From e773ce89359ffbc4e5ea26397c4c4c0b87d77b21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Brian S. Stephan" Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:06:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] start solo campaign, A Storm Invited --- pages/cypher/homebrew.md | 7 ++++ pages/cypher/index.md | 1 + pages/cypher/storm/chapter-01.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++ pages/cypher/storm/cyne.md | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ pages/cypher/storm/index.md | 31 ++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 135 insertions(+) create mode 100644 pages/cypher/storm/chapter-01.md create mode 100644 pages/cypher/storm/cyne.md create mode 100644 pages/cypher/storm/index.md diff --git a/pages/cypher/homebrew.md b/pages/cypher/homebrew.md index 0a76002..493070a 100644 --- a/pages/cypher/homebrew.md +++ b/pages/cypher/homebrew.md @@ -36,3 +36,10 @@ technology, or some kind of unnatural being, but you use your size and strength * Tier 4: Fury * Tier 5: Specialized Basher * Tier 6: Regenerate + +## Abilities + +### Blessing of the Gods (more abilities) + +* *Sky/Air (2 Intellect points).* You or a creature you touch can fly short distances for ten minutes. You must land at + the end of your movement, or otherwise fall. Action. diff --git a/pages/cypher/index.md b/pages/cypher/index.md index 8bb04ce..ff8be25 100644 --- a/pages/cypher/index.md +++ b/pages/cypher/index.md @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Footer: Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun, ## Campaigns +* [A Storm Invited](storm/) * [Adventuring!](adventuring/) * [Farewell to the Spire](spire/) * [Out to the Black](black/) diff --git a/pages/cypher/storm/chapter-01.md b/pages/cypher/storm/chapter-01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f74d2fb --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/cypher/storm/chapter-01.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Title: A Storm Invited: I. Shadows of the Past +Description: A solo Cypher System campaign by bss. +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. + +# Shadows of the Past + +> I started by rolling for my two cyphers, disguise module and heat attack. + +Cyne crawls through the muddy ditch, rain beating on his cloak and furthering the miserable conditions he finds himself +in, attempting to evade the local guard searching for him. His previous attempts to slip into the library in plain sight +having failed, his next plan was to attempt a night infiltration, where he now finds himself ducking from alley to +alley, hiding in ditches, and the like, until he can no longer hear the guards. He must give them every sense that what +they saw was just an errant townsperson, or perhaps a figment of their imagination, before he can continue. + +> The guard is decent but not amazing, I figure, so let's call them level 3, but it's dark and rainy, and Cyne is +> trained in sneaking, so eased two steps... +> +> 1d20 = 2; **failure** +> +> welp + +The guard, three of them in the immediate area, find Cyne, who pulls himself out of the muck while he is surrounded, +raising his arms slightly, in a somewhat insincere surrender. *What is my move here?* he wonders. *There's always +lying...* + +"Just on my way home," Cyne somewhat awkwardly sputters, definitely not prepared with a practiced lie. + +> D3 Intellect task, hindered one: 1d20 = 11; **failure** + +The guards are not buying it, and begin to close in. diff --git a/pages/cypher/storm/cyne.md b/pages/cypher/storm/cyne.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5301f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/cypher/storm/cyne.md @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +Title: Cyne Valbrook +Description: The subject of bss's Cypher System solo campaign Challenging the Storm. +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. + +# Cyne Valbrook + +Cyne Valbrook is an intelligent and exiled spellsword [warrior flavored with magic] who wields an enchanted weapon. Once +the ward of the headmaster of prominent military college in the city of Dirge, his interest in the arcane and eventual +melding of forbidden disciplines led to his expulsion. Since that time, he has struck out on his own. + +## Cypher System Stat Block + +* **Might: 15, Speed: 10, Intellect: 13** +* **Effort: 1, Might Edge: 1, Intellect Edge: 1** +* **Cypher Use:** 2 cyphers at a time. +* **Abilities** + * **Blessing of the Gods --- Sky (2 Intellect points):** You or a creature you touch can fly short distances for ten + minutes. You must land at the end of your movement, or otherwise fall. Action. + * **Blessing of the Gods --- Sun (2 Intellect points):** You cause one creature or object within short range to + catch fire, inflicting 1 point of ambient damage each round until the fire is extinguished (requiring an action). + Action. + * **Charge Weapon (2+ Intellect points):** As part of making an attack with your enchanted weapon, you charge it + with magical power, inflicting 2 additional points of energy damage. If you make more than one attack on your + turn, you choose whether to spend the cost for this ability before you make each attack. Enabler. + * **Passives** + * **Enchanted Weapon (1 Intellect point):** You attune yourself to a physical weapon. You know exactly where it + is if it is within a short distance of you, and you know its general direction and distance if farther away. + Other focus abilities require you to be wielding this weapon. Only can be attuned to one weapon at a time, + Action to initiate, ten minutes to complete. Enabler. + * **Innate Power:** When spending points to activate your focus abilities, you can spend points from your Might + Pool instead of your Intellect Pool. Enabler. + * **Combat Prowess:** +1 damage to melee weapon attacks. + * **Improved Edge:** Increase Intellect Edge stat from 0 to 1. + * **Trained Without Armor:** Trained in Speed defense tasks when not wearing armor. + * **Loner:** You gain no benefit when you get help with a task from another character who is trained or + specialized in the task. +* **Skills** + * **Trained** in Speed defense tasks when not wearing armor. + * **Trained** in knowledge of magic and the arcane. + * **Trained** in all actions that involve remembering or memorizing things you experience directly. + * **Trained** in all tasks involving sneaking. + * **Trained** in all tasks involving foraging, hunting, and finding safe places to rest or hide. + * **Practiced** with light, medium, and heavy weapons. + * **Hindered** in any task involving social interaction, due to having been on your own for so long. + +### Arcs + +* **Mysterious Background** + * Beginning the Search + +### Equipment + +* **Weapons:** Greatsword [attuned], broadsword, five daggers. +* **Cyphers:** scroll of disguise [disguise module], heat attack powder +* **Clothing:** Explorer's outfit, including sturdy red shirt, often obscured by a cloak. +* **Gear:** Adventuring pack (50' rope, three days' rations, three spikes, small hammer, extra set of warm clothes, boots, three + torches), backpack, healing kit, 20 torches, tent, waterskin, ink, ink pen, lantern, 10 flasks of oil +* **Coin:** 77 gp, 4 sp, 8 cp diff --git a/pages/cypher/storm/index.md b/pages/cypher/storm/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42c6ded --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/cypher/storm/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Title: A Storm Invited +Description: A solo Cypher System campaign by bss. +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. + +# A Storm Invited + +A solo Cypher System game by bss, set in the fantasy world of Yacsra. + +## Characters + +Being a solo campaign, there is currently only one principal character, [Cyne Valbrook](cyne). + +## Session Logs/Chapters + +Some style notes, my plan is to alternate between two voices and formats. + +Normally-formatted text, such as this paragraph, is written in present tense, as if I was narrating GM or player +thoughts live in the course of play. Since I'm both, at the same time, there will probably be no meaningful distinction +between these two roles in the narration. Present tense just feels more natural to me for this right now, but maybe +that'll shift over time. + +> Inset text, such as this, will be more about system decisions, dice rolls, asides and commentary, and so on. +> Probably far less structured here. + +As such, the chapters will probably be a mix of session log and narrative prose. + +* [I. Shadows of the Past](chapter-01)