How to Play Numenera

Learn how to play Numenera, the award-winning tabletop roleplaying game from Monte Cook Games!

In this short how-to-play video, Monte Cook runs a Numenera scenario for players Shanna Germain, Bruce Cordell, and Jen Page, providing you with an opportunity to see the game in action, while getting an in-depth look at its unique features. Learn the basics about character creation, skills and abilities, the weird of the Ninth World, and important elements like Pools, Edges, and Effort -- directly from the creators themselves.

The video explains how easy it is to get started with Numenera, and shows why the game continues to win both awards and the hearts of gamers everywhere.

Here's a bit more about Numenera:

There Have Been Eight Previous Worlds

Each world stretched across vast millennia of time. Each played host to a race whose civilizations rose to supremacy but eventually died or scattered, disappeared or transcended. During the time each world flourished, those that ruled it spoke to the stars, reengineered their physical bodies, and mastered form and essence, all in their own unique ways.
Each left behind remnants.

The people of the new world—the Ninth World—sometimes call these remnants magic, and who are we to say they’re wrong? But most give a unique name to the legacies of the nigh-unimaginable past. They call them…

N U M E N E R A

In Numenera, player characters explore a world of mystery and danger to find leftover artifacts of the past: bits of nanotechnology, the datasphere threaded among still-orbiting satellites, bio-engineered creatures, and myriad strange and wondrous devices that defy understanding. Numenera is about discovering the wonders of the worlds that came before, not for their own sake, but as the means to improve the present and build a future.

With streamlined, intuitive rules, Numenera allows players to create characters in minutes and puts the emphasis back on story rather than laborious mechanics. Numenera is the latest creation of one of the biggest names in roleplaying games, award-winning designer and fan-favorite Monte Cook.

More at http://www.numenera.com