Enabler. The task Skill with Attacks: Choose one type of attack must be difficulty 4 or lower. Whether used by themselves or with the before-explored ruins of the prior worlds and types, descriptors, and foci provided in Discovery, cataloguing them from top to bottom. that also grants an ally SECOND-TIER ARKUS This ability takes about an hour to use. Thats defenses are hindered. EARNEST You always speak from the heart, rarely remembering that dissembling can be useful to smooth over awkward interpersonal situations. You showed up when and where you didoutcomes, but then again, you know that after due consideration and forethought.few events are completely random. You had to choose between living yourARTICULATE tattered life and helping others. Enabler. The Numenera Player's Guide includes: All the basic game rules for this fast-paced, story-based tabletop roleplaying game. Enabler. range ray of force that inflicts 3 points of damage. If a Delve doesnt know where to look, then theyre virtually useless. When you have to learn a new skill, growth. one step. Action. Action. You need Numenera Discovery to play; it includes character generation, all the basic game rules, and detailed information on the Ninth World.TABLE OF CONTENTS 1234A BETTER FUTURE 4 PART 5: CREATURES & CHARACTERS 251 Chapter 21: Using Destiny Creatures and NPCs 252PART 1: NEW CHARACTERS 5 Chapter 22: Creatures 253Chapter 1: Destiny Characters 6 Chapter 23: Nonplayer Characters 283Chapter 2: Character Type 7Chapter 3: Character Descriptor 40 PART 6: GMing COMMUNITIES 287Chapter 4: Character Focus 55 Chapter 24: Tools for Destiny GMs 288PART 2: SALVAGING AND CRAFTING 105 Chapter 25: Founding a Community 289 Chapter 26: Community Stats 297Chapter 5: Building the Ninth World 106 Chapter 27: Community Actions 305 Chapter 28: Laying Out a Community 319Chapter 6: Salvaging 107 Chapter 29: Guiding a Community 324 Chapter 30: Running a Destiny Campaign 341Chapter 7: Crafting 117Chapter 8: Commonplace Objects and Structures 124PART 3: THE NUMENERA 133 PART 7: ADVENTURES 353Chapter 9: Using the Numenera 134 Chapter 31: Adventures Overview 354Chapter 10: Numenera Plans 135 Chapter 32: The Door Beneath the Ocean 355Chapter 11: Cyphers 180 Chapter 33: Trefoil 372Chapter 12: Artifacts 186 Chapter 34: The Red Plague 379 Chapter 35: Terminus 393PART 4: THE SETTING 193Chapter 13: Communities of Destiny 194 PART 8: BACK MATTER 403Chapter 14: Umdera-Follows the Dream Titans 196 Appendix A: Vehicle Movement and Combat 404Chapter 15: Enthait-Moon Meld You 203 Appendix B: Defenders of Ellomyr 406Chapter 16: Rachid-Hears the Catholiths Appendix C: Glossary 407Whispers 210 Appendix D: Destiny Character Sheet 409Chapter 17: Taracal-Sails the Sea of Secrets 217 Appendix E: Community Stat Sheet 411Chapter 18: Delend-Under the Changing Moon 225 Index 413Chapter 19: Starter Communities 230Chapter 20: Organizations 2455 6 78A BETTER FUTURET he genesis of Numenera Destiny really lies with the Numenera Destiny, then, offers that new dimension original Numenera Kickstarter campaign back in to Numenera players in concrete terms. To get more targeted content, please make full-text search by clicking. PDF $19.99 $19.99 Average Rating (23 ratings) This is the full version of Numenera Destiny. Advancement: You must continue to salvage also be open to implanting new, permanent They are simply highlyiotum. In these extreme tier lore. 03 - Bestiary.pdf. FIRST-TIER WRIGHTS you're playing a Wright, Advancement: Youre not sure if you First-tier Wrights have the following abilities. As a first-tier character, called iotum, craft their own cyphers, artifacts, her Effort is 1, her Intellect Edge is 1, and her or installations. you to. On the other hand, a Wright As much as Wrights is usually happy to let others make the hard claim that the province of Wrights are not afraid to explore, especially decisions so they can focus on making crafting numenera itemsbecause the iotum they need to make their interesting things. 17 Before they died, your parent was a respected member of the Order of Truth. Action being located within an allied community improves the confidence to initiate. to be); anyone can decide to broaden their horizons 3. 1. in the Ninth World. They say there have been eight worlds before ours. Character sheet, page 409 You cant choose the same lore more thanFIRST-TIER DELVES once unless its description says otherwise. 3. Thats because true Glaive, page 28working together to overcome problems. of 1 point each round. Streamlined, story-based mechanics. 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). An intuitive, concept-driven character-generation system, with scores of options for . In terms of public CHARACTER your characters place in the world and perception, Arkai are at the opposite end of If you're not alreadyrelationship with other people in the setting. of defense task, even one in which you are inability and training already trained: Might, Speed, or Intellect. Difficulty Craft General Time to Build 0 Something extremely simple, like tying a rope or finding an appropriately sized rock A few minutes at most 1 Torch 5 minutes 2 Spear, simple shelter, furniture 1 hour 3 Bow, door 1 day 4 Sword, chainmail vest 1 to 2 days You convinced one of the other PCs thatthe following list of options, choose how you you had invaluable skills.became involved in the first adventure. Many of their abilities require that they be able Some Arkai claim power by showing their to talk to other creatures. Community stats, Usually, you wake up with anticipation for page 301 what the day will hold. is split up and deducted from all your Might Enabler. You heard that the other PCs were going someplace new and begged to go along. The GM may require a roll whose difficulty is equal to the devices level; however, you gain two assets to any such task, and training in the understanding numenera skill also applies. prized by others. In extreme environments, attack occurs. Delves have a special relationship with the iotum. Learned: Being well read and well educated, you have a wide range of talents. This is the Ninth World. The game master (GM) can use this information to develop adventures and quests that are specific to your character and play a role in your advancement.8CHARACTER TYPEARKUS CONNECTIONRoll a d20 or choose from the list below to determine a specific fact about your background that provides a connection tothe rest of the world. Impressed, they asked youto accompany them on a mission. overcome things that might be impossible for Skill: Youre trained in pleasant social an individual. for any and all contingencies. They act as your secret to attack you, giving you an asset on Speed (or known) informer. Your next non-combat interaction are hindered.action gains an asset. He chooses the Risk-Taking descriptor, which adds +4 to his Speed Pool, gives him training at games of chance, and lets him push his luck to succeed at a difficult task (at the cost of a GM intrusion). Youre fluent, coherent,and, some might even say, silver-tongued,though youd beg to differ. Numenera Destiny is the wholly new add on to the core rules, which is now part of the "core" experience. You just know that volume is due to biomechanical bits implantedyouve always been this way and that, while you in your brain and spine, wired into your nerveslook just like everyone else, youre different. When it Enabler. or the attempt automatically fails. gains it merely because of your past work in the community. This is if you want to inflict 4 points of damage, for difficult or strange things beyond those thats a difficulty 4 task (the training that readily identified by using the numenera comes with this ability eases the task). You Effort, page 23 can keep track of these in the Special AbilitiesFirst-tier Delves have the following abilities. Arkai in Society: People who dont have atalent for leadership or who havent trained Using an intrusion does not require along and hard to lead sometimes discount an character to use an action to trigger it. Once youve sheet in this book. You have an inability one hour studying a region up to a long additional crafting spacewith heavy weapons; your attacks with heavy distance across that you are able to directly provided on the characterweapons are hindered. Numenera Destiny in PDF quantity. Thanks to your earnest nature, a friend has given you an additional expensive item worth up to 10 shins. Action to initiate. Eventually, you hope to develop more plans for building numenera find a plan that will allow you to bring into this objects and structures, they can drastically world something truly amazing so you can reduce the amount of time required to craft honor your caregivers and prove that you were complex objects or structures, and they can take worthy of their work and attention. meet your standards, and you offered to 1. a cragworms venom round. You learned how to read people to ascertain their moods, distinguishCHARACTER TYPEARKUS TIERS Precepts: You have a wide range of abilities Esotery, page 40 that give you an edge over other people. can be salvaged (as determined by the page 110 At lower tiers, Wrights should probably GM), the salvage task gains an asset. Youre always thinking about how youd like to manage time wisely. Even though you didnt know most of thethem. Eight times the people of this Earth, over vast millennia, built their civilizations. 29Arkus, page 7 Sometimes Delves deliver objects or the value a Delve associated with a community messages between distant locations, or they can bring, if the Delve decides to use the provide their expertise on travel routes to community as their base. 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. 18 You know where dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of plan seeds are located, but you havent been able to mount an expedition to locate and secure the cache yet. Your experience has shown that Dedication Brings Rewards: You tend to cooperation generates greater benefits for practice things over and over. You can do this one time, although the ability is renewed each time you make a recovery roll. 13 You once met the Amber Pope in Qi and received a verbal invitation to return one day. You may change your plans based on the situation at hand, but you never really give up. conflicting instructions. As a Community unknown and the thrill of discovery outweighBuilder, he can add +3 to a communitys the risks. Goad (1 Intellect point): You can attempt Default Starting Cyphers and Oddity: Your GM to goad a target into a belligerentandmay provide you with starting cyphers and an probably foolishreaction that requiresoddity. to fire where you direct. taught not to fear things that would make 31 most people weak, sick, or outright dead. Their skills and knowledge give them excellent means to find and salvage iotum and other valuables from otherwise dead ruins. You bought the other PCs a round of drinks, and they welcomed you into their ranks. When the other PCs asked for help, 4. 8 You once promised to help a negotiation with a group of abhumans that turned out badly. Crafting Numenera: Requires XP expenditure for non-common numenera items. depletion roll occurs normally. You dont 11charisma to all who see you for the next hour. Whenever you spend Effort to Intellect. Free level of Effort, page 103 lores (or a lore from a lower tier) to add to In extreme cases, such as crushing gravity your repertoire. technique from a lower tier) to add to your Alternatively, you could choose to advance a level 2 follower you already have to level 3 and then gain a new level 2 follower. 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. 2. Some see it as way? Enabler. a protective formation to keep you safe for Alternatively, you can choose to advance about a minute. Action to page 301You have an inability in crafting numenera and initiate, one hour to complete.understanding numenera. This choice will provide the foundation of your character and give you an idea of how you can improve. Action. Enabler. recovery rolls. Without personal experience player intrusion just happens.Glaive, page 28 Arkai are relatively rare. You were end result is that building things is as naturalschooled, drilled, and cypher-fed all manner for you as breathing. $119.99. it elsewhere. you are aware of what is going on around it (you see and hear as if you were standing Juggernaut (9 Intellect points): You call next to it, no matter how far away you are). Enabler. Help a community defend itself from abhumans or the iron wind. Action to prepare; action to initiate Effort on that task. Discovery, and Destiny. Getting the Word: If you spend an hour amid a large group of people, you can glean general rumors, gossip, or opinions they hold. specialized in attacks using that type of weapon. Friendly NPC: An NPC you dont know, Advancement: Your leadership abilities someone you dont know that well, or are in some ways predicated on keeping the someone you know but who hasnt been enhancements in your body working well and, particularly friendly in the past chooses to when possible, improving them. your stat Pools however you wish.32CHARACTER TYPEDELVE TIERS Choose two of the lores described below. You can wear any kind of attack fills an area too big to escape, etc. you to use higher-level armor. change. You will develop some Player intrusion, page 7 been altered by strange scienceradioactive of your greatest skills and abilities on your treatments of bizarre energies, chemical own. Andyou can use future supplements with the existing Numenera corebook, if you choose to keep using it instead of Numenera Discovery. Youre not afraid to face horrors that make others quaver, especially if it means helping someone who couldnt succeed (or survive) without you. Download these free previews (a total of 42 pages from the books) for a look at the Numenera Discovery and Numenera Destiny. You are to being industrioustrained in tasks involving perception and Youre rarely satisfied with the status quo. They are our future. But you Advancement: Learning new things helps how to put it together.survived and learned yet more in the process. Actionautomatically understand that you are someone to initiate, ten minutes to complete.important, accomplished, and with authority.When you speak, strangers that are not already Connection With an Organization: You haveattacking give you at least a round to have your a general connection with an importantsay. 15 As an orphan, you had a difficult childhood, and your entry into adulthood was challenging. circuits instead of wooden blocks, and your This means youre always looking for others earliest drawings were schematics for toys you like you, people with whom you can share wanted to build. is not attacked or otherwise threatened. is used to create the Starting Equipment: You start with clothing, temperamental cypher. When you make a recovery roll in this community, you Followers, page 17 Boost Cypher Function (4 Intellect points): recover twice as many points. you spend five minutes or so thoroughly locating new trade routes, knowing about exploring an area no larger than a short conditions just beyond the community, and Using Foil Danger to distance in diameter, you can ask the GM detecting sneak attacks by enemies. attack, you are safe. You dont know who or what has been responsible for providing them. first-tier precept. Wrights are the rarest of the already rare theme and be a Wright who Builds Tomorrow page 77 numenera scholars; they arent afraid of weird or a Delve who Explores Yesterday. Action to initiate, one minute or one from your Intellect Pool, you can spend hour to complete. do depends on the PCs type, and it usually introduces a change to the world or current Arkai are usually quite intelligent, but circumstances rather than directly changingbeing able to survive physical challenges is the character. 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. During this crafting work in the community. because youve taken the gifts you were born with and pushed them to the next level.CHARACTER TYPEWRIGHT CONNECTIONRoll a d20 or choose from the list below to determine a specific fact about your background that provides a connection tothe rest of the world. Charles M. Ryan has written or contributed to titles in nearly every class of tabletop gameboard games, card games, trading card games, miniature games, and roleplaying gamesover a 25-year career in the game industry. Initial Link to the Starting Adventure: From the following list of options, choose how you became involved in the first adventure. Enabler. But you press on anyway, hoping and become more skilled and powerful, they for a breakthrough. If you leave the You can ask the GM one question and Follower, page 17 allies company for more than 28 hours, get a general answer. 1. already-friendly NPC suggests a course of Perhaps the Aeon Priests can help. Thats a finder. If the spends points from their Pool during the suggestion is something that is outside of ongoing healing, the healing ends. Skill: You are trained in tasks related to 2. Check Numenera: Destiny from ozgunuslu93 here. Skills: You are trained in salvaging familiarized yourself with an area, all yournumenera. Related products. The difficulty of this task is equal to the modified higher level of the artifact. 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. He puts 3 of his Recovery roll, page 111 Pools, and you are treated as if debilitated additional points into his Might Pool and 3 Explores Dark Places, (if you also have Delve's Fortitude, you into his Intellect Pool; his stat Pools are now are only impaired) until you rest for ten Might 12, Speed 9, Intellect 13. On a success, you create your one- Follower: You gain a level 2 follower. Iron wind, page 135numenera is a degree beyond what even most Did you fall into a ruin and wake up this Datasphere, page 355Aeon Priests and Nanos know. 17Arkai make new paths Inspiration (6 Intellect points): You speak An Arkus starts with two cyphers. find it. Goad, page 11 ARKUS EXAMPLE WRIGHT Anecdote, page 11 Darcy wants to create an Arkus. You also gain this choices of those whove gone before her. other PCs. 17 As an envoy working in a distant city, you made friends that you still miss today. Compared help them develop their ideas, turn their goals to the Glaive or Delve, the Arkus isnt nearly into reality, and improve society in a way that as robust. When you are looking for something Trapfinder (3+ Intellect points): You find specific, such as a particular kind of iotum, any traps (like a floor that would give way a chemical needed to complete a vaccine beneath you) or mechanical triggers to a for a disease, a spare part required to repair trap or defense system that might pose a damaged device, the tracks of a specific a threat. The two community actions in the same target must be level 2 or lower. They are not restricted on their modifications. Like Numenera: Destiny? As her skills, arent afraid of weird or incomprehensible she is automatically trained in persuasion, and techthey try to take it apart and learn how to chooses negotiation for her second skillshe make more. This benefit is ongoing while you remain in your allies company. Gaining knowledge of deputies for at least a round, they can act the future is impossible. ability more than once and choose a newBefore choosing your weapon and other gear, organization each time. As a similar actions involving the same task (such as result, you tend to become especially invested making attacks against the same foe or operating in whatever community you live in or, perhaps the same device). Action to prepare; action to initiate. The Long-term tasks, page 324 accuracy of your assessment isnt important Gather Intelligence (2 Intellect points): When as long as you keep up the rhetoric. Enabler. What a player intrusion canconfidence game. On a failure, the if a Wright attempts level 3 cypher is a difficulty 4 crafting task. Weapons: You can use light weapons once unless its description says otherwise. Choose one of those three options described below as the source of your skills, knowledge, and abilities, or create your own background. looking somewhere other than your current Divide and Conquer (7 Intellect points): If location is level 1, and obscure knowledge 15 you brief and prep one of your followers or of the past is level 7. to be able to react quickly, squeeze throughThe descriptor also grants him training in small spaces, and often run away withoutMight defense and an extra light weapon. Youwithout penalty. In order to gain the resources you needidentifying such things ahead of time. 3 One of your parents was a minor official, with access to many privileges and much information. Know What to Do: You can act immediately, even if its not your turn. Longevity isnt as important to ainfrastructure while directly and personally Delve as discovery.seeing to the communitys needs. although the ability is renewed each time you make a ten-hour recovery roll. Action to initiate. Hopefully this disabuses all of us of the idea of pre-ordering a pdf ever again (at least from MCG) - after all, it's not like . However, an Arkus is never too far the Arkus most values. Further, you can use thisduring this period. Numenera - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Action. A new danger arose, but you were people, and youre generally interested in whatprepared and responded with a pre-planned they have to say and what they think aboutcontingency. Once same action for all of them). places, and make a name for yourself! At some point You grew up in service to another Delve from arise in the course ofin your career, you might need to find a mentor whom you learned to train your stamina, mapping a ruin.or another data orb willing to give you answers patience, and love for the weird. Of and muscles. You choose explorer looking out for which is modified during any given community no one else could one dayFIRST-TIER GLAIVE action. DELVE BACKGROUND Lots of people explore, but not all of them are Delves. broken scrap are nearly identical for Delves. Get a great deal on these new corebooks, and well ship them to you ahead of street date, too! Enabler.you might want to wait until after youve chosenyour precepts, descriptor, and focus. You use this not available again until after you make a ability in lieu of making a roll to find the ten-hour recovery roll.
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