We love great products here at Monte Cook Games. Our books aren't just creative, inspiring, and strikingly beautiful—they're also amazingly usable, filled with clever and innovative features that make them a joy in play. They're well-organized, heavily indexed, and lavishly cross-referenced with callouts that put relevant info at your fingertips, no matter where you are in the book.

The standard edition of Jewel in the Sky is a hefty hardcover book (and PDF) optimized for easy, quick use in prep and especially at the game table. It contains the entirety of the Jewel in the Sky mega-adventure for Cypher—an exciting, memorable campaign in a book filled with conveniences that make running this rich, complex adventure a joy!

Want to have a look? You can take a peek at a sample section. (This is from the current manuscript, and isn't final text. But you'll get a sense of how each section is laid out to maximize utility and minimize page-flipping.)

The exciting encounters and compelling story arc of Jewel in the Sky will be the stuff of legends in your gaming group. But shouldn't the entire experience to be just as cool?

We're making an awesome boxed set edition of Jewel in the Sky exclusively for you, our backers of this campaign. It won't be widely available any other way, so you don't want to miss this. We'll take everything that makes the book awesome, and build from there, including:

...all in a beautiful and sturdy box!

Our vision for this goes even further. Help us reach stretch goals to expand and upgrade this awesome boxed set!

Monte Cook (he/them) is a legend in the world of dungeon design.  With an RPG design career filled with the credits of famous megadungeons, including (among many others) Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, Ptolus, Dungeon-a-Day, and, more recently, The Darkest House. Now he's delving back into the dungeon for the first time in years, bringing to bear all the innovation and creativity he's honed through projects like Numenera, Invisible Sun, Stealing Stories for the Devil, Cypher, No Thank You, Evil!, and The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game—and, further back in his storied career, D&D 3rd Edition, HeroClix, Arcana Evolved, a number of Planescape products, Call of Cthulhu d20, Monte Cook’s World of Darkness, and (going way back!) products for Rolemaster and Champions.

Monte is working closely with our Art Director, Bear Weiter (he/him), to make Jewel in the Sky as astonishingly easy on the GM as it is beautiful and striking. If you're familiar with MCG's many games, you know how we cherish RPG products that go above and beyond not just in presentation, but also in usability. Bear's genius brought us the amazing innovations in The Darkest House and The Darkest Woods, the elaborate amazements of the Invisible Sun Black Cube (quite possibly the most deluxe and feature-packed RPG product ever made), and the clear usability of products ranging from the Numenera Starter Set to No Thank You, Evil!

Monte and Bear are backed up by the illustrious and award-winning design team of Sean K. Reynolds (he/him), Shanna Germain (she/her), and Bruce R. Cordell (he/him), along with Graphic Designer Javier Beltrán (he/him), whose visual talents shine in products like The Devil's Dandy Dogs and The Weird. Rounding out the team that will bring you Jewel in the Sky are Managing Editor Teri Litorco (she/her), who wrangles the words and projects with the help of Associate Editor Dominique Dickey (they/them), and Kate Evans (she/her), Jennifer Walls (she/her), Tammie Ryan (she/her), Olivia Ryan (she/her), and Charles Ryan (he/him), who interact with our fans and customers and keep the business rolling along smoothly.

Monte's been at this for decades, and Monte Cook Games has been publishing highly praised, award-winning, innovative RPGs since 2012. We pride ourselves on works that are imaginative, fun, easy to play and GM, and beautiful—and crowdfunding campaigns that, for well over a decade now, have consistently delivered big and on time. We’re a small, values-driven company, but we deliver big!

Play entirely online? Prefer to play Jewel in the Sky on your favorite VTT?

The VTT implementation of Jewel in the Sky includes complete compendium access to the book along with maps, interactive character sheets for both fantasy and sci-fi campaigns, tokens, and other assets. It does not include the Cypher rules, which will be available separately following the launch of the new edition this summer.

There are two ways to get Jewel in the Sky on VTT:

The add-on price gives you a substantial discount, so the better deal is to get VTT support as an add-on to a different pledge level.

Regardless of how you pledge for it, you can get the VTT package for either Roll20 or Alchemy. You'll tell us which one you want in the pledge manager after the campaign ends. (If you want both, simply purchase the add-on again.)

You might encounter an AI in dank corridors of Jewel in the Sky, but we'll never use generative AI to make any of MCG’s products.

We make games that inspire us, with people who inspire us, for people who inspire us—so every word and image comes straight from our 100% human imaginations. We won’t insult your creativity, or ours, by delivering purposeless machine-generated drek, especially when we have so many great visions and ideas we’re excited to share with you!