Player's Handbook · Chapter 1

Welcome to the Tower

Twenty years ago, colossal towers erupted across the Earth, and a voice spoke into every mind at once: conquer the Tower, or your world perishes in one hundred years. Since then, ordinary people Awaken — granted a single Power drawn from who they truly are — and are pulled to Floor 1 of a fifty-floor dimension where each level is its own world.

The Tower

You play one of the newly Awakened. An AI Game Master — the Administrator — narrates the world, plays every other person in it, and asks for a roll only when something is uncertain and the stakes are real. The experience reads like a visual novel and plays like a tabletop RPG: you can attempt anything you can describe.

What play feels like

You start in @Missing file, the only safe floor — a city of markets, guilds, temples, and politics. Climbing is a choice; many never do.
Combat is deadly. Fleeing is a respected tactic. Death is permanent.
The System — the glowing game-like interface every Awakened carries — shows your stats openly. Seeing numbers is part of the fiction, not a break from it.
Your first session begins with a short setup: you tune how the Administrator narrates, then build your character step by step in conversation. Nothing needs to be prepared in advance.

The three promises

The world reacts honestly — NPCs have their own goals, knowledge, and no plot armor.
Every roll moves the story — there is no "you fail, nothing happens".
Your Power is yours — it grows deeper, never sideways, and it came from who you were before the Tower.

When rules questions come up mid-game, the full references are @Missing file and @Missing file. You never need to memorize them — the Administrator enforces the rules for you.

Manual updated Aug 30, 2026.

Homebrew (The Tower system)

The Tower

Colossal towers have risen across Earth, connecting it to another dimension, and the Awakened — ordinary people granted strange powers — must climb the Tower to prevent the end of the world.

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The Tower

Climb the Tower, or perish.

Twenty years ago, impossible towers erupted across the Earth, and a voice spoke into every mind at once: conquer the Tower, or your world perishes in one hundred years. Since then, ordinary people "Awaken" with powers drawn from who they truly are — a firefighter who commands flame, a child who animates her toys — and are pulled into a fifty-floor dimension where each level is its own world: a sunlit forest, a moonlit necropolis, a labyrinth that rewrites itself while you walk it.

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