The Game
Nightsong is a tabletop role-playing game of high fantasy in a world descending into the forever long night. You emerge from an amber tomb into a vast land of towering trees and ethereal dreamlines. Your memories are gone, but your purpose awaits.Navigate the regions of Penumbra as an Oro, sentient bug-folk connected through the dream of dreams.Soar through the Voidways aboard giant insects, explore the depths of the Undergrowth, and beseech the eight Beast-Gods who shaped reality for the strength to endure the encroaching shadows.
The Features
START SIMPLE; EXPAND AS NEEDED: The core rules fit on just a few pages, character sheet included. When you want deeper combat, exploration, or procedures, bolt on extra pages or digital modules. Solo rules, tables, or adventures drop in the same way.EXPLORE A WORLD OF NOSTALGIA, SORROW, AND CHAOS: Penumbra is a realm of beauty stained by loss. Each region, faction, and traveler mixes wonder with grief. As a free blade you may profit from the rising Curses or stand against them; play to see how your choices reshape the land.TOUCH THE MECHANICS ONLY WHEN YOU WANT:Play flows as conversation. Player and GM share a set of actions, like buttons on an unseen controller; press one to bring dice into the story. Every action pushes the fiction forward and hands control back to the table.ONE CORE ROLL; LEARN IT ONCE: Roll a pool of d6s, counting every 5 or 6 as a hit. Actions resolve on three tiers: two or more hits, one hit, or none. Most of the system follows this ladder. Sometimes attributes feed the pool; sometimes stress does. More hits mean greater stakes.OPEN LICENSE; EVER‑GROWING UNIVERSE: The rules and setting carry a permissive license so anyone can publish expansions, hacks, or adventures. We will keep adding official material in steady bursts; the community is invited to do the same, so Penumbra never runs dry.
PLAY-TESTING
We're currently in the playtesting phase of the game. If you want to participate, be sure to join our Discord !
