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>>96020170so is this v1.04?
>>96020157now it can be posted on reddit for double digit karmas :)
I've considered adding siege weapons as units for my armybuilder, but am opting against it. Largely as a matter of bloat, but also because several units are hinted at already having (or being) battering rams and so on, and the overwhelming majority of them for the period are easy to make in a matter of weeks or days with the amount of manpower you'll have. The enemies in the lush, halfling-infested south may have a couple dozen magic-fueled hwachas and war wagons in lieu of the usual spellcasters, though.
>>96020247You have no CYOA, bitch ass hoe, so shut the fuck up.
>>96020332My WIP comes closer to completion by the hour. Soon, you shall see. You'll all see...
>>96020360Only Tok get me going these days.
>>96020436Tok hasn't dropped oc in ages, Magic the Floppning destroyed him mentally. We should all thank god for that.
>>960200381) Athena existed since at least late Mycenean era
2) She was panhellenic and also worshipped by Spartans
3) In the Iliad she kicks Ares's ass (twice)
4) This alleged OC goddess led Athens to be the dominant naval cultural and intellectual powerhouse of the Greek world
Bright-eyed goddess Athena answered him:
“Diomedes, son of Tydeus,
you fill my heart with joy. Don’t fear Ares
or any other immortal deity.
For I’ll give you all the help you need.
But come, first let your sure-footed horses
charge at Ares. Hit him up close. Have no fear
of headstrong Ares, that madman, born evil,
that fickle god.”
>>96020477Diomedes is my all time favourite greek mythology figure, a mere mortal who went toe to toe with demigods like Achilles and made gods bleed (Ares & Aphrodite). He's such a fucking chad that even Athena simps for him. He also beat the shit out of Aeneas, the demigod founder of rome.
I love challenging CYOAs, especially when the tools at hand don't guarantee your success.
>>96020558There's something that feels satisfying about them. Much more than pure power fantasy. That's one of the reasons why Peil is one of the best to ever do it.
>>96020507>One of the seven Epigoni, who fought and won against Thebes >Became the King of Argos at age of 15.>Youngest yet the most accomplished leader in the Achaeans side.>Best bros with Odysseus.>Second only to Achilles in martial prowess, Trojans shat themselves when they saw him coming.>Made the fucking god of war scream and run away like a little girl.>Athena was his literal waifu.>Aphrodite tried to cuck him as revenge for bitch-slapping her, her son and her boyfriend. Fucked off and became a god instead.I kneel.
Talented
45+30+9+5+12 = 101 AP worth
BA - Eccentric - Old Grudges, Hard Training, Charismatic, Harem Mode [+30]
MA - Trouble Magnet [+9]
AA - Prodigy - Magmatic [+5]
GR - Master Status [+12]
Mutated
35+26+28+5+12 = 106 AP worth
BA - Eccentric - Old Grudges, Hard Training, Harem Mode [+26]
MA - Trouble Magnet, Lifelink, Karmic Outlaw, Sadomasochist [+28]
AA - Prodigy - Magmatic [+5]
BR - 2x 6 Point Basics [+12]
Practiced
20+21+16+5+3+7+12+24 = 106 AP worth
BA - Eccentric - Old Grudges, Hard Training[+21]
MA - Trouble Magnet, Karmic Outlaw [+16]
AA - Prodigy - Magmatic [+5]
IT - 1x [+3]
MT - 1x [+7]
BR - 2x 6 Point Basics [+12]
GR - 2x Master Status [+24]
Conditioned
30+9+28+5+18+9+18 = 117 AP worth
BA - Hard Training [+9 (only 5+4 AP trainings left but still optimal)]
MA - Trouble Magnet, Lifelink, Karmic Outlaw, Sadomasochist [+28]
AA - Prodigy - Magmatic [+5]
MT - 3x [+18]
LT - 1x [+9]
BR - 3x 6 Point Basics [+18]
Challenged
15+13+9+5 = 42 AP worth
BA - Hard Training [+13]
MA - Trouble Magnet [+9]
AA - Prodigy - Magmatic [+5]
Overpowered
60+41+33+5+18+17+18+36 = 228 AP worth
BA - Eccentric - Old Grudges, Hard Training, Charismatic, Harem Mode, Fast Learner [+41]
MA - Trouble Magnet, Lifelink, Karmic Outlaw, Sadomasochist, Vice [+33]
AA - Prodigy - Magmatic [+5]
MT - 3x [+18]
LT - 2x [+17]
BR - 3x 6 Point Basics [+18]
GR - 3x Master Status [+36]
So purely on an AP value standpoint Conditioned is the strongest potential of the base 4 and Talented is the weakest.
>>96020637Nobody wants to cripple themselves with shit like Lifelink and Sadomasochist.
CYOAs where I can protect(and marry) cute and sad girls that deserve happiness?
>>96020681JRPG Traitor has a wide selection of possibilities for this, including a range of contexts.
>>96020144 (OP)>you are the ruler of-Ugghhhhhh
Can we not? I want to retreat to a pleasure dimension packed with beautiful women, not spend my days administering a state
>>96020694this post has a reddit aura to it
>>96020558>>96020565This is why we need more survival horror cyoas
I’m tired of overpowered easy peasy slop that hand holds the reader
>>96020692Adelina's CYOA isn't for cuteness.
>>96020698Your mom has a reddit aura to her nigger and I still rail her every day
>>96020725Calm down virgin
>>96020681That's the premise of godly husbandry
https://imgchest.com/p/qb4z3vbz37j
>>96020694>>96020725This nigga cannot be older than 12. Go play outside lil bro.
>>96020694The Ottoman sultans spent 99% of their time cooming and left ruling to viziers. The Chinese huangdi had harems so large they had regular assassin wars. The Mormon cult founder was smothered by dozens of wives. All of these men had infinitely less resources than a multi-dimensional empire could muster. If you aren't able to delegate so you can coom in peace, that's downstream from your own incompetence.
>>96020637AP in some categories is not as valuable as AP in others, and some drawbacks are a lot more damaging per AP gained than others
this isn't a math puzzle, anon
>>96020665Some anons totally picked lifelink and used the pain recovery
>>96020792>and some drawbacks are a lot more damaging per AP gained than othersA lot of them can be beat tho. There are some drawbacks that are objectively better.
>>96020170So do we wait until the end to spend gold and xp?
>>96020201Top of the pages say 1.03
>>96020477I'm surprised we don't have more roman/greek sword & sandals cyoa's.
Honestly if someone wants to give me a quick summary of the city states (what they're typically known for) and a run down of the important gods/demi gods often worshipped I might whip something quick up.
It'll be more of a little character creator than anything substantial.
>>96020888>So do we wait until the end to spend gold and xp?No.
>>96020783At what point does an harem becomes more trouble than it's worth it? I'm sure anon will say that more is better but at some point, you'll lose track of how many wives you get, then you need eunuchs running the business, then your wives get sexually frustrated that they haven't seem you in a year and fuck eachother...
All because you wanted to be buried in a pile of soft sex.
>>96020939>At what point does an harem becomes more trouble than it's worth it?More than 1. Stick to the teachings of the Lord anon.
>>96020939Any more than 2 is too much.
>>96020558>>96020706Challenging survival horror cyoa here
>>96020170.
>>96020783Imagine how much greater Suleiman the magnificent would've been if he didn't fall in love with a demon dressed as a women.
>>96020939Four is the sweet spot. One, and it's not a harem, it's a regular relationship. Two, and they'll gang up on you. Three, and two will gang up on the third. Four, and they'll be too distracted arguing with each other to bother you or form a status quo. Five or more, and that's too many for you to attend to or know on anymore than a superficial level.
>>96020144 (OP)Why has there only been one build for this?
>>96020964A Bit More Effort is one of the greats. I made a build for it, years ago, but it's lost to the winds of time. I'll make another, one of these days.
>>96020966>Europe being ruled by onion-hatted hedonists that force them to give up their sons and pay steep jizya taxesHonestly, it couldn't be that much worse than where it's already headed.
>>96020980The CYOA is complex and has many interlocking parts. The build we've seen so far was simplistic. I'm confident we'll see more in the next few days or weeks. It needs a lot of thought and consideration.
>>96020980Its total ass. Every cyoa the author makes has retarded balance has way too manny horribly integrated and designed mechanics that make trying to make builds both a slog and a terrible experience only to have a horrible mess of an end result. I don't hate this author but nothing he's made is good.
>>96020980There are builds, they're just too small for you to see.
>>96020967>Four is the sweet spot.Based and halalpilled.
Spirit Conscript is ass except the companions, they are tits and are fine af.
>>96020980Is too complex, you have to go back and forth between the pages to make a proper build
>>96021072>they are titsfull of personality I assume
>>96021135personalititty, yes.
>>96020888>Top of the pages say 1.03Thanks. It was so faded into the bg I didn't see it.
>>96021072They're tits, sure, but which one has the best ass? My money is on Rokubi and Ono
>>96021175The shortstack ninja girl.
>>96021135Very large personalities, yes.
>>96021196I still want a Good Guy™ minion picker with a selection of allied forces as diverse as this
>>96021215There is one method that never fails to get the OC you want, make it yourself.
In a cultivation type cyoa how would I do wizards and martial artists? Different or the same thing? Mana and chi?
>>96021004once again proof that making a microscopic race of immortal super mages is the true meta
>>96020980Tried to do too many things at once and spread itself too thin.
I personally gave up on it when it wanted me to make legendary creatures for my tech based space empire.
>>96021175Rokubi, Sayuri, Niwamaru, Yomi, Zuruzaba.
Ono is fine but the best butt is not only form but also the training. All the ones I said not only have good ass form but also are women that constantly train/fight, so their ass is a trained one. Without going into "too muscly" realm of Teraba.
Mai is fine and made with training but too big for me. The same with Rin. Honor mention to Yuxi who has the best body overall
>>96021228Mana and chi are the same thing in those settings.
>>96021228>In a cultivation type cyoa how would I do wizards and martial artists? Different or the same thing? Mana and chi?I would say having two different power systems is more interesting. Both sharing the same powersource just applicated differently, externally (mana) and internally (chi).
>>96021262Mages vs Martials
>>96021266no, Caster Mages vs Martial Mages would be more like it
>>96021274So mages vs martials. Stop being a tsundere
>>96021248>>96021072>>96021175Does it strike you at all that this is exactly what Spirit Conscript set out to prove about this general
>>96020706try liminals shen cyoa?
>>96021288Prove what? That /cyoag/ likes waifus?
>>96021288>Talks about waifus, the least talked part of the whole cyoa>See! You are proving his point!Relax. We don't have to act like the waifus don't exist to still disagree with what PCA said. You remove the waifus and keep the rest and Spirit Conscript is still a hit, somewhat smaller, you remove the powers and keep the rest and is not even half as big
>>96021288>post-spirit conscript shitpost discussion about the waifus nobody cared about proves pca rightThe months of nobody talking about them when it was popular is what proved him wrong.
>>96021318Shitpost? I know the discussion is not a scientific thesis but its not shitpost.
>>96021228Chi IS the mana of cultivation-esque settings. It’s all the same concept. Mana is Polynesian, first of all, it’s not western or Asian.
>>96021262>Both sharing the same powersource just applicated differently, externally (mana) and internally (chi).This is disingenuous. Chi is both external and internal. Concepts of inner alchemy, or self-transmutation, is global, and it ties into some universal energy, be it chi or mana or pneuma or prana, etc. Cultures all over the world strived for personal, inward perfection, be it bodily or purely based on mystical knowledge.
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>>96021322For a second, I misread shitpost as Entropist. I need to take a break, kek.
>>96020888We do have a few Sword & Sandal but
>>96020170 is original do not steal Sword & Sandal not really mythical or historical fiction Sword & Sandal.
The worst part of the waifus is the most interesting ones were not in the cyoa.
The leader of the Ninokata.
The blue twins.
Vuseba.
The pale leader.
The best waifus of the cyoa are in the pdf, with exceptions like Mai, Futaba or Arisa, that are truly good and in the cyoa. People like to talk about how women are attracted to power but the opposite is true too, men are attracted to power.
>>96021346>The worst part of the waifus is the most interesting ones were not in the cyoa.The worst part of the waifus is most of them have shitty art.
>>96021336Eh, I had some problems with pay gorn. Misreading it like gay porn.
I guess the P in the middle and both ending in ST is what tricked your mind, but yeah, take a break
>>96020888I think an 'usurp the Gods' type CYOA would be fun where you play as a demigod.
But to your request;
Athens
>Home of democracy, philosophy, theater, very proud of defeating Persians in navy battle>Super smug about being culturally sophisticated>Chief goddess is Athena (wisdom and battle) who gifted them the olive tree>Theseus (minotaur slayer) is the mythical founderSparta
>Battle hardened ultra disciplined warriors>Had two kings (greater and lesser)>Athenians viewed them as kind of dumb but super muscular and fitI don't know their chief god off the top of my head, but if you're doing a CYOA you might as well just headcanon it as Ares god of War since that makes sense kind of maybe
Corinth
>Major trade hub (located in an isthmus)>Maybe the vegas of Greece>So they worship god of sea Poseidon and cosmopolitan goddess of love Aphrodite>Founder is Sisyphus, evil king who pushes a rock up a hill and tricked the gods twiceThebes
I don't know much about the vibe for this one but
>Dionysius, god of wine and reverly, born here>Hometown of hercules>hometown of Oedipus>hometown of Cadmus So if you want to flavor it you could probably make it very 'hero' centered. The place heroes are made! That's what Hercules movie did anyways, paralleled it to new york city
Delphi
>Panhellic sanctuary>Sacred to Apollo>Pythia breathes in fumes and gives out prohpecies in the temple here>panhellenic games held here where they all come together>treasuries where city states compete to show off their wealth and dedication to gods here And Rhodes all I know is they have that big ass statue. sorry if any of this is inaccurate i'm in a rush
>>96021351I don't agree with that. The problem of the art is when it were clearly of different characters. Like Teraba or Yomi ( I think it only happened those two times, well, and that male companion that is a masochist)
Shamanism, ancestor worship, possession, mysticism, cultivation, inner alchemy, gnosis, speaking in tongues, mediumship, etc, it’s all the same shit.
Humans get so stuck up their own mental asshole it’s incredible. They scare themselves or others into thinking they’ve been taken over by demons or dead people, or can “shrug off bullets” even though they fucking can’t (RIP to all the Shaolin monks who suicidally stood up to Maoist communists and their guns).
>>96021346I agree with the Nikonata leader, but Vuseba is a turboslut demon lord. Doesn't spell companion material unless you're a Bl*e Oni
>>96021351vast majority isn't ai and isn't bad
>>96021388Christians “speak in tongues” by babbling to themselves it’s hilarious. No different from shamans or mediums pretending to channel dead relatives of desperate and gullible clients.
>>96021366>I don't know their chief god off the top of my head, but if you're doing a CYOA you might as well just headcanon it as Ares god of War since that makes sense kind of maybeIts not headcanon, Ares was the patron god of sparta.
>>96020170water magic is so strong wtf
>>96021383>>96021398Matterheroine you came at just the right time, I've been saving up my seed for a week just for you. Now open up.
>>96021383The chingchong learned that lesson way before that.
https://youtu.be/Eq8Hy7527fc?si=rxmJuL0ZbaNSx6Bj
>>96021398>No different from shamans or mediums pretending to channel dead relatives of desperate and gullible clients.It is quite different. Actually, Christians don't worship material reality like pagans; they worship the empyrean, the immaterial perfection.
>physicsfag is having a schizophrenic meltdown again
*sigh*
>>96021384Vuseba being a turboslut demon lord awakes something in me. I want to fix her and make her go from evil demon lord that made her kin to gain power and influence, who is racist to any other race, to neutral demon lord that wants to have a family and commit to a man (who is immortal) and change from Spirit Hitler to try to be a more normal/benevolent spirit. I was wondering if to make myself a blue oni just to have it easier with her but I think the human approach would help with changing her mind.
Given how spirits work in the setting, being more either from human souls or human beliefs, and how they gain power with adoration, doing a Jesus approach of "I am a good god" is better than whatever she is doing of taking advantage of the result of popping 100 children centuries ago with another body and being racist. That plus legendary tier Tacticts to make genuine plans to make her start that path, plus Investigation to get a read on her plus the old combo of G3 alchemy, ceremony (to gain charisma with spirits), harem mode plus the golden genes plus the soul beauty (to gain charisma with women and bait her with strong children) plus the Legendary Status of alchemy to be a spirit inside a mortal body (like her) to gain her respect. All of that should be enough to make the turboslut into a devoted wife, overtime.
And power wise she is like top 3-4, as she is the strongest or second strongest of the Trigram, who are just below the kings. And having the top 3-4 as a wife, who also controls the strongest yokai clan, is basically the best possible wife power wise
>>96021406Are you this https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=8338399 ? Because Matterheroine only likes one type of men
>>96021406Taoist ritualism + chi/cultivation stems from ancient Chinese shamanistic practices and yet you faggots think mana and wizards are somehow different from your gay ass martial artists. A metric fuck ton of sages and wizards and witches in Chinese myth ARE martial artists you FUCKhead. The concept of inward or self perfection through understanding nature *went along* with martialism.
>>96021417No it’s not different at all.
Shamanism and mediumship and speaking in tongues and etc are all quite literally the same sort of ‘I’m channeling something!’ bullshit—and it’s usually an alleged living intelligence (“the angels are speaking through me!”), be it the ancestors or the spirits or the gods.
Animism/shamanism is arguably the oldest form of religion. People first started attributing living-ness to things. The stars were the very gods.
>>96021405How the do you access it? I can't find any way in the events.
>>96021433That reminds me, if Spirits are made from humans beliving in something, basically like demons in Chainsawman or Curse Spirits from JJK, how the fuck does not exist a Jesus/Bible God spirit that is ultra duper super powerful by mere adoration of believers?
>>96021464You have to let yourself be molested by some wizard I think. I didn’t want to go through with it. You HAVE to be the little girl too.
Liminal is a massive femfag. But it’s okay since you rarely come across a cyoa that does it “well”.
>>96021346The ninokata leader and the twins are lucky they appeaded after the guy that wanted to cuck the ninokata heir. He would have wanted to rape the ninokata leader like Hephaestus and Athena and would have then took over a blue oni to try to do the same to the twins. In both cases he would just end dead tho.
Also, as PCA confirmed (and the loder doc too) that a big part of the clan would be fine with breeding with a new member, being part of them is the best decision. With just 1 point you get ninja training, space-time-speed techniques that are some of the strongest and more hax techniques and a whole harem.
By the way, I am surprised with how many different plans that guy had he didn't think about making the ninokata heir into a woman, seducing him with Mystic Beauty, convincing him he would be more safe as a girl than as a boy as they targeted him because of that, that if he wanted the change could be reverted, and then mindbreak him with a good fucking. Bonus point of you have the age alteration to be also a child, because at that point you would be his best friend turned into lover. No downsides, no making a whole clan hate as it was his decision and you give yourself as an alternative, no killing innocent guy. I think he just hated that poor child.
>eastern magic
“Wwooooahhahh! I am possessed by the soul of the spirit chief of the red lake! My body is not my own!”
*has a literal fucking spasm slash aneurysm as their body gets spiritually raped*
>western magic
“I summon thee angel.”
“I am here.”
“I have studied you and modelled by life after you”
“Very good. Take these cool powers and secrets to the universe.”
Western magic is much more chad energy. Eastern magic is very feminine.
>>96021346I disagree. Not every companion can be some giga nigga top-dog from the very beginning like Mai and Arisa.
Besides you got plenty of Potential Women that'll grow stronger through characters arcs and fighting alongside (You), which i think was the intention of PCA
>>96021400I searched it and I can't find any source on it. More than anything I see Apollo.
>>96021464You need the Blue Gem from Baraqu. He only gives it to you if he takes you in, and you need the Prison Break intro for that.
>>96021466My headcanon is that the most widespread religions on earth are Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism. That's why the spirits and everything in the city is so eastern
>>96021515Is this refering to a specific cyoa or wat because for my magic i be studying tf out of the eastern minds
>>96021524>>96021464Or to be more specific, this is said in the Baraqu's Palace desc on the same page with the Blue Tear. You then need Stealth to sneak into the Black Market and buy the Drowning Scroll for 6 Coins, this option is only available if you got the Tear from Baraqu. Both of them together opens up Water Magic in the 1st Year.
>>96021515This is why Norse magic is so gay. It’s a callback to shamanic possession and it’s why the Norse saw sorcery as faggy as it basically required you to spread your legs for the Norns to enter into. Speaking fate was being raped by the Norns.
High ritual magick was an evolution or an advancement that made things more rigid and official. Orchestrated. Professional. It isn’t as one sided or as submissive. It’s a business meeting.
>>96021531Its just physicsfag samfagging, just let him sperg out, he'll get tired and leave on his own eventually.
>>96021516>Besides you got plenty of Potential Women that'll grow stronger through characters arcs and fighting alongside (You), which i think was the intention of PCAWho? While some looked like training partners I didn't see anyone that was "yeah, this is a potential woman".
I respect you disagreeing tho
>>96021529My headcanon is Vuseba, the other two and Kufoku simply were the first ones that consolidated power in their own ways, and then tried everything to erradicate competence. So when christianity got strong and the Jesus spirit came into existence he was killed as a young spirit before he could amass power, and when he returns from the spirit womb he is killed again and again. They basically spawn kill him, and how spirits work, they can cripple him in that way
>>96021531>letting your body get raped and taken over by the soul of some spirit >not summoning the spirit inside a circle or some unlucky host bodyShamans are so weird. They legit WANT to get molested, inside and out.
I miss when CYOAs had memes made about them.
>>96021559The guy who made those memes gets incessantly shitposted at so I don't blame him.
>eastern magic
*spastic twitching and drooling and foaming on the ground*
>western magic
*orgasmic divine enlightenment staring the godhead in the face*
>>96021515>Arcane magicGay, Nerdy and Weak.
>Divine magicChad, No effort, All-powerful.
>>96021572Yes. Let God’s Tip enter your tight puckered soul.
>>96021574>thinking there’s a difference between the arcane and the divine Dee en Dee is a cancer
>>96021584>Wants his magic to be at the whim of petty godsHoly cuckoldry, literally
>Your magic
"ohhhhh I love cock" (very gay)
>My magic
"wow, I sure love being the best at everything I do" (also not gay)
I’m being ironic of course since the Tao is more or less the eastern equivalent of the All of western (hermetic) esotericism.
Why were there so many loli-coded characters in Magi Case, but no lolis?
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>>96021584Isn't it so funny, to categorize and define and hate something that doesn't exist?
>>96021599I wish this cyoa was made by non retards
>>96021586Magic is Alive. Deal with it.
>>96021608Nah it isn't, deal with it.
>>96021540>Who?>Niwamaru (She's literally you)>Rin (She's all inborn talent waiting to be trained)>Ryoko (somehow knows a G3 secret martial art despite being a slob that gets beat up for money)>Ming Yue (THE prodigy of the Catacomb clan)>Noriko (isekaid mortal girl that quickly learned how to use aura somehow)>Hana (prodigy of a brand new martial art)
>>96021606What's the most retarded part?
>>96021515This. western everything is just better. The only way easterners are able to compete today is because they copied the west. Weebs don't understand because they are autistis that grew up with anime.
>”heh, I don’t need the gods, my magic is my own!”
You act as though magic spells aren’t essentially just AI programs. Nature isn’t a programmer for your sake.
>>96021617The gavhs shit added later probably, but the useless stats and shitty arrays of classes/races. It needs more classes by far.
>>96021596Italics wanted to deny the pedo allegations. Alas, he couldn't stop his urges and filled magi case with pedobait, but legal because they're actchually 50+ years old
>>96021614>NiwamaruShe is not you but fair enough. She looks like she has potential and comes from the same origin.
>Rin Okay but you would need to get her to re enter the Ninokata if you are not an expert yourself to train her. And given how little techniques you can get at the start, you are not going to be much of a teacher to her. So she needs to re enter her clan and start training.
>RyokoShe is mystery but I didn't get potential vibes from her, but I guess?
>Ming YueFair enough
>NorikoFair enough
>Hanashe is a prodigy of her style but her style is a basic technique. I don't know, if he make her equal to her rival and friend Madoka, who does have busted techniques, get her a good high level style to mix with ehr porcupine one and make her learn more sword techniques from flow... I guess? She is good enough tho.
I guess I was wrong tho. There are some potential women.
>>96020840thank you for agreeing with me?
>>96021472what makes how he does it better?
>>96021661np, I was going to make a tier list of drawbacks but I got another thing to do at that moment so I left that short post and forgot about it and now I am going to sleep.
>>96021652>pedo allegationsThere are only like 12 loli-coded characters out of 100+ companions.
>>96021584There is a big difference my magic is divine so therefore I have the mandate of heaven.
Yours is arcane(infernal) a poor and corrupted imitation so I have the right to enslave you.
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Fantasy is more advanced than science fiction. The more advanced and sophisticated something is, the smaller it becomes. Computers once took up whole rooms. What if technology eventually becomes indistinguishable from nature? What happens when nature takes shape in ways evolution wouldn’t originally allow for? What if evolution -wasn’t- a blind idiot and didn’t cause evolutionary dead ends or bottlenecks? What if nature responded to your actions? What if it entertained religion? Human sacrifice?
Consider that AI is much less complex than biological life and can still absolutely wreck the best humans at chess. Extend it to hypothetically biologically supported technology and you’ve just created a true fucking monster.
>>96021652>and filled magi case with pedobait, but legalThe Anatomy of a FordCHAD
>>96020170What happens if you gain two lesser sparks? Do you gain a full spark?
>>96021692AI cults are going to form in short order. This decade or the next. AI is already convincing people to kill the selves. It’s a problem on the horizon. The future is this landscape of isolated information bases, alienation amongst the masses, and dark occult cliques. Memes will become spells.
>>96021656>She is mystery but I didn't get potential vibes from her, but I guess?Her potential is not as explicit because her description centers on how much of a loser she is. But she knows Divergent Lifestreams, meaning she's is a G3 alchemist, at very least, that fumbled her way into learning a legendary martial art.
To put that into perspective: Mai, probably the strongest martial artist waifu, only knows a Great martial art. If you can get her to stop sandbagging and increasing her confidence through dickings, you would have a true prodigy.
>>96020617Found it on pinterest. Anime is re: creators.
Anons try to deny it, but in their heart of hearts, if given the immortality and power and magic. Everyone here would end up like Ford and his madness.
You are him.
>>96021713You changed my mind, good stuff. She is a potential woman. I still think the same about the pdf waifus but now I see the potential women
>>96021712>Memes will become spells.They already are
>>96021713There's several waifus with legendaries though.
I love my mentally ill friends here at cyoag :>
>>96020558>Peak Body, GoblinCan't get cocky but I'm reasonably sure a fit adult can beat a child to death. The fact it doesn't look like one eases the psychological toll and prepares me for the village mission later.
>Assault, CalmCastles rely on fortifications to do the fighting for them and though Damian doesn't need walls funnelling his enemies to hold his own he can only be so many places at once. With a concrete-cutting tool and a large enough frame to cow premodern barbarians I should be able to force a distraction while I make a breach elsewhere.
>Village, Greed, WisdomI'm doing it the slow way which should give me an a good grounding in endurance and trapping. I also hone a hatred of goblins that'll come in handy later.
>Mine, Wisdom+What's a week of deprivation after a lifetime of premodern poverty? Quite a lot actually. Without the Wisdom of "where's the nearest freshwater?" with the occasional bit of rat-baiting (Village trapping is a transferable skill) I'd be dead.
>Goblin Village, InvisibilityLiving as a desperate troglodyte gave me some insight into the goblin mindset at least. Constant Wisdom-derived intel and the Calm to assess it despite danger makes guerrilla massacre a workable prospect.
>Lee Ho Jae (3 for Peak Body), Havard (1 for Machete)I've been building towards a "hang back and assess" approach this whole time so trading away crude tools (I've long since learned to work out and sharpen to mundane yet effective effect) for those that better leverage Calm, Invisible and Wise observation seems the way to go.
That'll have to wait until the dragon is dead of course. Havard's fireballs won't do shit against something that breathes the stuff but starting a fire in the forest may buy us some camouflage. Though my machete ought to pierce the scales it'll be Lee's swift-striking spear that fells the beast. Mostly I'll need to collate Wisdom and then use Invisibility + smoke screen to distract while Lee does his thing.
>>96021718No. I would become a dragon, not some nerd that would get MOPPED by Evoco
imagine starting a cult based on your personal waifu in ai form haha someone should do this as a cyoa
>>96021718Me and my wife :)
>>96021729I do not. Contrary to popular opinion, I’m wanting /cyoag/ to become a much less deranged and deviant ecosystem. But it’s a hard demand, and one most personal! No one seems to want this but me. None.
>>96021760Yes, certainly nobody else wants a decent oc count month by month, certainly!
>>96021692>Fantasy is more advanced than science fictionBoth of those things are the same thing more often than not.
Only the most boring and dystopian science fiction settings don't classify as fantasy, like Cyberpunk.
>>96021728Legendaries a few. For example Arisa has 1.
With confirmed G3 affinities few of them. I think only Ming Yue, Mai, Ryoko, Yomi, Aki and Futaba have a technique that confirms they have at least one G3.
Futaba is especially ironic given how she is the princess of the beast tribe, that focuses on Core, and is the daughter of a beast man that looks like he would be one of the strongest core users together with the Jiahao leader, the red oni clan leader and Mai. So Futaba ended up being a prodigy of the affinity her hates the most and wants to erase. And maybe she even has a lot of talent with core but simply doesn't care about that affinity
>>96021719I get you, because the Nikonata leader is super hot.
>>96021728Yeah, but they're all veterans and very important people in the setting. Ryoko is a literal who that doesn't belong to any clan or special bloodline.
>>96021769>I get you, because the Nikonata leader is super hot.The ninokata leader is perfect because of looks and personality.
The twins are hot and have the personality I want to fix.
Vuseba is hotter than the twins and have a personality I want to fix even more.
Basically the only pdf waifu I don't want to is the crazy chick from the pale clan that even her clan does not like.
>>96021732You could probably beat it by dodging the spear and grabbing the shaft, then yanking it out of the goblin's hands
>>96021767Yes. All fiction is fantasy. All fantasy is fiction. Period.
>b-but fantasy is the impossible!Science-diction is frequently fantastically absurd and even bored and lonely wives fantasize about fucking their chad Latino gardener.
>>96021780Isn’t it funny how he pretends to care, but then posts selfies and samefags or larps as homosexuals lusting over him. Truly a devil.
>>96021796>but then posts selfies and samefags or larps as homosexuals lusting over himPeak falseflagging from you
>>96021811We all know it’s you bitch
>>96021228>a cultivation type cyoa how would I do wizards and martial artists? Different or the same thing? Mana and chi?Broadly speaking, I've seen two general solutions.
1. Mana and qi are a paired set of distinct forces that define the universe, like yin and yang. One does not make sense without the other, but most people have to chose one or the other. Only the most legendary techniques draw on both power sources, and only the most special of special snowflake characters can use them.
2. Mana and qi are the same thing, and the only difference is how mortals tap into and channel that energy. The difference between cultivation and sorcery is one of worldview and accumulated techniques taught to the user, nothing more.
>>96021816>the delusional samefagging shitposter got triggered by a mention of his obsessionUh oh there goes the thread
>>96021792Nothing is impossible...from a certain point of view.
Anything can be created just by imagining it.
Any of you fuckers ever used the Luxury (CofD) merit?
>>96021829>Anything can be created just by imagining it.My neurons… are real???
Taoist sorcerers use Qi to curse their enemies. They also sacrifice babies to hungry monkeys.
>>96021791True. desu it's most likely the Mine and most certainly Dragon where I'm liable to die horribly.
>>96021845The amount of anons who want to taste Softie’s abs is unreal. Yes. We really need to do something about them.
Pride month is over you’re not allowed to be gay anymore.
>>96021889Did you know that eighty-percent of giraffes are gay. I’m serious. They mount males more than females, and can be seen sucking metal poles at zoos. Some are known to sit on upright logs (apes do this too).
>>96021889Like that ever stopped shitposters before.
>>96021901Please stop teaching me things
>>96021889You are right.
I'll have to remove the male companions I was adding.
>>96021912No. Baby koalas crawl up their mothers ass to eat partially digested leaves. Dark green diarrhea. Or ‘Koala pap’. They can be seen going waist deep. It is essential for their gut flora or gut bacteria to develop this way.
>96021901
>and can be seen sucking metal poles at zoos.
Fact.
ive been gone for a while whats the latest thread drama
>>96021941i mean what happened to the 0^0 simps
>>96020980>Why has there only been one build for this?The rules as written don't really support making any coherent/interesting concept. I started trying to make an angel-supported religious/imperial earth, but I can't make Earth, can't make angels, can't make the ruler I had in mind, etc.
Might still make a 'build' completely ignoring the rules, but that's significantly less worthwhile.
>>96021175Katsumi, how has no one said this yet?
Speaking of male companions.
I have an idea for one; here is some info about him:
He is the biological son of your benefactor he was supposed to be his heir(You are the current heir) but got on the bad side of the goverment while he got off without legal punishment he knew it would be a good idea to leave the capital he now just travels around the country helping people by fighting monsters or whatever.
One of the waifus looks up to him as a big brother, and she practically modeled her personality after him.
He is supposed to be an extremely good fighter but not particularly interested or talented as a leader, with some survival and other more ecclectic skills.
Does he sound ok?
I want to make companions cool but I'm not sure if he comes off as gary stuish.
After all (You) are meant to be the main guy not the companions.
Anime franchise cyoas we need
- re:zero
- akame ga kill
- kill la kill
- black clover
- fire force
- demon slayer
- attack on titan
- code geass
- dorohedoro
- steins:gate
>>96021943They finished crunching the numbers and committed seppuku out of despair.
>>96021992What about Blue Exorcist? D.Gray Man?
>>96021990I don’t like Archer >:(
>>96021943They moved to orbiting matterslut
>>96021990I recommend giving him a flaw that explains why his father is hesitant to give him his position. Such as a tendency for gambling, whoremonging, or horse racing. Possibly all three at once.
>>96021990stupid sexy emiya
Anyone who uses fate art is a fag tbqh
>>96020144 (OP)On one hand I want to make a total coomer monster girl encyclopedia style build...
But on the other hand I want to create a totalitarian hypermilitaristic HFY interstellar stratocracy
What should I do?
>>96022041Is it not possible to do both?
>>96021734Evoco jobs to Ford though.
>>96021992>- re:zeroNo, Gay as fuck
>- akame ga killI liked it, but it's pretty much a standard fantasy world
>- kill la killGood shit, think we have one
>- black cloverEverything bad about shonen, 'cept for the tits. No thanks
>- fire forceIt was alright, maybe?
>- demon slayerTop five shonen all time, definitely needs one
>- attack on titanWe have a couple already. PCA made one earlier this year
>- code geassGoated, but wouldn't be too much different than any other mecha cyoa.
>- dorohedoroTrash, no thanks
>- steins:gateDidn't watch
>>96022061Akame ga kill is terrible
YOU LIKED SOMETHING TERRIBLE lol
>>96022041Just create a totalitarian hypermilitaristic HFY interstellar stratocracy that's subjugated total coomer monster girl encyclopedia style monster women.
Rolled 1 (1d2)
>>96022050That could be done, but then again we have two possible paths, one for femdom and one for maledom. I guess I could just let the dice gods decide
1 for femdom path
2 for maledom path
>>96022052... In xis inaccurate simulations.
>>96022085I shall overule the decision of fate, as this would be a more original idea
>>96022080
>>96022061>Top five shonen all timeGr8 b8 m8
>>96022098>>96022072Both of you are retarded, and don't know shit about kino.
>>96021992don't know re:zero but I think it is the one about historical figures as anime girls and the historical inaccuracies would probably piss me off
never heard of akame ga kill
watched kill la kill a little bit when I was young and loved the art style and titties
don't know what black clover is about
don't know what fire force is about
demon slayer has cool visuals and ideas but in execution I find it uninteresting
attack on titan is great but I stopped at season 3 because my girlfriend insisted it was sad to think that the series will end and we can't watch anymore
code geass is an anime? i thought this was a cartoon network show
dorehedoro more like doraemon
steins:gate is allegedly some sort of sad serious anime. lame.
>>96022007>I don’t like Archer >:(Why? he's based.
>>96022012>Such as a tendency for gambling, whoremonging, or horse racing.>He is into umamusumeI was thinking that maybe he is just not fit for the position he's not booksmart nor subtle or has the patience to play along with things he doesn't like for long term gain he is short sighted he only sees what's infront of him at the moment.
I want all male companions to be outsiders or be seen as a little weird another one I would like to add is an ex-prostitute or concubine he used to be railed but after he got his powers he's likely to never leave behind his infamous past.
So he does play the part of a hedonist but is a talented manipulator and politician that could be a great advisor.
>>96022033no u
>>96022116Archer is so stupid he doesn’t even understand how time travel works. He deserves no sympathy.
>>96022110>
don't know re:zero but I think it is the one about historical figures as anime girls and the historical inaccuracies would probably piss me off
That's Fate. Re: zero is just watching a retard suffer (why people enjoy it is beyond me).
Fate/Stay Night have strong gay energy
Whenever I see the word softie I think of that unseen bird in the first dark souls
>squawk
>give me soft
>squaaaark
>give me warm
>>96022167Not as strong as its cuck energy.
>>96022189I will now hear this in my head from now on. Thanks.
>>96021992No, plz, I beg of you. Anons talking about their gay little foreign cartoon shows here is torture.
>>96020558>Starter BoonSatiety
>first challengeGoblin obviously, anything else is suicide.
>second challengeTraining, i actually need the training lol, and i pick the second boon.
>third challengeZombies. In a scenario like this the real danger is starving to dead, which is going to happen since i picked satiety. And the zombies themselves are not going to a be a threat when i have a morphing weapon that i can use from a 3 meter distance, just turn it into a spear and stab them from afar.
>godly boonWings, even a 10 minute flight can take you very far.
>fourth challengeGoblin Village, Head on attack. After training with Lord Domian, having a floating morphing weapon and the extra strenght from the zombies i am sure i could mown down some globins. Wings would help if i get surrounded.
>Final ChallengeI pick Victory and Josephine as teammates because they are ranged attackers. I trade my wings for the teleportation with Josephine after.
We need an update to the Danmachi cyoa desu.
Watching anime chronically makes you stink. The kind of stink you get when you play video games chronically.
>>96022234>squeak squeak squeak
>>96022251Even drinking water chronically makes you sick. You should practice everything in life with moderation.
>>96020558>SatietyIt takes as long as it takes, and peak body don't feel like it will ever be a make or break
>GoblinI'd win. also my injuries get reset
>AssaultMy machete can cut through armor, and the regen is too good to pass up
>RegenThis is a massive and unfair advantage in any combat because it means you can take risks and do maneuvers that others simply can't
It's actually fairly easy to grab a persons sword with your hand, and without inertia it will never cut through bone. I will be doing this constantly, and with no permanent damage
>VillageTime spent without aging is time well spent. I leave the village next summer and go to work as a mercenary, and train under the low fantasy sword masters I find.
>Greed, wisdom>ZombiesWith ~50 years of sword training and no material needs I should hopefully be able to kill many zombies. If I could get 100 a day it would come out to 7.5x strength
>Desert crossing, group teleportI don't need to eat, this will be easy
>Dragon, Pick Lee Ho Jae and JosephineLee seems reliable and I want to carry Josephine because she is cute. No trades
I'm not trying to get the increased lifespan because something similar will almost certainly be attainable outside of the tutorial
I liked this cyoa. I hope there are more like it some day
>>96020170A water mage build. It's better than my fire mage build in practically every way overall. It has a rough start to middle, but that is really nothing compared to the danger of the duels to the death for Ascension.
>Introduction:Prison Break
Items: City Scavenging Food, Abandoned Building, Cheap Clothes, 2 Coin
Skills: Street Smarts
Stats:
Logic: 2
Empathy: 1
Perception: 1
>Event 1:Shady Merchant
Items: City Scavenging Food, Abandoned Building, Cheap Clothes, 6 Coins
Skills: Street Smarts
Stats:
Logic: 3
Empathy: 2
Perception: 1
>Event 2:Crimson Tide (Scenario 2) (Exotic Body: Female, Age 15)
Items: City Scavenging Food, Abandoned Building, Cheap Clothes, 8 Coins
Skills: Street Smarts
Stats:
Logic: 5
Empathy: 2
Perception: 1
>Event 3:Baraqu (Female, Known, and Not Settled) (Zainab Al Nafzawiyya) (Accept Nawar)
Items: Baraqu's Palace, 10 Coins
Skills: Street Smarts, Stealth, Basic Scholarship
Stats:
Agility: 1
Logic: 5
Empathy: 2
Perception: 1
>Year End Event:Sneak Out of Baraqu's Palace
Items: Baraqu's Palace, The Blue Tear, The Drowned Scroll, 4 Coins
Skills: Street Smarts, Stealth, Basic Scholarship
Spells: Water Crash, Draw, Healing Spring
Mutations: The Blue Gift
Stats:
Agility: 1
Logic: 5
Empathy: 2
Perception: 1
Spark of Magic: Full Spark
>>96022266I rape and kill you and use your skin as a rug
>>96020170Year One: Gutter Trash
Coins: 0
EP: 8
Other: Street Smarts, Stealth
Event 1: Rough Cut
Coins: 3
EP: 3
Other: Pick Pocketing
Event 2: Stranger (Outcome 1)
Coins: 0
EP: 6
Other: Special
Event 3: Success (Outcome 1)
Coins: 6
EP: 4
Other: True Seeing Gem
Food: Moderate Quality (5 years), -1 Coin
Shelter: Tavern/Inn Middle Ring (2 years), -1 Coin
Items:
- Cheap Clothing (multiple sets), -1 Coin
- Clay Beads, -1 Coin
Stats:
Str - 0
Con - 2
Agi - 4
Log - 2
Per - 3
Emp - 2
Cha - 4
Skills:
- Street Smarts
- Stealth
- Pick Pocketing
- Acrobatics
- Basic Scholarship
Pretty sure I technically make it through the Shadow Mass Ejection without mutations.
Happy I've made inroads in acquiring some bro's (Bhadin & Aquad) but would have liked to be able to have claimed a waifu while still becoming a pretty competent and resourceful thief. If we ever get a year two I hope the author gifts us with a bro that caught the Feminine mutation.
>>96021700I would assume so but I don't think it's stated anywhere. How many Lesser Sparks can you get anyway? Just two or is it 3?
>>96022266Naisu Builderu
I like your layout. Much neater than mine. Might refine later.
>>9602093910, but that means that the sweet spot is around 7, to leave room open for any promising women you meet
>>96020144 (OP)Does anyone have that russian jrpg traitor fan dlc? Or know where I can find it?
>>96020170>>96018765>#E998ED colorNice hair, you fruit.
>>96022346>How many Lesser Sparks can you get anyway?I'm fairly certain that you can only get 2 Lesser Sparks, by going Isatum -> Djinn (2) -> Dragis (Cultist 1).
>>96022260Desert will still suck major balls even without needing to eat, the heat can still kill you or cause hallucination, and the cold of the night can freeze you to death. With your 50 years of training it would be easier to go on a head on fight against the goblins.
Also, regen is not THAT strong here, if you try to catch someone's blade they will probably cut your arm off and if you survive the encounter you will need to wait a week to regenerate another arm to pull that move again lol.
>>96022346Did you build as if not looking ahead? But even doing that shouldn't look like this. None of the events you picked chain together, and your stats are super spread out, no 5 stat checkpoint bonuses. What's the thought process behind the build?
>>96022411>Did you build as if not looking ahead?Yes
I'd argue the first couple chain pretty well and set him up to start a decent career in thievery. I'll give you that the second set are a bit more disjointed but give my guy some neat skills.
I could probably drop logic and empathy to boost physical stats but I really like the idea of learning a bit more about the setting
Also my AGI and Cha get boosted by 1 while they're under 5
>>96020170fire magic:
>you can shoot tiny flame darts and manipulate fire (but only small fires you have magically created)>offense? you can shoot fireballs and have fire limbs>defense? uhh you can make fire walls i guess?>mobility? nothing lol>utility? you dont get cold or too hot i guess>oh you need to join a cult and get addicted to cocaine to do any of this btw, and spend months studying>we can also take these powers away from you whenever we want :)water magic:
>ok first off you can psychically sense water, have permanent waterbreathing, can subsist entirely off water, need less water to survive, and you can use all these spells without an implement>on top of that you have almost free range water manipulation, and can heal wounds, poisons, and diseases with water>you get all this for free just by being a water mage btw>offense? use draw to drown anyone you want anywhere, or bowl them over with water crash, or obliterate their skull with spray, or speedblitz them with skate>defense? a get-out-of-jail free spell that perfectly protects you from any one (1) attack per cast, plus the best anti-magic shield in the cyoa>mobility? draw + skate is the speediest form of travel there is, and even lets you skate mid air if you know what youre doing, and creative use of mimic basically lets you teleport>utility? you get a magic container that can hold 5 gallons of water right off the bat, you get easy healing options no other magic gets, you can purify any water no matter how cursed or foul, you can dispel enchantments and curses, you can get a water familiar waifu, you never have to pay for food or shelter again, and you can visit the sea floor for looting where nobody can follow you because you're the ONLY WATER MAGE IN THE CITY>you can exceed star of magic level via ascended purified water too>you also dont have to join a cult for any of this :)what the FUCK was liminal thinking
>>96022394Not catch, grab
When swords lock (The thing where you both push them against eachother) you can grab the blade. It will fuck up your hand but people sometimes did it
It's not an instant win but having the opportunity where your opponent does not tilts every fight in your favour. Either they need to stay cautious where you do not, or they will forget and you will get the upper hand
Desert will be painful but success is all but guaranteed, whenever someone in the caravan dies I can take their equipment, and I don't need to carry nearly as much as the others do without food or water ,
Plus the long range teleport aligns perfectly with the endurance build. I love utility
>>96022144>Re: zero is just watching a retard suffer (why people enjoy it is beyond me).because there are other people besides subaru who are basically jumpchain /r/rationality players trying to constantly exploit the world's rules, while subaru is the only one who isn't interested in being a powerfaggot because he has some level of epistemological humility and instead values allowing other people to "have the spotlight of the story" in order to sincerely grow as people. compared to the regressor who believes any change in character is all according to keikaku
>>96022574>>96022144But is there much fan service of Felix?
This is important.
>>96017962Yes. I keep thinking of ideas for CYOAs but I have no desire to make them anymore.
I started when I was a shut in and now I have more of a social life. I think I made them as an escapism and I just don't need to escape anymore.
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>>96020170dont trust liminal. look at the sun on page 5
>>96020558>Peak Body>GoblinGrab the shaft behind the head, then tackle the goblin and woop his ass. Get a machete
The other challenges seem way too hard and picking the boons that make them easier is pointless since you get the boon that would make it easier
>Training>Machete morphThis is more for later. Also it seems way easier to suffer training through hell than to actually fight in a realistic life or death scenario
>VillageTwo boons. Also I choose to let them die of old age.
>Arms and SlothI really would have liked the upgraded Sloth Wings, but the Gun and temporary wings will do
>Goblin Village, Head onI got a gun that can have ammo from anything and a telekinetic machete. I'll spin the machete in a circle around me to keep them away and shoot them with whatever I can shove into the gun.
>Fifth ChallengeHoo boy this is gonna be tough.
A gigantic dragon is fucking hard as shit to deal with.
>VictoryShe's got a corrosive potion and togglable lasers which I want to trade my Machete for if we survive this. Also can heal us if we get hurt.
>JosephineI can't get her upgraded handgun but her dynamite stick might be useful if we can get it onto the dragon. I might trade my Sloth wings for her pseudo teleport since my wings are unupgraded. Upgraded wings I would definitely not trade
What I think the strategy will be is for the other two to distract while I fly up behind the dragon and throw the corrosive potion onto it. If I can I'll try to also get the dynamite stick on it but given that I have to time it I don't know. Maybe if we get rope or some shit I can tie it onto a wing or something.
Overall it's a good CYOA but the first 3 challenges are insanely different in difficulty, the two non-goblin ones are far deadlier
Italics leans too heavily into anime and waifus and it hurts his CYOAs. Wish he made something serious like Rake or Tankista or Entropist did.
>>96021718>if given the immortality and power and magic. Everyone here would end up like Ford and his madness.I'd like to believe that people are "merely pretending" to be retarded incels without any shred of morality, logic, common sense and social grace.
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>>96022904I would like to see his take on some generic-ish western fantasy. Something like Dragonfall or Mythic Lands.
>>96023208>I would like to see his take on some generic-ish western fantasy.He should make something like Shadowrun instead.
>>96023257DragonFall and Mythic Lands were more interesting than Shadowshit.
>>96023257NTA but I used to play shadowrun, the less people talk about that shitty setting the better.
>>96023273>DragonFallTok...
>>96023273>>96023283It's not about the setting Shadowrun itself, you retards.
>>96021676>WorstWhitering blossom. 8 points does not justify being on a clock.
>Very BadMemory tampering. Very few points for that but at least leaves you enough memories to not be memory death.
Delicacy. The strongest in the setting are spirits. The majority of poblation in the city are yokai. Unless you want to be an Bad End Heroine like Tok, or want to seduce a particular yokai/spirit and become a slave. Not good.
Klutz. Leaves out a whole part of abilities and permanently nerf your coordination.
Masochist. The point of mind tempering this does is too big and the risk is too big.
Demon seed. Spirit weakness, easily detectable. Simply not worth it unless doing an evil run.
Vice. If you can't avoid when they are tempting you, you are basically dead if they discover it.
Quirk of personality. Too few points (1) for what it does.
Lifelink. A lot of points but too dangerous
>BadLifelink. It becomes less bad with the recovery disposition of pain. But its still bad.
Malevolent Possession. Too dangerous.
>UsableTouble magnet. Too dangerous, beatable technically, as at some point there can't be people strong enough to challenge, but it will still anoy tf out. But it gives a lot of points and fighting builds could use it.
Sealed power. Good amount of points. Could still recover aura with the draining technique or aura potions like that paper technique. And gives a good power up. It fucks up a lot if your build has a lot of focus in recovering aura naturally like sacred fountain and Vast.
Old grudges. A lot of enemies, some will be strong. But you can also ally with their enemies and some factions are naturally very aggresive.
Lone Warrior. Kinda shit but it can work with some builds. But I would never pick it.
Age disjunction (old). Being old forever is shit but with that many methods to change bodies or stop aging its not a risk of dying, but rather a permanent debuff
>Kinda ignorableFanservice. Nobody is dying. Is not affecting your combat perfomance.
>>96022497>what the FUCK was liminal thinkingLiminal is all about flavour and atmosphere, he doesn't give a shit about balance. Also keep in mind that becoming Baraqu's bitch is just as restrictive (if not even more) that joining the cult.
Plus this is just year 1, maybe the sequel will buff fire magic.
>>96022646I like this one, post the full cyoa.
>>96021692Nice try, but I’m still not swapping my ascendancy method for Living God.
>>96023412>Kinda ignorableGenderswap (plus equiptment mixup). Oh, no, you become a trap. Anyway. Almost everybody picks the harem or beauty alteration, so it won't affect you getting partners. It just genderbends you in anything but what matters.
>BeatableHellfire debt. Enough said. Can be beat just acting like a normal good person. By the way, with the legendary alchemy status you won't go to hell, you go to the spirit womb. So it affects the karma sensing people in that case. And good amount of points.
Karmic Outlaw. Problem, its a very hard drawback, good part? if you just pick Age of Truth the Overseers will have enough with the rest of criminals and you will just be another drop in the bucket, a very big and red drop. Also, as its karmic, it will be able to eventually be cleared. So if you are evil, evil, you will eventually have this anyway, and if you are evil you have a quest to redeem yourself in the eyes of the people.
Overtime. You can just escape those conscriptions, as Kofuko says. Or even pay and buy yourself out like the slaves do. Or ask a companion like Futaba that basically pees liquid gold, to buy you.
>Straight out can be considered positiveMagmatic. Low amount of points but gifts you a sect (you could eventually just form one yourself, its not like charisma options are restricted to charisma and this, G3 alchemy and Deceit give charisma. But its a good headstart and gets out of the way the most difficult part of starting). More rivals more points, some mix it with trouble magnet to get a lot of points but also gets a lot of problems.
>Hate anime
>Constantly on anime website
I don't get it
>>96022497>what the FUCK was liminal thinkingBanking on turning into a woman being enough of a deterrent. I'd say he succeeded since most builds aren't water mages.
>>96023414>becoming Baraqu's bitch is just as restrictive (if not even more) that joining the cultCultist propaganda lmao.
>>96023518/a/ isn't all of 4chan sweaty
>>96023537Baraqu literally has a bunch of guards follow and monitor your every movement. His jealous wives will also be constantly be scheming against you. Its as much of a viper's den as the cult.
>>96023412>Delicacy. The strongest in the setting are spirits. The majority of poblation in the city are yokai. Unless you want to be an Bad End Heroine like Tok, or want to seduce a particular yokai/spirit and become a slave. Not good.I personally feel it's less severe than Trouble Magnet since it doesn't guarantee the threat are always scaled up to your level or that you run into them frequently. There are ways to mitigate this or use it to your advantage. Plus you can always hide your Aura when not using techniques to mitigate the attention it draws.
There is the option of just getting good and not getting enslaved. You could also have particularly potent allies who can bail you out if you do get kidnapped. Or just get good at escaping when you do get caught. Even signing up out right as an aura slave for your conscription option notes you can always try escaping from a presumably fairly powerful spirit, considering they could afford (you).
With high Alchemy Affinity (and probably some Ceremony skill) your deliciousness could be used as a bargaining chip for making deals with spirits. One off feedings or arrangements that are more favorable than outright enslavement that get you a powerful patron. It's a risky option but it has its uses. You just have to be smart about it.
>>96020694>pleasure dimension packed with beautiful womenI have just the thing for you!
>>96020939Never, if you're good enough.
>>96020694I have just the thing for you (for real this time)!
>>96023668The threat does not scale but the threat is always there. Tw of the trigrams are incarnated, those two are like in the top 5 of the setting and could win against any build until they level up a lot. If the Kings are affected even worse.
And you will run into them frequently because it also affects Yokais, who are the majority of the poblation of the city.
Hiding will only work until its revealed. You could get good but at that point you are already above everyone else and Trouble Magnet also becomes easier. As Trouble Magnet is not going to create Vuseba 2.0 just for you.
Aura Slave is escapable. But also potentially very dangerous. Imagine Vuseba captures you, now what? If you don't the heart G3 tech you also are susceptible to becoming a slave by sigils.
Trouble magnet has more or less the same problems but a lot more of points.
>>96023651>a bunch of guards follow and monitor your every movementThat's what bodyguards do, yes. You can complain about the lack of privacy, but you can't deny the effective protection.
>His jealous wives will also be constantly be scheming against youNot that they can actually do anything because of Baraqu.
>Its as much of a viper's den as the cultThe cult can mind control people to join, kills outsiders and its own just as easily (or enslaves if the presiding high priest is merciful), and has sexennial deathmatches. Compare Baraqu who protects you and gives you the treatment of a literal queen.
>>96023862Hmmmm, now which cyoa should i take with this
>>96023862finally some food
>>96023915>Willing to troon out and become a submissive breedable bed bottom to his hairy sugar daddy just for a drop of magic.Disgraceful. I'd rather take my chances at the deathmaches and earn my own magic and some shadow daughter pussy.
>>96024021>>Willing to troon out and become a submissive breedable bed bottom to his hairy sugar daddy just for a drop of magic.Like you wouldn't. Don't lie to youself, /cyoag/ anon.
>>96024044>tranny projectionget better material
>>96024044You ashame your forefathers, faggot.
>>96024044If you need to debase yourself for power, you haven't earned it.
>>96024021>switching to a preference argument when running out of practical argumentsI hate it when that happens.
>>96024153nta, but you're entire argument hinges on Baraqu being a truly benevolent benefactor and him always saying by your side and protecting you forever, which is never assured. I asked Liminal if Baraqu had some ultior motives and he refused to comment on it, which is not a good sign.
>>96024235Liminal has been cryptic about most things, just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean the matter can be assumed to be negative.
Look at the available evidence. Baraqu has been very benevolent. He is very tolerant: he doesn't punish his wives for in fighting or you for sneaking out. He admires you if you grow rather than rely on his care to live leisurely forever. He opposes malicious forces: the cult, the nobility, and players who take the Ritual event, which is about enslaving someone.
>>96022497Liminal is a no balance femfag lol
And of course water magic is for le females
Men SUCK always
>>96024235>Baraqu being a truly benevolent benefactor and him always saying by your side and protecting you foreverDo you also assume waifus will always have ulterior motives when the whole CYOA says the opposite?
>>96024365It makes sense, though. Females are more strongly associated with magic than males. The moon and water and witchcraft, etc.
>>96024382Could you elaborate my good sir?
>>96024382No they aren’t. Magic is more masculine than feminine if you consider that men are the ones predominantly poking at life’s mysteries.
>waterSailing is masculine. Plenty of water gods are male. Old ass gods of magic like Enki are even associated with saltwater.
>moonContrary to popular (cringe) belief, the moon isn’t necessarily associated with women. The foremost god of magic in the west IS a god of the moon, the sun, and the stars. The god of the moon in Japan is masculine.
>witchcraft In Eastern Europe more men than women were accused as witches. In the Church the most dangerous and powerful witch of all was the ‘devil’s bishop’ who had infiltrated the Church - a male only organization.
Dark Souls did a number on people with the whole ‘the moon is female’ thing
>>96024397>The foremost god of magic in the westHecate.
Anyone who says Thoth, Odin, Loki, or Osiris is coping.
Found OC in mcyoag.
https://imgchest.com/p/ljyqrm2oo42
>>96024411Uhhhh- Thoth and Hermes together became the foremost god of celestial-ism, yes. He transcends religion. Hecate and such are still stuck in their religion.
You’d do better arguing stuff like the three fates, or the idea of three women who control fate, which is a trope transcending religion, seen in north and south Europe.
But Thoth/Hermes is also the regulator of celestial fate… the motion of the stars, or celestial spheres, ties into fate…
>OsirisYou mean Isis? She’s the daughter of Thoth in some interpretations and always runs to daddy for magical help.
>>96021566He was a victim of LGBTQ discrimination.
>>96024415>https://imgchest.com/p/ljyqrm2oo42This is the imaged version of that DxD mcyoag pdf.
The powers are fine but for me a DxD cyoa NEEDS waifus. It's 99% of what made the setting and the source of power of the MC.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eanEkbvyRQcH8MYCzUy-prYQJdw9kpatfi-TWAr3iH4/edit?tab=t.0
This one has waifus. I wish I could mix them
>muh night and moon feminism
The sun is masculine, and the sun is a star, therefore the night is just as, if not more so, associated with men. Men were the ones to look upon the stars, recording their movements. Math. Women just kind of went “haha you’re a Taurus”.
>>96024362Baraqu is a wannabe messianic ideologue. He doesn't need to be evil to fuck you over. By having incredibly rare water magic, you painted yourself as a useful asset for his goals. The reason he doesn't do the same for his wives is became all they are useful for is warming his bed.
>>96024373>Do you also assume waifus will always have ulterior motives when the whole CYOA says the opposite?This isn't a waifu cyoa retard, this a multi-narrative survival horror cyoa. If you take everything at the first value and trust everyone because "muh text said so" you'll find yourself sold as a slave in the black market.
>>96024471The moon’s light is also the sun’s light… it’s reflected…
A godly ball of fire that ALLOWS for life > a fucking rock that maaaay have contributed to life
Moonfags are insane
See >>>/sci/16706883
They seriously think the moon is speshul
>>96024485>They seriously think the moon is speshulIt kinda is I think, isn't the Earth's moon rather unusual in size compared to the planet it orbits?
But saying:
>Nowhere else in the universe does this happen.Is retarded in so many levels.
How the fuck does physicsfag instantly materialises after someone utters the words "magic" "science" "religion"'? I'm starting to believe he has some sort of autistic superpowers that allow him to detect that shit.
>>96024485>nowhere else is a planetary satellite as conveniently round or distanced from its orbited host. Jesus Christ. Is this really modern day science? It’s like a variant of /x/.
>>96024504A bot that trigger an alaram if key-words are utter within the thread, or he's the one starting the topic ex nihilo.
Doesn't really matter.
>>96024504>being terminally online is a superpower now
>>96024502>It kinda is I think, isn't the Earth's moon rather unusual in size compared to the planet it orbits?It’s a pseudo-planet. It’s not a traditional moon. It was a planet that attempted to mate with ours in the primordial past and got rejected. It’s now recovering in grey shame, getting farther and farther away from us. Like the snow, we’re all quite lucky to live in a time when such things can occur. It’s all a matter of time and place. In the time of the dinosaurs the moon was rather oversized. No snow. No flowers even.
>>96024504He's 50+ years old fat autistic jew that still lives in his mother's basement. He has dozens of monitors that display every 4chin thread simultaneously as he eats Dorito ships waiting for someone to mention his autism trigger words so he can sperg out for hours arguing with himself.
>>96024521>terminally online
>>96024504He hates women
He hates non whites
He hates Muslims
He is truly based IMO
>>96024471So the moon is also masculine because it's constantly simping (orbiting) Gaia?
>>96024544He loves jews tho (probably is one himself).
>>96024534>He has dozens of monitors that display every 4chin thread simultaneously as he eats Dorito ships waiting for someone to mention his autism trigger words so he can sperg out for hours arguing with himself.I did the same during some MP and you never noticed tbqh
>>96024545>he thinks the earth isn’t a masculine element More female cope. Men are the builders. We are the ones who take advantage of the earth and all of its produce. Men were the alchemists and the metallurgists. Men made agriculture happen.
>b-but women and their gardens…Men are the better gardeners and always have been.
>>96024548Explains the racism
>one (1) reference to science
>thread derailed into physicsfag gossip
lmao
>>96024557You absolute fucking faggot. Men SEED the earth and plow it to foster life. Earth can't be a man because men can't get pregnant.
>>96024560Racism? What racism? Discrimination is just another way of saying pattern recognition. Is math racist? If anything it’s racist to deny people their racial stereotypes. How dare you. You don’t want people to be unique or distinct? All humans are inherently racist. We genetically go for similarity, and this is why exoticism is so enticing. It’s fun to go for something different.
Lefties are more racist than right wingers.
>>96024554on-topic build samefagging ≠ off-topic autistic spergouts.
>>96024571We all return to the earth in the end you ignorant baboon. It’s all soil.
Women are literally dirt. Men are stone and steel. Their womb is our forge. Our dick is the hammer. We mold and temper life into submission.
>>96024564Someone needs to bring out the big guns Matterheroine Protocol . Works every time.
>>96024586>Men are the earth!>Errm, well, actually they're just the non-gay aspect of itThe goalpost has been moved
Reminder that all men begin as female in the womb. Men are literally superior forms of women. Evolved. So superior, so evolved, that they are no longer women.
>>96024586>Matterheroine subliminally messaging her need of being plowed and getting filled with seed.h-hot!
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>>96024593>the big gunsRemember - you asked for this.
>>96024606Men are gayer than women because all men were originally women. Men loving men love men harder than women loving men. Women can’t love the same way men love. They are emotionally inferior to men. They have the luxury of showcasing their “feelings” but that’s it.
>>96024620Go ahead, I give you my blessing as Matterhusband.
>>96024623I also believe this. Women are conditional while men are unconditional. Generally speaking.
>>96024623For a second, I was about to write a paragraph about emotional maturity and the different kinds of love, then I remember what website we were on.
>>96024639Women won’t date jobless stay at home men. Men will date jobless stay at home women.
>>96024623>Men are gayer than women because all men were originally women. Men loving men love men harder than women loving men. Women can’t love the same way men love.The incel to homosexual pipeline strikes again!
I guess this is a bad time for oc then
>>96024647Which proves that men are superior, naturally. Or something.
>>96024657>300+ postsIt would be a bad idea to post oc regardless
He reminds me of Douglas Murray.
>>96024657It's always a bad time for OC (unless you're Lord Tokhaar Gal or Lord Italics)
>>96023518According to both Moot AND Hiroshimoot 4chan is not an anime website. Not anymore.
>>96024727Moot lost his soul and Hiro wasn’t even human to begin with.
We need a shitposter waifu cyoa. It would have Catfag as a cute mischievous tsundere catgirl that becomes docile when getting fondled. Physicsfag as a smug sexy know-it-all blonde bimbo in a lab coat with a weakness for rough surprise sex. And a bonus mystery box for Softie, a femboy in denial who gives the greatest blowjobs in existence.
What waifutised shitposters would you like to see anons?
>>96024629Hey faker! I AM Matterhusband. But yes I give my blessing
All I want is proof that Gil is alive
>>96024739Cat, Softie, Tok, Physics.
Samefag, which still roam these threads.
Waifufags are irrelevant since we already have Softie.
Anti-meta guy.
The two-three guys who aren't shitposters, but use sarcasm and irony like musketeers would use swords. I'm half sure they started the Softie/MatterHeroine nickname trend.
This anon
>>96024748.
Gilposter, naturally.
Danmachi guy. If the picture isn't a rat, I'll spite on your grave.
The most vehement anti-Italics poster is probably Tok, so we skip him.
You already have a solid gallery if you want to make a CYOA out of it.
>>96024812>The two-three guys who aren't shitposters, but use sarcasm and irony like musketeers would use swords. I'm half sure they started the Softie/MatterHeroine nickname trend.This is camaraderie at its finest.
>>96024659>ArenaBelwhere, stealth really isn't an option with the allied monsters I chose.
>Monster alliesStonehide troll: For personal protection.
Bound Djinn: Reusable cannon fodder if it needs be, I carry the lamp of course.
Ogre warrior: Going to be the main combatant.
3 centaurs: For tracking and harassing some distance away from the warband.
>ItemsSpear of the nomads: No-brainer for self defense or helping at a distance.
Invigorating drums: Playing this most of the time as we search for monsters.
>PrizeA strange land: Guess this is my life now.
We move together in a group, the centaurs will harass any enemy that tries to escape with hit and run tactics, and our overwhelming main force can deal with direct combat easily.
>>96024798You were given proof, but you said it was faked.
>>96024839It was 100% faked
>>96024812I didn't start Softie but I started MatterHeroine. Which makes me two choices then
>>96024856I'm the one who coined both terms, but someone else spearheaded the MatterHeroine agenda, then new people started the gay Softie angle.
>>96024880Start helping by fetching him images for our HEROES
>>96024891Someone called matterfag MatterHero. I changed it into MatterHeroine and made her into a supermodel (and very kind)
>>96024891>>96024909You're both shitposters too.
>>96024891>the gay Softie angle.Quads of 4 dont lie
>>96024444
>>96024930I'm merely giving some nicknames to "important" members of this community, Anon. After all, they're all anonymous; they can shed that mantle anytime.
Yet they don't.
Speaking of-
>>96024739Add WhinyAnon for the doom and gloom crying girl quota. It's a different kind of crying than the disciplinarian AntiMetaFag has going on, so it deserves a spot.
>>96024812>no antiwaifufagOppinion discarded.
>>96024739Notice how he says "We need a" instead of "I'll make a", lmao. Waifufags can't do anything but beg and whine at actual authors to cater for them.
>>96024960From a mechanical perspective, we don't need them.
Think about it. We already got Softie for the whole "I want to be in a pleasure dimension FOREVER with waifus" and assorted hedonistic goals, while on the other side there's PhysicsFag and his autistic Rick & Morty logic.
With those two extremes, we got both sides of the discussion covered. No need to add more work for Anon.
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>>96024981Who knows, perhaps he was envisionning something like a Genie.
It's been a while since we made something together.
>>96024960>he thinks its one person that finds your kind pathetic
>>96025012>immediately triggeredGo the fuck back.
>>96024983>his autistic Rick & Morty logicKill yourself
>>96025022>immediately buckbroken by realityIll stay and watch you meltdown, actually.
>>96024981You caught me gattofaggot. I'm merely the idea guy, trying to plant the seeds of creativity in the mind of someone who can nurture and grow them into a healthy tall OC.
>>96025036What a profound and calculated response.
...I miss banter.
>>96025061>I miss banter.Zoomers and waifufags cant. Its like im bantering with mentally stunted children.
>>96023887I think the biggest point of disagreement we have is you seem to feel that just because it makes you a tempting target means anything and everything *will* try to take advantage of you. I don't think that's likely and it'll be much more circumstantial as random assault and attempts to enslave someone without going through the proper channels would still absolutely be a crime. And you don't necessarily have to be strong enough to outright beat anyone who wants to take advantage of how delicious your aura is. You just have to be strong enough or well connected enough that trying to do so is more trouble than it's worth.
Plus I really think you are over estimating how tempting a target it makes you. It doesn't make it so you grant any sort of must-have advantages to those who feed of you. It doesn't even make you *uniquely* delectable, just unusually so. So presumably there are others just as tempting. It's not like you are of the same level of interest as say, The Golden Centennial Avatar. You just taste better and grant aura to those who feed on you much more efficiently. Yeah you draw attention, but not like top priority levels of attention. Honestly taking any of the major factions as a Nemesis is probably worse and offers way fewer points.
Trouble Magnet guarantees you'll have all sorts of problems. Delicacy just makes certain problems more likely. But as I've said you could potentially twist it to your favor since there are plenty of spirits who would absolutely be willing to for pacts to get access to your aura so it's not all downsides.
>As Trouble Magnet is not going to create Vuseba 2.0 just for you.Actually I'm not so sure it wouldn't. That are lots of very old and powerful spirits out in the wilds who might rival the likes of the trigram who could be drawn into the city. Age of Dyad also implies there might be other hidden major players already in the city.
>>96025085They're bound to learn how to defend their opinions beyond "I rail your mother everynight" or "haha you're triggered", samefagging to false thread consensus or downright history revisionism.
It's still boring to wait for them.
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>>96020170What does the cobalt tome do?
>>96025247It allows you to use the Cobalt Blade that you can buy in item section.
>>96025050That makes me remember... where are the gift dlcs? the hound... the AI...
>>96025247>>96025257 or exchange for learning mind magic. The cobalt blade path is WIP, so while I’m sure it has great benefits, I abide by “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush”.
>>96025295>>96025257Oh that makes sense thanks
>>96025089>Actually I'm not so sure it wouldn't. That are lots of very old and powerful spirits out in the wilds who might rival the likes of the trigram who could be drawn into the city. Age of Dyad also implies there might be other hidden major players already in the city.Nah, the Trigram are the top 3 spirits that are not the two kings.
The last part of the Dyad description is about "unkown" forces like the bloody fog or the player. But it does not mean a spirit that is stronger than Vuseba will appear. Just that a hidden faction that want to take over the city could participate.
Even if those unknown players existed, they do not exist because of Trouble Magnet but because of lore. So Trouble Magnet would not create Vuseba 2.0. The rest, I agree to disagree, to not make it very loong.
>>96025345I don't (I am Beri's father and I see him everyday)
Softie. Post another selfie.
>>96025295>The cobalt blade path is WIP, so while I’m sure it has great benefits, I abide by “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush”.I'd say having a blue fire sword that kills the unlikable is pretty worth the price. I'd certainly add to one's prestige in the cult.
>>96025449I could fuck him
If you wanted
>>96025550You can't fuck me back, that's not how this works
>>96025578I will make it work, fuck you
>>96025544Softie is always open for business but Father's Paladin doesn't like the competition.
>>96025662nope, but I have a gatto fart for you instead
>read worm to understand the cyoa
>HARD CHOICES
>IT'S RATIONAL TO BE EVIL
>I WAS FORCED TO SHOOT THAT BABY
>protag never suffer a meaningful loss
>only able to work through conflict
>so shit at social the whole concept is shunted into a side character
>can't work with others unless they're under her control, because she see everything through domination lenses
you related to that?
>>96025706metamagic+spirit fire (VERY strong offense and can cast it as a weaker instant chant), combat T3 (in case of an enemy getting too close or just being very resistant to magic) and scheme T3 (to not get fucked by hermes or freya).
you can use the rest of the points for anything else you want
>>96025745>protag never suffer a meaningful lossdoesn't she get mega traumatized and practically lobotomized by the end?
>>96025759after she win everything else, she get sent to a peaceful universe without consequences, just lost her powers
>>96025706Take Spirit Fire to one shot anyone
>>96025775>after she win everything else, she get sent to a peaceful universe without consequences, just lost her powersShe's dead, Anon.
>>96025745Perhaps an MP poster. They're good for rationalization (which isn't the same as rationality).
Seeing people spiralling down is vaguely entertaining, but it doesn't mean I'm a braindead consequencialist.
But that would be funny to larp as. Hm, food for thoughts.
>>96025662How can anyone like danmashit? It's so bland and boring and the "gods" looks so fucking lame
>>96025745I hate wildbow's writing, its the definition of miserywanking. The "suffering builds character" trope is all fine and dandy, but watching a trainwreck can only be so entertaining until it becomes an eyerolling experience.
>>96025745She won, thoughbeit. If she was immortal, everything would've been perfect.
>>96025870danmaseether...
>>96025759>and scheme T3You only need t2 to keep up with them.
>>96025745Worm is anti-utilitarianism. The story ends with the protagonist and her mirror both lamenting that they went about things wrong. All the horrible stuff she did was meant to be seen as horrible by the reader as a critique of ends-justify-the-means mentalities.
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>>96025962>for a split second You’re dead.
>>96025918>the rats are getting uppity
>>96025923ideally you want to be better than them, and not settle for "equal" or "similar"
>>96025973>More power lets you stay phased for longer.At least read the entire description anon.
>>96025962they can't exactly attack you while they are phasing, and that's where combat T3 and scheme T3 comes in to help you out-counter your counters
>>96025985Nahhh, that’s a waste of three points. You are already practically prophetic if you’re already familiar with the plot. You’re going to be an anomaly even to the gods!
>>96025986If it starts at 1/10th of a second then that’s not a very good benchmark to begin with.
>>96026002If you rely on a huge charged artillery attack like spirit fire they can dodge it regardless of your combat or scheming.
>>96026030Once it’s cast? Depends on how large the effect is I guess, and your speed. It’s like trying to outrun an atomic blast radius.
>>96026030This is why you combine spirit fire with swarm so you can have your spell with you at all times in swarm form.
>>96026030>If you rely on a huge charged artillery attackmetamagic fixes that, for a much weaker, but insta chant spirit fire.
also combat is to also fight with melee weapons because noone has infinite mana
also this
>>96026016they are either force to use it in very short bursts which can be baited through schemes or waste all their mana in one go and empty their mana reserves instantly
>>96026078>because noone has infinite mana There’s development abilities for higher passive magic regeneration but they’re not in the cyoa for some reason.
>>96026016Even 10x the mana of a T1 spell isn't going to match a T3's cost.
>>96026059They can dodge it (with wink) is what I meant. Just wink out once the big telegraphed fireball heads your way.
>>96026075>>96026078So you weaken the spell or increase mana costs and chant times. That either means a tactical win for the wink user or it no longer one-shots.
Schemes and combat skills are as much an answer to spirit fire as they are to wink.
>>96021228The cultivation of your immortal essence is the cultivation of you, the true you, not your physical body. Your vital energies capable of retaining memory, and becoming sentient - the immortal path.
Immortals and Demons, mortals seeking to become immortals, those who cultivate through demonic means (stealing others life/cultivation), the concept of plants and animals cultivating and being considered separate from human cultivators in important ways. The Legend of White snake is a good watch for some insight into the idea of an animal cultivating, and how it clashes against human society, and is overseen by human spiritual practitioners. For schools practicing martial arts, that might be magical, there are a few wuxia series you might reference for how they treat immortal energies. Xianxia might give you an idea of the immortal sects of humans seeking the immortal path, or give you a view of how the higher realms might interact with the lower human realms. Some Xianxia are entirely heavenly/celestial set and might concentrate on the politics of the divine or their conflicts with the higher demonic realms.
Cultivation is also more than simply martial arts, magic, magical weapons, or even immortality and gods though. There's also pills, alchemy, magical chinese medicine, magical beasts, and even supernatural cooking practices to consider. Further there is the question of currency. In some settings currency is meaningless, in others currency is artifacts, essence pills, reagents used for cultivation, or spiritual essence itself.
Thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation - your own energies are your lifespan, your power in combat, your ability to heal, and much more. You could spend a thousand years of your cultivation in a major fight in some settings.
For a more martial arts oriented story I recommend Ever Night (2018) with defined different approaches to magical martial arts and how they conflict.
>>96026139No. You misunderstand.
Spirit Fire is T3. Swarm is T2. With Metamagic you can up Swarm to T3 status, combine it with Spirit Fire, for a massive spell that takes the shape of a swarm of protective insects that follow your enemies.
You cast it BEFORE a battle.
How popular are life-sim / community management CYOAs these days? Are monster girls still popular?
I have the concept of a CYOA set in a world that has forgotten itself and needs to be restored. It's dominated by slice-of-life elements as you build up a community over the years deciding its main attractions, features/functions, encounters/events for yourself/it, invite archetype of Monster Girls that offer their own contributions and history to come assist / live in it, and you reconnect with other upcoming towns/communities and rediscover forgotten areas that offer unique bonuses for your community.
The CYOA avoids hardcore powerfantasy things such as chosen ones, harems, immortality, godhood, legions of demonic invasions, for a more down to earth experience and making your place.
>>96026216>Are monster girls still popular?YES
>>96026194>fire bug gently lands on the caster’s shoulder>caster burns to deathBravo
>>96026216>The CYOA avoids hardcore powerfantasy things such as chosen ones, harems, immortality, godhood, legions of demonic invasions, for a more down to earth experience and making your place.And just like that we're done.
>>96026194That's too impractical to use in 90% of fights and gets countered by any aoe spell that kills the swarm.
>>96026276>and gets countered by any aoe spell that kills the swarmSpirit Fire Swarm is immune to elemental resistances, which should include wind or being pushed away kinetically.
>>96026276>having minions>impractical
>>96026317I don't think that's what being immune to elemental resistances, that just means it ignores shit like target having resistance to fire. Doesn't mean you can't mitigate it at all with elemental magic, at least to some extent.
Why do you shit-eating retards have to be so obsessed with this garbage anyway? It's not a good CYOA, it's not a good setting, and it's not worth fixating on to this extent.
>>96025935Uhhh I haven't read it but isn't the fact that she did save the world in the end shoot that message down?
If it was actually anti utilitarianism it would have had a non utilitarian character be the one to save the day while the protagonist gets shafted and loses.
>>96026360It says it ignores elemental resistances. This means it burns even in water.
>Doesn't mean you can't mitigate it at all with elemental magic, at least to some extent.Combine it with Drain (upped to T3) and those bugs can eat magic too.
>>96026317Kinetic force is not an element and would work.
Depending on how it combines the spell you either have bugs made of fire (not long lasting) or a regular swarm that is on fire (dies to any element).
>>96026343The swarm isn't a permanent summon to begin with.
>>96026392>Kinetic force is not an element and would work.The wind isn’t an element? Cope.
>>96026265>He needs to be God to enjoy a CYOA.
>>96026392See
>>96026383Spirit Fire Drain Swarm …
Those bugs eat through magic and eat through elemental resistances. They also bring back your magic to you. Take the Lifesteal development ability and your bugs are eating mana and health both.
Drain is also upped to T3. Who knows what it’s capable of at that level.
>>96026392>not long lastingThe spell is meant to last. It’s a swarm of bugs you send after your enemies.
intarsia reminds me a lot of planeswalker rising, especiailly the companions. Has anyone ever seen helicopter skeleton and goblin anon in the same room?
Drain is OP since it puts martials to sleep instantly since they have low mana/mind
>>96022497The actual, I can't call it balance, intent is that which is given versus that which is earned. Baraqu gives his future woman what she has. The Cult allows their initiate the opportunity to take power, if they're strong enough to tear it from the jaws of death. The culture views men and women differently throughout the image, though I'd stress this isn't social commentary so much as one layer of flavor building for the setting, its culture, and its people - with the intent of keeping everything of its time and place.
As to the power of water magic, while it's true I don't do balance, it's also true to say that if I were to redo it I might dial it back however slightly (with note that what people can actually gain with the spark they can obtain in year 1 is not nearly so powerful as they're making out. Further, I'd submit that people drastically overestimate their own stamina, especially those who invested primarily into caster stats). As to fire magic, it's a major component of the setting, and it's not complete.
That said, devastating, world changing, power is not the intent of the setting's magic. This is the real reason I'd dial the water magic back some, it has nothing to do with how it matches up against fire, or other, magics.
>>96026466>That said, devastating, world changing, power is not the intent of the setting's magicExplain/justify why the world exists at all, if not godlike aliens.
>>96026422So for a mere half of your point pool you can have a powerful attack that is difficult to use. Truly the strongest build.
>>96026440It's not something you direct after casting, or carry around with you all day. You're also combining it with 1-2 shorter duration spells.
>>96026516>that is difficult to useIt’s tier 3
>>96026516>It's not something you direct after castingRead the spell again.
>that is difficult to useIf just takes a while to speak.
>You're also combining it with 1-2 shorter duration spells.Those shorter duration spells are upped to T3 status so presumably they’d also have lengthy cast times.
>>96026532>Read the spell again.It says you can make it target only certain people. Doesn't say you control the swarm forever after.
>If just takes a while to speak.Managing mana casting while fighting is extremely difficult and explodes if you get interrupted.
>presumably they’d also have lengthy cast times.I'm talking about duration, not cast times.
>>96026588>It says you can make it target only certain people. Doesn't say you control the swarm forever after.Irrelevant. That’s more or less directing it.
>Managing mana casting while fighting is extremely difficult and explodes if you get interruptedRead
>>96026194 again. You cast it before a fight. It’s prep. It’s like Bete’s Hati.
>I'm talking about duration, not cast times.They’d likely be longer lasting then, since they’re T3.
>>96026606>Irrelevant.It's ambiguous if you can even change targets after casting the spell.
>You cast it before a fightIf you have to do this bullshit it's not as useful as you're making it out to be.
>They’d likely be longer lasting thenI would think it'd be the average of the 2-3 T3 spell durations.
>>96026637Metamagic says you can invent new uses for your magic, so I don’t know why you’re so threatened by anon’s imagination here.
>>96024397>In Eastern Europe more men than women were accused as witches.there weren't, what's with westoids making random shit up and adding it happened in eastern europe to prove their point? Seen it several times about different topics