Putting the Play in Roleplaying
A good game is all about choices. The players should make real, meaningful choices, and those choices should have a …
Find Something To Love
One of the many stories about my dad told more than once this week goes back to when he was …
Plots in RPGs
In the Numenera Kickstarter, I had a backer level called On-line Gamer. The people backing at that level get to, among …
Tales from the Ninth World
As one of our Numenera Kickstarter stretch goals, we said that we would create a short ebook anthology entitled Tales from …
Blast from the Past: Charles and the Crocodile
Longtime followers know that montecook.com has been around since about 1999 or so, and that most of the pre-2012 content …
Introducing Charles Ryan
I met Charles Ryan in a tuxedo shop. At the time, he was the Chairman of the Academy of Adventure Gaming …
Author/Game Designer, Rich Howard
When I created my Kickstarter for Numenera, I named one of the backer levels On-Line Gamer. One of the many …
The Spirit of Numenera
In conversations over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself talking about Numenera to interested people–not so much the rules, …