Thread 96300466

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Previous thread: >>96293700

you FAILED

>>96300466 (OP)
I think what you did was admirable
It was your risk to take

>>96300549
I'm such a mess, I'm lost, I'm no good at this

So move to this thread from the one that's going to die soon?

I want a cyoa that gives you powers but not too op
In the modern world or close to it
And that gives you a real reason to fight

>>96305620
I tend to like that too. Not a huge fan of ur omnipotent kkthxbye. No fun in that, it's an actual curse if you really think about it.

>>96305809
Any cyoa fitting that mold comes to mind?

>>96305828
>Any cyoa fitting that mold comes to mind?
Fitting omnipotence being a curse? or just mid power ones? Also what do you consider top of "mid power"?

>>96305858
no fitting this >>96305620

>>96305878
You could try the Allsync under Genre > Modernesque as those are set in the current year or close to it. There's a good, albeit nsfw but not totally focused on that, Pulp/action one set in the real world by AlternateAccountFour called An Extraordinary Voyage CYOA that's pretty good and nowhere near godlike.
Strife had a few that might fit that bill... one of them was a multiversal adventure where you start out weak and gain powers as you hop worlds to defeat the big bad who's after you.

>>96305878
>>96305947
There's also BeTheGirlAnon's ealier stuff under the name of GiftedAnon such as super soldier remake and Gifted CYOA.

>>96305947
>You could try the Allsync under Genre > Modernesque as those are set in the current year or close to it.
Yeah but the issue with this is that if an author has made several cyoas, they're automatically put into the author's folder rather than the genre folder

>>96305947
>Strife had a few that might fit that bill... one of them was a multiversal adventure where you start out weak and gain powers as you hop worlds to defeat the big bad who's after you.
Crossworlds? In nu/cyoag/?

>>96305620
Superpowers in a modern setting is kind of gay since we know how physics works and shadows aren’t solid, you can’t move or run too fast without killing yourself, etc.

Keep it to entirely original worlds, so that way you can at least assume “it works a bit differently here I guess”.

You know I’m right too.

>>96306121
FUCK you. I want to manipulate shadows like rape tentacles. FUCK you.

>>96306121
So you believe physics work different in another cyoa world?
That's retarded

>>96306130
>seething this hard for rape tentacles
Stop pretending to be retarded.

>>96306130
That’s fine. They aren’t shadows though. They’re “shadows”.

>>96306158
Depends on the physics. The most base of physics, no, absolutely not. The purest of physics can’t be ignored by fiction. The realm of fiction itself came out of our own observations of logical reality.

But we might be able to simulate a world or reality that works like a video game.

>>96306175
stop inserting reality in my escapism games

>>96306204
Tough shit. You can’t even separate or remove causality from fiction, since storytelling is a consequence of causality, lol. It’s about as retarded as trying to separate or remove math from anything, even fictional. It cannot be done.

This isn’t an attack on your escapism. It’s even beautiful to consider all the endless ways for your mind to perceive reality. It’s made by this logic. Is fiction not fun because of all the variety and exoticism it allows? It is. It is fun.

>Tough shit. You can't even separate or remove causality from fiction, since storytelling is a consequence of causality.
>It's about as retarded as trying to separate or remove math from anything, even fictional.
>It cannot be done.

>>96306175
>>96306232
What if I remove the Copernican principle?
What then?

>>96306232
>You can't even separate or remove causality from fiction
Of course you can. Stories violate causality in-universe all the time without breaking real-world physics, because the cause of whatever effect exists outside of the story. Or even without that, it's very easy to add some line in the middle of the story afterwards that necessarily can't have changed the latter parts. It will change the reader's interpretation of it, sure, and I think that's what you're trying to explain far too vaguely.

>>96306269
There IS a point where a given simulated reality might just be… a dream…

Ask yourself how dreams could ever be a thing. It allows for imagination to manifest through your perception, no one else’s.

But perhaps a dream simulation could be shared, even if it’s not truly shared. What if two people both dream a dream that is incorporating the narratives of the other’s dream? Two separate dreams, sharing a singular narrative. This does bed the talk of free will, thobeitfully.

>>96306312
>Of course you can.
Nope. Is anything happening in a story? It is causal. Physics/reality runs on it. If not, then, nothing happens at all.

>Stories violate causality in-universe all the time
An author is freely capable of writing into his works his own ignorance. If an author writes something like “and so, math never existed…”, then he’s flat out wrong about that. Even total nothing, is a one, by such a point.

>>96306246
>Huh, this post reminds me of 0^0, I wonder where is my reaction pictu-
Godspeed.

Crazy how morons still think fiction has no limits. They replaced an omnipotent God with omnipotent Fiction’ing. They’re that brain rotted from escapism. They do not want to be told that omnipotence is a paradox, either.

>>96306456
Truth be told I find it adorable how you still talk about such pointless things in /cyoag/.

>>96306456
Tell them “zero, nothingness, is the smallest point of existence”, and they’ll implode. Non-existence can’t even exist.

>>96306470
What’s adorable is seeing morons rotted by escapism frolicking around playing pretend in a field of flowers.

Pic related is what it’s like looking at cyoag from an outside perspective.

>>96306492
me on the left

Assholes like >>96306492 don’t want us to have fun? Who knew

>>96306492
Ah, you remind me of lesswrong at its prime. It's adorable.
...I wonder how would Charlotte react if I tried to pinch her cheeks like a grandma.

>>96306512
I would rather you have fun without being stupid about it. There’s a difference.

>>96306492
What’s wrong with being cute and dumb if you’re also happy? Why are you like this anon.

>>96306492
>Playing pretend
I didn't know anyone visited 4chan for work
What is it that you do here, and how much money do you make?

>>96306528
>What’s wrong with being cute and dumb if you’re also happy?
America in a nutshell

this thread is stinky

I am not a fluffy teddy bear >:(

>>96306512
It's hilarious in my opinion.
The guy saw people like powerfags, immortalityfags, waifufags, Italicsfags in denial, Entropistfags, the cat, and told himself "Yes, this is the place where to preach FACTS and LOGIC".

>>96306537
Are americans happy?

>>96306542
Every time physicsfag shows up this place takes a sharp turn into dark waters

>>96306547
Anon you are very huggable and I <3 U

Post Anduin kino

>>96306537
Is that a new Jak?

>>96306561
Well they ain’t cute

>>96306593
Even if they're a little specific, the minion choices are really enjoyable to re-read.

>>96306613
The sheer kino power of Dawn of a Demon Lord prevents tok from making one of his slimy imagebuilds for it.

>>96306578
I love this one

>>96306492
Futurama is an amazing show.

It’s been a whole fucking hour of silence. Wow. I’ve never seen such a powerful shitposter before.

Imagine you finally met the isekai goddess, made your build and is ready to jump into your fantasy world. However, the goddess reminds you that you have a family in the real world, and that they are going to get worried if you disappear out of nowhere. Would you rather:
>option 1
Fuck them, just get into the next world without doing anything about it.
>option 2
Leave a perfect replica body of yourself in your room, making your family think that you simply had a sudden heart failure and died in your sleep.
>option 3
Have the goddess cast a spell that wipes out any memory of you, like if you never existed at all.
>option 4
Have the goddess come and explain the situation to those you care about. They will 100% believe everything, but who knows how they might once they learn that you are going to leave everything behind?

>>96307191
There is another thread anon

>>96307218
Number 4 is the only option for people that really care about this.

>>96307218
Option 2 if it's free, if not option 1

>>96307191
They're back to shitting in the other thread until it finally dies as it's on page 8. They'll come back and start shitting all over everything here again soon, don't you worry.

>>96307218
Option 1 is heartless.
Option 2 leaves them sad.
Option 3 sounds better overall but there's the fact that family members would notice things like an extra bedroom, or how they did things without your help (computers, taking care of grandma or whatever), which is a slight horror theme on it's own.
Option 4 YMMV, some people may be happy knowing their loved one may lead a long happy life or mad that they left them without support.

Best option would be to have a (living) clone of yourself that doesn't know about your isekai shit.

Anyway, this is like asking about the king's tax policy before picking an option.

>>96307231
Yeah, the TOK thread

I am rather fond of this shitpost

>>96307524
I was there
Most were

>>96307218
Option 4 is the only righteous thing to do.

>>96307563
The goddess is using you as an excuse to alter fate
Don't let her

>>96307218
>in your room

>>96306516
Ahh Outer Reincarnation. I want to destroy the Ecumene with my two waifu's Kalliope, and Omega. Is it possible to make sure a hero like Kalliope the platinum princess does not die?

>>96307218
Where is the option where everyone in my family gets isekai'd with me? I want to steamroll a fantasy setting with my sibs or let one of my parent play monarch.

https://imgchest.com/p/qe4g59d8j7j
https://rentry.org/jrpg_traitor_information

>>96307797
>One of my parent
Oh Anon!

>>96307797
Why would you let someone else be the king in YOUR adventure, retard?

>>96305648
>>96305772
>>96306015
>italics is free to prove me wrong
I'm late as I had to retype everything about the summary because pastebin reloaded on me.

But overall, I plan on having Mage be focused on (You) and to your journey's end as a Mage. Whether you end up at the pinnacle of magecraft as only of the few color ranked Whites on the super continent, or you end up finding another path to pursue, it's all up to the destiny you decide. You will fill-in how your life goes in a land where mage clash and exert themselves at the top.

Additionally: You can find female elf mages as romance options. Though they will be the hardest romance requiring a minimum of 8 to 10 years of coupling time before marrying you.

Here is the rundown to save text: https://pastebin.com/MS86nuST
I believe the CYOA will be very well-received just from all that content and focus.

>>96306041
Actually, from my observations over the years and reading the builds of others. The majority of players/readers engage with a CYOA straight forward manner; often following the laid out rules, and picking the average challenge level over the easiest + most overpowered difficulty options. This isn't to say it doesn't happen, but most, especially for their first build will play the CYOA as it is intended and in second builds they go with more min-maxing and themes.

>>96307218
Option 1, every time.
>>96307563
No, they deserve Option 1.

>>96307868
>I have mommy issues

>>96307892
And daddy issues. Justifiable ones.

>>96307859
>and picking the average challenge level over the easiest + most overpowered difficulty options
This is just blatantly false. Look at spirit conscript even.

>>96307821
I don't see the appeal in having fun/being immortal/going on an adventure if I'm alone or hoarding the choices like a rat.

>>96307859
>requiring a minimum of 8 to 10 years of coupling time
Fucking Based

>>96307911
>Look at spirit conscript even
The Potential options in Spirit Conscript aren't straightforward difficulty options, Talented, Mutated, Practiced, and Conditioned are all more like 'focuses' than anything, they're all normal difficulty. Only Challenged is hard mode and Overpowered easy mode.

>>96307218
Option 5. I don't abandon my loved ones, who rely on me and that the goddess isn't going to do shit to keep them afloat, and forgo her "Isekai Adventure".

>>96307911
Did you ignore the part of over the years, majority go average challenge level at first?

>>96307859
>8 to 10 years of coupling time before marrying you.
FUCKING RUINED

>>96307938
>>96307960
But why?

>>96306624
>he doesn't know

>>96307964
I hate high maintenance sluts.

>>96307968
>elf girl doesn't put out after first year of dating.
>she's high maintenance
Anon???

>>96307804
>When you leave very big amounts of Dream alone, and do not alter it in many ways, it turns into a loli with control over black, all-consuming beasts.

>>96307978
Do you know how long a decade is? I can have at least four wives before that bitch thinks of tying the knot

He will return and bring CONQUEST

>>96307993
>Do you know how long a decade is?
10 years, the same as your mental age and apparently enough to get rid of your fragile ego.

>I can have
lmao

>>96306578
Unironically one of my favorite cyoas, where has that guy gone?

>>96308003
bro wants to stay at the boring stage even longer than irl lmao

>>96307992
Damn bratty Dream tempting mortals, needs lucid correction…

>>96308003
>>96308010
>>96308011
>>96308012
>t. newfag

>>96307956
Did you ignore the part of that being blatantly false and even recently we have examples of this not being the case?

>>96307960
10 years of dating isn't even that long. What are you complaining about?

>>96308037
>t. mindbroken

>>96308035
Speed reading should be a crime.
>This isn't to say it doesn't happen, but most, especially for their first build will play the CYOA as it is intended

>>96307964
Loyalty is the main value gained through courtship
There's never any point romancing a whore, because there's nothing to gain you couldn't have taken freely, and you have no special advantages over others

An elf is then the ideal wife, because you can spend decades on adventures with her still pining over you
Also, I want my children to be half elves

>>96308045
We are fucking wizards. 10 years isn't shit.

>>96307964
Neither of those anons, but I like the thought of a very long honeymoon period/flirt period. You can also attach this story hook to the fact elves age and experience things slower than us.
So it's pleasant.

>>96308047
>cannot comprehend that "most" is the false part
You are truly retarded.

>>96308052
You got the point I was making with the coupling time. Also, elves in Mage try to mate for life (They will not remarry even after you kick the bucket.) and once married, they either become submissive to their partner to match them or aggressive-teasing. 10 years for coupling is to get a good feel and test the waters for the elf to make sure.

It’s weird to me as an oldfag that mid-00s era CYOAs used to offer actual no-bullshit whores and sluts in things like zombie survival or “you are locked in this room for 5 years and paid $$$$$$ for your trouble, pick some shit to pass the time with” CYOAs. And the current generation of anons just want unironic courtly love.

What happened to the zest and vigour of this general?

>>96308091
>zest
Don’t use this faggy ass word ever again

>>96308091
>actual no-bullshit whores and sluts
What's the point? It's like selecting an omnipotence option.

>>96308091
Most of the issues with women are flaws in the individual women
If perfect waifu's were available, true love would always win out over quick sex

Honestly if you just wanted sex it would be easier to fuck men

>>96308091
>It’s weird to me as an oldfag that mid-00s era CYOAs used to offer actual no-bullshit whores and sluts
Why are you making shit up? There was always women and waifu options.

Speaking of old CYOAs I cannot find one that had a yandere fairy as an option and I'm eternally mad. I remember it having three options if you took a forest home and she was one of the options.

>>96306578
https://imgchest.com/p/dl7p89enpyo

>>96305620
>fantasy demon army invasion (fodder goyslop demons like in Diablo and Doom not the esoteric kind)
>military technology still works, but anything bigger than man-portable equipment frequently gets stymied by catastrophic collateral damage and magical shield AoEs similar to those seen in Star Wars Episode I
>melee weapons are increased in effectiveness, so if some fit civilians given were given spears and shields they could manage to kill some demons on par with guns if they don't immediately get swarmed
>civilization is intact because the invasion is slow and linear outside of raids and roaming bands, each city being taken and enslaved one at a time within each region of influence lead by a demon general
>tens of thousands of anons are empowered to be a martial, caster, or hybrid class that can can fight through waves of enemies on their own, but would need support to fight anything above a mini-boss or a city conquering force
>the powers that protect this world won't tolerate infighting, pve only or become a traitor outcast that has to live as a middle manager warchief amongst the demonic forces in order to survive
>each region has it's own empowered defenders, so you won't see far away foreign empowered unless a big joint operation is happening
Damn if only I made CYOAs...

>>96308137
>Speaking of old CYOAs I cannot find one that had a yandere fairy as an option and I'm eternally mad. I remember it having three options if you took a forest home and she was one of the options.
Do you remember anything else about it?

>>96308091
In CYOAs like that you usually had shit like
>Actual whore 2 points
>Pure waifu 5 points
>Jailbait 10 points
Or something like that, the idea being how much of your limited budget you were going to spend on a woman, leaving you less for McDonalds or videogames to be delivered to your eternal basement prison. The idea wasn't that the prostitute was a high-quality or desirable option, just the cheapest.

>>96307188
>Is there a way to switch death slots? I want Ouk.
Which one is Ouk again?

>>96308219
Multiple live where you want options, each option gives like 3 companions but you take one. Yandere fairy that is pale skin and red eyes, CYOA has a blue background, very large.

>>96308241
The one about ascending to a higher existence.

>>96306246
>imitator didnt even make it into an image

Just for the historical record, at least two different /tg cyoa threads feed into this one

>>96293700
>>96300458

>>96308185
>Magic:
Body Enhancement 2, Conceal, Dispel, Domination, Flight 2, Heal 2, Magic Immunity, Sense, Summon, Suspend Biology, Telekinesis, Teleport 2, Transformation 2, True Sight, Conditional Magic, Dimensional Traveler, Quick Magic

>Negatives:
Demon Lord, Paranormal Magnet

>Response to Pindlesnoot:
Ignore

In JRPG traitor what is Harosa's deal? The Golden route seems to be to find out what she's trying to say from her loyalty mission (because she seems to have near meta knowledge of the cycles) and ascend and maybe also convince Yazata to lore drop so you can be more prepared for whatever comes next.

>>96308250
>Multiple live where you want options, each
What do you mean by "multiple life"? Reincarnation? Time travel across different eras? Being a god and recruiting across different generations?

>>96307804
>>96308299
What is wrong with you people who don't reply to cyoas?

Sneak preview of the abilities for each specialization

A little more than 1/3rd of the classes are done

>>96308312
I zoomed in too far and I didn't realize it got posted this thread.

>>96308315
LoL and LoL-derivative games are dead man, bring on Dominator of the Universe.

>>96308315
Everything from before stacks now for classes. I have cautious hope Monk might not suck now.

>>96308306
Live as you pick the place to live.

>>96308315
I knew you would be here for me on one of the wednesdays

I like the mention of hunger in the rage, given that food scarcity is estimated to be the largest problem our hungry warriors face

>>96308208
>t. jobber

>>96306246
I've heard similar arguments in those horrible trash magic vs. science threads.
Those people are fucking subhuman, almost totally. On both sides, too, lest you think I'm playing favorites. Just manchildren shrieking at each other, not listening, just ignoring what the other side is saying and making gay strawmen twinned with empty truisms, as if that's some kind of gotcha. You need to stop seething and let it go, fuck.
I don't believe in acausal fiction magic either, but yapping about the existence of mathematics also makes you sound like some fart-sniffing redditor. May as well just start preaching about how you heckin' love science and that means God can't exist in fantasy settings either. It's just stupid, leave that shit to die in those fuckawful threads, it doesn't need to dog your steps here too.
I'm responding to one post, but this goes to all you retards.

>>96308299
>what is Harosa's deal?
>"Seek not to know"
the making of the gods.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_THE_MAKING_OF_THE_WORLDS
>the gods: “Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods.”
>Man, when thou seest the comet, know that another seeketh besides thee nor ever findeth out.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#OF_THE_GAME_OF_THE_GODS
>the gods said one to another: “If Kib has thus made beasts he will in time make Men, and will endanger the Secret of the gods.”
>Kib grew weary of the second game, and raised his hand in the Middle of All, making the sign of Kib, and made Men: out of beasts he made them, and Earth was covered with Men.
>Then the gods feared greatly for the Secret of the gods, and set a veil between Man and his ignorance that he might not understand. And Mung was busy among Men.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8395/pg8395-images.html#YONATH_THE_PROPHET
>Yonath was the first among prophets who uttered unto men.
>These are the words of Yonath, the first among all prophets:
>There be gods upon Pegana.
>Upon a night I slept. And in my sleep Pegana came very near. And Pegana was full of gods.
>I saw the gods beside me as one might see wonted things.
>Only I saw not MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI.
>And in that hour, in the hour of my sleep, I knew.
>And the end and the beginning of my knowing, and all of my knowing that there was, was this—that Man Knoweth Not.
>Seek thou to find at night the utter edge of the darkness, or seek to find the birthplace of the rainbow where he leapeth upward from the hills, only seek not concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods.

>>96308392
Kill yourself

>>96308372
Brevity is not a virtue here, anon. A blue cyoa with a yandere fairy, and options of where to live isn't much to go on, particularly if it's been a while.

>>96308091
>unironic courtly love.
Examples?

>>96308422
aromage and my dick

BTW, Softie finished his waifu picker.
I saw it, and it is kino; it's hard to believe it's his first work.
It's a shame you guys don't deserve to enjoy it.

>>96308392
Why do the gods not want people to know?

>>96308392
So basically she's there to be tortured for her knowledge of the gods and her loyalty mission might teach you what she knows. She might know how to end auspices and old gods alike as she found part of how they came to be.

>>96308436
No one has ever wanted anything other then 1
2,4 and that ilk are only existent in the warped minds of contrarians

>>96308446
>>96308392
How would she react to you picking FF:Shusai?

>>96308436
>no normal human ears only option
God I wish human girls were real.

>>96308479
I'd expect everyone's reaction to you achieving FF:SHUSAI to be generating a (un)healthy dose of STA;(CONFU) and having an existential crisis like no other.

>>96308392
I doubt it. Mainly because there is no reason for her to be offered as a choice if that were the case. She is spreading her secrets driving people mad, if the secrets were ones that the gods don't want known, they wouldn't set it up.

Also I know that in the past an anon has pointed out a connection between her loyalty mission and the eye in the waste. Which suggests a different sort of secret, involving the end.

>>96308505
Of all the people I thought Harosa would take it in stride.

>>96308547
>there is no reason for her to be offered as a choice if that were the case
Telling people about the truth of the Auspices (presumably with convincing evidence), spreading a doomsday cult, and being seemingly unkillable are reason enough to be branded Overlord.

>her secrets driving people mad
Are they being driven mad? Not my interpretation of what was happening, at least. I think people are convinced that the end is nigh and are thus despairing.

>if the secrets were ones that the gods don't want known, they wouldn't set it up
She doesn't tell people about the making of the gods. She tells people not to seek to know about it.

>an anon has pointed out a connection between her loyalty mission and the eye in the waste
Ranorada in JRPG Traitor is "actually a small inland sea in Uramag, which is what is meant to be the desert of water." https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/67708134/#q67708152

It's not a
>living hill whose name is Ranorada—the eye in the waste

Even if Ranorada is the Ranorada of The Gods of Pegana, it is still about the making of the gods.
>Ranorada is carved in the likeness of the god Hoodrazai, who hath found the secret of MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI, and knoweth the wherefore of the making of the gods.

>>96308547
That guy keeps forgetting that the author said the work is just INSPIRED by the original, not literally exactly identical.

>>96308603
Maybe, but unlikely. If anything can break her composure, it is this. FF:SHUSAI destroys so many notions everyone thinks to be true and is potentially world ending.
>1. of Mana yet above it
>2. meeting MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI
>3. MANA does something
>4. THE END will not end everything.
1. will be reacted with likely curiosity and perhaps confusion from scholar. Whatever. 2., 3., and 4. however are insane.

First, MANA waking up is THE END, which is why any contact with him is absolutely forbidden and not even praying to him is allowed. You didn't wake him up, thankfully, but it's the closest he's gotten to waking up. Second, he made an exception for you. Huge cosmological significance. Seemingly never happened before. And why you, not the gods of Pegana or anything else?

Second, if the existence of FF:SHUSAI is spread around, you just know that people will try to replicate it. Fat chance of MANA making an exception for them as well, but it might just wake MANA and bring about THE END.

>>96308652
If you have evidence from the cyoa or author that contradicts the book, please present them. I'll be happy to know more about the wonderful world of JRPG Traitor. Otherwise, lacking information from the cyoa, one can only search the book for answers.

>>96308698
>>67708317

>>96308698
>Noooo, FF:SHUSAI is so game changing
>The only thing it does is keep you alive if you somehow haven't died in like 900 trillion years
At the end of the day most of what you can do is simply up to your interpretation of the story and what you want to create. In JRPGanons own words Gods of Pegana was simply layer to create the cyoa. And in practical terms, FF:SHUSAI is practically worthless for it outside of whatever story you want to tell.

>>96308797
None of this contradicts what I said. FF:SHUSAI's cosmological significance and its practical effects are not in conflict.

>>96308650
The choices are seemingly offered by the old gods. They would have no reason to offer her as a choice if she has secrets they want kept secret. The making of the gods and the making of man are the things you reference, but they relate to the old gods, not the Auspices(who aren't in the book), and are secrets the old gods want kept secret. Besides the making of the Auspices isn't quite so secret, as there is ample evidence that the elves know, and that various demons do as well.
>Ranorada in JRPG Traitor is "actually a small inland sea in Uramag
All the more reason what she says has nothing to do with the Auspices. They were made in Sidith, with no connection to such a distant land. Suggesting the secrets she knows aren't about them.

This isn't to say that the making of the gods has nothing to do with what she knows, but what she knows can only be something that the old gods don't mind her knowing, and potentially sharing. At most they are vaguely related, which is like a lot of things between the book and the cyoa.

>>96308797
I'd say that narratively FF:SHUSAI is a perfect inclusion to any builds that take the Loose End or Last Steps Endings. While the entire Overlord situation was being dealt with, you used it in pursuit of an impossible goal far beyond the conflict you were involved in, that you achieved. FF:RULER, the Pseudoarchon makes sense for those too in a similar way, but I like FF:SHUSAI for it more.

>>96308829
>The choices are seemingly offered by the old gods.
The gods don't control everything about the cyoa. See: the events that break the fate of being a Traitor. Otherwise, they would just force you and there would be no cyoa.

I believe the existence of the cyoa is a result of the old gods' meddling, but the specific choices themselves are not. The Overlords are people who have the possibility of taking up the role, and you get to pick who truly becomes Overlord. Because of the existence of the fate defying events, I don't believe that old gods can block a possible Overlord from being picked.

Maybe the old gods know about the content in the cyoa, maybe they even skewed things to be favorable to them, but they certainly cannot control its entirety.

>They would have no reason to offer her as a choice if she has secrets they want kept secret.
This also runs into the issue of (You) knowing a shit ton of secrets. Why pick you? Perhaps they didn't pick you, perhaps the choice of who gets picked to become the Traitor is not in their control.

>the making of the Auspices isn't quite so secret, as there is ample evidence that the elves know, and that various demons do as well
Not so secret to the ancient and powerful who know better than to spread that knowledge around. Knowing about it is fine. Telling everyone about it is not.

>>96308829
>>96308907
>ESS;(CHNC): If Fate is the myriad golden threads, delicately sewn through Time by the gods, then Chance is their frayed edges.
The Traitor role is Fate. The cyoa is Chance.

>>96307804
I do wish I had bothered to ask questions about the cyoa back when the author was active. Because I have one question that I am really curious about. What the fuck element is Apollyon a Pylon of?

>>96307804
He sure did have a delusional fetish for whores settling down.

The existential dread is back in full force and I can't sleep...

>>96309373
is this some Cyoa specific existential dread? or just regular one

>>96309390
Regular...

>>96300466 (OP)
Do the Enchantments cost 1 for the basic and 2 for the upgrade for a total of 3 or you can buy the upgrade directly for 2 ?

Does anyone have that anime CYOA where you are a sidekick to a cute girl?

>>96309513
huh... I am not completely certain but it might cost 3 as upgrading buildings is only said to cost an extra slot, so if the enchantments upgrade cost is double might cost 3 in total.

>>96309615
Otome Villainess Reincarnation DLC if you consider being a sidekick to a anime Villainess to meet the criteria

>>96309625
It's not that. It's a fantasy one where you can be a human sidekick, a sentient weapon, or an animal familiar.

>>96309656
Guardian Spirit maybe.

>>96309656
huh... don't remember anything with all three there are those where you act as a familiar like the already mentioned Guardian spirit and there are those where you are a living item like Artificer's Afterlife or Sentient Item, but don't remember any with all three.

I did find one cyoa particularly interesting in this servant genre Animus, where you are a rogue doll slave, with one option you don't even need to be a slave plus you get quite powerful magics if you survive long enough.

>>96309766
You burned her, right?

>>96309847
well I took the soul core so pretty much had to burn her as she wouldn't allowed me to use it, but you know there is actually a cheaper way to save her if you really want to that someone found, you can cram her into a stasis sack and fix her up somewhere else when you have the time and resources.

>>96309373
If it makes you feel better death is only the loss of vision, the things that make you you will continue to exist, including any souls you may of may not have
Also I love you

>>96307859
Italics why are you now pushing elf breeding?

>>96309766
Its funny how that cyoa is the definition of miserywank yet I've never saw anyone complaining or pointing it out. Yet the moment someone suggested that Rake should raise the difficulty and nerf cheese options in the next CC update, fags immediately had a meltdown.

>>96307859
>I plan on having Mage be focused on (You) and to your journey's end as a Mage.
So what is our journey's end goal as a mage? You never elaborated.

>You will fill-in how your life goes in a land where mage clash and exert themselves at the top.
Why are mages fighting? Why do se have to gdt involved?

>For those wanting to be a tad more special there are natural gifts like blessings from birth
Self-insert mary sue shit that somebody like DE, Softie and Tok would eat up.

>If you want to be a physically capable mage without sacrificing knowledge
A martial instead of a mage.

>The magic is limited to a few categories
But why?

>they cover a wide-range of topics under them featuring different spells and grades from Hollow to Core, Principal, Exalted levels of magical ability,
Okay, but what makes Hollow to Core different? Zero explanation.

>You have Wand Crafting letting you make your primary weapon outside your spells
Why do we need a primary weapon when we can cast spells?

,>You have Spellcasting Methods which are reduced to two forms, Domain and Innate,
Why? What is the difference between Domain spellcasting and Innate spellcasting?

>For those looking for powerboosts and more antagonist role there is Demonification.
So what is Demonification. Why does it make us antagonists?

> Companions are divided into Life Companions and Mage Companions, so you can unique interactions and dealing with non-mages in your life, but also form a party with other mages compete against them to reach the top, and perhaps challenge their assigned fate or romance them.
Do really need two pools of companions in a CYOA if one side are non-mages and background NPCs?

>>96310332
There are other true miserywank CYOAs with horrid worlds, stop being a kek.

>>96310399
Way to miss the point fraggot.

>>96310332
Powergamers might just be too afraid to even touch a cyoa where they are not the super powerful chosen one from the start so might just be the demographic of people who play these cyoa's. This one isn't that much of a miserywank at least you have some hope and freedom of choice, there are some real miserywank that are actually depressing to read, like BTG's other cyoa MAID that was actually unsettling to read.

>>96310431
>BTG's other cyoa MAID that was actually unsettling to read.
qrd?

>>96310431
>Powergamers might just be too afraid to even touch
It's funny how insecure they are, even minor things can make them give up and start crying at the author.

>>96308411
>no automaton option
Grim!

>>96310431
Powergamers are a loud minority and nobody cares about them.

I honestly don't get powergamers mindset. So what if I'm not immortal? So what I'm not the strongest? Or God? Why not just enjoy the adventure and overcome the challenges placed in front of you. Not rampage around like a sociopath with narcissism and Tok disorder?

>>96310444
Well your forced by some sadistic cosmic entity, to choose choices for the flavour of your fucked up maid slave life, where you live in total poverty, work inhuman hours, get constantly abused phisically and sexually, and have layers upon layers of mental compulsion forcing you to obay your masters command at best as possible and pretty much preventing any escape attempts. Your also fucking immortal, regenerate, can't harm yourself or your master in any fucking way even financially or socially. Your pretty much fucking stuck in your own hell as a slave where your body is fucking puppetted by layers of compulsion while you serve some sadistic mistress for all fucking eternity.

>>96308436
>BTW, Softie finished his waifu picker.
>I saw it, and it is kino; it's hard to believe it's his first work.
i know this is bait but i wish it was not...

>>96310541
>what if I'm not immortal?
you die

If I'm doing a CYOA where you don't start super powerful but have the potential to BECOME super powerful do I need to autistically go into the mechanism for getting stronger and the time involved or is it enough to just generally explain it.

>>96310541
Oftentimes security, probably. People don't just chase power to do as they want. They also want it to feel safe. They take the view of the cyoa as something happening to them when build making, thus they pursue power to survive and do well. Though also yes, they want to enforce their will.

Essentially it's a matter of fundamental perspective, their suspension of disbelief takes a different shape than yours. They treat the build making part itself as part of the challenge, something their reacting to with the assumption that they're... Hmm "In character" picking. I don't like that phrasing but I don't know how else to put it. Creating the most powerful build IS the game. And of course just classic wish forfillment,
I suppose.
For me personally it depends on the cyoa, I honestly like reaching for power. Though it's usually aiming for weird methods since I like creating entirely new paths to power by twisting stuff or taking it as far as possible. See: The IAN-01 build for luminary and the Eldritch Horror Demonhost idea I've got simmering for OR.

>>96310620 continuing.
MAID was some of the most messed up Cyoa I have ever read, I really don't recommend reading it, don't know what went trough BTG's head that they decided to write that horror but they called it a horror cyoa for a reason, it was some really vile maso crap.

>>96310672
He was just gorkin it, idk what you mean

>>96310672
BtG hasn't been the same ever since he trooned out.

>>96310646
And? So what?

>>96310667
>I like creating entirely new paths to power by twisting stuff or taking it as far as possible.
You're the same fag that tried to make up a new affinity in Spirit Conscript aren't you?

>>96310667
>They take the view of the cyoa as something happening to them when build making, thus they pursue power to survive and do well.
I just use them as character builders for concepts, I don't care much about the whole self insert thing.

>>96310716
Actually I've never done spirit conscript, it was before my time. I'm new. It's more fun to use what already exists in unorthodox ways imo.

>>96310729
>I don't care much about the whole self insert thing.
BASED

Everybody wants to be immortal until they are the ones who get stuck in a steel coffin at bottom of the sea.

>>96310646
>>what if I'm not immortal?
>you die
Everything dies. Gods, worlds . . . the undead are already technically dead . . .

The only question that matters is, "did you make your life count"?

>>96310734
>Before my time
You do know you are supposed to lurk 6 months before posting?

>>96310729
That's fair. I usually alternate depending on the cyoa and inspiration. Sometimes I'll make a character and sometimes it'll be a self insert. Sometimes it's more fun to treat the cyoa itself as part of the game and sometimes it's more fun to create a character. In cyoa's like Scion (the one where you're a giant noble), I found myself making a character.

>>96310766
>Everybody wants to be immortal until they are the ones who get stuck in a steel coffin at bottom of the sea.
Dio came out of that surprisingly sane, if you think about it.

>>96310541
It's a combo of only self inserting + a fear of losing/dying
That is why they cannot enjoy traditional adventures

Sorry guys, I ran over shitalics with my truck once more. The 32 WIP will be delayed by a year AGAIN.

>>96310729
Honestly, extremely lame
Roleplaying is one thing, but the choices don't mean anything when you pick for someone else

>>96310706
>And? So what?
you fucking die what do you mean so what?
>>96310769
>>96310766
skill issue

>>96310833
>Sorry guys, I ran over shitalics with my truck
Based muslim

>>96310850
Everyone dies, I'm not so terrified of it that I need all my fantasy to add how my character is now immortal and eternal. Honestly it can make it weird how widespread that is, even when it makes no sense to the cyoa itself.

>>96310620
The Space Maid isn't a sadist, she genuinely believes you want this and that she's helping you.

>>96310869
Eternal youth is common because it means there is no longer an unavoidable death. "You cannot die by any means" is way less common.

>>96310850
>still hasn't accepted his mortality
ngmi

>>96310841
Even if you pick "for yourself" you are still roleplaying. The distinction is pointless.

>>96310871
It was made for masochists who do want that
Despite being pushy, the format self filters to make her basically correct
>>96310883
>Accepted
You mean given up?
You deathfags are always so insufferable, acting like your resignation is some noble thing instead of the void of character it clearly represents

NEW OC INSPIRED BY IDO AND DOADL
am i just stealing shit, possibly, but im putting my own spin on things and putting it in a new setting im working on so yeah. also this is the 1.1 as i still had many things to work on when i foolishly posted the 1.0, like grammar.

also heres the imgchest if you dont wanna wait https://imgchest.com/p/o24ajkwz34l

>>96310885
The difference between "I am going to be a lizard man who eats rats and talks swedish" and "There is a swedish lizard" is night and day
If you don't care about the choices there nothing interesting about choosing your own adventure
If you displace the story from yourself it has no impact

>>96310672
Now i want to read it. Is there an archive or something i can search for it?

>>96310908
Yes, there is!
(No one tell him)

>>96310908
>Now i want to read it. Is there an archive or something i can search for it?
Should be in his Allsync folder, probably under "BTGAnon"

>>96310908
Here you go drink your poison
https://imgchest.com/p/lqye3m9x4dn

>>96310541
Perhaps I do not enjoy the adventure in front of me if it ends in my death, or if I'm powerless to do the things I wish to do? CYOAs are for enjoyment, if being weak and dying are things I don't enjoy, who is to say I should be forced to like content with them?

bros...that one eldritch invasion cyoa won the "cyoa that becomes real" lottery...

>>96310907
Ah yes, the pointless stories of Gilgamesh, Hercules and Achilles. Why did Homer even bother writing about other characters? He should've just made poem titled "the Adventures of Homer" and called it a day.

>>96310907
>you don't care about the choices
Who said I don't care about the choices?
I don't need to blandly insert myself into a story to find it interesting. In fact it is even more engaging because I actually have to consider how that character would react and work with the world not ask myself what would I (an ideal version of me) do. I don't need everything to be about me to engage with it.

>>96310869
>>96310883
the deathfag cope is real

>>96310895
You'll die someday. No amount of choosing immortality options in cyoas is going to change that.

>>96310939
Those were quite a bit more interesting then cyoa builds
If you write a novel you've more then redeemed yourself, but it's a different thing to choosing your own adventure

>>96310947
>You'll die someday.
Technicality, I'll basically live

>>96310943
>I don't need everything to be about me
Then you you're not Choosing Your Own Adventure. You are Choosing Some Guy's Adventure.

>>96310950
>Unless you are published and successful novelist or poet, you cannot come up with stories and concepts for fun, even if you'll never actually write them.
Ok then.

>>96310964
Anon, don't be like that

>>96310955
Yes, remembered as the guy who threw a fit about the concept of dying.

>>96310895
>your resignation
It's not even resignation, they're just too young to really understand what kind of loss death represents. Ten more years and it'll start to sink in.

>>96310984
The guys to throw a fit about dying will be the reason future people can live forever
People like you don't move the world forward. In your aim to never be hurt you have lost your heart

>>96310947
So? They're useful in the context of the cyoa. Does it matter that we'll never be immortal? We'll never have these adventures either but people still make builds about them. People like stories, people like fantasy. It's fun, leave people to their immortality options. Ain't like it's hurting you.

>>96310960
I choose the adventure I want, I just have no delusions of (Me) being the actual adventurer. Unless that works for that particular story.

>>96311007
>have no delusions
Anon.....
Cyoa aren't real....

>Le if you aren't self-inserting yourself you are making a build and life for someone else.
Either a retard or shitposter.

I have no idea what the fuck either of you mean. Are using self-insert to refer to forcing every build to be exactly like you in trivial ways, or self-inserting as in imagining yourself as the build?

>>96311006
Eh, I have no problem with immortality options if they make sense in the cyoa like you becoming a god or an overlord. It is jarring when you are given an immortality orb in a perfectly mundane cyoa about life that makes absolutely no sense, and it is even more annoying when one of those cyoas doesn't have an immortality choice, like dungeon delver where it would make no sense, and retards here start screaming bout it.

>>96311035
I mean the second
Roleplaying is choosing to be someone else during your adventure
NPC creation is choosing to create someone entirely unrelated to you

>>96310947
this is the kind of guy that would not even try to run if he was chased by some kind of animal.
i miss natural selection

>>96311039
Honestly haven't played dungeon delver but I do remember it has necromancy iirc? If so you could probably invent Lichdom down the line. Even if something doesn't have an immortality option there's probably ways to create it if A) Magic/Supertech/Psi/etc exists and B) It isn't explicitly absolutely impossible under the system.

>>96310937
Then fuck off faggot. If the CYOA doesn't cater that mess then you have no right to complain or even play it.

>>96311073
Someone made their own necromancy
Thought there are demons, and implications of hell and other afterlives

>>96310992
No there are some CYOA's where you should not go for immortality as you would end up a cuck. Like Outer Reincarnation. Being an elf is just dooming yourself and if you want to become a God it will be much slower than the human cycles of reincarnation.

>Italics is making another mage centric CYOA despite Magi Case existing.
>It's supposed to be different because elf seggs and powerfagging being allowed.

>>96311094
There is another way
A more, primative way
(Uruk, I meant the uruk, why do you always forget on me!)

>>96311100
Elf seggs objectively improves everything it touches
This will be italic's masterpiece

>>96311072
>I'm fine with the fact I'm going to die someday.
>Oh so you're suicidal?
Holy retarded strawman. You must have iq higher than 10 to post here sir.

>>96311100
>elf seggs and powerfaggin
Some people have very low standards, as usual. Watch how Italics is now BASED and KINO and we never doubted him yada yada.

Were powerfags always this mentally ill?

>shitalics out of nowhere again
Despite making less than 1% of cyoag content, Italics drives 90% of the discussion. Truly the strongest author.

>>96311174
You know the answer in your heart of hearts.

>>96311186
I blame the "hater" who seemingly thinks nonstop of Italics.

>>96310902
>OC posted an hour ago
>no (you)s
What the FUCK happened to cyoag. Useless euros cant do a single thing right

>>96310938
This one?

>>96311253
It wasn't very good, or original, or well designed
If it had an interesting idea I would have overlooked it not being good but it's just a less inspired version of something we've seen before

What’s that one cyoa where a parasite literally bursts out of your chest like in Alien but it becomes your loving waifu? Or husbando? It’s like some sort of alien invasion or something.

>>96310902
Unfortunately the lack of depth to the lore just makes this feel like a power picker.

>>96308208
Much as I don't like Entropist, this is Entropist.

>>96311109
>Elf seggs
Read this as elf eggs and wondered what it would be like if elves laid eggs…

>>96311286
Elves don't lay eggs, they turn back into trees and grow a new elf in their roots below them
The "egg" is a thin film, never above ground, it hardly counts as being "Laid"

>>96311297
No they’re clearly birds anon
Elves have cloacas

>>96311253
I'm sorry but I have Overlordslop fatigue.

>>96310902
For a first big cyoa, it's pretty good. Personally, though, I'd have liked to see some more personality. Even the heroes are treated as generic units.

Again, though, for a first cyoa, it's pretty good.

>>96311279
>What’s that one cyoa where a parasite literally bursts out of your chest like in Alien but it becomes your loving waifu? Or husbando? It’s like some sort of alien invasion or something.
Could be this one, or one of /trash's xenomorph cyoas.

>>96311253
>Overlord
>design straight from interactive slop
lmao

I'm kind of inspired to make a sci-fi version of Overlord that's hyperfocused on robots.

>>96311364
Do you mean a CYOA with the premise of Overlord (anime), or with the premise of Overlord (video game)? This is a matter of life and death.

>>96311297
>Elves don't lay eggs, they turn back into trees and grow a new elf in their roots below them
>The "egg" is a thin film, never above ground, it hardly counts as being "Laid"
I know you're being sarcastic, but that's actually an interesting premise. Anyone need a new take on elves for their WIP cyoa?

>>96311377
For your mind or you dick?

>>96311076
>You have no right to complain
Yes I do. Who is going to stop me, you?

>>96311174
>Were powerfags always this mentally ill?
Well, Dragonball Z made a ton of money . . .

What % of a companion description should be personality and what % should be measurables (Combat efficiency, skills, virgin status)

>>96311385
For his bussy.

>>96311384
Let's see the Mystery Box!

>>96311377
Uhhhhh, neither.

>>96310332
Did we read the same cyoa? It's just burning some stranger being optimal. If that's "miserywank" already, every fantasy cyoa is "miserywank". Or do you mean the entirely optional drawbacks for points that no real person takes anyway?

>>96311155
>I'm fine with the fact I'm going to die someday
>You must have iq higher than 10 to post here sir

>>96311415
I don't know that there's a hard rule, but I like to get a sense of who will work well with my build and other companions.

>>96311186
He is an active author that has made content for over a decade. He also posted ITT too.

>>96310660
Providing crucial information in a clear manner is not "autistic", retard.

>>96311431
>thinks crying and shitting about his expiration date is a sign of high IQ

>>96311443
Well to me saying "You need to train for X years" is already clear
Autistic would be like "You must go on X quests of Y difficulty for Z consecutive years and if you slack off for α days you lose progress"

>>96311415
>What % of a companion description should be personality
0%
>what % should be measurables (Combat efficiency, skills, virgin status)
0%
Show don't tell. Instead of wasting previous text on boring exposition you should let the narrator or the character themselves tell you.

>>96310902
Wait there was 1.0? Well whatever, a quick build...

>Lord Type: Wraith Lord
All-rounder is good enough I suppose. I might as well be sneaky underhanded bastard too then.

>Races: Elves, Undead, Golems
Elves for elites and others for cannon fodder.

>Units: Worker, Archer, Footman, Captain, Hound, Knight, Scryer, Flag Bearer, Breeder, Nomad, Wraith, Artificer, Berserker, Siege Beast, Sorcerer, General, Pylon, Shinobi
>Heroes: Shadow, Archmage, Caller
Spam lower tier and melee undead / golems units as much as possible while elves hide out of sight and do sorcery and espionage. Ideally enemy wouldn't even know that my scumbag elves are behind their woes.

>Starting Position: Eternal Dynasty
Since there's already an undead horde at their borders, I may as well use them as scapegoat for my invasion against the chink demons. I could even get lucky and get them to counter-invade the innocent undead and kill each other even more.

>>96311430
>burning some stranger
Your build is invalid.

>>96311448
>>thinks crying and shitting about a constant of life isn't a sign of low IQ

>>96311275
of course its not original it was inspired by the like half dozen lord cyoa's that came before it, its not good maybe cause its my first time making one, as for the design, i just was used to making stuff in the interactive cyoa maker as thats what i use to make image builds, if you have actually good advice im up for hearing it

>>96311477
It's hard to insert everyone talking about their virginal statuses to some random

>>96311165
Italics has always been based and kino. Remember how he made furry women, robots and elves all for human men?

>>96311477
example?

>>96310332
>>96311430
Actually, BTG/GiftedAnon specifically wrote Animus to be misery porn (which he pointed out multiple times around the release), which is why he kept making it harder and harder to save the narrator with subsequent revisions. And even he was (pleasantly) surprised with how it turned into more of an epic-ly dark fantasy adventure.

As for why people don't comment on it . . . we like a challenge, I guess? We didn't see much in the way of "bad guy" builds for Used Goods Auction, either.

>>96311193
>>96311403
I was picturing them as conquerors with gojo tier shonen spirit, not terrorized dudes

>>96311342
well, ill see what i can do about personality, its just, i didnt like how when me and my friends did multiplayer of doadl we had to either split up the core guardians between ourselves or fanon that there were multiple of each individual person, so i tried avoiding that while giving the option of customizing your heroes yourself

as for the compliment, thank you, this technically isnt my first cyoa but it is the first one i could actually finish and didnt just get burnt out on, ill be trying to expand on the setting as much as i can and see what else i can add so any advice or suggestions are welcome

>>96311415
>>96311477
They also absolutely need some kind of plot hook about them. Character options are the most organic, flexible source of character drama, and characters without hooks will lead to a boring CYOA no matter what effort the author has invested into them.

>>96311430
Its been a while since I've played Animus but doesn't the plot revolve around a worldwide organisation that mass enslaves souls and puts them in sexless puppet bodies to be sold? and I think I remember something about getting hunted down and tortured if caught. That's a pretty grim setting imo.

>>96311497
Do you? I tend to find mandated waifus extremely boring, so I skim those for the lore before ignoring them.

>>96311503
Not that anon, but I highly recommend the (nsfw) Divine Trials cyoa for the quality of the companions.

>>96311491
Advice:
Choose more specific aspects to focus on
If you chose your battles you could win atleast one
Better minions, or better powers, or better worldbuilding, whatever it is have something that clearly beats your competition
Also, try writing down any ideas you have and sifting through them. There were too few big ideas in this, nothing that touched the reader

>>96311503
Homestead cyoa.

>>96311522
Italics only had like 2 mandated waifus in his CYOAs. Outside of that they are all their own individuals and lives.

>>96311193
I blame both the haters and the dickriders who seemingly thinks nonstop of Italics.
>>96311174
we rule the general kid, show some respect

>>96309615
Luminary as you are Kleidi's bitch

>>96311280
i apologize for that, i tried adding as much lore as i could into the drop locations without making them too big but i guess it wasnt enough, i also tried adding bits of lore in other areas like that reptilids are said to be aliens but i guess i just need to add, more, alot more, any advice or suggestions for things to take out or add are welcome btw if you want

>>96311517
>well, ill see what i can do about personality, its just, i didnt like how when me and my friends did multiplayer of doadl we had to either split up the core guardians between ourselves or fanon that there were multiple of each individual person, so i tried avoiding that while giving the option of customizing your heroes yourself
In the older versions of Dawn of a Demon Lord, the demon core functioned like a sort of cosmic xerox/3d printer. It's why Anastasia could give (you) advice on the core guardians - she'd seen copies made by other demon lords in the past. What worked, what didn't

>>96311533
My mistake, I let the word "mandated" in the post.
Waifus overall bore me. I prefer to imagine finding friends during my adventure.
Also, they generally are fawning over the players, and I dislike sycophants and lovey-dovey people.

>>96311538
>the haters and the dickriders
Same people.

>>96311493
That's one of those "things implied but better left unsaid". Every waifu character is automatically assumed to be pure bu the player so there's no need to say it out loud. The reverse would to imply or mention the character having past sexual experience without outright telling it

>>96311281
It's like Entropist with guns.

>>96311523
nigga

>>96311569
Some people have VERY low standards2

>>96311094
>Like Outer Reincarnation
>Nah bro you should want to reincarnate in the system that's going to completely scrub your memories and identity the next time around since the Outsider system was an exception
>Why? Because maybe in a trillion years of this a future incarnation of you without any of your memories, identity, and personality might become a god!
>But also don't bother trying to actively pursue that godhood!
Nah I see exactly zero reason to ever let yourself die in OR. Did you miss that this life is your only chance to be special or something? After you die unless you ascend your ass is going right back into the grab bag for billions of years of torture and identity death by JNPL just like any other soul.

>>96311507
>>96311519
Grim setting, sure, but that doesn't make it misery wank. The "misery" is referring to the player (otherwise we would be talking about how grim the setting is and not misery wank), and the player is not miserable at all. You can get 1 or 2 magics at max, revive one of the strongest (and only) mages in existence (he can, by his lonesome, match the worldwide evil organization and only died of old age) in his prime to help you, and gain the skills of the most illustrious people in history. You don't even have to hide if you don't want to. Fighting the worldwide evil organization directly is viable if you build for it.

>BTG/GiftedAnon specifically wrote Animus to be misery porn
And failed. He made a grim setting but did not make it miserable for the player.

>>96311257
I was thinking of a smaller one that takes place on earth, but this one is better.

>>96311554
>The reverse would to imply or mention the character having past sexual experience without outright telling it
nobody will pick used goods

>>96311569
Still more personality that all of Entropist Gifts combined.

>>96311569
she is so cute.....

>>96311518
I can kind of understand this but I also feel like creators who make every fucking companion have their own explicit quest type shit in the game as a consequence of picking them is bad too
Like if the companion has a description like
>They are the prince of a fallen kingdom and they hope to use your journey as a means of training to one day retake their lost land
That's fine
but
>By taking them you are BLOOD OATH SWORN to do their quest where you take you and your party to go fucking retake their castle
is gay

>>96311569
To steal a line from Dellaria (one of the narrators), the companions in Divine Trials may suffer from a "colorful rainbow of mental disorders", but they're an interesting AND memorable mix of psychotic and self-destructive candidates. :)

>>96309756
>Sentient Item
Nice. I'm making a build for this, but I need more category ideas for the Demographic drawback.

It says:
>Each time you take this, half the population can no longer wield you.
Male/Female should be one possible split, but what other categories would there be? Anons, help me come up with some that aren't utterly crippling for finding good wielders, or won't make them arbitrarily lose qualifications (like rich/poor could, if it's even valid).

>>96311592
That's a bit harsh. The Gifts were glorified sexdolls, true, but they're a bit more developped.

>>96311592
how dare you lie like this?

>>96311430
You also don't have a dick OR a pussy, so that's pretty miserable.

>>96311602
>they're interesting AND memorable
>

>>96311586
Its just a suggestion anon. Also you're wrong, not all characters can virgins in context. For example; a milf waifu with kids.

>>96311584
>the player is not miserable at all.
>>96311615

>>96311603
Ethnicity and language are both traits that can massively reduce the possible number of wielders while giving you a clear way to find them. It'd be a problem if your wielder died in a foreign land, though.

>>96311482
there is a 1.0 but there were so many grammar and punctuation issues because of how i typed it up that i had to fix them all and make a 1.1 before posting anywhere really, anyways you sound like you didnt like the lord type options, what do you have in mind for what you would have wanted

>>96311585
>I was thinking of a smaller one that takes place on earth, but this one is better.
Do you remember anything about it? A signature character? An odd location? A memorable power?

>>96311620
MAGIC

>>96311615
Who cares about genitalia? You're in a new world with magic powers. I'd understand stressing over your soul being used as fuel, but crying over your peepee?

>>96311544
For each location throw in things like quests and major characters. Who (as an individual) rules the place? Who would I want to befriend or do business with? Who should I beat up? How would people view an Overlord? Etc etc

>>96311615
Learn magic to grow a new penis.

>>96311637
>Getting castrated is totally fine dude, trust me!
no

>>96311637
It's an important part of the fantasy for some guys.

>>96311637
You say that now, but a few years of being blueballed is going to change your tune.
>>96311649
It can't do that in that setting.

>>96311635
yeah I got nothing
I just remember looking at it and not playing it

>>96311569
Peak kino...

>>96311649
>>96311666
Forest magic can allow you to grow a wooden cock, but unfortunately without nerves and blood vessels its just a glorified dildo.

>>96311569
Huh - that page was more worksafe than I remember.

And there were two and a half pages more!

>>96311657
Dolls don't need to piss, so the part is superfluous
>>96311666
I'm either dying in the battlefield or sending my soul back home, couldn't care less about "no sex :("

>>96311553
>Also, they generally are fawning over the players, and I dislike sycophants and lovey-dovey people.
Anon... Italics waifus don't fawn over you outside really specific ones. IIRC there is a witch marriage option Magi Case that wants to torture you.

>>96311681
>I'm dying!
Why are you going into this shit planning to die?
>Or sending my soul back home
>I'm giving up all my magic powers!
Boring.

>>96311675
There are enchantments to give senses to wood, so you can have an effectively real penis.

>>96310902
>TYPE: magic lord
I love magic, I (almost) always go for magic builds

>RACE: reptilids (me-lamia)
no idea how good numerology is but I choose to trust it making my magic more reliable being worth it

>BASIC UNITS: workers
>JOURNEYMAN UNITS: craftsman, knight, mage, wraith
>EXPERT UNITS: all
this suffers from the same problem as michan's dark lord cyoa, I would rather have as small army of very strong units than a large one of weak units, and as the prices are the same I'm going full experts

>HEROES: king, archmage, sage
one for crafts, one for martials and one for magic seems balanced enough
I also agree with >>96311342 in that the heroes are supposed to be unique units but the are treated as generic too

I don't want to sound mean but I don't really see the 'unique spin' anywhere, sure it's in a different setting but the powers and sections are still extremely similar and sometimes lacking in content/flavour (especially the type of lord section)
and finally a tip, big lore dumps are best avoided by sprinkling it in your playable sections, maybe the martial mechanics would be better put in an exclusive section for martial lord to choose their martial form, same with magic lord and magic mechanics, etc.

>>96311667
I'll keep an eye out for anything that looks promising

>>96311678
>Creator gave up after this page and all the subsequent choices have like 1/3 the content

>>96311688
>Why are you going into this shit planning to die?
Dying in a blaze of glory as my quest of justice became a disproportionate retribution is a pretty story.
>>96311688
If given the choice, would you remain there assuming you kill the Alchemists and change popular opinions on dolls?

>>96311713
I want to see you attempt to make something even a third of Divine Trial's scale. It must be tough being a constant whinefag.

>>96311577
Primary reason why to side with 0^0, don't really want to be subjected to the over a billion year old torture cycle and turned into some elder god being that has experienced every possible story trough multiple merged life times. False ascension into an empyrean is good enough for me.

>>96311731
You don't get bonus points for giving up on your initial premise even if you do it ironically

>>96311723
>is a pretty story
You should have the ambition to live, whether you end up dying or not.
>Would you remain
Yes, if I accomplish my goals I'm powerful, feared, and immortal. If I go back home I'm a nobody who's gonna die in a few years. Why would I return to that?

>>96311747
Siding with 0^0 isn't going to get you immortality, she's probably just going to kill you. Even if she doesn't, she wants a world subscribing to hard physics with no magic, so you'd end up dying of old age anyway.

>>96311748
This is like saying that Fate/Stay Night sucks because it turns out all the surface level rules that create the premise of the grail war turn out to be false.
You missed the point.

>>96310902
>Lord Type: Titan Lord
>Race: Elf

>Basic Units:
Archer
Light Cavalry
Hound
Scout
>Journeyman Units:
Raider
Sniper
War Beast
Scryer
Mage
Nomad
Wraith
>Expert Units:
Artificer
Berserker
Star Rain
Samurai
Diviner
Sorcerer
Pylon
Monk
High Priest
>Heroes:
Archmage
Sage
Caller

Titan Lord definitely feels the most boring outta the group since you can't really do any cool stuff with the systems in the setting and rely on brute force, but it beats every other option in appeal because why wouldn't I want to be a towering figure of might and magical energy? I think the best race for Titan Lord would probably be Angel since getting a religion going when you are superhumanly huge and dominating in sheer strength seems pretty easy, and that'll scale up your already enormous strength to even higher levels. Elf seemed cool just to become a torrential tide of elemental energy, even if its just for a minute.

Also feels like we get way too many options for units despite the fact that every tier has an upgrade for the base choice, its really just a decision between quantity vs quality as you'll be perfectly fine opting to ignore the low quality units and scrounge for the higher end. I could've opted for getting even more Expert units and less Journeyman as they'll essentially pay for themselves when they get up and running as its only sacrificing versatility at the start, but I didn't care too much about optimizing a build for something simple.

>>96311507
>Actually, BTG/GiftedAnon specifically wrote Animus to be misery porn (which he pointed out multiple times around the release), which is why he kept making it harder and harder to save the narrator with subsequent revisions. And even he was (pleasantly) surprised with how it turned into more of an epic-ly dark fantasy adventure.
That's a half truth. The pivot from "doomed struggle" to "revenge fantasy" happened during the writing, not post-release. I only made two major balance tweaks post launch. One was making saving the narrator more expensive, because I'd underestimated how good she was in practical terms and as such saving her wasn't a sacrifice like it should have been, it was a net benefit in a lot of cases. The other was making the "you can't just stand and fight and take every item and power in the game" protection more absolute since one of the most common builds prior to that was "I take everything" which sort of negates the point of a CYOA with point buy.

>>96311257
>Size:
Whole

>Bodyplan:
Amorphous and Adumbral

>Extras:
Breeding x2, Perception x3

>Abilities:
Greater: Eldritch Form, Biomechanical Adaptation, Deceive the Eyes, That Which Can Eternal Lie
Lesser: Whisper the Secrets, Consume the Mind, Words Become Flesh

>Banes:
Greater: Void-Touched Element, The Necronomicon
Lesser: Occult Hunters, Half-Breed Betrayers, Uncommon Knowledge

>Arrival Location:
Forge World

>Humanity:
Pacifist Disposition, Field Manipulation Weapons, Exterminatus Fleets, Dull Capability, Capital Population Density

>Summoner:
Ihlthe

>>96311689
>>96311675
>>96311666
>>96311649
You'd have to dig back through the threads to find it but someone drew a diagram explaining their combo of powers and how they'd use them to create a functioning dick. I don't remember exactly what it was but I remember saying it would work.

>>96311693
I forgot location

>LOCATION: dwarven kingdom
seems the least bloodthirsty of them all

>>96308436
>>96308448
>No one has ever wanted anything other then 1
Shut the fuck up, 1 is trash. 2 and maybe 4 are the only valid ones. 3 if there are no human ears under the hair.

Not even being contrarian, 1 just looks creepy as hell. Besides, why would you even want a second set of ears that likely have worse hearing?

Aside from being fugly and inferior, you also need hearing protection for both pairs when it's necessary. You need to care for the hygiene and health of both as well, which is pointless extra work.

Also you're using 'then' incorrectly. It should be 'other than' in this case.

>>96311787
BTG? You're here? Congrats on breaking through!

>>96311768
>You should have the ambition to live, whether you end up dying or not.
I already died though. Someone stole my soul and put it inside the doll. It's just the epilogue of my existence where I carve my final message on the world, because I'm spiteful.
Besides, if all my builds have the same "must live no matter what" outlook, they're too similar and this also bore me.
What's the point of a nervending story?

>>96311109
>This will be italic's masterpiece
I thought people thought Magi Case was my masterpiece. But more seriously, I do think Mage will do well since it's not completely fantasy like living in a medieval period and there are multiple endgames for you to aim for in deciding your fate ranging from acquiring the highest color rank as a mage, climbing military ranks, becoming the greatest duelist of your era, leading a Demon as one of their great Lords, etc.

I also believe those who are interested in powersystems will be satisified with having access to a vast array of magical spells and systems to make themselves stand out.

I would think of adding multiplayer, but I never really had an experience doing such a thing. I'm also limited in experience with making a balanced point system.

>elf seggs
Elf seggs is only limited to 3 companions unforunately. Elf population is at 1m in-universe and Human-Elf marriage onky makes up 7% of all elf marriages and only 20% of those marriages are Human Male and Female Elf. So if you marry one of the elf girls, you get to be special in a way.

>>96309356
Imagine being so insecure that you think a woman's past matters

>>96311814
The bongblocks only became law a few weeks ago, it'll be months before it actually hits 4chan since they need to launch an investigation and then get a court order for ISPs to block offending sites one by one.

>>96311787
>One was making saving the narrator more expensive, because I'd underestimated how good she was in practical terms and as such saving her wasn't a sacrifice like it should have been, it was a net benefit in a lot of cases.
I mean you put me into a world where I got 0 clue on what's going on and is only explained to me by my savior, who is also the one giving me the location to different contacts that she made and is the one with the knowledge on cracking the item vaults alongside everything else she's doing for me... yeah I'm going to shell out my soul energy for her. I mean thats basically what I've been doing the entire CYOA, just funneling energy for her to utilize as I choose. Morally I'd feel it wouldn't be right to have this operation end in her sacrifice, and also I don't have high hopes that I'll be able to get into the groove of living on the run like she has. I can't think of any purchase more valuable then having someone like that around even considering the budget to get some maxed magic out the gate.

>>96311826
It's natural for life to want to live. That wasn't even a post about immortality seeking, or some unusual goal, just a "you shouldn't have the ambition to kill yourself." You go into battle wanting to win, or achieve something, not to die pointlessly.

>>96311523
>>96311569
This was my favorite moment from Divine Trials.

>>96311829
>accepting used goods
have fun being the hundredth guy ig

>>96311829
We outright have studies showing that the more partners someone has, the less ability they have to love anyone and the more likely they are to cheat. All those ex-whores, and in fact in like 6 fucking cases literal prostitutes, are bad options.

>>96308436
That reminds me - whatever happened to the anon who kept asking us to pick from four versions of a character for their upcoming WIP?

>>96311845
turbo NSFW cyoas make me cringe
I don't mind some lewd in my CYOAs but some just take it way too far. Like once I start picking out dicks and orifice sizes you've lost me

>>96311842
>I can't think of any purchase more valuable
Anlaf?!?

>>96311857
Lame!!!!!!!!
Prude!!!!!

>>96311845
Cut scenes showing the reactions of the more . . ."traditional" gods would've been hilarious. Oh well, it's what they get for letting the lust goddess run the trial.

(And we still got Agrias's reactions.)

>>96311844
Dying for a cause isn't dying pointlessly though. Assuming I win and the Alchemists are destroyed, this mean no more soul kidnapping. Or, worse case scenario, I go back on my original post-mortem fate, which is okay since I already accepted it a long time ago.
Getting a few more years alive is nice enough, but this remains a doll's body, everything and everyone I know is out of reach, and powers aren't enough for happiness in my case. I'll take my chances with what lies beyond.

>>96311829
....

>>96310769
True Lich
Flying Necroplis
+ 2 extra Spells points

Rise Dead Tier 3 -2p
Spirits from Hell Tier 2 -2p
Unholy Chains Tier 2 -2p
Soul Creation Tier 2 -2p
Communion Tier 2 -2p
Soul Burn -1p

Reanimated Army for free
Human Merc army -1
Imp Battalion -1
Skeletal Archers -1
Fanatic Cultists -1

Mikaela, The Archangel
Gorvile, Seneschal
Zayah, Cult Leader

"Undead" Kindgom
I don't want to turn everyone undead. I want to rule forever. Have Zayah and my cultists spread my words to get more human followers and start converting the Mercs into effective cultists. Boost my armies with enslaved Imps, hell hounds, and other minor demons. Create new "Life" with Soul Creation and use them in my armies. Lastly, use Mikaela as a "Seal of Approval" from the heavens themselves, as a way to show everyone that I'm different, that I'm someone you can trust.

Imagine how confused and disarry the world would be when I roll up on them with a willing Archangel chilling on my lap.

>>96311866
Can't really guarantee that you'll be able to get him to work with you. Hell even if you promised to revive him with the Heart, I still wouldn't necessarily believe that a Wizard with that much power wouldn't only care about himself. It's a gamble of getting potentially ultimate magical power versus having someone who will help you survive right out the gate,

>>96307804
I swear I had a fucking build for this, but now I can't find it. The hell?

>>96311829
I should be allowed to be a manwhore while my waifus only have sex with me.

>>96311852
Fiction isn't reality. Take your meds schizo.

>>96311857
The narrator's reactions were what really sold the NSFW options. She's this uptight, never-got-beyond-second-base paladin and she has to explain all of the lust goddess's options . . .

>>96311891
Did you make it on a different device?
Do you make a build but forget to click save?

>>96311895
>I should be allowed to be a manwhore while my waifus only have sex with me.
Go play Troy X's cyoas.

>>96311897
Fiction isn't reality so I don't have to settle for sluts, or fantasize about romancing an actual prostitute.

>>96311891
Make a new one!

>>96311878
Dying in your first battle isn't destroying the alchemists, anon. You need to survive for the next battle.

>>96311908
Damn, you mad as fuck to reply to getting called out that you now try to goalpost.

>>96311895
BASED

>>96311921
Aro your ESL is showing

>>96311813
>Besides, why would you even want a second set of ears that likely have worse hearing?
So she could wear glasses?

>>96311919
Dying in Animus is particularly stupid because your soul is fucked and you don't even get to die properly anyway. You get non-existence unless you have outside help like you can give to the narrator, and even if you do get help your soul is ruined and you can't go onto your next life like you should have been able to. It's a CYOA in which immortality is even more valuable than it normally is.

>>96311921
You're using words you don't understand.

>>96311780
well she is a bit hypocritical about her no magic stance she still has the mathemagicians and tens of thousands of immortal empyreans at her employee and if you don't mess with her plans she doesn't really have any reasons to kill you.

>>96311919
>dying in the first battle
Of course not, I need to die fighting the Head Alchemist atop of a burning cathedral with fractures between both worlds appearing in the sky.
If the build die before the final confrontation, it's sad but eh.

Anyone have Animus handy?

>>96311829
Everyone's past matters regardless of gender.

>>96311902
Yes but I moved that HDD over to this.
>>96311909
I now unfortunately have to.

>>96311944
It really is amazing how permanently fucked over you are.

>>96311946
>if you don't mess with her plans she doesn't really have any reasons to kill you
Anon, it's Charlotte. She nuked an entire continent down to the bedrock in an act of spiteful revenge. She's going to torture and kill you for no reason other than that your summoning offended her.

>>96311857
I agree, when it comes to lewd less is more. This is so for the same reason that revealing clothes are more arousing than nudity, lack of detail stimulates the imagination and bids the viewer to fill in the gaps.

>>96311944
>non-existence
Like IRL?

>>96311946
Charlotte is a woman scorned anon, trusting yourself to her mercy in any way shape or form is incredibly reckless and foolhardy.

>>96311997
>woman
Easy pickings.

>>96311994
Atheism is too normie anon.

>>96311954
I'm still mad that the author gave you way too many power tiers. You can't even make a pure martial build because of it.
The CYOA could've been worth playing.

>>96311994
Well, in Animus, you have proof that the soul exists.

Is the recent spat between the anon with obvious thanatophobia having a breakdown about how every CYOA needs immortality and the other anon who keeps trying to trigger another melty from him a new thing or is that just a staple of this thread

>>96312039
It's probably the oldest argument in the history of the thread.

>>96312039
Not a staple. More . . .a recurring event that pops up two-three times a year.

>>96312039
it's cyoag culture

>>96312007
If it was so easy, why are you still bitchless?

>>96312039
Its a staple but not common one. It only happens once immortalitykeks start getting uppity.

Should I provide a defined reason for a companion to join (You) or is it better to just leave it open ended for headcanon's sake after defining their place in the world?

>>96311633
>sound like you didnt like the lord type options
Well not really, I just didn't feel particularly strongly about it. I think I was ambivalent about it in other similar cyoas too like IDO or Dark God, I guess I prefer to customize more.

>>96312007
Charlotte is dangerous, anon, dangerous... She is the rare, RARE woman with severe enough autism to browse the /cyoag/. Not just that, but autism so powerful that when her mediocre build blew up in her face, she found a loophole in reality, slew an elder goddess, and set herself up as theocratic empress to enact and enforce her materialist retardation on the world so that nobody else can ever have fun again. That much obsessive genius channeled toward prolonging a woman moment into a woman eternity is not easy pickings. The bitch cannot be overcome by the average anon, even the Outer Tide was a last ditch gambit and will be a pitched battle once anons have finished ganging up on Tok and their anti-Uruk vs pro-Uruk civil war. The pro-Uruk anons are objectively correct, by the way, everlasting glory to the horde.

>>96312085
Depends on the cyoa honestly
I kinda like companions having their own reason to join though

>>96311787
>The other was making the "you can't just stand and fight and take every item and power in the game" protection more absolute since one of the most common builds prior to that was "I take everything" which sort of negates the point of a CYOA with point buy.
Are you talking about the anti-magic and anti-construct magic field that get stronger over three days ? The field that can stop you a construct from using magic the moment it's up but not immobilize you like the very first level of anti-magic magic can, despite immobilizing construct being the exact thing the magic field is here to do?

>>96312106
>once anons have finished ganging up on Tok
Was there an Outer Reincarnation specific reason to go after Tok? Or just built up animus?

>>96311642
>>96311693
>>96311784
>>96311528
thank you all for the suggestions and advice, i will continue to change and adjust anything i can to make this cyoa better over time, but im not very good at this and i may burn out at times so it will likely take time, but youve all given me a good list of things to try and do

quests and major characters to develop the locations
probably should change unlock values for units
explain the racial boons more
add more uniqueness to the heroes
add more to each lord type
avoid large info dumps
change the titan lord

if theres any more suggestions then go ahead and post them in reply to this message so i can see them and add them to my list of things

again, thank you all for your support

>>96312085
It would add more personality to your companions and it would make the player choose their companions not just by the abilities but also see if their goals are compatible.

>>96312039
A phobia is an irrational fear. Fearing death is very rational, and something every lifeform experiences.

>>96312157
Being afraid of it is normal, obsessing over it every day and losing sleep over it isn't

>>96312157
If you criminalize the normal you can jail whoever you want

>>96312128
>Was there an Outer Reincarnation specific reason to go after Tok?
killing Tok is always a justifiable and moral course of action

You cant name a cyoa with actually interesting companions

>>96312209
JRPG traitor

Give me one (1) good reason why anime based cyoas are better than western style art cyoas

I’ll wait

>>96312209
I can, but you will be a contrarian.

>>96312218
They look better?
What other reason would there even be?

>>96312218
More consistent art to source from because most anime looks the same

>>96312128
A bit of both, I suspect. The second option is probably enough on its own as >>96312188
said, but IIRC he was trying to bring back True Dragons (which are supposedly orders of magnitude worse than Pantorai) and getting grabby with the rest of the continent.
It quickly became a clusterfuck between Anons saying that animosity over his past life shouldn't impact this one, people saying he was still a retard endangering everyone else, Uruks being naturally aggressive AND playing warlords and Tok, oblivious to his lack of thinking abilities, kept gloating about how he (and his nation by extension) were perfect and unkillable.
Fun times.

>>96312215
Lots of variety but they're not individually interesting
>>96312223
so you can't

>>96312209
Cityscape Skirmish and Hearts Adrift.

>>96312224
>They look better?
WRONG try again.
>>96312228
This is both a good thing and a bad thing, but mostly a bad thing.

>>96312247
True, filters the aphantasiacs.

>>96312137
>change the titan lord
Nah actually I think its great as is. Its just the cost of peak performance. You lack all of the finer things but get to be the embodiment of raw power. If I didn't want to be a living tornado I wouldn't have picked the living tornado option.

>>96312247
>Wrong
But I'm right?
Why would you say that I am wrong when in actuality I am right?
You must be a very disturbed person

>>96312243
yeah ok those are pretty good

>>96312218
they aren't? there is no inherent 'best' art style as it highly depends on the tone and setting of the cyoa

the only reason anime style images are more common is because they are easier to find and when adding pics from different artists the different sytles tend to clash less often

>>96312243
fucking cheating those companions all interact with you for ten pages how are you supposed to compare

>>96312270
maybe all cyoas should have 10+ pages of companion interaction, fucking lazy authors

Cityscape Smirmish and Hearts Adrift are mid as fuck CYOAs trying to be Visual Novels.

>>96312230
>he was trying to bring back True Dragons
That's doable?

>>96312279
Italics did 10+ pages of companion interaction. It did not work.

The Magi CYOA is peak tl;dr companions

>>96312291
Probably. If you can can steer the story towards that, why not?
It's not like you start from scratch either, as Araith (one of the companions) is a True Dragon.

>>96311842
Personally I have quite an opposing theological view to her, cause I don't really care about the soul. I primarily care about the preservation of the mind. If my mind is gonna be erased from the soul why should I care about it, its just material. Like it would be the same as if my corpse atoms were used to make a new baby, that not going to be me, that is a whole new person. The same is with reincarnation if its erasing my mind, that won't be a continuation of me that will just be some new guy using my old soul material. So in my eyes, getting turned into the doll actually saved me from erasure. I don't even mind the guild that much if they weren't fucking idiots, why use these dolls as slaves, when you can give yourself immortal bodies and with tremendous wizard powers, they could be pumping out these uber wizard from their workshops with their magic attunement machines.

>>96312209
ONe of the cyoas I actually think does companions really well is hated here so I won't bother

>>96312331
Witch Awakening?

>>96312306
What Magi CYOA?

>>96312347
Magi Case

Guys what's better.
>Waifu with tons of regular potential.
>Waifu with mediocre potential but one really broken power.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>96312128
None that I remember off the top of my head, outside of Tok forgetting to take the true love option with his romantic interest, which caused a multi-thread incident. I'm pretty sure it's just backlash against the fetish-posting, which has gotten worse recently than it already was.

>Battlebond Waifu
Ah, this one is an old favourite of mine. Thank you for reposting it. I've always thought it was underrated, it seriously has it all- a stat system, interesting classes, a variety of waifus full of personality, and world boss esque enemies to fight them with. I figure it's not polished enough for the modern CYOA audience. No matter, I'm here, and I can make a build!

By gambling, because I live for the rush of not knowing what's next. That's the same reason I love fighting people. You never know exactly what is going to happen when you get on the mat. There's a cathartic exultation of human endurance that happens when two men come together with violence in their hearts, and there's something uniquely and impossibly beautiful about that.

>>96312338
no

>>96312321
>>96312321
>>96312321
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>>96312321
Come on over whenever you hogs is ready

>>96312180
>obsessing over it every day and losing sleep over it
How do you equate accounting for avoiding it in your build with this?

>>96312361
The cuter one wins
Are these traits inheritable?

Rolled 3 (1d30)

>>96312362
>Elemental Master
Aha, my favourite class. Gamblers are vindicated, once again.

>>96312144
But now then, for the waifu... I honestly like them all, the biggest thing here is arguably the strategic implications.

>>96312218
There are more anime lolis than western ones.

>>96311787
One of your crappier cyoas. Your old stuff was far better.

>>96312324
>why use these dolls as slaves, when you can give yourself immortal bodies and with tremendous wizard powers
Pretty sure Hrooulf, the original guy who basically made the connection between our worlds, was basically wanting to head down that path. The technology just wasn't there yet, and people who saw his work and continued it decided that the best use of another world's souls was to shove them into a puppet to perform menial tasks forever. Yeah they are pretty stupid. Because they were put into slave jobs like that no one really knows the potential of souls that don't have a mortal body because why would you teach your maid doll how to shoot out fire, magic only belongs in the hands of the regulated few.

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>>96312379
>Elaria
Perhaps the most based of all waifus. I, too, am filled with zeal for things that don't matter to anyone sane. Together, we can go farther than everyone else ever could! But... against us, the winds of Fate have anointed a foe.

>>96312217
Who dares stand against I and my beloved in the contest of force?

>>96312398
I think Animus is one of his more memorable CYOAs.

>>96312361
tons of potential
i want someone who'll grow alongside me, rather than a near-static unitasker

>>96312399
The alchemists are pretty realistic in that they only care about short-sighted greed and not long term benefits, just like a lot of groups in real life.

>>96312406
>Queen Garshia
Hmm, yeah, we've actually got a difficult fight ahead. I'm going to need to sink some thought into this and make a write-up, or maybe even an imagebuild. Thank you again for posting, anon.

>>96312355
Oh. Magi Case companions are hit or miss. A lot of them are there to fkesh out the world and clan itself with only real fun ones being the sociopaths like Ford.

>>96312407
Memorable doesn't mean good.

>>96312377
The potential is inheritable to a degree the broken ability isn't.

>>96312411
The broken power is not static it is also capable of growth but in an unconventional way.

>>96312692
Then I chose the inheritable one, and make sure it gets inherited lots

>>96305617
reddit cyoas are so easily solvable that I'm not even sure how you're supposed to play them. I can take over earth with any of these options.

>>96312137
The unlock prices are fine, just make it so lower tier units have some value. Specialists like scouts are just blatantly inferior to their higher tier counterparts, aren't even good at their job.

>>96312106
Just make her a companion anon surely it will be no problem at all. Surely all will be solved by the power of friendship and she won't just turn you into her bitch. Trust the plan.

>>96312728
That one is more of a power fantasy than many of the 6perks posts as the limit is Aladdin genie level and that's pretty powerful. That cyoa is more an exercise of how you could use each genie by their limits of course. Power wilse? Plenty of /cyoag/ cyoas blow that one out of the water on a power scale that people seem to gobble up here, so ymmv

>>96312690
I intended it as such, so fuck off.

>>96312331
You've picqued my curiosity. Which cyoa is it?

>>96311464
It says he is a Pylon, it doesn't say what element, and the imagery isn't clear. He is doing something with a black sphere, in a burning landscape. Fire? Dark? Something else?

>>96311577
Bro, the outsider system won't let you become a god, the closest that got to that was Charlie and she still did not make it. Once you defeat the BBEG as an outsider hero the narrative structure of the world will leave you, you will not be the main character anymore, so a future hero can fuck your shit up and perma kill you. If you go for elf like immortality the 12 outsider will probably literally cuck you, or he will use true love to make you his boi toy.
>>96311747
No the dumb bitch wants to destroy the cycles of immortality. She also is simping for "science" while being too dumb to know what it is. She would probably just try to do the atheist thing and make no afterlife.

>>96313969
You don't need the system to become a god, dumbass, nor to be the main character to ascend. You have a very narrow view of narratives.

>>96311946
The bitch wants to conquer the Doria continent. If you want to lead any kingdom or empire there she is going to be in your way. You need to fight her.

>>96313993
To be a God, you need to read the god script and finish the sentence.
However if you are not a God, or a main character then you will get fucked by either a hero or a villain. If you are just a guy, or a small time hero not the main Hero. Then a villain will fuck you up to show he is a threat so the new hero can beat him. If you decide to be a villain then you will get your ass beat by a hero.

>>96314063
>you will get fucked
Paranoia. There's no guarantee shit will happen. It's 100 years until the next outsider anyway, and there's no guarantee the system will pick you for anything, or that the outsider will put you in their build, and even if they do they might just scribble "he has hot sex with me and makes me his wife and and we both become gods" in the margins or some shit, which is annoying but doesn't actually interfere with your work.

>>96314091
Question how old is the oldest elf companion in the CYOA? I think only like 600, if you aren't a MC someone can gank yo ass. You aren't unbeatable others can do what you do. As a person all you are doing is assuring that your death will be violence by someone murdering you or some idiot doing a charlotte?

>>96314140
>Can can can
Read: paranoia.

>>96313969
You don't have any special main character narrative as an outsider such simplistic mindset will screw you over, it already happened, the previous outsider Keter thought she was the MC and as you can see the whole hero complex didn't really work out for her. You only have the guaranteed fates you get from the outsider system the gods can't contradict them like your companions, mentors, youth events and death but they can mess around with everything else.

Yes if you don't falsely ascend and take one of the pillars the next outsider can most likely mess around with your fate but something like true live will be less effective as you will know that these feelings are artificial and will be able to react accordingly.

Charlie technically developed an afterlife already via Evdokia.

>>96314140
Oh you can kill a death sloted character too if you are powerful enough and have all-glumpse or some other magic shit to figure out their specific death. You can just orchestrate that specific fate scenario and kill the fucker. But even if you can't kill them you can fuck their shit cripple them, torture them, drive them insane to the fates it doesn't really matter in what state they reach their determined death they can be a brain in a vat for all it cares as long as they die the right way.

>>96312966
Poor baby. You will never be able to please everyone, so fuck off yourself. Niggerbitch.

>>96314339
>n-no u
lol

>>96314344
>i..i can't reply...
KeK

>>96314182
>true love slander
opinion discarded

RAKE! Stop using semicolons!

>>96314254
Well yes but that's much harder brain in a vat was not around in the 1600's. If someone is fated to die in a massive battle. You won't be able to poison them.

>>96314779
Lead poisoning

>>96314833
lol
clever word play. But when you get shot, it's not lead poisoning that kills you, it's either shock, damage to vital organs, or blood loss.