Jade Colossus: Ruins of the Prior Worlds

by Bruce R. Cordell

The essential gamemaster’s companion for adventure building in the weird and wondrous Ninth World

Mysterious, powerful, and usually dangerous, the vast ruins of the prior worlds contain secrets and marvels beyond imagining. Explore one such gigantic ruin—the Jade Colossus—in detail. Or create your own, using the Numenera Ruin Mapping Engine to create ancient sites large or small, with all the wonder and weirdness you expect in the Ninth World setting.

Run an entire campaign around the Jade Colossus, use the site for one or a handful of adventures in your existing campaign, or use this book to create dozens of other prior-world sites, building an amazing campaign filled with imagination and awe-inspiring adventure.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Games

144 pages, Hardcover

Published August 31, 2017

About the author

Bruce R. Cordell authored books for Dungeons & Dragons over the course of 4 editions (2nd Edition through 5th Edition D&D). These days, he’s a senior designer for Monte Cook Games, LLC designing Numenera , Gods of the Fall, and The Strange. Also a novel author, his credits include several titles set in the Forgotten Realms. Bruce’s tenth novel, Myth of the Maker, is just out from Angry Robot Books:
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Reviews

[Seán · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very cool setting/dungeon for Numenera along with a fantastic ruin generator that will come in useful in any campaign. It's not quite as fun or unique as the Veins of the Earth cave generator, but fulfills a similar purpose while keeping things nice and weird. The new foci that are based around artifacts found in the Jade Colossus are great fun and let a character who delves into the ruins develop something that can come to define his/her character. Great content overall, one of the better supplements for Numeners I've read so far.

[Brady · Rating 5 out of 5]

I mean, it's difficult to review an RPG supplement, but this is one of the best I've ever used. Not just as a Numenera/Cypher System fanboy, but as a GM and player. Fantastic campaign setting, a wealth of leads and information for a long-form campaign (been running one for 12 months), the ruins generation, creatures and extra ruins are fantastic.

One of my favourite RPG materials of all time.