I have a limited connection and an uncomfortable setup today
as I am broadcasting like from Rainbow Babies & Children in beautiful
downtown Cleveland today. As such, I’m not sure how far into my planned blog
posts I will make it, but I thought I would jot down some quick thoughts.
I was talking about the many different options for Numenera
characters with +Jonathan Henry last night. Jokingly, I made a comment about a
Nano with Tony Stark’s armor, a Glaive who makes a discovery not unlike that of one Dr. Bruce Banner, or a Jack with
mental and illusionary powers that is the last of a dying race of Martians from
another dimension. Hahaha. We both laughed. Then, there was that moment of
silence. You know the one I am talking about. It is the predecessor to the
moment of dawning. Our faces became stern. Then we laughed again.
+Monte Cook had done it again. The Numenera RPG has pretty
much exceeded all of our expectations. Just when we think we’ve seen it all or
figured it out, there is a little nugget around the corner waiting to surprise
us. You can absolutely set up the comic book hero or villain as a character in
Numenera. In fact, because of all the stuff that has been worked into both the
rules and the setting material, you can create just about anything and
everything within the bounds of the game. If nothing else, the Academy of Doors
makes that pretty well a trump card to surprise players with at any point in
time.
Rather than starting right off with a bunch of examples of
how pretty much every and any character can be imagined in the world, I
challenge anyone to bring forth something that cannot be done in Numenera.
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