When designing a roleplaying game (or setting), one of the first questions you ask yourself is, “What do characters do in this game?”...
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When I created Numenera, I wrote in a design diary that I didn’t like character creation. I said that I like getting right...
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Iadace, and welcome to Cypher Chronicles! MCG News Several MCG artists have been selected to appear in this year’s Spectrum annual art book—congrats to them...
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Spells, rituals, and so on in RPGs rarely feel like magic in fiction or real world occult studies because they’re usually so straightforward and...
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Everyone at MCG works from home, but once or twice a year we have an “MCG Summit” where we get together in person...
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I am learning as much or more designing Invisible Sun as I have during any other design. It’s as though the game itself...
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Depending on your point of view, it’s either enlightening or disheartening to look behind the curtain of a game’s design. Enlightening perhaps,...
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Although Invisible Sun has been in the works for a long time, only now am I actually putting words to paper (so to...
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At Gen Con 2016, the team at Monte Cook Games won ENnie Awards for Best Production Values (for the Numenera Boxed Set) as...
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This year, Monte, Shanna, and I were invited as guests to attend Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia. We attended the convention over the...
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One of the components of the Black Cube of the Invisible Sun game that we haven’t talked about much is the GM’s...
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I typically avoid the term “adventures” with Invisible Sun, because the stories told in this game are often not the stand-alone quests we...
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