What is Nocturnal?
Nocturnal is a modern ghost-hunting tabletop RPG focused on investigation, supernatural Patterns, and consequence-driven play. Players investigate hauntings, uncover the hidden structures sustaining them, and attempt to resolve them before the situation escalates.
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Is Nocturnal about fighting ghosts?
No.
Characters do not solve problems through combat alone. Hauntings are symptoms of deeper Patterns beneath reality. Players survive manifestations long enough to understand the problem and resolve the Pattern sustaining it.
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What are Patterns?
Patterns are repeating supernatural structures that sustain hauntings. Every Pattern is built from three elements:
Anchor Feed Trigger
Investigators uncover these elements through investigation and use that knowledge to resolve the haunting.
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What kind of characters do players create?
Players create investigators, researchers, mediums, journalists, clergy, occult specialists, survivors, skeptics, and ordinary people drawn into supernatural events. Characters are capable, but they are not superheroes.
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How does magic work in the game?
Supernatural intervention always carries consequences. Psychic abilities, rituals, sigils, and other methods of interference generate Cost through:
Stress Exposure Attention Corruption
There is no completely safe use of power.
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How complete is the game?
The core game is already substantially written and currently undergoing editing, layout preparation, and final refinement. This Kickstarter primarily funds artwork, layout, formatting, and production.
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