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February 28, 2014
Do Not Let the Dice Fall Where They May
February 12, 2014
Announcing Character Options for Numenera!
January 29, 2014
The Monte Cook Games Web Store is Now Open!
January 8, 2014
Numenera’s First Year
Well, okay. Numenera came out in August, so it’s only been five months, not a whole year. But as we wave goodbye to 2013, I’m prompted to think about the game and the game line looking back and looking forward.
Obviously, Numenera’s birth came in 2012 with the launch of its record-smashing Kickstarter campaign. That was a heady time, but also pretty scary. We had set out to make a single, small-ish black and white book. Now we were committed to creating a line of full-color deluxe products. Co...
December 20, 2013
Merry Holidays from Monte Cook Games
To all boys and girls of the Ninth World:
He knows if you’ve been bad or good.
But he doesn’t care. He’ll come and visit you either way.
Whatever the trawl thinks about you, we think you’re awesome. So have a little holiday goodness on us!Click here to download a full-page preview of theTrawl, the bad santa of the Ninth World. He’ll be in The Ninth World Bestiary and the Numenera Creature Deck (out in 2014) but you can throw him in your holiday games as soon as today and give all your favorite p...
December 5, 2013
Two Kickstarters
My team is getting ready to have an AAR meeting (After Action Report) regarding The Strange Kickstarter. This will likely be a very long meeting, because I think that there will be a lot to say.
It’s been interesting to run a second major rpg Kickstarter campaign a year after our first one. The first,Numenera,broke records in terms of funding raised. While those records have since been broken, Numenera remains the highest grossing Kickstarter, ever, for a new, original tabletop rpg.
And now the...
December 4, 2013
What Makes for a Good Playtester (redux)
As we head into the playtesting period for The Strange, I am reminded of an article I wrote last year about what I think makes for a good playtester. Here are the salient points from that article about what sorts of feedback I think a playtester should provide:
1. Appropriate feedback.An important part of being a playtester is the ability to understand what it is you’re looking at, and understand what portion of the process you are a part of. For example, if someone sends you a rough version o...
November 13, 2013
Backing The Strange Kickstarter
The Strange Kickstarterhas 9 days left. We’re nearing $250,000, at which point we unlock a big stretch goal: a deluxe, leatherbound version of the corebook with special endpapers, a bookmark, color plates, and high quality, gilt pages. If you’ve seen the Numenera deluxe corebook, you know that these books are things of beauty.
But I digress.
Funding-wise, we’re at about the same level as Numenera was at this point in the campaign, which is thrilling and exciting. However, we don’t have quite as...
October 30, 2013
Numenera Dice from Q-Workshop
Q-Workshop and Monte Cook Games are excited to announce the release of official licensed Numenera dice! These handsome, high-quality dice, in a fire-amber color derived from the Amber Obelisk that graces the cover of the Numenera roleplaying game, are specially marked for the Cypher System. They bear the numenera symbol on the highest-numbered face of each die, andthe d20 includes special markings on the 17, 18, and 19 faces.
The dice set consists of one d20, one d6, and two d10s.Q-Workshop in...
October 27, 2013
The Devil’s Spine
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