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An Immersive Setting
Thain is a fantasy world focused on narrative, exploration, roleplay, and player-driven storytelling.
- Our story is a story of challenging survival. It is a dangerous, serious, and sometimes frightening world, inspired by Lord of the Rings, the Witcher, and other mid and dark fantasy settings. On Thain, the monsters are true, classic monsters. There are no Drizzts or Adventuring Academies by design.
- While characters may visit from other medieval D&D settings (such as the Forgotten Realms), Thain is a unique place with its own lore, mechanics, and expectations.
- Thain is a world filled with magic and mystery, packed with unique lore and history distinct from what you know from other D&D settings. It is a story of Humans, Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, and many others, all struggling daily to create security and stability in an exciting and dangerous world.
- Our staff has worked for years to create a unique place for you to discover. Exploration is a substantial part of the experience.
Collaborative Roleplay
We believe in respect and collaboration, in working with others to tell your story rather than working against them. Your opponents might be bitter enemies in-character, but we provide you tools (like our /duel system) to work with them and make all of your stories better. Our golden rule through all of this is Respect. Respect for the module, your fellow players, and the Staff.
- Other players are your fellow storytellers! Thain players share a goal of always doing what is best for the story, not necessarily what is best for their PCs.
- We are a group of adults, who want to tell long-form character-driven stories that go beyond mere romance or monster-slaying.
- Our game mechanics are designed to be fun and accessible rather than cruelly survivalist. We want you to explore our world.
A Player-Driven World
Thain provides a variety of tools to empower players to tell their own stories and build their character narratives. On Thain, you can create your own NPCs an items, or use our extensive placeable system to set scenes and create stories with others.
- We want to inspire players to build their character narratives and contribute to the world using all their creativity.
- We offer a suite of custom player-tools to allow you to tell stories to others, and build your character narrative alongside theirs. You do not have to wait for a DM to come and tell the story for you.
- If you are the kind of player who doesn’t mind taking the lead on your own stories and using the tools around you to build exciting stories for others, Thain is a place for you.
- All of this is supported against a background of DM storytellers and a building staff that pushes the boundaries of Neverwinter Nights.. The strongest character stories can drive the direction of our world.
A Legacy
Thain began over twenty years ago, started by two friends, BitRaiser and Handover Phist as one of the earliest NWN PWs. Their focus was on making exciting story-driven roleplay and accessible for everyone. Thain is now run by a volunteer Staff who has continues to expand on that vision and drive it ever forward.
Players have grown up as part of the Thain community. They’ve made friends, gotten married, and grown up. Yet as far as we’ve come, we still share a passion for telling our stories together.
We don’t want the world to be intimidating or overly mired in opaque stories of the past – rather, we want to create a place where anyone with an interest in story-driven roleplay can collaborate and build something amazing.
We hope you will be part of this journey with us!