New Edition of Amber?
I almost forgot... A big splash at ACNW06 was reported first by zdashamber on RPGnet, as "Amber 2nd Edition - a new hope!" -- namely that Edwin Voskamp and Eric Todd announced that they had bought the rights to publish Amber roleplaying stuff from Wujcik, and they intended to put out a second edition.
This is intriguing. Personally, I disliked the original Amber Diceless book. There are many good things about it, but the bad things stuck out sorely to me -- in particular having the players play the much weaker children of the elder Amberites, but also many broken things in the attributes and Sorcery. My first campaign of the ADRPG pretty much confirmed the things I disliked about it. However, I have had a lot of fun playing in some Amber games since then. There are a few notable differences: Many of the ACNW games had the players running the elder Amberites or their equals, for example.
I'm sure there has been discussion of 2nd edition Amber DRPG from the period when it was being considered by Guardians of Order, but I'm not sure where to find it. The new GOO Fan Forums have an Amber Diceless RPG Forum, but it's mostly empty at present. Any pointers to suggestions or attempts at this? From the links on my Amber Page, I see a lot of people have diverged house rules. I'm not sure I see particular commonalities, though.
Basically, I think one needs to start with a certain re-envisioning of what the background is supposed to be, to fix issues with the attributes and sorcery. So I would start be a careful study of the Amberites and Chaosites and their powers in the books. Describe them, and then re-envision the system around that.
This is intriguing. Personally, I disliked the original Amber Diceless book. There are many good things about it, but the bad things stuck out sorely to me -- in particular having the players play the much weaker children of the elder Amberites, but also many broken things in the attributes and Sorcery. My first campaign of the ADRPG pretty much confirmed the things I disliked about it. However, I have had a lot of fun playing in some Amber games since then. There are a few notable differences: Many of the ACNW games had the players running the elder Amberites or their equals, for example.
I'm sure there has been discussion of 2nd edition Amber DRPG from the period when it was being considered by Guardians of Order, but I'm not sure where to find it. The new GOO Fan Forums have an Amber Diceless RPG Forum, but it's mostly empty at present. Any pointers to suggestions or attempts at this? From the links on my Amber Page, I see a lot of people have diverged house rules. I'm not sure I see particular commonalities, though.
Basically, I think one needs to start with a certain re-envisioning of what the background is supposed to be, to fix issues with the attributes and sorcery. So I would start be a careful study of the Amberites and Chaosites and their powers in the books. Describe them, and then re-envision the system around that.