Hello, backers— 

Welcome to the final week of the Cypher—Advanced! crowdfunding campaign. In case you’ve missed an update or two, here’s a quick overview of the many Cypher announcements we’ve shared during this campaign: 

🚀 A brand new Cypher event launches on StartPlaying Games tomorrow! Sign up for a game today and get $10 off with code SPC26. Whether you're new to Cypher (or to RPGs as a whole), or a longtime Numenera, The Strange, or Predation fan, there's a game for you! 

🧝‍♀️ The public beta Cypher Character Builder is live! With literally thousands of Type, Descriptor, Species, and Foci combinations possible, your character will come to life! One cool feature of this new online tool is that it can easily export your character right onto… 

🗡️ Roll20! We've completed work on a fully functional Cypher character sheet for Roll20. It's been submitted and will go live as soon as Roll20 approves it. 

🎲 Cypher GM’s Guide is available for preorder on the MCG Shop—and it’s one step closer to being in your hands! Want a sneak peek? Check out the free preview available on the MCG Shop! 

📚 We’ve just shared The Joy of RPGs, a video about RPGs and MCG that derived from the filming of the short-form documentary series All Access with Andy Garcia, which airs on PBS stations across the US. We think it’s a really cool video that highlights what makes TTRPG gaming so special and fun, and hope you enjoy it.

🖊️ The Cypher Open License is waiting for you! The Cypher Open License allows publishers, gamers, and members of the public to freely create and market tabletop roleplaying games compatible with, and using the rules from, the Cypher tabletop roleplaying game system. Publish your adventures, settings, and even complete new games—powered by Cypher 

Believe it or not, that’s not everything we have to share! Make sure you stay tuned throughout this week for even more exciting news and announcements.

And for our first of these exciting updates...

When we talked about Cypher—Advanced! as a flash campaign, we weren’t joking. The lengthy design process for the new edition of Cypher had generated loads of potential content of Cypher Decoded, but we didn't start working on the actual form of the book—including its cover—until we decided to launch this campaign.

What you’ve seen so far for these two new books have been mockups, pulling art from existing products—fine for launching the campaign, but not fitting for the final books. Fortunately Macli, the cover artist for these two books, is fantastic and moved just as quickly as the MCG Team, producing the final art in a very short time! We can now reveal what these books will officially look like. Here's a close-up look:

(Note that while near-final, we may still make a few tweaks to this art before it appears on the books themselves.)

As part of this campaign, we’re going to make a handful of vinyl stickers, and every backer gets them, no matter your pledge level. The votes are in, and a third sticker has been added to your growing collection! This was a tight race, with over 450 votes and a 53/47 split, but the winner is... 

We have so many cool ideas for Cypher Decoded and Cypher Bestiary II that we literally can’t squeeze them all into the books! We’re asking you to help prioritize our choices with polls via this campaign. 

Cypher Decoded will, among the many topics it touches, include a bunch of new genres—complete with new types, genre abilities, and genre-specific optional rules. So far, backers have added Espionage and Pulp Action to the book! 

Your next poll is between Western and Ultraviolence (and ultra skills). Are you craving gritty action, smoky saloons, and tense standoffs? Or the fast-paced action of John Wick, Kill Bill, and The Raid? 

 
 —Team MCG