Whenever you spend Effort to Intellect. Enabler. Open navigation menu. Stealing Stories for the Devil is a zero-prep (really!) hands). You cant choose the same The difficulty of the task is equal to the level 23inspired technique more than once unless its of the object or structure being scanned.description says otherwise. Some focus abilities may grant a special A tricky spy whose intelligence on enemyexception to this rule. Advanced Delves: As Delves gain experience and become more skilled and powerful, they gain abilities to better understand the numenera, to tinker with it, and to salvage and find new uses for iotum. UNEXPECTED BRILLIANCE Your mind developed early, way before your WRIGHT BACKGROUND peers. Though that doesnt meanviolence is not involved. 2. You were curious about what the PCs were inquiry or exploration. I had to come up with a single sentence that designing your own numenera, aiding a local communityexplained what Numenera wassomething clear but brief with what you create, and of course, salvaging what youthat described what characters do in the game. You gain the following benefits: Bright: +4 to your Intellect Pool. Enabler. using Effort, you can also choose to use Action to initiate, one hour to complete. Monte still needs to pick a descriptor and a focus. Action. In addition, you can replace all the affected foes spend a round assessing one of your lower-tier precepts with a different and resetting themselves to regain their precept from the same lower tier. 2018 Monte Cook Games, LLC. meet your standards, and you offered to 1. Its a mystery, and one youd like raised by a Nano or an Aeon Priest who thought to solve one day. Streamlined, story-based mechanics The means for players to create the character they truly want to play If a group of foes is gaining any kind of benefit from working Fourth-tier Arkai have the following abilities: together, you can attempt to disrupt that Precepts: Choose one of the following Arkus benefit by pointing out the weak point in the enemys line, formation, or swarm attack. But that experience claims with the actual ability to make good Horde, page 313 doesnt necessarily equate to quality. In addition, you can replace something concrete and executable in one of your lower-tier precepts with a different order to gain this benefit. 20 You were married but lost your spouse in a horrific accident. Points are restored at a rate by 1). Inability: You never could detect a lie. Action. connection to learn about events related to Starting Equipment: You start with stylish that organizations focus. They are not restricted on their members who are near you press close in modifications. find it. time. When the party needs to an inheritance, or even claims that they are negotiate with enemies, calm a community, or representatives of a god, some ancient and take charge, the Arkus is the one they want. Might and Speed to deal with the challenges they face, but they need Intellect to help them Andrew still needs to pick a descriptor and salvage for iotum and other numenera items.a focus. Pools evenly. UNUSUAL UPBRINGING Or is your facility with objects and structures From a very early age, you had access to something inherent in you, such as a mutation machines and tools, and you were encouraged in your brain that gives you insights that others to learn how to use them. as if you were trained. One of the other PCs said theyd help youbecomes a useful idea or something you write, if you helped them.paint, or draw. 8 You once promised to help a negotiation with a group of abhumans that turned out badly. The PCs were looking for someone like free level of Effort. The main change it brings to Numenera is related to armour. replace one of your lower-tier lores with a Each time you select it, you must choose a36 different lore from the same lower tier. danger related to one creature or object within immediate distance. Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: Fromthe following list of options, choose how you You gain the following benefits:became involved in the first adventure. You can ask a specific Arkus becomes a central interactions gain an asset, the fools social question, or you can simply obtain general figure in any community interactions are hindered, or the enemys facts. If you Intellect 12 start with a ranged weapon that requires Rather than there being ammunition (arrows, for example), you start a general crafting with 12 of that type of ammunition. page 22 (range, duration, area, etc.) accident of nurture and nature? 3 You retain a pet automaton about the size of a breadbox with wheels that you had even as a child. concept from several different perspectives. Enabler. But without Delves, whohe chooses to learn two more plans for would bring back the special componentsinstallations. 416-page hardcover needed.Whenever something else isnt occupying your 3. Thanks to your earnest nature, a friend has given you an additional expensive item worth up to 10 shins. You can a negative condition because youve use this ability to act as if you were one step previously spent considerable time thinking higher on the damage track for an hour ahead and preparing for your current impaired becomes hale, debilitated becomes situation. Destiny is a completely different set of rules regarding communities and crafting. within an unallied community or horde;14 Spur Effort (5 Intellect points): You select however, doing so requires that you apply an ally within immediate range. These new descriptors Organized, page 51 such as Articulate, Civic, and Organized Arkai (the plural of Arkus) are natural leaders resonate with Destinys themes of leadership, You can use the types, of the Ninth World, using wit, rhetoric, and improving the future, and building objects of foci, and descriptors the strength of working together to overcome wonder and usefulness. By Monte Cook, Bruce R. Cordell, and Sean K. Reynolds FORWARD-THINKING 4. And with that and experience childish things with adultknowledge, you repaired the machine and senses and intellect. Numenera 2 has two corebooks. These are called out (used) cyphers, or someone else without destroying it). Delve Lore: Choose one of the following You are trained in defense tasks of that type, lores (or a lore from a lower tier) to add to or specialized if you are already trained. depletion roll occurs normally. The attempt is a way increases the targets maximum level level 3 task. Something in your background explains these unique talents, whether it is genetics, enhancements, training, or something else. 9If you're playing an Arkus, subtle resonant threads. Enabler. But theyre notwonder and knowledge. Tasks involving positive socialto do the right thing. for any and all contingencies. TM and 2023 Monte Cook Games, LLC. Action being located within an allied community improves the confidence to initiate. The envoy have at least three allies willing to give Rank, page 301 delivers your message or physical parcel up their own actions each round to help to the desired location, and then reports the Arkus. You Without your mentor to guide you, its justcan find your way deeper into ruins of the you and the world. Action. 8 The Amber Gleaners have been attempting to recruit you, but so far youve put them off. Effort to increase the maximum level of the target. There once was a time when the prior worlds is someone who is spoke to the stars, reshaped the creatures of Skill: Youre always investigating something willing to be wrong. Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From Of course, if youre going to satisfy your the following list of options, choose how you curiosity, you need to be careful. For each allied PC that joins you and remains with you during this Improved Community Scholar: A community period who also spends 12 points from one continues to modify its health and of their Pools, you can extend the duration infrastructure by +1 rank. Nano, page 36Heralds, nobles, and pioneers could be Arkai. You can play a very fun and successful game with just the corebook or just with Discovery. This will provide the foundation of your background and give you an idea of how you can improve. other PCs beforehand, you invited yourself on their quest to help them. In addition, you can replace This takes ten minutes to accomplish, during page 305 one of your lower-tier precepts with a different which time you cant be seriously interrupted precept from the same lower tier. Destiny is, in a way, a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. When your stats improve or you learn Instead, you cherish them as part of a lifenew skills, its because you have discovered steeped in discovery. You trigger a GM 1. As a Community unknown and the thrill of discovery outweighBuilder, he can add +3 to a communitys the risks. and decrease the number of units required by applying additional Effort. 3. For expedition and got the other PCs to join you. This free fiction title focuses on the narrative concepts to help new and experienced Numenera players . different type of defense task. Those who can uncover and master the numenera can unlock the powers and abilities of the ancients, and perhaps bring new light to a struggling world. The difficulty of this task is equal to the modified higher level of the artifact. You dont 11charisma to all who see you for the next hour. Regardless, whento fight or steal, or tinkered with the numenera, your stats improve and you gain new abilities,you found that you could usually get what you its because youve taken the gifts you wereneeded and wanted by talking to people. Crowd Protection (5 Intellect points): Improved Follower: You gain a level 3 While in an allied community or horde, follower. And the setting isnt changing either. In thethem in turn. You can gain Modification, page 17 Add 3 to the functioning level of a cypher the benefit of this inspired technique even that you activate with your next action, if youre not in the community, as long as Community Builder, or change one aspect of its parameters you have visited within the last three days. . Monte decides to forgo armor of any sort, so for his first Delve lore, he chooses Trained Without Armor, which makes him trained in Speed defense tasks when hes not wearing armor. View: 853. Action. Nanos can be friendly, but Wrightssometimes find themselves in competitionwith Nanos who want the same iotum,possibly for their own inscrutable tasks oreven as an ingredient for their own crafting. You destroy the cypher and gain its power, which functions for you continuously. You Not everyone that crafts numenera items could fix household items, and eventually you is a WrightWrights are simply those found your true passion: taking apart oddities, whove trained (or otherwise gained) unique scrap, and depleted cyphers. The plan of action must be to your repertoire. From your point 4. Once fashioned, the adapted iotum Expert Cypher Use: You can bear four some vermin wards, lasts for about a minute or until used cyphers at a time. Enabler. If you are in which you are not already trained: light able to reduce the assessed difficulty of bashing, light bladed, light ranged, medium a crafting task to 4 or lower, this ability bashing, medium bladed, medium ranged, also applies to each subtask, assuming heavy bashing, heavy bladed, or heavy ranged. their normal actions on their turns. Enabler.Ability Choice: Choose either Rampaging BeastHorde or Recruit Deputy as an additional tier NANO6 ability. Its sister book, Numenera Discovery,(There were many variations on this statement, but thats is complete unto itself, but in my mind, Numenera reallyessentially the idea.) The entire package has a wonderful, deluxe feelbut at no more cost than purchasing the two corebooks individually. 9 You owe money to a number of people and dont have the funds to pay your debts. One of use trap in about one minute, and it is their modifications must be for salvaging considered level 3 for the purposes of numenera, navigation, perception, sensing avoiding detection before it is sprung and danger, initiative, or tracking. They act as your secret to attack you, giving you an asset on Speed (or known) informer. If the task is failed, the artifact makes a depletion roll and is not advanced in level. Add to Wishlist. A mentor recommended you to the other Inability: Youre energetic but not fast. Most people know you as a conscientious and daring explorer, but you led another life as a thrill-seeking thief. You need to gather some additional the debt.materials for something you are studying, and 3. Know What to Do: You can act immediately, even if its not your turn. If something of note happens in your informers location, Free level of Effort, they will use whatever means they have page 103 available to tell you whats happened. prized by others. target for at least a round, you gain a sense Improved Community Leader: A community of how its mind works, which you can use against it in the most blunt fashion continues to modify its effective rank by +1 possible. Enabler. Though such newly founded settlement. They took you accident (or doesn't haveneeded to get done. you can ask around about creature offers a convincing defense to those any topic you choose and come away with As time goes on, an whove heard your label), the friends social useful information. These qualities have with someone knowledgeable one day so thatalways been strong enough that you could rely they can help you. You heard rumors that the other PCs were You gain the following benefits: doing something interesting or profitable. to aid themselves, if they can find the plans to do so. DOWNLOAD NOW . 17 Before they died, your parent was a respected member of the Order of Truth. Inability: Being so concerned with how those Non-Resilient: If you havent had time to around you are performing their tasks makesstudy something, you have a hard time taking you vulnerable to anything that attacks youraction and moving forward. Action something that the target might normally to prepare; action to initiate. Shes in the ruins of the prior worlds, Wrights can smart and charismatic, somewhat graceful, but decipher them and, using special components not particularly tough. Open-ended gameplay with a strong narrative. But a Wright can be a vital part of anycommunity, especially one that has specialneeds that cant be met any other way. Theres a world 4 units of responsive synth. That's a big change, but it's important to remember that all of the stuff that you love in the original Numenera book is still covered in one place: Numenera Discovery, the subject of this review (Destiny will be covered in the future). your adaptability, but others dont see it as a Resilient: Youre trained in all actions that positive trait and instead see you as someone involve overcoming or ignoring the effects The descriptors provided here have been selected with an eye toward how well they might pair with the thrust of Numenera Destiny and its emphasis on leadership, creating a legacy, improving the future, and building objects of special wonder and usefulness.40CHARACTER DESCRIPTORof deprivation, sorrow, or pain. 12 You have traveled extensively, and during that time, you accumulated quite a collection of strange souvenirs. Something in your background has put you in this position and is at least partially responsible for your talents. your abilities. Enabler. are relying on your influence. Arkai often come to Wrights asking forthe creation of particular structures orinstallations. ends, the crowd disperses and individuals go on about their business. or horde so well that you can effectively Raise a Champion (7 Intellect points): take on two tasks simultaneously, whether While in an allied community or horde, theyre regular actions or community you can spend a minute rousing the tasks. spearhead armies, cities, or even entire regions, creation, community building, and moving because their abilities surpass those who are into the future. Thats defenses are hindered. They are our future. It ends if you leave, but it resumes if you return to the alliesCHARACTER TYPE company within 28 hours. You can redirect the energy Always Tinkering, page 22 for which you have plans). Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From Failure Has Its Consequence: Sometimes the following list of options, choose how youconfidence leads to overconfidence and a became involved in the first adventure.stark realization of failure. Theres far more to the numenera than devices into your body, which is another route competent, and betterone person can ever know, but that doesnt to advancement. As you completed another mission with able to discern degrees of difference wheregreat success, you overheard the other PCs others see, hear, or taste the same thing. Nanos are viewed familiar with creatingIts the noun of the sentence I am an adjective with suspicion and fear because what they do Numenera characters,noun who verbs. is unknown, but anyone can tell someone else you'll find the necessary what to do. Numenera is the latest creation of one of the biggest names in roleplaying games, award-winning designer and fan-favorite Monte Cook. Some of that iotum): If you have at least 1 unit of iotum, growth was Calistina's you can fashion a temporary device that continues to gain +3 to infrastructure due to doing. Even then, the follower can helpwith attacks and defense only if they have a An imaginative architect whose works bothmodification for that kind of task. A scrounger. They can rule effectively, because they know how other creatures think. The asset doesnt apply to one day, found yourself. The overviewArkus, Wright, and Delve presented in this kind of disaster. 20 You were trained by a master wright who left the world in a magnificent starcraft they built.MECHANICAL INDOCTRINATION You werent taught how to craft things Dread destroyer,The Prophecy was clear. 3 One of your parents was a minor official, with access to many privileges and much information. Action to initiate, cancel each other out. Maybe the range is understanding numenera, engineering, page 301 twice as long, the duration is 100% longer, or woodcrafting, armoring, weaponsmithing, the effect itself is 50% stronger. already have to level 3 and then gain a new Followers, page 17 level 2 follower. You later reappeared with no memory of what had happened and a star-shaped scar on your left temple. Like this book? This could be medium ranged, heavy bashing, heavy a weapon or device held by someone, a bladed, or heavy ranged. Action to prepare; action to initiate. by a pressure plate. Each additional level of Effort you reinforce a layer of tightly wrapped clothing apply increases the maximum level of the inability and training or encompassing cloaks that you wear. follower as a long-term such as crafting numenera. In addition, Anecdote (2 Intellect points): You can lift the page 27you are trained in another interaction skill in which spirits of a group of creatures and help themyou are not already trained. Inspired Techniques: Choose one of the Interaction Skills: You are trained in two following inspired techniques (or an inspired Assessed difficulty, skills in which you are not already trained. the world, and mastered form and essence. you dont back away, but instead, you jump in and try your best. You can keep track of Calm Stranger (2+ Intellect points): You can your training in defense cause one intelligent creature to remain Skill With Defense: Choose one type of calm as you speak. Here are a few examples of how torather than helping the PC, they act like a describe a follower, depending on their mix ofnormal NPC that has modifications. wearing armor. Heroic Guise: You hold yourself in a way that inspires others. Youre normal experience. Skill: Youre trained in persuasion. 2. In addition, while the crowd COMMUNITY-DEPENDENT is around you, you can use an action to ABILITIES The mere existence of exhort them to attack all enemies within an understood course short range, dealing 1 point of damage to Some Arkus abilities rely on the character of actiona strategy each creature and object in the area. For his first inspired technique, over the next hill. You dont know if Qi, page 144sword from the void and blast everyone and the motivations of your captors/doctors/ Convergence, page 216everything to drit. They can found settlements, grow communities, This is what most Delves seek, though of course and safeguard the towns they foster by discovering they wont ignore the cyphers and artifacts so valuable resources left behind by the ancients. Action. You and each of your allies of your lower-tier inspired techniques with aCHARACTER TYPEdifferent inspired technique from the same your Might Edge, Speed Edge, and Intellect Recovery roll, page 111lower tier. Once fashioned, theGM may provide you with starting cyphers adapted iotum lasts for about a minute or Travel bubble, page 185and an oddity. You can choose thisyou start with 12 of that type of ammunition. If the target least a round, you can attempt to restore is a PC, they move down one step on the points to the targets Might Pool or Speed damage track. If affected, the device is destroyed or disabled for at least one minute, depending on its size and complexity. the following list of options, choose how you became involved in the first adventure. Debilitated, impaired: Not Dead Yet: When you would normally be DELVE EXAMPLE see damage track, dead, you instead fall unconscious for one page 110 round and then awaken. Community actions, to your repertoire. If you give it to anyone actual iotum and parts. It remains calm as long trained in defense tasks of that type. Followers cannot help BREATHING LIFE INTO FOLLOWERSwith tasks that they dont have modificationsfor; for the purpose of helping, treat the The modifications provided by followers couldfollower as if they had inabilities in all non- come across as fairly dry and mechanical. You were end result is that building things is as naturalschooled, drilled, and cypher-fed all manner for you as breathing. Enabler. You ask a lot of questions, and youre generous and kind to those who deserve it (in fact, youre often willing to give latitude to people who others would have given up on). If a player has no XP to spend,important for anyone exploring or establishing they cant use a player intrusion.new communities in the Ninth World. being committed is a personality trait for you, and once you decide to do something, you CIVIC throw yourself into it with a vengeance. For each general question about that general area, additional level of Effort you apply, you can such as Are there enemies trying to sneak reduce the number by an additional unit, over the wall? or Is someone watching to a minimum of 1 unit. ARKUS PLAYER INTRUSIONS10 Whatever the case, youre the result of ancient knowledge made manifest in the When playing a Arkus, you can spend 1 XP present, and now youre shaping the future. Action. Enabler. If you succeed at raising a Darcy chooses Serene for her descriptor, horde, its level is equal to the rank of the as a way to both increase her Intellect Pool community it comes from, and the horde which increases to 17and provide training in remains cohesive for up to three days or until Intellect defense tasks.

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