Cypher Unlimited

2026's CypherCon is approaching! With the new Cypher ruleset coming out soon, we shall be focusing on this evolution by calling this year's CypherCon "CypherCon: Evolved"! What's planned for this year's festivities? Tune in and find out! What are you most excited for about CypherCon: Evolved? What would you like to see present at the convention? Let us know in the comment...

Spiggs got the absolute pleasure of sitting with the man himself, Monte Cook of Monte Cook Games, to talk about their current Backerkit campaign, Jewel in the Sky! What is Jewel in the Sky? Jewel in the Sky is a classic fantasy megadungeon filled with strange and unusual discoveries. Or drop it into a space opera sci-fi game, and play as the visitors reclaiming their base on a world unlike any eve...

Ancient and Spiggs are joined by the creators of PaperBag: The Roleplaying Game Show, ZealZaddy and Nekola the Druid, to discuss this exciting and innovative upcoming project! PaperBag: The Roleplaying Game Show is a live TTRPG game show where chaotic TTRPG creativity meets improv storytelling. Roleplayers get random prompts “from the bag” with unique genres, characters, and twists—turning tableto...

Spiggs is joined by Christopher Robin Negelein of Ganza Gaming to discuss his Megadungeon Month Backerkit entry, Hobgoblin Market: The Underflow! What exactly is it, though? "On the shores of the expansive Underflow, is the Hobgoblin Market boom town growing due to the discovery of strange creatures, like the truffalo and innovative inventions like the hob bow. Random tables, NPCs, gear, and...

With the new Numenera Backerkit in its final hours, we had the pleasure of speaking with Monte Cook Games designer Sean K. Reynolds about the project! He answered many questions the community had and some we got live during the stream! We shared many laughs with Sean and the chat, as well as learned some awesome facts about Numenera and The Amber Archives project! What are you most excited for wit...

With the new Numenera Backerkit with about a week left, we had the pleasure of speaking with Monte Cook Games designer Shanna Germain about the project! She answered many questions the community had, and boy we got some exciting answers! What are you most excited for with the Amber Archives? Let us know in the comments! Thanks for watching! Check out the new Numenera Backerkit, The Amber Archive h...

The new Numenera Backerkit is now underway! Currently just shy of $500k, this campaign is full of great goodies for new and old Numenera fans alike. Monte Cook Games also announced an amazing new tool set to release late this year; the Datasphere Deck Tool! Spiggs18 and Ancient Albatross sit down to discuss both these things and chat with the audience about their opinions too! How do you feel abou...

With the reveal of the new Numenera books requiring the new Cypher core book instead of being their own stand-alone game as it has been for years, there have been mixed reactions from fans about it. Spiggs18 is joined by Jason Campbell of Shadomain to discuss this upcoming change and whether they think this is a good change or a bad one. How do you feel about this imminent change? Let us know in t...

Spiggs18 is joined by Rick and Erik of Storytellers Forge to discuss their upcoming Shadowdark project, The Black Ballad: Second Chances! The Black Ballad: Second Chances is a setting, supplement, and adventure for Shadowdark. This book is a tight collection of goodies for a roleplaying group to use after their entire party has died. Death isn't the end for your characters... it's the begi...

When most people think of tabletop RPG gameplay, they almost always think combat will be involved in some way, even if minor. But can TTRPGs be fun without ANY combat? The CU boys are joined by 7-Minute GM(Alex Newman) to tackle this juicy topic! Do you think TTRPGs can be fun without any combat? Do you go into games thinking there will ALWAYS be combat? Is a no-combat game a deal breaker for you?...

With Numenera Day coming January 29th, Ancient and Spiggs sit down to discuss the deets! We go over the times for each shift of games, the games being offered and how to sign up to GM for the event! After the Numenera Day rundown, the CU boys catch up with each other and the chat! We talked about things like how we have been doing lately, our current gaming habits, what would be the hardest books...

Ever since Covid-19 forced us to go online to play TTRPGs, there has been a massive shift towards online gaming. Even now, when we can actually visit one another, online gaming remains prevalent. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? How has Monte Cook Games been navigating these waters? The topic was suggested by Qedhup, who also joined us to talk about it! Do you prefer online or in person gaming...

Monte Cook Games continues to put out amazing product after amazing product. But are they making too much too fast? The CU boys are joined by their good friend Erik Frankhouse of Erik Frankhouse Presents to discuss whether or not MCG is facing book/product bloat! Thanks for watching! To see more from Erik Frankhouse and EFP: https://efrankhouse.myportfolio.com/ Sign up to be notified about the new...

The CU boys are back from their hiatus! We come bearing some good and bad updates, but mostly good! The coolest thing we discussed was the potential for a NUMENERA DAY! What exactly would Numenera Day be? Tune in and find out! How do you feel about the updates we shared? What would you want to see in a NUMENERA DAY event? Let us know in the comments! Thanks for watching! Sign up to be notified abo...

The success of Monte Cook Games' new Cypher Backerkit campaign got the community wondering about MCG's recent history of crowdfund campaigns. The people asked, so we answered! Spiggs and Ancient Albatross sit down to go over the past 3 years of MCG's crowdfund campaigns. We break down how much money each campaign earned, the amount of backers, how much the all-in pledge cost and the es...

Ancient Albatross is flying solo! With Predation getting a remastered book with the new Cypher Backerkit campaign, Ancient was inspired to cross Predation with his own setting, The Entropic Isle! In this first of (hopefully) many solo play sessions, Ancient introduces us to Narésh; a mirror mage lost in time, finding themselves in Grevac. Dice rolls, GM Emulator answers, along with chat's Audi...

With the wrap of the new Cypher Backerkit, we've seen an increase in Cypher Unlimited community members. With that in mind, Spiggs and Ancient sit down to discuss TTRPG communities and why they are important to the companies that make the games! Online communities come in many shapes and forms and it's important to understand how each community (and sub-community) can affect a company. And...

CypherCon 2025 has finally wrapped up and the new Cypher Backerkit is in it's final day! With all this to talk about, Ancient and Spiggs are joined by Monte Cook Games' Sean K Reynolds! The three dive into their Cyphercon 2025 experience and talk a bunch about the new Cypher and its Backerkit campaign. Sean actually used the new Cypher rules for the games he ran for Cyphercon, so we got to...

Exciting times to be a Cypher fan! CypherCon is imminent AND MCG's new Cypher Backerkit keeps hitting stretch goals! The CU trio sits down to discuss the new Cypher Backerkit stretch goals we've missed since our last stream, along with discussing the quickly-approaching CypherCon! What are YOU most excited for with the new Cypher Backerkit stretch goals? Plans for CyherCon? Let us know in...

Spiggs and Alphadean finally get the chance to sit down and walk through the new Cypher preview! We got a meaty look at some of the new changes coming to things like armor, damage, XP and more! The boys definitely had a lot to say about it, but what do YOU think about the changes to Cypher so far? Let us know in the comments! Thanks for watching! Sign up to play games online at CypherCon2025 — ⁠ht...

Spiggs and Dean had the honor of sitting down with Underground Oracle's Jess Pendley to go over their setting book, Harrow: the Blighted Plane! "Harrow: The Blighted Plane is a crystalpunk fantasy TTRPG that takes place four hundred years after a massive cataclysm changed every aspect of their high fantasy world beyond recognition. In Harrow, you’ll join the ranks of the survivors of the fall, the...

It is finally here!! The new Cypher Backerkit is now LIVE! So of course we had to sit down and go over the campaign from Monte Cook Games! Spiggs and AlphaDean go down the campaign page and discuss everything we will be getting along with the new Cypher books! AND we got an AMAZING update from MCG WHILE we were live! THE STRANGE is coming back! Along with the news of possibly MORE old books gettin...

Spiggs and Dean realized we missed going over a key detail Monte Cook Games released about the new Cypher books; the included genres! We have fourteen different genres confirmed so far, but what about broader genres? That's where the speculation train comes in! Listen in as the fellas go over what they think about the genre list and other opinions for the new book! Thanks for watching! Article...

Just in time for our stream, Monte Cook Games released another new Cypher update email! Titled "Taking Out the Not Fun", the new update delves into the mindset of streamlining gameplay aspects to make things more fun. To that effect, the article also specifically talks about changes being made in the Cypher System with tracking time for duration of effects! Spiggs and Dean lead the discu...

Jason Campbell of Shadomain joins us to talk about his latest Backerkit project, Six-gun Doomsday! Six-Gun Doomsday is a ttrpg setting and adventure about survival after a gothic horror apocalypse set in the weird west of an alternate Earth ten years after the end of the U.S. Civil War. It uses modified rules based on Monte Cook Games’ Cypher System with many new, simple and dramatic options. What...