OtherBound.~ATH

Far away from all you once knew, change your reality and make a new world!

OtherBound.~ATH is a Homestuck inspired adventure fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about being dimensional stowaways in a strange and unfamiliar world. Whether you're saving your world or helping create a new one, OtherBound is all about self-expression and teamwork, and seeing just how far you can push yourself before you snap!

OtherBound is made using the Harmony Drive SRD, based off of the game Heroic Chord by Peach Garden Games. It features Harmony Drive's spell piece system reworked as Motifs, a free-form magic system that allows you to improvise spells by combining simple words from yourself and the world around you! Beyond that it also includes:

• A flexible gear system reminiscent of Homestuck's Alchemy allowing you to craft and upgrade items important to your character that grow alongside you
• Stats and character creation that reflects who your characters were before the adventure and who they can become through and outside it
• A universal encounter system known as STRIFE that can pit your heroes against all kinds of threats beyond just combat, be it physical, psychological, or anything between.
• Duets allowing unique special abilities via combining effects from different Elements
• Awe inspiring GOD TIER Abilities unique to your Class and Element combo (your "Classment")
• An extensive GM guide including tips for crafting your own story and setting, creating Strife encounters, and various other tips

About Harmony Drive

OtherBound uses the Harmony Drive SRD, a toolkit designed to make campaign style adventure TTRPGs that encourage self-expression, teamwork, and making difficult choices. It is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). You can find the SRD on their itch.io page.

OtherBound is still a work in progress. It is far from done, and will need more work and playtesting among other things to get it to a point where I'm satisfied with it. However, with it's inspirations being what they are (a lot of Homestuck and Deltarune specifically), I wanted to release an early playtest version on April 13th to force myself to actually get back on track with it. If you want to talk to me about it or give feedback, or just chat about games and your own campaigns, I'd love to hear about it either on my Tumblr or on my Bluesky!