A downloadable game

Heroes of Hyrule is a fan-made tabletop rpg that is set in the world of Hyrule from the Legend of Zelda series. 

Hyrule has seen peace for an age, but now monsters are appearing in greater numbers, seemingly creeping up from forgotten temples and dark corners. Murmurs are being made of ancient legends of a calamity. 

In Heroes of Hyrule players take on the role of character in Hyrule investigating and exploring the land. It is set in the years before the rise of Ganon, but is designed to systemise the world of Zelda and allow you to play whatever story you might want.

The Game

Heroes of Hyrule is a work in progress, but is currently fully playable, though is missing some content.

This is a very rough and ready bare-bones first glance. It's not really been written for new roleplayers at this point and it's got huge chunks of janky or missing content.

The primary goals for Heroes of Hyrule are:
To give the unique tribes of Hyrule unique gameplay and give characters a distinct mechanical identity.
To have the various main elements of the Zelda games into a satisfying ttrpg (dodge&guard based combat, varied monsters, adventure, riding, items & gadgets, music)
To create a core combat system that is dynamic but tactically satisfying.

What it includes: 
Basic Character creation - This guide covers the steps on how to make a character.
Standard Rules - This guide includes all the rules to be able to play the standard combat/dungeon crawling game (I hope). 
Seven Tribes - Information and traits for the Seven playable Tribes. Gerudo, Goron, Hylian, Korok, Rito, Zora. 
Talent Trees - Talent tree graphics for a large range of character abilties in a range of different trades. 
Weapons - A short list of starter weapons for charactrs and monsters. 
Monsters - A short list of low-level monsters.

Glaring Omissions:
Riding rules - There's currently no specific rules for riding mounts. 
Talent explanations - Currently I've been focussing on getting the trees, and the basic concept of the talents done, so the more comprehensive explanations are not currently in the system. 
Talent gaps - Many talent nodes have not been written out, or even decided upon yet. 
Music - I want to implement a music systemt hat does justice to the wide range of uses that Music has within the games. However my first prototype for this needed a lot of workshopping and so it isn't in the game currently.
Session Guidance - I have not written up any sort of guidance for running HoH sessions or being a GM with this system. 
Weapon list - There is currently a fairly limited list of starting level weapons but it is not huge. 
Monster list - There is currently a small list of sample low level monsters. Many more to come. 
Armour - Currently I have not added armours, their mechanics or stats. 
Fluff - This version is very light on fluff and lore. This will however be one of the last things to be added. 
Much more - There is a lot I intend to plump out, alter and add, this list is just a snapshot of some of the more major parts.

If you notice anything wrong (Typos, inconsistent language, rules you'd expect to see but can't) or have any feedback on the guide please feel free to send me a message on Patreon. However please do be mindful of the fact that this is a wildly unfinished work that has not been significantly playtested (yet).

It is also worth noting that currently a lot of the game is represented in images (the Talent trees specifically) and due to the work-in-progress nature of the piece I have not had the time to make it all screen reader friendly yet. However this is something that will be more of a priority now that it is publicly available and will be an element of the finished game!

Enjoy!

This is available for free and will never be otherwise. All intellectual property related to the legend of Zelda belongs to Nintendo.

However if you wish to support me making ttrpgs you can do so over at my Patreon. Or purchase my other games.


StatusCanceled
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
AuthorCobbleSprite
GenreRole Playing
TagsTabletop role-playing game

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Heroes of Hyrule v0.3.1.pdf 66 MB
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There is so much love in this project! It's just amazing to read it!


5 Stars, easy decision!

An interesting system underpinning a very tactical combat system. Many different character options through Talent trees, and who wouldn't want to play a Korok!?

Personally I'm really looking forward to more information about the foraging and cooking subsystems.

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ZELDA TTRPG

ZELDA TTRPG

ZELDA TTRPG


IM LOVE

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Oh hey, thanks for checking it out! 

Which one do you make? I saw that there were a few already available (after I started, do your research kids!) but felt Heroes of Hyrule was achieving a different type of game to the ones I came across. 

Since I'm doing it on the side art is definitely lacking so it could be awesome to get some art made for it, though a 50 artist collaboration is really impressive!