Two more RPG Bundles - Numenora

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Two bundles for Numenora, a VERY far future science fantasy system from Monte Cook Games; one is a repeat from 2021, the other new material:

Numenera Discovery

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023Discovery

This revived September 2021 Numenera Discovery Bundle is one of two offers in progress featuring Numenera, the Monte Cook Games science-fantasy RPG of discovery and destiny in the Ninth World a billion years away. This revival has the core rulebook and essential supplements; if you're new to the game, start here. The new companion offer, Numenera Horizons, adds recent supplements that push the boundaries of the Ninth World.

Numenera is about exploration in the far future. There have been eight worlds before ours. The people of the Ninth World suffered through a dark age, an era of isolation and struggle in the shadow of civilizations millennia gone. But a new age dawns. Brave explorers who discover and master the works of the past worlds – the numenera – can unlock new powers and abilities, defend the weak, bolster the sick and starving, build a community, and perhaps bring a greater destiny to a struggling world.

Launched in a half-million-dollar 2012 Kickstarter campaign that shattered every tabletop RPG record up to that time, Numenera introduced Monte Cook's Cypher System, later used in The Old Gods of Appalachia, The Strange, and many other settings. The 2013 Numenera corebook spawned 60 supplements and accessories, board games, novels, the Torment: Tides of Numenera computer game, and many foreign translations.

Funded in a spectacular US$845K September 2017 Kickstarter campaign, Numenera Discovery isn't a new edition as such – there are no important rules changes, and all later books still work fine with the original rules. Discovery does expand and overhaul the original corebook, incorporating the Character Options expansions, reworking foci and descriptors, and elaborating on the starting regions of the Steadfast and the Beyond.

Destiny, a new companion corebook, lets characters help shape the future of the Ninth World. Player characters don't just explore the wonders of the past; they use them to help lift the Ninth World out of darkness. Uncover materials, power sources, and treasures for use in a new, robust crafting and building system. Help a community defend itself – create centers of learning or trade – manage an entire community and help it prosper – or simply create a cool base or vehicle for your group. Make your mark on a billion-year history.

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are unobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to these two Numenera offers' designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

The total retail value of the titles in this revived September 2021 Numenera Discovery Bundle revival is US$239. Customers who pay just US$19.95 get all nine titles in this revived offer's Discovery Collection (retail value $93) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete full-color, 418-page Numenera Discovery corebook, plus the Player's Guide,Character Portfolio, and many freebies; the Priests of the Aeons character book; the Ninth World Guidebook; Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour's Guide to the Numenera; Maps of the Ninth World 1 and Maps 2; and the full-color Character and Creature Standups.

Those who pay more than this offer's threshold (average) price, which is set at $34.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Destiny Collection with eleven more titles worth an additional $146, including the 418-page Numenera Destiny corebook; the Building Tomorrow campaign expansion; The Ninth World Bestiary, Bestiary 2, and Bestiary 3; the location sourcebook (uhh? sorta?) Voices of the Datasphere; the massive two-part campaign Slaves of the Machine God; an anthology of instant adventures, Explorer's Keys; and three Ninth World adventures: Forgetting Doomsday; The Thief, the Clave, and the Ultimatum; and Shadewalker.

Don't miss our new companion offer, Numenera Horizons, with recent supplements that push the boundaries of the Ninth World.

Numenera Horizons

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Horizons

This new Numenera Horizons Bundle is one of two offers in progress that feature Numenera, the Monte Cook Games science-fantasy RPG of discovery and destiny in the Ninth World a billion years away. The companion revival from September 2021, Numenera Discovery, has the latest version of the rulebook and a comprehensive array of supplements and adventures; if you're new to the game, start there. This new Horizons offer adds recent supplements that push the boundaries of the Ninth World. Explore the oceanic depths of the Sea of Secrets, the limitless worlds of the Beyond, the transdimensional multiverse, and the incomparable living world called the Liminal Shore.

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are unobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to these two Numenera offers' designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.

The total retail value of the titles in this Numenera Horizons Bundle is US$133. Customers who pay just US$14.95 get all eight supplements in our Starter Collection (retail value $67) as DRM-free ebooks, including Into the Outside (retail price $15); Into the Deep (retail $15); Into the Night (retail $15), plus its companion The Nightcraft (retail $3); and four Ninth World one-shot adventures – The Hideous Game (retail $5), Skein of the Blackbone Bride (retail price $5), Shards of the Looking Glass (retail $6), and Beyond All Worlds (retail $3).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with four more supplements worth an additional $66, including Liminal Shore (retail $18), Edge of the Sun (retail $18), Vertices (retail $12), and Break the Horizon (retail $18).

Four of the 12 supplements in this bundle, with a combined retail price of $36, previously appeared in our July 2017 Numenera Ninth World Bundle: Into the Deep, Into the Night, The Nightcraft, and Beyond All Worlds.

In 2021 I said: This looks very pretty, but you have to wonder about the idea that the human race and human civilization, or something like it to this extent, will survive a billion years, and then survive in a manner that basically resembles a fantasy role playing game, with bits of lost technology etc. replacing magic. My own first impression unfortunately bears out a friend's opinion - it's pretty, but it'd be a sod to run.

Having said that, there's some very good fiction out there using similar settings - Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time and Vance's Dying Earth are obvious examples, as is Hodgson's The Night Land. It might be possible to do something with them, I'm just not convinced that this is the way to do it.

But as usual, your mileage is likely to vary.

If you've bought the Discovery bundle in 2021 you'll receive any updates automatically, you don't have to buy them again. If you've bought the 2017 bundle you may want to check how much of the Horizons bundle is relevant to your interests - sometimes it may be better to cherry-pick rather than buying the whole bundle.