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Strange Deck

Add a bit more strange to The Strange—or any game! The Strange is filled with limited worlds seeded by fiction. Generating new stories, encounters, and ways to make an encounter strange is fun but can be a challenge.

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Translation Deck

It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. . .

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Extra Life: Monte Cook Games Streams for Charity

On Extra Life weekend (November 2nd–4th), we’re playing and hosting Twitch streams of MCG games and games of our community members. Let’s come together to play games and help kids! How It Works Extra Life is a fundraising and gaming marathon to support Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

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Wield Magic with Order (or Disorder) in Invisible Sun

What makes magic so special in Invisible Sun? Magic is fluid, unpredictable, and ever nuanced in effect. Its secrets are boundless.

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 40-2018

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Designing for Surreality, Secrets, and a Supreme Experience

When Monte first discussed Invisible Sun with everyone here at Monte Cook Games, three things stuck out to me that I felt would need to be reflected in the graphic and product design of the game: Invisible Sun is a game about secrets. Invisible Sun is surreal.

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Cypher Chronicles, vol. 39-2018

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Building Tomorrow

Uncover the secrets of yesterday to build a better tomorrow Terrible beasts. Abhumans. The iron wind.

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Announcing the Invisible Sun Reprint Kickstarter

Invisible Sun, the groundbreaking, visionary roleplaying game of surreal fantasy and truly magical magic from Monte Cook, sold out well in advance of its launch date in September. If you missed it—or if you got a copy of the Black Cube, but missed your chance to get a Vislae Kit or other related releases—we have good news: MCG intends to reprint Invisible Sun in 2019!

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Cypher Play: Build a Ninth-World Community (and Get Free Numenera Adventures)

Community building isn’t just a feature of the new Numenera Destiny corebook. It’s something that happens every day, everywhere gamers gather and play games they enjoy together. One place gamers gather is their friendly local game store (FLGS)—and not coincidentally, that’s one of the places Numenera communities form.

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