Tales from the Ninth World
As one of our Numenera Kickstarter stretch goals, we said that we would create a short ebook anthology entitled Tales from …
Blast from the Past: Charles and the Crocodile
Longtime followers know that montecook.com has been around since about 1999 or so, and that most of the pre-2012 content …
Introducing Charles Ryan
I met Charles Ryan in a tuxedo shop. At the time, he was the Chairman of the Academy of Adventure Gaming …
Author/Game Designer, Rich Howard
When I created my Kickstarter for Numenera, I named one of the backer levels On-Line Gamer. One of the many …
The Spirit of Numenera
In conversations over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself talking about Numenera to interested people–not so much the rules, …
The Spirit of Numenera
In conversations over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself talking about Numenera to interested people–not so much the rules, …
Adventures! (Numenera Product Line-Up, Part 2)
There’s a well-accepted “truism” in the tabletop industry nowadays: Adventures don’t sell. There’s only one problem with this bit of …
Game Mastering Numenera
The Numenera corebook’s design and development are complete. There’s still a lot of editing to do, a few illustrations and …
Numenera Product Line-Up (Part 1)
This weekend, I finished making the last few adjustments to the Numenera rules based on playtester feedback. Sean Reynolds, the …
Four Types of Numenera
When originally thinking about technology in the Ninth World, I mostly thought in terms of how it was used, and …
Distinguishing It From Magic
I keep bringing up Arthur C. Clarke’s third law, that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” when I …
Fifth Playtest Report
Need to catch up on what happened before? The last installment can be found here. After their negotiations with Devola, Caracol …