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Monte Cook Games Launches Flash Sale for Rare Deluxe RPGs

November 21, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook Games creates a limited-time BackerKit store for rare deluxe editions of Old Gods of Appalachia, The Magnus Archives, and the Cypher System.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: crowdfunding, cypher system, Monte Cook Games, old gods of appalachia

A review (and time warning) on Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: The RPG

October 19, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Is the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG a successful adaptation? Our review examines the game’s blend of cosmic horror, bureaucratic satire, and its solid implementation of the Cypher System.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system

Cypher Evolved: Monte Cook Games reveals new edition ahead of Gen Con

July 30, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The new Cypher TTRPG edition is more of an evolution than a revolution.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, gen con, Monte Cook Games

Free to Download: Monte Cook’s Tidal Blades RPG preview

August 17, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designed by Shanna Germain and in a world created by Mr. Cuddington, Tidal Blades is a Cypher System tabletop RPG set in a beautiful archipelago where peoples cooperate… but the Fold is failing. The monsters it once kept at bay are coming.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, Shanna Germain

Monte Cook Games’ free online character builder opens

April 8, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cypher is a multi-genre system, and Monte Cook Games notes that the character builder supports a range of supplements and games. Several are mentioned:

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Claim the Sky, cypher system, godforsaken, Monte Cook Games

Two bundles, one new for the Ninth World RPGs: Monte Cook Games brings Numenera to the Bundle of Holding

December 19, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Numenera RPG is about exploration, including the eight worlds that came before and uses the excellent Cypher System.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cypher system, Monte Cook Games, Numenera

The Magnus Archives: Free to download and a million Dollar RPG

September 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Monte Cook Games now has a Cypher System-powered version of The Magnus Archives on the way, running the crowdfunding project on BackerKit.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: backerkit, crowdfunding, cypher system, Monte Cook Games

Free to Download: The horror RPG Old Gods of Appalachia has a preview

June 20, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror podcast, an eldritch fiction audio play set in an even darker world akin to ours.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, free to download, old gods of appalachia, Shanna Germain

Harrow – The Blighted Plane: Fantasy meets post-apocalypse meets crystal punk for the Cypher System

April 9, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The RPG will use Monte Cook Games’ excellent Cypher System. It is embedded in a challenging (to survive) setting and yet manages to evoke some hope.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cypher system, kickstarters

Free to Download: Planar Character Options for the Cypher System

March 30, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

From a Warrior who Strikes With an Amethyst Fist, channelling power through a psionically resonant prosthetic, to a traveller character with a mysterious cosmic map imprinted on their skin, to a character with the Limbo Touched ability, who can change objects at will—characters with ties to the planes are just a bit different.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Bruce Cordell, cypher system, free to download, Monte Cook Games, planebreaker

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