Routinely Itemised: RPGs #39
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Nearly 300% funded in 24 hours: Numenera – Liminal Shores
The Kickstarter asked for $60,000. Sound like a lot? It's less than 24 hours after launch, and there's already more than $175,000 pledged.
Arcana of the Ancients takes Monte Cook back to D&D
Monte Cook was a part of the team who worked on the third edition of D&D. He was even involved with D&D Next, the project that became D&D 5e, and was announced as lead designer in January 2012.…
The ‘other’ best selling RPGs of 2018
If your RPG doesn't fit nicely into any of the provided genres or it can also be used in extra genres then DriveThruRPG provides the 'Other' tag as a place to put your game.
Download for free: Numenera’s Building Tomorrow preview
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Building Tomorrow by Bruce R. Cordell and Sean K. Reynolds will be the first supplement for Monte Cook’s Numenera RPG since the release of the new core books.
You’ll have to wait until October for the full edition of Building Tomorrow to be released, but you can take a free PDF download of the preview right now.…
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.…
Roll20 signs Monte Cook Games
Monte Cook Games has signed on Roll20 as their official “virtual gaming space” partner. Roll20.net is a cross between a web conference and virtual tabletop which is specially designed for tabletop gamers.…
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.…
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.…
Cold Blooded Numenera: A Review of Ninth World Assassins
If you have a problem… if no one else can help… and if you can find them… maybe you can hire… a Ninth World Assassin.
While Numenera sets a stage for adventure in the far flung future, after the rise and fall of nine great civilisations, certain things remain the same – like the shadowy types of the criminal underworld.…
