Nova Aetas: Renaissance

🎃 Halloween rush! 🎃
over 3 years ago – Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:42:03 AM

🎃🎃🎃 We are thrilled to announce a new challenge dedicated to Halloween. 🎃🎃🎃

Help us to reach the terrifying goal of $700K by October 31st, and we will reward you all with a new model from this creepy concept art. It will be a Venetian enemy in Nova Aetas, and a legendary summon in Black Rose Wars! This is a bonus stretch goal that will be added to the "classic" stretch goal progression.

How can you help us achieve this?

Involve and engage your gaming community, share opinions and images on social networks, spread the word.

To help achieve this result, tomorrow we will also release a new add-on, an expansion requested by many of you over the last years. Like each aspect of the main game, this expansion has been revisited to make it even more engaging.

Last night, staring at the lake in front of me,  a constellation mirrored in the dark water, attracting my attention. Libra... the zodiac sign devoted to balance, symmetry... so powerful, so insecure.

                                                                                                                                                            Jafar the Divinator

Today we present you Libra.

This zodiac sign is particularly helpful for those heroes who are not very resistant, for those who will easily fall in battle if not well supported. Just see it in action in the next image.

And even more... another special Social Stretch Goal will be announced tomorrow, guess what?

"He watches you when you’re sleeping
Around the corner he is creeping
You see a shadow on the wall
And think that you imagined it all..."

Another couple of spoilers here 😱

See you tomorrow!

The Gaea's Keeper
over 3 years ago – Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:25:10 AM

The priestess was in front of us, proud and not at all intimidated by our presence. Valerio, as usual, assaulted her with contemptuous words. But with a gesture of her hands, the priestess pushed him aside, unleashing a powerful flow of purple energy. Valerio was thrown against a giant tree but immediately stood up, wiping his bloody mouth with his arm. Rebecca turned to the priestess, with a gaze mixed with admiration and fear. She realized that we had arrived at the moment of truth. The hardest fight of our adventure was about to begin."

                                                                                                                                               Vincenzo the Novice

Hello, Heroes!

Today we will introduce you to one of the deadliest enemies you will encounter during your campaign: Vera the Priestess of the Fauns.

Vera is one of the priestesses of Gaea and is a respected and feared leader within the faun tribe.

Her role is even more important than any normal priestess as she is the guardian of the Blood of Gaea, the mysterious artifact you have been asked to recover. It is a cherished artifact that could change the fate of the War of the League of Cambrai and therefore is craved by both Rome and Venice.

Vera will prove to be a formidable opponent for our Heroes and you will have to show great courage and strategy to be able to steal her precious artifact; and even if you do, you can be sure that you have made Vera an implacable enemy of your adventuring troupe who will stop at nothing to recover what you have stolen from her!

Do you feel ready to face this formidable priestess? (By the way, did you know that you may also face Vera’s future successor, Lilith, in the future episodes of the Nova Aetas universe continued with D.E.I.?)

That’s all for today and stay tuned for more surprises tomorrow!

Destiny is in the stars
over 3 years ago – Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 01:04:55 AM

"Many people think that the practice of observing the stars is for charlatans... but, in truth, I tell you that destiny for each of us is already written. Only the stars, and those who can read them, know it."

                                                                                                                                                           Jafar the Divinator

Hello Heroes!

We are entering the central part of the campaign and after a crazy start that has left us breathless (in every sense) we can now enjoy more calmly the many SGs unlocked so far, always keeping an eye on the things that still await you ... it will be 20 really exciting days!

Today we will talk about the Zodiac Cards!

These 12 cards will allow you to further customize your heroes by giving them an ability linked to the chosen zodiac sign.

Before the first mission in which you will use a Hero, you will be able to select one of the 12 Zodiac signs, taking the corresponding Zodiac Card and keeping it from there on near your Hero Sheet. Choose carefully as it will not be possible to change Zodiac Sign during the campaign and also there can never be two Heroes with the same Zodiac Sign.

How to choose the Zodiac sign for your favorite Hero? Well, it's all in your hands!

You can select your Zodiac Sign, so if you are a Scorpio, your Hero will be a Scorpio!

Or, if you like super-efficient combos, you can choose the Sign that best matches your Hero's abilities or play style. Finally, you can let yourself be guided by the Hero's background and choose the Zodiac sign that best represents their nature (for example we are quite sure that Rebecca is a Leo), or finally, you may draft them!

Let's take a look at some of the skills these cards will provide you with.

Some will give you stat bonuses when you make a particular attack, for example, Sagittarius will give you a Reroll for ranged attacks, and it will surely be greatly appreciated by Sofia and the Mediceo.

We will reveal all the zodiac signs during the campaign with the next updates!

In the meantime, why don't you tell us which Zodiac signs our 6 heroes belong to? Give us your ideas on the board and in the Update messages!

See you soon!

Let the Hunt begin!
over 3 years ago – Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:14:04 AM

Hunts in the original version of Nova Aetas were fun and unpredictable missions, they were giving you the chance to find exceptional equipments, very helpful for the main campaign.

By simply going into a tavern in the city between one game session and the next one, you were having access to a specific deck of cards with all those missions.

Unfortunately, being our very first project on Kickstarter, the funds raised did not allow us to unlock all the miniatures of the hunts and some of these used simple tokens instead of three-dimensional models.

With this version of the game we have studied a more engaging system.

Basic mechanics remained the same as in the original game, each Prey has its own card, with characteristics and abilities,  and a set of mini cards with all behaviors and attacks for the Prey.

Each time the Horologium activates the enemy, you draw a card from his deck and apply its effects.

If the Prey is defeated it will allow the heroes to recover some reagents that could be used to craft special weapons and equipments.

These Formula cards will be available immediately, so reagents will be the only thing you need to find.

The biggest change are the missions that will bring you on the Hunt.

Hunts will now be contained in mysterious boxes, with no reference to the content, only one symbol will distinguish them from each other.

When you get the mission in the tavern, it will not tell you clearly which enemy you are going to face, the text will address you to a section of the plot book, where you will find rumors, up to you to judge if they are true or misleading.

Only when you will reach the destination, the mission card will indicate you which hunt box to open, through its symbol, and just now you will discover which enemy you need to face.

Symbols have been studied to make them similar but not identical, to make difficult the connection between each symbol and the content, to preserve the surprise of discovery as much as possible.

You met Hyperion at launch.

For now, you have unlocked the fiercy Chimera.

A new Hunt will be available as add on: the Minotaur!

But don't worry, we have studied many other Hunts for you, we will reveal other powerful and scary creatures in the next days.

and now... a little spoiler...

New enemies!
over 3 years ago – Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:05:01 AM

Hello Heroes!

The campaign proceeds at full speed! You are doing an amazing job, you unlocked an avalanche of Stretch Goals!

Let's have a look at the Stretch Goals unlocked so far, starting from Alternative Enemies!

For those who love to have many different models on the battlefield (we are among them), to give a great visual variety, in this first wave of Stretch Goals, many of them are alternative models for the Enemies originally included in the Core box.

For example, instead of 10 Swiss Guards we now have 5 Swiss Guards and 5 Swiss Keepers.

More than that, these SGs don't give you just an alternative pose, but proper new models in all aspects, including different Enemy Cards that will add even more variety to your Missions!!

The new Enemies will have different characteristics and abilities from the original ones, and they will challenge your heroes with new tactics!

For missions that involve the use of Reinforcement Points (the old Spawning Points), you can add the new Draft Cards to the Enemy Deck , this will make missions more unpredictable and different.

Speaking of variety, among the many SGs already unlocked you have the first two new tiles, again not just aesthetic, but with new in game characteristics; mountainous areas, rich of rocks and dangerous protrusions that will limit your movement, insidious Swamps full of dangers, with animals hidden in the water. These new Tiles could replace the original Tiles in some Missions (especially in the Side Missions) increasing the difficulty and adding even more lifespan to NAR.

We have studied other different tiles with dedicated terrains and with additional rules, we very much look forward to unlock them to give even more variety and depth to the base game.

A small spoiler on the Guest Star Missions, which just appeared in the SG list!

It's a series of Side Missions, created by some of the most talented Italian Game Designers, real guest stars who enjoyed to help us making Nova Aetas Renaissance even better!

The first special guest is Stefano Castelli ("Potion Explosion", "Minute Realms") who will bring your heroes with a very special Mission into the house of Lorenzo Della Volpaia, a true Renaissance genius; beware... the house is full of traps, clocks and other weird mechanisms.

Are you curious? We will give you more details soon!