This is a free preview. The Cypher Character Rulebook will be available in late August. For a deeper dive into the rules, you might also want to check out the free Cypher Rules Primer.

Everything you need to play Cypher—whether you’re delving into a dungeon, exploring the dark corridors of a derelict spaceship, facing a supervillain-spawned apocalypse, or chasing a cozy mystery in a modern-day small town!

Cypher is the award-winning RPG system for the fun, fast-paced campaigns just itching to burst from your brain onto your game table. It’s fast, flexible, and incredibly easy on the GM. Players love their vivid, memorable characters that are easy to build, fun to play, and never bogged down in needlessly complex mechanics. GMs love running fun, fast-paced adventures and campaigns that bring their worlds to life without having to kludge the rules. The Cypher Character Rulebook is your gateway to this engaging, flexible, and narrative-forward system that’s easy to learn and fun to play!

The Cypher Character Rulebook contains everything you need to play Cypher. The forthcoming Cypher GM’s Guidehelps the GM make the most of this immersive and versatile game system, but isn’t necessary for play.

Here are just a few reasons you’re going to love Cypher!

Cypher is amazingly easy to GM. If you can decide how hard something is on a scale of 1 to 10, you can resolve anything in Cypher. The GM sets a difficulty, the PCs’ skills, tactics, and choices might reduce that difficulty, and then the player makes a simple die roll. It’s that easy—but with Cypher’s many options, that doesn’t mean it’s simplistic.

Speaking of easy: Players arriving in 15 minutes? If you have a cool idea and a number between 1 and 10, you’ve got an encounter. Build sophisticated stat blocks in less than five minutes. Run completely on the fly! Everything about Cypher is built to ease the GM’s workload. Focus on making your game cool, interesting, and fun—and spend almost no time fiddling with mechanics.

Gameplay is fast-paced and fun. Things move quickly in Cypher—a session might cover twice the ground as a more mechanics-heavy RPG. There’s plenty for players to sink their teeth into, but the mechanics are elegant and easy to master. Your action scenes are dominated by cool twists, ebbs and flows, and dramatic surprises—not waiting for players to crunch a bunch of numbers.

It’s not all about the action, though. Players invest. Character arcs create subplots while developing PCs’ motives, personal stories, and relationships. And the players have their own tools to contribute to the story, and incentives to build and follow their character’s motivations and story arcs—as much or as little as they like.

Your adventures and campaign aren’t just faster—they’re more engaging and memorable!

Cypher is perfect for your story. Steampunk dungeon-delving? Swashbuckling on the high seas? Zombie apocalypse? Hunting dimensional horrors through the dark corridors of a derelict spaceship? Cypher is built from the ground up to be customized. Put a little twist on a fantasy setting—or build a whole world unlike anything ever played! You can craft your campaign without ever having to kitbash the rules to make them fit.

And built-in tools bring your story to life! Say goodbye to fudged dice—Cypher lets you shape the narrative in ways that are fair, fun, and give everyone at the table a great experience. You’re never a slave to some rigid rule or the wrong roll of the dice. The game serves your story!

Cypher frees your imagination! Cypher is a “mid-crunch” RPG—it’s not rules-lite, but it keeps the mechanics out of your way. And it’s built for flexibility from the ground up, so you’re never trying to figure out how to bend the rules to get the game you want. The GM’s bandwidth is freed up to make the game awesome and fun. It’s fast, effortless, and built for narrative and choices rather than numbers and math. 

If you can imagine it, Cypher makes it easy!

This is a free preview. The Cypher Character Rulebook will be available in late August. For a deeper dive into the rules, you might also want to check out the free Cypher Rules Primer.

Jennifer S Lange Presents: Game Battle Arena

This stock art image by Jennifer S Lange depicts a structured Game Battle Arena you can use to develop an actual card or board game playing area, or to represent one in an RPG.

This color purchase includes one JPG and a TIFF version, both at 300 dpi. Dimensions are 11 x 6 inches.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

Jennifer S Lange is a self-taught artist working mostly in the games industry with a spoonful of book covers, and prefers the fantasy/sci-fi genres -- because we know what the so-called real world is like already, so why not expand? Besides painting, she loves creating worlds by writing tiny snippets of stories for her personal works.

Love of learning is her strongest drive in life, and in her personal work she experiments new ways of creating art, changing medium, subject, and goals frequently.

Jennifer lives in northern Germany with her partner, and three cats of which only one isn't black.

All stock art is licensed for use in professional publications. Jennifer S Lange retains ownership of the work, meaning you cannot resell the art in your own art packs or the like, and may be required to post an artist credit. There are limits regarding how this art may be edited for use.

You must include the artist's copyright statement in all publications using the art under certain terms and conditions. You obtain a license to use the art, but do not own any rights to it beyond that.

This stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts a drow elf warrior with dark skin and white hair, armed with a magical ice sword.

In RGB colour, 4 x 4 inches @ 300dpi.

This purchase includes one RBG PNG & CMYK TIF. If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

tags: winter snow icewind dale drizzt forgotten realms

This stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts a huge bear-like creature with horns.

In RGB colour, 4 x 4 inches @ 300dpi.

This purchase includes one RBG PNG & CMYK TIF. If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

TAGS: rage anger blood monster

This stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts a drow elf warrior with dark skin and white hair, armed with a magical ice sword.

In RGB colour, 4 x 4 inches @ 300dpi.

This purchase includes one RBG PNG & CMYK TIF. If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

tags: winter snow icewind dale drizzt forgotten realms

This stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts a huge bear-like creature with horns.

In RGB colour, 4 x 4 inches @ 300dpi.

This purchase includes one RBG PNG & CMYK TIF. If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

TAGS: rage anger blood monster

This stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts a medieval boar hunter armed with a spear taking on a charging boar.

8.5 inches x 5.8  inches @ 300dpi.

This purchase includes one greyscale PNG (black on a transparent background). If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

tags: monster creature razorback giant pig fight

This stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts a person using a telekinetic shout to disintergrate their enemies.

In RGB colour, 8.5 inches x 5.8  inches @ 300dpi.

This purchase includes one RBG PNG & CMYK TIF. If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

tags: telekinetic psionic gory blood science fiction scifi

This stock art image by Dean Spencer depicts an scribes tools, ink pot, quill, mixed pigmants, made ink, and parchment.

Black and white line art, 4 inches on the longest side @ 300dpi.

This purchase includes one Greyscale PNG file and CMYK TIF. If you need this in any other format please feel free to contact me.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

tags: tool equipment medieval

Bullets & Bootleggers GAS Character Sheet

Step into the smoke, jazz, blood, and bootleg liquor of the Ghost Ape System with the official Bullets & Bootleggers Character Sheet.

Designed for use with any Bullets & Bootleggers campaign, this two-page character sheet gives players a stylish, table-ready place to track everything they need for grimy Prohibition-era action, occult noir investigations, gangland violence, political corruption, desperate bargains, and supernatural trouble in the shadows of America’s roaring cities.

Whether your crew is dodging bullets in Chicago, making dangerous moves in New York, cutting deals in Detroit, or crossing into the strange occult underworld of the wider Ghost Ape Games line, this sheet is built to support fast play and character-focused storytelling.

Compatible with:

Bullets & Bootleggers
Purple Reign
Irishtown
Rise of the Five Families
Son of a Lich Too
and any other GAS-powered 1920s crime, occult, or noir campaign

This character sheet includes space for:

• Attributes and modifiers
• Hit Points, armor, initiative, attack bonuses, and critical notes
• Class perks and milestones
• Skills and tags
• Spells and psionic abilities
• Psionic strain
• Patron pacts, boons, and demands
• Weapons, armor, gear, tools, currency, and valuables
• Allies, contacts, goals, favors, debts, and character notes

The sheet is presented in a black-and-white Art Deco style inspired by smoky clubs, criminal ledgers, backroom deals, occult secrets, and the dangerous glamour of the 1920s.

This is a downloadable two-page PDF character sheet. Print it for your table, use it for campaign prep, or keep it handy for online play.

Requires the Ghost Ape System and/or Bullets & Bootleggers rules to use.

Jennifer S Lange Presents: Man with Pet Snake

This stock art image by Jennifer S Lange depicts a young Man with Pet Snake standing before a blurred, light-filled background. Is the snake real? Is it an artificial creature in a cyberpunk future?

This color purchase includes one JPG and a TIFF version, both at 300 dpi. Dimensions are 8 x 11 inches.

All art files are bundled in a ZIP file.

Jennifer S Lange is a self-taught artist working mostly in the games industry with a spoonful of book covers, and prefers the fantasy/sci-fi genres -- because we know what the so-called real world is like already, so why not expand? Besides painting, she loves creating worlds by writing tiny snippets of stories for her personal works.

Love of learning is her strongest drive in life, and in her personal work she experiments new ways of creating art, changing medium, subject, and goals frequently.

Jennifer lives in northern Germany with her partner, and three cats of which only one isn't black.

All stock art is licensed for use in professional publications. Jennifer S Lange retains ownership of the work, meaning you cannot resell the art in your own art packs or the like, and may be required to post an artist credit. There are limits regarding how this art may be edited for use.

You must include the artist's copyright statement in all publications using the art under certain terms and conditions. You obtain a license to use the art, but do not own any rights to it beyond that.

The Case File Collection

‘Is it true you investigate,’ Kumar paused and fished around for an acceptable term, ‘unusual phenomena?’

—Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground

What's Inside?

Rivers of London: Underground, Overground - The Case File Collection contains four scenarios for Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game, each set in the United Kingdom’s bustling capital city.

A New Rivers of London Tale

Rivers of London: Underground, Overground includes an exclusive piece of microfiction by Ben Aaronovitch, “The Absolutely True and Accurate Account of How the Foxes Got Their Voices Back.”

New Rules

The book contains brand new spells, creatures, and guidelines for creating your very own talking fox investigator, playable in any Rivers of London game.

The Case Files

The scenarios that make up the Westhaven Campaign can be run as stand-alone one shots, or strung together to form a complete scout-investigator campaign.

Rivers of London: Overground Underground is designed for use with the Rivers of London Roleplaying Game.