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It's the Last week for Numenera: The Amber Archive!

With a new edition of Cypher in progress and Numenera in its last week of crowd funding, we’re looking at innovating and improving all aspects of Cypher play!

Kate Evans

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It's the Last week for Numenera: The Amber Archive!
Graphic showing mock ups of the new books for the final week of crowdfunding Numenera
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Solo Play Unlocked!

You’ve uncovered a powerful artifact—a mechanical companion—that lets you travel the Ninth World (even if it is a bit, well… erratic). Gather necessary bits of numenera to keep yourself and your companion alive, all while exploring new places, fighting fierce creatures, and dealing with dangerous (or helpful) NPCs. And do it all by yourself. Iadace, You Beast is a solo RPG for Numenera—the first of its kind!

Illustration of the Numenera Solo Game showing cards, instructions and a mock up on the box
Illustration of the Numenera Solo Game showing cards, instructions and a mock up on the box

“For the past few years, I've been playing a ton of solo RPGs and I really fell in love with the format. So, I started imagining what it would be like to have a game set in the Ninth World. A solo RPG seems so right for Numenera--this feeling of exploring alone and finding new discoveries and dangers around every corner. While you'll recognize a lot of the mechanics from Cypher, they'll be streamlined into this specific experience of moving through the world at the whim? confusion? error-code? of your companion and trying to keep them and yourself alive. And you'll be able to replay it multiple times with a different character and companion for an entirely unique experience each time”.
Shanna Germain MCG co-owner and co-creator of Numenera.

BACK NUMENERA NOW!

This game is stand-alone and comes with everything you need (except dice), but can also be used with existing Cypher and Numenera supplementsfor a broader experience. It includes easy Cypher-based rules for solo play, character sheets, locations, creatures, numenera, a unique set of Calaval’s Eyes! cards, and more.

Explore solo play with your current Numenera character or create a new character to traverse the Ninth World. You can even invite players from your existing game to join you for a session or two!

Pilgrims, outlined in neon lit robes, brave the wind swept peaks to visit an ancient shrine of their multi-limbed deity
Pilgrims, outlined in neon lit robes, brave the wind swept peaks to visit an ancient shrine of their multi-limbed deity

The Data Sphere Deck

With a new edition of Cypher in progress and Numenera in its last week of crowd funding, we’re looking at innovating and improving all aspects of Cypher play! The Datasphere Deck Tool will be a great new feature for all your Cypher decks—not just Numenera. The Datasphere Deck makes online play easier, plus also allows a better and more useful way of delivering cards than as PDFs.

An explorer pauses her climb down a filament rope to view the tower structures and the crocodile style creature half submerged in the waters below.
An explorer pauses her climb down a filament rope to view the tower structures and the crocodile style creature half submerged in the waters below.

A Huge Library of PDFs

There’s a huge library of free PDFs —45 titles totalling over 4500 pages available as part of the Numenera campaign.

New Creatures!

There are scores of new creatures that are 100% compatible with your Cypher game in Beasts of the Amber Archive.

Adventurers explore a honeycombed structure, splashing through a stream as sun shines in from the holes in the ceiling above them

Don’t Miss Out!

Now is the time to explore all the new material we're bringing to the storied Ninth World setting of Numenera.

The campaign closes this week. Don't miss out on great deals and another amazingly exciting campaign! Check out Numenera before it’s over.

Header: Welcome to the Ninth World. Body copy: For a billion years, this Earth has spun through the cold reaches of space. All that its peoples have been, are, and will be has reached its unfathomable zenith—not just once, but eight full times. Each civilization spanned countless millennia, rising from the depths of evolution to heights beyond imagining, to ultimately scatter to worlds beyond, transcend to godhood, or pass into some other fate beyond imagining. As they rose and fell, the prior worlds spoke to the stars, bent time, and mastered form and essence. There is no creature on this planet that hasn’t been touched by their reshaping; no inch of its surface that hasn’t been reengineered, time and again, 100 miles deep or more. Even the moon—the planets—the sun itself—have been subject to their craft. But now they are gone. This ancient Earth is the legacy they've left us. Our world. The Ninth World. We toil among the remnants of the prior worlds—some that might nest within your palm; others the scale of entire nations. How did these works serve them? What were they for? Alas, in this dark age, they are as magic. As incomprehensible as they are mysterious—and often as deadly. But where they remember some germ of their function, these remnants offer unfathomable power. Those with the courage, wit, and ambition to explore and master them call these works of the prior worlds the… Numenera. Art shows the Amber Monolith as well as a cool building, plus the Numenera logo over the Order of Truth symbol. STRETCH GOALS UNLOCKED: 1250 backers: Numenera Expansion: Numenera grows in size! 1800 Backers: New book—Tales from the Amber Archive. A bunch of all-new adventures spanning the Ninth World! 2150 Backers: Explorer's Pack Upgrade. The Ninth World Explorer's Pack gets even bigger! 2350 Calaval's Eyes! Upgrade. The Calaval’s Eyes! Deck gets a production upgrade with premium features. 2500: New Cypher Deck. 100 cyphers in an all-new deck! 2600: Book Upgrade. Premium upgrades for your copy of Numenera. 2725: More Beasts! Beasts of the Amber Archive gets even bigger. 2825: Solo Play! Explore the Ninth World on your own with Iadace, You Beast, a standalone solo RPG. 2925: Cypher Dust Jacket! A double-sided dust jacket to give your Cypher Character Rulebook a Numenera vibe. 3050: Character Portfolios! Do your characters justice with a pack of five really cool character portfolios! LOCKED: 3200 BACKERS: CATECHISM EXPANDS! The mysteries of the Amber Pope deepen as we add more adventure to the campaign-length The Catechism of Lore—a perfect starting point for your adventures in the Ninth World!
Graphic showing all the unlocked stretch goals for the Numenera crowdfunder

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