. Set within the world of Predation. * A Strange Case: Characters follow a villain drawn from fiction—who intends to initiate Earth’s destruction—through a series of parallel worlds based on stories and myths. Set within the world of The Strange. Designer: Dominique Dickey, Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K. Reynolds, Shanna Germain Format: Hardcover, 128p

The Cypher System Character Portfolio is more than just a sheet: at 24 pages, it records all your character’s pools, abilities, skills, cyphers, and other key stats. It also gives you room for notes, sketches, and details. Jot down thoughts about your character’s appearance and mannerisms.

In a world that could use a few heroes now more than ever, you can join their ranks. aim the Sky takes the Cypher System into the realm of superheroes, with a hefty book chock full of rules, character options, genre advice, and a complete, ready-to-use setting that makes the most of the superhero genre.

A Cypher System campaign of Victorian horror? High fantasy? Espionage? Galaxy-spanning space opera? With the Cypher System Rulebook, running any of those is as easy as running or playing The Strange or Numenera. And now, with Expanded Worlds, players and GMs of the Cypher System have even more options for characters and campaigns. Expanded Worlds builds on the genre rules and advice in the Cypher System Rulebook, with specific sections on post-apocalyptic, mythological, fairytale, historical, childhood, noir, and hard sci-fi games, plus loads more. Every Cypher System fan is going to want this book! Oodles of new descriptors, foci, and other character options make it a must-have for players of any Cypher System game—including Numenera and The Strange. Rules, equipment, and advice for eight genres and campaign styles. New equipment, creatures, cyphers, and NPCs for any Cypher System campaign. If you’re running Cypher Play in your store, this is a great purchase for players looking to spend their coupons late in Season 2. With the launch of the Torment: Tides of Numenera CRPG in early 2017, Numenera is going to be hot-hot-hot. Gamers will want to know what else you have for the Cypher System—and this title is a perfect answer!

In First Responders, characters take on megachallenges and large-scale threats in nail-biting adventures that often feature no violence at all. And the megachallenge system can be easily used in any Cypher System game.

A fantasy hardcover sourcebook and complete setting all in one. Dragons. Magic wands. Singing swords and flying carpets. And above all... heroes! What fantasy worlds inspire you? The classic high fantasy of Tolkien, Zelazny, or Jordan? Modern fantasy like the Harry Potter series, The Dresden Files, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Paranormal romance? The whimsy of settings like Discworld or The Dark Crystal? Wuxia, swords and sorcery, or gritty, low-magic settings? Fantasy—tales of heroes, monsters, and magic—is arguably the oldest genre of human fiction. It’s also the genre that first inspired us to step into imaginary worlds through roleplaying games, and it remains the most popular type of RPG setting. Godforsaken takes the Cypher System on a deep dive into the infinite variety of fantasy realms, with rules, character options, gear, and a complete, ready-to-use setting that makes the most of the fantasy genre. Whatever fantasy setting you envision, the Cypher System can take you there. Godforsaken includes: * Rules for treasure, traps, magic, and other topics particular to fantasy gaming. * New playable species, along with new foci, guidelines for adapting existing foci to fantasy use, and advice for building common fantasy character types in the Cypher System. * Dozens of fantasy creatures and NPCs, including the basilisk, lich, manticore, elementals, wyvern, and more. Plus scores of new cyphers and artifacts. * Discussion of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy, along with resources for inspiration. * The complete Godforsaken setting. Characters seek glory and wealth as they venture into the Godforsaken Lands, leaving behind the protection and blessings of their gods—but there is more to these dimensions than they can possibly be prepared for. * Two full-length adventures for use in the Godforsaken setting or your own campaign, plus three Cypher Shorts. Includes a double-sized poster map!

In 2017, Oumuamua made headlines as the first interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system. Everyone remembers that. So why doesn`t anyone remember Nibiru? How the skies blazed when it struck the earth. The seas boiled, and the cities burned. Except the cities still stand, the sky is unburnt, and only an unlucky few of us have nightmares about Nibiru. Maybe we`re losing our minds. Sharing a delusion. And that newfound ability to turn invisible, to read thoughts, to levitate is just another shared delusion. So why are we being hunted down? A gritty and mysterious setting in which characters master emerging superpowers as they face nefarious groups, superpowered opponents, and dark forces somehow connected to memories of a world that met a different future.

A little sci-fi. A little post-apocalypse. A whole lot of dinosaurs. Welcome to the Cretaceous. Our ancestors won’t climb down from the trees for another 66 million years, but here we are now. Time travel seemed like a good idea. Exploring the ancient world. Building. Creating an entire society here in the jungles of our primordial Earth. Until those SATI guys messed it all up... This book includes: * A complete, ready-to-play science-fiction game world for the Cypher System, with a detailed history, scores of fascinating locations, new gear and technologies, and a variety of factions and conflicts to drive your story. * More than 20 new creatures and NPC types, from the snuggly nerezza to the unpredictable lab-grown supersauri. Encounter teslasaurs, cyberdrones, and genetically engineered spiders, plus dinosaurs of all descriptions. * New character types and abilities. Be a Volcanic Karn who Self-Evolves, an Empirical Tec who Plays God, or perhaps a Daring Pteryx Who Walks with Dinosaurs. * Rules for dinosaur companions. Choose a ceratopsian, pterosaur, early mammal, ornithomimid—even a raptor or tyrannosaur. You’ll want the help and companionship as you explore the dangerous wilds of Cretaceous Grevakc! Requires Cypher System Rulebook

The Stars Are Fire adds creatures, rules, character options, loads and loads of gear, and other tools optimized for your science-fiction campaign. Plus a complete, ready-to-use hard sci-fi setting!

Build an entire campaign battling Lovecraftian cults or surviving the zombie apocalypse. Run one-shots that pit the players against masked slashers, crawling xenomorphs, or sinister spirits. Or just get the most fun out of your lich queen and her minions at the lowest depths of your dungeon. No matter how you use horror at your table, this book gives you all the tools you need to create hair-raising game sessions and nail-biting campaigns.

Superpowers and Horror from the Master of Both It’s 1986. Top Gun is in theaters. “Papa Don’t Preach” is on the radio. Halley’s Comet is in the sky, and Iran-Contra is in the news. The Russians are in Afghanistan, and the Doomsday Clock is at 3 minutes until midnight. But that doesn’t matter. Because at school, at the mall, down by the 7-Eleven, you’ve started seeing things others don’t. Hidden power glowing in what seem to be everyday items. And when you follow that strange compulsion to create a mask from these items, you become... someone else. Someone with abilities and strengths the world has never seen, and an agenda that may not be your own. And there are others, with their own agendas. Maybe that Doomsday Clock matters after all... * Superheroes and psychological horror from the acknowledged master Dennis Detwiller, creator of Delta Green and Godlike? Yes, please! * An entire campaign setting in a hefty, 192-page hardcover. A dark version of the ’80s, with new character options, adventure material—everything needed for your campaign. * Drives sales of the Cypher System Rulebook, necessary for play. * The fall’s Cypher Play season will focus on the Cypher System; your players will be eager for non-Numenera content to spend their coupons on! * Stranger Things season 2 airs in October. Just sayin’

The lacaric courier single-mindedly delivers strange devices to ancient ruins, sometimes traveling great distances and facing incredible hardships to do so. Why? What’s the significance of the cargo or the destination? Nobody knows—but don’t get in its way! Like a hermit crab seeking out empty shells, the kalyptein crab makes its home in ancient devices. It often gains unexpected and powerful abilities from its dwelling, making it an unpredictable foe. The silvery liquid namnesis communicates by swapping memories—literally stealing those of its target while implanting its own startling thoughts. It changes form rapidly, even splitting into multiple attackers, and can sometimes steal a character’s abilities to use against them... Add an element of the truly unexpected to your Fifth Edition game with this fantastic assortment of science-fantasy creatures born in the Ninth World—the award-winning, critically acclaimed setting created by legendary game designer Monte Cook. Beasts of Flesh and Steel contains: * 140 fascinating, dangerous new monsters that bring a science-fantasy element to your encounters. Beware the carnivorous color, a predator unlike anything from our dimension; the awakened ruin that breaks from its original location to prowl the landscape; and the shadowy clicker, which hunts any creature that makes sound. * CRs ranging from 1 to 25, so you always have loads of challenges for parties at every level. * Stunning artwork that shows off each of these weird and wondrous creatures, and a convenient layout that makes this book uniquely easy to use in prep and at the game table. * A complete bestiary with everything you need to bring these monsters to your game table. These creatures complement Arcana of the Ancients, but you don’t need that book to use this one. Add these creatures to any 5e game! This hardcover includes well over 100 new monsters based on or around the strange technology of the ancients. These science-fantasy monstrosities add a whole new level of weirdness and imagination to your existing game of Arcana of the Ancients.

They say there have been eight worlds before ours. Eight times the people of this planet, over vast millennia, built their civilizations, reaching heights we cannot even fully imagine now. They spoke to the stars, reshaped the creatures of the world, and mastered form and essence. They built cities and machines that have since crumbled to dust, leaving only their barest remnants. This is the Ninth World. The people of the prior worlds are gone scattered, disappeared, or transcended. But their works remain, in the places and devices that still contain some germ of their original function. To the ignorant, these workings of the ancients are magic. But the wise know differently... The Ninth World is the setting of Monte Cook’s critically acclaimed, multiple-award-winning Numenera RPG. Beneath the Monolith brings this critically acclaimed world to 5e. Explore the ruins of incomprehensible civilizations. Discover the numenera, ancient technologies so advanced that most people think they’re just magic. Encounter creatures weird, fierce, and dangerous. Open doors to new worlds and alternate dimensions. And, perhaps, unlock some of the mysteries of the prior worlds. Beneath the Monolith brings the wondrous Ninth World your Fifth Edition game.

A vast underground ruin, filled with dangers and treasures unlike any seen before! They call it the Grave of the Machines. An underground mausoleum of the Ancients, filled with their wondrous devices and strange magic. Those bold enough to venture into its depths (and capable enough to return) spin tales of sights and encounters so astonishing they could not possibly be boasts or mere fiction. And they say its riches are as vast and unfathomable as its depths. Venture into the Grave of the Machines, if you dare, for adventure unlike any you’ll find in typical ruins or dungeons. Who knows what you’ll discover? Strange creatures? Riches beyond measure? Powerful artifacts? Perhaps all of that—and perhaps terrors that have lain dormant for aeons, dreaming of the day when they’ll be awakened to again walk the surface of the world. Where the Machines Wait is a mega-adventure for 5e for characters of roughly 5th level. It can be played as a series of short ventures into the Grave of the Machines, easily placed between other adventures in your campaign. Its deeper plotline can be introduced at any time—or you can ignore it and just explore the ruin. Where the Machines Wait includes new creatures, new items, and a new playable species of mechanical, construct-like characters: the surk. Numenera players can also delve into the Grave of the Machines; Where the Machines Wait includes complete conversion notes for Numenera and the Cypher System. 96-page softcover By Bruce Cordell

Add Sci-Fi Elements to Any Fifth-edition Fantasy Campaign in this massive 304-page hardcover brimming with incredible art. In the misty recesses of time, before the kingdoms and lands you know, before the elder elves, the dwarven ancestral lords, and even the dragons civilizations undreamt of rose and fell. They built citadels of metal, glass, and light. They crafted wonders and harnessed energies we can only guess at. The remnants of their incredible creations now lay hidden away in the deepest recesses of the world. Those few learned folk who even know about them have a name for these places, objects, and even creatures. They call them the...

This beautifully illustrated collection is filled with over 150 wonderful, terrible, and weird monsters from across the possible challenge rating range to add extra-planar excitement to your 5E campaign. Whether you’re exploring the planes, or encountering these creatures closer to home, the monsters in the Planar Bestiary 5E add an engaging and unexpected twist to your encounters. Challenge your PCs with creatures like the abolisher of sorrow (it erases memories so pleasantly its victims don’t realize they’re dying), the galvanic scar (that springs from a wizard’s lightning bolt to inhabit living bodies), or a vicious dream sprite known as a morpheusian (seeped down from a hidden layer of the Astral Plane after acquiring a taste for the meat of the real). The Planar Bestiary gives you: * 150 imaginative, unique creatures from across the planes and the 5E cosmology. * Encounters at every level—challenge ratings from 1/4 up to 29 (most are 14 or lower). * Inspiring ideas and monsters you can introduce in conventional encounters, or while exploring the planes. * Lots of material to use with the popular Path of the Planebreaker sourcebook—but you don’t need that title to use these monsters! 160-page hardcover By Bruce R. Cordell and Sean K. Reynolds

Explore a sprawling fantasy city, presented in amazing detail and steeped in lore and atmosphere. Delve into the extensive dungeons beneath its streets. And maybe, when you’re ready, ascend the Spire that looms overhead, the heart of an ancient and restless evil. Ptolus: a city of mysteries, secrets, and dark histories that lies forever in the shadow of an impossibly tall spire, an enigma and a reminder of evil long past. Below the city`s streets a seemingly endless network of ancient dungeons draw adventurers from all corners of the Empire. It`s fantastic, with page after page of amazing sights and ideas. < Ptolus is massive: 672 pages plus a packet with a poster map and dozens of handouts. Plus another 300 pages of downloadable content. All the content of the legendary original, updated for two versions (5e or the Cypher System) with new art and other upgrades.