This week's activity is an AMA with Mr. Sean K. Reynolds and Mr. Bruce Cordell, who were designers on Numenera, published by Monte Cook Games

For new visitors... welcome. /r/RPGdesign is a place for discussing RPG game design and development (and by extension, publication and marketing... and we are OK with discussing scenario / adventure / peripheral design). That being said, this is an AMA, so ask whatever you want.

About this AMA

Sean K Reynolds ( /u/seankreynolds) was born in a coastal town in southern California. He’s been a professional game designer since 1998, and has designed for a bunch of RPGs, card games, and video games. He’s a vegetarian, lives in Seattle with his cats, draws silly things, and gets obsessed about baking shows.

Bruce R Cordell (/u/brucecordell) is an author of D&D, Numenera, and The Strange games and novels; science groupie; fitness buff; sci-fi fiend; Senior Designer at MonteCookGames.

The following is a message from Darcy, the Monte Cook Games Community Manager who I worked with to invite the designers to this AMA:

Some news to inspire your questions:

• Building Tomorrow just released today! It is a Bruce Cordell and Sean Reynolds-authored ~200 page Numenera supplement full of bizarre and delightful Numenera to discover and create (like biological creations), new communities and challenges communities may face, rules for nonhuman followers, GM intrusions for crafting, and more.
• Invisible Sun is getting a reprint Kickstarter next week (Tuesday 10/23)! This is a game of surreal fantasy, truly magical magic, and secrets of the self and of the world. Bruce and Sean were both players in our streamed narrative run by Monte, The Raven Wants What You Have, and Bruce is currently working on an upcoming supplement, Teratology.

Thank you all so much for the cool questions you've brought so far!

On behalf of the community and mod-team here, I want express gratitude to Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Cordell for doing this AMA.

On Reddit, AMA's usually last a day. However, this is our weekly "activity thread". These developers are invited to stop in at various points during the week to answer questions (as much or as little as they like), instead of answer everything question right away.

(FYI, BTW, although in other subs the AMA is started by the "speaker", I'm creating this thread. When Mr. Cordell and Reynold's join in, I will updated this post with their reddit IDs.)

Discuss.

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