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Your Game: The Asset Deck

Your Game is a regular feature here on the Monte Cook Games website, that talks about getting the most out of your RPG experience, including GM and player advice. When I run the Cypher System, if someone is interacting with an NPC and the player says something really appropriate or clever, I lower the difficulty […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 11-2016

Iadace and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Exciting News and Interviews Did you see all of the great questions and answers this week about Gods of the Fall, Predation, and Unmasked in the comments section of the Kickstarter for Worlds of the Cypher System? Thank you to all who participated. Bruce, Shanna, and Dennis had a […]

Monte Says: Gotta Do My Homework

Monte Says is a regular feature here on the Monte Cook Games website, in which Monte talks about topics related to the Cypher System—or anything else on his mind! It’s sort of a common misconception that someone with a job like mine just sits down at the keyboard and makes things up all day. And […]

Angry Robot Books to Publish Numenera and The Strange Novels

Monte Cook Games, LLC, andAngry Robot Books, award-winning global publisher of science fiction and fantasy, today announced that they havesigned a deal to publish a series of novels based on the worlds of Monte Cook Games’ Numenera and The Strange. The line will launch in October with the novelThe Poison Eaterby Shanna Germain, to be […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 10-2016

Iadace and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Exciting News, Interviews, and Reviews Gods! Dinosaurs! Superheroes! Rawr! Worlds of the Cypher Systemis knocking down stretch goals and addingcool new rewards thanks to your support, so please keep spreading the word. Here is the link for you to grab and share:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/.... Zenia, Balakar, Thordin, Aren, Verecocho, Mudarak, Avi, […]

Beyond the Book: Using Skills to Paint a Picture

Beyond the Book is a regular feature here on the Monte Cook Games web site,discussing ways to use the Cypher System to run a great game. The storytelling properties of skills are an often-overlooked joy of the Cypher system. While skills are general, focusing on skills unique to a character can take your PC from […]

Welcome to Gods of the Fall

If you’ve ever wanted to play a god,Gods of the Fallis for you. It’s a setting in which player characters are more than simple adventurers, heroes, or even villains. Yes, characters inGods of the Fallgo on adventures, are heroic, and possibly even find themselves in the villain’s role if they’re not careful. But in this […]

Cypher Chronicles, vol. 9-2016

Iadace and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! Exciting News and Interviews Six stretch goals! Yes, we’re just into day five of the Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter campaign, and the stretch goals are already piling on. We’ve added three poster maps, two PDF supplements, and the coolest one (so far): Myth of the Maker, a […]

Monte Says: Use Your Passion

Monte Says is a regular feature here on the Monte Cook Games website, in which Monte talks about topics related to the Cypher System—or anything else on his mind! Most of us feel passionately about something. Or even many things. Those of uswhoplay roleplaying games, however, often leave that passion behind when we sit down […]

Explore Worlds of the Cypher System

Gods! Dinosaurs! Superheroes! Last week we announced the launch of a new line of products supporting the Cypher System Rulebook. We are now funding this through the Worlds of the Cypher System Kickstarter campaign. The campaign began Monday morning and quickly blew through its funding target—we’re now adding new features and content through stretch goals. […]