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>you used to have some unfulfilling shit job
>you're finally free
>it's time to reinvent yourself now
>the next chapter of your life is probably dedicated to hedonism, machismo, or activism
>your prime years are over by default
Am I the first anon to learn that Cyb-Fur-Punk is about having a mid-life crisis?
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>>97916377
Would you rather fight one guy with aids who's rotting off or 5 guys who are average guys
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The infectious one
Just keep him at a distance and whack him in the legs a few times
Then you can take your time hitting him in the head
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>>97916345
Man you're going to need to give way more information about what kind of zombies we're facing if you want that to be a meaningful decision.
Modern zombie, I guess. They're more likely to be constrained by the laws of physics so it shouldn't be so difficult to shatter its shins and cave its skull in.
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>>97916385
You make it sound like the guy with aids cannot fight. It depends on the terrain, what weapons I have, what weapons they have, their willingness to fight (Do I just need to injure the leader to scare them off?). I mean I would like to think there is a huge gap between your average lazy modern effeminate man who does no sport and then me who still do my push-ups on my knuckles but know where to hit with palms in a street fight and has both judo, kyokushin and jiu-jitsu experience. But who knows in a street fight. Stuff can go wrong pretty quickly.
That said I would rather not have to fight them at all. Can't I just run away?
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>who still do my push-ups on my knuckles but know where to hit with palms in a street fight and has both judo, kyokushin and jiu-jitsu experience.
All this just to die after tripping skull first onto concrete
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>>97916398
An infectious zombie is a rotting corpse that's animate
He is gonna be slow
Whereas the magic zombies are guys that don't respond to pain and need to be bashed until they die
Respect for not engaging with the fight- five weak guys are still guys, they can hold you down and kick your head in if motivated
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>>97916345
I have more equipment than a fantasy peasant, but am probably a bit less fit. All in all, I compare to a peasant.
As such, I couldn't take on even one fantasy zombie.
Modern style zombies are easier, I pick that.
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>>97916366
Anons don't care about CYBFURPUNK because you can't play as a human.
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Got any CYOA for this feel?
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>>97916889
Space Hell 2/3
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Space Hell 3/3
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Zephyr 2/3
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Zephyr 3/3
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Docklands 3/4
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Docklands 4/4
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>>97917275
Nta but being completely locked out of certain kinds of magic isn't really worth it in my opinion. And that's ignoring that all 3 races have some pretty big unrelated drawbacks too. Angel and Fae are usable, on a technicality, but Demons are horrible compared to the other 2.
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>>97917275
Just having magic makes you powerful and you have all the time you need to grow better at it. It also says you can improve skills and earn new ones. After 1k years you will be pretty strong even if you picked hedge wizard. So the real question is: Do you want a 3rd of the magic spells or do you want all of the magic spells.
Basically the High Magic races are too expensive for what you permanently give up.
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nta, but high magic races have discounts on the best perks like tongues, lifespan, flight and sustenance. (with angel and demons getting flight free if you decide to wait a decade)
you are also underestimating how big the gap is between someone learning x27 times faster to someone learning x81 times faster, which gets even bigger when you have an unlimited lifespan. Seriously, in just 1 year a high magic race gets the equivalent of 81 years of training while the others only get 27 years worth of training.
The magic restriction is a small drawback imo, with enough mastery and creativity you could replicate the effects of the other magics, sure a demon will never be as good at healing as an angel but there is nothing stopping you from draining someone's health to heal yourself and so on.
>After 1k years you will be pretty strong even if you picked hedge wizard.
but after 1k years you only get 8k years worth of learning, meanwhile non-hedge wizards get 27k years worth of learning, and high magic races end up with a whole 81k years worth of learning. If you want to be a jack of all trades that is fine, but I would rather be the very best like noone ever was at a more limited section of magic which is still very versatile.
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>They get a discount.
Getting that discount cost them 10 points out of 24. Not many points left to buy with.
>you are also underestimating how big the gap is between someone learning x27 times faster to someone learning x81 times faster
You are 3 times stronger and faster at the cost of only having access to 1/3 of all the magic options. In a world with infinite growth that is a bad deal in my opinion. Versatility is king.
Being a monster at nature magic and enchantment is not going to help a fey stuck on a mechanical world where there is no nature to source the magic from, being a master of destruction and corruption is not always going to help a demon out and an angel can't always heal or bless their way out of a situation. But an immortal human archmage will always have a magical solution to whatever he is facing.
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>at the cost of only having access to 1/3 of all the magic options
Nta, it's even worse actually. Read the little info blurb on magic at the start again. It says "even as a group the high magic races have access to less than half the magic available.". So if all 3 as a group have less that 1/2 or 50% the just one of them isn't 1/3 it's more lika 1/6 or even less than that.
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Kid, in this economy, if you want to make a living you need to specialize. Having average all around magic means everyone hires someone ahead of you; while a Mass Toilet Plumbing expertise pays your bills.
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You get isekaied but turns out you are a figment of a dream and the Isekai world is actual reality.
How would you feel about this?
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I will argue that the high magic races do not get any real discount at all. Hear me out:
If I told you that if you give me half your money then you can get 50% off but ony if you buy from one section of the store you would hopefully realize that is not a discount at all. 10/24 is very close to being 12/24.
Picking a high magic race is almost a point trap.
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If you are fine spending a few years as an ageless human that doesn't need sustenance until you manage to learn enough magic to be useful, being an hedge mage is fine. I did not remember that you can upgrade the abilities yourself later, let's hope you don't need to specialise to reach magic affinity 4 and above.
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It says up at the start under "abilities" that you can get things you didn't have at the start and "increase the level of an ability past the purchase limit.
They give an example of earning immortality through a quest.
But to your point. I mean again, a fay will likely always be better at growing fruits than the human wizard (I am not contesting you on that) but he can teleport around the world and blow up castles.
At the top it also says that there are "many schools and types of magic oout there and that the high races are limited to certain ones." It does not define "many" but it sounds like it could be more than what the high races get combined.
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It does actually, right under magic at the start. See >>97917445
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>>97917579
Nevermind, lifestyle bonuses come with 5 years of training so Hedge mage already know enough.
What would you spend the last point of a human build with Magic affinity 3, Lifespan and Sustenance 2 ? I was thinking Knowledge in the sciences.
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>>97917502
https://rentry.co/3gwcst9v
May as well repost my build since I've edited it a bunch. Idea is the same, scour the multiverse with Portal 6/Desire Path to find power entities who I can bind with Necromancy 6/Occultism 6.
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>>97917681
I question your desire for sustenance since I think tongues would serve you much better in the long run (Maybe it even works on programming languages) and the ability to freely fly is not to scuff at when it comes to both travel and survivability.
But to your question. Get survivability or a craft. Being a beginner mage is fine and all but you still need to make a living and have a shelter for sleeping. Even Sustenance does not remove that need.
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>>97917721
Wouldn't Knowledge of social mores be better than a Craft, you can sell your magic skill but you need to know how to sell it ?
Human have 4 free points for miscellaneous, so you can take an Artifact of Flight or Tongues, or something else.
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>>97917642
Stop stealing my original unique ideas bro.
>>97917661
Well basically reality is under threat to be broken down and consumed by eldritch monsters and you are summoned to fight against them.
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>>97917757
Sure, you could buy an artifact that gives you flight or tongues I guess. Personally I don't like the idea of wasting points on things that can be lost.
>Wouldn't Knowledge of social mores be better than a Craft
It depends on your setting. It says under Magic Affinity that an ordinary person will need 10 years before they can do anything useful. In your case as a hedge wizard you will need 135 days of constant practice to reach that point (3650/27). If you start next to some small town a month away from the nearest city that can even teach magic then you need to be able to make yourself useful to the locals and I doubt they would care much for you talking their ears off with cityfolk knowledge. If your setting has good conditions for homeless bums then it might not matter.
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>>97917820
I'm working on one in it girls can suddenly develop reality bending powers that infect reality while men are enlightened by god to learn divine techniques to protect humanity.
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I'm working on one. Working title: Many Kings of Many Islands. Inspired by HoMM, King of Dragon Pass, Dwarf Fortress and Skerples's blog.
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>>97917820
I'm working on one. I don't know how many anons will enjoy it but it should do numbers with masochistic and/or struggle-obsessed anons.
>>97917862
It is a relief that you're still working on it Husanon, I'd begun to lose faith. How much of it would you say you've finished, percentage wise?
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5 non-lewd interactive CYOA
(The secret is to unlock combo powers)
https://worm-cluster.neocities.org/Minor%20Powers%20CYOA/viewer
(Two next are dark Lovecraftian themed ones from the same author)
https://accuratevariety.github.io/The-Marked-One-COMPLETE/
https://accuratevariety.github.io/Ruined-Reality-COMPLETE/
(This one is pretty fun. Chinese cultivation type stuff.)
https://travellers-cyoas.neocities.org/Cultivation/
(This one is from the setting of some popular western web novel)
https://voxelmoon.neocities.org/cyoa/
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>>97917489
Go get Remove Curse cast on me. Clearly some dark magic had twisted my mind to make me imagine such a lame and gay world.
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>>97917489
Laugh it off?
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Huh in what way?
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I'm aiming to release it this year.
As for percentage I'm not sure as I have had to make rewrites before ToT
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>I think that all great stories and CYOA are based on a good setting.
Are they? Feels like all the big cyoa either steal from an established setting or have a fairly basic/shallow setting. Cant think of many that have an actual new world outside of Tankista's OCs (blood magic/convention, ToT, OR) and Stardust. I would say gils fantasy setting but the things you hear about supposedly being in the lore document (totally out there!) and whats in the cyoa are entirely different things.
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>>97917980
>In general that's how writing works
Yes, but your job as a writer is to hide the hand upon the scales. Fiction is artificial but should not feel artificial, it should feel like events are happening through natural consequence beyond any authorial desire.
>That might be why it feels weird.
Thats not the problem. The problem is the weird arbitrary disconnect between the systems. Its YA "in this world people with brown eyes can shoot fire, people with blue eyes can teleport!" stuff.
The problem isnt that you wanted to do a reverse wheel of time(?), its that you have two disconnected power systems.
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Sure it is subjective. When I think of great CYOA I think of stuff like Scrapper, Planeswalker Rising or Patheon of Pleasure (Partially lewd but can be played non-lewd. One of the most detailed unique settings I've seen in a CYOA. It is 28 pages long.)
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>talking their ears off with cityfolk knowledge
Not what I was thinking at all, skill in a craft is nice but you need the tools and materials to actually do something and peoples that want to use your services instead of going to the person they go to usually. That's what the knowledge is for, knowing what can be sell and to what kind of peoples without breaking the local social contract and become a pariah.
Also an ordinary person need decades not just 10 years, but I'm assuming that Magic Affinity 3 with the 5 years of training from Hedge mage make you at least able of doing some cantrip level magic from the start.
To go back to the point that Sustenance2 still need a place to sleep, taking a companion and money with the free points human get from the miscellaneous bonuses is most likely the way to go for that.
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I forgot Hedge Wizards learn slower so at rank 3 magic they would only reduce 10 years training to 456 days. Also about gear, yeah, I had not bothered looking at the gear/companion section at all after confirming that there was no free stuff for me in there.
Isn't there some service traveling merchants do like repairs, herbalism or similar. Might be worth looking into.
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>>97918062
>seething this hard because I didn't like your OC
It's okay bro, it's just an opinion, don't take it too personally.
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>The problem isnt that you wanted to do a reverse wheel of time(?), its that you have two disconnected power systems.
That's by design, it's true that wheel of time served as inspiration but honestly one of my gripes with it was that saidin and saidar were too similar.
If I'm going for a chaos/order analogy then they would naturally work very differently.
Believe me that I put a lot of effort into making sure the magical systems make sense both at face value and once you know the deep lore.
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this, everyone talks about high magic races being a trap but hedge mage is the biggest trap of them all let's say:
>hedge mage + magic affinity x1
costs 4 points you get learning boost of x2
>no hedge + magic affinity x1
costs 4 points you get learning boost of x3
so in this case non-hedge wizards win, no contest
>hedge mage + magic affinity x2
costs 6 points you get learning boost of x4
>non hedge + magic affinity x2
costs 8 points you get learning boost of x9
for just 2 points more you learn more than twice as fast so it would be stupid to 'save' 2 points
>hedge mage + magic affinity x3
costs 8 points you get learning boost of x8
>hedge mage + magic affinity x3
costs 12 points you get learning boost of x27
the hedge mage learns at less than a third of the speed compared to a non-hedge mage for only 4 extra points, now you might be telling yourself that a 4 point difference is big enough to take into account but if you see the prior comparison, non hedge + magic affinity x2 costs the same amount of points AND gives you an x9 learning boost.
>"erm, but the debuff only applies to learning and not the power behind the spell"
to which I say lmao, so you are going to be casting a strong beginner's fireball while the real mages are going to be deploying 'weak' domain expansions and power word: die, all because you felt like saving on 2 or 4 points.
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>Having the one kid of the group be the two-faced schemer
pretty funny ngl
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>>97918055
Yes luminary is coming out likely after the colonization one, speaking of which that's the same one as this one.
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I think Entertainer(storyteller) would be the most reliable if you want a way to make enough money to sleep safely, needs no tools, makes peoples like you and can advertise to anyone you manage to talk to (no setup). More for the fantasy settings though.
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Cantrip. It is so long that I'm just linking it.
https://imgchest.com/p/xny8zrxpybl
IIRC it can basically be summerized to "pick as many cantrips on beginner level since you can easily train them but getting new ones is hard."
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>If I'm going for a chaos/order analogy then they would naturally work very differently.
But it shouldnt, because the whole point of chaos/order (or saidin/saidar) is that they are opposing forces, two parts of a larger overall system. Yin and Yang and shit.
Its one thing if (for example) women have magic but men are anti-mages (one with the power to create chaos, the other to bring it into order), thats an example of two different powers that nonetheless feel like opposites and like theyre the extension of the same "system". Because being the opposite is still a connection. Its another if women have magic and men have the thu'um, because thats just two unrelated things.
>Believe me that I put a lot of effort into making sure the magical systems make sense both at face value and once you know the deep lore.
Maybe, im only going on what is here so far, maybe it works better in context
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It's minor powers. In the psychic section.
Speaking of: I don't see a lot of synergy options. Maybe stacking strength multipliers or speed reading with mind reading. What is everybody else seeing that I don't?
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>Its one thing if (for example) women have magic but men are anti-mages (one with the power to create chaos, the other to bring it into order), thats an example of two different powers that nonetheless feel like opposites and like theyre the extension of the same "system".
They do have many ways in which they interact.
For example the women have an ability that allows them to project or impose their inner world upon reality while men have one to impose reality upon their delusions as a way to protect themselves and others.
Other is that by taking the heart/soul of a woman a man can chanel the creative potential in it for multiple purposes like creating natural life or materials.
Another is men being able to bond the women to serve them as maidens while the most powerful women can do the same to turn them into their knights/janissaries.
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>>97918341
Sounds like some weird fetish setting.
>while men have one to impose reality upon their delusions
Why would men tolerate any reality warping bs from the women.
Realistically it would either be a world that gone to shit if if any woman could just enforce their will upon reality on a whim or it would just be a non-magical setting where men had severe control over women and lobotomized any with high magical potential at birth.
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Queen in Black
>modern day
>Terrible Spawn
>Media, knowledge, sensory, a secret
Her influence manifests as a video game called "Queen shard"
>monstrosities, transformation
Followers can summon characters/bosses/enemies from the game, or even become their player character.
>paranoia, phobias, night terrors
Fear of the outside, paranoia that people are out to get them, insomnia. All to get them to stay inside, stay up, and keep playing the game.
>Royalty, art, perception
>Madmen, monstrous
>the creatures (King in Yellow)
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this >>97918349 the author has a whole file where you can see exactly which options have combos that give you extra powers
but even without them there are plenty of synergies or powers that overlap enough to make each other better but not too much that they are practically the same.:
>every single crafting skill to make your crafts even better, like mulle meck, bob the builder, master smith, etc
>you could make a build revolving around the steel dagger with true strike, stunning attack, rituology, and a bunch of the body augmenting options, etc
>reincarnation + averaging out means you are never going to reincarnate into a subpar body
>camera, set action! + rule of cool + sing and dance for an idol build
>conspiracy + kent agent + gun fu for a detective build
>a notebook + fact or fiction so you can have your predictions in one place which you can summon and dismiss at will
>practically every single biological power are better when taken together
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In general what limits them is range for their world reshaping and it's temporary until they take their final forms.
While there is no way to know which women will gain those powers it just suddenly happens.
The setting is basically post-apocalyptic and there is indeed an empire ruled by men where women are oppressed, you basically work for them and eventually sent to colonize new land to help expand it.
Of course all that have been charged with this task before have failed...
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>>97918349
I'm going to make it so some combos in my CYOA only appear when you have a certain combination of choices selected, WITHOUT having certain other choices selected, so the "click everything to find every combo" strat doesn't work
(Probably not really, but it would be funny if I did :3)
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>>97918529
I would go the other direction. I would initially inform players that there are combo options and encourage them to look for them. You want players to be aware of options that make their choices harder. Especially if you put a lot of effort into them.
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Post the cyoa you discuss.
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Okay
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MOST of the "combos" in my CYOA are largely extra fluff, like companions reacting if you pick certain choices. I do have a few minor actual combos (pick the magical map choice + the treasure sense choice, and treasure will show on you magicr map) but I'm not sure how far I want to go with those. I feel like emphasizing hidden combos too much runs the risk of spoiling some of the fun theorycrafting/experimentation of making a build. Feels potentially hazardous if not handled with extreme care.
>"Oh, I found a really neat unique combo with these powers; I bet nobody's thought of this before!"
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>"The CYOA reacted to it...I guess my idea wasn't so unique after all, if the author already anticipated it."
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>"The CYOA didn't react to it...if the CYOA doesn't tell me it's a valid combo, does that mean it doesn't actually work...?"
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I'm not pretending to be the author. I just thought the guy wanted us to post CYOAs instead of just discussing stuff.
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not you: https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97764457/#97764567
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Fae
Knowledge (Natural and magical sciences)
Grace 1
Magic Affinity 4
Lifespan 2
Tongues
Glamour
High Magic Fantasy Setting
I feel 'Enchanting' should be versatile enough that I can potentially mimic at least some of the schools of magic I can't use directly.
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Last two pages were too large to upload. Find them here. https://imgchest.com/p/6eyr85mxl7p
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This CYOA doesn't give you enough troops, let alone a stable breeding population of males and females.
It's always bothered me.
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The companions in this cyoa are too realistic, I say this because I like the male companions more than the female ones.
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An update to expand the cyoa would be good.
>Race:
Human
>Bonuses:
Craftsman x2 (Alchemy, Enchanting), Knowledge x2 (Sciences, Spells), Magic Affinity 3, Lifespan 2, 4pt Companion (Human, Magic Affinity 2, Tongues Artifact) (My Apprentice)
>Setting:
High Magic Fantasy
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>>97918696
I have not checked out the CYOA details but it looks like you get enough token for that. You only need 500 to maintain genetic diversity. Just buy mostly mooks and avoid early fights. Enforce those breeding doctrines.
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>>97918605
yeah, alright I'll repost my build
>RACE: high magic - demon {-10}
I don't mind not having every single magic, I just need to be the best at a few of them.
>BONUSES:
>strength T1 {0}
>magic affinity T4 {-6}
are you really a wizard if you don't have an affinity that makes you x81 times better than everyone else? I don't need 500 possible answers for each problem, I just need 5 that work every time.
>sustenance T2 {-4}
>lifespan T2 {-2}
>tongues {-2}
super good for quality of life, good for socializing, gathering info and not dying to dumb stuff, plus giving me more time to focus on practicing magic instead of going for food and learning languages
>WORLD: high magic fantasy
high risk high reward type of world while not being completely fucked like space opera or cyberpunk dystopia, just stop or wait until someone else stops the apocalyptic threat and the rest of my stay here is going to be pretty chill.
The plan is to take advantage of my still human appearance and tongues bonus to enter human cities and learn as much about magic as possible before my changes are too noticeable.
As for money even without professional skills I could take advantage of my tongues bonus to work as a translator, sustenance also means I can save a lot more money and time by not worrying about food.
once I get the hang of magic it all snowballs hard from there, making me way too strong/dangerous to be hunted just for my race.
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What is people's facination with sustenance in that CYOA? I get that it is nice but could good looks, vitality or regen not be good alternatives. Is it a desire to dive, an annoyance with having to cook food every day. Are people just paying 4 points to avoid dealing with poop?
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>>97916670
The original question specifies that the initial encounter takes place in an open area, but it doesn't say that you need to remain in the open area. You could run away, and only take the fight in a more favorable setting. Fighting the 5 zombies one-by-one, in a doorway, is feasible and comes without the risk of infection.
The five fantasy zombies don't necessarily run at the same speed, either. You could potentially run until the differences in their speed separate them for you, and still fight them one-by-one, even in an open area.
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for high magic races it is cheap, and it also means that I can't die from starvation, dehydration and asphyxiation which might not sound too troublesome but when you have an infinite lifespan and the world you choose is a more medieval one, covering your bases is a good idea.
I also like the fact that I can just explore deep bodies of water without worrying about drowning, I am not going to do it all the time but it is a good place to hide or find cool forgotten stuff
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>>97918798
Let's all take a few examples and compare them :
female companions: autistic girl, a psycho, a hermit, art girl, pirate (this one is cool), s.t.a.l.k.e.r. girl (also pretty cool), slut with a lich grandpa
male companions: ex-church assassin turned priest now worshipping an eldritch god, mastermind terrified of death; hunter of eldritch horrors; traumatized survivor of a plane that not even the scholars can reach trying to go back to save his loved ones; hard-working megalomaniac that is also a bootlicker towards his superiors.
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>>97918979
>Do you want to be a dragon anon?
Yes, but not one of Tok's pussy dragons.
Also, what you posted is not even the final version: https://imgchest.com/p/ne7bpg8wm45
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Well excuse me then.
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>>97918979
The legendary features page is so unbelievabley shit
Why would anyone ever think to compress the limitless expanse of imagination down to such utterlly banal options?
The cyoa is also mid af but that's besides the point
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>>97918911
It depends on your physical fitness. I'm a runner. I can go for miles. If I sensed that they would be in danger out outlasting me, then I would just speed up and escape. I wouldn't wait around for them until the point of exhaustion.
Honestly, I feel like the original question is getting so many different answers because different people have different ideas of what a fantasy zombie actually is.
One guy assumed that fantasy zombies had higher stats than peasants, while another may imagine basic slow zombies, but without the infection. I think the latter makes more sense, otherwise there would be no need to frame the question in terms of 1 infectious zombie versus 5 non-infectious zombies.
A fantasy zombie to me is an extremely low-ranking creature, akin to slimes or a single goblin (without a bow). That's what I imagined when answering the question.
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>>97919028
I really liked a lot of the companions and the wish-fulfilling mechanic, which makes me mad because I need to sacrifice the already very lacking URembers I already have to take them, not to mention the dumbass limit on the companions offered by the gods.
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huh? Hold on, let me check what these words mean.
>Def, waify: A waifu is a term used to describe a fictional female character that someone feels romantic or sexual attraction towards, often within anime and related media fandoms. The male equivalent of a waifu is called a husbando.
Well anon if those people want to beat and break people they claim they are romantically attracted to then they are mentally ill and you should stay away from them.
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>>97919222
I asked DuckDuckGo and it found it on the wikipedia and otaku fandom. If reddit has invaded all those places then it is beyond me to know where to ask. At this point you just have to bend the knee to their otaku dominance.
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>but that she suffered those things in the past before meeting him
Oh, you meant it that way; being raped signifies a loss in their purity as a woman, now, you might disagree, but that's just how people here see things.
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>>97919251
>I asked DuckDuckGo
It's incredible how much google is fucking up their search engine that I and other anons switched to alternatives.
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>I feel 'Enchanting' should be versatile enough that I can potentially mimic at least some of the schools of magic I can't use directly.
The only reason why I wouldn't pick Fae is because I think it's referring to the mind magic kind of enchanting instead of the making flaming swords and bags of holding kind of enchanting. Reading the demon description makes me even more sure, since the darker sides of enchanting is probably mind control while Fae specialize in illusions.
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>>97919214
A surprising percentage of this community either a) fantasizes about raping waifus, or b) fantasizes about being a waifu who is raped. The much, much lower percentage that could find a previously-raped waifu appealing is kind of interesting.
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>>97919287
Fae are traditionally associated with illusions, enthrallment, shapechanging, non-euclidean movement in forest environment and healing. I'm guessing which of those that do not fit under nature magic are slotted under enchantment.
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>>97919347
Also making pacts like demons. With demons usually trying to fuck you over as much as possible, while Fae don't try to fuck you over, they just have such an alien mindset that it usually ends up that way even if they didn't mean to. Demons want your soul, Fae want the memory of your first summer or the color of your love or something like that.
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>>97919381
No, it's about a womans capacity to feel love and the act of emotionally valuing sex
Don't try to americanise my thoughts
Also "Slut for them" I want women to love me. Having sex with someone you are in love with isn't "Slutty", that's absurd
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>>97916379
I made it. I wanted to present a CYOA where you had to work in the negative space of the options. There are implications and assumptions built into the options presented, and the player has to transgress the boundaries to achieve any real power. To me magic exists in the transgression of boundaries, demands it even.
I added the devil's voice to cast the general shape of that negative space, as I was afraid that the implication would be missed if not at least pointed to. I feel that may have been a mistake, but I can't unplay that trick if I were to remake it.
It was my second CYOA so far, and I'm still learning Gimp. I'm trying things out and seeing what's sticking. Work has been very busy, so I've had to delay my next one - I had hoped to have it out today to coincide with Mercury conjoining Saturn (7°55 Aries). Sadly that will not be the case and I will have to wait for the next event that aligns with the project.
I am sorry if my work is not to your taste, but I do this for me, to excise these parts of myself that demand freedom.
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>Affinities:
Mystic, Technology
>Boss:
Size Class: Large
Race: Construct
Perks: Vitality Prowess, Physical Prowess, Agility Prowess, Magical Prowess, Perception Prowess, Enchanted Weapon (Mystic), Corruption, Domain Control, Empowerment, Final Form (Colossal)
>Minions:
Sizes: Tiny, Large
Races: Construct (All), Elemental
Lieutenants: 2 Tiny Warlords, 20 Tiny Archmages, 4 Large Chosens, 4 Tiny Assassins, 2 Large Hunters, 4 Tiny Oracles, 4 Tiny Witches
Perks: Talented (Mage), Specialty (Magic), Native, Evolution, Devotion, Sustenance, Upgrade, Training
>Realm Perks:
Large, Expansion, Mobile (Teleportation), Hidden
>Complications:
Savior, Hero (Top), Nemesis (Top), Rumors, Rival, Usurper, Quest, Apocalypse
Use decapitation tactics against the Rival, then teleport the realm to somewhere unknown, negating Nemesis and Usurper.
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What the fuck are you guys talking about?
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Read the chain starting from >>97919157
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I don't think they care, and I don't either. Remember, a key that can open many locks is a master key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock.
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>>97919476
Not enough CYOAs utilize gifs. I really like the idea of the 'competing voices' of a contested option of a cyoa to swap between the two voices.
Oh! A RYOA that uses the gif and the screenprint to tell you what your rolls are, or what your options in the CYOA actually are.
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This year has been disappointing so far, last year was much better regarding cyoa quantity and quality.
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>>97919529
I have these ideas that could probably be great CYOA but then as I explore the lore and setting I think that they could also be great for a comic or novel and then I just let them rest. Maybe I'm just lazy.
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It's funny how the droughts come and go.
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>>97919529
>Water is now crunchy
Imagine the hellish sound the ocean would make. People would go deaf. Poor fish, they would die from shock. Do gills even work with cruchy water? The human body contains a lot of water too so does that mean we would make cruchy sounds all the time?
That pill might be a hirrible way to end the world.
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>That is not very christian of you anon
We are all Mithraists here; read the room.
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>Wanting your partner to be a virgin is considered a high standard.
Grim
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>Do you want to be a dragon anon?
You don't even know how little I want that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glBkiznnZE4
Continent:
>Itztacotak
Species:
>Salamander
Dragonfall calls itself a “dragon” CYOA yet it has the option to play as a person without any reptile features, or in other words, an otherkin. A delusional wizard. I decided to ignore the premise the hard way, starting by choosing the least draconic of all real dragons on the list. I will do this because not only does Dragonfall not know what a ‘dragon’ is, it also doesn’t know that dragons should never stand above Human beings in any hierarchy. Yes, that does happen all the time in fantasy, for the same reason that more obviously evil deeds are all over the place in those stories. Sinful rarely means impossible. Unfortunately, I also had the issue where my immortal essence would still be molested beyond recognition even if My build had entirely human features, a problem whose solution will be explained here.
Size:
>Small
“Small”, IE, the size of the giants, to show you that their strength outmatches the limits of a normal person. Which is customary for werewolf characters.
Color:
>Gray
Lots of other natural colors are options, I picked this one more for the personality than the breath attack, thought it’s really funny that it also matches a child’s fairy tale.
Breath:
>Spirit Breath 3
Werewolves are not supposed to have breath attacks, hoooowever this isn’t an attack.
Features:
>Tail 2
>Fur 3
>Senses 3 (Hearing)
>Crawling 4
>Swimming 1
>Claws 2
>Fertility 2
And here are all the features needed to redesign a draconic character into a werewolf, except that she’s still oviparous, which is a bonus because only weirdos entertain the idea of pregnant werewolves. Would the baby transform with its mother? This question has haunted Me for seventeen years of My life.
>Breath 3
>Magic Resistance 2
>Magic 1
>Lungs 3
Some other stuff.
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>Enduring Features
This is practical if a little gross.
>Humanoid Hands
This option seems to be synonymous with bipedalism, there’s no written text here demanding that you have to walk on all fours if you’re a dragon, and specifically if you’re a salamander.
>Adrenal Glands
Rage!
Diet:
>Meat
>Sea Creatures
>Telegraphed Breath
It’s not an attack, so I can’t care.
Spells:
>Mystic Spear 2 10
>Blink 2
These are for having an efficient way of taking down a large, flying enemy.
>Humanoid Form
Guess which species of monster +does+ have human forms as a fantasy custom?
>Spirit Form 2
>Bestow Immortality 2
>Runic Bond 3
Companions:
This party is being assembled to begin the continental revolution against the dragon-despots of Itztakotak and force them all under the knee of Mankind, as it is meant, as it written, as it is the rightful and fated place in the world for these inferior beings. There's no right for them to have freedom, let alone dominance, only subservience to the benevolent dominion of Humanity.
>Vemoura
The free wish is absolute immunity to any superhuman or supernatural predictive ability for myself and all my companions. Itztacotak won’t know what it hit it...s petty tyrants.
>Celestine
Granted for free, she gets hitched with Celebron who reinforces her walls, since I've decided that they're My OTP.
>Tiana
Not only are those people restored to their lives, so was everyone whose soul was eaten in the history of Elderia. Also, it’s now impossible to taint, corrode, or remodel a soul anymore, so this is the last Dragonfall on the history of the planet. There will be no more opportunities for another “main character” to usurp the great chain of being.
>Zep
There’s originally a pragmatic reason for this, I’m not removing her because I’m not strapped for Ur-Embers. Go be Delathwyn’s sidekick.
>Delathwyn
I do not know if granting her wish in good faith, no strings attached, is going to have negative effects.
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>Jolka
Remember that these kinds of wishes are limited omnipotence where the first participant, the grantee, gives the granter a window to do anything as long as the outcome fulfills their given terms. Jolka wished to meet a man who can honorably defeat her. This wish will be fulfilled by turning her into the dragon described by this Dragonfall build, and myself into a dragonhunter with the physique, skill, and items needed to subdue her in the following fight. Trade offer accepted: your affection for power and humanity. Myself refuses to let any outside force remodel my ghost, she wouldn’t care about the same thing if she was wishing upon a dragonfall in exchange for an utterly unknown and likely horrific price. This is a fair trade. You see, I was also playing Dragonfall with the intent to build a furry wife, specifically because the author tried to block Us from doing that in the most obvious and lazy way. I wanted at first to do that in an equally obvious and lazy way, until I thought, “wouldn’t it be funnier to break the spirit of the rules in accordance with its letter?” I decided that the wish will be fulfilled by an otherwise impossible event, with both parties of the fight changed to fulfill it, while otherwise matching the spirit and word of the event.
>Brynjar
And both of these-
>Byrnhildr
-are just more strength in numbers.
>Ignar
A master smith for a dragon-hunting revolution? Don’t mind if myself do.
>Yolfi
>Nenefi
These are both the lady’s personal servants as per the SINFUL wishes they are now unable to act against even as they are made accompolices to the CORRECT subjugation of the INFERIOR species. Will they be priests, soldiers, or concubines? No, they will be NURSES and MAIDS for WERECUBS.
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>Itotia
Eww. I have to answer this one no matter my intentions. Granted, she has been retroactively promoted from slave to Jolka’s third retainer, without any of the mental or physical effects of her capvitity, remembering nothing of it except that that she wished to never have any experience with a certain person whose name has been stricken from her memory. This is literal, she only remembers a few seconds of herself saying her wish with _____’s name blotted by static. Static is not a concept known to her, she has no idea what that horrible noise in her memories is.
>Acalan
Granted! Acalan will be fated to do many good deeds that will include failing to preserve the sovereignty of dragons away from their Human masters, dying alongside his father in the last stand against my revolution!
>Vesilia, Illenwyn, Vanrir, Toli, Lezeli
All of them receive their wishes without being taken as companions or any other twists.
>Takal
*Good laughter.*
>Aamontep
Revenge has finally arrived after all these centuries!
>Ren
No, there won't be any antagonizing his old master who knew noblesse oblige.
>Fuji
I don't need to explain what's happening with the sword companion.
>No pacts.
These are not real gods (fanatical egalitarian space aliens), they are fake and gay thought parasites that myself refuses to heed. Not even to antagonize Tzeentch into coming into the physical realm to experience permadeath after we’re done liberating Taco Time.
Oh, what about my children? First of all, they're obviously /werewolves/. And second of all, they're also Human, so as long as they obey themselves by being free willed and virtuous, they're obeying a Human.
What about my wife?
The wish was for a man that can kick her ass. Does that sound like a gender-equal marriage to You?
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>>97919598
Yeah but my dark lord gimmick is industry and being a robo dragon is super cool for that
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>>97919710
>because only weirdos entertain the idea of pregnant werewolves. Would the baby transform with its mother? This question has haunted Me for seventeen years of My life.
I have honestly never considered that. If we so it is triggered by hormones then those are tranferred through the umbrilical cord. However I suspect that transformation is only unlocked at a certain age, like puberty, based on my random werewolf exposure from consuming a wide range of media so that would mean no tranformation of the fetus.
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So it's reasonable to want my wife to also be one.
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No, but I posted the screencap that he was responding to. I'm going to build a fraternal yandere who refuses to have either a "normal" or "exciting" life because he was treated too well by the old man who released him and the concept of "universal human dignity" flew over his head for that, so now he's trying to move into the life of his adoptive Human nephew (same age).
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>>97919818
That'd be Spirit Conscript. Here you go, anon.
>https://imgchest.com/p/na7konjjwy8
PDFs used to be a threadly feature before the ban on them. Now, it is more obscure, sadly.
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PDF Part 1: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/tg/image/1740/43/1740439017922.p df
PDF Part 2: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/tg/image/1740/43/1740439130380.p df
PDF Part 3.1: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/tg/image/1740/23/1740236882398.p df
PDF Part 3.2: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/tg/image/1740/23/1740237024826.p df
PDF Part 4: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/tg/image/1740/23/1740237159599.p df
PDF Part 5: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/tg/image/1740/23/1740237380253.p df
Google Drive All PDF's: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/125fiUXTDa34vkTf9yrNVsHdWOLQQlW rW
Lore Doc: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/tg/image/1742/33/1742333278412.p df
CYOAG Rentry: https://rentry.org/spirit_conscript_info
MCYOAG Rentry: https://rentry.org/OnislopRentry
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That must be the dumbest filter I've ever heard off.
It's okay if she do drugs, murder people, eat children, steal shit, take pleasure in breaking minds, lies compulsively - no, the real dealbreaker is that she had a boyfriend five years ago and she, wait for it, slept with him.
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Of course not besides a crazy drug addict or alcoholic, how likely is someone like that to be a virgin?
Low impulse control generally leads to those outcomes, it would be funny if that's the line she's not willing to cross.
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>>97919870
I say reasonable as in I'm not asking for something I'm not willing to offer in return, also yeah that is true but everyone has different standards even sexual sexual preference closes off many possible partners if you want to maximize that then being a bisexual willing to do anyone would be the optimal path.
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I seem to have bumped into a sore spot others have hit before.
>>97919893
I was not commenting about his girl. I was commenting about the length of his CYOA. I see how his reaction could have caused confusion.
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>his CYOA
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>willing to offer in return
...I'm not sure your willingness has anything to do with it, since you can't "offer" the alternative. But I get it, vaguely.
>being a bisexual willing to do anyone would be the optimal path
If you're focused on sex, probably. I think it should be normal quirks and personality traits at first, THEN you watch if you're matching on a sexual level.
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>>97919926
>I think it should be normal quirks and personality traits at first, THEN you watch if you're matching on a sexual level.
This seems backwards like what if she's a lesbian or already has a partner? shouldn't I take that into consideration first?
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>>97919421
>your ideas sound american and I don't like it.
Oh shit, are you the guy in this pic? Never thought I'd see someone famous around these parts.
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>>97919948
>Women in relationships don't flirt or even more
Besides being a virgin would likely show in her personality and quirks as I said it would be weird to see someone that for example regularly goes to bars or clubs be a virgin.
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>>97919941
I meant it more as her sexual history.
If she has low impulse control and a high number of past partners, you'd be able to see it quickly. On the flipside, if you really mesh well with her, perhaps you'd be more likely to ignore previous relationships as you're already secure in this one.
Why are we talking about dating in the funny escapism thread again...?
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I found my kin.
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>>97920008
Look at the candidates of the first three montly polls.
https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/97520484/#97520634
https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/97655023/#97655178
https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/97900777/#97906383
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grim
>>97920008
Spirit Conscript, Space Opera Bodyguard, Neolithic Messiah, Wasteland Scion, Guardian of the Fae, another-nother planeswalker cyoa, Mirrorseeker's Necromancer cyoa, are the ones I remember. There were a couple other CYOAs, like, if I'm not wrong, an Attack on Titan CYOA that was ignored.
>>97920035
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>>97920064
>you are really obsessed with these, huh
But those are the CYOAs from the first four m-
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Thoughts on a CYOA where multiple female companions are your past incarnations wives? And they're upset that each time you die, you run off and get another wife before regaining any memories? And the main antagonist are the oldest wives seeking to destroy the world.
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>>97920134
Was it following this format?
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>>97920073
maybe you could give us examples of what you consider low-mid power? the range could mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people
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>>97920164
I liked it! I was the anon that made this build: https://desuarchive.org/tg/thread/93924333/#93928641
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>>97920161
Does Royal Guardian work?
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>>97918605
I did some math for the discounts and how much the high magic races actually give you.
2 points for the free stats
4 points for the free magic level
4 points for flight if you wait
4 points for level 1 lifespan
>Guaranteed free points 14
>Potential points saved
up to 6 for magic affinity discount
2 for flight if you don't wait
2 for sustenance
2 for lifespan level 2 (technically you can buy lifespan 3 but what would that even do?)
2 for tongues
2 size (demons)
2 for gamour (fae)
>Total up to 18
>Investment of 10
Guaranteed saves 4 points
Potential saves 22 (but we don't have that many points)
Mathematically speaking it's worth it. But the actual limits are a different story and can't be calculated purely with math.
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>>97920223
I like him too anon, I like him too.
He just like...gets me man.
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>>97920223
>his kino
Wow, hey, let's chill out here; he made like 2 good cyoas
>This gay general
It's increasingly becoming gayer, I fear... for example this anon >>97920229 >>97920203 never denied being gay
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Akumakami>>>>TroyX
>>97920250
you are welcome
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>>97920242
Jokes on you, I knew you would make those exact arguments!
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Because they're accurate. I just wanted to redirect waifufags to them - perhaps if they consume something like that, they'd be less inclined for mindless waifuslop.
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How many anime franchises have we done?
Fate/Stay Night (a lot at that)
One Piece
Bleach
Naruto
DBZ
MHA
HxH
Overlord
Fairy Tail
Mushoku Tensei
Danmachi
Trigun
Tokyo Ghoul
Inuyasha
Attack on Titan
Akame ga Kill
Did I miss any?
What haven’t we done?
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>>97920263
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>>97920265
>He doesn't feel picrel after reaching the Polaris section.
You have no sovl.
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>>97916858
>Origin:
Awakening
>Starting Location:
Natural Shelter
>Structure:
Psychic Invader
>Starting World:
City 29
>Starting Drones:
Legion (300)
>Drone Capability:
Partially Sapient
>Psyche:
The Unity
>Physical Presence:
Distributed Consciousness
>Assimilation Protocols:
Assimilate Memories, Assimilate Genetic Code, Assimilate Knowledge, Assimilate Skills, Synthetic Compatibility, Plantae Compatibility
>Perks:
Psychic: All
General: Emergent Synchronicity, Extended Loyalty, Dynamic Metabolism, Inter-Drone Perception
>Threats:
Planetary: Dexton's Dogs; Claye, the Old Hound
Sector: Border Fleet LVII "Warpigs", The Omni Security Group
Galaxy: The Augustinian War, The Wesstec Group
None of them can detect me soon enough, and their individually weak members are perfect assimilation targets; they come to my planet on their own, get assimilated, and go back as originally planned, only now they imperceptibly spread the overmind across the galaxy.
>Quest:
Ascension
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>>97920297
Ah, that explains it. I didn't read the pages of the ones I wasn't interested in, so the guys and Polaris. I hate metanarrative shit with a passion so even if I did read it I would be more annoyed than sad.
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>>97920318
But I'm not gay. It's supposed to be a romance cyoa, I'm supposed to feel romantic attraction for them for it to work. If I read them I'm just going to be annoyed at best or disgusted at worts. It would be missing the point, and it's a point I can't get because I lack the key conditions for it.
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>>97920277
I want my Fist of the North Star cyoa. We need to offset the gayslop by some masculinekino.
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>>97920277
>What haven’t we done?
Kuroinu
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***OC OC OC***
You're getting a waifu. You have no say in this. Your soul is, now and forever, betrothed to hers for life - nobody else will ever love or lust for you, and you will find yourself unable to hold an interest in others, either.
Unfortunately, she's...not exactly your type. Luckily, these magic D20s can change some aspects of the woman you'll be betrothed to! Roll as many D20s as you like! Just be wary of rolling a 1...
[HER DEFAULT STATE, BEFORE ANY ROLLS ON THAT PARTICULAR # | HER STATE AFTER 1 ROLL ON THAT # | HER STATE WITH 2 ROLLS]
1) She is a virgin. | She has been raped by someone else before.
2..5) She is ugly. | She is average. Maybe attractive to some, but not really your type. | She is very attractive and exactly what you like.
6..9) Her personality is a really bad match for yours. Quirks and bad habits you'd find annoying or even repulsive. | Boring or "basic" to you, but nothing that would put you off too much. | A perfect match, everything you'd look for in a conversational partner and a teammate.
10..12) She has a major disability - disabled/missing limb, blindness, deafness, etc. that will make daily life and dating noticeably more difficult. | She's fit as a fiddle.
13..15) You have significantly differing ideas on a large number of moral or political topics. If you're completely apathetic to such things, she'll take issue with your apathy instead. | You both agree on most moral/political topics.
16..17) She's carrying a huge debt and might suffer from bad credit. Her finances are a mess. | She has no serious debt, a reasonable emergency fund, and some savings. | She's better off than most. Low six-figure USD income.
18..19) She's done a truly heinous crime before. Murder, trafficking, or something of a similar caliber. | She has no major criminal history to speak of.
20) She doesn't really love you. She won't leave without good reason, but her heart will never be yours. | She genuinely, truly loves you, from the bottom of her heart.
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>>97920277
>What haven’t we done?
Halo Legends
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>t. average Houndlet
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>t.
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Berserk CYOA when?
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>>97920369
Why are you retards rolling so many dice?
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>>97916379
how do you not understand the concept of insurance fraud?
>>97919402
Are you an astrologer? I'm intrigued by that and would be interested to read how you think about it, as well as how it might relate to your CYOAs. do you have any tips for GIMP guides that are especially useful when making CYOAs? I have been too lazy to revise my OC because I hate using that program (or really any image editor) and there's not a custom CYOA guide like there is for Photoshop or Paint. My primary computer does not run Windows anyway, so I'm stuck with GIMP
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>>97920385
What would that even be like? How much do you want to struggle in this shithole of a world?
>>97920401
>Also probably a million others made by reddit.
Surprisingly no. The world is a destination like in all the grab bag ones but there are no specific cyoas about it or even powers or companions based on it. A couple options surface as references but that's it.
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>>97920349
Alright, let's see...
2-5: 2 (3, 5)
6-9: 5 (6, 7, 9, 6, 8)
10-12: 3 (10, 10, 12)
13-15: 2 (13, 15)
16-17: 1 (16)
18-19: 5 (18, 18, 18, 18, 18)
20: 2 (20, 20)
That means my waifu is..
>Virgin
>Very Attractive
>Perfect Match
>Fit as a fiddle
>Agrees with me on most topics
>Has no serious debt (Only one that doesn't get the best result)
>No major criminal history
>Truly loves me
A winner is me.
>>97920386
It's all or nothing.
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>>97919500
great idea. I am liking the openness to formal experimentation that the general is showing lately. We should continue in this vein, as opposed to the relatively lame "innovation" of interactive CYOAs. people here are always talking about imagination, dreams, and so on, but by and large they have very little, which is why they can't be satisfied with the huge volume of existing CYOAs and demand a steady flow of OC. I guess that's the contradiction of this hobby: it encourages and restricts imagination at the same time.
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>>97920392
Sorry anons, my bad.
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>>97920445
Damn (((they))) got me
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>>97920309
this one I would actually be OK with.
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What's on everyone's minds today? Anyone SMOKE WEED?
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>>97920404
>Are you an astrologer?
I am willing to entertain any system of interlinking symbols, which offer some form of control in this life. I might just wait till the 13th to drop my baking CYOA, it's a powerful date every month. To be clearer, the baking CYOA is my attempt to boil down alchemy, astrology, will working, and energy manipulation into an easy to follow CYOA where you, well, bake.
>do you have any tips for GIMP guides that are especially useful when making CYOAs?
Lmao, no. I found out you can do outlines on text from the last thread >>97915019 Anything I do is self taught from years of having a burning passion for graphic design, as shown in a birthday invite I sent out years ago. (pic rel)
>>97920438
Same. Imaginative exploration is the only way to stave off sloppification.
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>>97920472
>Sylen, Rake, Peil
Sylen shows up, drops OC, answers a couple questions, usually making the cyoa worse in some way, then fucks off. It can't be him.
Rake isn't a grimderp miseryfag retard, he's out.
Peil is dead. When was his last OC? Too far back to remember.
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Except for Sylen i did not even try, my original plan was to mention older, more obscure authors like Lime as a joke
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>>97920500
hell yes. You're just what we need here, buddy. Someone with some real idiosyncrasies, but not in an inane retard way. I do not practice astrology or necessarily even believe in it, but I have a similar respect for that kind of system, especially one so old/universal. the baking idea sounds fantastic. I have been trying to find resources to learn about the various permutations of alchemy, although it's not a high priority yet. I make a lot of culinary/herbal ferments, tinctures, etc., have distilled essential oils a few times and love to think about the play of materials with spirit. CYOAs in general could do with a heavy dose of esotericism. that party is sounding like a real blast by the way
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Not me. not yet. soon
https://youtu.be/UG9_Pnnh6s0?si=HGHsy5LoDkkUURNC
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Race: Angel(10)
Knowledge: Specialized x3(6)(Offensive Magic, Recovery Magic, Buff Magic)
Stats
Grace 1
Magic
Magic Affinity 4(6)
Lifespan 2(2)
Low magic fantasy setting.
I wish there was a mid magic setting, but there isn't and everything else sucks.
The general plan is to learn how to fight by myself, and maybe fuck off to some other world if I get the chance. About 405 years of experience with Offensive Magic should make up at least a bit for how limited it is for an angel, but the real power would be in being a mostly phisical fighter with Buffs and Healing so I never go down, with another 405 years each they should be pretty strong. Raising the strenght grace and regen stats is the goal before getting out of the world.
I have a different build in mind for pure potential but that was discussed too much and it bored me.
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>>97920538
I SMOKE BIG every day and do not melt when I exert myself. I appreciate that you think I go to the gym for any reason though
>>97920543
Thanks for trusting in my lungs anon
>>97920553
Where there's wheat there's weed as far as I'm concerned. It's likely that there will be other strange delights which are perhaps more tempting
I am going to make another thread soon, image limit here. That one guy that throws a fit about what page we're on better not give me any guff.
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>>97920524
It's tok, what did you expect? There is one considereation to make, you would want to at least choose charaters you like so it's not just pure power you are after, I think that was the balance behind it. You wouldn't choose 2 waifus you are not attracted to just for power right? That's a bit dumb, because 1) Some people absolutely would, and 2) there are plenty of nigh-omnipotent attractive female characters.
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>>97920617
>This must have been one of his earlier works.
Funny you think that, It's one of his more recent ones actually. The last one before the shitpost one I think? He didn't make many more after it anyway, 2 or 3 at most. In fact I'm pretty sure he already started teasing the be the slut cyoa nobody here wants back then.
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>>97920623
Not really, he made the shitty one pager, the powers of something one with a brown background. And he updated the (You)r cyoa. Neither of those were well recieved, or any good, soI don't blame you for not remembering but he did make something else.
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>>97920635
pirate, victorian gothic, and solarpunk are the first few that come to mind.
>>97920657
No, since every author has a new point of view genres will always remain virgins and pure
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>>97920528
>CYOAs in general could do with a heavy dose of esotericism.
The ones that seem to deal with it only touch upon the surface I have found, I hope mine digs deeper into the subject matter while still being approachable. Striking the balance has been my greatest analysis paralysis.
>that party is sounding like a real blast by the way
That party is happening, about 5 years ago. My friend is trying to put my big pot of boiling potatoes into the oven. Another is discussing his newest campaign that he's planning for the group to run. I'm trying to keep the whole thing running. The AC is giving out from So Many Bodies In the House. I get to play a few games of secret Hitler and one big game of Eldritch Horror. It is a good day. I feel hollow afterwards, like I do after any big party that I throw. I cry as I pick up the trash.
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>>97920666
>And all your favorite CYOA creatores only offer sloppy seconds. I bet you are into that.
>AKA She's a slut but she is my slut.
>>97920668
>No, since every author has a new point of view genres will always remain virgins and pure
>AKA Her soul is pure. That's what counts.
>>97920670
>You'll still play them, right? How many players they had doesn't matter if they make you IMAGINE.
>We do a lot of roleplaying.
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>How many anime franchises have we done?
>Fate/Stay Night (a lot at that)
>One Piece
>Bleach
>Naruto
>DBZ
>MHA
>HxH
>Overlord
>Fairy Tail
>Mushoku Tensei
>Danmachi
>Trigun
>Tokyo Ghoul
>Inuyasha
>Attack on Titan
>Akame ga Kill
>Did I miss any?
Sailor Moon
Madoka Magica
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Ah! My Goddess
Mobile Suit Gundam
Berserk
Pokemon
Monster Musume
There's an old scifi space series that got a cyoa. But I can never remember the name.
Honorary
*Emp-chan partially released a Gunslinger Girls cyoa
*the world of Lyonesse in Conduit is based on Escaflowne
*Nyarko-chan is an option in one of the eldritch cyoas
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Rolled 6, 8, 20, 14, 13, 14, 3, 3, 11, 14, 2, 2, 3, 16, 4, 2, 16, 10, 10, 19, 5, 19, 6, 8, 18 = 246 (25d20)
>>97920349
Ehhh there's little reason to roll less than max (25, last I checked).
Whether "She has been raped by someone else before" isn't even relevant if you get "Her personality is a really bad match for yours. Quirks and bad habits you'd find annoying or even repulsive" which makes her actively unpleasant to be around, in which case you'd rather live alone, right?
Let's try to max everything instead.
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>6, 8, 20, 14, 13, 14, 3, 3, 11, 14, 2, 2, 3, 16, 4, 2, 16, 10, 10, 19, 5, 19, 6, 8, 18
>virgin (no 1, lucky)
>lvl 3 prettiness (maxxed)
>lvl 3 personality match (maxxed)
>lvl 2 ablebodiedness (maxxed)
>lvl 2 political agreement (maxxed)
>lvl 3 wealth (maxxed)
>lvl 2 lack of criminal record (maxxed)
>lvl 2 lovingness (maxxed)
so I got the ideal stats, by the cunning and subtle strategy of rolling as many dice as 4chan site software allows.
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You hear that? Your error was that you didn't roll ENOUGH. You stopped at 20, when you could've gone for 25.