TIDES OF NUMENERA CHARACTERS LICENSE

In this mode, all the characters present at the scene can move a specified distance and perform a single action. During any dangerous and time-sensitive situation, the game enters turn-based ‘crisis’ mode. The game’s combat system is based on a few really good ideas and, with some more polish, could actually become influential in the genre. The protagonist’s immortality doesn’t help the matters here. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work as well as it should – creating a party that can just keep succeeding is trivial, and despite many quests having hidden timers to prevent you from resting all the time, it’s actually pretty hard to fail a quest. The more notable change is how stats work: they’re now resources which can be used to increase a chance of success during combat and skill-checks (base values for success chance are calculated in a traditional way, through ‘skills’ and ‘abilities’ which can also be increased while levelling up) and get replenished only while resting. This has probably the least noticeable departure from the convention as despite a few technicalities (Nanos are expert on ancient technology, Jacks are supposed to be jacks-of-all-trades), it would be possible to replace those words with ‘warrior’, ‘mage’ and ‘thief’ without much impact on anything. Numenera’s characters belong to one of the three classes: Glaive, Nano or Jack. As is often the case with such experiments, the actual results are mixed – but it’s the kind of ambition that made titles like Arcanumor, of course, the original Planescape: Torment stand out from the crowd. Probably the best thing about Tides of Numenera is that, unlike many other crowdfunded RPGs, it doesn’t just blindly recreate the gameplay of the older games, instead attempting to innovate in some areas. Second fathom of The Last Castoff’s Labyrinth – concept art

It is an interesting blend of sci-fi and fantasy, although while playing the game it’s difficult not to get the feeling that there isn’t much cohesive lore behind those worlds and that they’re more of an excuse to put literally anything into the game than anything in the Planescape multiverse ever was. It’s a medieval fantasy world built on the ruins of eight vastly different and far more technologically advanced ones, with the eponymous numeneras – objects created in those worlds – functioning as magical artifacts. Despite apparently being set on the far-future Earth, it’s about just as weird as Planescape was, and even more disjointed. Instead, the new Torment is set in the Ninth World – the setting of Numenera, a new (and also crowdfunded through Kickstarter) RPG system by D&D veteran Monte Cook.

TIDES OF NUMENERA CHARACTERS LICENSE

Sojourner of Worlds (Kickstarter promotional art by Chang Yuan)Īs Dungeons & Dragons license is now more expensive and more difficult to acquire than it used to be, we won’t be coming back to Planescape and Sigil in this game.

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