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And Other Fun Stuff: Flying a Drone

[We asked Bruce to describe something in his life that has nothing (or very little) to do with writing, just for fun.] Science fiction fans wish they could grab a piece of the futures they read about—the good ones, anyway—and experience them in the present. Waiting is so hard.

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 16-2017

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! MCG News We’re excited to announce Jade Colossus: Ruins of the Ninth World is coming in August.

Announcing Jade Colossus: Ruins of the Ninth World

Explore a mysterious ruin of the prior worlds—or build ancient sites for your campaign! Mysterious, powerful, and usually dangerous, the vast ruins of the prior worlds are the defining feature of the Numenera setting. The secrets and wonders they contain are a siren call to characters from across the Ninth World—and to GMs and gamers drawn in by Numenera’s unique sense of mystery and spectacle.

MCG Welcomes Zoa Smalley

Zoa Smalley Joins Monte Cook Games as Layout Artist and Warehouse Coordinator Monte Cook Games, LLC, the company behind the popular and award-winning tabletop roleplaying games Numenera, No Thank You, Evil!, the Cypher System, and The Strange, is very pleased to announce that Zoa Smalley is joining the MCG team as Warehouse Coordinator and Layout Artist as of April 17, 2017. Zoa has worked with Monte Cook Games since 2014, initially as an intern and then part time, and has now transitioned...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 15-2017

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! MCG News Expanded Worlds is now available on the MCG shop and DriveThruRPG! This newest addition to the Cypher System gives you tailored rules, advice, tropes, and character options for seven setting genres (post-apocalyptic, mythological, fairy tale, childhood adventure, historical, crime and espionage, and hard science fiction), along with tools you can use to build any campaign you can imagine.

Expanded Worlds

Where will your campaign take you? What worlds will you build? The dusty, ruined remains of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Adding a New Person to Your Established Gaming Group

Perhaps one of your existing players moved away and had to leave your game. Or maybe there’s someone at work who’s just been dying to try their hand at an RPG. Or one of your player’s roommates loves roleplaying and wants to join your group.

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 14-2017

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! MCG News Several MCG artists have been selected to appear in this year’s Spectrum annual art book—congrats to them and everyone else selected! Monte writes about the thrill of hunting for secrets—in life and in a game—in Invisible Sun Design Diary 6:

Invisible Sun Design Diary 6: We Need Secrets

I’ve written in other venues about the “thrill of the hunt.” And by that, I mean the hunt for that one back issue of a comic series you loved, that old album by the band you loved, or that out of print book by that author you loved. These “hunts” were a big part of my youth, and the very concept is gone now.

Spectrum 24 Acceptances—MCG Artists Representing

Last month, Spectrum, a beautiful annual art book, announced the artist list for Spectrum 24. We submit to this on behalf of our artists, to both honor and showcase the wonderful work they do for us. This year several of these pieces got in.