It tries to be The Book of the New Sun but fails miserably, with only the cyphers being in any way interesting. The system is Ivory Tower Design that clearly favors Nanos (mages) over Glaives (warriors) or Jacks (rogues/jack of all trades) and has an awful death spiral. The setting is just a generic fantasy world with "Evil Lich" replaced by "Evil TECHNO-Lich Lord, lol" and "Nanites, son" like some kind of bad find-and-replace job in a word processor.
Better games: >Ultraviolet Grasslands - nails the Moebius/Dying Earth feel, not much of a rules system but the fluff is great >GURPS Book of the New Sun if you want genre fidelity >DCC Purple Planet for that gonzo far-future post-apoc feel
Plus pic related, designer is a flaming woke anti-white SJW who demands only blacks on his book covers. Nuff said.
You are so fragile that it's genuinely pathetic. I feel bad for you and everything that must have gone wrong for you to become like this. You barely even have human emotions, and you definitely have no human reasoning left.
What do you homosexuals constantly post this stupid shit? You do know peer pressure doesn't really work on people who aren't part of your moronic cult, right? We don't respect you OR want your approval, so this type of gaslighting rhetoric just makes us despise you and all the things associated with you even more. And while I'm not the guy you're replying to, I know a ton of folks who hate you from all over the globe and my very racially diverse friend group would all be turned off by D&D: Black folk In Space edition.
What do you homosexuals constantly post this stupid shit? You do know peer pressure doesn't really work on people who aren't part of your moronic cult, right? We don't respect you OR want your approval, so this type of gaslighting rhetoric just makes us despise you and all the things associated with you even more. And while I'm not the guy you're replying to, I know a ton of folks who hate you from all over the globe and my very racially diverse friend group would all be turned off by D&D: Black folk In Space edition.
said.
Your pathetic leftist attempts at trying to shame people into compliance with your delusions, on Ganker of all places, is laughable.
>Plus pic related, designer is a flaming woke anti-white SJW who demands only blacks on his book covers. Nuff said.
Are you saying pic related if from the designer?
The system made a better video game than it did a TTRPG, and it was just sort of fine as a video game. This guy sucks at understanding games and has spent a career being rewarded for mediocrity and being as loudly annoying as possible.
Only good thing is the setting, I like the idea of there being an unfathomably long history of dead cultures upon dead cultures. And of course it's never really explored in any way, it only serves as the excuse for the "nanomachines, son".
No, it's not good. Monte Cook blew all of his best design ideas on D&D 3e and he couldn't even make that work. The Numenera core book got passed around my gaming group when it first came out. No one wanted to run it and eventually it got donated to the local LGS with a bunch of other half-baked shit we never used.
Cypher system is a poorly designed system stuffed full of great ideas.
Numenera is a pretty cool setting, but playing with the really mundane cypher core gameplay is pretty boring.
There's something to be said for the Stat Pool system, where stats are each both their own kinds of resource and a health pool you don't want to hit 0. I am really not into it but it is a fairly elegant way to produce a feel and style of play.
I hate d20 vs a target number. I just can't do it anymore and the base system of the difficulty in multiples of three or whatever is training wheels on something I already don't like.
The 'name is a verb who nouns' system has the seed of something really cool in it, but to realise that potential the creative cohesion between the permutation of choices really needs to be more meaningful. From memory, it is more like 'name is a (minor stat modification) who (major ability/class selection)
The top tier abilities of the wizards involves selecting between things like teleportation and moving mounts. The fighter's top tier ability is that they can punch and kick at the same time.
Ran it long, long ago for people who didn't tabletop and it went fine, but it's not for me.
setting is fun with Octopi kinda peeved that some humans came back to Earth since our last frick around. But a lot is just edgy techno reskins of DnD monsters.
system is kinda fricky because it's a constant vending machine of items to do things, with 1 class really good at using items and the other 2 not so much.
No
Why? And recommend alternatives. I love me some science fantasy
Because it's a bad 3.X reskin
>some science fantasy
The setting is just regular kitchen sink fantasy with weird names.
It tries to be The Book of the New Sun but fails miserably, with only the cyphers being in any way interesting. The system is Ivory Tower Design that clearly favors Nanos (mages) over Glaives (warriors) or Jacks (rogues/jack of all trades) and has an awful death spiral. The setting is just a generic fantasy world with "Evil Lich" replaced by "Evil TECHNO-Lich Lord, lol" and "Nanites, son" like some kind of bad find-and-replace job in a word processor.
Better games:
>Ultraviolet Grasslands - nails the Moebius/Dying Earth feel, not much of a rules system but the fluff is great
>GURPS Book of the New Sun if you want genre fidelity
>DCC Purple Planet for that gonzo far-future post-apoc feel
Plus pic related, designer is a flaming woke anti-white SJW who demands only blacks on his book covers. Nuff said.
>woke anti-white SJW
what counts as anti white to you
You are so fragile that it's genuinely pathetic. I feel bad for you and everything that must have gone wrong for you to become like this. You barely even have human emotions, and you definitely have no human reasoning left.
What do you homosexuals constantly post this stupid shit? You do know peer pressure doesn't really work on people who aren't part of your moronic cult, right? We don't respect you OR want your approval, so this type of gaslighting rhetoric just makes us despise you and all the things associated with you even more. And while I'm not the guy you're replying to, I know a ton of folks who hate you from all over the globe and my very racially diverse friend group would all be turned off by D&D: Black folk In Space edition.
listen to what this guy
said.
Your pathetic leftist attempts at trying to shame people into compliance with your delusions, on Ganker of all places, is laughable.
>Plus pic related, designer is a flaming woke anti-white SJW who demands only blacks on his book covers. Nuff said.
Are you saying pic related if from the designer?
check out the Dying Earth collection from DCC
ultraviolet grassland
DEI cuckshit trash
System? Yes with some flaws.
Setting? Fricking no
Cypher System? Pic is the improvement.
The system made a better video game than it did a TTRPG, and it was just sort of fine as a video game. This guy sucks at understanding games and has spent a career being rewarded for mediocrity and being as loudly annoying as possible.
Only good thing is the setting, I like the idea of there being an unfathomably long history of dead cultures upon dead cultures. And of course it's never really explored in any way, it only serves as the excuse for the "nanomachines, son".
So Worlds Without Number is basically OSR-ish Numenera?
No, it's not good. Monte Cook blew all of his best design ideas on D&D 3e and he couldn't even make that work. The Numenera core book got passed around my gaming group when it first came out. No one wanted to run it and eventually it got donated to the local LGS with a bunch of other half-baked shit we never used.
Cypher system is a poorly designed system stuffed full of great ideas.
Numenera is a pretty cool setting, but playing with the really mundane cypher core gameplay is pretty boring.
There's something to be said for the Stat Pool system, where stats are each both their own kinds of resource and a health pool you don't want to hit 0. I am really not into it but it is a fairly elegant way to produce a feel and style of play.
I hate d20 vs a target number. I just can't do it anymore and the base system of the difficulty in multiples of three or whatever is training wheels on something I already don't like.
The 'name is a verb who nouns' system has the seed of something really cool in it, but to realise that potential the creative cohesion between the permutation of choices really needs to be more meaningful. From memory, it is more like 'name is a (minor stat modification) who (major ability/class selection)
The top tier abilities of the wizards involves selecting between things like teleportation and moving mounts. The fighter's top tier ability is that they can punch and kick at the same time.
Ran it long, long ago for people who didn't tabletop and it went fine, but it's not for me.
It's a barebones system for an uninteresting setting. And it still manages to fellate mages just as hard as Cook's previous work.
setting is fun with Octopi kinda peeved that some humans came back to Earth since our last frick around. But a lot is just edgy techno reskins of DnD monsters.
system is kinda fricky because it's a constant vending machine of items to do things, with 1 class really good at using items and the other 2 not so much.