Monte Cook Games

Monte Cook Games (MCG) is a tabletop roleplaying-game publisher whose official site presents its work as a combination of imaginative worlds, game design, storytelling, and premium art and production. The company describes its games as driven by the Cypher System, a flexible set of game mechanics designed to be easy to use and oriented toward narrative play. Its stated portfolio includes Numenera, The Strange, the Cypher System Rulebook, and No Thank You, Evil!, alongside other games such as Stealing Stories for the Devil and The Devil’s Dandy Dogs. The games span different kinds of play and audiences. Numenera is set a billion years in the future, in a world shaped by the remnants of civilizations whose technologies and achievements are largely incomprehensible to its inhabitants. The company also presents The Strange as a setting involving the Shadow and the Actuality. Its portfolio includes both imaginative roleplaying games and game materials, with the Cypher System serving as a shared rules foundation for multiple offerings. MCG supports its products through digital and community-facing services as well as books and other game releases. Its homepage has announced Cypher-related tools and play options, including a character sheet on Roll20, a Datasphere Deck Tool, a character builder, and opportunities to play through StartPlaying Games. Its Asset Team organizes demonstrations and events in retail stores, at conventions, in clubs, and online; the company provides members with game-running resources and promotional materials. The team page identifies Monte Cook as creative director and lead designer, and Shanna Germain as a co-founder and senior designer. The supplied company pages do not establish the business’s founding year, headquarters, ownership, or geographic market coverage. Its official site currently presents active games, releases, and announcements.

Monte Cook Games is a publisher of tabletop roleplaying games and related materials. Its official description emphasizes distinctive settings and the Cypher System, a flexible, narrative-focused set of mechanics used across its games. The portfolio presented on the company’s games page includes Numenera, The Strange, the Cypher System Rulebook, and No Thank You, Evil! The company also names Stealing Stories for the Devil and The Devil’s Dandy Dogs among its games. Numenera is one of the company’s prominently described settings. The official games page places it a billion years in the future, in a world where humanity has encountered civilizations that mastered extraordinary technologies before disappearing or transcending. The remains of those civilizations—called the numenera—are powerful but mysterious to the people of the Ninth World. The same page presents The Strange through its concepts of Shadow, the Actuality, and Satyrine. These examples reflect MCG’s focus on imaginative settings as well as game systems. The company’s team page identifies Monte Cook as creative director and lead designer. It describes his professional work as spanning decades and lists projects including Numenera, Ptolus, Arcana Evolved, HeroClix, and work on Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition. The page identifies Shanna Germain as a co-founder and senior designer, with experience as a writer, editor, and game designer. These roles establish that both are central to the company’s creative work, but the supplied material does not give a company founding date or a complete account of its corporate history. MCG’s activities extend beyond publishing game books. Its Asset Team brings games to retail stores, conventions, clubs, and online communities by organizing demonstrations and events. The company says it provides team members with adventures, demo and promotional materials, art assets, and other resources. Its homepage also reports digital-play developments, including a Cypher character sheet on Roll20, additions to a Datasphere Deck Tool, a character builder beta, and play opportunities through StartPlaying Games. These announcements indicate ongoing efforts to support both in-person and online play. The supplied sources do not establish MCG’s headquarters, ownership, founding year, or the full extent of its distribution markets.

A tabletop roleplaying-game publisher focused on distinctive imaginative settings, narrative-oriented play, and flexible game mechanics, with an emphasis on strong art and production.

• Numenera

  A tabletop roleplaying game set in the Ninth World, a billion years in the future, amid the mysterious remains of earlier civilizations.

• The Strange

  A roleplaying game presented through concepts including Shadow, the Actuality, and Satyrine.

• Cypher System

  A flexible, easy-to-use game-mechanics system focused on narrative play and used to drive MCG games.

• No Thank You, Evil!

  A tabletop roleplaying game included in the company’s portfolio.

1. 1Homepage - Monte Cook Gamesmontecookgames.com
2. 2Team - Monte Cook Gamesmontecookgames.com
3. 3Our Games - Monte Cook Gamesmontecookgames.com
4. 4The Asset Team - Monte Cook Gamesmontecookgames.com