Monte Cook Games

Monte Cook Games has announced the relaunch of its groundbreaking tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), Invisible Sun, in the form of a limited reprint. Originally released in 2018, the game’s core rules boxed set, known as the Black Cube, sold out almost immediately. A second printing in 2019 also quickly sold out. The upcoming crowdfunding campaign …

Are you ready to take your RPG experiences to a whole new level of oddity, fascination, and intrigue? Monte Cook Games introduces ‘The Weird’, a treasure trove of more than 10,000 ideas aiming to elevate the strangeness, novelty, and uniqueness of any role-playing game. Every RPG is filled with classic elements like dragons, alien planets, …

Monte Cook Games launched its newest offering, “Who the Devil Are You?”. The company, known for subverting conventions, has outdone itself with this zero-prep RPG, where players not only create characters but also collaboratively build the world and plot. In traditional RPGs, the Game Master (GM) constructs the story, setting, and context while the players …

Monte Cook Games is taking the Cypher System to new heights with the introduction of the Cypher System Creature Index, designed to help game masters (GMs) find the perfect creature for their next encounter. This new tool promises to revolutionize the process of selecting creatures for a variety of campaigns. Whether you’re running a space …

In the depths of the oldest mountains in the world, horrors of unimaginable malice and madness are stirring. Monte Cook Games has announced the upcoming release of “Old Gods of Appalachia,” a new tabletop roleplaying game based on the award-winning fiction podcast of the same name. The game is set for an early August release …

Dungeons & Dragons players can now create even more unique characters with the release of Planar Character Options for 5E, a new book authored by Bruce R. Cordell. Featuring six new character species, 16 new subclasses, and new backgrounds, feats, spells, and magic items, all of which center around the planes, this book offers an …

Appalachia has a very rich lore and history surrounding it. Things, very old things, living in the woods, only rarely making contact with humanity. It’s into this world that you find yourselves in Old Gods of Appalachia, a new RPG utilizing the Cypher system from Monte Cook Games. From the campaign: The campaign’s headed to …

The point of games is to have fun. Otherwise, we’re just people sitting around playing pretend with convoluted rules for no reason. During your RPG sessions, topics can come up that won’t always sit well with others. So, how does one approach such topics, and how do GMs make sure that what they’re running works …

Monte Cook Games is looking to bring some giant robots to your fantasy RPG games, and I’m 100% ok with that. They’re running a Kickstarter for Arcana of the Ancients, a science-fantasy book in the style of Numenera, over to 5th Edition. From the campaign: In the misty recesses of time, before the kingdoms and …