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Long ago, I got Jim Ward to write down his April 4th story (the story he'd tell to the designers and editors on the anniversary of being let go from TSR on April 4, 1984) so that I could post it on my blog. Finally posted it today. Jim Ward’s Story: April 4, a Day That Will Live In Infamy

It'll be later this year. We're writing three new Ptolus adventures, then converting Banewarrens and Night of Dissolution.

The normal timeline for MCG releases is: 1) Kickstarter backers (and there's usually a print + PDF backer level) 2) Preorder customers (sometimes there's a PDF option, and in the case of Ptolus there is one) 3) Book released for sale to the public on the MCG Shop and DriveThruRPG. The time...

It's a weird quirk of how the game has changed a bit since 3e. In the 3e PH, there weren't hill dwarves and mountain dwarves, there were just dwarves (I don't think the other dwarf types were in the SRD, so third-party publishers couldn't use them). And likewise there weren't wood elves and...

We pulled the layout text from the 3e version of the book, stripped it down to plain text, re-styled all of it, made all of the running text system-neutral, moved rules-specific stuff to the callouts (the margin notes), had the text edited again, and then it was all laid out from scratch. You...

My previous group went into the House on two or three different occasions. My current group has gone into it twice and PC doesn't want to go back (it literally killed and consumed his former love in front of him as "payment" for something). Each time we've gone in, maybe the entry room was the...

None—it's a conversion of creatures from the Numenera books into 5e format, only the text has changed.

They are if you want them to be. :D (It wouldn't be the first time someone put a character/characters in their Numenera game who was from a prior era, such as from a time travel or hibernation-device error…)

Thanks. :) Fair. I actually left it out of the 60-second summary because I really did mean this to be a 60-second summary—I recorded that text as a video (with screenshots of parts of a character sheet) back in 2017 with the idea of posting it to YouTube as a reference. As written, I have to...

I understand. The way the paths for stretch goals in the Ptolus campaign was definitely a new way of trying things—an experiment—and there are some kinks to be worked out.

I've investigated a bit and it sounds like you were playing part of a short adventure called Trailblazer Trials, and in that there are some fights against creatures with Armor 2 or Armor 3 (which is still significant, even though it isn't Armor 5). One solo creature is "the monstrosity," there's...

Fortunately, I wrote this up (intending to make it a video, but never got around to it): The Numenera Game System… In 60 Seconds In Numenera there are three character types: Glaive, the warrior. Nano, the sorcerer. Jack, a mix of both. You have three stat Pools: Might, Speed, and Intellect...

Retreater, I'd really like to figure out what adventure they were running for you, because if you were playing a tier 1 character, I'd be very surprised if the adventure had a creature with Armor 5 (considering that plate mail is Armor 3). And if it's an official MCG adventure, and that Armor 5...

I'm not sure why you think that. Just for the Arcana of the Ancients Kickstarter (which BTM is part of), we've posted status updates on June 5th, April 14th, Feb 25, Jan 15, Oct 18 2019, Aug 9 2019, July 15 2019, and Jun 19 2019. Other than the gap around the holidays, that's an update about...

Hi, I'm Sean, and I'm a designer/developer for Monte Cook Games. :) We guarantee that we'll have your books available for you for at least a year, so if you want to wait to get them all at once, that's totally fine--a lot of people do that to save on shipping costs!

We're in the last 2.5 hours of the Kickstarter campaign and we've unlocked some cool stuff (including a new adventure by Bruce Cordell and a new adventure by me). Definitely worth checking out, even if you just feel like backing for a dollar so you can decide later in BackerKit if you want it!

Charles, what was your character's name, and which group did you play with?

Rereading the 3E Ptolus book (2006) has brought up a lot of old memories from when I was a player Monte's home game of Ptolus (this is back when we were still working on 3E design, 1999–2000). This is probably my favorite memory from that campaign. Our group (the Runewardens, see page 577) had...

If you've been on the fence about backing the Ptolus Kickstarter, FYI we ran some financial numbers and decided to add stretch goals to more backer levels. Charles explains the details in this update: Update 6: Grip of the Ebon Hand Unlocked! And Exciting Backer Level News! · Ptolus: Monte...

The 27 items are listed as one of the FAQ answers, if you want to check vs what you have. :)