What is OTHR?
If you’re here from curiosity (or cajoling), we are proud to wave our little flag and tell you about OTHR, Eddystone Gameworks’ first foray into tabletop gaming! OTHR is a self-styled future fantasy roleplaying game, replete with delightfully lurid and chewy pulp sensibilities, a plastic-punk world where a stupendously advanced and near-alien civilisation collapsed more than a millennium ago: our own.
The Setting
OTHR throws you straight into Uropa, a neon-scented, wonderfully weird ‘future fantasy’ world. Set more than a millennium after a teeny-tiny interdimensional scuffle between humanity’s supreme machine-godhead and supranormal entities beyond our understanding. Suffice it to say, things became heated. However, the ‘apocalypse’ - the so-called Fracture - is long since over. Boiled and bleached in a thousand years of tumbling chaos, war, and pseudo-sentient energy fields, the end of the world is flat, sanitised history; as passé as stone-washed jeans, dead as dial-up. We’re over it; what now?
The machine-gods slumber under endless concrete fathoms, siphoning electric gospel from the stars. The metadynamic melodies of the ever-present Choir gives unwanted curse-gifts to the children of Humanity; maddening magic in all but name. The plastic cathedrals of a bygone age moulder under a shattered moon, and the surface of the Earth crawls with hopeful souls who look to tomorrow always. The end of the world?
Never.
The System
OTHR is a stand-alone tabletop roleplaying game, and you don’t need any experience with other systems to enjoy it. It aims for a balance between ‘hard’ elements such as combat, and ‘soft’ elements such as roleplay and storytelling. With fast-paced mechanics, dedicated ‘conversational combat’ - known as Duelogues - and a rich gooey charm that’s hard to wash out, OTHR is easy to pick up and play.
As for character creation, the world can change plenty in a thousand years, and there’s always a demand for desperately cool heroes in every shape and wash-setting; ready to write history or just a snazzy obituary. With a narrative-driven character system and oodles of options to work with, OTHR is far more interested in who your character is. An agoraphobic astronaut on a crusade to get satellite reception? A wise-cracking psychic suffused with savoir-faire up to the eyeballs? Feel free to be free!
Easy to learn and easy to play, no previous experience with tabletop needed
Weird and wonderful ‘future fantasy’ setting
Narrative-driven character creation and advancement
Fast-paced, cerebral combat designed for 30-minute bouts
Duelogue ‘conversational combat’ system for raising the stakes during roleplay
I Want to play!
OTHR is currently in beta! We have an open call for testers and interested individuals as well as a program of in-person events and workshops. If you are interested, join us!
- Eddystone Gameworks
