"Cloud Empress is a startling vision bursting with imagination and wonder. watt has pulled off something truly unique - both familiar and unsettling." - Sean McCoy, creator of Mothership.

"Cloud Empress is unafraid to be subtle and quiet. Filled with fresh ideas and rooted in play, it is a deeply human work." - Luke Gearing, author of Gradient Descent and Pound of Flesh

Cloud Empress is an expansive, Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. Cloud Empress places you in a world ruled by the patterns of giant magical cicadas. Cloud Empress creates a new Earth, thousands of years in the future inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist.

What's Inside:

• 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
• And much more!

Specifications

58 page, Digest size, full color saddle-stitched. Printed in the United States. Fully hyperlinked and bookmarked PDF. Compatible with Mothership® Sci-Fi Horror RPG 1st Edition.

Made by humans.

This purchase comes bundled with the 10 page Cloud Empress introductory adventure, Last Voyage of the Bean Barge.

Credits

• Game, graphic design and layout by watt
• Illustrations by pbbeta, Garin, imogen, and Juan Gee
• Editing and development by Roz Leahy
• Additional game development by Christian Sorrell
• Sensitivity editing by Monroe Soto
• Playtesting by Mary Helen Inskeep, Erica Young, Patrick Frazier, Noel Miller, Kat Miller-Frazier, Dan Frazier, Ashley Nolan, Anna Frazier, Zobot257, Zoe R., Other Jim, ChrisAir, Terry Herc, and Jet McFin.
• Special thanks to A & D, Sean McCoy and Luke Gearing

This is a stand-alone rulebook and does not require Mothership® Sci-Fi Horror RPG 1E to play.