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Message: <blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 6506549" data-attributes="member: 85870">I don't have anything to say about the system itself, or its parent system Numenara, having never so much as seen either book. But its lack of popularity isn't surprising or difficult to explain, given the circumstances. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's an offshoot of a d20-based system that doesn't neatly fall into a classic genre niche. Is Numenara high-tech fantasy or low-tech sci-fi? Someone looking for "classic D&D" isn't going to look at Numenara and immediately think, "Hmmm, this looks like a great fit." By the same token, someone looking for space opera isn't going to naturally gravitate toward it, and those are by far the two most popular RPG genres.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From all reports, it's d20-based, but is very different from 3.x, 4e, and 5e. So even if someone WANTS to use the system as presented, it has to be taught and re-learned by players.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's a lot of competition in the sci-fi category--Fantasy Flight's Star Wars and 40k, any number of Fate / Cortex / Cortex+ offshoots and conversions (Firefly, Diaspora, Starblazer), Savage Worlds with its brand new Sci-fi Companion and recently Kickstarted Last Parsec campaign setting, to say nothing of the old standbys of GURPS, WEG Star Wars, Star Wars Saga, and Traveller.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For good or ill, having Monte Cook's name on a project garners an immediate following, but also a lot of detractors. I guarantee you there's a huge swath of folks over at RPG.net that won't have anything to do with it simply because his name is involved.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Monte Cook Games released it in the heart of the 5e launch. Getting lost in the shuffle was almost a guarantee. By contrast, it looks like Green Ronin went out of their way to SPECIFICALLY avoid the immediate 5e launch "rush," and held out its AGE system releases.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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