The CryptID Show
The CryptID Show
The CryptID Show
The CryptID Show
The CryptID Show
The CryptID Show

The CryptID Show

A storytelling game of call-ins and cryptids.

From Anica Cihla

$30.00

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 *air horn* Goooooood morning and merry Mothman hunting, you wild, wonderful, Chupacabra-crazed weirdos!

Welcome to The CryptID Show—the paranormal power hour where your local cryptid encounters take center stage! Think you saw a selkie sitting on your sofa? Call in now and squeal like a squonk about your freakiest encounters with the unknown. Learn how to tell your trows from your trolls and how to stop them trawling through your trash bins!


The CryptID Show is a storytelling game for two or more players about constructing and deconstructing cryptid sightings. Working together, the Host and Caller will attempt to explain the unexplainable, aided only by a deck of playing cards and their own imagination. Together, you’ll sculpt bite-sized stories of the bizarrely sweet, the hauntingly esoteric, and the just plain weird, all in the form of a live call-in show. 

The Host is the voice of reason (or chaos!) guiding the Caller through their latest cryptid calamity. Together, they’ll cook up the Host’s persona, the flavor of broadcast–such as 90’s drive-time radio, true crime podcast, or video livestream–and a few catchy taglines to set the mood. Maybe this Host is a hard-nosed skeptic chasing down the truth with a flashlight and a soundboard, or maybe they’re a wide-eyed believer broadcasting straight from Bigfoot's couch.

When the Caller dials in, they’ll lay out the Encounter Characteristics of the sighting, including the physical description, the location of the sighting, and the effect of the experience on both them and the cryptid. The Host digs in, spinning theories, connecting the dots, and cranking up the tension as the mystery deepens. It’s up to the two of you to decide whether the night ends with a rational explanation...or if there’s a more supernatural solution to be found.


Preorder: The Bigfoot Bundle
This deluxe bundle includes physical and digital copies of The CryptID Show, two custom journals for your host or caller with questions outlined, a carpenter pencil for jotting down notes, 3 bumper stickers to flag down other traveling investigators and a premium bookmark.

Bigfoot Bundle fulfillment expected late February. 



Text on the left reads Praise For, and text on the right is cover text for The CryptID Show“The CryptID Show is such a fun concept! It scratches both my itch as a fan of comedy and tabletop games. The improv nature makes every game unique. So, I was extremely excited when I had the chance to contribute on it.”
–Ify Nwadiwe, Comedian and Writer
“The CryptID Show brings together the eccentricity of an amateur cryptozoologist and the quirky, unexpected nature of a call-in radio show, delighting the day-dreaming Appalachian in all of us.” 
–Johnny Stanton, co-creator of SINK! Adventures on the Caldereach Sea, DM of Friday Beers D&D
“Reading the rules for The CryptID Show made me want to drive into the woods to hunt for monsters. This game is a love letter to improv, talk radio, and cryptozoology that delivers innovative card-based improv mechanics for players of all experience levels!”
–Daniel Kwan, showrunner of the Asians Represent podcast and creator of the Wandering Blades TTRPG
“My 1st time playing the game with Anica captured me like a sasquatch in a grainy photo. As a huge fan of what she is doing in Sin Eater, I was thrilled when she approached us about partnering with her on The CryptID Show.”
–Tony Vasinda, Plus One Exp

 

Want to see The CryptID Show in action? Check out our livestream with Catieosaurus and Clint McElroy!


Want more of The CryptID Show?

We chatted with Anica Cihla about creating The CryptID Show:

"Having grown up obsessed with Scooby-Doo and then, later in life, listening to the unhinged, irresponsible, lightning-in-a-bottle, call-in radio show that was Coast-To-Coast AM with Art Bell, I’m a big fan of the low-stakes mystery genre of media. ... All that crystallized last winter when I was playing Home Safety Hotline ... I loved the inherently episodic, monster-of-the-week format of a phone call, but I wanted to add a degree of performance and pageantry than you can only really find in 90’s drive-time radio. And so: The CryptID Show was born."

Read the full interview with creator Anica Cihla.

 

Want EVEN MORE CryptID Show?

Check out The CryptID Show’s companion website at www.cryptid.show for MORE encounter prompts, MORE host/caller characteristics, MORE fake business sponsors, MORE art, DJ Squonk's radio soundboard, and MORE! 

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