Hello everyone. I plan to run a Nightbane Play by Post game starting in the middle of July. The campaign will feature players in a world filled with supernatural horror years after a secret invasion of ancient godlike sorcerers have invaded and taken over the world without mankind in general knowing.
For background details I suggest reading Nightbane The Role-Playing game by Palladium Books (link bellow). The original book will be considered canonical for this game. If playing any of the supernatural beings your character may be completely ignorant of the supernatural world.
The planned scope of this game will be semi-sandbox in the following two senses.
- Your characters will be expected to actively be fighting against the forces of the ba’al and their minions.
- You will be expected to make characters motivated to fight the ba’al.
- All characters must be genre appropriate for the horror themed game.
Content Warning: This game will be run with a very dark PG13 it will be filled with many horror and adult themes. Sometimes people go a little to far in horror games so before it starts I am laying down two ground rules.
I am not interested in GMing or reading and will still be forbidden content.
- There will be no on scene sexual victimization.
- Racial slurs while in character for some will not be tolerated
Resources: The following resources will be heavily used and referenced. I will not be copy and pasting a bunch of copyrighted materials. Instead the player can be expected to review any needed reference material in the Nightbane RPG.
Nightbane Role Playing Game
Savage Worlds Horror Companion
Savage Worlds Super Powers Companion 2
The following will be used a little by the GM for some guidelines on potential idea mining, but will require a case by case request.
Savage Worlds Fantasy Companion
Pacing & Expectations: This game may go a little slower than the normal one Game Master post per week based on the GM post being reactionary as opposed to directed. While I normally try to time my GM posts for the weekends (normally Friday/Saturday).
Joining and participating in the Hangout will be a requirement for this game.
Design Considerations: I made no effort to maintain the mechanical nature of constructions in the source game. Instead I chose to convert the concepts of the Nightbane in a reasonably close way. I had some key considerations when doing this. I did not use the version on Google+ because I am not going for the level of power presented there. Instead i am targeting characters closer to the Heroic level. I am open to criticism on improvements, but franking do not plan to read or consider blanket ‘This I all wrong, do it my way’ views as I plan on the game to start in only a few weeks.
Faction Edges and Setting Rules