
Posted on August 4, 2020
It’s been a while…
by Desfaber
Normally I’d have littered this blog with all of my gushing excitement over the next game I was about to run: and believe me, my excitement for Legend of The Five Rings is still torrential. But this whole… Read More
Category: Boardgames, Numenera, PC Games, Roleplaying Games Tags: Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, Jeff Goldblum, L5R, MOTW, Paranoia
Posted on February 7, 2020
Numenera 2: Out into the world.
by Desfaber
Scene: The handsome man grabs the oversized metallic hand before the knife fingers can slash his throat. With a twist of his hips and a powerful yank, the arm detaches from the cybernetic humanoid who reels back in… Read More
Category: Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: Numenera, recap
Posted on December 9, 2019
Numenera 2: Art Inspiration
by Desfaber
Bryce wanted me to check to see if the website migration had worked, so rather than get stuck into a recap that may never materialize, I thought I’d post a few links to art stuff that I’d been… Read More
Category: Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: art, Numenera
Posted on November 19, 2019
Numenera 2: Meet the Crew
by Desfaber
The character creation process in Numenera (both iterations) does a great job of providing prompts for character motivation and connections. In the last campaign most people picked those up and ran with them, while Bryce didn’t care too… Read More
Category: Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: Numenera
Posted on November 5, 2019
Numenera 2: The Quiet Year of Lone Makhtesh
by Desfaber
Before The Bright Ones came, the people of your community struggle to remember that they lived very different lives. They had their own communities, their own families and friends. They had their own trades and professions, religions and… Read More
Category: Dodecaheathen Laboratories, Numenera, Roleplaying Games, Story Games Tags: Numenera, Story Games, The Quiet Year
Posted on August 22, 2019
Liminal Shores
by Desfaber
I just don’t know. When I was alerted that there was another Monte Cook Games Kickstarter I a) was excited and b) groaned, because I can’t keep buying all these fucking awesome games. With Numenera 2 (2menera) Kickstarted… Read More
Category: News, Numenera, Roleplaying Games
Posted on November 12, 2018
Cypher System Deadlands: Homebrew progress 2
by Desfaber
So after hammering out Fightin’ Sort, Spinner and Drifter as Character Types, I came up with a simple equipment list, thought about bullets, and fleshed out the Stealth Flavour and the Weird Science Flavour.
Category: Dodecaheathen Laboratories, from the grave, Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: Deadlands, rules
Posted on October 20, 2018
Time to hit the ol’ dusty trail?
by Desfaber
An entirely idle thought crossed my mind the other day: GURPS tried to be a universal RPG system by piling on the rules, just so much customization, while the Cypher system might have a better chance of being… Read More
Category: from the grave, Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: Cypher System, Deadlands, Numenera, Weird West
Posted on September 24, 2018
Numenera 22 – um, some other numbers.
by Desfaber
We got pretty much through Weird Discoveries, the 10 instant adventure supplement for Numenera. They’re planning on doing one for Numenera 2 and I’m psyched for that because they are really minimal set-up adventures that are generic enough… Read More
Posted on June 1, 2018
Numenera 17 – 21?
by Desfaber
Now that I am released from the tyrannical grip of the excellent Pillars of Eternity II, (STRONG RECOMMEND), I finally have time to update. Major spoilers for the Into The Obelisk scenario from Weird Discoveries – there’s really… Read More
Category: Numenera, Roleplaying Games Tags: Numenera, recap