Diners of Amber-A post-mortem
Comments from the author: Michael J. Watson
So it goes.
What you are reading is an article called the Diners of Amber. It was used in the Jeweled Amber Campaign in the Amber Diceless games I ran..
I have run two campaigns. One was in the early 1990s that lasted several years. Another, the Jeweled Amber Game, began around 1999 and lasted till 2004.
During these sessions the game rose and fell as do all role-playing games. People moved, married, got disinterested and otherwise faded away.
The final two players, one running Doria, Daughter of Benedict and Lintra, and Strykr, daughter of Caine, both faded into World of Warcraft after I moved, got married and was unable to maintain the game.
But I really liked this article.
So I present it here, for you, the reader. This is what my Bleys wrote.
In my game Random required a written Article of Submission from each of his siblings after Patternfall. Part of it was for me to give the players a written piece to get a feel of the elders, part was to make them put something on record. This is Bleys' piece. Bleys took the results of Patternfall hard. He started to get ambitious again then had a rude awakening that made him realize that Random was really the boss and that was the end of it. Like many great men who have achieved great heights, his fall was a long way. In the Jeweled Amber world his fall landed him in the boozy dens of the literati and the theatre crowds, seaside taverns and the worst shacks of the ruined.
His Article of Submission began as a dig at Random and became something more when Dworkin decided he liked it too. It reflects things in my game, such as Benedict being the Marshal of Amber and having been tricked into taking it. Maybe if I get some responses to this article I'll connect the game's stories too.
The places listed in it are varied. Hopefully they will inspire your players to explore. It did mine. If you have questions about it ask, at [email protected]
I miss the game terribly. I tried playing Play by Email games for awhile but they were dreadfully slow, though well intentioned. The last two years were played in chatroom on Yahoo. I would love to get into such a game again but never found one. Life goes on.
Use it. Read it. Tell me if you like it too.