“The tragedy of life is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.”

Noir World is film noir, powered by the Apocalypse. It's an RPG of emotion, tragedy, risk, and relationships. The game tells the stories of characters who don't neatly fit into the binary of good and evil and live with the terrible consequences of their emotionally fueled choices. There will be a crime of some kind - but it may be yet to happen or have happened, be the focus of the story or just a dash of spice to the narrative.

In this game, the role of Director rotates around every player to create a weaving narrative full of surprises with characters in conflict with each other in the pursuit of their goals. The players all work together to ensure that all characters get the spotlight in the tale that the group creates and that the characters' stories all reach satisfying conclusions, no matter how dark they might be.