--- _tmp/ccsrd.md 2025-07-19 21:26:15.890915570 -0500 +++ _tmp/ccsrd.new.md 2025-07-19 21:26:33.627026990 -0500 @@ -566,46 +566,6 @@ ::: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -::: {.alert .ps-4 .pb-0} -#### Are You A New Player? [#](#are-you-a-new-player){.og-h-anchor aria-hidden="true"} - -[(OG-CSRD Editorial Addition)]{.og-ref .og-ref-og} - -::: row -::: {.col .col-md-6} -This short video from Geek and Sundry covers [key concepts](#key-concepts) for Cypher System players, including: - -- [Task Difficulty](#how-to-play-task-difficulty) -- [Rolling the Die](#how-to-play-when-do-you-roll) -- [Special Rolls](#how-to-play-special-rolls) -- [Character Stats](#character-stats) -- [Pool, Edge, and Effort](#pool-edge-and-effort) -- [Modifying the Difficulty](#modifying-the-difficulty) -- [Optional Rule: Power Shifts](#optional-rule-power-shifts) -::: - -::: {.col .col-md-6} -::: {.ratio .ratio-16x9 .mb-3} -::: iframe -::: {#player} -::: - -::: player-unavailable -# An error occurred. {#an-error-occurred. .message} - -::: submessage -[Try watching this video on www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAgHRM0R8z8){target="_blank"}, or enable -JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser. -::: -::: -::: -::: -::: -::: -::: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ::: ::: {#part1} @@ -1376,21 +1336,6 @@ character creation. 5. Gather together with the GM and PCs and start [playing the Cypher System](#this-is-how-you-play-the-cypher-system)! - -::: {.ratio .ratio-16x9 .mb-3} -::: iframe -::: {#player} -::: - -::: player-unavailable -# An error occurred. {#an-error-occurred. .message} - -::: submessage -[Try watching this video on www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLsahA0lYM){target="_blank"}, or enable -JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser. -::: -::: -::: ::: ::: @@ -1407,21 +1352,6 @@ (see the optional [Cypher SRD Compendium](https://foundryvtt.com/packages/cyphersystem-compendium/) module and [Cypher System Community Content](https://foundryvtt.com/packages/cyphersystem-community-module) modules) - [Fantasy Grounds](https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/2030/view) - -::: {.ratio .ratio-16x9 .mb-3} -::: iframe -::: {#player} -::: - -::: player-unavailable -# An error occurred. {#an-error-occurred. .message} - -::: submessage -[Try watching this video on www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY4RC6cTGkI){target="_blank"}, or enable -JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser. -::: -::: -::: ::: [Roll20](https://app.roll20.net/) provides free Cypher System implementation, and a free version of the [Cypher System @@ -60609,58 +60539,6 @@ #### Weird West Character Options [#](#weird-west-character-options){.og-h-anchor aria-hidden="true"} -[(OG-CSRD Editorial Addition)]{.og-ref .og-ref-og} - -::: row -::: col-md-6 -\"Probably the first thing that people expect from a Western is the Western landscape. And it is a bit of a blank -page---the blank, empty desert waiting to be written on---an empty stage in a lot of ways. And onto that stage, we can -project many different kinds of stories. - -Genres create a way of communicating in a kind of shorthand through clusters of meaning that had gathered around these -various stock characters, plot devices, themes, and images: a way of expressing pretty substantial sets of values and -associations with minimal means. - -At their most profound, Westerns deal with the intersection of the individual and society. You have a sense of what is -gained and what is lost by belonging to a community as opposed to living in the wilderness where, as an individual, -you're completely free. - -It's the arrival of civilization in the form of those ranchers and farms and small towns that means that the hero is -going to have to sacrifice some of that freedom. The classical Western is fundamentally concerned with the coming of law -that defines a new society. -::: - -::: {.col .col-md-6} -The central irony of the classical western is that the law has to be established through exactly the kind of personal -force, strength, violence that the law is meant to suppress. - -So, the hero is the perennial outsider who has to use the methods of the outlaw to fight the outlaw---and he's too much -of an outlaw, ultimately because he has killed, because he has seen this other side of life, to ever be fully accepted -by the townspeople he's been defending. - -So, the hero sacrifices himself for the sake of the law, and he---in a way---wills his own extinction in the name of -civilization.\" - ---- Dave Kehr, *[How to See \| Westerns: Is the Genre Dead?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOeMHxBgShs)* - -::: {.ratio .ratio-16x9 .mb-2} -::: iframe -::: {#player} -::: - -::: player-unavailable -# An error occurred. {#an-error-occurred. .message} - -::: submessage -[Try watching this video on www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOeMHxBgShs){target="_blank"}, or enable -JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser. -::: -::: -::: -::: -::: -::: - ##### Suggested Types for a Weird West Game [#](#weird-west-types){.og-h-anchor aria-hidden="true"} {#weird-west-types} [(High Noon at Midnight, page 96)]{.og-ref} @@ -79957,30 +79835,6 @@ their full capacity. ::: ::: - -::: {.col .col-md-6} -::: {.alert .ps-4 .pb-0} -###### Cyphers Video [#](#cypher-video){.og-h-anchor aria-hidden="true"} {#cypher-video} - -[(OG-CSRD Editorial Addition)]{.og-ref .og-ref-og} - -::: {.ratio .ratio-16x9 .mb-2} -::: iframe -::: {#player} -::: - -::: player-unavailable -# An error occurred. {#an-error-occurred. .message} - -::: submessage -[Try watching this video on www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940FXrJVDP4){target="_blank"}, or enable -JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser. -::: -::: -::: -::: -::: -::: ::: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------