Sale Ends Leap Day and Kiss of Death for Numenera
A little Numenera love before the Gods and Icons Kickstarter eats my soul.
40% Off, Sale Ends Leapday
The post-valentine's day sale is ending soon. The PDF versions of The Sun Below: City on the Edge and The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady are still 40% off for the rest of February.
Kiss of Death
Numenera in Space! Into the Night from Monte Cook Games is an inspiring setting book that teleports the game into space. I wrote an instant adventure set in one of those space worlds, Kiss of Death.
Liskal the AI needs a mind-gem from Zalkezia of Branu’s Kiss. Liskal tells the PCs that Zalkezia will spit the gem out after leaving the Kiss. They must grasp the gem to be teleported home.
Look for the upcoming release of CypherCaster Issue 5, which will include Kiss of Death. This adventure is set in in the watery worldlet of Branu's Kiss from Into the Night.
CypherCaster magazine can be found at DriveThruRPG.com. CypherCaster 5 should be out in mid March.
Speaking of CypherCaster magazine, check out the bundle for issues 1 - 4. www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171996/CypherCaster-Issues-001004-BUNDLE
Sleeping Lady Extras: Horror Mode
As promised, the third extra for The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady is up, and it's all about using Horror Mode during the adventure. If you want to get your Horror Mode on from the Cypher System book while running Sleeping Lady, check it out. (GM's only, spoilers for players.)
What's Horror Mode? It's the tabletop rpg equivalent of the spooky music ramping up in a horror movie. Read about it here.
Print Version of The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady Available Now!
It's here! The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady in print.
The print version is available now. 
Customers who bought the electronic version (which includes not just the PDF, but the eBook as well!) look for a special discount offer on the print version from DriveThruRPG.
Sorry, Deschutes Jubelale not included.
New Sleeping Lady Extra: Running the Tootsie Frootsie Man
A little advice for the GM in running Pinky, the dh'lann "Tootsie Frootsie" man in Bursang. Inverting the Channeling the Marx Brothers post to let the GM channel her inner Chico.
The First Sleeping Lady Extra is up.
GMs, head on over to the Sleeping Lady Extra's page and check it out.
Prisoner of Golthnor!
Players, chill. ;)
We're Number Two! :)
I just love this screencap. The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady is the 2nd hottest Cypher System seller right now on DriveThru. And the Sun Below bundle with City on the Edge is the featured product.
OK, enough reveling in my 15 nanoseconds of 2nd place fame, back to work.
The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady Available Now!
The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady adventure for Numenera is available now!
49 page adventure for all tiers, 16 page bestiary, new numenera, dozens of GM Intrusions, and player handouts.
Who is the Sleeping Lady? What's in the numenera mines? What is knock, knock, knocking at the door? Hang onto your minds and bodies, because secrets of Orb Mountain are about to be revealed!
Bundle
The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady is also available as part of The Sun Below Bundle.
Sleeping Lady, In Layout (Spoiler)
Spoiler Alert! GMs Only!
The current status of The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady is "In Layout." What the heck does In Layout mean, anyway? Well, it means this:
Here is the work in progress. If this picture goes there, this text must follow with it. Oops, I inserted some text, and now the picture is on the wrong page. And don't ask about those callouts on the sides of the pages...
One more screen capture:
I enjoy layout, but I'm ready for it to be over. Once I get the PDF download laid out, then I get to re-layout the product for print. Yay!
Just how big of a Sleeping Lady?
First of all, I want to say Dread Unicorn fans are the best fans in the world. Thank you for making this so enjoyable! Today I got some email from a fan in Greece, which is very exciting to me in my townhouse in Bend, Oregon.
Apos wanted to know about The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady. When I told him it's in layout right now, he asked, "How many pages?"
I don't know yet, but it's big. I only poured it into InDesign last night, and with no images and not much formatting, it's 48 pages. The Sun Below: City on the Edge came in at 60 pages once it was laid out. And since City on the Edge had 37k words, and Sleeping Lady has 45k words, I'm pretty darned sure we're looking at a 70ish page book.
But we'll see.
To tide you over, here's a scene by the amazing Justin Wyatt.
Sleeping Lady Art Preview 2!
Mmmmm! Seskii puppies and aneen bacon!
Can we be friends?
Rolling around
Bursang, on Orb Mountain
It's Christmas in July! The Sun Below: City on the Edge is On Sale!
It's Christmas in July! From now through July 30th, this title has been marked down by 25%!
The highly reviewed epic Numenera adventure from Dread Unicorn Games is available at rock bottom prices. Get yours now while the sale lasts.
Preview: The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady
Coming soon, The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady, another epic adventure for Numenera.
From the Synopsis
Mor-Klish needs help. He left his team down in the numenera mines, and he asks the characters to bring them out. He waxes poetic about the wonderful new chambers they just unlocked – vast spaces full of numenera and pulsing with energy and perhaps intelligence.
On the way, the PCs encounter a sleep-walking young woman (Storm, manifesting as Sun Storm), and her daughter Lebby. Lebby tells the characters “You really should leave now, or find me another sleeper.” The pair vanish before the party can find out more. As the PCs explore the interior of Orb Mountain, they have more encounters with Storm in her various manifestations, often with her daughter Lebby. Lebby wants to wake Storm and will try and get a character to agree to take her place. What all this means is not immediately clear.
The PCs also find the crow-like murken skulking around and may find a broken automaton who has a story to tell if the characters repair it.
At this point, two forces have been set in motion. First, Orb Mountain is repairing itself and if not stopped, will take flight and become the lost moon Liluna, destroying the slithik town of Bursang. Second, Gothnor is slowly gaining control of the data nodes inside the moon and, if not stopped, will return to the world and put an end to both reality and sanity.
An adventure for all tiers, with new creatures, cyphers, and artifacts.
Art Preview -- The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady
Some people might get the impression there is a horror component to this Numenera adventure. We have no idea what they mean. ;) Artist Doug Scott gives us a little peak into the challenges to be faced in The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady. These are preliminary sketches. The final art will be steeped in even more cosmic horror.
Sneak Preview: The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady
Like The Sun Below: City on the Edge, The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady is another adventure for Numenera. They are both set far below the surface of the Ninth World in the world of The Sun Below. Like City on the Edge, Sleeping Lady is an adventure for all tiers of characters, contains plenty of new creatures and numenera, and devilish plot twists to keep your players guessing.
Sleeping Lady is a great sequel to City on the Edge, but can be run standalone or even prior to City on the Edge. It begins with machines going mad in a town of blood-sucking green slime creatures. These creatures, slithiks, will pay handsomely if the madness of the machines can be stopped. From there the players are thrust into the mysteries of the numenera mines, underground ruins stuffed with weird echos of past ages.
Two disasters in the making confront your players. Can they save the town of the slithiks from being torn apart? Can they stop an ancient evil from entering their world? Can your players handle both crises? Or even one?
Includes two new descriptors: Slithik and Gibbering, and a new focus: Burns Blood.
Get ready for minds to shatter when your players enter the numenera mines of Orb Mountain and find the secrets of the Sleeping Lady.
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Print Version Now on Sale: 25% off for rest of February
The Print Version of The Sun Below: City on the Edge, is on sale through the end of February. The PDF version's sale continues to the end of the month.
The Sun Below: City on the Edge Print Version Now Available
The print version of the Numenera adventure The Sun Below: City on the Edge is now available on DriveThruRPG!
If you already purchased the pdf version of The Sun Below: City on the Edge, AND you are allowing me to send you emails on DriveThruRPG.com, I sent you a special offer on the print version. Check your email!
Announcing The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady
We couldn't talk about the new adventure until we got the license from Monte Cook Games, but that just came in, so....
The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady
A new Numenera adventure, in development now!
And it's Mor-Klish approved!
And remember, The Sun Below: City on the Edge is on sale for the rest of February!
Valentine's Day Sale
What could be more romantic than The Sun Below: City on the Edge?
Yes, it's 25% off for Valentine's Day, and for the rest of Valentine's Month!
Mor-Klish wants a kiss!
GM Intrustions Podcast Reviews The Sun Below: City on the Edge
"Just as good as an official product -- in some ways I think actually better." "Lots and lots of GM Intrusions..."
Lex Starwalker reviews The Sun Below: City on the Edge in episode 73 of his awesome podcast GM Intrusions. The review starts at 31:39, but if you like the Cypher System, you'll want to listen to the whole podcast, which starts with an interview with Matt Forbeck about the Shotguns and Sorcery kickstarter, a new licensed Cypher System rpg.