It's nice to see my art in a video too :D Specifically at 3:18, it looks great on the dark background as originally intended :) If you want to see more of my art (there is also a folder for Numenera/The Strange), which is mostly official Numenera art, look at my gallery here: erebus-art.deviantart.com/gallery/ Or here: www.artstation.com/artist/erebus74 Though on artstation my pieces are more mixed up :D

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry I didn't respond to this sooner! Your comment got stuck in the spam filter. I'm pinning this to the top so everyone can see it!

@GiorgioDeMichele-Erebus

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it wasn't a problem, don't worry! And good job with the videos, they are interesting!

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome. I'm definitely gonna take a look at more of your artwork. It's incredible!

@GiorgioDeMichele-Erebus

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@zenithquasar9623

5 жыл бұрын

Oh I loved that!

More people need to know about this incredible setting.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

They sure do! Be sure to spread the word! Also, be sure to subscribe and share this video if you haven't already!

In light of recent events, I think it's time for some escapism. Let's take a look at Numenera!

@langweiligesprofil4926

6 жыл бұрын

psychotrip The position of the earth and various other planets and moons have been changed,at least one has been removed (IIRC) and some strange objects have been added to the nightsky.If you like this world, you may like the hanbook to the 9th world and the planscape sourcebook.Its Background for the pen&paper, but 90% fluff and a good read and Artwork.

Elder Scrolls, embrace your own weirdness and become more like this, instead of toning it down.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Dude...one MILLION times this! This is what I was thinking in the back of my head the whole time I was writing this.

@DoctorEviloply

7 жыл бұрын

Micheal Kirkbride, the guy who created a lot of the Elder Scrolls lore, especially the weird shit got kicked out before Oblivion was released. Compare and contrast Morrowind, (Which Kirkbride had a heavy hand in) and Oblivion, which was all Todd the Liar for Hire's job.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think Kirkbride got kicked out, but yeah the difference is stark.

@NathanielWinkelmann

5 жыл бұрын

Isn't Elder scrolls vaugly based on runequest?

@psychotripnerdstuff

4 жыл бұрын

@@NathanielWinkelmann I actually have no idea. Tell me more!

good video, a great summary of what is numenera, unfortunate that you do not talk about it anymore

Thank you for sharing this. I hadn't heard about this til now. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for it.

Thank you for the insight. even gets stoked for the new one coming out soon

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad! Be sure to subscribe and share this video if you haven't already!

This gave me a diamond hard brainer.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

My general goal is to make my audience as hard as possible.

I have the 1st edition rulebook, PDF and I have always wanted to run a game but I never felt like my imagination was up for the challenge. Great video. It really helps me gain a better appreciation for the game and its setting.

+psychotrip to be fair, the whole "sun consuming the earth" thing is fixed when you see that a race existed that could control the molecular structure of the universe itself, it becomes small potatoes once tech that level exists.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly! This is why I love Numenera

@chaoticneutral7573

3 жыл бұрын

So rather wizard did it, its science did it

Greatest setting ever

1:12 what happened to the god emperor of man?

@psychotripnerdstuff

3 жыл бұрын

One hell of a makeover.

If the game lives up to the craziness of this world I think it'll be a really good game. I love different stuff like this and I really hope they can show this insane world in videogame form. Like I wanna see random shit and have my curiousity run freely

great video man

What a FANTASTIC review!

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Stay tuned for more! Be sure to subscribe and share this video if you haven't already. It really helps!

@psychotripnerdstuff

6 жыл бұрын

Glad gou enjoyed it! Planning on doing an episode on Oddworld in the near future, so stay tuned!

I had seen one of the Numenera books available in my FLGS on sale because the book, unfortunately, suffered damage before it could be sold. I've had my eye on it for a while because it's on the 1/2 off shelf... but I had no idea about the setting other than the fact that it sounded vaguely familiar. I believe it's the core 2nd edition book for the RPG.

I've read about Numenera and I cannot wait for Torment: Tides of Numenera to come out! The last time something like this happened was the Planescape Dungeons and Dragons campaign and the video game Planescape: Torment! That was a very good mindfuck! And thank you for the video! The Numenera campaign world itself is kind of a hard thing to sum up and this was a really good summary. :D AND and and I saw that comment about the Elder Scrolls and YES! If it were possible to remake Morrowind (giant insect mounts for fast travel ftw)!!

I also love the Jazz Jackrabbit soundtrack!

@psychotripnerdstuff

6 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!

The position of the earth and various other planets and moons have been changed,at least one has been removed (IIRC) and some strange objects have been added to the nightsky.If you like this world, you may like the hanbook to the 9th world and the planscape sourcebook.Its Background for the pen&paper, but 90% fluff and a good read.

I am not a gamer - but this looks fascinating as a base for a lot of terrific fun and fantasy and fiction

Awesome!

Could we get a coverage of the exalted universe? Please? 🙏

To be fair, it'll take about 5 Billion years for the sun to have a word with us, so this setting could take place millions of millions of years in the future and the sun wouldn't care.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Recent estimates have reduced that timeline to a few million years, either from the sun's expansion or increased luminosity. Researchers are actually trying to figure out if we'll be able "lift" the earth to a safe distance when the time comes!

@BlazeMakesGames

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a little skeptical of that unless you can show me some recent scientific papers, cause our understanding of solar evolution hasn't radically changed recently unless I've missed something, and from what I can tell, none of my usual sources have changes their opinions on this matter.

@fmlazar

7 жыл бұрын

He's right. It's not that the Sun is going off the main sequence early, it's just that a billion years from now, the Sun is going to be putting out 25 percent more engergy than it does now... and that will be more than our biosphere can adapt to, thus Earth becomes Venus. It is suggested that some agency from the previous Eight Worlds has prevented the broiling that shoud have happened, but no one in the Ninth World knows what it is.... or whether it will or will not suddenly stop working.

@storybard4438

7 жыл бұрын

...or the civilizations before the Ninth World might've already done something to the sun. Maybe they've managed to talk it into a contract to not explode for another hundred billion years. It might not even be a sun anymore.

@drek9k2

5 жыл бұрын

​@@psychotripnerdstuff You are still completely and utterly wrong. The hypothesis to which you're referring stipulates that the carbon cycle for most plant life will be terminated in roughly 600 million years. That is not "a few million". That is for C3 carbon. Estimate atm is possibly 800 million-1.2 billion for C4 to no longer be possible. This is also stipulating that no other life forms would evolve and adapt within that time frame. Not to say Tides doesn't get it wrong either since clearly there won't be humans in 1 billion regardless although the back lore states that humans actually vanished a long time ago in the setting and only very recently returned in the 9th world after having been gone/extinct for however long. This is one of my biggest gripes with humans in general which is complete inability to hold large quantities in perspective particularly temporal let alone spatial. Regardless, you're absolutely wrong OP.

Thanks for this setting summary. I've been anticipating the final release of Torment 2, but you've just amplified my hype ten fold!

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video! Be sure to subscribe and share this video if you haven't already!

@edwinnaidu

4 жыл бұрын

playing through 1 now. Its so crazy seeing that world and lore come to life.

Great video! I love the use of the old Fable music.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

It's one of my favorite soundtracks! I use it whenever I can. I'm glad you liked the video! Be sure to subscribe and share this video if you haven't already!

"Is Star Wars to realistic?" But the Numenera universe is thousand times more realistic than the Star Wars universe!

@EpicEliteSnipe

4 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it! Star Wars is one of the *least* realistic universes out there lol (doesn’t make me like it any less tho)

@chaoticneutral7573

2 жыл бұрын

@@EpicEliteSnipe Star Wars is not sci fi, its space opera

@EpicEliteSnipe

2 жыл бұрын

@@chaoticneutral7573 Star Wars is a science fantasy space opera yes. Space opera is a sub genre, you can have a purely fantasy space opera from Spelljammer in Dungeons and Dragons

amazing.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

I agree!

The lore tells us that the earth, the solar system even, has been torn apart, rebuilt, terraformed and changed, numerous times over the eons. There is a supplement that explains there is a huge machine in orbit around the sun that keeps it stable. As for why humans look the same...why do sharks look the same after tens of millions of years?

Diving in!

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

I fucking love your profile pic.

ok, I'm interested. Where can I get a book?

Goddam, I love that Rayman 3 music.

So, just saying. Our Sun is about half way through it's 10 billion life cycle. The Earth, assuming no shenanigans, would still likely be here in a billion years.

Sounds like a nightmares that I would never want to be a part of. I like reality.

Agreed on all of your points, 10/10. I've been enjoying Numenera a fair bit, it's a solid and accessible tabletop rpg, too. I must admit, I expected you to talk about The Strange as well, which is essentially Numenera turned up to 11. Although, to be fair, it may deserve a video of its own.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

I'll have to take a closer look at The Strange! I've just been so consumed with Numenera. Thanks for watching! Be sure to subscribe!

sounds like the fable soundtrack

James Cameron would be the perfect filmmaker to bring this setting to the big screen.

I haven't played any of the tabletop but I think the setting sounds really interesting and would like to give it a go!

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

You should! Let me know what you think!

@rustydeandarby

6 жыл бұрын

It is so good!

oh my god this looks and feels fantastic!!!

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

It is! Glad to have shown it to you!

are there any story books base in Numenera world?

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Definitely! Check out the website linked in the description. There's a bunch of awesome short stories and compilations.

@mounorman

7 жыл бұрын

Poison Eater is the only full length Novel , and they have two more short introduction stories amber monolith and tales from the ninth world

2022 Andi still no new Numenera movie, tv serie, rpg or sandbox game, instead we have 200 star wars games, fallout sequels, mass effect sequels... this world sometimes just sucks... what a waste for the best setting ever make imho.

About to start our second Numenera campaign. By far the best ttrpg setting, especially when compared to the same olf dull and monotonous mediocrity of DnD

theninthworld website seems to have died.....

Fable 1 soundtrack in the background

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Damn right! I can never get enough of that soundtrack.

@Sky_the

7 жыл бұрын

Fable and Oblivion are my soundtracks of choice when I want to relax, brings back a lot of good memories aswell

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Skythe Same here! I have Oblivion's OST as my nighttime playlist.

sounds like the dying earth series by vance

@venusianviking1733

5 жыл бұрын

Except without the Sun dying

Looking forward to the computer game. I'm not a tabletop RPG player. In order to catch the mood and feel, I just started Gene Wolfes New Sun books. Very exciting stuff AFAICS. I feel the genre seems to have some publicity problems as not being 100% SciFi nor Fantasy, but whatever inbetween.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

New Sun? Tell me more! And science fantasy is by far my favorite genre of fiction

@tapiooftapiola517

7 жыл бұрын

I came from there: "io9: If somebody wants to play Numenera and get in the mood and get the flavor, what novels should they read, what movies should they watch? MC: First and foremost, Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun" io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-age-of-science-fantasy-rpgs-dawns-with-numenera-1216234747 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun I've not read much yet (Shadow of the torturer) - I heard the concepts are comparable - earth in a million years, many civilizations gone, stuff of them is intact and unknown. I read it is a dark world, a dying earth setting. For me, a very welcome change from the many fantasy settings.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Tortu Osit Thanks! I'll have to check that out!

Thank you for sharing this wounderful world with us I am so eager to play this game. It sounds too me like the perfect world where everything is possible if you just manage to find it

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

That's definitely how I feel about it, too!

O......M......G!!!!!! This looks so FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!!!!!

When I run Numenera sessions, I usually play from the vast worlds that are progrock (the original artstyle for the game).

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Progrock? Do go on!

@rcautela7405

7 жыл бұрын

psychotrip for instance session opener and intro explanation: "Eruption" (plus the rest of the Tarkus album); for conflicts: Relayer, early Kansas. Crimso (69-74) for tense moments, etc.

can you review the Cypher system core book ?

The video game is the closest thing to playing solo tabletop D&D.....90% of the game is text based......character creation is a game where you can even die.... AWESOME!!

Sorry to be that guy (well, girl), but I am a pedantic nerd and my heart cannot rest until I say the remaining lifespan of the sun is estimated to be around 5 billion years, not a few million. I'm with you on the continued existence and physical appearance of humans tho, that shit's weird 😅

I too wondered why humans seem the same but the Earth will be around another 4 billion years or so not millions.

Setting sounds interesting, probably wont get me to switch away from Pathfinder but I might try it. Def gonna keep an eye out for the video game tho. Thanks fam! Welcome to the Hyborian age WHEN BOI???

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Funny you mention it. It'll either be the next one or the one after the next one.

There are actual answers to the questions posed by the videomaker in most instances, but these (in the spirit of Numenera) conjure up new questions!

OMG you hyped me so much... Could anyone recomend books similar to this world? with similar feel that psychotrip is describing?

I don' t understand how humans would still be on earth after billions of years? and how they look like normal humans.

@psychotripnerdstuff

6 жыл бұрын

This is actually hinted at in the series. Apparently humans either evolved or left Earth millions of years ago, and only recently did "humans" re-appear in the Ninth World mysteriously. This is especially evident in the fact that, upon closer inspection, most of the previous civilizations the player encounters weren't made by humans at all. Earth hasn't belonged to humans for a very, very long time. Realistically, it's just a handwave to ensure RPG players get their humans, but at least it's an interesting handwave.

I'm running my very first RPG in this setting. We've been playing by e-mail a couple of months now, but given the speed of PBEM, we're only on day 2 in adventure time. It's fun, but intense! It can be a little hard as a DM to find a balance between weirdness, danger, and making things not drive your somewhat cautious players insane. But I'm loving it so far, and I think my players are too.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome! Good luck on your campaign! Thanks for watching by the way. Be sure to subscribe and share this video if you haven't already!

whats the name of the soundtrack at 6:00 ?

@psychotripnerdstuff

5 жыл бұрын

It's from the soundtrack for Tides Of Numenera!

@henryheavy8044

5 жыл бұрын

I know its from tides of numenera but whats the name of the track specifically

@psychotripnerdstuff

5 жыл бұрын

Hmmm not sure. Let me see if I can find it.

@psychotripnerdstuff

5 жыл бұрын

It's called "Sagus Deep Exploration".

@henryheavy8044

5 жыл бұрын

thx a bunch mate !

PsycoLisp

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Ladiesth love the lithsp.

Athem also has a great OST that would fit right in Numenéra. the whole game is a great inspiration for GM and players alike

@psychotripnerdstuff

5 жыл бұрын

Glad to see SOMETHING good is coming from that game. I should listen to it. Thanks!!

Deus ex would still be a meme in the 9th world

@psychotripnerdstuff

4 жыл бұрын

Lol what do you mean?

@psychotripnerdstuff

3 жыл бұрын

@Robert Reynolds Ohhhh I get it now.

I would love a borderlands esq fps set in the 9th world with guns that eventually fizzle out.

The sun still has billions of years of life left, not millions. Do some research.

I think even one million years would have been sufficient for this setup. Look at our prowess in the last century

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Good point!

The sun thing is actually touched on in the tabletop game's core book - one of the prior worlds did *something* that stopped its expansion and kept it going as normal. Did end up swallowing Mercury before that, though. EDIT: I'm also not convinced that it's actually magic, it could just be techniques that are the result of ancient genetic engineering or some other technology or science so complex and advanced that our present day world couldn't even begin to wrap its collective head around even the most basic principles behind them.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

The lines between magic and science are blurred to the point where any distinction is irrelevant. That's what I love so much about this series.

The setting and artwork is great, something like the machines from MYST, and the dilemma of trying to figure out or use artifacts from the past is like the old GAMMA WORLD RPG. Monte Cook got his start designing Dungeons & Dragons adventure modules, and his amazingly fertile ideas leap off the page of the RPG rulebook in the description of fantastical regions, if you can slog through about 100 pages of setting information alone. This screams for TV treatment. I wish someone like Joss Whedon would assemble a new crew and have them bounce around Numenéra instead of the 'Verse...

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, yes! Make it happen Hollywood! Thanks for watching by the way! Be sure to share this video and subscribe if you haven't already!

@dibbidydoo4318

7 жыл бұрын

Hollywood do not have the technology to make this into a TV Show, hell I'd don't think they have the technology to make this into a movie because I've never seen anything remotely close to this from Hollywood.

0.0 how have i never heard of this before?

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Glad I introduced you! I hope you enjoyed it! Be sure to subscribe and share this video if you haven't already!

9:40 no, please not another skyrim with repetitive fetch quests.

Orbs of water, floating in space are called the comets, by the way.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I don't think a small ocean planetoid filled with aquatic life can adequately be called a comet.

@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842

7 жыл бұрын

I can agree with that... A planetoid, then. I mean, Europe (most probably, until proven differently) has no aquatic life, but we still call it a satellite and not an 'orb of water, floating in space', which technically is true, but less, dunno, sensationalist, maybe?

It explains in the core-book that at least one of the previous worlds mastered stellar lifting, the ability to move planets and suns, and even stop the sun from growing for that matter. Fun fact, is Mercury was swallowed up by the sun long ago, but the people of the Ninth World wouldn't even know it ever existed.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

That is so damn cool. Thanks!

@Dracopol

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and the Moon has gone further out, the Earth has slowed down its rotation because of the drag of the Moon and days are 28 hours long, there are only 313 days in the year as a result.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

I love this setting so damn much.

A slight nitpick You claim that "the earth wont exist in a few million years [...]" but according to research the earth will stay in the habitable zone for at least 1.75 Billion years and that is discounting a type 2/3 civilization using it's tech to change the orbit of the planet. Otherwise great video.

Kinda weird that some of the phrases you used sound exactly like reddit comments or some other previews I've read recently. Especially the giger sex therapist line.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Because that was written by me

3:51 for hollow knight reference

I bought Torment a few months ago, but I know I must put my life into it....After I finally complete Dark Souls 3, I think it's time to really lose myself, just like I did when I played Planescape: Torment.

You have irritating voice, but otherwise good video. I'm hyped about this game for a long time.

@psychotripnerdstuff

7 жыл бұрын

Umm...thanks?