Last night, for our final gathering of 2019, my Tuesday night game group made characters for next year’s Invisible Sun game. It was…A Lot. We might be done? I’m not really sure. I started an online game with some folks in my Slack two weeks ago, and they’re still not quite done. After going through… Continue reading Invisible Sun: Setup and Session 1 is A Lot
I’ve been slowly going through Invisible Sun, book by book, digging into it in as detailed a way as possible. Read the first installment of this series if you want to catch up. Caught up? Great. Let’s move on to The Path, where the “truth” of the game’s setting is revealed to the GM. This… Continue reading Invisible Sun: The Path
This morning I was chatting with a friend about how I actively dislike the thing in fantasy RPGs where a magic-using character’s player wants to learn a spell (in reference to this week’s post about Invisible Sun), and it lands in the GM’s lap to make that happen. It’s a really weird tic in my… Continue reading The Misery of Precedent
Reading The Way has left me somewhere between thrilled and worn out. I’ve been stalled out writing about the third book of Invisible Sun for weeks. I may meander a bit in this post. The Way covers magic in Invisible Sun in detail, as is necessary in a game where everyone and everything is magical.… Continue reading Invisible Sun: The Way
This is the second in a series of deep dives I’m taking on Invisible Sun, Monte Cook Games’ sprawling, prestige tabletop RPG. If you want to start at the beginning, go here. Invisible Sun’s Killer App My first exposure to Cypher was via No Thank You, Evil!, a game targeted at kids. In that iteration,… Continue reading Invisible Sun: The Gate
