The 1-Minute Game System
Learn to Play
The Rising, the engine behind Nova City Heroes and Hunger, Ohio, one rule at a time. Every video takes about a minute.
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What is the Rising?
One minute on the whole idea: the GM asks what you do, you say it in plain words, and the dice come out only when the outcome is genuinely in doubt. Then carry on with Season 1.
The seasons
Pick up where you left off
Season 1 · 7 episodes
The Roll
Everything you need to play your first scene: the roll, the results, Fallout and Clocks.
Season 2 · 7 episodes
Who Your Hero Is
Hope, skills, the ways to act, Truths and Anchors: what makes your hero more than a stat block.
Season 3 · 2 episodes · more coming
Powers, Harm and Teams
Building powers, Showstoppers, getting hurt, and how a team holds together.
Season 4 · Coming soon
Action and the Deck
Scenes and exchanges, safety at the table, and the Rising Deck.
Season 5 · Coming soon
Making Heroes
Origins and Callings, building a hero step by step, the Community, and The Becoming.
Every episode
Episode index
Season 1: The Roll
- 1. What is the Rising?
- 2. Your first roll
- 3. Surges and Cracks
- 4. Reading the roll
- 5. Building your Pool
- 6. Fallout
- 7. Clocks
Season 2: Who Your Hero Is
- 8. Earning Hope
- 9. Spending Hope
- 10. The nine skills
- 11. The four ways to act
- 12. Truths
- 13. The five Anchors
- 14. Reserve and Heritage
Season 3: Powers, Harm and Teams
More of Season 3, then Seasons 4 and 5, are on the way. New episodes go up on YouTube first.
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Start with the free QuickStart
Everything in these videos comes from Nova City Heroes: First Light. The QuickStart has everything you need for your first night in Nova City.
