Welcome to the forum! I remember IRC! How times have changed. Nowadays enjoying gaming on Google+ with HD video and audio, I can imagine suffering through a MUD, MUSH or play by post game, although I've done all those things in the past.

I too have become burned out on fantasy--though more in terms of books and movies. I've read a LOT of fantasy, to the point that all the new stuff seems pretty unoriginal and boring now. Even Game of Thrones, which is so popular, is nothing remotely resembling new. I've been getting a lot more into science fiction for that reason. I don't feel the same fantasy burnout with RPGs, but I definitely enjoy the Ninth World's science-fantasy setting more than any straight up fantasy setting (although Golarion is really cool and a place I'd like to explore more).

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The Obsidian Monolith is a supplemental podcast to GM Intrusions in which I will build a Numenera campaign from scratch. Today I start laying the foundation for the campaign.

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I’ll start off with some updates on the podcast, and then I’ll talk a bit about type backgrounds and balancing encounters. I’ll cover the Yellow Swarm in A&P, and I have an inspiration to help you in your Numenera game.

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The Obsidian Monolith, a supplemental podcast to GM Intrusions in which I will build a Numenera campaign from scratch. Today’s topic is preparing for an adventure! I’ll share with you the things I think about when it’s time to create a new campaign.

I'm sure the same for me. Do you know what the final bids were?

That's a really cool idea! I think it would be a lot of fun.

It gave me an idea for a campaign, where in the first session the PCs are all exposed to some kind of exotic energy or radiation that causes them to become "unstuck" from reality. At seemingly random times, they will shift into a parallel universe. Each parallel universe would have a very similar Ninth World, but in each universe the Ninth World came to be in a completely different way (one of them could be the one you just mentioned). Each time the PCs discover how their current Ninth World came to be, they shift to another Ninth World in another universe, and it's a mystery again.

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If it were me, I'd have to vote for Indiana Jones, if only because I'm from Indiana, I'm an anthropologist, and I have the same hat!