The game designer behind Numenera, Dungeons & Dragons core rules and loads others, Monte Cook, has a Kickstarter that is (at the time of writing) funded by 430%. They’ve just added more pledges. Your Best Game Ever! is a “tool book” for tabletop games, not of rules, but of tips. Gamers like Matt Colville, Matthew […]
Monte Cook announces Numenera 2
At Gen Con 50 Monte Cook Games announced Numenera 2. According to a tweet from Total Party Thrill’s Shane there are two books. The first is Numenera 2 Discovery which is designed to replace the original Numenera core book but not the whole line. Monte Cook’s latest Numenera release was just a few days […]
6 famous RPG designers and the monsters they look like
You can search Google with images. All you need to do is drag and drop your image from your desktop or tab into the search box. As a security and privacy feature Google refuses to match faces for faces. If you search for a face you’ll exact matches and a wide range in the so-called […]
The Road Goes Ever On and On: Review of Into the Violet Vale
Into the Violet Vale is a straightforward adventure supplement for Numenera, written to play at a convention or as a basic introduction to the game. The adventure was run in official GenCon 2014 Numenera events and you can now purchase and download it in PDF format. Form Into the Violet Vale is a 25-page adventure […]
Future fantasy: A first look at Tides of Numenera
The unofficial sequel to Planescape: Torment and official computer RPG for Monte Cooke’s Numenera is Torment: Tides of Numenera. You can watch 3 minutes of “pre-alpha footage” here. That’s awfully early in the cycle but it still looks good. What you get in your 3 preview are clips for choice-based focus of the game and […]
Mashing Up The Strange: A Review of When Worlds Collide
The strange and incredible come in many guises and sometimes you need a helping hand making sense of it all. With the release, from Monte Cook Games, of The Strange, the Cypher System has expanded with more than 400 pages of content. Given that the game uses the same system as the acclaimed Numenera, can […]
19,168 RPGs and accessories on sale for Christmas in July
It’s a bit of a weird tradition but Christmas in July is a DriveThruRPG tradition in which you can score up to 25% off titles. This year there’s nearly 20,000 titles in the range. The best deals that I’ve spotted? There are hundreds of dollars off Peregrine’s stock illustrations but here’s some RPG-centric titles. Whitewash […]
Curious and Terrible Things: A Review of The Ninth World Bestiary
The adversaries, beasts, constructs and monsters of the Ninth World poses a formidable and often unfathomable threat to life. Characters setting out on a voyage of discovery through the weird landscape of ruins, drit and numenera can expect to not expect much of what they encounter. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition – true enough. […]
It’s Not Easy Being Weird: A Review of Numenera’s Injecting the Weird
Your mounts are quadruped leeches with shrivelled, underdeveloped forearms and an odour like pickled limes. Having arrived in Thexz, entering through a gateway in the wall of solidified whispers that surround it, and left the mounts in stables, you search out your contact. H’eth is an ex-Aeon Priest who speaks with two voices, one like […]
International GM’s Day: DriveThru RPG’s biggest sale
March 4th is International GM’s Day. It began life as a forum post by “Spunkrat” on EN World, was championed by Mark Clover of Creative Mountains Game and is now a thing. DriveThru RPG/RPG Now are big supporters and today is the site’s biggest sale. The most expensive RPG ever made – Sanguine Productions’ April […]
