Giants Beneath the Stars
I’m sure it’s no surprise that I’m a life-long fan of science fiction. That means I consumed the sci-fi contents …
What’s New in the Cypher System Rulebook?
MCG just released the new version of the Cypher System Rulebook. After revising the Numenera game (with the release of …
The Liminal Shore
Voices of the Datasphere, the first book of the Liminal Shores Kickstarter campaign, focuses on the datasphere, the mysterious network …
Edge of the Sun
The sun is destined to destroy its children. Eventually, it will swallow all the planets closest to it and eject …
Playtesting The Stars Are Fire
A science fiction tabletop RPG might be thought of differently than a fantasy game. And by differently, I mean implicitly …
Voices of the Datasphere
One of the topics about the Ninth World that I’ve been asked about the most—to the surprise of no one—is …
My Love for RPGs Led Me to Numenera
My Love Affair with RPGs My first experience with roleplaying games was at Scout camp. The older Scouts, huddled around …
Who Are You, Vislae?
Invisible Sun extracts you from Shadow–the mundane, magic-less world around us right now. You step into the Actuality–a land of surreal …
Wield Magic with Order (or Disorder) in Invisible Sun
What makes magic so special in Invisible Sun? Magic is fluid, unpredictable, and ever nuanced in effect. Its secrets are …
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Designing for Surreality, Secrets, and a Supreme Experience
When Monte first discussed Invisible Sun with everyone here at Monte Cook Games, three things stuck out to me that …
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A Deeper Look at Your Best Game Ever, Part 3: Character Arcs
In the previous installments, I’ve looked at a couple of areas that we’ll be discussing in Your Best Game Ever to give …
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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 …
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