Monte Cook's Blog, page 85

Invisible Sun on BackerKit for Backers and Pre-order Customers

Do you dream of escape, but you don’t know from what, or to where? Looking for a chance to escape the insanity of the world, and immerse yourself into something rich, deep, and fantastical? Something that challenges the limits of your creativity and your intellect? Lorcan made a gun out of demon which fires bullets that only harm possessed people. On his quest to discover the long-forgotten (and perhaps forbidden) number between 12 and 13, the weapon is proving useful as the Enemies of Sleep...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 41-2016

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Exciting News, Reviews, and Interviews There are only 7 more days to get in on the Kickstarter for No Thank You, Evil! The Adventures Continue! There are loads of exciting stretch goals we’d love your help reaching, so please share the campaign with your family and friends. The more support, the more better rewards for all! Here is the bit.ly link for your convenience:http://bit.ly/NTYETAC, and don’t forget to hashtag your shares with #NoThankYouEvilo...

Invisible Sun Design Diary 1: Stats

Although Invisible Sun has been in the works for a long time, only now am I actually putting words to paper (so to speak) and that always changes things, at least a little. Plus, there were still a fair number of unanswered questions that I’m now answering. So I figured that I’d work on a design diary as I work on the game. The first thing I should probably talk about is one of the bigger differences this game has from other RPGs, and that’s the “big box game” mentality. As you likely know, I...

Tales Beyond the Ninth World

What Wonders Lie Beyond Earthly Boundaries? An ancientvesselsailing the darkness of night encountersa demon of the void.A distraught mother seeks her dead childin a parallel dimension where that death never took place. A tomb robber raids an ancient ship, and must overcomethe ocean’s watery pull—and the dark shadows of her own expectations. The wonders of the Ninth World—our Earth, a billion years in the future—aren’t bounded by worldly shores. The ancients built their empires into the seas,...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 40-2016

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Exciting News, Reviews, and Interviews Happy Halloween weekend from Team MCG, and the characters and creatures of No Thank You, Evil! No Thank You, Evil! The Adventures Continue is live on Kickstarter and we’d love your help to fund two expansions for our game. What are the expansions? Story, Please! is a 100-card deck stuffed full of evocative art and creative ideas, letting you quickly build hundreds of unique adventures for No Thank You, Evil! Uh-O...

Moon Meld Us, Poison Eaters, And We Shall Shine

Depending on where you stood, the time of day, and your own state of mind, the Eye of Enthait looked like the moon, the sun, a child’s face, an egg, the inside of an eye, the black of the night. Yellow, golden, brown, beige, white, silver. Some said they could see creatures milling about inside its surface. Others that it was filled with machine parts. Or completely empty. None of those things were what Talia saw. No one had ever asked her what it looked like to her. That at least was one th...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 39-2016

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Exciting News, Reviews, and Interviews Please help usspread the excitementabout the Kickstarter forNo Thank You, Evil! The Adventures Continue, whichkicks off on October 26th, by sharing the image below with your friends on social media. And we hope to see you on October 26th for the launch of Story, Please! and Uh-Oh Monsters! Hang out with Charles atMidwest GameFest on November 12th and 13th at the Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center in Indepen...

No Thank You, Evil! The Adventures Continue

After a night of weird dreams, you wake up in a prison made of unpoppable balloons. Who put you there and how can you escape? Maybe that guard by the door can help. When we originally came up with the idea for No Thank You, Evil!, our family roleplaying game, we were both excited and nervous. Excited because we were doing something that we were passionate about and making something that we hoped families would play and enjoy. And nervous because we were trying to make something new, and we co...

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 38-2016

Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Exciting News, Reviews, and Interviews As a fledgling deity, youmust undertake divine labors to fulfill your destiny. You are directed by an ancient text to slay a raver—a creature of profound malignancy. But there are other agendas at play, and what seems like a stepping stone to divinity may be your downfall.After the Nightfall is an adventure for the Gods of the Fall setting for the Cypher System.After the Nightfall, which was called a Gods of the...

After the Nightfall

The Gods Have Fallen—Now It’s Your Turn As fledgling deities, the player characters must undertake divine labors to fulfill their destinies. An ancient text directs them to slay a raver—a creature of profoundmalignancy. But there are other agendas at play, and what seems like a stepping stone to divinity may prove the characters to be all too mortal. After the Nightfallis an adventure for the Gods of the Fall setting for the Cypher System. It can be played as a standalone adventure, or it fit...