Numenera is about exploration in the far future. There have been eight worlds before ours. Eight times, the people of Earth built civilizations, reaching heights we cannot imagine. They built cities and machines that have since crumbled. The empty landscape is dotted with devices, creatures, and items of wondrous power and inexplicable purpose. Islands of crystal float in the sky. Inverted mountains rise above plains of broken glass. Mysterious abandoned structures stretch across distances so great they affect the weather. Amid the ruins prowl monstrous predators, ancient death machines, stranded extraterrestrial or transdimensional beings, and tribes of vicious abhumans. The Iron Wind scours the wilderness, altering everything it touches. The people of the Ninth World suffered through a dark age, an era of isolation and struggle in the shadow of civilizations millennia gone.
But a new age dawns. Brave explorers who discover and master the works of the past worlds -- the numenera -- can unlock new powers and abilities, defend the weak, bolster the sick and starving, build a community, and perhaps bring a greater destiny to a struggling world.
The 2013 Numenera core rulebook went through four printings, and spawned 60 supplements and accessories, board games, novels, the Torment: Tides of Numenera computer game, and many foreign translations. Numenera Discovery (2018) isn't a new edition as such -- there are no important rules changes, and all later books still work fine with the original rules. Discovery expands and overhauls the original corebook, incorporating the Character Options expansions, reworking foci and descriptors, and elaborating on the starting regions of the Steadfast and the Beyond.
The full-color 416-page Numenera Discovery corebook contains everything you need to generate characters and explore a world of wonder, danger, and mystery. The rulebook includes a bestiary, an expansive overview of the Ninth World, hundreds of numenera items, gamemastering advice, and four full-length adventures.
Includes the 24-page introduction Discover Your Destiny and two Free RPG Day adventures. Learn more at the Numenera website and the September 2017 Kickstarter campaign page.
Numenera Discovery Player's Guide (98pp, retail price $8): Learn the basics of Numenera Discovery with this inexpensive guide that reproduces just the character generation and combat rules from the full-length rulebook. It's perfect as an extra reference on hand at the gaming table and as a teaching tool.
Numenera Character Portfolio (24pp, retail $2): A character sheet and much more, the 24-page Portfolio records all your character info and gives you room for notes, sketches, and details. Jot down thoughts about your character's appearance and mannerisms. Keep a campaign journal about the strange and wondrous locations, people, creatures, and objects you meet, and make maps of places you've been.
Spire of the Hunting Sound copyright © 2017; Numenera Discovery, Numenera Discovery Player's Guide, Discover Your Destiny, and Ashes of the Sea copyright © 2018; Consent in Gaming copyright © 2019; and Numenera Character Portfolio copyright © 2020 Monte Cook Games, LLC. "Numenera" and "Cypher System" are trademarks of Monte Cook Games, LLC in the USA and other countries.
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