The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

Amber DRPG was created in the 1980s, and is much more focused on relationships and roleplaying than most of the roleplaying games of that era.

The game is set in the multiverse described in Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.

The Amber multiverse consists of Amber, a city at one pole of the universe wherein is found the Pattern, the symbol of Order ; The Courts of Chaos, an assembly of worlds at the other pole where can be found the Logrus, the manifestation of Chaos, and the Abyss, the source or end of all reality ; and Shadow, the collection of all possible universes ( shadows ) between and around them.

It is assumed that players will portray the children of the main characters from the books-the ruling family of Amber, known as the Elder Amberites-or a resident of the Courts.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

The former option is one presented in the book ; the latter is known in the Amber community as an " Amethyst " game.

Amber is fossilized tree resin ( not sap ), which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.

Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry.

Amber occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term ambrite is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams.

Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.

Amber is globally distributed, mainly in rocks of Cretaceous age or younger.

Amber becomes abundant long after the Carboniferous, in the Early Cretaceous,, when it is found in association with insects.

Amber is a unique preservational mode, preserving otherwise unfossilizable parts of organisms ; as such it is helpful in the reconstruction of ecosystems as well as organisms ; the chemical composition of the resin, however, is of limited utility in reconstructing the phylogenetic affinity of the resin producer.

Amber's place in culture and tradition lends it a tourism value ; Palanga Amber Museum is dedicated to the mineral.

] When he had done eating, he usually took a Kind of Chocolate, made after the Manner of the Country, that is, the Substance of the Nut beat up with the Mill till the Cup was filled more with Froth than with Liquor ; after which he used to smoak Tobacco perfum'd with liquid Amber.

Many of the extras were recruited by Amber Rudd who is described in the credits as " Aristocracy Co-ordinator "— among those used were Lords Burlington and Woolton.

The publishing rights to the Amber DRPG games were acquired in 2004 by Guardians of Order, who took over sales of the game and announced their intention to release a new edition of the game.

In June 2007 a new publishing company, headed by Edwin Voskamp and Eric Todd, was formed with the express purpose of bringing Amber DRPG back into print.

Characters in Amber DRPG are represented by four attributes: Psyche, Strength, Endurance and Warfare.

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The Amber Frog Violin Bow ( music ) | bow, made by Keith Peck in 1996 / 97.

Amber has often been imitated by other resins like copal and kauri, as well as by celluloid and even glass.

* Michelob ( owned by Anheuser-Busch ), introduced Amber Bock in 1997.

Foster's Lager uses the slogan " The Amber Nectar " in Australia and the UK, and " Australian for Beer ", performed by Bob Ingersole, elsewhere overseas.

" Amber " was named by discoverers Richard Epstein and Charles Steinberg after their friend Harris Bernstein, whose last name means " amber " in German.

In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society ; and in 1914, a son, Anthony West ( 1914 – 1987 ), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, twenty-six years his junior.

The Baltic tribes were not directly influenced by the Roman Empire, but they did maintain close trade contacts ( see Amber Road ).

In Canada, maple syrup is classified by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ( CFIA ) as one of three grades, each with several colour classes: Canada No. 1, including Extra Light, Light, and Medium ; No. 2 Amber ; and finally No. 3 Dark or any other ungraded category.

; Amber mutations: were the first set of nonsense mutations to be discovered, isolated by graduate student Harris Bernstein in experiments designed to resolve a debate between Richard Epstein and Charles Steinberg.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen ( born January 23, 1974 ) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Kelly Kapowski in Saved by the Bell and as Valerie Malone in Beverly Hills, 90210.

Afterwards, the town was partly populated by German settlers ( see: Ostsiedlung ), who would eventually become the dominant ethnic group in the following centuries, though the city remained multi-ethnic as an important trading city on the Via Regia and Amber Road.

His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels, coming together to form an epic, by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights ( 1995, published as The Golden Compass in North America ), The Subtle Knife ( 1997 ), and The Amber Spyglass ( 2000 ).

The three novels have won various awards, most notably the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, won by The Amber Spyglass.

* Farlang many full text historical references on Amber Theophrastus, George Frederick Kunz, and special on Baltic amber.

Spikards are rings of power that existed before Amber, and possibly even Chaos, were created ; they allow the bearer to tap into the raw power of the Amber universe.

Old Greek sources never noted any Liburnian settlement in the northern coasts, possibly because the ancient mariners had been using only outer island channels for navigation towards the beginning of the Amber Road in the north of Adriatic, evading inner seas which were ruled by Liburnian thallasocracy.

Amber Wing was the first woman to land a ts fs wake to wake 900.

* American author Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series depicts the Bonnie Prince in the first three of her seven novels, Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager.

The first novel, Nine Princes in Amber, originally appeared in excerpts in Kallikanzaros # 1, June 1967 and Kallikanzaros # 3, December 1967.

In 2012, audible released brand new recordings of The Chronicles of Amber with Alessandro Juliani reading the first five books ( the Corwin cycle ) and Wil Wheaton reading the last five books ( the Merlin cycle ).

Nine princes and four princesses of Amber, including Prince Corwin as narrator of the first book series, try to deal with the disappearance of Oberon, their father, and an apparent need for succession of the throne.

The Pattern of Amber is the first shadow of the Primal Pattern, the original creation of Dworkin after he defected from the Courts of Chaos, and exists in its own shadow.

Nine other imperfect copies of the Pattern exist in shadows close to Amber, with the first three being the least dangerous to walk.

* When Corwin first meets Eric in Nine Princes in Amber, Eric complains " It's true, that uneasy-lies-the-head bit.

In Australia the most popular Amber Ale is from Malt Shovel Brewery, branded James Squire in honour of Australia's first brewer, who first brewed beer in Sydney in 1794.

The story first appears in The Road to Amber: Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, NESFA Press, 2009.

Nine Princes in Amber is a new wave fantasy novel and the first in the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny.

With a shock, Corwin and Ganelon realize that this is the true, Primal Pattern, of which the one in Amber is but the first shadow.

Now that he knows that Amber is just the first Shadow, he finds he can shift shadow there more easily.

The fifth draft of Winsor's first manuscript of Forever Amber was accepted for publication, but the publishers edited the book down to one-fifth of its original size.

* Amber St Clair appears as a historical character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a member of the first incarnation of the League in the 17th century, Prospero's Men.

Plot: After the adventures of the first game, the heroes head to a local inn to rest and enjoy their new found fame but a note gets slipped to them from Khelben " Blackstaff " Arunsun ( Archmage of Waterdeep ) who says that he sent a scout ( Amber, a female elven thief / mage of neutral good alignment ) to investigate reports of evil brewing in a temple known as Darkmoon but she has not returned.

Trumps of Doom is the first book in the second Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny ; and the sixth book overall.

The title of this book mirrors that of Sign of the Unicorn, the third book in the first Amber series.

The Amber Room was made from 1701 onwards in order to be installed at Charlottenburg Palace, home of Friedrich I, the first king of Prussia, at the urging of his second wife, Sophie Charlotte.

At one point in 1998, two separate teams ( one in Germany, the other in Lithuania ) announced that they had located the Amber Room, the first in a silver mine, the second buried in a lagoon ; neither produced the Amber Room.