{"id":8508,"date":"2026-07-02T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?p=8508"},"modified":"2026-06-18T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:45:40","slug":"crashs-course-s2-ep-01-cypher-2-character-book-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2026\/07\/crashs-course-s2-ep-01-cypher-2-character-book-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash&#8217;s Course S2 Ep 01: Cypher 2 Character Book Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8404\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8508-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseC2CharacterBookReaction.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseC2CharacterBookReaction.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseC2CharacterBookReaction.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseC2CharacterBookReaction.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?powerpress_pinw=8508-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/cogwheelgaming\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseC2CharacterBookReaction.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"CrashsCourseC2CharacterBookReaction.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8509\" src=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2-1200x1200.png 1200w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourse2.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Monte Cook Games has sent its 2nd Edition Character Book to Backerkit Backers!<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve had some time to let things percolate in my brain (and my school year has ended&#8230;), I thought I&#8217;d revive my Crash&#8217;s Course series to share my thoughts about the changes from Cypher System to Cypher (Or Cypher 2) (Or C2).<\/p>\n<p>This video for this episode was posted a few days earlier over on my Patreon, as I do for all of my videos and podcasts, and then a few days later on PeerTube.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MP3 Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CrashsCourseC2CharacterBookReaction.mp3\">Crash&#8217;s Course: Cypher 2 Character Book Reaction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bubble Machine by Drozerix is licensed as Public Domain and can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/modarchive.org\/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&amp;query=176020\">http:\/\/modarchive.org <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fedi: <a href=\"http:\/\/is.AaronBSmith.com\/@cogwheel\">is.AaronBSmith.com\/@cogwheel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>PeerTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/tube.fediverse.games\/my-library\/video-channels\">tube.fediverse.games\/my-library\/video-channels<\/a><\/li>\n<li>All content of this episode not public domain or owned by others is released under a <a href=\"https:\/\/whirling.top\/fhh\">Filthy Human Hands 1.0 license<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/cogwheelgaming\">Patreon.com\/cogwheelgaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Special thanks to our Patrons: Ellie, Liv Dromen, Paul, Walter, &amp; Patron Emeritus Cindy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monte Cook Games has sent its 2nd Edition Character Book to Backerkit Backers! Now that I&#8217;ve had some time to let things percolate in my brain (and my school year has ended&#8230;), I thought I&#8217;d revive my Crash&#8217;s Course series to share my thoughts about the changes from Cypher System to Cypher (Or Cypher 2) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2026\/07\/crashs-course-s2-ep-01-cypher-2-character-book-reaction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crash&#8217;s Course S2 Ep 01: Cypher 2 Character Book Reaction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,293],"tags":[328,364],"class_list":["post-8508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-ttrpg","tag-crashs-course","tag-cypher-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8508\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}