#cloud-empress — Public Fediverse posts

Woohoo! #rpgmailcall

My #CloudEmpress Boxes from #WorldsByWatt came today, and I think they‘re wonderful.

Here’s some pictures.

Got the KS rewards for the Cloud Empress (a Nausicaa-inspired ecological fantasy game based on the Mothership Panic Engine system) expansion Land of the Living/Land of the Dead. It even came with a beautiful box that I can use to store the original game’s zines and pamphlets!

#TTRPG #MotherShip #PanicEngine #CloudEmpress #KickStarter

From the last two packages I've received. Zines for #mothership, #CloudEmpress, and the game Zombie Braineaters!

https://blog.psionic-cyclops.org/article/new-zines-cloud-empress-mothership-and-zombie-braineaters/

#ttrpg #zine #zombies

A Cloud Empress game jam is launching on January 6th.

#TTRPG #GameJam #CloudEmpress #MotherShip

Has anybody played these? How are they? #cloudempress #mothership #rpg

I recently picked up a physical copy of Cloud Empress, an “ecological science fantasy” RPG from watt. It uses the same ruleset as the popular sci-fi game Mothership

The setting is a magic-poisoned world, with floating cities over a green, but dangerous landscape. This world is threatened by occasional outbreaks of giant magical cicadas, called the Imago, which feast on the bones of dead, and are the source of chalk, the substance that both poisons the land and powers the magic of the setting.

The 58-page book is well designed, with lots of interesting line art giving a nice sense of the world.

It’s inexplicably free to download.

Character Sheet

Cloud Empress has its own character sheet, so I won’t be making my own custom version. The official version is attractive and well-designed. It comes in a color & black-and-white version.

However, I wasn’t 100% happy with how the fillable fields were implemented, so I’ve made my own modified version of the official Cloud Empress character sheets. Here are the changes I made to the fields:

• The stat numbers are now in a Serif Gothic font to match the book formatting and are centered to look a little nicer.
• The job condition and notes boxes are now set to wrap text.
• Fixed a small bug in the Skills check boxes.
• I’ve added the ability to import an image into the portrait frame in the center of the sheet. Just click in the center.

The B&W version wasn’t fillable, so I’ve made it fillable as well. The color version has an off-white background that might be difficult to print, so I’ve made a version without the parchment-colored background.

I’ve added these to my ever-growing swarm of character sheets.

https://polyhedralnonsense.com/2024/05/31/cloud-empress-a-revised-character-sheet-for-the-ecological-fantasy-rpg/

#CharacterSheets #CloudEmpress #FreeStuff #Mothership #OSR #RPG

I just backed:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/watt/cloud-empress-life-and-death

#MotherShip #CloudEmpress #TTRPG #KickStarter #NSR #Fantasy

For comparison: the new Cloud Empress box set only costs $23 in shipping.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/watt/cloud-empress-life-and-death

The difference is that instead of shipping individual packages, the author works with an international shipping provider that ships in bulk to the EU before sending out individual packages.

#TTRPG #CloudEmpress

Cloud Empress creator watt joined me for an interview and their prompts inspired a two-spread adventure location, free to all newsletter subscribers.

Contains original pdf, printer-friendly, and plaintext versions!

https://5mwpress.substack.com/p/5mw-rokaner-report-3

#ttrpg #scifi #cloudempress #mothership #nsr

Ah, yes, of course. :blobthinksmart:
#CloudEmpress #TTRPG

Next on my To Read list is Cloud Empress. I really liked this one too (I probably am not going to post about things I don't like).

So far just the rulebook.

I really like it, despite only vaguely remembering the work that inspired it. It is definitely not "cozy", the setting is fairly melancholy and post-apocalyptic, and "ecological" in the sense that nature is large and scary and powerful and you have to find a way to live around it.

#osr #ttrpg #cloudEmpress #mothership

Finally managed to read #CloudEmpress and it's incredible. I already loved Mothership for its elegant system and the way it supports the genre it draws inspiration from, and this game gets all the best parts from it and translates to a beautiful setting that is much more than "off brand Nausicäa".
It feels fresh, inspired, and thoroughly enjoyable.
I am going to run it as soon as we finish the current #BitD adventure.

#ttrp

J'ai traduit en français la fiche de #CloudEmpress, un #JDR de #ScienceFantasy où il est question de nature sauvage post-apocalyptique avec des cigales géantes, librement inspiré de #Nausicaa. Les règles sont basées sur celles de #Mothership.

https://www.whidou.fr/fiche-cloud-empress.html

Bon jeu ! 🦗

#TTRPG @ttrpg

3. Premier jeu acheté cette année #RPGaDAY2023

Aucun ! J'ai quand même participé à certains financements participatifs notamment la suite de la gamme #DRAGONS et le hack/remix de #MOTHERSHIPRPG #CloudEmpress de @Watt :)

@Czamboni That’s great to hear! I noticed, @Watt, the Designer, mentioned in the update that #ElectrumArchive might be a good pairing with #CloudEmpress

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emielboven/the-electrum-archive-issue-02

@Tim_Eagon @jarvis LOL, I did back that one, but the $120 USD tier was way too rich for my blood. I mean, big delta from the previous level of $35, amirite? As to Mothership, the one I am most excited about, other than 1e, is #CloudEmpress