Monte Cook Games releases The Stars Are Fire
The galaxy-spanning space opera adds creatures, new rules, character options as well as gear and tools suitable for a science-fiction campaign to your Cypher library.
Download for free: Numenera’s Building Tomorrow preview
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Building Tomorrow by Bruce R. Cordell and Sean K. Reynolds will be the first supplement for Monte Cook’s Numenera RPG since the release of the new core books.
You’ll have to wait until October for the full edition of Building Tomorrow to be released, but you can take a free PDF download of the preview right now.
The full Building Tomorrow supplement contains nearly 300 new numenera, threats to isolated communities that are large enough for the GM to build entire campaigns around.
There are new communities too as Numenera expands.…
Return Man to Dust: A Review of The Dark Spiral
Every game hopes to bring something new to the table, but as a reader you don’t necessarily grok the setting or the promise from the outset. Sometimes you’re left to your own devices.…
A Strange End of Days: Review of Eschatology Code
With the still relatively recent release of The Strange, the new iteration of Monte Cook’s Cypher system first used in Numenera, Eschatology Code provides a quick and straight-forward adventure to get you started.…
Mashing Up The Strange: A Review of When Worlds Collide
The strange and incredible come in many guises and sometimes you need a helping hand making sense of it all. With the release, from Monte Cook Games, of The Strange, the Cypher System has expanded with more than 400 pages of content.…
Curious and Terrible Things: A Review of The Ninth World Bestiary
The adversaries, beasts, constructs and monsters of the Ninth World poses a formidable and often unfathomable threat to life. Characters setting out on a voyage of discovery through the weird landscape of ruins, drit and numenera can expect to not expect much of what they encounter.…
Treasures of the Ninth World: A Review of the Cypher and Artifact & Oddities Collections for Numenera
As a planet, we generate a huge amount of waste and while some gets recycled, a lot ends up in landfill. We also have a fair amount ending up in the sea, most of which (the media would suggest) seems to end up in the nexus of the Pacific gyre.…
Monte Cook & Bruce Cordell team up for The Strange RPG Kickstarter
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Monte Cook and Bruce Cordell are both professional developers, both have had success on Kickstarter and are long time friends. Amazingly, they’ve never worked on a full RPG together.…
Monte Cook quits D&D Next, defends team
The respected and popular designer, Monte Cook, unexpectedly announced he was quitting Wizards of the Coast and the D&D Next project this week. Cook’s return to the company, over a year ago, was one of the first signs that the next generation of the roleplaying game was on the way.…
