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New Gamemaster Month: Welcome, and Let’s Get Started!

During New Gamemaster Month, we’re going to give you the skills and confidence to become a GM. We’ll guide you through the process of understanding the rules, the setting, and your first adventure. Gamemastering. To some gamers, it seems to come naturally, but to others—longtime veterans of gaming, as well as newbies just entering the hobby—it’s a bit intimidating. But running an RPG can be an incredible joy, and GMs keep our hobby thriving and growing. So we here at Monte Cook Games have tak...

Short Film Numenera: Strand Is Now Free to Watch Online!

Short Film Numenera: Strand Is Now Free to Watch Online! The Numenera brand, already soaring with the launch of a line of novels by Angry Robot this month and the release of Torment: Tides of Numenera CRPG in February,this week enjoys the launch of the spectacular short film Numenera: Strand, by Valdes/Eriksdotter Productions. In March 2015, the Swedish film companyValdes/Eriksdotter helda crowdfunding campaign to create a short film in the Ninth World setting of the Numenera tabletop rolepla...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 01-2017

Iadace and Happy New Year from Monte Cook Games! We hope 2017 brings you health, happiness, and loads of gaming excitement! MCG News Team MCG took a much-needed break over the holiday. Thanks for your patience while we catch up on messages and customer service queries. Sean and I (Tammie) are working diligently through the backlog and should be caught up very soon. If you are an international customer or backer and are awaiting your copy of the Numenera Starter Set, your wait is almost over....

Into the Outside

Head intothe Multiverse! The Ninth World is filled with the bizarre and unexpected. Butbeyondit, the truly astonishing awaits. Enter a dimension where you existin three different places simultaneously. A pocket universe that transforms youinto living sound. An existence where time carves living beings into separate time streams. Or a world where merely thinking changes reality. How can youeven begin to cope with such radically different worlds? Explore Into the Outsideand find out! What will...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 47-2016

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! MCGNews We’re taking a week off (12/26—1/1). Our store will still be open for orders, and you’ll be able to immediately download your digital purchases. We’re having a live Numenera game on Twitch on January 5th, and these are the pregenerated characters we’re using! Shanna’s Numenera novel, The Poison Eater, has an excerpt here, and you can preorder it here, here, and here (among other places). No Thank You, Evil! is part of this week’s Bundle of Hol...

MCG on Holiday December 26–Jan 1

Happy holidays! 2016 has been a long, busy, and exhausting year for all of us, and we’re taking some time off to spend with our friends, families, and loved ones. MCG will be closed from Monday, December 26 to Sunday, January 2nd. During this time we will not be processing or shipping physical orders from our webstore, responding to email, or available for customer service. (You’ll still be able to immediately access PDFs you purchase from us, and physical orders will resume shipping on Janua...

Doorway to Eternity—Pregenerated Characters

Monte is running an Into the Night themed Numenera game on our Twitch channel on January 5th! The players will be playingthe pregenerated characters from the Numenera Starter Set. Here’s a quick who’s who about these novice characters! Faroon, a Stealthy Jack who Explores Dark Places, is a sometime thief and bounty hunter and is unsure whether they’ll try to claim the bounty for returning Kalain to prison. (Player: Charles Ryan.) Kalain, a Strong Glaive who Wears a Sheen of Ice, spent some...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 46-2016

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Open For Business We’re still shipping orders from ourstore through December 24th! (Depending on the distance from our Kansas warehouse, some shipments might still arrive in time for the holidays.) PDFs, gift certificates, and our 2016 Holiday Gift are of course instantly available! Save the Date for a Live MCG Game! We’re playing a one-shot live Numenera game on our Twitch channel January 5th!In“Doorway to Eternity,” GM Monte takes four fellow MCG pe...

Doorway to Eternity on Twitch, January 5th

In January, Monte is running “Doorway to Eternity,” a one-shotInto the Night themed adventure for some MCG staff—and we’re going to broadcast it live on our Twitch channel.Here are the details: Date: Thursday, January 5th, 2017 Time: Noon to 3 p.m. Pacific time Game System: Numenera Players: Bruce R. Cordell, Shanna Germain, Sean K. Reynolds, Charles Ryan To watch the game live, go to our Twitch channel. If you can’t make it to the live session, the video will be saved to our YouTube channel....

Late Holiday Shopping and the MCG Store

The MCG store is still open, and you can still place orders!Our PDFs—like Skein of the Blackbone Bride, After the Nightfall, Tales Beyond the Ninth World, and this new instant adventure—are available immediately! So are gift certificates and our 2016 Holiday Gift! For new orders (as of late Saturday, December 10th), we can’t guarantee delivery in time for the holidays, but we’ll continue toship physical itemsthis week and the next—so if you’re the sort of Santa who doesn’t mind things arrivin...