Chaos Diceless

I knew. From snatches of legend, bits of family gossip, and from a general feeling which came over me, I knew the place to which I had come. It was with full certainty as to identity that I raised my eyes to look upon the Courts of Chaos. (Prince Corwin of Amber, The Hand of Oberon)

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About the project

Chaos Diceless is a project related to Amber Diceless Role-Playing Game (ADRPG). ADRPG is a narrative role-playing game based on Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber and depicting the power struggles between god-like princes of a magical realm, as well as their wars against the enemy realm of Chaos, the ultimate price of which being the control over all of Shadows. That is, the whole of existence.

In the game, players take the role of such god-like princes and take a part in the royal family's intrigues and squabbles. While the foremost members of this royal family are described at length in both Roger Zelazny's novels and ADRPG, the equally important -- and equally playable -- Courts of Chaos stay unknown and remain to be invented by players and Game-Masters alike, as well as the Courts of Rebma, the Golden Circle, and possible important worlds

The objective of Chaos Diceless is to explore possible versions of Chaos and other Courts. Do not expect to find one single canonical official version of Chaos. What you will find here are ideas to be taken, left or adapted. Rumors. Several hypothesis for each place, each organization, each character, each event. Food for inspiration.

The idea for this project originated on Guardians of Order's Amber Forums.

How to contribute

Please first manifest yourself in the Chaos Diceless organization thread. This is not a strict obligation but this might help people to describe their intents and coordinate efforts.

Otherwise, this is a Wiki, using Wikimedia's engine and Wikipedia's conventions.

Licenses

All the content of the Chaos Diceless project is available under two licenses

• the Attribution-ShareAlike license (see Project:Copyrights), as per the rules of RPGnetWiki
• a special license granted to whoever holds rights of publication of a role-playing game based on Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber

(currently, to the best of our knowledge, this is true only of Guardians of Orders). This second license is written in the hope that some or all of Chaos Diceless may be, one day, published as a part of a reedition or a supplement of ADRPG.

Should you contribute any content to Chaos Diceless, that content will be implicitely considered released under both licenses. Please make sure that you have read and understand these licenses.

Chaos Diceless Publication License

(draft) In the following, "The Editor" represents any person, institution or company holding rights of publication for a role-playing game, a role-playing game supplement, either on paper or on any other medium or a computer or video game or computer/video game supplement based on Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. The Game represents any role-playing game or role-playing game supplement or computer game, video game or computer/video game supplement based on Roger Zelaznny's Chronicles of Amber and published by the Editor. "The Authors" represents all the contributors to Chaos Diceless.

The Editor is allowed to reproduce Chaos Diceless in its totality or in part, to integrate it in the Game and to modify it as necessary for such integration. Such permitted modifications include but are not limited to extraction of quotes, extraction of subsets, adaptation of style, spelling, contents or typography, modification of names of places, characters or events.

In counterpart, the Editor must attribute the work on Chaos Diceless to its respective authors, for instance by listing the names of all Authors or all Authors having contributed to the section of Chaos Diceless used in The Game, in a credits. Whenever the name of an Author prove unreasonably difficult to find, that Author's RPGnetWiki's User Name will be considered sufficient.