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Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour’s Guide to the Numenera Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $14.99 (PDF) Page Count: 162 Release Date: 08/12/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Although Monte Cook Games has been very busy with the release of their newest game, The Strange, they haven’t neglected their original release, the multi award-winning Numenera. Their latest release,…

Numenera: Beyond All Worlds Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $3.99 Page Count: 22 Release Date: 05/29/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Beyond All Worlds is the first published adventure for Numenera in roughly seven months. I’ll admit, as innovative, creative and fun as Numenera, adventures seem to be the system’s Achilles heel. Vortex was fine for…

Numenera: Character Options Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $9.99 Page Count: 98 Release Date: 05/21/2014 Get it here: DriveThruRPG.com Numenera: Character Options opens with an unusual question: “Can character creation be fun?” I was taken aback by that because honestly, character creation is one of my favorite parts of playing a tabletop RPG. If the…

Ninth World Assassins Publisher: Knowledge of the Ninth Page Count: 103 + Special (See Below) Cost: $5.00 Release Date: 04/03/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com I’m always a little worried with licensed third party releases on the tabletop market. Some companies tend to have really good product control of third party releases, like Chaosium. Others tend…

Taking the Narrative By the Tail: GM Intrusions & Special Effects (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost. Ninety-Nine Cents Page Count: 7 Release Date: 04/28/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Taking the Narrative is the latest in a line of short supplements for Numenera by Monte Cook Games The PDF page count clocks in at seven…

Injecting the Weird (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $4.99 Page Count: 22 Release Date: 03/26/2014 Get it Here: Drivethrurpg.com From the title, I assumed that Injecting the Weird would actually be a crossover of sorts with Monte Cook Games’ upcoming release The Strange, similar to how In Strange Aeons was a guide on how…

The Ninth World Bestiary (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $14.99 (PDF)/$29.99 (Physical) Page Count: 162 Release Date: 01/29/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com When I was a kid, my favorite part about Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition wasn’t actually playing it, but the Monstrous Compendiums. I had several three ring binders crammed full with…

Numenera Creature Deck Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $7.99 (PDF)/$19.99 (Physical) Page Count: N/A (It’s cards) Release Date: 01/29/2014 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com The Numenera Creature Deck consists of 100 foes, monsters and potential antagonists from the Numenera Core Rulebook and The Ninth World Bestiary. I’ve already reviewed the core rulebook and my review of…

Artifacts and Oddities Collection I (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 10 Release Date: 12/23/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Similar to the Cipher Collection I,

Cypher Collection I (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 10 Release Date: 12/2/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Sometimes a review practically writes itself, like when you cover a set of random tables, a name generator or a supplemental full of some specific type of equipment like guns or cyberware. Such is the…

The Devil’s Spine (Numenera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Page Count: 98 Cost: $24.99 ($15.95 at Amazon for the Physical, $9.99 at DriveThruRPG for the PDF) Release Date: 10/23/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com The Devil’s Spine is the first adventure collection released for Numenera which was released earlier this year. I’ve been a huge fan of…

In Strange Aeons: Lovecraftian Numenera Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $2.99 Page Count: 12 Release Date: 10/28/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com What a great piece to talk about on Halloween, eh? In Strange Aeons merges my favorite game of 2013, Numenera, with my favorite game of all time, Call of Cthulhu. Of course, depending on…

Vortex (Numnera) Publisher: Monte Cook Games Cost: $5.99 Page Count: 30 Release Date: 09/04/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com Vortex was the Numenera adventure that people could peruse and play through at GenCon 2013 this year. Monte Cook Games has since made it available as an electronic download for those that could not attend, which is…

Numenera Publisher: Monte Cook Games Page Count: 418 Cost: $59.99 (Physical)/$19.99 (PDF) Release Date: 8/14/2013 Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.com As seems to be the growing case with all major tabletop RPG releases, Numenera began life as a Kickstarter campaign, convincing 4,658 people to donate $517,255 to its creation. Then seven months later, the Numenra brand…