Numenera: The Ninth World - The Cypher System Guide

The Rules You Need

Numenera uses the core rules from The Cypher System Guide. If you're new, read these parts first; this section won't repeat them.

The d20 task roll, difficulty and easing.

Might, Speed, Intellect, Edge and recovery.

Cypher limits and how cyphers work.

Intrusions, discoveries and advancement.

Everything the setting adds, in reading order.

What makes Numenera different, and how its rules relate to the Cypher System.

The Steadfast, the Beyond and a billion years of ruins.

Glaives, nanos and jacks, Ninth World descriptors and foci.

40 ready-to-play Ninth World characters, solo and in groups, to import into the character sheet.

The Ninth World's cyphers, oddities and artifacts.

Running discovery-focused games in the Ninth World.

Setting-specific tools. For dice, use the main guide's roller.

Ninth World generators for cyphers and names.

A fillable Numenera sheet with Pools, cyphers, artifacts, oddities and shins, to save and print.