@foolishowl @futurebird @mhoye @darius

In #Numenera there are the (optional) five Tides. Characters fluidly change "attunement" to them based on their actions. The definition of each Tide is by design complex and polysemous. Tidal affinity can not only be the character's "alignment" but can have influence on them, their party and their circumstances.

Incidentally, this mechanic was added to the TTRPG after the developers of Torment: Tides of Numenera invented it to have some kind of alignment system in the video game - one that was a better fit for the setting's philosophy.

@zenbeater I totally agree. I’m really happy with Destiny and Discovery but, to be honest, I don’t get to run or play Numenera as much as I’d like to... so, let's wait and see. You mentioned that Numenera’s mechanics have felt stale for a while—I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on that.

#rpg #ttrpg #numenera #cypher

@zenbeater I haven’t backed it either. To be honest, I think the same, I love the idea of Numenera being “its own thing”. I have several Numenera books and I the first and second editions, so… it doesn’t make sense to me to back only the “campaign scenario”.

But I won’t lie to you, I’ll wait and see what happens, the reception and everything. Perhaps it can be a totally different product, maybe we’ll get some improvements, dunno.

#rpg #ttrpg #numenera

@HeyeBodo

I've only heard of DnD, and didn't realise there was more to TTRPGs. For a long time, it was a distant fascination to me. Then, during a school trip to the mountains, I was invited into one of the rooms. I only observed an existing group fighting a troll in a dungeon. I remember that one of the characters threw a piece of pie at it, which was part of the loot they found. The troll caught it mid-air with its mouth and became god-like. I thought to myself that the dungeon master was not good at all, which was weird since I had nothing to compare them to.

A few years later the first #Numenera echoed through my bubbles. I managed to get it from the seven seas and immediately understood the richness of TTRPGs beyond the mainstream. I fell in love with such games there and then.

It was again years before I got a chance to be part of a DnD group, and again years before I was a game master of Numenera (of which I now own most of the books). My first adventure involved the tumourous beasties that plagued a small town after people were deconstructed for skills, and an epic NPC called Nex, whose masks kept changing to symbolically amplify his communication.

Recently I also dip into other fun stuff, such as Mausritter, Wanderhome, Fall of Magic, etc. I really enjoy leaning heavily into everyone's imagination at the table and just going weird with it, with the welcome challenge being keeping it coherent. Now I'm eyeing Sig Manual of the Primes, and exploring Amber Diceless and Nephilim, which reward exactly that kind of imaginative commitment.

I'm also experimenting and creating my own games at my secret hideout, but this is easier said than done.