TOPIC: Variable Effects for 2025

These are the effects for next year's variable tokens:

Eldritch Runestone
Thor's Braid: +1 Bead slot (you're still subject to the cap of 8 Beads)

Special
Valkyrie's Wrath: Once per room as a Free Action, you may call upon the aid of a Valkyrie to deal 25 Eldritch damage to an Evil Outsider. This damage cannot be modified and can only affect one Evil Outsider.

Amulet/Ring/Totem of Wonder
Odin's Sigil: all of the following:

1. Counts as one Runestone Fitting Base* that can be used with any Rare Runestone from any year
2. Doubles the effect(s) of any/all 2025 Rare Runestone(s) you use
   • Surtr deals +2 damage as Fire
   • Valkyrie gives you +2 to hit
     (Just those two--no other Runestones are affected)
3. Allows a 2025 Rare Runestone to affect Ranged attacks as well as Melee (Just those two--no other Runestones are affected)

*You're still limited to a total of no more than two Runestone Fitting Bases, be they literal or figurative. I.e., equipping a ___ of Wonder item does not enable you to have the equivalent of three Runestone Fitting Bases.

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Please Remember: Special is only usable at in-person events whereas Eldritch Runestone and __ of Wonder are usable in either VTD or in-person events.

Very cool, thanks! I like the runic flavor for the wonder effect.

Question on the Wonder effect, it does provide all 3 numbered effects? You don’t need to pick only one?

Edit: another question, wonder effect 2 - if you equip multiple eligible runestones, do they all get the bonus?

BasicBraining wrote: Question on the Wonder effect, it does provide all 3 numbered effects?
wonder effect 2 - if you equip multiple eligible runestones, do they all get the bonus?

Updated OP to answer those.

Those all seem very powerful! Well done!

Do y’all actually turn in runestones? I never do. So I probably won’t use this Wonder effect at all.

Reap wrote: Do y’all actually turn in runestones? I never do. So I probably won’t use this Wonder effect at all.

With the opportunity to get +4 to hit from two runestones (I don’t have another fitting base,) I will be looking for them this year.

BasicBraining wrote:

Reap wrote: Do y’all actually turn in runestones? I never do. So I probably won’t use this Wonder effect at all.

With the opportunity to get +4 to hit from two runestones (I don’t have another fitting base,) I will be looking for them this year.

Meh, the Wonder effect is only really +3 to hit (assuming you use 2 runestones), since the first runestone would have given you +1 without wonder. I think the Amulet of Folkvangr is better than the Amulet of Wonder this year.

Cool!

I may actually use some of those Eldritch Runestones this year!

Thanks for including ranged in the use of those tokens, otherwise spellcasters would be completely left out of this effect.

I think the wonder effects seem appropriate and useful, although I'm never a fan of effects that require consumables, that's probably a me issue.