A tropical harbor city with round floating platforms and a sailing ship on turquoise water.

Standalone one-shot / 02

Amber Tide

A festival on the water, with giant crabs and a prize that thinks for itself.

The idea

The festival's engineer wants its living prize.

Your group arrives at the Festival of the Tides in Amber Tide, a tropical harbor city built on the water. Choose your contests, earn Honor, and qualify for a race on giant crabs. Each crab has its own personality, so picking a mount is part of the fun.

The prize is the Heart of a Hero, a living artifact. Felbrik, the Ribbet engineer behind much of the festival's machinery, believes he's its rightful bearer. When the celebrations turn into a dispute over the heart, your group has to decide what being a hero means in practice.

Format: Standalone one-shot
Players: 3-5 players
Tone: Summer festival · Comedy & action
Focus: Festival games & a giant crab race

Choose your own contests

Pick the events you want to enter. The Honor system leaves room for clever ideas and the occasional bit of creative cheating.

Get to know your crab

Secret variants of the festival games and stubborn giant crabs keep the competition unpredictable.

Follow the trouble below the city

A short investigation leads to a grotto finale and a personal confrontation over the heart.

Felbrik, a Ribbet engineer wearing a straw hat and carrying a walking stick, rides a giant crab. — Felbrik / Festival of the Tides

Someone you'll meet in Amber Tide

Felbrik wants
the Heart.

He built much of the machinery that keeps the city and its festival running. He thinks that makes him the right person to carry the heart.

Artwork & maps

Beneath the harbor celebration

When the crab race ends, the trail leads down into the coastal caverns.

A sunken wooden sailing ship resting inside a sunlit coastal cavern. — **The Shipwreck Grotto**Where the dispute over the Heart of a Hero reaches its finale beneath the sunlit cavern roof.

Amber Tide GM reference sheet. — **Festival GM Reference**One-page tracker for festival games, the Honor system, and crab personalities.

Take a closer look

Beyond the festival

Standalone one-shot · Optional Amber Tide sequel/02.01

Thorns of Blossomtide

Optional sequel · One-shot · 3-4 players · Level 2

An ally with magical abilities disappears overnight. The trail leads to a noble estate in the jungle, where prisoners lose their magic beneath carefully tended gardens. Investigate, plan your way in, and choose between a quiet rescue, negotiation, or confrontation. You can play it without running Amber Tide first.

Amber Tide and Thorns of Blossomtide share a world. You can run either adventure on its own.

Where to next?

Abythera Weeping Rift Item Bundle

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