Cloud Empress: Ecological Science-Fantasy RPG Box Set

This is the year of your journey,
the summer of the Century Brood,
the summer of the missing Empress,
the summer of adventure.
Welcome to the Hereafter. 

It all comes back to a beautiful blue sky blanketed with smog. What more really matters? A window to the stars and our ancient kin fogged it with sickle pale clouds. The sky has been covered since anyone can remember, a hundred generations or more. For a while, storms grew strong, crops died weak, and people went hungry. Beauty was erased, and life was strip-mined to feed unstoppable addiction. Many things did not survive. Many others did. 

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Cloud Empress is an ecological science fantasy campaign setting that places you in a world ruled by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas. Cloud Empress creates a new Earth, thousands of years in the future inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist.

Cloud Empress imagines the far future. Find a way to thrive, live, and love in the psychic wreckage of Earth among the junk of the ancient people who abandoned it.

Cloud Empress is a comprehensive setting book supported by a self-contained rulebook focused on story-driven gameplay and evoking a science-fantasy setting.

This is a world where we are small things, where we are cursed, where reality is slippery, and we survive in beauty and in terror. Explore a land governed by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas – the Imago. When the Cloud Empress goes missing, glory-hungry soldiers from royal lands above the clouds threaten the balance. The fields below will burn without your help.

In this Box Set you'll find:

• The Cloud Empress Rulebook hardcover
• Land of Cicadas setting hardcover book
• 11x17 Hex Map of the Lowland Wastes
• Character Sheet pad (20)

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 Wind and Princess Mononoke. 

• Stand-alone (no copy/knowledge of Mothership needed to play)
• 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

Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas is a sandbox setting-supplement in which 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. 

• Adventures The Seed Vault, and Pit's Peak now included in Land of Cicadas
• 137 hex map
• 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

Game, graphic design, and layout by watt.
Illustrations by pbbeta, Garin, and watt.
Editing and development by Roz Leahy
Proofreading by Walton Wood
Additional game development by Christian Sorrell
Sensitivity editing by Monroe Soto

The Rulebook: A5 hardcover, 78 color pages.
Land of Cicadas: A5 hardcover, 82 color pages.