• A world explored at several zoom-levels, from the broad sweep of kingdoms to a detailed fantasy city to the day-to-day of a remote rural village to the individual troubles and triumphs of specific characters across the grave.
• Familiar enough to provide firm footing for traditional-fantasy fans (it's a world of warriors, wizards, thieves and vagabonds), but with a warmth & personality entirely its own, with unexpected details around every corner (it's a world where Slimes and haunted snowmen are valid PCs, the "common tongue" is dangerous in the wrong company, and your campaign is just as likely to visit a sporting arena as the nearby trap-laden ruin).
• Designed from the core as a game world. Every detail chosen to inspire characters and adventures.

Uresia comes from the author of such timeless classics as a cartoon in Dragon magazine that one time, and a pretty good recipe for General Tso's Chicken. It is a wholly-revised and expanded edition of Grave of Heaven, perfect for newcomers and satisfying to long-time fans of the world. Uresia is fully illustrated, indexed, mapped, has clicky-things for the screen readers and removable layers for the home-printers. Every copy is made of 100% post-consumer recycled genre love and nitrate-free pixels. Serve with snacks.

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Uresia: Grave of Heaven is just $19.95 in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Click Here to Purchase Uresia! I accept payments via PayPal, the fastest way to get money across the internet.Still not sure? The book speaks best for itself, so click here for the free sampler edition. It's a hefty 48-page chunk of the Uresia you can kick the tires on. It'll let you know if heaven's grave is for you! And if you really want to stock up on Uresia, check out the Library Bundle Deal Thingy!

Q: Is This The Fantasy World From Big Eyes, Small Mouth?

A: Yep, same world, from the Skyfall to the Slimes, in a new expanded edition! Note that Uresia is is now part of the All-Systems Library here at Cumberland, so it's no longer attached to any specific game-system. It's pure "world lore," for the FRPG of your choice. This edition is designed and produced entirely by S. John Ross, author/mapper of the original book.

Q: Any Big Differences?

A: It's a bit higher-res. The BESM edition of Uresia was just over 45,000 words; this expanded version is more than 90,000, with all new art and maps. That said, it was very important to keep the accessibility of the original, so the new material is mostly "intimacies" focused on individual characters, and comparable awesome-but-not-essential stuff. Uresia remains a very "anti-encyclopedic" sort of design, easy to get into and more evocative than informative. Grab the free sampler and you'll see!

Q: I Want Dead-Tree! Is There A Dead-Tree Uresia?

A: If you prefer that new-book-smell, you can visit heaven's grave via the print-on-demand folks at Lulu (where it's available in a variety of formats, including all-in omnibus edition binding Uresia together with its own groovy support material).

Q: Did You Need To Make The Logo Above So HUGE?

A: I ... I got carried away [darts eyes around helplessly]. Buy things!