r/numenera • u/Lowlyloli • Aug 29 '26

Mass effect assets?

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Hey, I’m sure it’s been talked about, but is there any reason that the official Numenera cypher deck from the minute cook store uses mass effect assets?

We only found out in our own group after we pulled an eradicator and noticed it was the rachni queen from mass effect. We went through the deck and found even more ME assets used. I couldn’t find anything about a crossover, and the art isn’t open source, does MC have some sort of rights to the art?

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u/bearthw Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

That art comes from - or came from - Dreamstime. We used to license a small subset of art from there to help stretch budgets. Who made the art, and should they have copied it from ME? No idea. I see that particular asset is no longer available on Dreamstime so maybe it got pulled for that reason.

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u/CaelReader Aug 29 '26

Wouldn't be the first time stock art has been ripped off from a game, I saw some Skyrim assets with a filter over them being sold on dtrpg

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u/rodma_chmal Aug 29 '26

So you did design that thing for Numenera and then it got sold to Dreamstime, later purchased by Mass Effect or did I understood it wrong?

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u/bearthw Aug 29 '26

I don’t know the order of operations, but the art was licensed from Dreamstime. Some artist created the artwork and put it up on Dreamstime - whether they had the rights to create this art or had any connection to Mass Effect I have no idea.

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u/rodma_chmal Aug 29 '26

Wait you used ME as an abbreviation for Mass Effect 🤦🏼 I thought that you meant that someone copied a design you made.

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u/bearthw Aug 29 '26

Yeah, sorry. That was a weird abbreviation. Trying to respond quickly via the phone app. :)

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u/NezumiSkum Aug 29 '26

A good question