Philippe Tromeur's page about NOBILIS ( mirror index jdr jdrtalk nobilis ) Nobilis en Français Scroll down for informations in English La fiche de Nobilis sur le GROG Une Critique de Nobilis (émission du 25 janvier 2002) sur Radio Vortex le site de deux dés sans faces un beau site en Français (avec des trucs à télécharger) Nobilis disponible ! / Nobilis on the Shelves ! en Suisse / en France Les Publicités en Français   Resources A simple character sheet for Nobilis first edition : .pdf file Sample Martial Art Gifts : on this site F.A.Q. (my personal answers) : on this site You can also have a look on the web about the Language of Flowers , very important in Nobilis.   The Author : R. Sean Borgstrom Wind in the Flowers a series of Articles, on rpg.net , about the re-design of Nobilis (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) A personal page from the author, about gaming http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~rsean/gaming/ (with " Tree's Heart Dynasty ", an experimental Roleplay Game)   The Art Art Notes (advice to the artists) Bryan Talbot : his art for the game (4 pieces) Sample Art from Hogshead's Nobilis : on this site ads (in English & French)   The Publishers : Pharos / Hogshead / 2d0 New publisher's web site : Hogshead Publishing release date of the new edition : October 2001 Click HERE for official Nobilis art from Hogshead's site Publishers of the French language edition : 2d0 release date : end 2001 Former Publisher web site : Pharos Press   The Fans and their sites An 'unofficial' and excellent page : Ash and Chrysanthemum Some personal pages about the game : Lesser Creations : some sample characters Charles Schmidt's Page : some ideas to clarify the rules Brent Newhall's Page : campaign diary (with character descriptions) Wak'âdja, the Thunder Bird : a character The Nobilis Protocols : links Amadan's Nobilis Page : interesting heresies mythgodz : a bit empty for the moment "THOUGHT RECORDS" : a campaign, links ... "Briar and Honeysuckle" : one scenario (at the bottom of this page) meatlightning : send your ideas ... The Mailing list : http://www.nocturne.org/nobilis/ (inscriptions and archives) The Nobilis Forum @ http://www.webrpg.com/   Happy reviews ( www.rpg.net ) Alexander Williams [...] Set against them, the Excrucians, creatures from Beyond who wish to destroy things. Utterly. And the things they want to destroy are things like Joy, Happiness, Pleasure, Pain, Leaves -- in short, every single facet of everything that ever existed on the World Tree. Heaven resists because that destroys beauty, Hell because there must be an existance to corrupt, the Light because it imperils Humanity, the Dark because self-destruction is the Dark's goal not destruction from beyond, and the Wild because nothing is less free than nullity. The Excrucians say that everything they destroy is remembered for eternity and exists eternally within them. [...] Kevin Maginn [...] Nobilis envelops and encompasses and synthesizes every human tradition [...] and brings them all together into a coherent whole which is darkly aberrant and exquisitely beautiful at the same time. It's the sort of game for people who want to do things on a tremendously epic scale, who want to tell new tales that could stand up with Arthurian legend and the story-cycles of every culture. Nobilis is syncretism writ large across an infinite canvas; it's perhaps the first self-consciously postmodern roleplaying game [...] Mike Sullivan [...] Just reading the book is enough to give any GM worth her snuff a half dozen new ideas, and even if playing it ends up being a complete disaster, it will almost assuredly be an interesting and educational disaster [...] Almost everything you can run across is both awesome and terrible, capable of great kindness or horrible depravity in the same breath. This isn't the "shades of grey" morality that is so often claimed by the grittier RPG's, but an out and out amorality reminiscent of some of the more authentic tales of Celtic faeries [...]