Cloud Empress: Starter Box

The Cloud Empress Rulebook acts as a stand-alone science fantasy ruleset perfect for creating experiences of beauty and desolation at your table. Cloud Empress harnesses the Mothership 1E Panic System to model the unfolding chaos of Hayao Miyazaki’s darkest works, Nausicaa in the Valley of the Windand Princess Mononoke.

• Stand-alone (no copy/knowledge of Mothership needed to play)
• 72* pages, full color, smyth sewn binding
• Intro adventure Last Voyage of the Bean Barge now included in the Rulebook
• 4 evocative jobs: Sellsword, Lordling, Magician, and Courier
• 30 unique science fantasy skills
• 30 magical spells each with amazing effects and dangerous consequences
• 30 chalk crests capable of unleashing ancient powers
• 20 new science fantasy tools of violence
• 10 strange utility spores
• 7 animals, friends, and foes
• 26 illustrations

In Land of Cicadas, players explore a land torn by Cloudling invasion and the massive brood of unearthing cicadas. Find peace where you can among this Summer’s sweetberries and babbling creeks while dodging ancient horrors and war-hungry soldiers searching for their missing Cloud Empress.

• 72 pages*, full-color, smyth sewn binding
• Adventures The Seed Vault, and Pit’s Peak now included in Land of Cicadas
• 137 hex map
• 39 illustrations
• 20 rumors
• 16 detailed NPCs
• 13 animals, friends, and foes
• 11 Relics and Slip Stuff
• 6 new spells
• 5 new crests
• 1 missing Cloud Empress