Hello, backers—

Things are moving quickly for the Cypher System, and for your rewards. Just a couple of weeks after fulfillment of the Cypher System Bestiary, It’s Only Magic is in proofing now, and heads to press soon. We’re going to give you a peek inside, but first, here are a couple of other bits of exciting Cypher System news:

We’ve been working on an exciting suite of free online tools to make your Cypher System games even easier to play and run, and this week we unveiled something super cool: the Cypher System Character Builder.

Build, store, advance, maintain, edit, and even share Cypher System characters online with this free tool. There are multiple modes for creating characters—the Guided mode, in particular, is super fast and easy. It takes you through the process step-by-step. You can build a character in literally three or four minutes.

And when you’re done, generate a form-fillable PDF character sheet, export it to a VTT, or simply play your character right from the Character Builder.

The Character Builder includes all the character options from the Cypher System Rulebook plus all of our existing genre books—The Stars Are Fire, Godforsaken, We Are All Mad Here, Stay Alive!, Claim the Sky, and even Rust and Redemption. So you have thousands of character options from a huge range of genres. Build virtually any character you can imagine!

Did we mention it’s free? And available right now?

Have you received your copy of the Cypher System Bestiary (if it was among your rewards)? If so, you could do us a huge favor by posting a photo or two on social media, showing off this gorgeous book. It’s on pre-order now (and will be out later this month), but perhaps more importantly, we’d love your help getting the word out about the Cypher System and our current campaign: Knights of Dust and Neon.

We’re currently funding two more genre books plus a really cool new Cypher System setting—but the campaign ends this week, so time is running out.

Remember, as a backer of this campaign, if you return to back Knights of Dust and Neon you’ll get a super-exclusive gift added to your rewards: a set of all-new foil-stamped XP cards to add to your Cypher System XP Deck. If you received the foil-stamped deck as a backer of this campaign, you know how stunningly beautiful the cards turned out. There is no other way to get these new cards, and they’re exclusive just for you. Don’t miss the chance to grab them—check out the campaign now!

As we mentioned above, It’s Only Magic is now in proofing, and will go to press in a matter of weeks! Here’s a look inside:

We’re really excited about this hefty genre book covering every aspect of modern magic.

The final rewards of this campaign continue to march toward conclusion, too. We’ll give you a look at the Adventures in the Cypher System adventure book in our next update—and maybe even be able to show off a production copy of the Cypher System Starter Set.

It's a really exciting time to be a fan of the Cypher System!

Now that we’ve taken you through all the exciting news, why not take a few minutes to give the new Character Builder a try? And don’t forget to share your thoughts on it, and the Cypher System Bestiary, online before Knights of Dust and Neon comes to a close this week!

Thanks again for your support!
—Team MCG