The Years Between is an alternate method for running a fantasy role-playing campaign.

To level by standard means, a PC must survive multiple low-level adventures; however, with this supplemental booklet, the leveling process is accelerated in order to serve the Judge’s needs or make a higher-level module achievable. Before each adventure, the Judge should check to see if all PCs have the required levels needed. If not, each PC will move through the steps below to achieve the needed level(s) and create the story of that experience.

The booklet also includes rich illustrations and prompts to help create the story of that experience. Finally, it contains an illustrated bevy of artifacts and relics.

This supplement is compatible with the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role-Playing Game.

Not a Rule Book, But a Tool Book

We’ve all had them: games where the party clicked perfectly. Climactic moments when everything came together amazingly. Favorite characters everyone loved. Sessions and campaigns that became the stuff of legends—moments that were talked about for years! Sometimes, everything just turns out right. But why not every time?

You can make these games happen, and happen whenever you get together with your gaming group. You can make every adventure, every session, every campaign the most it can be. Your Best Game Ever unlocks the secrets of consistently awesome RPG experiences—for players and GMs.

Inside this gorgeous hardcover (perfect for your game table, but just as beautiful on your coffee table, too) you will find advice and suggestions for enhancing your RPG experience at the table and away from it. This is an insider’s look at everything that isn’t part of the game rules—building chemistry for a gaming group that really clicks, 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 that’s just for starters.

Your Best Game Ever is not your typical RPG sourcebook. It’s not a book with adventures, spells, creatures, or magic items. It’s not a book for characters at all, but a book for players! If you play or run roleplaying games, this book is for you. Inside this gorgeous hardcover book, suitable for your coffee table or your gaming table, you will find advice and suggestions for enhancing your RPG experience at the table and away from it. This is an insider’s look at everything that goes into the hobby—finding a group, making a character, running a game, creating adventures, finding all the right ideas, hosting a game…and that’s just for starters.

If You’re an Experienced Gamer
You’ve been gaming for a while now. Maybe even years. You get the concepts, and you understand the rules. No one needs to explain the dice to you. Your Best Game Ever embraces the hobby you love, and provides real tips, immediately usable advice, and hands-on pointers you can use at your game table. You’ll find everything here from enhancing immersion, tips for running games online, creating characters with depth, worldbuilding, designing rules, dealing with personality conflicts that arise at the table, and more!

If You’re Fairly New to Gaming
Your friends play RPGs. You’ve maybe watched some streaming games, or given it a try a few times. You get the general idea, but where do you go from there? How do you really get into this hobby the way so many others have? This book will give you everything you need to learn how to choose the right game, how to fit into your game group or start your own group, and get you going on the fast track to being a great gamer.

Either Way, You’ll Love this Book!

Your Best Game Ever covers a range of general game topics, along with sections tailored to players and GMs. And this isn’t a stuffy book on theory, either. You’ll find loads of specific suggestions you can use every day to create better characters with their own interesting stories along with plot ideas, character ideas, real recipes you can make for game night (and spruce them up for your genre of choice), specific suggestions for music and ambiance depending on the genre, and hundreds of pages of other ready-to-use material. All bound up in a volume as complete, user-friendly, and beautiful as only Monte Cook Games can make it.

This 240-page book will enable you to become a better gamer. You’ll find ways to create and manage a great game group, tricks for game prep (and what to do if you haven’t prepared!), understanding and managing game balance, and taking everything around you and incorporating it as inspiration for your game.

Monte Cook, the principal author, has been playing RPGs for 40 years, and working on them professionally for 30 years. The MCG team, all of whom will be contributing, are an extremely seasoned group with a combined total of over 250 years of RPG experience. But we wanted to get an even wider and diverse set of experiences and points of view in this book, so we’ve recruited a team of folks that will provide feedback as well as their own contributions for the book.

This dream team of consulting experts includes:
Eric Campbell
Matt Colville
Luke Crane
Stacy Dellorfano
Tanya DePass
Ajit George
Jennell Jaquays
Eloy Lasanta
Tom Lommel
Matthew Mercer
Susan J. Morris
Alina Pete
John Rogers
Monica Valentinelli

The book will also feature comics and cartoons from:
John Kovalic (Dork Tower)
Vickie Lee (Dungeons and Doggos)
Aviv Or (Up to Four Players)
Brian Patterson (d20 Monkey)
Len Peralta (Geek-a-Week)
Alina Pete (Weregeek)
Stan! (10x10Toon)

Regardless of which game you play, how you play, or even where you play,Your Best Game Ever gives you a wealth of advice and a plethora of ideas. No RPG shelf should be without it!

240-page hardcover