Forever Amber?

[Thondor]

Would I have to buy them for that? I don't have all that much money atm...

Anway, what would summoning be based on? Would it just be magic or something else?

Have you read the Amber novels? If not I suggest that at the least you try to get Nine Princes in Amber from your library if possible. It's a short read only about 160pages if I recall correctly, and quite frankly excellent. It will give you some basic ideas of the premises of what we are playing here. (though it won't give you any ideas of the cosmic power struggle, that occur in the later books.)

Depends on what you mean by summoning. On the one hand it would be the Logurus (Courts of Chaos's version of the pattern) costs 45points. With it you can 'summon' a sword from shadow, or a cup of coffee. Or pull yourself towards the desired object . . . On the other hand it could be conjuration (20 points) but to be honest I'm kinda confused on the rules for conjuration.
Generally you want Pattern (50points) or Logurus(45) in order to manipulate shadow -- the main premise of the Amber universe. Its possible to manipulate shadow using Advanced Shapeshifting (65 points) to move through shadow, or to follow someone else through shadow, or use a personal artifact to follow 'trails' through shadow . . .
Most go with Pattern or Logurus though.
(I'll note here that 'most' games start with 100 points at character creation)

 

[Thondor]

Is there still interest in this? I don't want to spend to much time planning things if its not still feasible.

 

[Nightbreeze]

Dunno...seems like the DM is having a busy RL. Still, for the chance of having an Amber game, I'm willing to wait for him to have more free time.

 

[magic_gathering2001]

Have you read the Amber novels?...

No, but I'll look into it now. Even if this doesn't turn out.

@Nightbreeze: Did you get the PM i sent you?

 

[Thondor]

No, but I'll look into it now. Even if this doesn't turn out.

They are certainly worth the read! One of my favourite series, probably read most of them 5 times and I have the first five books on tape. I think there is some inconsistencies between the books about the nature of the 'Amberverse' but that just means we as players have more options.

 

[Vertexx69]

I'm more of a Douglas Adams kind of guy myself. Hitchhikers guide forever! But from what I remember of the Amber series from when I read it a decade ago, it was a fairly interesting read. Pretty fast read too, I think it took me only a couple weeks to read both sets.
From the beginning we knew this would be a slower game than most other games on the board (cringing to think of the eshaton game I've been playing for over a year here on enworld).

 

[Thanee]

No, but I'll look into it now. Even if this doesn't turn out.

The books (the first five especially) are really good. You surely won't regret reading them.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Nightbreeze]

No, but I'll look into it now. Even if this doesn't turn out.

@Nightbreeze: Did you get the PM i sent you?

Yes, but I've been pretty busy these days. I'll what I can do in the week-end, hoping that my internet connection doesn't betray me.

 

[magic_gathering2001]

alright, just checking.

 

[Thondor]

How much has anyone considered using stuff from the Courts of Chaos book?

I don't have the book myself, and I only ever read one brief discription so I don't know much about its contents.