Been so excited about the open table of Cloud Empress I'm running, so here's my first GM play report of it.
#ttrpg #rpg #cloudempress #blog
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#CloudEmpress 'Land of the Living' and 'Land of the Dead' hit retail in Canada. Woot!
Kudos @ratti.bsky.social and @worldsbywatt.bsky.social :)
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As the title suggests, this episode is all over the place. #FreeStuff #Cairn #Bastionland #Weird #Anthologies #Gothic #HorrorFilms #Improv #CloudEmpress open.spotify.com/episode/07Dh...
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Cloud Empress boxed set from Worlds by Watt
The Empress has arrived!
Ecological science fantasy Mothership hack from Worlds by Watt
#CloudEmpress #Mothrrship #TTRPG
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Picture of the front side of the Cloud Empress Ecological Science Fantasy RPG Boxsets and Volume 1 of the Almanac. The cover of the larger green box shows an illustration of a skull with mushrooms growing out of its right eye socket. The illustration on the smaller white box shows a cicada on a yellow, grassy background. Both boxes bear a Panic Engine logo and the Worlds by Watt logo. The Almanac shows three seated people, presumably in a discussion. Two of them have a folded document before them and writing Tools or similar instruments in their hands. Both are looking at the third, who appears to be speaking.
The back of the green box, bears the following text: CLOUD ENIPRESS Welcome to the Hereafter. This is a world where we are small things, where we are cursed, where reality is slippery, and we survive in beauty and terror. Explore a land governed by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas-the Imago. When the Cloud Empress goes missing, glory-hungry soldiers trom royal lands above the clouds threaten the balance. The fields below will burn without your help. Cloud Empress streamlines the Mothership 1E Panic Engine into a standalone ecological science-fantasy setting. Unleash imaginative magic spells and harness ancient relics to survive the summer of the Century Brood. In Land of the Living, explore a shifting landscape pushed and pulled by huge spore towers and endless rifts in time and space. In Land of the Dead, players explore a landscape of ash, navigating the destruction from the impact of a fallen Cloud City. INCLUDES: • Land of the Living (80 pgs) Land of the Dead (106 pages) Pad of character sheets Hex map of the Lowland Wastes DEATH BOX LAND OF THE LIVING ISBN 979-889704184-8 1% FOR THE PLANET 041848 798897 MADE IN CHINA CE WORLDS BY WATT FIRST PRINTING © COPYRIGHT 2025 WORLDS BY WATT MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 55407
GLOUD FINIPRESS Welcome to the Hereafter. This is a world where we are small things, where we are cursed, where reality is slippery, and we survive in beauty and terror. Explore a land governed by the pafferns of giant psychic cicadas-the Imago. When the Cloud Empress goes missing, glory-hungry soldiers from royal lands above the clouds threaten the balance. The fields below will burn without your help. Cloud Empress streamlines the Mothership 1E Panic Engine into a standalone ecological science-tantasy setting Unleash imaginative magic spells and harness ancient relics to survive the summer of the Century Brood. The Cloud Empress Rulebook acts as a stand-alone science-fantasy ruleset perfect for creating experiences of beauty and desolation at your table. In Land of Cicadas, players explore a land torn by Cloudling invasion and the massive brood of unearthing cicadas. INCLUDES: Rulebook (80 pgs) Land of Cicadas (80 pages) Pad of character sheets • Hex map of the Lowland Wastes STARTER BOX RULEBOOK ISBN 979-889704181-7 MADE IN CHINA CE ENNIES Tabletop RPG Awards BEST WRITING SILVER 2024 1%. FOR THE PLANET WORLDS BY WATT FIRST PRINTING © COPYRIGHT 2025 WORLDS BY WATT MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 55407
Bank of the almanac, shows a table: SOLO GROUP ACTIONS When controlling an entire traveling party in solo play, you may determine the party's group actions using the table below. Group actions have the same ettects in solo play as with multiple players. At the start of each in-game day, resolve the columns in the table below from right to left. Determine the row to resolve based on the traveling party's current number of provisions after consuming one provision at the start of the morning. It the party has 0-1 provisions, roll 1d 10 to determine the actions the party takes during the day.
Woohoo! #rpgmailcall
My #CloudEmpress Boxes from #WorldsByWatt came today, and I think they‘re wonderful.
Here’s some pictures.
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Today’s mail call! My order of Irish Republican scarf and pin came in as did my Kickstarter rewards and a DriveThruRPG order of classic D&D stuff.
#MorkBorg #BECMIDnD #CloudEmpress #ErinGoBragh
@ericklw.bsky.social @kittensoft.bsky.social @blackdragoncan.bsky.social
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A color-coded page of RPG notes detailing a timeline at a tavern & the associated dramatis personae. On top is a matching business cards with details about individual NPC actions during & after dinner.
MY THURDAY PLAYERS LOOK AWAY, CLOUD EMPRESS SPOILERS ABOUT!!!
Going back to prep a scenario I wrote at the top of December to run session 2 tonight. Anyone else use notecards as pop-outs to add notes to notebook pages that are already full?
#TTRPG #CloudEmpress
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Boxed set of Cloud Empress a game by Watt. Ecological Science-Fantasy. A monkey skull sits atop the gamebox.
Woot! Now In just need to find some way to get it to the virtual table. #CloudEmpress
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The photo shows 3 zines: Cloud Empress Almanac Vol. II, Bodyhopping in Polite Society, Blooming Blade. Plus, a Shrimp Mouse patch, a Ratti Incantati sticker, and the Borglite game on a business card.
#CloudEmpress : Stories from the Slip by @worldsbywatt.bsky.social arrived, via the wonderful folks at @ratti.bsky.social 💚 Should tide me over until the Life & Death KS starts fulfillment, maybe, in the next few weeks 🤞
Also pictured (bonus) : #Borglite by @calenheydt.bsky.social 💛
All awesome!
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A hob, the diminutive and mischievous denizens of the caves below the Cave Inn, a tavern built into the mouth of an abandoned mine. Antagonistic towards the innkeeper, Balderdash Rockenstone, they used their magic to empty his pantries overnight and hex him to be unable to see his keys even when they're in his hand. They can turn objects invisible, bleed opalescent goop, and explode into a shower of pixie dust when defeated or panicked. They always come back eventually, though. Pencil sketch of a mischievous goblin-like creature holding a piece of cheese. Its ears are very large and droopy, it has large round eyes, and its whiskered nose is very long and thin like a shrew.
Nicklebit, the tiny leader of the hobs inhabiting the mines below the Cave in. He has the ability to grow very large. A timid goblin-like creature standing awkwardly with an ornate teacup on its head. It has very large droopy ears that drag on the ground, big round eyes, a shrew-like nose, and long whiskers.
My last art of 2025, some little guys I sketched while waiting for my players to arrive for session 1 of the #CloudEmpress game I'm running.
Lore in alt text.
#HereForThePotionsArt #art #traditionalart #OC #OCart #dnd #ttrpg #creature #creaturedesign #monster #monsterdesign #goblin #fairy #fae
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Discovered Solo Protocol for #CloudEmpress- so why not tick off one of these today?
The bodyhopping magician called Gentleman (she/her) and teenage sellsword Wisp (she/her) have been hired by 21-year-old lordling Silvere (she/her) to take her to her lover. Excited to see what happens to this trio!
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A pencil drawing of a portrait of a young man with wavy hair, large round eyes, a button node, and a mischievous expression. He is wearing a graduation cap.
A pencil drawing of a portrait of a bedraggled scientist with a messy lab coat, small rectangular glasses, a long fave with a prominent crooked nose, 5 o'clock shadow, short hair, and a very long, skinny neck.
A pencil drawing of a portrait of an elf man with long, sharp features, a prominent nose and eyebrows, very large pointed ears, and a feather in his hair.
Pencil drawing of a turnip creature with a wide mouth and a long root at the bottom shaped like a coiled spring.
I have been really busy recently with Christmas so I haven't been able to do much art, so here are my latest pieces just for funsies. A bowl of peanuts on the table for the new people.
#art #hereforthepotionsart #traditionalart #OC #fantasyart #cloudempress #mothership #TTRPG #elf #monster #creature
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I was wondering what is in that package from @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io coming my way for days. Trying to recount the croufunding projects I have supported.
Apparently it was some #cloudempress goodness:
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A pencil drawing of a young man with large, doll-like eyes, a button nose and an impish smirk grinning at the viewer. The drawing utilises hatching for shadows. His ears are slightly pointed, he has a mole under his right eye and the left side of his mouth, and a mop of very flamboyantly coifed curly hair that grows down his neck and slightly onto his shoulders. He has very prominent eyebrows that are so heroically bat-shaped that they are almost villainous on his face. He is wearing a graduation cap. Rook is a young Cloudling man with a mop of strawberry blonde curls that frame wandering blue eyes, and he stands in a way that would seem outwardly proper and well-mannered if it were in a vacuum, but he somehow makes what would be a refined stance on anyone else take up way too much space. When in a crowd, there is typically a noticeably people-less ring around him, as if even in a cramped, huddled group, he is so egregiously in everyone's personal space that they still manage to find a way to recoil from him. On his head is a tangerine-coloured graduation cap adorned with gaudy tassels, and draped over his shoulders is a matching robe. It appears he has just graduated from one of the prestigious Cloudling schools of magic, though you cannot tell from a glance which specific institution he is an alumnus of.
My Cloudling magic school graduate, Rook, from the #cloudempress #mothership campaign I play in.
More info about him in alt text.
#hereforthepotionsart #ttrpg #oc #dnd #nausicaä #ghibli #traditionalart #sketch
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A photo of three Cloud Empress titles: Bodyhopping in Polite Society, ballad of the blooming blade and cloud empress almanac volume 3. A patch featuring a shrimp mouse rests atop them.
Arrived home to find #CloudEmpress goodies waiting for me. What a great end to a wonderful weekend!
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Portrait of Thorn, a player character in a game of Cloud Empress. She's a cursed courier from far off, currently summering in Tack Town.
#rpg #sketch #CloudEmpress
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Cyppa. A woman in loose garments reclining and looking at the viewer. Her right arm is missing or hidden.
Onion. A horned person looking past the viewer.
I've been running a game of the incredible Cloud Empress, and circumstances have lead two npcs from the introductory session to stick around for another adventure or two.
These are Cyppa and Little Onion some time after the last voyage of the Bean Barge.
#rpg #sketch #CloudEmpress
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Land of Cicadas now available free, as well as the core rules. Get some great hexcrawl action!
I played this then ran it, and one of my players has done the same. We've already got three generations of #CloudEmpress.
#TTRPG
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#RPGaDay day 11: Flavour
From its curse tables to its art, #CloudEmpress does an amazing job of conveying its specific flavour.
If the phrase ‘ecological science fantasy’ calls to you (or if you just like giant bugs), check it out!
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Cloud Empress captivates with its concept, simplicity, uniqueness, and illustrations. I knew I had to have it as soon as I heard about it. It's just a shame it's so expensive, but that's no surprise since it was released as a setting for Mothership. #rpg #ttrpg #cloudempress
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The random elements created by the #CloudEmpress #SoloProtocol with PC Approaches and NPC Moods, mixed with the 2d10 Oracle I made are taking the game into surprising directions!
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I’m jumping into #SoloRPG play with #CloudEmpress and the personalities I rolled for my party are a little volatile. 😁
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Proud to be the 313th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Cloud Empress: Stories From the Slip! @worldsbywatt.bsky.social
#ttrpg #CloudEmpress #Mothership
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Celebrating our channel's 2nd birthday is behind us. A lot of stress and preparation, a whole day of broadcasting, sessions in Cloud Empress and Twilight 2000. Time to get back to everyday life. #rpg #ttrpg #cloudempress #twilight2000 #stream #birthday
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Cool idea for #cloudempress !
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I wrote a guide on how to use the Cloud Empress winter game jam submissions to create a rich winter campaign in the Land of Cidadas. itch.io/jam/cloud-em... #CloudEmpress #Winter #GameJam #OSR #TTRPG
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I forgot to post that I made a little supplement for Cloud Empress for the recent game jam. brave-alex.itch.io/oriven
#ttrpg #CloudEmpress #PanicEngine #winter #GameJam
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Tenuously published via hotspot from the mountains, BtGG is my entry for the #CloudEmpressWinterJam (and my first module). Explore grief and pollution in a weird fen that traps memories and magic in its mud.
There’s plenty of free copies, thanks!
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#CloudEmpress
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