Tribe 8 Player's Handbook

The strange and wonderful world of Tribe 8 fascinates you, but you don't know what to do with it? The T8 Player's Handbook answers it all. Designed and written by hardcore T8 players, the book contains a brief overview of the game world, followed by extensive tips on atmosphere, character design, equipment, Synthesis and much more!

Unlike the other Tribe 8 books, this one is less about atmosphere/style and more practical -- it's really a player's handbook, designed to help people get into a fantasy game where there are no elves or dwarves. It is full of serious advice on designing characters: the best combinations of Attributes, Skills and Perks, adventure/campaign ideas, background generators, and a lot more handy stuff.

The book also contains a complete D20/OGL conversion section. We've got high hopes that it will lead D20 players to at least take a look to the 20+ books Tribe 8 line, since there are plenty of monsters, villains and plots they can borrow from it. This section also explains how to make Tribe 8-like characters using the existing basic D3E classes and races, in case people want to run their campaign entirely in D20 (naturally, the background material and adventures need no translation and can be used as they are).

The Tribe 8 Player's Handbook includes:

• Summary information on the Tribes, Houses and other factions;
• Overview of the T8 societies (populations, economics, cultures, etc.);
• Extensive Player Character creation guidelines;
• Combat-related rules, covering such things as shields, partial armors, paired weapons and special maneuvers;
• Clarification and expansion of the Synthesis magic system;
• Character life background generators;
• And much, much more!

DP9-825, 128 pages, ISBN 1-894814-76-2, SRP $22.95US/$25.25Can

Design Notes Making the Silhouette to D20 conversion rules proved to be an interesting exercise in game design. The writing team made sure one could use the basic D20 stuff from the PHB to construct the T8 character types, without mucking about with third party D20 material. The conversion rules turned out to be fairly simple, if a bit detailed. They start by explaining the design assumption differences between Silhouette and D20, and how to bridge the gap. For example, since T8's people are all human, the writers propose faction modifiers -- in effect, tribal "races" -- that provide the needed differences. They also explain how experience works in both systems and how to port them over (i.e. how to assign a level to an existing T8 NPC, for example). They offer modified combat rules so that high level but non-combat characters (like Veruka the Wraith, an old witch-like woman) don't beat up 1st level Joanite warriors. Of course, a complete adaptation of Synthesis was needed for D20; this could count as yet another magic system for the latter. The monster side has not been forgotten either, with numerous entries on converting Z'bri to D20. There are even rules for Atmosphere, using similar D3E basic spells (why reinvent the wheel?). The book also offers pre-generated D20 Z'bri, which D&D Gamemasters will probably like to unleash on their hapless players...
Table of Content Chapter One: Introduction What Is In This Book What is Tribe 8? What Tribe 8 Isn't What Can You Do in Tribe 8? The World of Tribe 8 and the Metaplot Chapter Two: The Tribe 8 Setting General Information The Nation of the Goddess The Fallen Chapter Three: Character Development Solo Creation, Weaver-Assisted And Cell Creation Fantasy Archetypes From Whence You Came The Outlooks Eminences Buying Attributes Skills Synthesis Perks and Flaws Rounding out the Character Character Development Chapter Four: Equipment and Economy Personal Equipment Weapons Armor Barter Economy Who has What The Value Table The Junk List Armor Pieces Table	Chapter Five: Combat Combat Overview Close Combat Ranged Combat Damage Tools of the Trade Improvised Weapons Armor Shields Tactics Non-combat Skills in a Fight Making Combat Work Mass Combat Chapter Six: Synthesis The Spiritual Landscape Synthesis Wielding Synthesis Conjunctional Synthesis Eminences Aspects Ritual Synthesis Dreaming Spirit Combat Chapter Seven: Open Gaming Rules Conversion Introduction Basic Mechanics Characteristics Character Generation The Tribe 8 Open Gaming Rules Magic System Gear and Treasure Antagonists Appendixes OGC License Tribe 8 Glossary Index
Sample Page(s) Flemis Z'bri OGC Game Stats (Chapter 7)