Monte Cook has boiled down what he believes to be the essentials of a roleplaying game and incorporated them into Numenera. I can’t say his direction would be the same as my own but there’s a ton of goodness to be found within the four hundred plus pages of the tome and regardless if you were to run Numenera as printed or incorporate some changes – or mine nuggets for your own gaming gang – you’ll surely want to grab a copy.