Apologies for the delay in communications. There are many moving parts to the crowdfunder, some of which are being heavily influenced by the new global Fear: tariffs! We want to reassure everyone that they will receive everything that we’ve promised and thank you again for your continued support.
We have terrific news on not just one but two of the new books you helped to bring to life.*
*Books are not actually alive and no sacrifices were made to either The Stranger or The Flesh for the creation of these tomes!
Book cover for Make Your Statement: giant clawed hands burst through a window showering the couple on the sofa with glass
Make Your Statement
With nine new statements and ten terrifying challenges, Make Your Statement is back from proofing and, after final checks from Rusty Quill, will be going to print this month! Delve into the Archives with nine chilling new statements and ten brand new investigations—ready-made adventures for investigators to embark upon.
Those lucky enough to attend Gen Con, GameHole Con or Dragonmeet this year might be able to grab a space to play one of these adventures at the con.
Book cover of Face Your Fears: A busy city street shows everyone with a mark painted on their cheeks. A frightened looking woman without this mark has turned to look behind her.
Face Your Fears!
Bruce and Jonny have been hard at work on Face Your Fears and are expecting to make the first draft turnover to development and editing by the end of this month (February). Jonny has written a couple of amazing locations, complete with maps. One of those is Warehouse Complex B. The Artifact Dealer (known as Salesa in the podcast) is the purveyor of wonders and the trader of terrors, with an arsenal of bizarre and grotesque items in their inventory. Naturally, however, they need somewhere to keep these things when they are not being bought and sold. The dealer's main warehouse (Complex A) is where the dealer keeps their mundane and less harmful goods: weapons, drugs, black market technology, etc. The really messed-up stuff, though, that gets stored in Warehouse Complex B.
Face Your Fears is also replete with new monsters and NPCs (like The Candlemaker, Mr. Cold, and fossils of future past), new books (with titles like Art Appreciation, Children’s Tales, Das Buch der Wiedergänger), new artifacts (including the harbinger's head, the tombstone of the unknown soldier, the darkness flashlight, and the enticing cookie jar), new cyphers (such as bury it for yourself, curled into the spiral, drinking alone, and enjoy your sky), and a few additional locations designed for quick use.
Weirdness and Mystery a Billion Years in the Future
Numenera logo and word mark
It seems that The Apocalypse is a Fear which keeps on giving. Eight previous epochs have risen and fallen. Now, after a billion years, Earth’s Ninth World has arisen from the ashes, welcoming you to its wonders, mysteries and terrors. The truly valorous delve for the secrets of the prior worlds not for the riches they bring, but because the mysteries and wonders of the numenera are a pathway toward a better future. Who will lead us into this new world? Who will tap the wonders of the ancients to defend the weak, bolster the sick and starving, and illuminate the ignorant? Who will build a new and better community, and bring vision to a world in darkness? Will it be you? Sign up now to find out!
Early sign up and pledge reward for Numenera: a sharp edged purple/blue d20 die
The Magnus Archives RPG continues to grow in popularity—all of our games at Gen Con were sold out this year! We also had budding archivists and cosplayers galore at the booth, some of whom had never roleplayed before. Our staff and our GMs were stoked to introduce folks to their first RPG session!
An archivist shows off talents in creating chain mail eyes
Archivist cosplay looking uncertain with their'friend'
Clown style cosplay of The Stranger
What’s in the Archive so far…
The new products (including the supplements) are still in the design process, but we have fulfilled all of the existing products. For the latest update on fulfilment progress, please see our recent post here.
A marionette-like figure stares menacingly up at the viewer.
Love The Magnus Archives RPG? You’ll want to read this!
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!
If you love GMing and playing The Magnus Archives RPG, Cypher is how you build on the horror, suspense, and action of your game. Many aspects of The Magnus Archives ruleset have been integrated into the updated Cypher rules!
Combined images of the new Cypher book covers showing characters and a range of creatures from genres ranging from sci-fi and fantasy to post apocalyptic and more!
There are rewards to redeem! Here is a list of rewards that are ready to redeem:
The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game in PDF—FREE!
The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game in hardcover
The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game Player's Guide in print
Campaign Journal in print
Campaign Journal in PDF
Character Portfolios, bundle of 5 in print
Character Portfolios in PDF
Leitner Bookplates Set
Playmat
Prop Set 1 (Original Prop Set) in print
Prop Set 1 (Original Prop Set) in PDF
XP Deck in print
XP Deck in PDF
Cypher System Starter Set
Intrusion Deck in print and PDF
NPC Deck in print and PDF
The Weird in print and PDF
Your Best Game Ever in print and PDF
Convenient One-Click Redemption!
To redeem one or more of the above rewards or add-ons, head on over to the MCG Shop by copying and pasting this link into your browser: https://mymcg.info/tma-rewards// This special link puts all of your available rewards from this campaign into your cart, ready to check out and enjoy!
The following is a list of the rewards still in production:
Archival Assistant or Leitner T-Shirt
Art Asset Set, digital
Dice Set
Dig, a Leitner Tome
Digital Art Book
Do Not Open in PDF
Do Not Open in print
Enter the Archives in PDF
Enter the Archives in print
Face Your Fears in PDF
Face Your Fears in print
Fears XP Card Set in PDF
Fears XP Card Set in print
Leitner Dust Jacket Set
Magnus Institute Notebook in PDF
Magnus Institute Notebook in print
Magnus Institute Stamp Set
Make Your Statement in PDF
Make Your Statement in print
Physical Statement Set
Prop Set 2 in PDF
Prop Set 2 in print
Sticker Set, digital
Sticker Set, physical
Sticker Sheet, digital
Sticker Sheet, physical
We kindly ask that if you have questions about our fulfillment process, you give this helpful guide a quick read before reaching out to Jennifer, our wonderful customer service guru. Though she is magical, she is also only one human, so any self-help you can do before reaching out is greatly appreciated.
We had the great pleasure of meeting with some of Rusty Quill’s marketing folks at UK Games Expo in Birmingham last weekend, and receiving the UKGE 2025 Judges award for Best Roleplaying Game! We’re so proud of this gameand it is wonderful to share such industry recognition with Jonny, Alex, and the rest of the Rusty Quill team.
Monte Cook Games collects UKGE 2025 Judges Award for The Magnus Archives RPG
Thanks to all the TMA and Cypher System fans who came to see us at the show, and to all those who played demos with us. We look forward to hearing more of your stories of what your institution and team are doing in your Magnus Archives RPG games!
Ceaseless Watcher, look upon our update…
On second thoughts, probably NOT such a great thing to intone just yet! So that everyone knows where we are with fulfilling this campaign, the list below shows what you should have coupons for, and what we are waiting on to be printed and delivered to us before fulfilling to you.
Graphic showing all the items we're making for TMA Tangled
Things which will be fulfilled shortly:
The Magnus Archives Core Book
The Magnus Archives Deluxe Book
The Magnus Archives Character portfolios
Things which are in production:
Make Your Statement
Face Your Fears
Do Not Open
Enter the Archives
The Magnus Institute Notebook
The Magnus Archives Dice
The Magnus Archives Art Book
The Magnus Archives Art Assets
The Magnus Archives Prop Set 2
The Magnus Archives Fear XP Cards
The Magnus Archives Stamp Set
Leitner Dust Jacket Set
Leitner DIG
The Magnus Archives Stickers
Fancy a brew?
Monte had a great chat with Stacey Janssen discussing her work on Tangled as one of our adventure writers, grab a tea (or a coffee) and you can watch it here.
Last Few Hours to Escape Shadow and Enter the Real World
There’s less than a day left to pledge for Invisible Sun Indigo and Electric. Discover magic that’s truly magical and experience the rich and surreal world of Invisible Sun. Enter the Actuality here.
You have taken us over the $1,000,000 mark—a level very few RPG crowdfunding campaigns have ever reached. And in so doing, you’ve also unlocked our final stretch goal: we’re now making the sticker sheet, which will be included in the rewards for every backer getting the books in print. And everyone (including PDF-only backers) will get the stickers in digital form.
What an exciting day it’s been! (And the campaign is still rolling—overtime Mode keeps the campaign live until pledges stop rolling in.) And an exciting campaign! We’re excited about these three new books, and Enter the Archives, plus DIG and the new dice and the many items you’ve helped bring into being.
We want to tell you a bit about where things go from here—and we have some interesting news—but first let’s give credit where credit is due:
While this campaign has been running Monte has been working with Jonny Sims and other contributors on Make Your Statement, while also leading our design team—Bruce, Sean, Dominique, and Shanna—as they keep our pipeline of products—including The Darkest Woods and All Your Gods Are Dead (for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game) moving along on schedule. Bear and Javier designed stickers, imaged the forthcoming products, and handled the graphic design of this campaign—and they’ll make the products you’ve funded shine! Jen, Olivia, and Kate have answered your questions (and are always available to provide support to you, our wonderful community). Teri, Dominique, and Tammie have managed the words and kept the logistics plates spinning. And Charles planned and ran this campaign.
We all thank you for backing this campaign. We love making mind-blowing RPGs with beautiful production values and immersive experiences, and your support makes that possible.
Now, here’s what to expect as we move forward from here.
The Immediate Future
Running a crowdfunding campaign is hard work, so we’re looking forward to getting a bit of rest. You may not hear from us for a little while, but don’t worry. As we’ve said, Monte and the team is already at work on these titles. We’ll post updates any time there’s news share.
The Next Few Weeks
BackerKit began collecting pledges the moment the campaign closed. But it takes them a full two weeks to release those funds, along with the data on our backers.
In the meantime, we will get the pledge manager fully set up. The pledge manager gives us the information we need to fulfill your pledge and lets you manage your add-ons and make any pledge upgrades you want. We’ll notify you when we open the pledge manager, which should be in about three weeks.
The Next Few Months
Once you’ve completed the pledge manager survey, we won’t need anything else from you until it’s time to start fulfilling rewards. We’ll be busy crafting Make Your Statement, Face Your Fears, Do Not Open, and the other items you funded, in the months to come. We’ll post regular updates, but if you don’t hear anything for a few weeks, don’t fret.
At the same time, please pay attention when you do get communications from us. Our emails and updates include critical information about your rewards.
When Your Rewards Ship
Every time a reward is ready for you, we’ll contact you by email to begin the fulfillment process. Generally, we’ll direct you to the MCG Shop, where you’ll log in, “buy” the product (for free, because you’ve already paid for it through this campaign), and check out.
This is an important part of the process because it ensures we have accurate delivery information for every item we send out. (With thousands of backers getting rewards, it's amazing how many people will change their address over the fulfillment period.) You'll pay for shipping at that time.
Please pay attention to communications from us—don't let our updates or emails go to your spam folder, or otherwise ignore them, because if you do you could miss out on some of your rewards.
Thanks for your support! —Team MCG
A storm in Indigo is not so different than those elsewhere. Rain and wind and sometimes even hail. But the rarest of Indigo storms also drops, for just a moment or two, keys.
Keyfalls are rare—and wicked keys are even rarer. But in the hands of a vislae, a wicked key can open not just doors and vaults, but people. Memories. Lost and ancient realms. Anything.
Escape this world of lies and shadow. Enter the Actuality and discover the hidden truths of the real universe. Unlock new realms. Sign up to be notified when Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo launches, and find an exclusive wicked key among your rewards when you back this campaign.
