Review of Revelations I: Night Music

Revelations I: Night Music Review Summary

Capsule Review
February 2, 1998
Edited: August 28, 2017


by: Scott Shafer


Style: 4 (Classy & Well Done)
Substance: 3 (Average)



Scott Shafer has written 107 reviews, with average style of 3.91 and average substance of 3.66 The reviewer's previous review was of In Nomine Game Master Pack.The reviewer's next review is of Revelations II: The Marches.

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Revelations I: Night Music Product Summary

Name: Revelations I: Night Music
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
System: In Nomine (1e)
Setting: Modern
Author: Derek Pearcy, James Cambias, Sam Chupp, S. John Ross, John Tynes
Category: RPG

Cost: 17.95
Pages: 128
Year: 1997

SKU: 3303
ISBN: 1-55634-289-6


Review of Revelations I: Night Music


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This was the first release in In Nomine's Revelations cycle. It contains rules for soldiers of God, soldiers of Hell, the undead, saints of God, and some new superiors. Most of the book contains a write-up on In Nomine Austin, which might give a person ideas on how to run a city, but for a city of that size, it's crawling with celestials.

The game is supposed to emphasize the importance of human beings, there are precious few of them in these scenarios. Humans are only of value in how they relate to celestials. The central scenario in the game requires for certain events to take place- the PCs can't really affect events one way or the other. I give this one a "C." They could've put new superiors in one book, extra rules in another, and scenarios in another book, but they mixed them into one bookŠand it weakens the whole. This book is distinctly averageŠit wou've been better with a scenario that would've allowed for player influence in events, and a scenario that depended less on the relationships that the NPCs had would be nice. It shows off the work that Steve Jackson Games did in writing and playtesting (?), but I question its utility for other players and GMs.

Style: 4 (Classy and well done)
Substance: 3 (Average)

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