Cloud Empress Starter Box

In Summer, the Imago (giant cicadas) rise in great numbers to feed on the bones of the dead. Monks and villagers dry corpses in huge burial mounds to satisfy their hunger. A few hundred Imago are spotted each summer, but once in a hundred years, the Century Brood appears. Tens of thousands of Imago climb from deep soil and reduce the land to rubble. Now the Century Brood has been unearthed and the Cloud Empress has gone missing. 

The Cloud Empress Starter Box Set contains:

• Rulebook, hardcover, full color, 78 pages
• Land of Cicadas setting book, hardcover, full color, 82 pages
• Character sheets pad (20), full color
• 11 x 17 inch folding map, full color

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, Nausicaä in the Valley of the Wind and 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

The Team:

Game, graphic design, and layout by watt
Illustrations by pbbeta, Garin, imogen, Juan Gee, and watt.
Editing and development by Roz Leahy

Boxed set with two 6"x9" full color, 72 page hardcover books, hex map, and character sheets. Includes PDF.