Historic Amber campaign

[wilbur]

As my first posting on this forum, I'd like to start a thread about an Amber campaign that is set long before Corwin saga. It's quite clear that gamemasters are encouraged to design games that are set during or after Patterfall war. Also there is very little discussion on this forum about setting games to the earlier days of Amber's history.

I've been designing a game that is set about some 160 years before Corwin saga, a time when "Moonriders of Ghenesh" were destroyed by prince Benedict. I know, there are some web sites concerning this kind of adventure and I have checked them out, although Im going to use my own stuff for this one.

So basicly I would like to start some discussion how to start this kind of "historic campaign". Most likely player characters would be Oberon's sons and daughters just like "elder amberites", and they would be those unnamed, forgotten/lost/killed princes and princesses, that are mentioned in the books.

The threat of Moonriders would be actually a major plot against Amber/Oberon and would include major players from very old times, maybe amberites like Osric and Finndo, but also ancient chaos lords. So what Corwin tolds us in the books about Benedict's fight agains Moonriders, is just a small hint of things that really happened back then, and players would have a major part in those events.

Feel free to comment,
/W

[jibbajibba]

As my first posting on this forum, I'd like to start a thread about an Amber campaign that is set long before Corwin saga. It's quite clear that gamemasters are encouraged to design games that are set during or after Patterfall war. Also there is very little discussion on this forum about setting games to the earlier days of Amber's history.

I've been designing a game that is set about some 160 years before Corwin saga, a time when "Moonriders of Ghenesh" were destroyed by prince Benedict. I know, there are some web sites concerning this kind of adventure and I have checked them out, although Im going to use my own stuff for this one.

So basicly I would like to start some discussion how to start this kind of "historic campaign". Most likely player characters would be Oberon's sons and daughters just like "elder amberites", and they would be those unnamed, forgotten/lost/killed princes and princesses, that are mentioned in the books.

The threat of Moonriders would be actually a major plot against Amber/Oberon and would include major players from very old times, maybe amberites like Osric and Finndo, but also ancient chaos lords. So what Corwin tolds us in the books about Benedict's fight agains Moonriders, is just a small hint of things that really happened back then, and players would have a major part in those events.

Feel free to comment,
/W

You need to determine some very basic stuff.
Do you want to keep the elders or just replace them. If you do keep them then are you in a parallel Amber where they can be killed? How tough will they be? You have scope here to play reimaged elders a petulant, vicsious Random, an arogant bulshie Corwin etc.
If you keep them how will you place the characters as tough as the elders weaker? Will the PCs be abel to outbid the Elders or will Benedict still be the highest warfare, Gerard the strongest etc ...

What do the Amberites know of Chaos? I would assume that Chaos is an unknown entiity at this time to everyone bar Oberon and Dworkin. How do you get that mystery across in the game? Personally i would totally remove Chaos come up with another origin story for Dworkin and move from a dual pole universe to a Ripple based universe with Amber at the center and other weaker realities dotted about casting their own shadows and the Abyss on the edge circling all of reality or somethign like that

Thyen you have powers. If you look at the books Corwin is unaware of shapeshift which woudl indicate he has never seen it before. Again I would remove Logrus, modify shapeshift and throw in some new powers used by the Others be they Abyssites, demons, or the Moonriders

Oh and welcome to the forum

[RPGPundit]

A very interesting concept.  A few notes: Is Corwin around at this point, or missing?  Was this when Oberon was still around, or already into Eric's regency?

Also, in referring to the "lost princes and princesses" of Amber as being the PCs, is that to then mean that all the player characters are ultimately doomed to either die or disappear?
Or will you essentially be "rewriting history" from the start point of the campaign onward?

RPGPundit