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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8347973" data-attributes="member: 5142">Monte Cook is a product of his time as a game designer. He seems fairly rooted in '90s-'00s trad gaming but has an impressive '10s hype machine for his Kickstarter projects. When I look at the things that I like about Monte Cook as a designer, it tends to be more about the worlds he creates (e.g., Ptolus, Diamond Throne, Numenera, Invisible Sun, etc.) and less about his mechanics. I don't know it that well, and I have not seen a tutorial that explained the game mechanics properly. From what I gather, it's now a d10 system. But instead of 1-10, it's read as 0-9. Anything with a difficulty of 10+ requires the addition of magic dice, which is hardly out of the ordinary in a game where everyone is a mage. But complications can occur when using the magic die. Also from what I recall, there is also a different XP and character advancement progression. There are a lot of other variables like the Sorte Deck, but these are the things that I sometimes have difficulty discerning through Cook's commitment to grandiose style over technical clarity in his writing of Invisible Sun. I recall how underwhelmed one of my players was after he went from the character creation of Fate to Numenera.</blockquote>