This past weekend I got the chance to play Predation again for the first time in a long time. The session was fun and I was reminded about...

Image Source: Stay Alive! page 71, (c) Monte Cook Games Horror Mode is one of the many "bolt on" rules introduced in the original ...

Image Source: Cypher System Rulebook page 272 (1st edition), (c) Monte Cook Games So, I really enjoy superhero RPGs as a palette cleans...

Editor's note: It's been WAY too long, but sometimes you just don't have anything to give. You can't squeeze blood from a...

I've mentioned before my current Cypher campaign in the Nightbane setting (a Palladium RPG that's proving way more fun in Cyphe...

This is a follow up to this post about using the Cypher System, and especially the design aspects laid out by Unmasked, to resurrect one...

Nightbane is not a game that a lot of folks know. I've mentioned it in the past . It's an older game from Palladium Books that I...

Minions in Cypher System have always been a bit of a mixed bag. The level system makes minion stats very easy to determine and their app...

Image Source:  https://www.deviantart.com/art/Vulcan-210359334 I mentioned a while back ( here  and here ) how I liked that Unmasked re...

Image Source:  https://www.deviantart.com/art/wolf-10458909 The wolfkin are born with the soul of a canine. Stuck between two very diff...

Back in N&B #108  I lamented how underused Initial Costs are and I made a promise to make an effort to use the rule more at my table....

The magic number is Sixteen right? Or is it? Four EXP per advancement. Yes, that's correct. Four advancements to gain the next Tier. ...

Unmasked was released recently. I wrote about it last week ( here ), and mentioned that regarding the Cypher System's Power Shift mec...

The damage spiral from the Hordes miniatures game. Two weeks ago I posted about an alternate damage track for games where insanity and ...

So you're playing a horror game and want to have a better way to show character mental trauma. Or maybe you are playing a game with a...

Note: Because I'm taking August to do #RPGaDay and this is fairly fresh, I decided not delay it to September. Hopefully nobody gets too...

Image Source:  http://www.deviantart.com/art/Vangaurd-654639758 One of the big features that Predation is likely to sell books on is ...

I've been noodling this idea around for a bit now. Thankfully it's one that requires almost no real effort to implement, and ...

https://plus.google.com/110102880427020243089/posts/1kEdQGALCuJ I put the poll shown above up a few weeks ago. I was curious to see...

Image Source:  https://www.quotespick.com/tags/the-princess-bride.php inability. Untrained. Trained. Specialized. Cypher System players...