Virtual Front Porch Pages

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Wipeout

I do love Monte Cook Games, but I have to say that I was a bit peeved to find that when the online character builder tool launched for the new edition of Cypher, it seems to have wiped out all the saved characters from the first edition. I wish I'd had a bit of notice so that I could download PDFs of all the characters we've made over the past year or so. We would, of course, need to rebuild them for Cypher 2 anyway, but still...

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Lanterns

Lanterns premieres tonight on HBO. Seriously hoping that it exorcises the ghost of Ryan Reynolds...

Friday, August 14, 2026

GM's Guide

The digital version of the GM's Guide for Cypher 2 just dropped!!!

Sunday, August 2, 2026

Team Snapshot

Now that the Bearcats have become the last team to win their first Creighton Cup, I thought I'd tally up the team-level awards. The First-Place Pennant goes to the team that finishes in first place in the regular season, and the Creighton Cup, of course, goes to the champion of the postseason tournament. Here are the all-time standings, along with the season in which each team joined the league...

Team

First Season

First-Place Pennants

Creighton Cups

Bearcats

7

1

1

Bulldogs

1

0

2

Comets

1

2

2

Millionaires

4

2

2

Thistles

1

1

1

Victorias

1

7

5