diff --git a/pages/cypher/black/index.md b/pages/cypher/black/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..847b776 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/cypher/black/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Title: Out to the Black +Footer: Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun, and their respective logos are + trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. All Monte Cook Games + characters and character names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are trademarks of Monte + Cook Games, LLC. Content derived from Monte Cook Games publications is © 2013-2022 Monte Cook + Games, LLC. Full Disclaimer. + +# Out to the Black + +Out to the Black is space sci-fi campaign run in a homebrew fictional universe, run in the Cypher System. + +## Campaign Synopsis + +* Likely to steal liberally from... + * *Firefly* + * *Star Trek* + * *Farscape* + * *Alien* +* ...mashing up elements of hard sci-fi and space opera under an advanced technology rating (space travel inside a + system is relatively ordinary, but traveling beyond a system is almost never undertaken; FTL travel doesn't exist but + gravity generation does; *generally* things follow known physics, but there's always the opportunity for psionics, + alien stuff, etc.) +* Looking for ideas on what you guys would like to play, at the moment --- unaffiliated explorers and problem solvers, + organized (government or corp) away team with some kind of goal, scavengers/privateers, rebels on the outskirts + fighting tyranny? + * That'll probably affect the scope of the system/universe, e.g. if there's many uncharted systems in play (with + cryosleep or a *lot* of downtime), our system, a Firefly-like 'Verse system involving many suns and whole + sub-systems of planets and moons. + * Also of course that will affect chargen, what skills you might need to survive, if one of you *needs* to be a + pilot, that kind of thing. +* Actually, on that note, made-up system good, or is our Solar System preferred? + +## Character Creation + +At their basic level, characters are defined as *NAME is a [adjective] [noun] who [verbs]*. Adjectives are +**descriptors**, nouns are **types**, similar to character classes, and verbs are **foci**. + +Chapter 4 of the *Cypher System Rulebook* details character creation, with description of the mechanical elements, and a +small sidebar summarizing the steps to take to create a character. + +### Sources + +The majority of the options below are found, and best described, in the *Cypher System Rulebook*, with an open gaming +version available via the [Cypher SRD](http://www.cyphersrd.com/). Most others come from *The Stars Are Fire*. +Anything homebrew we'll write up and link to here. + +I skipped listing a lot of the core content, because there's no point in repeating that everything in the core book/SRD +are fair game --- the exception to this are the foci, which are tailored below. + +*...* diff --git a/pages/cypher/index.md b/pages/cypher/index.md index b9c28e3..1a84397 100644 --- a/pages/cypher/index.md +++ b/pages/cypher/index.md @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Footer: Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun, ## Campaigns * [Adventuring!](adventuring/) +* [Out to the Black](black/) ## Homebrew