Vortex's Amber

A set of pages dedicated to the Amber DRPG

	Welcome to the home of my FtF Amber campaign pages. There is still much I'd like to do in terms of this site but I now find myself in another rewrite. The reason this time is that my Keep of the Thirteenth Hour campaign has been running for nearly a year now and I've some ideas for other campaigns that I'd like to start publishing. This means I need to make some of these pages generic to any Amber campaign and create new campaign specific pages.
	For those of you who have never come across Amber, let me give you a brief introduction.Amber is a Diceless Role playing Game (DRPG) based upon the book's of Roger Zelazny. The books follow the affairs of the sons and daughters of Oberon as they fight one another for the Throne of Amber and in the latter books as those of mixed blood fight for the Throne of the Courts of Chaos. Amber campaigns are mixed and varied but nearly all revolve around "lost" or "unknown" sons and daughters of the offspring of Oberon and some convoluted saga. History is not always as Corwin tells it in the books and often Merlin's saga never happens at all.
	If you've never read the books then a good place to start is the following three sites which give a good overview. An Introduction to Roger Zelazny's Amber Universe and the Amber DRPG The Amber Dictionary Page Canonical Amber Timeline
	If you decide to play in Amber either in any of my campaigns or in anybody else's, just remember that because it happened this way in the books doesn't mean it happened that way in the campaign you're about to play in. Those that keep close to the books are said to be "In Canon" or Canonical whilst those that just use Amber concepts as non-canonical.
	So that completes the introduction. The rest of this page acts as an index for everything associated with my Amber campaigns, both as a GM and a player. You'll find details on the powers system I use, example characters, campaign background, session logs, PC and NPC profiles and art work. At the bottom of the page you'll find diaries of my own characters in two defunct campaigns and some notes on some things I want to add to the site.

News / What's New / What's Changed

03/02/2006

Generic Amber

Character Creation or Points and how you should use them.
Attributes - My modifications to the base rules.
The Auction - The importance of rank, who's in and who's out, and provision for "New" players later in the campaign.
Powers - The Partial Powers Systems I'm using.
Character Examples - Two example character creations

The Keep of the Thirteenth Hour

A Canonical Amber Campaign

Character Background - Campaign specifics on character generation
The Players Intro or "Could someone please tell me what's going on?"
Campaign Timeline or What's the date in relation to Corwin's and Merlin's Chronicles?
The Hero's of the Hour - Character Profiles, Diaries, and Trumps
Supporting Cast - GM session logs, NPC profiles, Diaries, and Trumps

The rules and campaign guide is available as a PDF.
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Version 1.5.1 18/10/2005


	What follows now are the diaries of characters for each of the (defunct?) Amber Campaigns I'm involved in. Cordelia's diary was written more of less as it happened, whilst Heather's diary is (currently) just a chance to establish where we got to in the game and a prod to the GM to pick the campaign up again. If you want the ins and outs of what I'm talking about read the Windsor or Bracknell Roleplaying Club pages. Cordelia as a PC in Pete's campaign has gone on to be an NPC in my Thirteenth Hour campaign. I've therefore done a lot more work in developing her background. One day I might even get to finish it.
	Cordelia's Diary Pete's Amber campaign from the Bracknell Club Heather's Diary Alan's Amber campaign from the Windsor Club

	There's still a lot I want to do with this site. I'd like a fancy intro page with an background image that inspires thoughts of Amber. I'd like to get my Amber map up and write up my version of the Golden Circle. Then, theres a page I need to write on the Cosmology and representation of Shadow, Reality, and the Abyss, and where The Courts, Amber, Ygg, Drasil, the various patterns, Ghost Wheel, The Keep of the Four Worlds, and its counter part The Keep of the Thirteenth Hour fit into this.