New to Numenera?

New to Numenera?

The Ninth World is a vast and strange place. When you enter it, you explore a weird and wondrous landscape, meet creatures unlike anything seen in our world, and experience adventures that stretch your imagination. No wonder, then, that if you’re new to Numenera, it can be hard to know where to start. Fortunately, there are a number of excellent portals into the Numenera roleplaying game—the best one for you depends on your experience and what you’re looking for.

New to tabletop RPGs? Or maybe you’ve played plenty, but want a simple, inexpensive way to give the Ninth World a try. In either case, the Numenera Starter Set is a great entry point into the world of Numenera. It gives 3 – 6 players everything you need to get started: rulebook, adventure book, five pre-generated characters, and dice, along with a poster map for the adventure, XP and GM intrusion cards, and a rules quick-reference sheet. You even get a link to download a second adventure for free.

If you’re an experienced tabletop gamer, the Numenera corebook may be a better place to start. This beautifully illustrated 416-page book (with a poster map) gives you a detailed overview of two vast swaths of the Ninth World known as the Steadfast and the Beyond, along with the complete rules and everything you need to create incredible and unique Numenera characters. It also includes four complete adventures, and info on hundreds of creatures, cyphers, artifacts, and other elements of the Ninth World.

No matter which product you start with, you might enjoy this How to Play video. It’s about half an hour long, and in it, Monte, the design team, and friends give you a look at the basics of running Numenera and how to use the Cypher System, Numenera’s game system.

Where do you go from there?

There are loads of great Numenera products, so if you’ve started playing Numenera already and are interested in building your campaign, where should you look next? That depends on your needs.

For starters, if you’ve been playing using the Numenera Starter Set, your first step should definitely be the Numenera corebook.

After that, if you’re a player, you probably want items that give you great options and aids for building your character.

If you’re a GM, there are loads of great choices:

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