darkliquid0

Hi, I'm a massive fan of Numenera and I'm really looking forward to The Strange.

Based on what I've heard about foci changing based on which recursion you inhabit in The Strange, it seems like there is quite the additional burden on GMs when dealing with custom recursions or foci - every foci needs a mapping from one into another for each recursion, or so it sounds from what I've heard so far.

Numenera was a little 'light' in terms of helping people drum up additional foci, but in The Strange, coming up with new recursions seems baked into the setting, which makes coming up with new foci a necessity - will there be more in-depth examples and instructions for foci creation in The Strange to help GMs/players?

Nice. I'm in love with the descriptions of the Ruk, I'm going to cross my fingers for some weird biological translating tech, like maybe a virus which makes people cocoon themselves in some pulsing, fleshy pod which, when mature, 'births' them out into another recursion, all sticky like Neo waking up in his Matrix pod.

Thanks for the response, that sounds like a good solution, much more fun using randomness in my opinion since players get to experience wildly different play styles that way rather than always fitting in a niche to built themselves into at character generation.

The tables sound useful - should also be a boon to everyone in the Numenera camp too looking for guidance making custom foci.

Yeah, I created a couple of the Numenera generators out there, a character one, a name one, I've got a half finished cypher one I need to revisit and a rumour one. I'm also trying to get this community-sourced Numenera fiction anthology off the ground as well!

Just curious about how popular the licenses have been in terms of uptake by developers of supplements, fiction, tools, etc.

Have you lots seen a lot of licensees for Numenera (limited license and full)? Do you think we can expect to see tens or hundreds of third-party licensed content over the next year or so?