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The Non-Player Cards: An Artful NPC Generator was the product of a Kickstarter by Andreas Walters of Metal Weave Games which raised $16,015 on a $15,000 goal. The artwork is done, the cards have been produced, everything was packaged and shipped out, and we got ours today. Here, we take a look at what comes […]

The Numenera Box Set Edition was the product of a Kickstarter by Monte Cook Games which raised $286,565 on a $15,000 goal (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montecookgames/exclusive-numenera-boxed-set-edition). The boxes have been produced, assembled, and shipped out, and we got ours today. Here, we do an unboxing of the box and look at all the bits included in the set.

Monte came up with a couple of brilliant materials when he wrote Numenera. Strongglass, Azure Steel along with similarly weird and fantastic substances. I have compiled a list of made up materials that I have encountered in my years of playing TTRPG’s. All of these were made up by my friends and I over a […]

The special materials described in the Numenera core book may not be as flashy or exciting as the Artefacts and Cyphers scattered throughout the Ninth World, but they do have interesting potential all of their own. This third article explores the uses of Stronglass, a translucent material with mettalic properties. Whether you are after some […]

The special materials described in the Numenera core book may not be as flashy or exciting as the Artefacts and Cyphers scattered throughout the Ninth World, but they do have interesting potential all of their own. This second article explores the uses of Azure Steel, an unearthly superalloy available to the Ninth World centuries before […]