The world of Nova City Heroes

Explore Nova City

Twelve thousand heroes vanished in a day. This is the city they left behind.

Nobody is coming. Except, perhaps, you.

Powers are waking in ordinary people. Gangs are moving into the gap. Every neighbourhood is waiting to see who will stand with them.

The districts

Six neighbourhoods worth saving

Hopetown

Community, and the people heroism is for.

Carson District

Corporate power and the gleaming centre.

Foundry District

Workers and neighbourhoods under pressure.

Harborside

Shipping, trade and crime on the waterfront.

Academy District

A new generation finding its place.

Nightfall

Nightlife, and danger beneath the neon.

Player-safe guides on World Anvil, with no major campaign revelations.

The Carson Plan for Nova City, 1948 to 1950: a period public-planning map of the city's districts and coastline.

The map

The Carson Plan

The city as its planners imagined it. Tap the map to open it full size.

Every district · People and factions

Choose your route

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Free QuickStart

Have the QuickStart?

Prep your first session and pick a district.

QuickStart Companion

Have First Light?

Character, team and session support.

Game Companion

Guides: the Guide’s Vault and Legacy Archive contain major spoilers.

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