Getting Crafty - Where to Start?

Crafty Games produces high-quality, award-winning adventure gaming products using the Open Gaming License (OGL), both in print and digital (PDF) format. Currently, our games feature three different systems.

Mastercraft

Mastercraft is our newest and most streamlined system. It marries Spycraft 2.0’s potent character growth and top-to-bottom customization with Classic Spycraft’s simplicity and ease of play, but strips away the espionage flavor, making it the ultimate core rules set. Crafty Games will release combination genre toolkit and setting books in many genres, all of which will be 100% compatible, so you can run the ones you want out of the box or mix and match components to taste.

The first Mastercraft product, Fantasy Craft, was released in August 2009. Ten Thousand Bullets, the modern crime noir genre toolkit, will hit stores in 2010. Both will be available in print and PDF.

Spycraft 2.0

The second edition of the world’s most popular espionage RPG takes everything that made Classic Spycraft such a success — character classes with something new at every level, powerful feats, a robust skill system, action dice that put you in control of the action, high-flying cinematic combat — and adds dramatic conflicts to speed up and simplify complex scenes, rapid-build NPCs that scale to any level of play, streamlined gear, and rules and advice for playing a fully customized game in any modern genre.

Spycraft 2.0 is available in print (in hardcover and softcover “pocket” editions) as well as PDF, and is supported with over 25 PDF products and 2 print-only collections of digital products (Shadow Play and Odd Jobs). The official Spycraft 2.0 setting, World on Fire, turns up the heat, driving the heroes underground in a world torn apart by terrorism. Check our catalog for more details.

Classic Spycraft

This is where it all began — the first modern d20 game on the market, Classic Spycraft took the gaming world by storm in 2002 with its innovative mechanics, cinematic style, and classic espionage flavor. Though this line went out of print when Spycraft 2.0 was released, we offer the entire line of products in PDF, including the core “silver” books and the official campaign setting, Shadowforce Archer.

Where can I get Crafty Games products?

Crafty Games print books are available in fine bookstores and hobby shops everywhere, and online through the Mongoose Publishing website. Our entire catalog of products is available in PDF exclusively on DriveThruRPG.

If you aren’t finding our books on your favorite store’s shelves, be sure to ask them to order some! If they can’t get them, ask who their distributor is and let us know so we can see about getting them stocked up.

Where can I learn more about Crafty Games?

Fans
We’re fortunate to host one of the most friendly, helpful forums in all of gamerdom here on Crafty-Games.com. Visit our Control Transmissions section for general discussion, License to Improvise for house rules and mechanics questions, or any of our product forums for updates, previews, and helpful information. (For micro-updates as they happen, check out or subscribe to our Need to Know news feed.)

Our wiki is great for homebrew rules and campaigns, and our Downloads page has the latest errata, magazine articles, and much more.

Publishers
Crafty Games is currently finalizing its Powered by Fantasy Craft and updated Powered by Spycraft licenses, which allow third-party publishers to create and release their own products for these game lines. These licenses will arrive by the end of August 2009.

All Other Questions
If you’d like to freelance with us, run demonstrations of our games, write reviews, interview our staff, playtest new products, submit ideas or tools, or if you other questions, please feel free to contact us!

Thanks for visiting us, and welcome to the fold. Stay Crafty!