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The Empyrea Home Page

Empyrea is the main planet in my role-playing campaign. It's the home planet of the vast majority of the PCs. I use AD&D rules there because:

Everyone knows them
I really like the Spelljammer rules.

Since I'm using Spelljammer rules, it goes without saying that the PCs can travel through space and get from planet to planet. And since I wanted the other planets to feel as alien to the players as possible, I picked other game systems for them. I have only listed the game systems on the planets that the PCs have actually been to, because I want to keep the others as mysterious as possible.

Update - 12/1/96

Our heroes have gone back in time, to the end of the Age of Stagnation (circa AS 5026), and have a ship to get to Pallia VII with. On their way, they met up with seven dragons (six blue ones, including the leader, and one red one) that wanted them to "just wait four days before taking off". The party wasn't going to, of course, so they sort of had a fight - the dragons attacked, but Mris cast a Word of Halcyon before the battle got too far along, which killed three of the dragons. The other four bailed.

Who were these dragons? Who were they working for? And how did they know what their plans were?

Currently, our heroes have made it to Pallia VII, the moon where they think the Staff of Imbroglio is. They found a very suspicious-looking mountain, and have gone to investigate. Before they got there, they saw a spaceship crash very close to the mountain. Was this Floyd's failed maiden voyage of his LYon/HarT drive? And if so, where is he?

They found a cave in the mountain, and went down into it after the Find-it Hat told them "the paladin of Imbroglio" was down underneath the mountain. They came across an opening with at least two mind flayers in it, who proceeded to control Bailey's and Khorwynn's bodies to attack each other, and the rest of the party. When last seen, the mind flayers had dropped a big stone over the entrance to this opening, trapping our heroes in the tunnel before the entrance.

How will they get out of this one? What will Vontrang and Jetta do against the mind flayers? And what will happen to Delorien, who is stuck in wraithform on the mond-flayer side of the boulder?

Tune in after December 9th!

The planets (and suns) are:

Corag, the Pivot (the primary sun)
Trochil, the Elliptical [game system: The Fourth Age, an unpublished system]
Alkar, the Hot [game system: ???]
Empyrea, the Blessed [game system: AD&D], and its two moons:

Ataman
Mameluke

Canopus, the Technological [game system: Shadowrun]
Pallia, the Ungrateful [game system: ???]
Arcadia, the Huge [game system: ???]
Ignavus, the Forbidden (the second sun)
Allodium, the Unknown [game system: ???]
Melior, the Calm [game system: Talislanta]

The Myths of Empyrea:

The Beginning
The Song of Mameluke (coming soon!)
The Damnation of Quisling

The Gods of Empyrea:

The Gods of Reality

The Celestial Gods

Monroe, The Leader of the Gods and the God of Free Will
Punctilio, The God of Matter
Sangfroid, The God of Force

The Terrestrial Gods

Azimuth, The God/Goddess of the Spheres
Ataman, The Goddess of Life, Death, and Empyrea
Imbroglio, The God of Decay and Canopus

The Gods of Morality

The Gods of Peace

Armistice, The Goddess of Perfect Peace
Halcyon, The Goddess of Non-Verbal Peacekeeping
Rundle, The God of Verbal Peacekeeping

The Gods of Conflict

Quisling, The God of the Machinations of Conflict
Ravelin, The Goddess of the Art of War
Bellicose, The God of the Horrors of War