Nightbane
Front cover of the Nightbane core rulebook, illustrated by Gerald Brom
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| Designer(s) | C. J. Carella, Kevin Siembieda, Irvin Jackson, Kevin Hassall, Mark Oberle, Jason Vey |
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| Illustrator(s) | Wayne Breaux, Jr., Gerald Brom, Kent Burles, Fred Fields, Scott Johnson, Vince Martin, Martin McKenna, Ramón Pérez, Roger Peterson, Randy Post, John Zeleznik, et al. |
| Publisher(s) | Palladium Books |
| Publication date | August 1995 |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Genre(s) | Dark fantasy, horror, superhero |
| Language(s) | English |
| System(s) | Megaversal |
| Website | palladiumbooks |
Nightbane is a dark fantasy role-playing game and setting created by C. J. Carella and published in 1995 by Palladium Books. The game uses Palladium's Megaversal system, which is also used by the multi-genre game Rifts and the horror game Beyond the Supernatural, among others.
Originally published under the title Nightspawn, the game's name was changed after legal threats from the lawyers of Todd McFarlane, creator of the Spawn comic book.
The world of Nightbane is a dark fantasy setting very much like our own modern world on the surface, but beneath that, it is more sinister. Disappearances and murders are common place. Reports of monster sightings are more frequent, and people tend to feel hopeless and helpless. The reason for this is that a secret cabal of supernatural beings from another dimension and their shapeshifting minions have quietly seized control of the world's government and corporate powers.
Originally written and created by C. J. Carella, the property was revived by Palladium in July 2009 with the release of the Nightbane Survival Guide written by Irvin Jackson and Mark Oberle, who, according to podcast interviews with the authors and Palladium founder Kevin Siembieda, are expected to continue writing books for the line in the future.
On March 6, 2000, at 6:02am, the entire planet was shrouded in unnatural darkness. The darkness blocked out the sun, and neither the stars nor the moon were visible. Many believed it to be the end of the world. Governments blamed each other, thinking it to be the effect of some secret weapon. Riots, rapes, beatings, and murders were commonplace. Emergency call centers were flooded with reports of monsters roaming the streets and skies. Numerous people simply disappeared.
It was also during this darkness that thousands of people learned that they had become inhuman monsters. Many of them were killed before they knew what had happened to them. Some were killed by mobs of terrified humans, others took their own lives. Those that survived learned that they could return to their human forms. These shapechanging beings are called the Nightbane, for it was at night that they become monsters.
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