Numenera Books

My Favorite Books

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The Glimmering Valley

This book presents a fantastic starting point for any new players with a short area and campaign to get started. One of the best illustrated books in the serries.

Explorer’s Keys

This book of short adventures uses a great system of “Keys” or movable story points to allow for quick set-up and running of adventures. The adventrues in this book are excellent.

The Devil’s Spine

This campaign length adventure is great adventure that takes you to various places in Steadfast.

Core Books

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  1. Numenera Discovery (Basic Rules - How to play the game)
  2. Numenera Destiny (Advanced Rules - How to build communities)

For Players:

  1. Numenera Player’s Guide (Basic Character Creation Rules)
  2. Combine with the free Cypher Rules Primer for a good player starter.

Rest of the Books

Free Content:

There is also a ton of free content I recommend getting:

  1. Cypher Rules Primer
  2. Numenera Free Legacy Content (contains adventure Beal of Boregal) also at drive thru
  3. Ashes of the Sea free adventure with quick start rules.

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Bestiaries and Compendiums

Technology Compendium (Cyphers)

Ninth World Bestiary 1
Ninth World Bestiary 2
Ninth World Bestiary 3

Adventures

  1. The Devil’s Spine (excellent)
  2. Jade Colossus (have not read)
  3. Slaves of the Machine God (little convoluted)
  4. Where the Machines Wait (5E compatible)

Source books

Numenera Character Options 2 (More options for Character Types, Foci and Descriptors)
Ninth World Guidebook (Gazetteer: Expands Core book map)
Torment: Tides of Numenera – The Explorer’s Guide (Garravia, the land of Torment)

Building Tomorrow (Communities) Priests of the Aeons (Numenera-focused Institution)
Into the Outside (Extra Dimensions)
Into the Deep (The Deep Ocean)
Into the Night (Outer Space)
Voices of the Datasphere (Cyber-Space)
Edge of the Sun (Sci-fi Space - machine bordering the Sun)
Liminal Shore (Biological World)
Break the Horizon (Travel, Vehicles and Mounts)
Building Tomorrow (Crafting and Community Resources)
The Glimmering Valley (Secret Valley: Great Starting point!)