ETHERA

Ethera is fantasy game of reality-warping spells, impactful combat, modular character creation, and psychedelic dungeon diving.

Character creation is light and modular without sacrificing the familiar crunch of old-school fantasy systems. Every skill and spell in Ethera tells a story of its own, twisting the fiction and setting as play progresses. Ethera's combat system is dense but simple, built to establish a back-and-forth dialog of attacking, guarding, countering, and casting.

The spells within this tome are peculiar and dramatic - like turning yourself into a coat rack, speaking to the spirits of the sea, or planting literal rumors in the form of gossip seeds. Martial combatants are just as integral - each class relies on one another to prevail using a hard-set, team-based ability system. 

The game is designed to be especially adventurous, harking back to the gameplay of old-school dungeon crawling. Death and injury are a persistent threat. This is an adventure game about true heroes, with challenging encounters and brutal repercussions that only determination and cunning can conquer.

• Ethera in its digital form will always be free. You can find hard copies elsewhere online.

• Support and encouragement to hack & expand upon the system is greatly encouraged by Secret Hearth.

• After some major refinement, this role-playing game has been renamed to Ethera. If you're here looking for the Hands of Ether role-playing system from the Secret Hearth Show, you have found it. Ethera and Hands of Ether are one in the same.