Dice rolls are 1d10 + Stat + Proficiency + any applicable bonuses, such as Boons.
You may spend 3 Tension to Overdrive for a retroactive +5 to your roll (a Determination Overdrive), or +3 to an ally's roll (a Teamwork Overdrive). I will also automatically overdrive to avoid exhaustion or unconsciousness.
It is possible to critically succeed (on +5 on skill checks and +10 on combat rolls) or critically fail (by the same margins), but rolling a 1 or a 10 does not automatically crit in either case. It is possible to crit retroactively by Overdriving.
Your stat bonuses have names:
Vigor grants a Strength bonus.
Agility grants a Dexterity bonus.
Spirit grants an Aura bonus.
Mind grants an Intuition bonus.
Resolve grants a Guts bonus.
Dice are rolled on a first come, first serve bonus. You only roll for Deedee.
Also, keep in mind that the people playing Another World Online are ones with access to decent gaming rigs and expensive VR equipment, and SAO cyberpunk bullshit VR equipment at that. How different is that from achieving adventurer status through having Loadsamoney?
Yet it's plausible for such people to be poor by Virtual 40's standards. For example, Deedee. And Sekhmet.
Well, sure. Wait until your Tax Return and take your Yearly Large Lump Sum Of Money and drop it into that One Nice Thing That You Can't Afford The Rest of The Year. We working poor have been doing that for years.
I am tempted, by the way, to rename this the thing I call it on the Discord: I wimped out and called it Another World Online when I was calling it "I/O" or "Isekai/Online" in my notes.
this probably needs a googleable subtitle now that I think of it, but "be careful who you pretend to be" is a very good subtitle
I'll probably change it for Chapter 2+. I/O is a multilayered pun name referencing a lot more than it being "Isekai Online", including the AI god Io (who you've found out is Important), and also I'm a weeb who likes anime when I'm not busy hating it.
Also, keep in mind that the people playing Another World Online are ones with access to decent gaming rigs and expensive VR equipment, and SAO cyberpunk bullshit VR equipment at that. How different is that from achieving adventurer status through having Loadsamoney?
Yet it's plausible for such people to be poor by Virtual 40's standards. For example, Deedee. And Sekhmet.
Now that you point it out, isn't it kind of concerning for someone to abhor their reality so much that they spend most of their money on VR equipment? Or am I getting something wrong?
I am tempted, by the way, to rename this the thing I call it on the Discord: I wimped out and called it Another World Online when I was calling it "I/O" or "Isekai/Online" in my notes.
this probably needs a googleable subtitle now that I think of it, but "be careful who you pretend to be" is a very good subtitle
I'll probably change it for Chapter 2+. I/O is a multilayered pun name referencing a lot more than it being "Isekai Online", including the AI god Io (who you've found out is Important), and also I'm a weeb who likes anime when I'm not busy hating it.
Now that you point it out, isn't it kind of concerning for someone to abhor their reality so much that they spend most of their money on VR equipment? Or am I getting something wrong?
How much time do you spend on movies, books, video games, and YouTube?
How is VR different from that?
To be clear, if you are accessing the internet, you are richer than the vast majority of the world by definition. That's what I was referring to.
ETA: There is a reasonable question of matter of degree, but there are already people who spend so much time playing MMOs that Blizzard et al had to introduce mechanical disincentives to 24-7 play. This doesn't describe the vast majority of people who play AWO:MPH either.
For a comparable price point... a decent neurohelm costs about the same amount, relative to 2047 dollars, as a decent gaming console would today--with a subscription to AWOo being about as much as any MMO subscription would be. There are plenty of people who are making shit wages today who sock away a small percentage of each paycheck so that they can buy that new console when it comes out. And who budget that $15 bucks every month for WoW or FFXIV.
For a comparable price point... a decent neurohelm costs about the same amount, relative to 2047 dollars, as a decent gaming console would today--with a subscription to AWOo being about as much as any MMO subscription would be. There are plenty of people who are making shit wages today who sock away a small percentage of each paycheck so that they can buy that new console when it comes out. And who budget that $15 bucks every month for WoW or FFXIV.
Either way, the point isn't that it would be out of reach for people who already play video games: the point is that people who play video games are already an outlier.
We'll be fine! We'll just pace ourselves better next time we're a badass fox monk, we'll just sleep this off and be back in no time!
Meanwhile I want to learn more about this world, and maybe dream about hot people 👀
I think Hikaru and Sekhmet should get our apology, and we should talk more with Shadi and let her know she's ok now!
[x] Love.
[x] This world.
[x] Sekhmet.
[x] Shadi
[x] Hikaru.
[x] I'm fine. I'll be more careful in the future.
This is not the greatest and best mustache in the game. It is merely a tribute.
By PastelDeity.
ETA: This is what I get for giving no descriptors of his 'stache other than "magnificent" and is almost certianly not representative of his actual tastes in facial hair. I think he has, or had, more of a handlebar going on. If it was canon I'd put it in Media, not Apocrypha!
[x] Love.
[x] Religion.
[x] This world.
[X] I'm fine. I'll be fine as long as you're all here with me.
don't know what to go for apology wise. So i'll leave that to you guys.
ETA: This is what I get for giving no descriptors of his 'stache other than "magnificent" and is almost certianly not representative of his actual tastes in facial hair. I think he has, or had, more of a handlebar going on. If it was canon I'd put it in Media, not Apocrypha!
That's fine! Honestly, my old design teacher always said that the strength of a logo lies in its monochrome version, not the color. Color is an afterthought. When I took that semester-long logo design workshop none of us were allowed to touch it until we had a monochrome logo that met with approval.
So, like, this version is actually what I think of as the logo anyway, not the color one? And I'm still thoroughly proud of it. It's probably one of my best designs I've done in recent years... not that I've done much since I graduated but still. This I would actually feel comfortable putting in my portfolio. If I ever remember to update the online version, I will.
So Snickerdoodle, the person who brought us Time for Crab and some other bits of fanart and is working on an illustration of a key event from Chapter 1, is doing a Twitch art livestream. Help him get to affiliate?
Snick also did this (noncanon) bit of functional and elegant UI design.
(That said, don't forget that this is the on-week for D&D on Sunday, so you'll want to make sure it's written before 3pm, since after that you guys have a dumbass ex-gigolo to rescue from some gangsters. I'll try to make sure we're wrapped up well before nine, though.)
Thorne Fae Warden of the Wylds
Child of Aurora, Scherzo and Eranda
Sibling of Flamma, Sylphan, Delvar and Meredar
God of Wood, the Pixies, Hunting, Nature, Woodcraft, Archery, and Outsiders
Concept art by Rukafais.
Thorne is the patron deity of the Pixies, and works with the powers of Wood, Nature and beasts and hunters alike. They bid their followers to hunt and use all of what they hunt; to honor and obey the rules of hospitality; to eschew falsehood and artifice in favor of honesty and plain meaning; to fight valiantly and kill cleanly; and to burn in offering their portion of your kills.
- Character Creation summary
SUMMARY
Thorne is a nature and archery goddess who grants their followers a versatile suite of utility survivalism Boons, Wood-elemental spells (notably buffs, poison and HoT effects), and benefits for archers and ambush hunters. Thornite abilities are extremely useful for most Outcaste superclasses. If you want to play something like a Druid, play a Sacred Thornite: Cleric for plant control, Psychic for shapeshifting, or Summoner for a Companion build.
GAMEPLAY Least Boon:
Scent Prey - Not to be confused with the combat boon Most Dangerous Game(acquired further down the Thornite tree), Scent Prey grants a +3 bonus to locate edible game and highlights radii for nodes where you can obtain wild food (such asForest Blackberries, Pungent Truffles, Ears of the Eldest, game watering holes, etc); the higher your Mind+Perception and Resolve+Survival, the tighter the radius.
The disclaimer that "the food may object to being eaten" is not an idle threat, as huntable animals in this are frequently monsters that require combat to take down, though power correlates to the value of the ingredients you can loot.
While valuable in a pinch or to save on rations, a properly equipped team will never find this necessary. If you're not doing a full Thornite build, take this only if you'd like to do the hunting and gathering minigames to get your brewing, cooking and tanning ingredients.
Valuable Boons:
- The Ambush Predator tree: Extremely useful investments for most Agility builds and many Mind builds. Ambush Predatorincreases damage to Surprised targets or via traps and environmental kills, turning your Damage Increment from a nice bonus to a force multiplier. From there, most of the tree is ways to make sure your opponent is always surprised and that you'll constantly be critically hitting them - normally very difficult to achieve because of the way Critical Threshold works. Pounce From Nowhereonly adds to the carnage, while Gleaming Eyesgives you the Night Vision buff to more efficiently hunt at night or from shadows. This tree synergizes with itself - if you can pick up key missing pieces from class abilities. For the most glaring example, it doesn't include Feint, but if you're going Ambush Predator, you will want a class that does...
...- The Wyld Communion tree: Where you get most of the pet and spell options. Wyld Communionitself is just a regeneration spell effect which is seldom exiting on its own, but it opens you up to the powerful perks Tanglethorne (one of the better Attack Node variants), Wardens Stride to ignore hazardous terrain, and Prince of the Earthfor a nasty surprise in PVP...
...Technique Considerations: Like their other mother, Thorne has access to healing over time and damage over time effects in the form of Regrowth and Poison effects, but they're more aggressive about it; where Eranda is pure buffing, Thorne tends to Weakensand ranged attacks. The biggest indicator of this is Thornite cheap access to Accurate. Accurate is useful on it's own, but it really shines when combined with stacked Accuracy buffs and Evasion debuffs, because it's one of the only ways to get reliable Critical hits in the game...
...DIVINE BEAST: Jackalope
Jackalope having most of the Thornite boon tree is a good indication that you should bring multiple people with cleanses or debuff redirection, because while its base damage is low, its critical damage is horrendous. The fact that it can call on Seedlings, Grizzstrix, and Chimeraallies makes things even worse in this regard... ...be patient. In the worst case, hit yourself with Polarity Confusion, because a debuff to Accuracy is literally less painful than reduced Evasion leading to a critical hit...
...LORE NOTES "Artemis was always going to be part of the inspiration, but in doing research on the era I was struck by the liminal existence of the people who work in the woods: hunters, yes, but also loggers and colliers and shamans. This gave me the idea of a deity that existed in both worlds and neither, a child - metaphorically, and therefore for our mythic cycle literally - of cities in Aurora, pastoralists in Eranda and transhumance in Scherzo who came from all of them but could not live among any of them. I freely admit that I had an old OC that happened to mesh perfectly with those ideas..."
- Dr Charlene Durante, OtherworldCon 2044
One of the Five Elemental Siblings, with parentage from both the Imperial side of the family and the Pastoralist side of the family (and, according to the secret mythology of Eranda, an attempt to "marry" them), Thorne is intended to be a liminal figure. They (or she; both are acceptable) are among their more obvious Wood Elemental associations the goddess of an untamable but potentially friendly Other...
...They also serve as the divine template for the Pixie species in the way that the other Elementals do for their species. They are not a chaste god, like Artemis, for this reason; myths about them mentoring and becoming romantically involved with the mythical progenitors of the Scout and Wizard classes, Benatrice and Draoi, are a part of later quests from both in the Caelibyrn region...
...ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: This page was locked from 2044/Nov/20 to 2045/Jan/3 due to repeated offsite vandalism. To be clear: Thorne's identification as nonbinary is canonical, supported by the lore, and has been confirmed in multiple creator interviews. Referring to them as such is accurate. Rather than waste further time railing against this, we at MundaneWiki suggest you play something else.
-Administrator Blueskies
That picture makes them look like a very cheerful hash brown.
And that "food may object to being eaten" line is amusing. The way you wrote the wiki entry implies that some people have indeed mistaken that for just being flavor text rather than a very flavorful warning.
we're a badass fox monk, we'll just sleep this off and be back in no time!
