Noctum plays in a modern world that resembles our almost to the hair. However, the shadows are darker, people angry and hopeless life. Players take on ordinary people who are defined by the regulations in addition to their attributes and skills only by character flaws. (Good properties are of course possible to play the game but technically not matter.) From the bottom up is Noctum a horror game. But it is in his background is so flexible that you can play various topics according to your own wishes, including, for example Cosmic Horror within the meaning of Lovecraft, Slasher Films, survival horror in the style of Resident Evil or more realistic scenarios like Criminal Minds, American Psycho or sieving, to name but a few.
The rulebook contains everything you need to play. It consists of 18 chapters, the first three are for the players. They define the rules for character creation, the game rules, equipment, skills and weaknesses. Race, class or equivalent does not exist here. Players can choose their characters as you wish. The second part of the book contains the extensive background of the game world. The backstory and world are described in detail. In addition to the dark, ancient gods, there are numerous cults, sects and commercial enterprises. There is an impressive bestiary of supernatural enemies, let the already reading through many adventures ideas arise. In addition, powerful artifacts and relics, rules cursed or possessed places, objects and people, an innovative magic and PSI system for the players, as well as the obligatory chapter HOW TO GET THERE a role-playing game plays. There is a ready-made adventure game aids and specific rules for beer & pretzel Oneshots Finally. At the end of each chapter the author suggests how you can customize the game to your own wishes.
Disadvantages:
- Unfortunately, some spelling mistakes have crept in. But remains within the acceptable range.
- The list of firearms is not convincing.
- NPC creation could be more extensive.
- Some few rules difficult to understand, but declared personally in the forum of the publisher by the author.
Advantages:
- An extensive world offers many possibilities, without being overloaded.
- Adaptable to your own wishes.
- Innovative Magic System
- All in one book. No unnecessary rip-off, as the major publishers!
- No pages long errata. (Actually, a matter of course, but unfortunately not with RPGs.)
To book itself:
The book is a bound hardcover book of very good quality. There are many drawings and other images of varying quality, but they are all very atmospheric.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves horror RPGs plays and can well do without classes-systems such as the D20 system. The bandwidth that is possible with this book, is really great. One can quickly familiarize themselves with the rules and the book is well written in itself, apart from the misspellings times. Myself atmospheric stories read on the edge of what I normally never do in an RPG. One should not be deterred by the bad book covers and just to take a look into the game. Particularly for a single author, who created both rules and game world, a really nice work!
An extension band called vivisection is also already appeared. But needs only those who want to have more monsters, artifacts and adventure ideas.
