{"id":3570,"date":"2017-08-21T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2017-08-23T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:14:03","slug":"gencon-interview-with-monte-cook-about-numenera-2-and-invisible-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"GenCon Interview with Monte Cook about Numenera 2 and Invisible Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?attachment_id=3573\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny.jpg?fit=533%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"533,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny.jpg?fit=533%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny.jpg?resize=533%2C400\" alt=\"Covers for Numenera Discovery and Numenera Destiny\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny.jpg?w=533&amp;ssl=1 533w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Numenera-Discovery-and-Destiny.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we were at GenCon last week, we had the chance to sit down with Monte Cook and get some more details about Numenera and Invisible Sun. In this interview, he discusses what the three new character types in the forthcoming Destiny will look like and how they might interact with the types from the core book, whose new incarnation will be called Discovery. We also asked him about how the cards in Invisible Sun will be used and hear about some of the other new products MCG brought to the convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montecookgames.com\/introducing-numenera-2-discovery-and-destiny\/\">Official Numenera 2 Announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image\u00a0TM and \u00a9 2017 Monte Cook Games, LLC<\/p>\n<p>[iframe style=&#8221;border:none&#8221; src=&#8221;\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5663023\/height\/100\/width\/480\/thumbnail\/yes\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/legacy\/tdest_id\/205325&#8243; height=&#8221;100&#8243; width=&#8221;480&#8243; scrolling=&#8221;no&#8221; allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were at GenCon last week, we had the chance to sit down with Monte Cook and get some more details about Numenera and Invisible Sun. In this interview, he discusses what the three new character types in the forthcoming Destiny will look like and how they might interact with the types from the&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=3570\">Continue Reading GenCon Interview with Monte Cook about Numenera 2 and Invisible Sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88,72,2],"tags":[144,85,9],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cypher","category-interview","category-podcast-release","tag-gencon","tag-interview","tag-numenera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5r9Oo-VA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3554,"url":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=3554","url_meta":{"origin":3570,"position":0},"title":"Numenera 2 Announcement from Monte Cook Games","author":"Megan","date":"August 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today at GenCon Monte Cook Games announced their next major product release, Numenera 2. 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