Cypher System Support

[dellanx]

Started playing Cypher, love it!

[Rhenny]

I funded Cypher for PDFs. I would definitely buy content for FGU and run games. Make it so!

[scoolio]

I play in a recurring Cypher System game on Foundry and LOVE the system as a player. I too own all the PDFS for cypher and love the mechanic. I run sessions on Foundry as well and I am also an old school Ultimate license user for Fantasy Grounds but as of yet have not trnsitioned my games over to FG Unity yet. Getting Cypher over to FG would make transitioning easier.

[Moon Wizard]

The mechanics of the Cypher system are already available as part of the standard FG install (Rulesets are Cypher, Numenera and The Strange).
There is no data available, since MCG has not allowed licensing of the data; but all the mechanics are there. I'm assuming that Foundry wouldn't have the data either for the same reason.

Are you just looking for support for the rules to play; or does someone have a license on Foundry to provide the data? If so, do you have a link?

Regards,
JPG

[wndrngdru]

I run a weekly Cypher game in the Ptolus setting. The rulesets are fully functional though, as Moon stated, it's pretty much enter your own stuff at this point.

@Moon Wizard - MCG has provided the CSRD, which includes all of the Cypher System Rulebook as well as a LOT of the stuff from their "white book" expansions. What's NOT in the CSRD is anything Numenera (though generic versions of most of the Cyphers show up in the CSRD), Predation, or The Strange. Those are off limits to anyone but MCG. It also doesn't cover other IPs, such as Old Gods of Appalachia, Magnus Archives, and Shotguns and Sorcery.

Foundry has a fairly robust Cypher community with a few active devs on their ruleset and CSRD (which I believe is complete at this point). It's kind of, at least outwardly, the VTT of choice over on the Cypher Unlimited Discord. That said, I don't like it. I find it unintuitive and difficult to get set up, which is why I keep pushing requests and bug reports Saagael's way.

I have been working on creating a CSRD module, but it's slow going, with development happening in fits and starts. I have all the base Types, Flavors, and Descriptors with their corresponding Abilities entered as well as all the Cyphers (I got help from a couple other FG users on those). The Foci and their associated abilities is what's taking the longest though I'm roughly halfway through those. The monolithic CSRD document MCG provides is pushing a thousand pages at this point and they keep adding to it every time they publish new stuff.

I've been thinking I should just release what I have to the Forge and let people use what's there to perhaps speed up getting started with the system as well as give examples of how abilities are entered and used with the effects framework Saagael has baked into the rulesets. (I suppose it would also put a boot to my rear to get it finished if I know people are using it.)

[Moon Wizard]

If you get a CSRD module set up for Cypher and give us permission, I can add to the standard Cypher install.
You might want to check with Saagael if there is any automation that he might want to add with the module.

Regards,
JPG