Hello, backers— 

Monte Cook Games is excited to celebrate the launch of Cypher with StartPlaying Cypher, with a two-week event featuring hundreds of online games on StartPlaying Games!

The StartPlaying Cypher event kicks off today and features over 130 games happening between now and September 15th! No matter your experience with Cypher—whether you’re a diehard veteran or just discovering us through the new edition—you can start playing in just one session, and keep playing through scores of available games. 

And as if that's not enough, take $10 off any participating Cypher game with code SPC26! That discount is enough to make many of the sessions free, or just a few bucks.

Here are just a few of the games that still have seats open: 

You’ve been assigned a new case: Find the Missing Waller Triplets. They disappeared from a rural village in Devon, England and the locals aren’t talking—or when they do, all they’re giving you are wild stories about vampires in the Creston Grange—an old manor house that’s also supposed to be haunted. 

Vampires. Ghosts. In 1921. Nobody believes in those old stories anymore. Figuring out the truth behind the stories might just be harder than finding those three boys. They probably just got themselves lost somewhere in the woods. But it’s not your job to enlighten the locals, you’re here to find the boys.

 

Dive into a world working to rebuild in the post-post-apocalypse, as you embark on dangerous and death defying missions across the reclaimed metropolis of Dump City. Complete odd jobs, and take on corruption within the city as you fight against gangs and their masters, The 3 Families Syndicate. 

Join Pink Security and More today and make a difference!

The Fresh Start | A Community Building Adventure | Tidal Blades 

This campaign takes place in the Tidal Blades setting for Cypher—you will go on adventures to build a complex dock system that will serve as a neighborhood for yourself and your friends. In the meantime, you'll build relationships, trade for supplies, overcome obstacles, and learn how to be your best and most powerful selves while building the kind of place you want to live.

After your game, head to the MCG Shop with your special discount code to get 20% off any existing Cypher System supplement, ready to be integrated with ease into your new Cypher game. With just a few quick updates, virtually any creature, cypher, artifact, or character can be easily converted to the new edition. 

Bring the Cretaceous period to new heights with Predation! Or become a godling-on-earth with Gods of the Fall. Play a game in the StartPlaying Cypher event to grab this discount!

Cypher Decoded will, among the many topics it touches, include a bunch of new genres—complete with new types, genre abilities, and genre-specific optional rules. 

So far, backers have added Espionage and Pulp Action to the book! 

Yesterday, you voted in a poll between Western and Ultraviolence (and ultra skills). Have you been craving dusty action, smoky saloons, and tense standoffs? Or the fast-paced action of John Wick, Kill Bill, and The Raid? 

The votes are in—over 550 of them! 

So far, you’ve added three new creatures to the Cypher Bestiary II through polls: the Wyvern, Inexorable, and Sphinx. 

It’s time to end the reign of the winged beasts—your next poll features two very terrestrial monsters: the Gologoth and the Mokuren! 

Vote now! The poll will close tomorrow morning. 

—Team MCG