1st RPG I bought this year was #symbaroum such an effin cool dark setting and amazing artwork! Ever the fan of #GeneWolfe #Numenara and #heavymetalmagazine I also picked up the psychedelic #caravancrawler #UltravioletGrasslands another amazing setting, with top tier art, with a unique system that has a ton of potential
#RPGaDAY2023
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/symbaroum/

I see now the error of my ways. Trying to compose doggerel about #Numenara focuses in pantser mode. Clearly a planner I must be for the #NinthWorldPrimer distillation of what a focus is & my Planner Mind says step one is to showcase a handful of illustrative contrastive examples.

Easy. Hopefully.

@Glorrion #Numenara hab ich bislang nur gelesen. Fand, das klang ganz gut, bin aber mit dieser Cypher (?) Sache nicht Sooo warm geworden

@Mjack that’s the impetus behind my 119 lines project, trying to make #Numenara Foci more memorable / distinguishable, for me, if no one else.

If you’ve been waiting for me to write about Foci in #Numenara 2 under the #NinthWorldMechanics tag, me too.

Having failed to construct a personal taxonomy which sparked joy, I’m just going to have to do this The Nails style.

Primarily that means it’ll be under #NinthWorldPrimer

Phistomefel's Ring:

Level: 1d6+4

Form: flat square of synth, 9 cm^2, decorated w/ symbols.

Effect: when activated, the beings in short range of the artifact, but not in contact w/ it, of Level less or equal to the artifact’s level, are teleported to a random safe destination 9 km away. Their former position is then occupied by an inert block of matter of the same level hardness & approximate volume.

Depletion: 1-4 on 1d6 #Numenara #artifacts

If you’ve got 6+ players, definitely consider using the other 30 mumble Descriptors in #Numenara 2: Destiny to give the players more differentiators. I’m an advocate for using all the #NinthWorldMechanics up to the point of option paralysis. For some people, that’s going to mean going so far as to incorporate 3rd party Cypher / Numenera source material. But life is simpler for a GM retaining a Doable Dozen options during chargen.

Each character has a value, for each Stat. A tier 1 PC is going to have a value between 9 & 12 (inclusive) for each Stat. Part of advancing tiers includes increasing the Stat values. Other effects can grant long or short term modification to Stat.

Which is fine. Each Stat undergoes fluxes during a session. Each Stat is a pool. Playing #Numenara , much of the time, is spending from one or more pool. Pools start a session full, each at the corresponding Stat’s value.
#NinthWorldMechanics

Step 3 here has two different judgments for the GM. Let’s talk about the first. If you’re already familiar w/ #MonteCookGames & their stat pool mechanism, you’re excused from the rest of this #NinthWorldMechanics 101 thread. It’s identical among #Numenara settings.

At any point in resolving that sequence, before rolling a die, the player may offer the GM a 1 xp bribe to “make the problem go away”. The player suggests a way that the world could be kinder to them. Each type has kinds of situations at which they excel.

The GM is not required to accept the bribe but if they do, the xp is spent & the world altered.

Players may not offer bribes which they don’t have.

It’s a newer addition to #NinthWorldMechanics in #Numenara 2.

W/e the type, each PC gets an origin story. How they became a better Bad-Ass, Rapscallion or Spoop. A more communal Ambassador, Scout or Smith. Or v-v. #Numenara 2 adds community to the 3 types you know from Numenera 1.

It’s the first bit of boundary settings, sketching the world grammar. Each PC is in the world for a reason; work back from that. There’s loads of suggested origins to swipe & modify in the books. I like to let the PC go big.

#NinthWorldMechanics

Now that you know the mindset, let’s talk about what Delves get out of these excursions. Sure, going places no one else can go is fun. But fun don’t pay the bills in #Numenara.

All Delves, all across the supercontinent or in places further away, are after one thing: Salvage.

Everyone knows about quirky Oddities, necessary Cyphers & coveted Artifacts. Delves can recognize the, in themselves, useless remains of history w/ the potential to become a Cypher, an Artifact.

Saw this thing doing the #ttrpg rounds and thought I'd join in:

Last 5 played or GMd:
#DND
#shadowrun
#InvisibleSun
#KidsOnBikes
#Torg on an #Numenara rules frame

Next 5 I want to play or GM:
#BladesInTheDark
#TheRealThing
#FollowMeDown
#MistBornAdventureGame
#EclipsePhase
And always more #InvisibleSun

Me: "I get out my best gravedigging shovel"

DM: "Tries not to laugh"

Me: "Sorry, I meant graverobbing shovel, those are different things"

DM: Oh god

#Numenara