A Blast From The Past

[Jason Tandro]

What you are about to see are photos I took of a handwritten manual I made for a TerraEarth DnD style game that I was working on called TerraEarth Crisis. This pre-dates even the original RPG Maker XP TerraEarth game. I made this shortly after writing TerraEarth Adventures but I couldn't tell you exactly when (sadly I never put a date on this thing.

To give you an idea of its age, the main cast members are:

Aoiga Takahashi
Axe Kazama
Jason Tandro
Blaze Kiriya
Joan Michelle
Rainichan
XenaJen
Freedan
Blade
Deathpit
Ark4Elle

This idea of what was going to be (believe it or not) a pen-and-paper DND (the idea of doing DnD on the boards never even occurred to me) slowly developed into the ideas that surrounded the development of TerraEarth RPG, and that obviously led to TerraEarth Absolute.

So without further self-promotion here are the photos.



CAST:

Aoiga Takahashi
Axe Kazama
Jason Tandro
Blaze Kiriya
Joan Michelle
Rainichan
XenaJen
Freedan
Blade
Deathpit
Ark4Elle

BASICS:

Town Menus:

Shop- Purchase item(s) or weapon(s)/armor at standard cost.
Rest - Rest at Inn; varies in cost.

Combat Menus:

Damage - is decreased by defense. If barriers are broken, use bare ( ) defense.
Attack - is Str. die roll. If weapon breaks, use base ( ) strength.




Setting Up a Battle

1) Roll. Die = enemy total.
2) Roll for Monster
3) Roll for Quantity
4) Repeat 2-3 until all enemies are filled.
5) Roll for Status
1-2: Back Attack - Monsters First
3-5: Normal - Divide Turns Up
6: Surprise- Allies Go First
6) Attack for Monsters. Roll for Damage.
7) Roll for random target.
1: Miss
2-6: Characters.

Victory:

Combine EXP, AP, Gil.
For drop, roll dice. 1-3 no item, 4-6 yes.
LVL UP = Level * 100 + (Level *2)




Moving Around TerraEarth

Walking 15 Le a day -2 Stamina
Running 25 Le a day -5 Stamina
Choco / Kruk 75 Le a day -3 Stamina
Railroad 150 Le a day -2 Stamina
Ship:
Dwn 300 Le a day -2 Stamina
Up 100 Le a day -4 Stamina
Warp ? -5 Stamina
Airship 750 Le a day -2 Stamina

Of the mentioned, only waking, running and ships will result in encounters. Event Encounters occur regardless.


[Note: I'm confident by the ship I meant Upstream, Downstream. Also note Le = Leagues]




(Gonna get lazy on this one. Too much to type, lol)



The Guardians of TerraEarth

Malizzo - Fire

Focused in the Fiery Depths of the Diamon Mine, he is a Master of Fire Magic.


Tiamat- Air
Living on the Air Garden, his Powers control the Wind.


Kraken- Water
His Water Skills are unrivaled, as he draws energy from the Seaside Palace.


Lich- Earth
In the Sacred Temple of Angkor Wat he controls the movement of the Earth.

[inferiare]

Wooooooow that is amazing. I'm sure I have my original panels for the comic I based on your 36 page TerraEarth Adventures somewhere, but hell if I know where they might be.

[Manibrandr System]

That is pretty neat. Those were the days.

[Flamez]

Must of been in one of my lurker stages where everyone forgot me

[Miss Prime Blue]

lol

I am forgotten as well. Kind of abandoned TE for a while due to life stuff.