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Numenera & Cypher System

Brother Knows Quest

CHAPTER

How to Run a Game in the Cipher System

All you really need is the discovery book. Large chunks of these books and all the expansions you get are just full of ciphers. It doesn't hurt for the DM or GM to carry like a D20 or a D100 set. There's some interesting ones I'll go into later in the next episodes or two. They made the generic system so you can make any setting instead of just the ninth world. But it's pretty much the same other than that. Same simple rules but without the setting, you just make your own setting. And different words used for the character types.

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