First session you let the players run through a few villages and let them realize how OP their characters are. End of first session you then slap their shit in by someone else who is a nobilis. Then play politics for 13 sessions in a row and watch every combat=fun player leave the game.

>>46156148
My understanding is that you buy it and put it on a shelf for 6 months then you read it an think "This has some cool ideas mixed into the weird anime god and goddess bullshit. I can make this work!" Then you try to get a group together with your home brewed setting but nobody else knows anything about Nobilis so you end up GMing Pathfinder and looking longingly at the Nobilis book on your shelf.

Nobilis is the best game you'll never play. It's a gorgeous, artistic masterpiece of RPG design which doesn't really work as an actual game.

>>46156148
Mostly, politics and factional intrigue. A game broad enough to have the Gods of Gravity, Swordfighting, and Cake in the same party, and all actually able to meaningfully contribute, is less about smashing face and more about social interaction. If this does not appeal to your group, pick a different game.

>>46156198

If your goal is to play without combat, and you look down on players who enjoy combat, why would you open the first session with combat?

Are you not familiar with the idea "start as you mean to go on"?

>>46158760
Are you not familiar with the idea of satire?

>>46156411
>Then you try to get a group together with your home brewed setting but nobody else knows anything about Nobilis so you end up GMing Pathfinder and looking longingly at the Nobilis book on your shelf

Doesn't that apply to any game other than Pathfinder?

I don't want to have to learn Pathfinder. There's too much stuff in it for me to read.

>>46156148
Looks neat, any pdf anywhere? The one on kat has no seeders

>>46160376
Here you go myself, good job checking the archives

http://www.mediafire.com/download/rxcykxkw2j41bcd/nobilis+core+rulebook+%28printable%29.pdf