Lethean Age Player's Handbook
This handbook teaches the Lethean Age in the order a player needs it: what the world feels like, how to make a character, what the character choices mean, and how ordinary play works at the table.
The regulations remain authoritative for exact adjudication until a handbook section is reviewed and promoted. The handbook may repeat and reorganize canon so players can read it without learning the Starfire-style implementation documents first.
How to use these files
Read only what you need.
| File | Use it for |
|---|---|
| 01-world-primer.html | The player-facing setting pitch, common knowledge, the miasma, The Law, settlements, ruins, and Redoubts. |
| 02-character-creation.html | A step-by-step character creation procedure for the current draft. |
| 03-origins-and-peoples.html | Origin types, branches of sapience, Rur, Androids, Cyborgs, and what characters know about them. |
| 04-classes.html | The twelve Lethean Age classes in player-facing language. |
| 05-psionics-and-traits.html | Psionics, miasma colors, traits, mutations, cybernetics, and power sources. |
| 06-adventuring-and-conflict.html | Turns, checks, combat, incapacitation, parties, quests, and reputation. |
| 07-equipment-and-trade.html | Weapons, armor, tools, ammunition, attunement, relics, and current trade guidance. |
| LICENSE.html | Copyright, license, and attribution for the whole handbook. |
What this handbook assumes
- You are playing the tabletop RPG.
- Your character is a sapient survivor of the present world.
- Your character begins as a being of the Law unless the World Master says otherwise.
- Your character does not begin with hidden designer lore about the true history of the world.
- Psionics are not supernatural. They are living or technological contact with the miasma.
Draft boundaries
This handbook is player-facing. It avoids hidden history unless that history is common knowledge in the present world. World Masters should use the World Master Handbook and numbered books for secrets, reveals, and deep causality.
Classes are the player-facing character identity layer. The current regulations and the Lethean Age class roster are still being reconciled, so some character-creation details may shift before the procedure is locked.
Source map
rulebooks/0-lore.md-- the world, the miasma, branches of sapience, Redoubts, The Law, mental factions.rulebooks/1-settings.md-- biomes, turns, nanite profiles, Winds of Change, fog of war.rulebooks/3-apocalyptia.md-- traits, power sources, psionic prerequisites, mutations, cybernetics.rulebooks/4-characters.md-- origin types, levels, HP, AP, skills, backgrounds, incapacitation.rulebooks/5-items.md-- weapons, armor, ammunition, tools, toxins, vehicles, mounts, crystals.rulebooks/6-conflict.md-- conflict, combat, checks, damage, fleeing.rulebooks/7-societies.md-- The Law, trading, parties, quests, reputation, factions.rulebooks/gammago/classes/ROSTER.md-- locked class slate and class flavor commitments.