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Black Friday/Cypher Weekend Sale!

Load up your sleigh for huge savings—and rare limited-edition gifts. It’s our Black Friday/Cypher Weekend sale! This weekend only, we’re offering […]

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All Your Gods Are Dead

The Appalachia woods are deep and dangerous. Let this book be your guide… All Your Gods Are Dead is designed specifically […]

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Cypher Design Diaries: Genre Templates

Here’s a secret: I don’t really like dividing stories (or anything, like music) into categories. I don’t like walking into […]

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Hacker’s Matrix

Netrunning is an integral part of the cyberpunk genre, and Neon Rain contains complete rules for dropping into the matrix, […]

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Cypher Design Diaries: Taking Out What’s Not Fun

Games, obviously, are meant to be fun. And yet we still put up with a lot of things that many […]

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The Mother of Storms

Endless quests and endless horrors… The gun-wielding, motorbike-riding knights of the wasteland often swear oaths to undertake quests during their […]

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Midnight Deck

A deluxe poker deck straight out of a weird west! Straight out of the gunslinging world of High Noon at Midnight, […]

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Cypher Design Diaries: It’s Right There In the Name

The game is called Cypher, so if we’re monkeying with the rules, we’d better make sure that cyphers work in […]

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Join us at Meeple-a-Thon 2025: November 14 – 16

Monte Cook Games will be at Meeple-a-Thon in Overland Park, Kansas, in November. If you’re in the Kansas City area, […]

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Announcing Cypher’s New, Evolved Edition

Monte, our design team, and all of us here at Monte Cook Games are excited to announce the 2026 launch […]

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