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What Is Noctum?

Noctum is a role-playing game that presents our own world through the gritty lens of survival horror and psychological suspense thrillers. It is a grim version of modern society. People know of the violence and cruelty that thrive outside their safety bolted apartment doors, and the government instills mistrust and spreads cynicism through the media. It is a way to keep the huddled masses distracted from society’s real problems as a whole. This aggravates people’s already deep-rooted fears. Threats of terrorist acts, mass shootings and serial killings are plastered all over the news; every report is brutal in its graphic representation. The nights grow longer and the days go by in a haze of gray.

At a first glance all you see is everyday life, but something is terribly wrong, and that something is a horror so ancient and powerful that even the strongest and sanest mind will crumble under its immense shadow, as it instills despair wherever it is cast.

Crazed lunatics take the lives of innocents in the belief that it is the path to eternal life, a faith given to them by the whispers in their heads. Incomprehensible governmental departments, motivated by misguided doctrines, work in obscurity to unearth long since gone and forgotten manuscripts. Biogenetic experimentation goes unchecked, as unscrupulous branches of hidden research and development laboratories have no one to watch over them.

The representatives of the people are seldom better. Faceless politicians take nameless strippers to the backrooms, forcing them to commit the most depraved sexual acts imaginable, and sometimes the girl is never seen again.

Features

A Fight or Flight monitor and rules to keep track of the characters’ fear and adrenaline and the changed stats that go with them.
An in-depth system dealing with mental stress, depression and an array of mental disorders; this includes rules that allow a character skilled in psychology to help or break another individual.
Game mechanics that enable you to play everything from ghastly and suspenseful CSI type investigative conspiracy stories to gritty and dark bullet-time style action scenarios using the Duke Mode.
Cinematic system used to create horror movie type one-shots by employing the 12 Trouble Traits, which guarantee that the characters are drawn into the story and dangerous situations.
Information on serial killers and how to go about profiling them.
Several harrowing weaknesses that define the very characters you play.
Forty-five detailed NPCs and unique minions of darkness. Fill in the blank autopsy reports to create horrific handouts. Illustrating how the victims of these creatures have been slaughtered will surely spice up any horror story.
Rules concerning sect indoctrination and how you can deprogram members of sects in order to free them from their slavery.
A narrative game mechanics that allows players to use a character’s skills and fields of expertise without having to roll a single die. A smooth way to deal with investigations and the progression of scenes.
A staggering amount of information dealing with the game universe and the hidden powers, including detailed information on sixteen cults and organisations.
Information and rules, which let characters possess paranormal and magical abilities, defining black, white, grey and dark magic. This mechanic uses the seven aspects cards in order to determine whether a character keeps his power under control or gives way to his inner demons.
A system that lets you handle curses, possession and stains of evil that may jump from one individual to another by touch alone.
Seventeen stereotypes that players may use to create unique characters.
Nine different styles of play that give you the tools you need to create all kinds of horror.
The horrifying introduction adventure Theft of Innocence.

Noctum is a role-playing game of dark horror set it our day and age. It delves into subjects some might find disturbing and is best suited for mature players.