So I've seen Numenara played, and I love the cipher system. I also love random tables that do things. One of the big aspects of Numenara that I really enjoy is the cipher system. Ciphers are essentially items that can do anything, generally minor, and have random ways of activation or drawbacks.
Generally their odd things like some phasing device that increases your difficulty to be hit, but makes it difficult for you to keep hold of anything. They're also generally one use items, so players find them fairly often.
Anyways if anyone else has played Numenara or seen it or read it do you think their item system might be useful for creating minor archaeotech/maltech/daemontech/xenotech?