{"id":5541,"date":"2020-11-23T15:07:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T19:46:41","slug":"interview-with-monte-cook-about-heroes-of-the-cypher-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=5541","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Monte Cook about Heroes of the Cypher System!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were very excited to sit down with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/montejcook\">Monte Cook<\/a> to talk about the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/montecookgames\/heroes-of-the-cypher-system\"> Heroes of the Cypher System<\/a> kickstarter, super heroes, what heroes look like in 2020, monsters, and the evolution of the Cypher System.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/montecookgames\/heroes-of-the-cypher-system\"> Heroes of the Cypher System<\/a> on kickstarter through December 11, 2020. 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As we mention in&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=5541\">Continue Reading Interview with Monte Cook about Heroes of the Cypher System!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88,72,2],"tags":[12,85],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cypher","category-interview","category-podcast-release","tag-cypher","tag-interview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5r9Oo-1rn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1750,"url":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=1750","url_meta":{"origin":5541,"position":0},"title":"Review: Cypher System","author":"Aser Tolentino","date":"October 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The greatest thing about the prior Cypher System games, Numen\u00e8ra and The Strange, is the simple, flexible, yet deceptively nuanced mechanics that work together to really animate any story you care to tell. 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