Making Levels Matter for Cyphers and Artifacts

One of the key features of Numenera Destiny is that PCs will have a robust and detailed set of rules for crafting cyphers and artifacts. Creating that involved figuring out the time and resources a PC needs to craft items at different levels—for example, a level 5 detonation cypher is better than a level 2 detonation cypher, so it should take longer to build and require more special components. But some cyphers have effects that don’t increase as the item’s level increases.