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You just described Numenera, if you've never read/played it I'd highly recommend giving it a shot!

It takes place billions of years in the future in what it calls the "9th World", when some mysterious beings just went away.

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Never heard of it, but will definitely give it a shot. At this point I'd read the books only to learn more about the setting. Thank you.

For an anti-recommendation, my experience with it is that the setting is interesting, but the system is just a weirdly boring-yet-fiddly derivative of D&D-alikes that doesn't touch on even a fraction of the narrative potential of the setting.

The Cypher system is definitively kinda shit. It’s easier to DM in some ways, but it’s just very unrefined, and badly in need of a 2nd edition subject to more playtesting.

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