Old Amber Index

Lately, I've put up several posts that simply restored/archived my old Amber Diceless RolePlaying Game website. This is stuff predominantly from 3 to 5 Amber campaigns ago.

New Powers (well, several years old now, but new when when I first wrote them):

• Chaotic vs Orderly Shapeshifting and Dynamic Form are two marginally different takes on the same concept. The former is more open-ended, whereas the latter stats things out better.
  
• Entropy Mastery is a new power based on the stuff Chaos does in books 1-5, not 6-10.
• Mentalism is a power allowing Amber PCs to be psykers, jedi, gypsies, or savants.
• Here's what I could recover and recall about Lamarkian Shapeshifting. I wish I could find the rest of it.
  

Other stuff relevant to Character Creation:

• Player handout for Chaosite PCs in the campaigns that Dynamic Form and Entropy Mastery started in.
• Expanded Shadow World Worksheet along with some house-rules on Personal Shadows.

GMing advice and tools:

• A painstaking thorough analysis of the physical laws in Amber proper. The formating is painful, but the content is clever in places. Simulationists seeking to properly model the first five books of Amber will love it.
• Tips on running an Amber campaign, and most specifically portraying the Elder Amberites. It would have done me a world of good to reread that before my most recent ADRPG Campaign.
• Here's as much as I could find and reconstruct of the Bergstrom Method. This was guidelines (kind of an alternate system) for determining the winner of combat in Amber. It's been a grail quest for me. It used to be all over the internet. Then I went through a dark era where I lacked confidence and just wanted to hide from the world. Sometime shortly before I recovered from that, all the sites it had been on vanished. Trying to reconstruct it was a pain in the butt. The post linked above might not be everything I ever wrote about it, but it's enough to use. EDIT: That link proves to not be the Bergstrom Method, and may have even been the Testerman/Trimmer system which inspired it. The real "Bergstrom Method" is here.
  

EDIT: Since posting this earlier today, I've added two Amber-related "fluff" items.

• A colorful vignette from my best Amber Campaign ever.
• A philosophy statement and opening context constraint from a good (but not my best) Amber Campaign.