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Inside The Stars Are Fire

Curious to know more about what The Stars Are Fire will contain? Read on! We’re really excited about this 160-page book of sci-fi goodness that will cover running and playing in science fiction RPGs.

A Deeper Look at Your Best Game Ever, Part 1

Every hobby has a go-to guidebook. Definitive and broad in scope, it’s the thing that every seasoned veteran has, and it’s the book that every newcomer is encouraged to get. The one that comes to mind for me is Wonderbook by Jeff Vandameer, a very comprehensive look at writing science fiction and fantasy.

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 30-2018

Gosh, things at MCG sure are humdrum these days, with so very little going on. Hahaha! Who am I kidding?!?

Running Your Game Like A Boss

“Like a boss.” INFORMAL used to say that someone does something very well: I’m going to help you to GM like a boss.

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 29-2018

What an exciting week it’s been—and with Numenera Discovery and Destiny, Your Best Game Ever, and Gen Con coming up we’re looking forward to so much cool stuff in the weeks to come! ENnies voting is still open, and Predation, I’m a Guide!, and Uh-Oh, Monsters!

Ashes of the Sea FREE Numenera Quickstart Rules and Adventure

An Awesome Adventure, Quickstart Rules, and Pregenerated Characters Ready to Play! An ancient device has sent you and your friends, in the blink of an eye, to distant reaches unknown. The key to returning home—or anywhere else—lies within another prior-world site.

How to Make a Whole New Book Without Changing Anything

As we showed recently with the new Numenera books, Discovery and Destiny, you can mess around with the Cypher System pretty heavily by changing character options—without actually changing the way the rules work. Because PC creation rules don’t impact NPC rules or task resolution rules or any of the other rules, all the prior adventures, bestiaries, sourcebooks, and so on are all 100% compatible. It’s almost like it was designed this way intentionally… Anyway, it was time to do a new printi...

What’s In Your Best Game Ever?

Last week, we announced our next big thing: Your Best Game Ever! Not a rule book, but a tool book, Your Best Game Ever is a resource for all players and all games.

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 28-2018

Did you hear? We want you, yes you, to have your best game ever! No matter what games you play, how you play them, or who you play them with, Your Best Game Ever will be stuffed full of tips, tools, advice, and techniques.

A New Cypher System Rulebook

When we were finishing the new Numenera books, Discovery and Destiny, one of the first things that playtesters asked us was, are you going to incorporate some of the cool new material in these books into the Cypher System? A valid question. And it got me really thinking about the Cypher System Rulebook as a whole.