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 […]
In the Best Possible Taste: Numenera’s Love and Sex in the Ninth World
There’s something you can definitely say about Numenera – and that’s if you’re not thinking outside the box, you’re probably not playing to it’s full potential. When you’re taking the world to the brink of destruction, a billion years into the future, you can’t just think some post-apocalyptic Mad Max knock-off. The Ninth World isn’t […]
I Can Has Numenera: A Review of Celestial Wisdom
A billion years from now, the Internet will still dominate our lives – but there will almost certainly be a lot less in the way of cat pictures, food porn, and spam sites about all-natural male enhancement… Numenera – Monte Cook’s runaway roleplaying Kickstarter success story of 2013 – works well when hitting upon themes […]
Treasures of the Ninth World: A Review of the Cypher and Artifact & Oddities Collections for Numenera
As a planet, we generate a huge amount of waste and while some gets recycled, a lot ends up in landfill. We also have a fair amount ending up in the sea, most of which (the media would suggest) seems to end up in the nexus of the Pacific gyre. Suffice to say, each year […]
