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New Player Handbook
Everything a Novitas player needs. This is your starting point for game rules, character creation, and essential guides. Start here!
Rules Reference
The master reference for all specific game mechanics. When you need to know exactly how something works, the answer is in here.
World of Novitas
Welcome to the world of Novitas. This section is all about the lore, history, major locations, and key players of the game setting- get lost in the story here!
Game Operations
This section covers the information on how the game runs, as well as providing resources for volunteers working at game.
Community Content
This section is for player-created content: in-game stories, character bios, and maybe more!
GM Toolkit
The GM's central guide for creating and running the game. This section holds all the plot guides, encounter plans, NPC backstories, and secret lore you need to build a living world. Potential spoilers abound!
Wiki Resources
Guides for how to edit the wiki, how the character portal integration works, and any backend documentation as well as the style guide and templates.
Player Guide
Combat
Magic
Core Rules
Safety is a paramount concern at Kingdoms of Novitas. Concerns about safety take priority over all other situations; players ignoring safety rules will be dealt with more harshly than violation of other rules, regardless of if the violation is intentional or n...
Event Information
Events take place each month (except January and July) at Camp Kingsley. Each gathering is known as an "event".Current event dates can be found on our website.
Your First Event
Character Journals
The community blog section. Create your own chapter to start your in-character blog, document your adventures, or share your stories with the community. (Note: All entries are public for other players to read, but only you can edit your own pages.)
Plot & Encounter Guidelines
NPC & Creature Database
BookStack Manual for Dummies
The technical user manual for BookStack. This book explains how to use the wiki software: creating pages, uploading images, using tags, and using bookstack's features. If your question is 'how do I do that on the wiki?', the answer is in here.
Wiki Style Guide
How to write for this wiki. This guide has all our official formatting, tone, and tagging conventions to keep the wiki consistent, clean, and easy to maintain. The full document can be found in this Google doc.This book is public so everyone in the community h...
Homepage
What it says on the box.
Player Profiles
Want to talk all about your character? Want to post their achievements so everyone remembers them, but don't want to write a blog post? Make a page here!
History of Novitas
Religion in Novitas
Religion in Varganien
History of Varganien
Workgroups
Kingdoms of Novitas is a volunteer-driven game, fully operated by players dedicating their time to make events happen. If you want to volunteer to help at events, joining a workgroup is the way to do it! The staff is led by our First Marshals: Christina Meve...
Gods and Religion
The Countries of Novitas
The Land of Varganien
Example Blog Chapter
Example Blog Chapter 2
The Origin of the World
The Golden Age
The War of the Gods
The Age of Mortals
The War of the Avatars
Modern History
Current Events
The Sept
The Dark Three
Templates
Page templates for adding and transferring things
Makeup and Costuming
We would put makeup and costuming requirements per creature here
Inn Recipes
Example
Logs Officer
Links for all the stupid pages we need to look at and guides on how to print things
Plot-Related Activities
The things you submit to the GMs after an event: recording what happened (PELs), asking the world questions (Lores), and shaping what you'll encounter next (PIPs).
Example Page
This is an example of a blog page
Example Page 2
This is an example of a second page
Brand Assets
These are the approved assets for game use. They are used throughout the wiki, mostly in the CSS/JS code, to give some accents and personality to the site. There isn't really a need to use them in your editing, but if you would like to, reach out to the Wiki T...
Purpose and Principles
Mission The Novitas Wiki is the main knowledge base and information hub for our Live Action Roleplaying game, balancing two needs: Clarity: Making rules and procedures easy to find and understand. Immersion: Building a rich world that pulls play...
Welcome to the Kingdoms of Novitas Wiki
The Kingdoms of Novitas is a live-action roleplaying game set in a rich fantasy world. This wiki is your complete resource for rules, lore, character creation, and everything else you need to adventure with us. Whether you're brand new to LARP, a returning pl...
Example page 12
Penelope Anne Katullin (AKA Poppy)
This is a test page for the editor that I am playing with and isn't actually about poppy Pre-Launch Checklist HTML artifact patterns: Redundant <ul><li><ul> list-wrapper nesting from pasted PmWiki lists; currently masked by css; flatten in batch. div.vs...
Sidebar: Atheism in Novitas
Illumitas and Others
Draconus
Religion in Daily Life
Writing Best Practices
Accessibility Plain Language Guidelines Use everyday words when you can- try to write at an eighth grade level. Define game terms early in their source page. Break complicated rules into steps. Give examples for anything confusing. Progressive Disc...
Content Types & Voice Guidelines
Safety & Policy Pages Requirements: Always use direct, out-of-character language. No decorative fonts or immersive styling. Prominent visual indicators. Clear headings and bullet points. No ambiguity or roleplay elements. Always link the proper Marsha...
Maintenance & Updates
Permission Levels Access to wiki content is gated by roles. Everyone is assigned the “Player” role upon account creation; additional roles are assigned by authorized users. A user can be assigned more than one role. They will inherit the permissions from the ...
Common Pitfalls & Solutions
Term Confusion Matrix Problematic Term Issue Solution Using "Curse" for cursed items ‘Curse!’ is a game call Use "hex" for negative item properties Using "Disease" generally Disease is a game call Use "plague" for magical afflictions, ...
Terms Reference
Languages Andaranian Apian Black Speech Canine Common Diabolic Draconic Elemental Elvish Gershan Goblinoid Immortal Mad Ramblings Sylvan Terran Thieves' Cant Game Terms craft point (lowercase) production point (lowercase) tag bag...
The Inn & Kitchen Workgroup
The Inn & Kitchen workgroup makes sure players are well-fed and comfortable all weekend long. They handle everything from shopping and cooking meals to managing the kitchen space and all game-owned culinary equipment. They are also responsible for setting up T...
Logistics Workgroup
The Logistics (Logs) workgroup serves as the game’s operational backbone, managing the physical and digital infrastructure that keeps the game running behind the scenes. This team maintains the game’s technical systems (Character Portal, Wiki, and internal tra...
Media & Communications Workgroup
The Media and Communications (Social Media) workgroup manages the game’s public face, including our branding, marketing, and online presence. They handle social media campaigns, design graphics, and keep our website pages updated. They are also in charge of do...
Operations Workgroup
The Operations (Ops) workgroup handles the physical site preparation and maintenance that make every event possible. They arrive early to get the site ready, managing everything from props and electric lighting to building reservations, and handle the heavy li...