History TabletopGame / Nightbane

** [[TarotCards Cartomancy.]]

* InnateNightVision: Several different races of supernatural creatures either have this as a natural ability or can acquire it through character building, though different groups often have vastly different levels of effectiveness with it. Nightbane, for example, can get this as one of their starting powers depending on what they roll for their character sheet with the many different Morphus types getting enhanced or weakened variants of it.

* TheMenInBlack: A few factions and groups use this as their main aesthetic. The NSB agents are probably the most straightforward example, though [[{{Irony}}the vast majority of them are actually monstrous evil entities that support the Nightlords in secret.]]

* NamesTheSame: The Baal use the names of famous devils (such as Lilith) but they are not those beings (who exist in other parts of The Megaverse.)

* AdditionPowered: The ''Dark Designs'' sourcebook introduced a brand new Substance Abuse table for Nightbane that get most of their powers from various types of drug addictions. (For example, alcoholics get a Morphus constantly soaked and dripping with booze while pill poppers have the ability to grow pill bottles out of their own skin.) [[DrugsAreBad The section also comes with a disclaimer warning against doing drugs in real life and advising all potential players to immediately seek help if they find themselves suffering from any kind of substance problem.]]

* Deathworld: Again, the Nightlands. Most of the terrain is an infinite wasteland filled with little more than rocks and gravel, instead of the saltwater oceans of Earth there are large plains of sand similar to the Utah Salt Flats that stretch for miles and freshwater is only found in a few small rivers and streams. Oh, and the whole place is run by demonic otherworldly entities that love nothing more than enslaving, torturing and murdering whatever poor creatures enter their domain. Even Nightbane characters can have a hard time surviving in this place.

** WhenTreesAttack: Options range from minor tree features such as thick bark skin all the way to being a humanoid tree.

* MurderousMannequin: Though they can be any alignment just like other Nightbane its possible for players to roll up a character with the features of a department store mannequin as their Morphus. Unsurprisingly, this eerie new form gives them a small bonus to Horror Factor and a few other stats.

The setting is this: On March 6, 2000, the entire planet was shrouded in unnatural darkness for three days. This was due to The Nightlords, a secret cabal of supernatural beings from another dimension, and their shapeshifting minions, who then quietly seized control of the world's governments and corporate powers. It was also during this darkness that thousands of people learned that they could become inhuman monsters with strange powers and often terrifying visages. These shapechanging beings are called the Nightbane, for it was at night that they become monsters. It is now up to the Nightbane to save the Earth from the Nightlords with the rest of humanity unaware of their secret war.

!Tropes in Nightbane:

* LayeredWorld: Has multiple realms in the form of the [[DarkWorld Nightlands]], the [[SpiritWorld Astral Plane]], and the [[DreamWorld Dream Stream]].

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: One of the possible traits Nightbane can get on the Alien Shape table is unnaturally colored skin. (This can range from simple unusual hues such as red, blue or green to more outlandish and fantastical colors such as metallic grey, gold, pitch black or completely white.)

* FlayingAlive: One possible Stigmata Table characteristic for a Nightbane is large patches of missing skin. In the more extreme cases this can apply to their ''whole body'' as well.