Storm clouds are gathering over the world of NoS-Gaming. The drums of war, silent for aeons, are beating once more ...

Welcome to the world of NoS Promisance. A harsh, unforgiving land where enemies and potential allies abound, and may in fact be the same people. A land where only your skill at diplomacy, economics, planning and warmaking will allow your people to survive. A medieval land, where the hope for the masses is to transition into a brighter future. But is that a peaceful dream, or in the future is there only war?

You decide. The fate of your people is in your hands. Don't fail them.

Today I'm pleased to announce a new addition to the nos-gaming.com website. Beta testing is completing on a PBBG called promisance - a turn based strategy game which can be played against other members on this site. You will notice the new blocks on the home page - giving you the ability to login and also view the current standings in the game.

I'd encourage you to create an empire and give the game a bash. Current players and standings are from the beta test, and we will be wiping the server in the next couple of days to give everyone an even chance.

We're still playing this by ear, so I can't tell you how long one game will last for. We'll really just have to see how the game evolves and develops when we are all playing it together. However, I will make a special custom title for the winner of each game to wear until the end of the next one.

You'll notice two new forums are available for this game. general forum and an in character forum. Please use the general forum for all generally promisance-related discussion. I'd ask that all posts in the IC forum be in the character of your empire for the current game (I'll create a new forum for each game). This is your chance to have a little fun - declarations of war, or peace, or simply announcements of impending doom or of your nation's new pro-carrot policy, as long as it's in character feel free to post it here. There is an in-game messaging system for private messages between two empires, so between the two systems I think we should have all your communications needs covered.

The only rule I think I need to state here is 'no multis' - ie multiple nations controlled by one person. It can really unbalance things, so please don't do it. It is yet to be decided whether you can create a new nation if your empire is wiped out.

So jump into the beta game today or tomorrow, just get a feel for it before we launch Game 1 in the next couple of days! Feel free to begin use of the general discussion forum, although obviously the In Character forum is not for use until the game actually starts. Have fun!