Tar Markvar
First Post
When I first looked at Nobilis, I went, "Oh great, another pretentious game where the players are uberpowers, and where Random word are Capitalized and Turned into Game Terms." The GM is called the Hollyhock God, the players are Powers, and each Power has an effective anti-magic shield called an Auctoritas. I quickly decided that th1s g4m3 b3 suxx0r. In my game group, the phrase, "I'm being effected by your Auctoritas" came to mean, "you're being pretentious and insincere."
But reading more on it, the idea sounds really, really cool. The idea is that you've been given a shard of a divine soul and placed in charge of a portion of reality. Thanks to this, you're far more powerful than any mortal on the planet, and you and your "Familia" are given a little pocket realm in which you have nearly ultimate power. You serve the being that gave you the power, and you try to protect reality (especially your little slice of it) from a group of beings that seek only to destroy everything (including Destruction). The Mage/Ars Magica fan in me perked up.
Now I can't stop thinking about it. I'm going to get the book at my next convenience.
Has anyone played this game? I've never done diceless before (Nobilis is diceless, but not conflict/rule free), and I've never played in a game where the PCs started out quite that powerful. Does anyone have anecdotes/tales/samples of play to share?
But reading more on it, the idea sounds really, really cool. The idea is that you've been given a shard of a divine soul and placed in charge of a portion of reality. Thanks to this, you're far more powerful than any mortal on the planet, and you and your "Familia" are given a little pocket realm in which you have nearly ultimate power. You serve the being that gave you the power, and you try to protect reality (especially your little slice of it) from a group of beings that seek only to destroy everything (including Destruction). The Mage/Ars Magica fan in me perked up.
Now I can't stop thinking about it. I'm going to get the book at my next convenience.
Has anyone played this game? I've never done diceless before (Nobilis is diceless, but not conflict/rule free), and I've never played in a game where the PCs started out quite that powerful. Does anyone have anecdotes/tales/samples of play to share?