Comments on: Reviving an Obscure Role-Playing Game: Nightbane

By: Nathanael Phillip Cole

Nathanael Phillip Cole — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:45:03 +0000

Hell yeah! Some of my fondest memories are of the Nightbane game. Ran a long campaign involving characters in a punk-rock band each evolving into Archons of the Battle of the Night… but that’s a long story for another time. I still have all the books and look at them longingly from time to time.

@Andozone: I’ve already beat you to it! Check out my KnownWorld rewrite of the Palladium rules. I’m working on adapting it to the greater Megaverse, and I’d love to see someone try it with Nightbane. =)

By: Kishi

Kishi — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:12:31 +0000

A great game, heck, just creating your character could be a lot of fun. The book is pretty poorly put together- character creation, at times, tells you to roll on charts that don’t exist- but still enjoyable.

By: andozane

andozane — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:19:51 +0000

Nightspawn was a great game, Trask you introduced me to it.

I really loved the setting and the mystery involved….if it wasn’t for the rules system and a lack of time for RPG’s these days (what with a bi-weekly Dark Heresy game, bi-weekly D&D game, and a Monthly D&D game), I’d do a rewrite of the rules and run it!

Oh Palladium…re-do your rules, please???

By: greywulf

greywulf — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:53:57 +0000

Wow. That’s a Palladium game I’d never heard of. Sounds very cool though, and well worth getting to mine the setting for other systems.

The only Palladium game where the system felt like it worked well was TMNT. We played the heck out of that game back in the day. Happy times.

Thanks!