Numenera, Short Order Heroes and 2d10

Numenera,

d20 Hate
Well if you follow this blog, you know that I HATE the d20 linear probability. Looking at the rules for Numenera I think I can easily drop the d20 for my favored 2d10. The easy target number 3 with a d20 is a 10% chance of failure(not that easy)...Easy Target number 3 with 2d10 equals a 99% chance of success...a true easy skill check...

Short Order Heroes and Numenera
As Numenera uses 3 stats and Short Order Heroes uses 3 personality cards there's a real easy way to utilize SHO cards in Numenera. 1 card per stat.

Choose your Class
Draw your cards and add the numbers to your stats. Pull three cards, the three cards will have stats from 0 to 7. But only 1 card of 108 is a 0, so most are going to be between 1 and 6.

For Example:
Gullible 1
Enthusiastic 4
Well-armed 4



Add them to your Jack in the order you want
Might 10 + 4 Well-Armed
Speed 10 + 4 Enthusiastic
Intellect 10 + 1 Gullible

Or
Expendable 2
Cute 5
Glum 4

Add them to your Glaive in the order you want
Might 11 + 5 = 16 Cute
Speed 10 + 4 = 14 Glum
Intellect 7 + 2 = 9  Expendable

Now you have a set of traits for your personality. Pretty cool. Of course this gets away from the standard point buy, but if you really want to utilize the point buy, then just use the SHO cards for personalities.

Edit: After thinking about it for a little bit at lunch, I think I would drop all the starting scores by 1 or 2, remove the 0 and the 7 cards from the deck. This will give an average of 2-3 added to the stats, which would be closer to the intended stats.

Add them to your Glaive in the order you want
Might 10 + 5 = 15 Cute
Speed 9 + 4 = 13 Glum
Intellect 6 + 2 = 8  Expendable

Numenera Pre-order

Numenera Pre-order



So Numenera is now available for pre-order. This is a kickstarter that I was unable to afford but went huge!!!!

So now it's available for pre-order...

I think I'll have to pre-order!

Kickstarter Watch - Numenera (updated)

Monte Cook's new RPG Numenera is set to take the highest financed Kickstarter from Traveller 5.

With 10 days remaining will it overtake the $294k mark set by Traveller 5? As I write this it is at:

2,666

backers

$259,297

pledged of $20,000 goal

10

days to go

I think it will top $300k very soon.

Edit 9/11/2012 BOOM! It's over 300k  with 5 days remaining it's at $317k....

I really want to jump in on at the $50 level and get the ELEVEN PDFs...WOW! Course for $10 more you get the actual book and eleven PDFs...but just $20 would get the Player's Guide and the GM's guide...

Kickstarter projects of note

So lots of interesting Kickstarters are up for funding currently. I love Kickstarter, I hope to one day run a Kickstarter for Moderne Worlds of 2039. Also just found out about the Kickitforward.org which is a pledge  system for successfully Kickstarted projects to give back to the community, by kickstarting projects with a percentage of profits.

This first Kickstarter: Wild Card Creator for Savage Worlds is pledging 5% of profits to fund future kickstarter projects.



Monte Cook has a Sci-Fantasy RPG he's going to make: Numenera



Louis Porter Jr. Has reached funding levels with his Obsidian Apocalypse setting, but 18 days remain for additional funding.



An interesting concept, a PDF module that is much more (probably using layering and other adobe tools). Just wish it had an actual name.



Here's a neat one for the ICONS rpg Stark City