Numenera to Pathfinder conversions

[kid america]

Have any of you savvy GMs and players converted any of Monte Cook's Numenera Ninth World material over to the Pathfinder d20 mechanics?

Classes, races, beasts/creatures, numenera.

If you have I would love if you to share your links here.

Thanks,

kid america

[robert best 549]

I am looking for one as well.

[LazarX]

The spirit of Numenera's style of system play does not lend itself to a good fit with the wargame style of D20.

If you insist on using Pathfinder, my suggestion would be to wait until things like the upcoming Technology Guide and the Iron Gods material come up and mine Numenera for the setting.

But honest truth, I think you're missing much of the Numenera experience if you shackle yourself to D20 style rules while playing it.

Expand your horizons... break out of the box... and play a non-D20 game. The only risk you take is that you might not want to come back.

[kid america]

I hear you LazarX.

Unfortunately I live in an area of d20 Pathfinder and DnD 3.5 players.

I can't even get enough players to run a Savage Worlds Fantasy or Sci Fi game.

I can't even get enough players to play a cool or different board game or card game.

In order to use the Numenera setting for my own enjoyment as a GM I have to make it d20 friendly and compatible in order to get players to the gaming table.

Unfortunately WotC and Paizo have done an excellent job of beating d20 into the general gaming populace over the years since its arrival on the gaming scene that most players are unwilling or scared to play outside of that rule set.

Otherwise its just me playing by myself or with one other player. And that's just any fun.

[LazarX]

May I suggest.... Google Hangout?

[137ben]

LazarX wrote:

The spirit of Numenera's style of system play does not lend itself to a good fit with the wargame style of D20.

D20 moved beyond wargames a long time ago. A big part of its success has been its flexibility, (although IMO it is still not as flexible as GURPS but it can handle things GURPS can't). Golarion may be a hack-and-slash world, but the system does a lot more than you seem to want it to do.

@OP: I'd strongly recommend looking at some of the Little Red Goblin Games Necropunk books. They may have a lot of what you are looking for.
And they are written for pathfinder already. It should be relatively straightforwards to port the technology from necropunk to numenera. They were available on the paizo store, but apparently it is having glitches now. You can still get some of them in a bundle from DrivethruRPG here, or from rpgnow here.
It might also be worth purusing the Eberron books for technology-related stuff...

[kid america]

Thanks 137ben.

I will definitely take a look at the Necropunk books.

I already went through the Eberron books. However my thought after doing so was that the equipment and magic items still have too much of a fantasy magic feel. The only things I pulled for use were the grafts and symbionts.

To me Numenera is more of a Science Fantasy setting.

I found quite a few of the creatures in the Paizo Bestiary 3 & 4 fit that weird otherworld feel of the setting. The Inner Seas Bestiary also has the Android race and a lot of robot/clockwork creatures.

One excellent source that I have pulled a lot of material from and used for reference is Chaositech (Sword & Sorcery D20) by Monte Cook.

I converted the nano class and varjellen race over.

I've converted all the Cyphers and Artifacts to D20 and I'm looking to post them to a file sharing site.

I've been looking for D20 creatures in the 3.5 Monster Manuals and Paizo Bestiaries similar to the Numenera Bestiary creatures so that conversion of the creatures I want to use are quicker and easier.

I've also been looking at D20 Modern and Future and D20 Gamma World material for technology equipment, mutations, and cyberware.

[LazarX]

kid america wrote:

To me Numenera is more of a Science Fantasy setting.

Even though it would probably make Robert Forward and his fans have an apoleptic fit, I maintain that Science Fiction in the main is a subset of Fantasy.