2024 ENNIE NOMINEE

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.

Expand your journey into the Land of Cicadas, a setting book for Cloud Empress.

Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas setting book features:

• 4 unique ecologically inspired biomes 
• 137 hexes to explore during the Summer of the Century Brood and the 29th Expedition’s invasion
• 52 random encounters
• 13 animals, friends, and foes
• 16 detailed NPCs
• 5 new crests
• 6 new spells
• 11 Relics and Slip Stuff
• 20 rumors
• 39 illustrations 
• 1 missing Cloud Empress
• And much more!

Specifications

• 58 page, Digest size, full color 
• Fully hyperlinked and bookmarked PDF.
• Compatible with Mothership 1st Edition.
• Made by humans.

Credits

• Game, graphic design and layout by watt

• Illustrations by pbbeta, watt, Garin, and Daniel Hallinan

• 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