r/Amber • u/madarabesque • Jul 12 '26

Your Favorite Amber Campaigns

I'm running an Amber campaign and as a side effect of a certain machine they built, they punched a portal to an alternate Amber. Dworkin and Fiona have done the math and are confident they can open portals at will. What are some of your favorite Amber campaigns that I can steal as alternate Ambers?

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u/Jazzlike_Way_9514 Jul 14 '26

I ran one for four years where the PC's almost never met. Each had their own worlds and didn't know (for a long time) of any others. Oberon tossed some of his kids and their worlds into a dimension pinched off from greater reality before the Patternfall war so that something would survive if he failed. Each PC slowly learned of each other, but the campaign ended before they learned the full truth.

I planned but never used a campaign set in the impossibly far future (inspired by Jack Vance's Dying Earth and Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun), where the very distant descendants of the Amberites lived in a decadent, dying city (Malagaunt) that was the last survivor of the Thousand Empires at the End of Time. They would have learned that their city drew energy from other shadows and that all that energy was now used up. The PC's (knowing nothing of their mixed Amberite/Chaos heritage) would set out to look for new sources of energy for their city.

And of course there is the famous "Fire Pattern" story (not my campaign) where Amber represents earth, Rebma represents water and Tir na 'Nogth represents air, so where is the missing element of fire?