Looking for tips and resources for a fledgling Numenera GM

Bumpin.

The final bump for the night.

>>50322612
Easiest tip is to not play Numenera.

The setting is A+ shit, but don't try to use any of the mechanics unless you REALLY like rules-light messes. Just use the setting with a different game system of your choice that isn't D&D.

>>50322612
Your questions are fairly general ones, so you could get really good advice from starting a gm tips thread. The only thing that differentiates Numenera from some other systems is that the players expend effort even when they aren't in combat. This means that investigations and social encounters will force them to rest and can be just as draining (though not as dangerous) as combat.

Anyway, I tend to have a general outline of where I think the players will be in the next few sessions, and more in depth bites for where I expect them to go that session. You only need hooks for places that players are likely to go soon.

As far as NPC's go. Just design the big ones, all they need is their level and one or two modifiers. Such as 'mercenary captain, level 5, fights as level 6, special move; cypher that heals him 5 points. Wants to make money

Cypher System/ Numenera is very easy to create encounter and NPC's on the fly because they're just a 1-10 number.

>>50328160
Something else that differentiates Numenera from other systems is the use of Intrusions. If you have an adventure in mind that requires the PC's to go somewhere, you can give them experience to make them look at your rails. If you need them to go to a bar, use an intrusion and tell the hardest drinking person in the group that they're passing a bar, and it looks like a good place to wet his whistle. Keep in mind that intrusions don't have to be negative, it's simply the GM taking an active hand in the game's narrative.

>>50322612
>>50328160
The biggest advice though, as a general bit, is to not get too invested in the idea that you are telling a story. Ultimately you're just designing set pieces for the players to interact with, this is something true of all games. I don't know how much of what you're planning trends towards 'you're story ' vs. 'their game', because you haven't told us much of what you're planning.


Where are they going to be by the way? Steadfast? Beyond? Beyond Beyond? Extra setting books?