Numenera: General Discussion.

[Kaun]

I'm positive that effort is expended no matter what. (It's the GUMSHOE system, effectively, just multiplied by three.) The reason a touch-based Esotery doesn't expend effort except on a successful touch attack would seem to be because the touch attack is a precursor to whatever roll you make to cast the Esotery? I don't actually own the book, but that's what it sounds like to me.

Yeah thats the way i figured it would work but the wording made it a little confusing.

(I played in a short-run campaign of this. Tons of interesting weird stuff flying around.)

The Difficulty scale bugs me a little--it just seems like an obtusely extra layer of math to go through. If it were me, I'd just use DCs ranging from 3 to 30.

Otherwise, it runs nice and fluidly.

Yeah i really like the difficulty scaling thing. It seems very fluid to me. The DC/TN is something you only need to worry about if you cant get the Action Difficulty down to 0