Ethera

Ethera is Secret Hearth’s flagship game of reality-warping spells, impactful combat, modular character creation, and monochrome dungeon crawling.

In Ethera's surreal world, your table takes on the role of adventurers in a land of rainbow forests, sentient clay, eldritch cyclopes, and crystal dragons.

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 uses a freakishly fast-paced combat system that allows for the Guide and Adventurers to provide 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 style of traditional 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.

Hail the dawn!