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Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game
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Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game

A roleplaying game of the Green, the Dark, and things even more ancient.

$2,097,820
of $50,000 goal
15,064
backers
Planebreaker—Explore the Planes for 5e
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Planebreaker—Explore the Planes for 5e

Explore exotic alternate planes with this 5e tome from legendary RPG designers Bruce Cordell, Sean Reynolds, and Monte Cook.

$504,481
of $50,000 goal
5,192
backers
The Devil Made Us Do It
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The Devil Made Us Do It

Save existence as we know it by bending reality to carry out the perfect heist in this unique zero-prep RPG.

$347,215
of $39,972 goal
3,852
backers
The Darkest House
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The Darkest House

A descent into horror for 5e or any RPG that will make your campaign and characters better—optimized for an awesome online experience.

$222,860
of $45,000 goal
3,038
backers
Heroes of the Cypher System
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Heroes of the Cypher System

When disaster strikes or menace looms, the best among us don’t run from danger—they run toward it! Heroic books for the Cypher System!

$178,643
of $40,000 goal
1,666
backers
Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire
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Ptolus: Monte Cook's City by the Spire

Monte Cook's legendary Ptolus campaign setting, updated for Fifth Edition and the Cypher System.

$782,923
of $80,000 goal
5,621
backers
Invisible Sun Slipcase
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Invisible Sun Slipcase

An elegant and sturdy storage solution for your Black Cube's hardcovers, identical to the slipcase that comes with Book M.

$10,748
of $10,000 goal
388
backers
Numenera: Liminal Shores
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Numenera: Liminal Shores

Three thematically linked hardcover sourcebooks with all new material for the award-winning phenomenon of the Numenera tabletop RPG.

$378,408
of $60,000 goal
2,595
backers
Arcana of the Ancients, a 5e science-fantasy sourcebook
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Arcana of the Ancients, a 5e science-fantasy sourcebook

Bring the wonders of Numenera, with its mysterious technology and weird science-fantasy elements, to your 5e campaign with Arcana of the Ancients.

$520,207
of $50,000 goal
5,536
backers
Invisible Sun – Return to the Actuality
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Invisible Sun – Return to the Actuality

A reprint of the radical, ambitious, critically acclaimed tabletop roleplaying game, currently sold out and unavailable.

$339,478
of $99,999 goal
1,505
backers
Your Best Game Ever!
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Your Best Game Ever!

Get an insider’s look at everything that isn’t part of the game rules—building chemistry in your gaming group, making a character you will love and remember forever, running engaging and exciting games your players will always look forward to, creating thrilling adventures, finding all the right ideas, hosting memorable game nights…and loads more! If you play or run roleplaying games, Your Best Game Ever is for you. Inside this gorgeous hardcover book, suitable for your coffee table or your gaming table, you will find great advice and specific suggestions you can incorporate into every game to enhance your RPG experience at the table and away from it. But that’s not everything we’re offering. We’ve also funded a new version of the Cypher System Rulebook, which lets you use the award-winning game engine from Numenera to run any campaign you like. And we’re making several genre books as well: The Stars Are Fire, Stay Alive!, Godforsaken, and We Are All Mad Here. Each of these books incorporates the best advice and techniques from Your Best Game Ever.

$581,673
of $50,000 goal
5,591
backers
No Thank You, Evil! - A Game So Nice We’re Making it Twice
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No Thank You, Evil! - A Game So Nice We’re Making it Twice

No Thank You, Evil!, an award-winning tabletop game of creative make-believe, adventure, and storytelling, was released in March 2016. This Kickstarter campaign funded a reprint of the game, as well as some really cool additional products. Free your child's imagination as they journey in the land of Storia!

$61,717
of $40,000 goal
1,081
backers
Numenera 2: Discovery and Destiny
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Numenera 2: Discovery and Destiny

Numenera is a game in which player characters explore the ruins of aeons past to gather amazing treasures and help build a new future for a world struggling in darkness. Since the launch of Numenera in 2013, we have delivered well on the first part, but we’ve always wanted to do a more thorough job exploring that second part. That desire has led us to Numenera Discovery and Numenera Destiny. Numenera Discovery will be a book that covers familiar territory; it is basically a revision of the original Numenera corebook. Next summer, we will allow the original corebook to go out of print, and Numenera Discovery will take its place. In Numenera Discovery, you’ll get some revisions to make things clearer and more fun, and to increase the options available to players. Nanos, Jacks, and Glaives will get an overhaul. Many foci and some of the descriptors might see some reworking. You’ll have more options, clearer rules, and perhaps a bit of expansion to the regions of the Steadfast and the Beyond that are covered in the existing corebook. As excited as we are about Numenera Discovery, we may be even more excited about Numenera Destiny. This title will enable characters to truly become a part of the setting—to help shape the future of the Ninth World. The people of the Ninth World are locked in a medieval-like state, a world of struggle and danger and often suffering in the shadow of the prior worlds’ wonders. Numenera Destiny allows you to build adventures and campaigns in which players don’t just explore the wonders of the past—they utilize them to help lift the Ninth World out of darkness. You can make the world a better place. Help a community defend itself from abhumans or the iron wind. Create centers of learning or trade. Innovate, build, and protect. Manage an entire community and help it prosper and grow—or simply create a cool base or vehicle for your adventuring group. Numenera Destiny will allow you to take what you discover and make your mark on history as someone who elevated the Ninth World into the future. Adventuring—exploring the weird and wondrous remnants of the prior worlds—remains, of course, at the core of Numenera play. Numenera Destiny will give you new things to do with your discoveries, along with entirely new and epic ways to structure your campaigns. You’ll discover materials, power sources, and treasures that you can utilize in an entirely new, robust crafting and building system. And perhaps best of all, Numenera Destiny will offer three new character types and a number of new descriptors and foci geared toward this innovative style of play.

$845,258
of $80,000 goal
4,185
backers
A Strange Box
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A Strange Box

The standard edition of The Strange RPG is a stunningly beautiful 416-page hardcover. It’s currently in print (and will remain so) and is available from the Monte Cook Games store, your local game store, and online sellers such as Amazon. So why a boxed edition? A few years ago we created a boxed edition of Numenera that proved incredibly popular. The Reliquary box we ended up with by the time the campaign was finished was nothing short of stunning. It even ended up winning a Golden ENnie award! And as we mentioned, fans of the Cypher System have been wondering when we’d give The Strange the same treatment. That time has come at last.

$162,819
of $20,000 goal
1,011
backers
No Thank You, Evil! The Adventures Continue
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No Thank You, Evil! The Adventures Continue

No Thank You, Evil! is an award-winning tabletop game of creative make-believe, adventure, and storytelling. In No Thank You, Evil!, each player creates a character based on a couple of cool, descriptive, imagination-firing traits. The Guide (a special role often played by a parent or older sibling) presents a dilemma, and the players set off on an adventure of the imagination. Along the way they use their character’s special skills, companions, and equipment to overcome obstacles—perhaps fighting a slime monster, winning over the suspicious mayor, or beating a rabbit at a race. Whereas conventional board games constrain players’ actions, No Thank You, Evil! sets kids’ imaginations free: Their options are limited only by what they can think up. Together, the players create a story as they work together to make their way through the adventure. For more detailed info on the setting, game rules, and characters, visit the No Thank You, Evil! web site at /www.nothankyouevil.com.

$60,112
of $30,000 goal
744
backers
Invisible Sun
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Invisible Sun

Do you dream of escape, but don’t know from what, or to where? Looking for a chance to escape the insanity of the world, and immerse yourself into something rich, deep, and fantastical? Something that challenges the limits of your creativity as well as your intellect? If so, then join us. Escape the Shadow of the real world and find the Invisible Sun. Enter a new Actuality of surreal fantasy where mystical characters wield fabulous powers and struggle to discover the secrets of true existence Invisible Sun is the new roleplaying game by Monte Cook. Its focus is in deep immersion storytelling. Its mechanics and gameplay are tailored around overcoming the barriers to that immersion. Magic is not mechanical, but truly magical. Character creation and development is based around story arcs. And we’ve gone further than that. Because we know the challenges gamers face in the modern world, with conflicting schedules and sometimes distant players, Invisible Sun does something different. It embraces traditional tabletop play, but enhances it with away-from-the-table activities, rules to deal with absent players, solo play, online play, and more. All the barriers are down. All doors are open.

$664,274
of $210,653 goal
1,846
backers
Worlds of the Cypher System
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Worlds of the Cypher System

Explore all new worlds and play in any genre with the award-winning roleplaying game system behind Numenera and The Strange.

$304,430
of $30,000 goal
2,456
backers
Numenera: Into the Ninth World
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Numenera: Into the Ninth World

Go beyond the boundaries of the fantastic, award-winning Numenera setting.

$417,560
of $20,000 goal
3,317
backers
No Thank You, Evil!
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No Thank You, Evil!

A game of make-believe for creative kids and their families from the team that brought you Numenera and The Strange

$111,750
of $40,000 goal
1,514
backers
Exclusive Numenera Boxed Set Edition
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Exclusive Numenera Boxed Set Edition

The award-winning Numenera RPG from Monte Cook presented in an exclusive, deluxe boxed format, perfect for giving as a gift.

$286,565
of $15,000 goal
1,985
backers
The Strange, a Tabletop RPG by Bruce Cordell & Monte Cook
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The Strange, a Tabletop RPG by Bruce Cordell & Monte Cook

Explore mysterious worlds hidden just outside our reality in this new RPG using the story-based Cypher System of Numenera.

$418,478
of $60,000 goal
2,883
backers
Numenera: A new roleplaying game from Monte Cook
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Numenera: A new roleplaying game from Monte Cook

Numenera is a brand-new, science fantasy rpg set in the distant future. It focuses on story and ideas over mechanics.

$517,255
of $20,000 goal
4,658
backers