Big News: The, ahem, second known Nobilis blog is now on the internet - The Thought-Record of Bruce Baugh. Among Bruce's many accomplishments, he is the editor of the Hogshead Nobilis line. Of course, since Bruce has kindly linked to this site, it's quite likely you came here from there.
So a few words of introduction/explanation may be in order. I'm Jim Henley. I GM a Nobilis campaign in the DC Metro area. It's actually a GM's-night-off thing - our "real" game is an Amber campaign that's been running for not quite a year and a half now. (Yes, we play Amber and Nobilis. Pretentious? Nous? Whatever...)
We began prepping for Nobilis play in August 2001, but didn't have our first session until February of this year. We used first edition until the day we could lay our hands on a copy of HogNob. I suppose I should remove the Lucy with the football jibe from the Hogshead link in the sidebar, since they did finally get the book out.
This website is, less secretly than ever, a weblog. (Bruce explains weblogs here.) It's also semischizophrenic - it pertains both to our campaign specifically and to Nobilis generally. Particularly under first edition, there was a lot of talk along the lines of "Nice game. What do I do with it?" I thought that a behind-the-curtain look into a functioning campaign would provide at least a partial derivative of an answer.
It also has information that is supposed to be of interest to the Nobilis community generally, such as the Variant items posted below.
We have a category system that may make it easier to find what you're looking for - see the sidebar at right (unless you used Netscape 4, in which case you've already given up).
Administrivia - You almost certainly don't care about these posts. It's updates about the site itself or yadayada about mechanical details about the campaign (meeting at so-and-so's house, e.g.)
Devices: Operating Nobilis - This is supposed to be a general audiences category. It includes stuff on the rules, GMing (playing, possibly), links to newly-discovered Nobilis sites and the like.
E-Mail the Webmaster - How you can get in touch with me, where you != spambot.
Fluff - Fluff isn't bad! It's just...fluffy. Fun and games type stuff.
IC: Logs - This is campaign-specific, "this is what happened" stuff. This is a group blog - all the players in our campaign have accounts - so some items are by players rather than the GM. For folks interested in "How one Nobilis group does it," this is worth your time. For folks not interested, give it a miss.
NPCs: Records - Campaign-specific. Our Imperator, Chancel and - well, that's all so far.
OOC: Commentary - Also campaign-specific. This includes talk about the campaign, by players and GM. It also includes some long - I won't say "substantial" - items I've written that use the example of our campaign to talk about GMing Nobilis specifically.
PCs: Records - Honest. Sooner or later this will include a handy list of all player-characters in our campaign. Right now, almost nothing.
Understanding Nobilis - An essay on gameplay, the Rwandan genocide and the supernatural, not necessarily in that order.
Variants - Playtime. Things to do with Nobilis beyond the rulebook. The first offerings are "Double-One Player Nobilis" and "Single-Player Nobilis Minus One."
Welcome - Items like this one.
Archives by Date - When I started this site in February, I had a notion of using a blogging tool (Movable Type) to make a website that didn't actually look like a weblog. I lost interest in that goal and added the date archives over the weekend. Using the date archives you can read all entries for a month, in (reverse) order, regardless of category.
Being a blog, this site gets updated at least several times a month, so come back!
Also, if someone were so kind as to mention this site's existence on the Nobilis mailing list, I'd be very grateful. (I haven't signed up since I can't handle the traffic.)
Posted by supplanter at July 16, 2002 09:50 PM