Cypher is a “rules lite” RPG game engine that emphasizes narrative and ease-of-use. Game masters (GMs) focus less on dice and more on keeping the story moving, and players can dive right in because ...

Indie tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) designers will have some new rules to play with soon. Monte Cook Games announced last week that its core set of tabletop roleplaying game rules, known as the ...

A new crowdfunding campaign looks to expand the Cypher System with new adventures, genres and more. Ten years ago, reknowned game designer Monte Cook launched a new game and new game company via ...

Seattle-based game designer Monte Cook is a familiar name to many fans of traditional roleplaying games, having worked on titles such as Dungeons & Dragons (3rd Edition) and the d20 edition of Call of ...

The role of the Game Master is central to the tabletop RPG experience. It can be immensely rewarding, creatively satisfying and emotionally powerful. But it can also be intimidating, frustrating and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Path of the Planesbreaker will be written by Bruce R. Cordell, Sean K Reynolds, and Monte Cook.

If you’re a fan of our actual plays, you’ve seen Monte Cook’s Cypher System in action. Monte took Jason Charles Miller and friends into the weird and wonderful Ninth World of Numenera via Starter Kit.

The Magnus Archives focuses on the employees of the Magnus Institute, a long-established research facility in London dedicated to the supernatural. Each episode focuses on a “statement” taken by the ...