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IC: Cypher System - Predation.

Posted by Isida KepTukari
Isida KepTukari
member, 189 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Thu 22 Feb 2018
at 06:48
  • msg #1

IC: Cypher System - Predation

Welcome to the Cretaceous!

200 years in the future, a big corporation developed time travel and sent a large population of scientists back to the Cretaceous for various scientific purposes (some very secretive).  Nine years into the experiment, time travel blew up on the Cretaceous end, and no one has been able to figure out why.  It's now a hundred years later, and a lot of the modern technology is breaking down as a new generation is either settling down or trying to find a way back to a future "home" they've never seen.  And, of course, the meteor could be due any time soon...

So, would there be enough people interested in a game that's futuristic, prehistoric, and post-apocalypic at the same time?  Also, everyone would have a dinosaur buddy played by someone else in the group, so effectively everyone plays two characters, yourself and someone else's companion.

Is there enough interest for a group of people who want to thrash through the prehistoric jungle with their antique laser gun, new bone knife, and genetically-modified dino-buddy?
Samus Aran
member, 381 posts
Author, game designer
Part-time Metroid fighter
Thu 22 Feb 2018
at 11:39
  • msg #2

IC: Cypher System - Predation

Yes. I ran a short-lived game of it but RL helped slow it down until it fizzled. I'd love to play in it, though. I absolutely love dinosaurs and all things prehistoric, and I really dig the setting. I'd like to say that I prefer to embrace the positive parts of the setting, and indeed don't really ever plan to have the meteor happen in my own games (something would fix it, or it would just never happen), because I don't want to play too nihilistic or lose such an awesome setting, if that makes sense.
jamat
member, 527 posts
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Thu 22 Feb 2018
at 13:24
  • msg #3

IC: Cypher System - Predation

In reply to Samus Aran (msg # 2):

I think I was in that game :) the setting is great if you set a game up count me in
Isida KepTukari
member, 190 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Thu 22 Feb 2018
at 17:01
  • msg #4

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation



Samus - I'm definitely down with more exploration/puzzle-solving/dinosaur adventure than impending doom.
CrazyIvan777
member, 226 posts
Fri 23 Feb 2018
at 01:36
  • msg #5

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation

This sounds like a really interesting setting... And I've wanted to try out the Cypher system (I own it, just haven't played it). So count me as interested.
Isida KepTukari
member, 191 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Sat 24 Feb 2018
at 15:05
  • msg #6

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation

That's three, and that's enough to start!  I'm going to work on knocking together a game thread on Monday, so go ahead and start reading your Predation material.  :)
Jack Starkiller
member, 78 posts
Sat 24 Feb 2018
at 16:57
  • msg #7

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation

I'm really interested but don't have Predation.  I have Numenara, The Strange and the Cypher System core though.
CrazyIvan777
member, 227 posts
Sat 24 Feb 2018
at 22:21
  • msg #8

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation

^ Generally in the same boat as Jack. Didn't realize Predation was a specific set of material. :/
Isida KepTukari
member, 192 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Sat 24 Feb 2018
at 22:42
  • msg #9

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation

Predation is like a modification kit for the Cypher System car.  It requires the use of the Cypher System book, as Predation has types that are modified from the types in the core book and doesn't reproduce everything.

However!  I do have some pre-made characters and companions from a gaming con that people without the Predation book could use.
Samus Aran
member, 384 posts
Author, game designer
Part-time Metroid fighter
Sun 25 Feb 2018
at 07:00
  • msg #10

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation

I can help people make characters and stuff, too. As soon as you have a forum up so we can more safely discuss character concepts, let us know.
Isida KepTukari
member, 193 posts
Elegant! Arrogant! Smart!
Mon 26 Feb 2018
at 17:42
  • msg #11

Re: IC: Cypher System - Predation

Game is here!  link to another game  All those who expressed an interest were added, but if you decide this is not your cup of tea, lemme know.
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