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About This Game

Welcome to Tower of Athena, heavily inspired by anime such as Damchi, Goblin Slayer, Sword Art Online and Grimgar!

Tower of Athena is about Adventurers who are hired by the guild to take on dangerous quests within the mysterious tower that's been sealed for decades. The only playable race is human and the art style is of course Anime.

The Tower

Monsters seem to be birthed in the walls of the tower, and after they are killed will shortly appear again within a certain amount of hours. Each type of creature has its own spawn time. Currently only the 3rd floor has ever been officially cleared by party.

Every floor seems to have its own day night cycle, with a clear view of the sun and moon while inside. Areas are blocked off by what appears to be an invisible wall that prohibits you from traveling to far. The way to find the next level is to look for the large Steel door that blocks the stairway to the next floor. Things make no sense here, every floor is a peace of its own world.

Current Lore

Floor 1- Small Creatures (non aggressive) most creatures found here can also be found on the outside. This floor seems to be just a waiting hub, its fairly lit and made mostly of stone. Aspect- Gathering Place, Safe Spot
Floor 2- Mostly Small Creatures (Mild-Agro) Small bands of low level Orcs, Goblins, Cattle and other small game can be found on this floor. Most of this floor seems to be designed as a low dense wooded area. In parts of this floor there are ruins of what seemed to be a town. Aspect- Old Ruins of an ancient civilization, low density woods, small paths
Floor 3- Dense Forrest, mostly filled with Small Creatures (Mild-Agro) Small bands of low level Orcs, Orc Shamans, Small bands of Hobgoblins, Cattle and other small game have been reported here. It has been known for parties to run into Golbin and Orc huts. Aspect- Dense Tree Brush, filled with natural traps, Orc hunting grounds.
Floor 4- Large Creature (Extr-Agro) (Gossip, due to no official information has been documented).

More about the Floors so far...

Each floor in the tower of Athena seems to house a unique feature. Researchers and Scholars endeavor to discover their properties on a regular basis in the hopes of unravelling some of the tower's mystery.
One thing that all the floors have in common is that, as far as we've seen, the terrain seems to regenerate to it's former appearance over time.

The tower is also home to some unique monsters not found in the outside world such as "cleaners."


Floor one has nearly indestructible terrain, which makes excavation or agriculture impossible.

Floor two is nicknamed "miners paradise", though most of it is forest, there are some ruins with precious minerals burried underneath them in deep underground tunnels. The guilds outside the tower however heavily regulate excavation within the tower, exorbitantly requiring a costly permit upon entry with an additional hourly charge.

Floor three is still being heavily investigated, however it is slow-going due to the fact that one must pass through the earlier floors to reach it. Supplies often get stretched thin by that point and the monsters and environment are both very hostile.

The following floor is a complete mystery. At first there were rumors that it simply doesn't exist, hence why no one returns from it. However, the entrance to this floor has been clearly documented by none other than Bron Henderson, cartographer extraordinaire. In his last expedition to the tower, he ascended the stairs to floor four with a party of famed heroes, that was the last that anyone heard from any of them. The rumors are that there is a large creature laying in wait atop the stairs, though this is mere gossip. The leading hypothesis from the Great Library of Apollo is that return from this floor is physically impossible upon ascending the stairs, perhaps due to a barrier of sorts. Ascending these stairs is considered to be a death sentence by most adventurers nowadays, though some brave fools still dare to venture forth anyway.


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Name:
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Guild Rank: Bronze
Class Type: Fighter, Mage, Priest, Archer, Ect.
Class Abilities: [Characters Start with 3] (Special Feats or Moves)
On Person Items: [Characters have 6 item slots] Potions, Weaponry, Other Items.

Please include a character picture.
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Sounds interesting. I'm up for a good old fashioned dungeon crawl.
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How will this be played? You take the role of dungeon master?
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@Quartz Yeah, I will take a more active role in terms of leading the party or posting reactions.
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@Vlad Tepes Sweet I look forward to seeing what you come up with :)
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@Quartz Quick question to the DM before I post my CS: Is there a limit to what classes/occupations we can choose? To specify, are other classes allowed such as bards, spellswords, summoners, beastmasters, necromancers, etc.?
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@Quartz Quick question to the DM before I post my CS: Is there a limit to what classes/occupations we can choose? To specify, are other classes allowed such as bards, spellswords, summoners, beastmasters, necromancers, etc.?


Absolutely no limit. I just listed off the common ones as a guide. Feel free to pick whatever class suites the character.
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@ryku Awesome! Thank you! ^o^ I'll have my CS up in a jiff then.
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@Vlad Tepes Awesome! I plan on putting more into this. My work PC wont let me add pictures for some odd reason. But this will be a great time I promise.
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Reminds me of Is it Wrong to Try to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?

I like you start at Bronze.
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@ExpendableAbsolutely one of the biggest inspos for this.
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@ryku Ok, after much deliberation, I think I have my character finally. Hope this is a good one.

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I thought the only playable race as listed in the OP is human?
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@Expendable *headdesk* I just now read that.... That's what I get for jumping the gun.
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@Expendable *headdesk* I just now read that.... That's what I get for jumping the gun.


We all have favorite characters we like to play. Of course, there's always the possibility your character may be jumped by a vampire who invaded a lower floor.
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Of course, there's always the possibility your character may be jumped by a vampire who invaded a lower floor.




Eh, I might come up with something else.
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Well, you know how it is, you wake up in the middle of the night, your neck hurts, you're low on blood, there's this terrible thirst, you've been nipped by the wildlife, a snake has curled up next to you, and a very industrious spider has spun a web in the crook of your arm.
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@Expendable Spoken like a true DM. Quite a lovely description there I must say.

Truthfully though, I'm in conflict because I worked so hard on creating this character only to realize my folly too late. I don't want to have to start over from scratch, but I still want to respect the DM's rule.

I do find it odd, however,that a fantasy roleplay only offers humans as a playable race. Nothing wrong with it, mind you. It's just using different races opens the door for more diverse characters in both traits and skill sets. Variety is the spice of life, they say, but again, it is the DM's decision at the end of the day.

Come to think of it, in the context of vampirism, it isn't necessarily a race but more of a status effect. Any race can become a vampire, so I could just have Corvin turned during the course of our adventure. Yeah, that would make sense rather than just have him start as one.
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Come to think of it, in the context of vampirism, it isn't necessarily a race but more of a status effect. Any race can become a vampire, so I could just have Corvin turned during the course of our adventure. Yeah, that would make sense rather than just have him start as one.


Thanks, but I'm just another player for this game, should we get more players. Still, it's important to know what a player is looking for in their character.

And when it comes to story, there's nothing quite as impactful as seeing someone living their ordinary life - even as a dungeon delver - only to have something happen to them that forces them to change. Readers can develop quite an empathy for the character that way. Look at Harry Potter - in the first book, we get a good glimpse of his life with the Dursleys, then the letter arrives.

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@Vlad Tepes Man that character looks great, and as for the human thing. Technically you are right, Vampire to me could be just a status effect. Shoot lets play it out and see what happens.

Big thing here is that the character shouldn't be going around stating what has happened to them. They would be killed instantly. So maybe its part of the characters motive to figure out how to go back to being normal.

I think that's a cool middle ground.
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