Now Is A Great Time To Get Into Numenera With This Humble Bundle

I discussed the Roll Big or Go Home bundle last week, so now it’s time to talk about the Numenera bundle which features 45 titles at the highest level. This is a massive chunk of the game line for an amazing price. A portion of the proceeds benefit the ACLU.

What Is Numenera?

Numenera is a future fantasy roleplaying game where players explore The Ninth World. There are wrecks and relics full of unimaginable technology for the players to discover. It’s like Dungeons & Dragons viewed through a post apocalyptic lens with Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law etched on the side: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

The Kickstarter that launched Numenera was one of the first big six figure successes in tabletop games. It created Monte Cook Games and was the first game to use the Cypher System. The line established many of the hallmarks of the company like simple rules, well-referenced rulebooks and stunning artwork.

Numenera Corebooks

This Humble Bundle offer contains the two main core books with Numenera: Discovery and Numenera: Destiny. It also contains the Numenera Player’s Guide to share with the table. The guide contains everything a player needs to know about the setting and how to make characters.

These books expand the original core book with new classes, player options and information about the Ninth World. They keep the focus on exploration and discovery while also adding more advice and guidance on the communities where characters live in between their adventures. Even a billion years in the future, players want characters back home to protect, family members to love and rivals to defeat.

Numenera Adventures

The core books contain some adventures to get Game Masters started but it’s always good to have more ready to go. They can serve as inspiration, be split up into original stories, or even be last minute drop ins for those weeks when game prep is too much.

My favorite adventure in this offer is Escape From The Jade Colossus. It drops players into Numenera’s version of a megadungeon and challenges them with shifting rooms, deadly creatures and an iconic location. It’s great for players who want to kick off a campaign to try out the game as a one shot.

Numenera Locations

The Jade Colossus is but one of many weird locations in the Ninth World. There’s a guide book to the entire world that can inspire GMs as well as a collection of smaller locations called Vertices. Any one of these books could be the basis of a campaign.

There are also books that detail specific types of areas. I really enjoyed Into The Night which suggests that our planet is not the only thing that’s changed over the millenia. It makes perfect sense that if this game is about science fantasy, why not include a campaign option that heads out into the stars?

Numenera Bestiaries

Adversaries are an important part of any campaign. With strange devices that defy the laws of science as we know them, that kicks it up a notch for the wild animals and monsters that inhabit these dangerous spaces. There are three books of antagonists available as part of the Humble Bundle.

Non Player Characters are simple in the Cypher System with a level rating that stands as a general difficulty number and a handful of special powers. Simple, however, does not mean uninteresting and each gets a page long write up complimented by the excellent art team. It’s very easy to flip through these books, get caught by a great bit of art and then suddenly start dreaming up a proper scenario.

Numenera Sourcebooks

Numenera has been around since 2013. Games naturally develop their own lore with every book and with twelve years worth of books in this offer Numenera is no different. There are sourcebooks, novels and tie-ins to video games to give Game Masters all the lore they need.

The most intriguing one in this collection is Priests of the Aeons, which details the mysterious Order of the Truth that studies the previous ages of the world. They’ve been around since the opening fiction in the original rulebook and there’s opportunities presented in this book to make them sinister, benevolent or maybe a little bit of both. It also offers some wild player options such as aliens quietly observing humanity and potential time travelers.

Numenera Glimmers

Not every idea needs a full book to be considered. In the digital publishing age, a short PDF can often suffice to appeal to a niche audience. The designers of Numenera call these glimmers and they round out the collection available through Humble Bundle.

As a fan of the Cthulhu Mythos, I enjoyed the glimmer on injecting the timeless threat of the Great Old Ones into the Ninth World. I also thought the discussion of love and sex in the Ninth World to be fascinating as that’s one of humanity’s core drives no matter the time or place. My favorite glimmer, however, is Injecting The Weird as it is full of charts with strange details that make Numenera stand out against other games.

Whether you are a long time fan or someone that’s never played the game, this bundle is an amazing value. You have a few weeks to explore the mystery of the Ninth World. The Numemera RPG Humble Bundle runs from now until July 19th, 2025.

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