Learning the Cypher System is Super Easy, Barely an Inconvenience. I started with Numenera 10 years ago and this is still my favorite game/system/setting.
I love everything in the Godforsaken book. I'm glad you touched on the MCG books format with the highlights and page references. Their books are so easy to use. I can't believe that other publishers haven't followed suit
I'm thinking of GMing a fantasy campaign for for my wife and daughter soon planning to pick up the cypher core book and either Godforsaken or God's of the fall.
Hilarious is that most of the fantasy I found in the book, I deduced from reading the core Revised Cypher Rulebook. Not a knock on Godforsaken as much as proof of how solid MCG's Cypher system was designed. Been loving my whole Cypher collection. The dual Descriptor sidebar is vital. The Ritual magic rules - I swiped and added to Stay Alive as it also fit the horror genre as well, and better even than the idea of "spells."
Yeah there isn't persé a lot of 'new' stuff in Godforsaken, it's more a guide on how to use the Cypher System to build your more typical Fantasy Character and Campaign. That's what I love about it. Me and Mss.T have been rolling characters with the core rulebook and having Godforsaken on the side just to get those solid tips.
I came about this book a few weeks ago and it became a fundamental pillar for my Shadowrun: Powered by the Cypher System project. Plus I hope it tempts my group to ditch D&D once and for all. But that will take more time.
@@MrTarrasque I love the aggressive play suggestion but I'm not the DM. I just run for them a Numenera oneshot and they didn't like it because they were hoping to understand the game by just barely taking a look at the character sheet. But now one of them took my recommendation of using the Cypher System to make their own setting, which is a sort of post-apocalyptic Shadowrun intertwined with some D&D lore. So I handed him the Godforsaken book. I play the long game.
@@MrTarrasque personnal suggestion for your next cypher read (you do you, I'm just telling my take to help if you're not sure where to go next, but you're a big Tarrasque now): the Stars are Fire : sci-fi, yes, but you get much of the NPC VS NPC resolution options from this book and it's a good take on "out-of-the-box" options Stay Alive: Horror themes, here we go! can be used in all universes, from prehistoric shamanic possession from an entity of the beyond, to the classical zombie invasion of your everyday live to the Alien that came out of your passanger's belly and grew 9-12 feet long and has 2 mouths (one inside the other) have a good one, you god-send, spell-reflecting-shell reptile of cataclysmic destruction ;)
This actually was your best Cypher System vid, but you did get the Species descriptors a little wrong they are usually used as sub descriptor, so you can have two like is a "Inquisitive, Gnome who..."
Thanks, I appreciate you saying that! It was actually my intention to bring it that way but I wasn't clear enough when talking about the two descriptors.
Nice, comprehensive video about Godforsaken. As an alternative to D&D or Pathfinder, I find that the Cypher System is a superior d20-based TTRPG system. While still class and level-based, the plug-and-play nature of making your own character class blows D&D out of the water. The core rules also do a really good job at being transparent while allowing the PCs to, by and large, attempt whatever they want. The vast amount of abilities can clash with that, however, as the presence of an ability excludes the possibility of doing what the ability does without having it, which I find both slows pacing and can be contradictory to the freeform skill system.
I have been GMing a ton of Cypher lately and dont find that last bit to be true for my group(s). If anything, the system invites much more random stuff to happen during the game
I have the opposite opinion of this book. I found it to be almost useless. It didn't give enough of anything. A few cyphers and some uninspired monsters. I did find the equipment section useful and find myself using this. Overall it felt like a lot of money for little
um no offence but what wizard of the cost try to do with OGL has start the whole my rule system is better then your rule system argument again, and again no offence.
Check out my Fantasy adventure for the Cypher System:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/0571bf16-18d8-4b33-9db9-4b6978a3be17/landing
Learning the Cypher System is Super Easy, Barely an Inconvenience.
I started with Numenera 10 years ago and this is still my favorite game/system/setting.
" Barely an Inconvenience. " cackles.
I sat down to watch this video and guess what arrived at my front door, this book. We went through it together, how nice. :)
Haha! That's incredibly awesome
Cypher system looks better and better with each new book.
Yeah, and I haven't even scratched the surface
It's great!
I love everything in the Godforsaken book.
I'm glad you touched on the MCG books format with the highlights and page references. Their books are so easy to use. I can't believe that other publishers haven't followed suit
I will repeat that untill the end of my days.
This is what it’s all about! This us what I’m here for baby! Woo!
Woohoooo
This might be your best intro yet
Thanks
I'm thinking of GMing a fantasy campaign for for my wife and daughter soon planning to pick up the cypher core book and either Godforsaken or God's of the fall.
Awesome. Think about my affiliate links when you do that 😅🤣
My kids told me that they wanted to pay D&D. I said “we have D&D at home.” And I pulled out Godforsaken.
Gods of the Fall is very darkly specific fantasy setting, post-apocalyptic in its way.
Godforsaken is more universal fantasy.
Hilarious is that most of the fantasy I found in the book, I deduced from reading the core Revised Cypher Rulebook.
Not a knock on Godforsaken as much as proof of how solid MCG's Cypher system was designed.
Been loving my whole Cypher collection.
The dual Descriptor sidebar is vital.
The Ritual magic rules - I swiped and added to Stay Alive as it also fit the horror genre as well, and better even than the idea of "spells."
Yeah there isn't persé a lot of 'new' stuff in Godforsaken, it's more a guide on how to use the Cypher System to build your more typical Fantasy Character and Campaign. That's what I love about it. Me and Mss.T have been rolling characters with the core rulebook and having Godforsaken on the side just to get those solid tips.
I came about this book a few weeks ago and it became a fundamental pillar for my Shadowrun: Powered by the Cypher System project. Plus I hope it tempts my group to ditch D&D once and for all. But that will take more time.
Make your d&d games suck and your Cypher games stand out
@@MrTarrasque I love the aggressive play suggestion but I'm not the DM. I just run for them a Numenera oneshot and they didn't like it because they were hoping to understand the game by just barely taking a look at the character sheet. But now one of them took my recommendation of using the Cypher System to make their own setting, which is a sort of post-apocalyptic Shadowrun intertwined with some D&D lore. So I handed him the Godforsaken book. I play the long game.
I was kidding.... or was I? 🤔
You did Shadowrun a la Cypher? Boss! I knew it was possible!
@@the-patient-987 there is a free primer on the mcg site I highly recommend for new GM/players .. it includes a one shot and pre-gens.
Lol great intro. Can't wait to have you in the UA-camrs one shot!
Thank! And yes, can't wait for march 2
Told ya: it's a great book to read ;)
PS. thanks for those videos btw
😉
My pleasure 😉
@@MrTarrasque personnal suggestion for your next cypher read (you do you, I'm just telling my take to help if you're not sure where to go next, but you're a big Tarrasque now):
the Stars are Fire : sci-fi, yes, but you get much of the NPC VS NPC resolution options from this book and it's a good take on "out-of-the-box" options
Stay Alive: Horror themes, here we go! can be used in all universes, from prehistoric shamanic possession from an entity of the beyond, to the classical zombie invasion of your everyday live to the Alien that came out of your passanger's belly and grew 9-12 feet long and has 2 mouths (one inside the other)
have a good one, you god-send, spell-reflecting-shell reptile of cataclysmic destruction ;)
I actually own the Stars are Fire in PDF and it's high on the list to look at. Stay Alive is not my cup of there since I shit my pants at horror
This actually was your best Cypher System vid, but you did get the Species descriptors a little wrong they are usually used as sub descriptor, so you can have two like is a "Inquisitive, Gnome who..."
Thanks, I appreciate you saying that! It was actually my intention to bring it that way but I wasn't clear enough when talking about the two descriptors.
Nice, comprehensive video about Godforsaken.
As an alternative to D&D or Pathfinder, I find that the Cypher System is a superior d20-based TTRPG system.
While still class and level-based, the plug-and-play nature of making your own character class blows D&D out of the water.
The core rules also do a really good job at being transparent while allowing the PCs to, by and large, attempt whatever they want. The vast amount of abilities can clash with that, however, as the presence of an ability excludes the possibility of doing what the ability does without having it, which I find both slows pacing and can be contradictory to the freeform skill system.
I have been GMing a ton of Cypher lately and dont find that last bit to be true for my group(s). If anything, the system invites much more random stuff to happen during the game
Thanks for the great review! :D
Thanks for sneaking up on my channel, you nailed the speed roll,
Would you consider running a campaign in Midgard using Godforsaken?
Yes, absolutly no issue. Midgard is a setting it is just lore and locations. A system is 'just' a system
I have the opposite opinion of this book. I found it to be almost useless. It didn't give enough of anything. A few cyphers and some uninspired monsters. I did find the equipment section useful and find myself using this. Overall it felt like a lot of money for little
Oh wow! Thanks for your take. I feel completly different
@@MrTarrasque yeah, maybe I was expecting too much
um no offence but what wizard of the cost try to do with OGL has start the whole my rule system is better then your rule system argument again, and again no offence.
I don't see one better then the other. It's just for different people and different play styles
Hey did I worded everything correctly did I get the point across that I was throwing shade at wizard of the cost.
I understoud your comment my friend 👊