Let’s Make an NPC Ep 5: Great Rail Worker (Cypher System)

About this episode

Crash prepares for his Cypher campaign by creating an NPC description.

Crash preps for his Cypher campaign by writing up an NPC description for future use. This series is heavily inspired by Mike Shea of Sly Flourish recording his own game prep. Follow this series on… Let’s Make RSS Feed: https://aaronbsmith.com/cogwheel/tag/lets-make/feed/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cogwheelgaming Mastodon: https://is.aaronbsmith.com/@cogwheel Not on Mastodon? Consider these instances: gamepad.club dice.camp mastodon.art chirp.enworld.org tabletop.vip MP3 Download: Let’s Make an NPC Ep 5: Great Rail Worker (Cypher System) Art and Markdown Files (NPCs are under a the Filthy Human Hands 1.0 License , art is released in the public domain.) Music Used: Bubble Machine by Drozerix is public domain and can be downloaded from modarchive.org . Keep us ad free by supporting us on Patreon! Thanks to our current Patreon Patrons (as of this upload…): Ellie, Liv Dromen, Paul, ShanShen, Walter, & Patron Emeritus Cindy!

People in this episode

Host: Crash

Topics covered

• NPC creation
• Cypher System
• game preparation
• tabletop gaming
• role-playing games

Keywords

• NPC
• Cypher System
• game prep
• tabletop RPG
• role-playing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sly Flourish

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