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For those who don't know, Amber is the diceless role-playing system based in and around the universe of Roger Zelazny's ten Amber novels.

Although I don't think it is the pinnacle of role-playing perfection which it is sometimes touted as, I do like it as a game, and have some links to other Amber-related sites, and am also a member of The Golden Circle WebRing.

This page is divided up into the following sections:

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GAMES I HAVE RUN OR AM RUNNING

My most recent face to face Amber game:

This link goes to details of a mini-campaign I ran for our work roleplaying group, now having had its fourth outing:

Other games I have run:


SOURCE MATERIAL : THE AMBER GAZETTEER

I have created a gazetteer of places from the first series of Amber books, illustrated with various quotes from the books; this is mainly for my own use, but I think it is something others might find useful too. The quotes are at least partly to help illustrate what a lot of games I've played in, at least, often seem to miss - the often downright strange and impressive images Zelazny creates of a lot of the places in the Amber books. The places are arranged below in order of increasing distance from Amber :


SOURCE MATERIAL : SWEARING LOYALTY TO THE REALM

Swearing loyalty to Amber is no trivial task. For that reason it has its own rules and etiquette. This page describes one way in which it might be done.


SOURCE MATERIAL : INHABITANTS OF THE AMBER UNIVERSE

My take on the Amberites, elders and otherwise, plus other inhabitants of the Amber universe and a few characters of my own invention. Most of these versions of the characters are from the same version of Amber as that described in the timeline, below.


SOURCE MATERIAL : A TIMELINE OF EVENTS IN AMBER

This is a list of (admittedly game-specific) significant events from the first hundred years or so of King Random's rule.


SOURCE MATERIAL : MY TAKE ON THE AMBER RULES


SOURCE MATERIAL : THE CURRENCY OF AMBER

Obviously Amber has a currency, and given its close trading ties to shadows across the Golden Circle it is quite likely that it will have long ago replaced any local currencies which may have once existed.

The main unit of currency in Amber is the Crown, a gold coin. This subdivides into the Half-Crown (obviously equal to half a Crown), the Shilling, of which there are twenty to the Crown, and the Penny, of which there are five to the Shilling (or a hundred to the Crown). Coins of five, ten, twenty and one hundred Crowns also exist.

One can subsist in Amber at the very poorest level on about two Shillings a day.


SOURCE MATERIAL : ALL POSSIBLE REARRANGMENTS OF THE WORD 'AMBER'

Very dull, but potentially useful for naming shadows of Amber and things of that nature, I wrote a computer program that generated every possible rearrangement of the characters in the word 'Amber'.


SOME AMBER-RELATED SOFTWARE

This software is all for the PC only. It was written in the Ada 95 language and runs under Windows XP (though it should also run under Windows NT and other older versions of Windows).


CHARACTERS OF MINE

The following links go to pages on various Amber characters I have played and am playing in both face to face and play-by-Email games.


The Golden Circle

This Golden Circle site owned by Tony Jones
(tony {dot} website {at} clockworksky {dot} net).

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AWARDS WON BY THIS SITE

Effie Rover's RPG Library Gold Wyrm Award
A Must-See RPG Site

This site has been given Effie Rover's GOLD WYRM RPG Web Site Award for its development with an RPG audience in mind, excellent design, good presentation and ease of access. Content is considered to be original, useful, grammatically correct and visually appealing. The site's graphics are considered to support the content and are not overpowering or distracting. Ease of navigation and quick graphics load time are excellent. It has been rated a Must-See site at the RPG Gateway.

 

AMBERshadowstorm Award 2003


AMBER-RELATED LINKS

Various links to Amber pages around the world:


Please send any comments to me at tony {dot} website {at} clockworksky {dot} net.

Also, be aware that this site is constantly under construction, so it is entirely possible that things will be changed or added to without warning or notification (though it will be very rarely that anything is actually removed).


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The title of this page came to me out of the way in which games of Amber can take many, many different forms, but all of them still remain, at heart, Amber.

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