Iadace, backers—

Once again you have amazed us with your support, and another stretch goal has been met! We’re expanding Beasts of the Amber Archive with yet more all-new Ninth World creepies, crawlies, and, erm, fly-ies?

You also took us over what is, for us, a very meaningful milestone: when we passed $517,255, we surpassed the funding total for the original Numenera crowdfunding campaign. That was a record-smasher at the time, and more importantly led to the founding of Monte Cook Games. All of us here at MCG thank you for your support, then and now!

(If you haven’t read it already, you can learn more about our small but mighty team on the crowdfunding page.)

To celebrate this milestone, we went a bit extra on the bonus sticker, with a sticker sheet featuring multiple creatures. The voting was really close, but, as mentioned in our last update, you chose this sheet:

Can you believe we aren’t even halfway through this campaign? How much more can we unlock? That’s up to you!

Please keep spreading the word. It’s been backers like you who have driven this campaign to so much success, and unlocked so many stretch goals. Only backer-driven word of mouth allows campaigns like this to soar!

You can find sharable posts, great topics to discuss, and graphics to grab at MCG’s social media accounts.

You’ve uncovered a powerful artifact—a mechanical companion—that lets you travel the Ninth World (even if it is a bit, well… erratic). Gather necessary bits of numenera to keep yourself and your companion alive, all while exploring new places, fighting fierce creatures, and dealing with dangerous (or helpful) NPCs. And do it all by yourself. Iadace, You Beast is a solo RPG for Numenera—the first of its kind!

This game is stand-alone and comes with everything you need (except dice), but can also be used with existing Cypher and Numenera supplements, including the Calaval's Eyes! Deck, for a broader experience. It includes easy Cypher-based rules for solo play, character sheets, locations, creatures, numenera, a unique set of Calaval’s Eyes! cards, and more.

Explore solo play with your current Numenera character or create a new character to traverse the Ninth World. You can even invite players from your existing game to join you for a session or two!

Iadace, You Beast! will be available as an add-on, and added to the rewards of backers at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) and ALL-IN (PDF only) pledge levels. We’ll unlock this awesome solo game when we reach 2825 backers!

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also throw in a free bonus reward for every backer, no matter your pledge level. Let’s vote for the next sticker:

Vote in the poll below!

And please keep sharing this campaign, so we can unlock this goal and many more to come!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Greetings, backers—

Thanks to your fantastic support, this morning we passed a truly incredible threshold: $517,255. What makes this number particularly special (besides being over the gobsmacking half-a-million mark) is that it represents the funding total for the original 2012 Numenera crowdfunding campaign!

That campaign set records as the first TTRPG crowdfunding campaign to surpass $100,000—and by 5 times that amount, no less! It launched Numenera and founded Monte Cook Games, and we’ve never forgotten the thousands of backers who made it happen—and brought MCG into existence.

Over a decade later, the Ninth World is still very much at the core of Monte Cook Games. It’s a setting that's uniquely near and dear to us, and we’re so excited to share this new phase of the Ninth World with you all!

So to celebrate this special milestone, our bonus sticker for our next stretch goal is extra bonusy! Instead of a single sticker, we’re adding a small, creature-themed sticker sheet, drawing on fan-favorite Ninth World creatures from the past decade. 

We asked you to vote on the sticker sheet you’d like to see come to life, and the poll was a nail-biter! With over 350 votes, the final score was 48% to 52%—the closest poll we’ve seen in this crowdfunding campaign so far.

And the winner is… 

Brendril and softer friends!

We’re about 40 backers away from unlocking an expansion to the Beasts of the Amber Archives bestiary and giving every backer this sticker sheet! Keep up the good work share news about this campaign, and we’re sure to smash through this goal in no time! 

After that, who knows? Over the years, many devoted Ninth World GMs and players have requested hundreds of interesting products, expansions, guides, and gameplay additions. How about we unlock a whole new type of play?

—Team MCG

Iadace, backers—

The middle weeks of a campaign are always a bit less exciting than the opening—but that hasn’t slowed you down much! Thanks to the great job you’ve been doing spreading the word, we’ve unlocked yet another stretch goal, just two days after the last one. Your Numenera book is getting a premium upgrade, with a lustrous foil cover that won’t be available to non-backers!

You also chose this sticker design, which we’re adding to the rewards of all backers, regardless of pledge level, as a free bonus reward.

This campaign is really turning into something big—and like all big campaigns, that’s because of the backers. We work hard to spread the word, but there are thousands and thousands of gamers out there that we will never be able to reach. But you can! Campaigns really soar when the backers enthusiastically share news about them.

Our backers have been doing that, which is why we’re hitting goals so quickly. Keep it up! Here are links to our social media accounts, where you can find images to grab, ideas for things to say, and posts you can share. If you take just a minute, you can help keep up this wonderful momentum!

Over a billion years and eight prior worlds, every element of life on earth has been shaped, molded, and reformed, often time and time again. The ancients affected the creatures of this world in ways large and small. Their goals and purposes are long-forgotten and inscrutable—and the results often weird, mysterious, and frightening.

Beasts of the Amber Archive introduces dozens of all-new Ninth World creatures. And it does more: it helps you use those creatures to craft exciting, immersive, and memorable encounters, with detailed lore, secret knowledge, lair maps, ideas for interactions, and alternate abilities. It’s more than a bestiary—it’s a helpful guide for bringing the Ninth World to life at your game table.

So let’s have more of that! Beasts of the Amber Archives is already a hardcover book, but let’s make it even heftier. For this stretch goal we’ll add another dozen or so all-new creatures to this awesome, inspiring bestiary. We’ll unlock this expansion when we get to 2725 backers!

This goal is very likely to take us over a special threshold: $517,255. That was the funding total for the original Numenera crowdfunding campaign, way back in 2012. It was a massive record at the time—no RPG had ever funded above $100,000. That campaign founded Monte Cook Games, and we’ve never forgotten the thousands of backers who made it happen—and brought MCG into existence.

So to celebrate this special milestone—and the expansion of the Beasts of the Amber Archive—our bonus sticker is exra bonusy! Instead of a single sticker, we’re going to add a small, creature-themed sticker sheet. Which one should we make?

Vote now! And remember to share this news, so we can unlock this stretch goal and keep up the amazing momentum of this campaign!

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG

Iadace, backers—

We’re headed into our second week of this campaign, and what a campaign it’s been so far. Over the weekend you unlocked yet another stretch goal and added yet another product to the lineup. The new Cypher Deck is funded, adding 100 brand-new cyphers to those already in the Amber Archive Deck. It’s now an available add-on, and included with backer rewards at the ALL-IN (print and PDF) pledge level. The deck is included digitally, on the Datasphere Deck Tool, for backers at the ALL-IN (PDF only) pledge level.

Your copy of Numenera will stand out from the book future gamers find in stores or order online. As a backer of this campaign, you’re helping us breathe new life into Numenera, so we’re adding special features to your book. You get an upgraded exclusive edition that won’t be widely available to anyone else!

The first upgrade will be an exclusive deluxe foil finish to the book cover. This premium cover treatment will give the book a lustrous glow. It’s going to look great on your bookshelf and your game table (and if you backed the Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better! campaign, it’ll be a great match for the premium versions of the Cypher corebooks you funded). We’ll unlock this deluxe upgrade when we reach 2600 backers.

As with every time you unlock a stretch goal, we’re throwing in a liltte bonus reward: a vinyl sticker. You voted for this design to go along with the Cypher Deck goal:

What sticker shall we make for the next goal? You choose!

Tell us your favorite, and the design that gets the most votes will go along with the Numenera book upgrade.

As we move into its middle phase, this is shaping up to be a big campaign! The next couple of weeks are traditionally a bit more sedate than the opening and closing periods, but they’re critical for reaching the thousands of gamers who haven’t yet heard about Numenera.

We need your help. No matter how hard creators work, campaigns only soar when backers keep spreading the word. If you like unlocking stretch goals, please take a moment and post or share something about this campaign. If you don’t know what to say, you can find lots of graphics and sharable posts on our social media accounts.

Thanks for your support!
—Team MCG