Joined artwork of the new Cypher book covers, showing characters and creatures from a wide variety of genres
Great news folks,
Monte, our design team, and all of us here at Monte Cook Games are excited to announce the 2026 launch of a new edition of our popular, award-winning tabletop roleplaying game system Cypher. Creating characters is getting even faster. Launching new campaigns is getting even easier. Tools for creating the worlds, stories, and characters you envision are getting even better. All while retaining every ounce of the quick gameplay, story focus, and easy GMing the Cypher System is famous for!
Fans of the Cypher System are going to love how this new edition makes your favorite game even more accessible.
And the power, flexibility, and customization you love aren’t going anywhere—in fact, it’s getting even better. (And don’t worry—the books you funded through this campaign will be highly compatible with the new system updates. Plus, you’ll have over a year before the new Cypher core books are released, so nothing is changing just yet!)
The Cypher System Creature Deck 2, the last reward from this campaign, is here, ready and fulfilling now!
Cypher System Creature Deck 2 cards showing a Alchemoth creature and its stats and Cyborg stats
If this deck is among your rewards, please check the email account associated with your Backerkit pledge over the next week to make sure you’ve got a notification about your coupons.
Adventures in the Cypher System photos of books from the campaign
With the fulfilment of this item, it marks the completion of all rewards of the campaign. Along with this last deck, we have now fulfilled the following items:
Standard edition Cypher System Rulebook and previously published supplements
(Claim the Sky, Godforsaken, Stay Alive!, The Stars Are Fire, We Are All Mad Here)
Rust & Redemption Supplement (in print & PDF)
It’s Only Magic (in print & PDF)
Cypher System Bestiary (in print & PDF)
Adventures in the Cypher System (in print & PDF)
Deluxe Cypher System Rulebook (in print only)
Cypher System Starter Set
Promotional XP Deck
So What's Next from MCG?
New statements. New horrors. New lore. New resources for the GM. New options for the players. New adventures by The Magnus Archives creator Jonathan Sims.
The Web weaves. Will you find yourself within its tangles?
Terrific news: after a pretty sweaty day of unloading and organization, we have the Adventures in the Cypher System books, and the Cypher System Starter Sets at our warehouses!
The MCG Kansas warehouse with a huge stack of Cypher System Starter Sets and smiling warehouse labor force
The last reward from this campaign, the Creature Deck went to press this week. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s available.
A man and woman share wistful eye contact at Ruth's apothecary stall
If you’re feeling melancholy that this campaign is winding down, then the Old Gods of Appalachia: Deeper Still campaign launches next week! Sign up to be notified now.
Homesteaders are surprised as weird green light erupts from the ground at their feet
The MCG crew is in full swing as we run games and demos at Gen Con in Indianapolis, but we also have great news about Adventures in the Cypher System. These fabulous, and amazing journeys into our worlds should be landing in our warehouse soon.
More good news: we’ve now sent the Creature Deck to the printer! Check out some of the cards that will be in the deck!
The crowdfunding campaign for The Anywhere Door is still open, any fund you contribute now will go to supporting streamers in our realm. Step through The Anywhere Door now!
Cypher System Deck of cards showing the Alchemoth image and its stats
We hope your summer is going well. We have some news on your remaining rewards for Adventures in the Cypher System.
It's Only Magic
By now many of you will have redeemed and received your copies of It's Only Magic. We’re so pleased with all the amazing feedback about this beautiful and useful book. If you’ve not grabbed your reward copy yet, please make sure to redeem it—and all of your rewards.
Rital Over Zoom Art by Jacopo Schiavo
Creature Deck Check
We're busy doing final proofing of the cards for the Creature Deck. There’s a lot of detail on these little cards, so shepherding them carefully through design, development, and now editing is a painstaking and important part of the process. Once this is complete, we'll be sending them to the printer for fulfillment later in the summer.
Strange Creatures Art by Matt Stawicki
Can’t Wait for Adventures in the Cypher System?
Our next book, Adventures in the Cypher System, is at the printers! We can’t wait to get copies of this, but if you can’t wait to play it and you're going to be at Gen Con, then you’re in luck. We’re going to be running Bruce Cordell’s adventure Ghosts of Ironsaddle (Cypher System), Sean K. Reynolds’ adventure Bake Me Another Body (Numenera), and Shanna Germain's adventure Tomorrow’s Messenger (Predation) at Gen Con this year.
So why not sign up for a game? Our sold-out events occasionally have no-shows, so come see us and we'll see if we can fit you in! Even if we can't, you can still get a demo of any of our games at MCG's home base, which is room 132 on the Hoosier Concourse.
We’ll also have the MCG Store there! If you want to redeem any of your rewards (or buy anything from our store) for pickup at Gen Con, we now have a “Pick Up At Gen Con” shipping option! Process your reward fulfillment or place your store order on the MCG web store now, and select “Pick Up At Gen Con” as your shipping option. We'll pack your reward/order and bring it with us to Indy, just for you. [Please note that the "Pick Up at Gen Con" shipping option ends at noon Central Time on July 24th, so make sure to process your reward fulfillment or place your order before then if you want to choose that shipping option.]
