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’

Dance on the edge of what it means to be human in a world of gritty streets and slick technology. Holographic ads and fortified skyscrapers loom over the city’s decaying streets. Criminal gangs battle in the alleyways, while above the fray faceless megacorps control political, economic, and military power. Cybernetics are as common as mobile phones—but even so, life on the streets is brutal and short, and the line between survival and anonymous death often hangs on just one more questionable job… Take your Cypher System game into the cyberpunk realm with Neon Rain. Install cybernetic upgrades, use virtual reality to hack into corpo mainframes, and dodge guardians and traps built by hostile AIs. Smuggle designer drugs, or tweak with your own body chemistry and risk addiction and death. Chase and be chased at breakneck speeds on futuristic highways under a night sky. Inside this book you’ll find: Advice and tools for building your own intense cyberpunk setting, including optional rules (such as hacking and ultimate damage), creatures, cyphers, and artifacts. New foci, descriptors, and other options—build a Furious Solo who Packs Chromed Heat, an Engram Tech who Explores Cyberspace, or an Addicted Hotshot who Has a Custom Drone. Steely and mysterious creatures and NPCs ready to be dropped into any encounter; come across android Police Officer Tindal, or send the ruthless assassin Sophie Cantos after your rivals. Visit Theodora Fry in the black market, if you dare, or hire Balaga, the fastest driver in town, for your next heist. A ready-to-play setting featuring all the iconic cyberpunk elements you’d expect (and possibly some you won’t): cybernetics, megacorporations, street gangs, a weird internet, and ready-to-use encounter locations. Two complete Adventures usable in Edge City or your own setting: “Seventeeth Floor” and “Needle in The Haystack”!

A cursed moon hurtles through the multiverse, crashing from one plane to the next, never at rest, forever fleeing a catastrophe that predates existence itself. Behold the Planebreaker! The Planebreaker visits all planes, all demiworlds, and all dimensions. Some are known to sages and planar travelers. But in a multiverse stretching across epochs, the number of previously uncatalogued planes is vast. The Planebreaker races through all of them, in time, and the Path that trails behind it creates a route that links them all. Path of the Planebreaker for 5e introduces this enigmatic interplanar object that unlocks access to the planes for characters of all levels. Think the planes are just for high-level characters? The Planebreaker opens the way to characters of all levels. You can even begin your campaign on the Planebreaker, with character species and subclasses from the Planebreaker itself and the many realities it has visited. Inkarnates, for example, are tied to another dimension of being. Unlike genasi and assimar, that connection isn’t to a specific extraplanar race, but rather to a particular concept, such as uncertainty, belief, or being. Inkarnate are winged, their wings literally formed by glyphs representing this concept—glyphs that power their special abilities. Another example is the traveler, a character born of another species but somehow planetouched at birth. Travelers are marked by a fragment of a cosmic map, etched tattoo-like on their skin. This is a source of power, but also of an unending yearning to explore. Characters of any species can adopt planar subclasses such as the defacer wizard (who calls upon nightmares to gain terrible powers and an aberrant familiar); the shadow-stitched rogue (who has traded their own shadow for that of an extraplanar creature); the chaos blade fighter (who wields a weapon drawn from elemental chaos); or the cosmic judge warlock (whose pact is made with the spirit of the multiverse itself!). Path of the Planebreaker opens the full range of planar exploration to low-, mid-, and high-level characters. This book includes: * The Planebreaker and its fascinating city of Timeborne—home to refugees, planar travelers, and residents from across the planes. Base an entire campaign in Timeborne, or experience its intrigues as you pass through. * Dozens of exotic planes to explore. Venture into the Citadel of the Fate Eater, get lost in the Grove of Crows, or find despair in the Tomb of Tomorrow. They’re all connected by the Path, a sort of interplanar road that trails behind the Planebreaker. * Two exciting, plane-hopping adventures that make it easy to introduce PCs to the Planebreaker and planar travel. * For the GM: new creatures, NPCs, cyphers, and artifacts. * For the players: new playable species descriptors, foci, and abilities (in the Cypher System version). Play a changeable chimeran, a Shadow-Stitched rogue, a cleric of the Multiverse domain, or a concept-embodying Inkarnate who wields a chaos blade! By Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K. Reynolds, and Monte Cook 240-page hardcover

Planar natives, multiverse explorers, and those touched by mysterious forces leaking through from the planes: these characters are shaped by backgrounds and experiences unlike those found in more conventional environs. From a Warrior who Strikes With an Amethyst Fist, channelling power through a psionically resonant prosthetic, to a traveller character with a mysterious cosmic map imprinted on their skin, to a character with the Limbo Touched ability, who can change objects at will—characters with ties to the planes are just a bit different. Planar Character Options is brimming with new material and new choices to create and advance characters shaped by contact from beyond, including: * Over two dozen new species descriptors, planar descriptors, and foci. Play a Cosmic Rambler, Crossplane Refugee, or Reformed Fiend, who Aspires to Angelic Perfection, Is Pledged to Annihilation, or Wields a Chaos Blade. * Scores of new character abilities that can be integrated into any Cypher System game. Build or modify your own types, descriptors, and foci to bring a touch of the transdimensional to any campaign! * Dozens of cyphers and artifacts from, or affected by, the planes. Wield a soul net, reality tuner, or crow’s eye. This is an inspiring companion to Path of the Planebreaker, but you don’t need that book to enjoy everything this tome offers. This book duplicates some material from Path of the Planebreaker (so players can find all character-related content in a single place), but most of this book’s content is new and not duplicated from that title.

The Ptolus GM Screen puts loads of useful Ptolus info right where the GM needs it. It complements the book’s high usability, making it even more of a joy to run. And for the players, there are four panels of stunningly beautiful Ptolus art to set the mood.