TERRA: Volume 1 - Hero’s Handbook

This game is currently being written and playtested

• Ages 12+
• 1+ Players
• Pen or Pencils and Paper
• Dice: four-sided, six-sided, eight-sided, ten-sided, twelve-sided, and twenty-sided

About the Game

TERRA Roleplaying Game - First Edition, is my take on the 5th Edition (5e)  rule set and how I use them at my tables. Due to the page count of the source material, I have comprised the rules set into two volumes: Hero's Handbook and Referee's Reference (a single volume version of the game will also be provided). However, the focus on this game is to lean into rulings instead of rules which support the game.

The World of Terra

In general, my game worlds are based on the Renaissance Era and how it would have been with magic infused into it. As such, the classes and backgrounds reflect this and complement this ruleset.

Style of Play

• Solo
• Cooperative (CoOp)
• Guided

The Oracle

If your a referee, cooperative, or solo play group an oracle is used to help with specific situations which require input outside of your discussion making. They can help alleviate decision paralysis, but require non-vague or obscure player input in order to generate a useful result.

Hero's Handbook

This work is comprised of my player homebrew options  over the years.

Species

Dwarf, dragonborn, elf, halfling, human, gnome

Classes

• Barbarian - Battle Rager who gives out a battle cry.
• Bard
• Cleric - Devote magic-users
• Druid - Natural/ Primal magic-users
• Fighter
• Mechanist - Non-magical skill monkey
• Monk - Pscionics based non-weapon fighter
• Paladin - Oathbound warriors 
• Rogue
• Sorcerer - Bloodline magic-users
• Warlock - Pactbound magic-users
• Wizard - High studied magic-users

Each class has a number of subclasses to choose from at 1st, 2nd, or 3rd levels.

Background

This is what your character was doing before they completed their heroic event.

Magic

5e magic can not distinguish between the arcane and  psiconics, so I accept this and focus on subclasses which have psionic abilities.

License

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.