A press release to announce a new joint venture!

Alderac Entertainment Group and Monte Cook Games are both stoked to be working together to create the Numenera Thunderstone fantasy deck-building game. Well-known game designer Monte Cook’s newly announced science fantasy game, Numenera, is a perfect fit with the exciting, evolving mechanics of AEG’s Thunderstone. 

Thunderstone is THE fantasy deck-building game, praised for its rich, dungeon-crawling theme. Players race through dungeons, fighting monsters and overcoming obstacles to retrieve Thunderstones, containers of unfathomable evil. Together, the stones can used to banish their creator, the eternal evil known only as Doom. But each time Doom is driven from one world, he moves to corrupt a new one—and the players must follow. Now, Doom has leapt to the Ninth World, the setting of Numenera.

Numenera is a role-playing game that focuses on character and story with simple, fast-moving mechanics. It is set in the ruins of a far distant future where, as Arthur C. Clarke said, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Characters explore the technological ruins of the past to make discoveries to improve their own future.

Doom corrupts everything he touches… what can he do in a post-apocalyptic world that has already fallen so many times? Plenty.

“I’m super-excited to be working in the story-based world of Numenera,” said Thunderstone project lead, Jeff Quick. “One of the first things I said to Monte when we started discussing this idea was that I didn’t want Numenera to be a coat of paint for Thunderstone. I wanted this world to affect the gameplay, literally change the game to reflect the new, strange future-fantasy of Numenera, while remaining compatible with Thunderstone’s full library of cards.”

“Numenera offers some unique experiences as an rpg. Thunderstone will handle those experiences well. I think Numenera and Thunderstone are a great fit. It’s going to be a really fun game,” said Monte Cook.

Numenera Thunderstone is available now as a bonus for Numenera’s Kickstarter page.

For more information, visit www.numenera.com or www.alderac.com/thunderstone.

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   Sean · August 31, 2012 at 4:08 am · Reply

   Nice one Monte !
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   Jason · August 31, 2012 at 7:17 am · Reply

   Glad I’ve backed the KS, not a huge fan of card games as I don’t play them, but may give this a look. An interesting stretch goal but personally I’m looking forward the the full $300k’s worth being achieved, especially the musical score. That would be amazing!
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   W · August 31, 2012 at 4:24 pm · Reply

   Hey Monte, on the topic of cool things one could do for a game, I was looking at my globe today and I realized I don’t think I’ve ever seen an rpg company produce a globe for its setting. Sure you see plenty of maps, and even a few atlases, but an actual globe, with a stand, that you could spin around and point out features of the world on? I don’t believe that has ever been done – at least not to my knowledge.

   Typically I imagine an undertaking like that wouldn’t be cost effective for an rpg, but with a tool like Kickstarter at one’s disposal and a passionate audience willing to put down money ahead of time to see that achieved, I think it might be doable. Is this something you’d ever consider?
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     Xaelvaen · August 31, 2012 at 8:22 pm · Reply

     I have to second this notion – I would absolutely love this! Combining Kickstarter with the notion of the globe being an add-on, and maybe the cost can be dramatically reduced. I, for two, am certainly interested.
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     Billie Abbitt · August 31, 2012 at 8:37 pm · Reply

     Agreed, that is an excellent idea
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     Monte Cook · August 31, 2012 at 9:18 pm · Reply

     Cool idea. I’ve never seen that either.
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       W · August 31, 2012 at 9:30 pm · Reply

       Just thought I’d throw the idea out there; I don’t have a published setting or the wherewithal to make something like that happen, but considered it might be an idea you’d be interested in looking into yourself.
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       W · August 31, 2012 at 9:30 pm · Reply

       Just thought I’d throw the idea out there; I don’t have a published setting or the wherewithal to make something like that happen, but considered it might be an idea you’d be interested in looking into yourself.
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   Adam Ashworth · September 1, 2012 at 1:40 pm · Reply

   Oooo – a globe would be awesome! If it could happen, I’d put down more for that.

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