The Eternal Empress
A downloadable adventure
The Eternal Empress is a location-based dungeon adventure written for the Cairn roleplaying game and easily adaptable to other adventure game systems. Explore the depths of the Palaestra and end the Empress Josefina's cruel, generations-long ritual abduction and harvesting of youth.
Written for the Appendix N. Jam in July 2025, 2nd Place Jury Prize.
Content warning: body horror.
Writing By Amanda P. © 2025
Editing and Development: Derek B.
Cover by Clayton Notesine © 2025
Cartography and Cover Art by Gus L. © 2025
Special thanks: Clayton, Nick S., Brad Kerr, Yochai Gal, Martin, Ty, Dan, and Deldon.
Session length: three hours
Language: English
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Great job Amanda, Love your work!
thank you lucas!
Appendix N Jam: Eternal Empress won second place from the judges!
Fantastic and creepy dungeon crawl. Well done!
thank you!
This is an apt location for my WWN game. Do you perchance have suggestions for re-statting this for B/X 0SR variants? Or just a relevant URL?
https://cairnrpg.com/first-edition/tools/converting-monsters/ this is from Cairn to BX but you can reverse engineer it?
https://cairnrpg.com/second-edition/wardens-guide/creating-monsters/ actually use this.
Thank you kindly!