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Originally posted 4/2/22 on Substack
It’s the end of one month and the beginning of another, so it’s time for a new rpg product from me! This month’s product is Struts, a new Focus1 for the Cypher System. Now disco kings and dancing queens can join the fight against evil!
This product is currently available to all paid Newsletter subscribers and Patreon patrons of any level ($2/$4/$5). Nope, this product is free to everyone. Just click on the link below.
The mid-’70s. Mirror balls, glowing multicolored dance floors, polyester suits, and most importantly: boogieing, a.k.a. getting down. Characters in an Against the ’70s game are familiar with disco culture, but only one is truly of the culture. If you’re someone who Struts, you’re so in tune with your body and the rhythms of the world, you can shake your groove thing, catch the eyes of the beautiful people, and give an extra-dimensional corpse-stealing alien a knockout punch, all at the same time. And never muss a perfect hair on your head.
A refresher for those unfamiliar with the Cypher System. A player character is made of three parts: a descriptor, a type, and a focus. The descriptor is an adjective that imparts various advantages and disadvantages. The type is like a character class, and there’s only four: Warrior, Adept, Explorer, and Speaker. These loosely map to Dungeon & Dragons’ Fighter, Mage, Rogue, and Cleric/Bard. The focus is like a super-specific subclass that imparts a number of special abilities. You can freely combine descriptors, types, and foci. The result is a sentence; for example, a Stealthy Explorer who Consorts with the Dead. Focus names are always created to go after the word “who,” and as such, can look awkward when used by themselves.↩︎
