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MCG Welcomes Jennifer Leslie

Monte Cook Games, LLC, the company behind the award-winning tabletop roleplaying games Numenera,The Strange,andthe Cypher System,is very pleased to announcethat Jennifer Leslieis joining the MCG team as Customer and Vendor Support Specialistas of September 21st, 2015. Jennifer brings over 25 years of experience in sales, service, marketing, communications, and corporate training to her role at […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 37-2015

Iadaceand welcome to this week’sCypher Chronicles! We have all (mostly) recovered from the Into the Ninth World Kickstarter (we hope you have too! It was super exciting!) and now we’re back to putting our heads down and making cool stuff. That’s always my favorite part. Right now, we’reworking on Into the Deep, putting the final […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 36-2015

Iadaceand welcome to this week’sCypher Chronicles! Product News TheInto The Ninth World Kickstarteris finished, and it was glorious thanks to all of our backers and supporters. We can’t wait to start making beautiful things that explore even more of the Ninth World! Speaking of Ninth World stuff, did you see that we got the printer […]

Five Cool Things You Didn’t Know about the Into the Ninth World Kickstarter

If you’ve been following the Numenera: Into the Ninth World Kickstarter (perhaps you’re a backer!), you know how it’s grown into an incredible deal. (If you haven’t been following, run—don’t walk—to check it out.) This campaign has unlocked twenty-five stretch goals (as of this writing), increasing the basic reward from threebooks (and a deck) […]

A Glimpse Inside Into The Outside

This post gives you a look between the covers of the forthcoming Into the Outsidesourcebook for Numenera. Into the Outsidecomes out in 2016, but you can pre-order itthrough theInto the Ninth World Kickstarter, running through September 9th. We’ve previously provided short previews ofInto the Night andInto The Deep.Into the Night is completely written, which made […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 35-2015

Iadace, this is the sorg.We apologize for the fault in last week’s Cypher Chronicles. The octopus overlordsresponsiblehave been sacked. The sorg do not mess around. Listen, or be neutronized. (You say you do not know of the sorg? You need know only this: We havecolonized—conquered!—a region of the void consisting of several hundred suns, and […]

The Cypher System, Jeff Noon’s Vurt, and the RPG of the Future

This is a guest post by Logan Decker. Logan is Editor at Ravendesk Games, the publisher bringing the Vurt RPG to life. Vurt will be powered by the Cypher System. It took several arduous years for Ravendesk Games to secure the rights to create a tabletop RPG based on Jeff Noon’s hallucinatory novels that began […]

Pre-order No Thank You, Evil! for a limited time!

We are pleased to offer No Thank You, Evil! for pre-order until September 18th. Did you miss the No Thank You, Evil! Kickstarter campaign? For a limited time, you can pre-order your copy of No Thank You, Evil!,a game of make-believe for creative kids and their families from the team that brought you Numenera and […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 34-2015

Iadace, this is the voice of your octopus overlords.Most of the people from Monte Cook Games are at PAX and we have been given free reign (yes, we said reign. not rein. we are not brehm.)to say whatever we want while they’re gone.It is in your best interest to pay attention. Product News Who cares […]

A Look Inside Into the Deep!

This post gives you a look between the covers of the forthcoming Into the Deepsourcebook for Numenera. Into the Deepcomes out in 2016, but you can pre-order itthrough theInto the Ninth World Kickstarter, running through September 9th. Earlier thisweekwe gave you a look between the covers ofInto the Night. That was, frankly, pretty easy, becauseInto […]