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>>97339463
Based on trash, masochistic
Quite unfortunate really

The actual ideal would be more vanilla but the collective unconcious of man is screaming out in pain rn

>>97339553
but enough about Radiant Paladin

>>97339553
For a moment I tought you were talking about the Sylen cape OC and was very confused. It's not the best but it's at least not masochistic.

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>>97339463
>PERSPECTIVE: anti hero
what is darkness without light? what is destruction without creation? what is madness without sanity? for the void to continue existing so must the world keep spinning, and any villain who attempts to destroy its balance must in turn be destroyed.

>GOAL: knowledge
the scraps of eldritch knowledge I gained so far are nothing compared to what else can be learned if one can survive sinking deeper into the crushing depths of madness.

>MOTIVATION: self serving
there is no need to bother myself with mortal desires such as justice or wealth, nor do I need to elevate the ignorant masses, after all they would only slow me down.

>POWER: armageddon
>MOD: one level above
my power originated from outside this world, it is only natural it would be outside its normal scale.

>DANGER: dark
>MODS: plot protection + guardian angel

>SOURCES: all
>MY SOURCE: universal (eldritch)
>MODS: minor exchange
It was just a single glimpse but it was more than enough to shatter my past self.
I can't help but wonder if maybe just as that meeting changed my existence maybe in some way I changed it too.

>STAGE: stable, continental, ahistorical, calm biosphere, radioactive zones, jurassic, golden protector, super soldiers, alien invasion, victorious, endbringers, unremarkable earth, super rehabilitation, super school

>DIMENSIONS: celestia, demonia, fyros, distonia

>COMMON THREATS: thugs, professional, thieves, ferals, sickos, mongrels, cryptids, hired crews, crazed scientists
>RARE THREATS: rogue magi, mutant freaks, ancient weapons
the world is a dangerous place, but necessity is the mother of innovation, so these obstacles meant to stop me will only push me further towards the knowledge I seek.

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>>97339591
>POWERS:
>darkness (elemental) - major
>flight (body) - minor
>regeneration (body) - major
>creativity (genius) - major
>madness (genius) - major
>supernatural (genius) - major
>willpower (other) - super
>chaos (other) - hyper
I still remember that day as if it was happening right now, how the endless darkness entered my lungs and burrowed deeper into my flesh until they were one and the same, how my mind was kneaded into different shapes and textures over and over again until 'I' was only an fleeting idea someone else had in a dream.

>FOUNDATION: meta human
>TRAITS: peak genetics, enhanced durability, longevity, ideal metabolism, genius, beautiful bodacious & bouncy, pristine skin, inhuman feature (beautiful), recovery, fine tuning hearing, internal furnace
my body became something akin to the void I saw, an impossibly perfect shape that one can't help but be pulled into, an object of such incomprehensible beauty it could drive anyone to madness.

>BENEFITS: super body, escape artist, no pain, merge (darkness + regeneration)
my body was remade within the final darkness, it is only natural that it would heal faster when enveloped by its shadows.

>DRAWBACKS: unpredictable, uncontrollable, chaotic conduit, hyper snooze, barren, actually insane, rival, nemesis

>CANON EVENTS: training arc, power up, mentor (superhero), unlock potential, imprisoned, universal quake, universal timestream, impending doom
>MULTIVERSE: opened
>INCUSIONS: it was hard enough to make a single build so I don't really feel like making 12 unique creations, I leave it to chance

>COMPANIONS:
>turntide
a fellow scholar and manipulator of the abstract, hid type of powers will be extremely useful to prevent the impending doom of our world.

>devilsworn
a companion in the occult, her powers have a lot of potential and her ideals are similar to mine.

>>97339463
CYOA authors definitely skew towards masochism. Only those with a deep love for the medium or of their own suffering would release OC for a handful of builds and hundreds of posts by whinefags.

>>97339608
I think it's worse if it's a R*ddit author like Sylen lmao
>post a CYOA you put your heart and soul in
>100 updoots
>look at other posts
>gift of faves #24345456
>pill picker #56895498
>franchiseslop #4596834
>500 updoots

>>97339463
Where is the custom option mentioned in the Super Lover Benefit?

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>>97339463
>Perspective: Heroic [+1 Benefit, +1 Body Trait]

>Super Goals:
Guardian [+1 Benefit]
Conversion [+1 Pos. Canon Event]
Legend [+1 Pos. Canon Event]

>Motivations:
Good-Hearted [+1 Minor Power]
Justice [+1 Minor Power]
Responsibility (Adrenaline) [+1 Major Power, +1 Benefit]

>Power Level: Armageddon [+1 Super Power, +2 Major Powers]

>Power Level Modifiers:
One Level Above [+1 Super Power, +3 Drawbacks]
Super World (x3) [+3 Benefits]

>Danger Level: Bleak [+1 Major Power, +3 Benefits]

>Danger Modifiers:
Murder Hobos [+1 Major Power]
Plot Protection
Superhero Antics

>Sources Of Power: All

>Your Source(s):
Genetics [+3 Minor Powers, +1 Body Trait]
Universal [+1 Major Power, +1 Super Power, +2 Drawbacks]

>Source Modifiers:
Cosmic Earth (Drawback)
Greater Exchange [-2 Minor Powers, +1 Major Power]
Ultra Source [-1 Benefit]

>The Stage Of The Present:
Timestamp: Stable (Pos.)
Governance: Continental (Pos.)
History & Climate: Historical/Climate Catasthrophe (Neutral)
Jurassic (Neg.)
Golden Protector (Pos.)
The Long Peace (Pos.)
Connected (Pos.)
End Bringer (Neg.)
Survival Of The Fittest (Neg.)
Cradle Of Power/Terran Sanctity/Celestial Heart (Free)
Shadow Government (Neg.)
Secret Facilities (Neg.)
Shadow Supers (Neg.)
The A-Team (Pos.)
Academy Of Supers (Pos.)
Corporate Rule (Neg.)
Alternate Dimensions: All

>Threats:
Thugs (Common)
Professional Theives (Common)
Ferals (Common)
Saurus (Common)
Mongrels (Common)
Mutant Flora (Common)
Cryptids (Common)
Crazed Scientists (Common)
Failed Experiments (Rare)
Mutant Freaks (Rare)
Ancient Weapons (Rare)

>Super School:
Training Room [-1 Minor Power, +1 Major Power]
Data Collection (Drawback)
Experimentation (Drawback)
Hidden Facility (Drawback)
Teen Romance [+1 Comapanion]

>Super Corporation:
Scarlet Biologics
Hero Streamer
Creation Program (Drawback)
Blackmailed (Drawback)
Big Corp Asset (Drawback)

>>97339628
I can't deny that. Repeat reddit authors have a deep love for CYOAs.

>>97339463
I'll make a build for it someday... I'll try my hardest...

>>97339640
>Super Powers:
Strength (Major/Genetics)
Durability (Super/Genetics)
Senses (Major/Genetics)
Speed (Major/Genetics)
Flight (Major/Genetics)
Natural Weapons (Minor/Genetics)
Adaptability (Hyper/Genetics)
X-Ray Vision (Minor/Universal)
Plasma-Vision (Major/Universal) [+1 Minor Power]
Creativity (Major/Universal)
Willpower (Super/Universal) [+1 Drawback]
Chaos (Major/Universal) [+2 Drawbacks]

>Super Body: Alien Physiology [+2 Body Traits]

>Body Traits:
Longevity
Ideal Metabolism
Genius (Major/Universal)
Handsome [+1 Companion]
Cut Like Marble
Acid Blood
Venomous Bite
Selected Fertility
Commanding Voice

>Benefits:
Filthy Rich [Free]
Back To School [Free]
In Business Baby
Beacon Of Hope
Martial Artist
Escape Artist
Plane Carrier
Indestructible
Merge (Chaos/Plasma-Vision)

>Drawbacks:
Unpredictable
Material Weakness
Rival

>Canon Events:
Training Arc [Free]
Power Up [Free]
Unlock Potential (Pos.) [-1 Benefit]
Noble Lineage (Pos.)
Imprisoned (Neg.)
From Space! (Neg.)

>Companions:
Papercut
Dawnstar
Magnet Boy

Tried to make a Superman-expy, as heroic as possible despite darkness. A little choked by Corporate Rule, but otherwise a pretty exciting kitchen-sink world, there’s everything from extraterrestrial droids to otherworldly demons. Despite an Alien Physiology, bodyplan is still indistinguishable from a human’s, aside from when Natural Weapons are deployed. My “Chaos-Vision” bypasses Chaos’s innate drawbacks by just merging it with my Plasma-Vision in an uncontrolled stream of destructive energy instead of trying to control it directly. Plasma feels close enough to a primordial state of matter anyway. Aside from the Material Weakness, pretty much practically immortal for all intents and purposes. Obviously pretty screwed by being a Big Corp Asset, but that’s a problem to solved in due time. Companions weren’t all that interesting, unfortunately, but there’s a whole community of the last of my race(?) to spend time with/get help from too.

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>>97339649
>I'll make a build for it someday... I'll try my hardest...
Anon got filtered by the conditions. It's actually quite simple.

>>97339595
Can you help a nigga out?
How did you unlock multiple genius powers?

>>97339703
They used the deal to break a super power into 2 majors
(They had 3 super powers from universal+level 5)
It is unclear if they have gone above the 5 major limit, but I assume they have something somewhere that lets them

>>97339703
I assume they just misinterpreted it.

>>97339703
knowledge as a goal let's you buy major genius powers with minor slots, and the genius powers are unlocked by getting the genius body trait.

I also used the exchange to get 2 minor slots by spending 1 major slot

The Fact that being bullied at school allows for more inhuman traits then being an actual alien is weird

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>>97339463
God fucking damn, it's depressing to see how bombastic superhero CYOAs are and then remember what actual capeshit has devolved into.

>more sadistic or masochistic?
I think way back in the day we have a couple like Thrallherd who were confirmed sadists, but over time and the enshittificaiton of /tg/ only the masochists remain here anymore.

>>97339709
>(They had 3 super powers from universal+level 5)
Dunno if that works, genius still has that 1 restriction

>>97339734
>knowledge as a goal let's you buy major genius powers with minor slots, and the genius powers are unlocked by getting the genius body trait.
I also used the exchange to get 2 minor slots by spending 1 major slot
Wait do you HAVE to get "ultra source" and unlock both "intelligence" and say "your source avatar" to unlock some power you want AND get say "madness"?
or is genius/intelligence used only for the foundation/body?

Fuck me.

It seems otherwise impossible to me to grasp how you circumvented that 1 power only in the genius section...

>>97339734
believe you can only get one genius power

>>97339703
>>97339734
>>97339798
>>97339799
I think I understand now, the wording in the section is weird, the way I understood it is that you CAN pick a genius power to focus your genius into a certain topic but you are not limited to just one.

I see some anons asked whether you are limited to only picking one genius power but sylen didn't answer it yet. so idk, so when sylen makes it clear and if it is not allowed to have multiple then I will change it.

>>97339763
I mean, if you dive into it Spider-Man has more and weirder shit going on than Starfire (who only has one traumatic rape-based backstory, in one continuity) so i guess it kind of tracks?

>>97339832
Nta, Spidy doesn't have any inhuman traits most of the time. Not visible ones even when he does. Most of the time his webs are a gadget, and when they are not I am not sure they fall under the inhuman trait option. Unless the option is for all traits and not just the visible ones.

>>97339635
Unique Creation, under Incursions, page 14.

>>97339883
What a strange place to put it. Also kind of a dick move. You can have your custom waifu but you have to pay for it by opening up to interdimentional invasions.

OP turned this into a capeshit thread.

Is Invincible a good show

>>97340017
Sylen does this thing, I’m sure other authors do this too, where they mention mechanics or options that don’t show up for pages

>>97340043
The thread has only 42 posts in it. Of those 15 are the cyoa and 4 are builds for it. There are only a couple more posts about capeslop, the rest is thread question and mechanical discussion on the cyoa. It's barely half the current thread.

>>97340052
I don't mean in an order way, it could be in the same page and still be strange. Why is it in the invasion section instead of the companions section? Why does it require you to get invaded to get it? Those are the things that make no sense.

>>97340060
16 Image Posts
8 (yous) directly to op
>24 / 46 = more than half
I haven't even counted other posts.
I counted exactly 2 non-capeshit posts.

>>97340111
You're considering the mechanical discussion of how the mess of conditions work and how retarded sylen is as capeslop. That's not what it is.

>>97340128
If said conditions are related to capeslop, its capeslop. It's like arguing about the mechanics of Goku vs Superman.

>>97340142
Goku doesn't wear a cape THOUGH.

>>97339463
Kinda disappointed that there's not Kaiju's in the threats section.

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I've decided to post and review forms of immortality that I personally enjoy. I'll only do this as I see fit so don't expect it very often.
>IMMORTALITY RANKING
>Isekai Dark Overlord (B-tier)
https://imgchest.com/p/wl7l3gv267x

I respect the balance of an immortal respawn on a sliding scale timer. "Immortal Soul" is a solid B-tier immortality option that grants you true immortality but if slain you respawn, taking longer to return you continually die up to a millennia. On the plus side, if you stay alive the timer reduces, but I can't rank this higher than B-tier because a month timer is quite middling. This is still a pretty solid option as you can only die if you lose the will. As a bonus, this CYOA gives you built in universe hopping if you succeed, so I give it high marks for that as well as you can hop to another universe and get an even better form of immortality.

>>97340199
There is the endbringer. It's implied there are a lot more than one of those.

>>97340216
>"Immortal Soul" is a solid B-tier immortality option that grants you true immortality, but if slain you respawn, taking longer to return. If you continually die the respawn timer extends up to a millennia.
Fix'd my bad grammar, apologies gentlemen.

>>97340216
That is obviously B+ you fool
The ability to die adds to ones experience, its only real flaw is the lack of an infinite memory

What are you calling c anyway?

>>97340216
>>97340240
If that's B-tier, then what the heck would be A-tier?
Living God I win button slop?

>>97340216
>actual discussion of a CYOA and its options, rather than facile shitposting
I'm impressed. Now I like you better than gatofaggato. Interesting opinion as well, although I think it is solidly B+ like anon, I can see where you are coming from.

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>>97339463
Intro
"We'll tear everything down. It's up to others to rebuild."

Background
A powerful psychic with the ability to summon physical manifestations of his most anti-social desires. The "goblins" he creates are beings of pure, unfocused Id. What passed for a normal life quickly went up in flames, and he was incarcerated in a shadow site. Years of conditioning did nothing to help control his summoning ability, but it bring his body - and his mind - more in line with his murderous creations. Newly free, Redcap enjoys nothing more than undermining government control in the most spectacular and violent way possible.

STOP HAVING FUN YOU FUCKS

Hypothetical question: One of your cyoa build suddenly become real and it caused negative impact to the world.
>Who should be held responsible for? You, for the build? The CYOA Author for creating that CYOA which you made your build? Or the ROB/whatever entities that decided to look at your build and make it real?

>>97340367
What an AI-generated question.

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>>97340427
Source please? And wait, did I miss the immortality tier list?

>>97340432
Me, I wrote this just now it's not from anything in particular. I was just giving an example of A-tier immortality.

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>>97340432
I happen to make making a CYOA right now, and had the editor open, so I decided to format the text header with a gradient.

>>97340442
I just so happened to be making*
>I have no idea how that came out so fucked.

>>97339463
>Perspective
What's the most fitting one if you're using your powers for personal gain but you're not raping/murdering/being an asshole?

>>97340442
You don't understand what omnipotence means.

>>97340457
Anti-hero to Anti-Villain, depending on how bad you doing that is for everyone else

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>>97340466
Here I've written specific trumps against omnipotence.
If you disagree with my rules lawyering, I don't really care.

>>97340481
So it is not ignorance, but the deliberate misuse of a word.

>>97340427
>>97340481
You should make CYOAs.

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>>97340494
You don't understand what the boolean "True" in True Immortality actually implies.
An omnipotent being cannot rewrite the rules that grant them omnipotence. Omnipotent means "all potency", "all power". Which implies infinite or limitless power.
Some infinites are larger than others.

>>97340506
see
>>97340442
I'm just not making a superpower CYOA, at least not right now.

>>97340457
It is bizarre that neutral morality is not an option by itself but is instead subsumed into Anti-Heroic and assumed to often generate good.

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>>97340481
watch this

>>97340442
Sounds promising, looking forward to it.

>>97340510
>An omnipotent being cannot
...yeah, see, that's a bit of a problem right there.

>>97340510
I take back "misuse". It's ignorance.

>>97340510
Actually it depends on how you define the infinities
People don't realise that Endless and Bigger then any given thing are different concepts
We could have an infinity like "On" where all other infinities are simply equal to it, or an ordinal one like the one in your picture, or a limit like we use in calculus (Limit is when N=N+1)

>>97340530
What is more powerful "True Omnipotence" or "Omnipotence"?

>>97340481
To clarify, this reads to me like OMNIPOTENCE (regular) from >>97340522 . That is, I don't literally become omnipotent in real life just by reading your cyoa. That's pretty weak and limited

>>97340457
If you're using your powers selfishly but not immorally, you'd have to be a pretty common kind of antihero because it would easy to imagine a situation where you're forced to save the day without truly committing to heroism.

>>97340541
It really is based on the conceptuality of the creator of the superhero universe, their powers, and definitions.
This is why I don't create superhero content. I always get into these kinds of power scaling discussions.
>tl;dr - I'm the GM an I say omnipotence doesn't effect a person whose power is not be altered by outside forces.
>"I'm a god, I delete his power to not be altered."
>"I'm the GM, you can't alter his power."

>>97340545
meta CYOA slop

>>97340560
But that's how it is. Immediately after reading >>97340481 I tried to change all apples in the world into pears, and it didn't happen. If I were really omnipotent within a CYOA, I should be capable of wishing for my power to escape the CYOA to real life so that I might use it here as well. It didn't work. The omnipotence was too weak.

>>97340554
It's linguistic

>>97340564
I gave an example of A tier omnipotence, not UUR+ tier omnipotence.

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The more CYOAs that get made, the more God experiences.
So to not make more CYOAs, the more potential that gets wasted...

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>>97340568
What if the OC doesn't have god powers?

>>97340585
It matters not.
All CYOAs count as valid experiences.
Some just hold more meaning than others.

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Obligatory CYOA shitpost.

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>>97340616

What counts as waifubait, in your opinion?
I'm asking honestly, not trying to reverse psychology or bait. I'm genuinely curious.
Of course, I don't mean the
>Pick a girl who will follow you forever and love you always
Sort of choices. I talking about gray-er areas. Do you feel like any female character described as attractive and falling into certain tropes (tsundere, kuudere, any -dere really, or tomboy etc) are waifubait by default even if they aren't specifically described as being your 'love interest'? Do they have to have a pretty picture to go with the description, especially anime? Is any attractive girl in CYOA waifubait by default because CYOA is wish fulfillment power fantasy?
Suppose you're in 'magic in modern world' sort of setting as a vigilante, and your rival is a private detective or government official.
She is described as
>Tired-looking woman in her early thirties, with shadows under her eyes and ragged haircut, never seen wearing anything else but a simple business suit and slightly worn coat. Despite her somewhat apathetic and lazy demeanor, she is in surprisingly good shape and has a good eye for detail.
Would this feel waifubait-ish to you, despite there being no mention of her being attracted to you?
What if we add a stipulation
>Your rivals can be persuaded to stop antagonizing you, and perhaps to become an ally and a friend.
Would this make her a waifubait in your eyes? What if we add an anime picture where she looks cute?
Note that I'm NOT trying to establish a strict definition and argue about it. I'm interested in your personal raw and unfiltered dogshit opinion.

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>>97340619
Last page.

>>97340620
Any CYOA about anything other than waifus, that contains a waifu section for no explicable reason.

>>97340627
You mean a section that is specifically
>Pick a girl to follow you
Or just any companion section that is predominantly female?

>>97340620
Is waifubait supposed to be bad?

>>97340596
>still no craftchad class

>>97340641
The question is about what constitutes waifubait for you, not if it's good or bad.

>>97340645
I don't use that term, so I have no definition

>>97340631
Yes.
For the record, I don't mind waifubait. I just acknowledge it when I see it.

If I ever make CYOA I'll feature no romances built in. You want a waifu you have to romance them the all natural way.

I will at least provide a brief insight into their personality and motives, but after that, it's on you.

Surely Anon can get and keep the girl, right bros? Or will he end up in isekai divorce court?

>>97340651
>If
Do it or Don't Baitposter
There is no "If"

>>97340654
When, then. But I will give no further information.

>>97340651
>Or will he end up in isekai divorce court?
>Pick one or more of the following options in "Paying Child Support" section

>>97340651
NTA, but currently debating in the CYOA I'm making now if I want to even have companions. I already have a separate section for creatures. I was thinking about implying your ability to find a partner through social status instead.
I'm doing a blend between narrative and selection boons.

>>97340620
Since the purpose of waifubait is to widely appeal to a certain target audience, then a character can be considered waifubait when it reaches a certain amount of wide appeal to the target audience.

>>97340651
CYOAs that do that often fuck up the question of "what exactly does picking this person as an option mean?" As in, CYOA allows you to spend points to meet a person, when you could also just meet yourself them after isekaing, so it's wasted points.
If you pick members of a combat squad in the CYOA, and it's something that you cannot do outside of the CYOA options (eg because by then the squad composition is already decided?) then it's fine.

>>97340651
/cyoag/ is afraid of women.

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>>97340651
>>97340659
I want a CYOA named "Isekai Divorce Court" now.

>>97340675
Does anyone have that fantasy courthouse Cyoa?
The one where each ruling gets an element and the one you have the most of determines your prize?

>>97340651
That's what I'd do too.
War now.
Waifu later.

>>97340670
It would actually be pretty funny if by default you got useless companions you can't abandon and you had to pay to swap them for ok ones

Like the other chosen heroes are all just the most useless bastards possible (Ideally based on anons) and you swap them for better heroes (Also based on anons)

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>>97340676
ok

>>97340651
>You want a waifu you have to romance them the all natural way.
So people will have no chance?

>>97340690
Ah, thank you
I had forgotten its name

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>>97340690
allsync version was too large for tg posting

>>97340690
I said "No, return me home." Yet this motherfucker continues.

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>>97340695

>>97340692
I remembered the author - cyoastuff. All his cyoas look exactly the same, so it's easy to remember.

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>>97340699

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>>97340703
This one of only 2 cyoastuff cyoas I've made a build for. The other one is Bake a Waifu. I dislike the way he often does metacurrencies.

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>>97340708

>>97340709

>>97340697
It may have been more thematically appropriate for you to get horribly cursed for NOT ruling in someone's favor, in which case returning home would be the smart choice

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>>97340709
Bleh.

>>97340651
Nah, true CINEMA is making it that all the best and strongest power options turn top-tier waifus unavailable or irrevocably hostile.
Make anons choose between love and power.

>>97340720
Literally everyone chooses power though.

>>97340722
Isn't the whole mommyfag joke from people who choose love BECAUSE the waifus are stronger than you?

>>97340651
Anons are unable to interact with women not mandated to love them by the universe. Why are you taking away this boon?

>>97340725
But in that case, the mommy IS power (presumably more powerful than you could be without picking her). Choosing love is something else entirely.

>>97340722
Then they are faggots in every sense of the word.

>>97340729
Okay, then you start in a prison cell getting dommed by a sexy mad scientist chick on a daily basis.

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>>97339653
>7 Major Powers
That's against the rules you know

>>97340730
Ah, I see.
Then they're simply unable to conceptualize something higher than "MUH STRONGEST" and its variants. It's just a different shade of monomania.

>>97340736
Actually it says "Your soul"
So anons soul is disintegrated and superman Lives

>>97340722
As they should. Love is fleeting and always ends in agony while true power is absolute, eternal, and can't be taken away if the other party is retarded.

>>97340736
Not if he exchanged powers sufficiently.

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>>97340457
This >>97340546

You'd basically be like Catwoman or Red X.

>>97340748
This is a common implementation, but really, as an author you can choose to write the "power" to be as conditional and the "love" as unconditional as you want.

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>>97340596
>Local Villager

>Bureaucracy

>Slime (Ink)

>Mob NPC

>Cleric

>Rules Lawyer

>Terminal Boredom

>Ominous Fog

>Inner Monologue

>Dead Inside

>Extra Arm x4

>The Goo

>Rubber Bones
>Tinfoil Hat
>Teflon Soul

>Dialogue Tree
>Wiki Access

>Self Help Book

>Paperwork

>Internal Clock

>Plastic Key
>Bag of Burden

>Auto-Mapper
>Pocket Forge

>Cardio

>Tavern Room (Newsroom)

>The Void

>Smog City

>Thieves' Guild

>The HOA (Higher Bureaucracy)

>The Union

>Goth Healer

>The Chosen One

>The Imaginary

>The Min-Maxer

>Admin Badge

>That One Guard

>The DM

>Dark Turn

>Cult Classic
I love this CYOA. It's simple and kind of silly, but it's charming in that and it leaves a lot of room for your imagination. You can even ignore the meta elements to some degree. For this one I was picturing a world of nested bureaucracies and this guy turning the presses against the various managers and boards above his department, connecting with other offices, then eventually succumbing to the lure of POWER

With power you can have a harem of cute traps who are always ready to bounce on your cock and take your seed at a moment's notice and live only to pleasure you and your loyal followers.
Love's got nothing on that.

>>97340745
>Superman without a soul
So Injustice Superman then.

>>97340759
>it leaves a lot of room for your imagination
That's literally the worst thing a cyoa can do. It's just a roundabout way of saying "this cyoa has no soul, no lore and no story".

>>97340736
He could take the bond object but I can't find it on his build

>>97340748
I'd want to post in response to this that one CYOA where you choose how many hours you train per day, in a Dragonball-like setting. If you train few hours, you have time for other things like love. In the True Ending, you train 24h every day and do nothing else. This is the only ending where you win the tournament.

Anyone have it? I remember someone requested it less than a year ago and it was posted.

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>>97340772
That was by scottish anon, before he vanished

I miss him

>>97340756
You can

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>>97340781

>>97340781
>by literally who
Another weak author who couldn't stay in the game.

>>97340781
Thank you anon!
I'd never have guessed it was Scottishanon; did he ever make anything else with anime art?

>>97340787
None that I can recall

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>>97340596
Origin: System Glitch +100
World: Bureaucracy
Species: Automaton
Graphics: Edgelord
Class: Warrior
Moral Compass: Murder Hobo
Motivation: Pure Spite
Aura: Ominous Fog +110
Signature Quirk: Flashback Power
Fatal Flaws: Wanted +130
Evil Cat +135
Back Alley Mods: Extra Arm +130
Exoskeleton +120
Symbiotic Partner: Shadow +110
Immunities: All :^) +65
Meta Perks: Rich Parents +40
Mentor: Gym Bro
The Grind: Paperwork
Weird Medicine: Iron Stomach
Totally Balanced: Premium Status +20
Heroic Package: Diamond Tier +10
Ride or Die: Floating Rock -5
Buff Pet: Spoiler Parrot +0
Home: Cell +5
Pocket Dimension: Inventory Grid +10
Hub: Desert Bazaar
Faction: Adventurer's Union
The Horde: Skeleton Crew
The Misguided: The Union
Waifu: Goblin Shortstack
Public Relations: Most Wanted +25
Romance DLC: Harem Patch +0
Baggage: Mimic
Rival: Min-Maxer
MacGuffin: The Button
The Call-back: Barmaid
BBEG: The DM
Epilogue: Canceled
Critic Reviews: Cult Classic

I'm here to make life miserable for whatever cosmic act formed me.

>>97340783
Did you become the very best, that no one ever was?

>>97340809
No
In my first run I actually literally miscounted the points and only bought 3 t3's
With foreknowledge I would pick to spend 10ish points

>>97340809
I had better things to do.

>>97340596 28
>Hardcore Gamer

>Neon Magic

>Dwarf

>Low Poly

>Mage

>Kleptomaniac

>Gambling Debt

>Glitchy

>Dense

>Lag Spike
>Wanted Criminal

>Exoskeleton
>RGB Skin

>Offshore Account
>Cast Iron Liver
>Ego Shield

>Training Montage
>Fast Travel
>Plot Armor

>Demon Summon

>Head Voice

>Debugging

>Night Light

>Smurf Account
>Lag Switch
>Rubber Banding
>Hitbox Shift

>Skip Button
>Ban Hammer

>Hobo Tent

>Dev Room

>Pirate Cove

>Arcane Academy

>Glitch Mobs

>Idol Unit

>Tsundere Dragon

>Walking Disaster

>Gold Digger

>The Speedrunner

>Backup Drive

>Scrapped Design

>Rogue AI

>Particle Trail

>Sequel Bait

>Speedrun Fodder
>>97340766
it's just another kind of CYOA!

>>97339463
Is Sylen working on a quick fix for this or should I start making a build already?

Worm has done IRREPARABLE damage to any online fan discussion and fan works regarding superheroes.

>>97340836
No, he said he's gonna leave it as it is and maybe revise it after finishing his next cyoa.

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>>97340798
legend

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>>97340845
Pic related

>>97340855
...Nah. It's not like that at all.

>>97340736
Wait what? Where does it say that?

>>97340898
Page 1 Box 1 Rule 7

>>97340904
Well, great. I sort of skimmed over that. Do Hyper Powers count as Super powers?

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Scoring builds on how well the power source is used to explain the power suite again.
>>97335977
7/10
Passing grade because everything is explicitly justified. The scale goes higher because I want to reserve room for builds that are creative with it.
>>97339591
9/10
All powers come from being a creature born out of fear and nightmares. That works. This could be a real cape character.
Shame they'll explode body and soul for breaking the rules.
>>97339640
5/10
Most of these powers don't seem out of place on an alien, but chaos is reality warp territory. The concept is a superman-expy, so where does the universal come in? A throwaway line on how this species, or this character in particular, got access to the power cosmic and it's a 7/10

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I've been thinking about superpower cyoas.
Usually superheroes have some unique and creative power, but most cyoas have you pick from a list. That's against theme.
What you want is for some mechanic that guides the player, but still gives the freedom to design anything.
I made this pic to illustrate my idea. With enough of these concept, expression, and application options players could could come up with stuff the author never imagined, while simultaneously not being a blank canvas that doesn't give a prompt.

>>97340922
Presumably.

>>97341002
Sounds like a pretty good idea actually

>>97341002
I recognize those boxes - wizard school anon, is that you?
And I like that kind of thing, I did something very loosely like that myself.

>>97341002
Yeah the templates in that MHA cyoa are the closest I've seen to this.

>>97341007
They're called out as different in the text though. It's not like it would be that much more unbalanced.

>>97341002
Didn't Power Creator cyoa already do this? It'd probably be best to take some inspiration from a ttrpg that lets you build custom powers.

>>97341014
As it happens I did make build-a-wizard, but this quick sketch doesn't use that template. The likeness is a coincidence.
What was your creation that's loosely similar?

>>97341002
>more wobble-de-goob condition slop

>>97341016
It says 'you may choose one Hyper Power as if it was a Super power' so that should logically mean it counts as a Super Power.

>>97341018
I got the idea that power creator was mostly freeform with some light rules on theming. Maybe I skimmed it too fast.
>>97341015
Do you have it? I've seen a mha cyoa but that one was a list picker.

>>97341027
Just because it costs the same Super-Power doesn't make it the same when considering everything else. 1 Hyper/3 Super/4 Major/7 Minor is still a reasonable power spread.

>>97341031
I meant the one that's always in the multiplayer general

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>>97341025

>>97341002
Something like Luminary's Ultimate Art might be similar

>>97341036
It doesn't just say that it costs a super power, it says that you can take one 'as if it is' a super power.

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>>97341022
It broadened as it progressed, but the original concept was similar to yours - ><fire> + <ball> + <movement from up to down>
might mean a spell that shoots a fireball down from the sky.

>>97341050
I'm so tired of Outer Reincarnation

>>97341050
I miss outer reincarnation

>>97341058
>>>/mcyoag/

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>>97341053
>>97341058

>>97341047
>it says that you can take one 'as if it is' a super power.
Which just means that it costs one Super-Power. Hyper-Powers already have a built-in limitation of one-per-build, which is separate from the other categories. Why would Sylen make a separate category of powers just to have them act identical to another one mechanically? That would just make it confusing and tedious for no reason.

>>97339463
Man, there's too much stuff to manage. Like, I've read and it's cool, but goddamn actually playing is just too bothersome, microadjusting every part of the setting separately. By the time you get to powers you already forget what you were going for and are mired in double-checking worldbuilding even though you start off by creating a superhero.
I dunno, maybe the world creation should go first? A bit jarring to go from "pick your personal motivation" to "now pick the amount of dimensions and how many thugs roam the streets". Like, you create a backdrop to place your character in, you know?
Also way too many criss-crossing conditions. It's good to have balance and mutually exclusive stuff, but come on. Not every choice has to have amendments and adjustments attached.

>>97339463
>Thread Question: Do you think CYOA authors skew more sadistic or masochistic?
Masochistic.

>>97339463
>Do you think CYOA authors skew more sadistic or masochistic?
No one who posts oc here willingly is not masochistic in some way

>>97340519
This is a cyoa about superheros/villains. Neither of these would be considered "neutral" in motivation.

>>97341040
Oh yeah! I'd forgotten about that one.
Reading it now I realize my concept is missing something important. Limitations.
I don't think hard numbers one range and duration are necessary, but stuff like magnet powers only being able to affect metal is core superhero fare.

>>97341066
> Which just means that it costs one Super-Power.
Why not just say that then?
> Why would Sylen make a separate category of powers just to have them act identical to another one mechanically?
But they aren't identical, because you can only have one and powers that work on super powers don't work on them.
> That would just make it confusing and tedious for no reason.
...

>>97339463
Picture a cow in your mind's eye.
Picture it in as much detail as you can. In its natural environment.

Now that you have a feel for it, you can feel the answer: is the cow more sadistic or masochistic?

>>97341082
Mmmmmummuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>97341082
I guess Aromage leans towards masochistic?

>>97341082
I've pictured a cow girl with beautiful tits and nice thick cock.
I'd say she's closer to sadistic.

>>97341118
That's Tok in a cow costume and he's a man

>>97341137
You think Tok has nice tits and/or a nice thick cock?

>>97341137
>Tok
>Having great tits AND good cock
Lol. Lmfao even.

>>97341142
>>97341171
No, anon just has very poor eyesight.

>>97341185
Why are futafags so blinded by cocklust?

>>97341142
>has nice tits
Yes
>a nice thick cock
No

>>97341203
He's a man. Man don't have tits (unless they're overweight).

Take it to >>>/trash/

>>97341205
yes, tok has man tits

Cape settings are so unfocused. I'd like a cape setting that consists of just 1 large (NYC-sized) city.

>>97339591
>>97339595
ok, I think you were all right and it is only 1 genius power.

I'm keeping madness (major) while removing creative (major), supernatural (major) and minor exchange (power modification) so I can get adaptability (major).

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>>97340845
>Worm has done IRREPARABLE damage to any online fan discussion and fan works regarding superheroes.
It's not Worm. It was the Authority, a comic series put out by Wildstorm. Basically, their version of the Justice League went corporate - and anti-hero. Why give supervillains a chance to break out of jail? Just kill the bastard, and then go do a commercial for a corporate sponsor. That kind of thing.

Very groundbreaking at the time, but the success of the Authority spawned a whole slew of imitators. You see the corrupt pro-corps superhero team in Worm, in White Wolf's Aberrant rpg, in . . . The Boys . . .

And every fanboy who discovers one of the knock-offs fir the first time thinks they're being edgy and innovative. Sigh . . .

>>97341276
Yeah we'll call it CYOA CITY and its rogue gallery is based on the worst cyoag posters;
>Catfag is an evil sentient cat with pyschic powers, he controls the biggest criminal organisation in the city as its shadow leader by manipulating the boss while pretending to be a normal pet.
>Tok is a degenerate sex offender with hundreds of attempted rape charges against him. If he didn't subhuman IQ and attentionwhoring tendencies his shapeshifting abilities would've made him a real threat. Fortunately his preferred form (an 8ft hermaphrodite with outrageous proportions) makes him easy very to spot.
>Matterheroine is an obsessive mad scientist/hero wannabe hell bent on proving her superiority to CYOA CITY superheroes by trying to one-up them in heroic acts, which backfires horribly and makes problems even worse.
>The Seething Six are the self-proclaimed archnemeses of the six popular superheroes Italics, Aromage, Tankisha, Micah, PCA, and Rake. They're only united by their sheer, unrivalled hatred and jealousy of their counterparts.
Now some NPCs to spice up the place;
>Gilposter is the crazy hobo in the street corner who raves about the return of "Gil" whoever that is. He is useless most of the time but once in a while he'll drop a nugget of wisdom or insight that can crucial to the situation (the location of a villain's hideout for example).
>Immortalityfag is an average man in every way possible except that he's immortal, he refuses to take the hero life because he's afraid of losing his immortality or getting killed. He'll lend a hand only if there's no threat to his immortality.
>Captain Coal is a d-list villain that nobody takes seriously. He's so bad at being the villain that he often ends unintentionally helping the heroes by foiling his fellow villains' plans.

>>97341410
It sounds fun, it also rewards shitposters. I don't want to reward shitposters.

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>>97339635
I must have forgotten to refer directly to the Events and Incursion page, my apologies.

>>97340199
There are Kaijus. Both Endbringer, Fay Creations and Failed Experiments lean towards those tropes.

>>97340836
No quick fix. The majority of the feedback after release address the overall complexity being dialed too high. I like complex CYOA, but they also need to be accessible to the intended audience.

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>>97339463
Some suggestions for Sylen, with this image as example:

1.
You mix together:
* decoration text (line 1: "What will be YOUR source of power in YOUR world?")
* mechanics text (line 3 and 4: "Almost all power sources..", "Powers scale somewhere..")
* instructions on how to play the cyoa (line 2, 5 and 6: "You may by default choose..", "All sources of power have..", "Alternatively, you may..")
as a single block of text.
The instructions which dictate how the cyoa should be played are more important than anything else, they are what the reader will want to learn first, without going through other text. Format them somehow differently, for example put them in different colors? And write them very concisely, as few words as possible. The readers needs to grasp them with no effort while skimming through the section to get a feel for how the cyoa is even structured.

2.
You spread out instructions all over the place, when you should be putting instructions RIGHT NEXT TO where the reader would apply them. I see this a lot in your work.
Remove the "All sources of power have a POWER LEVEL.." line in the header entirely. Instead, in the place where you have currently written "LETHAL" under eg the Alteration option, write: "Requirement: you must be LETHAL or higher." in small text (again, as this is instruction text, use as few words as possible). Now the instruction is exactly where the reader would apply it.

3.
Stop using the word "may", it's not clear whether it means "are only allowed to" (= must) or "are allowed to if you want" (= you can decide to do it or not).
As I said in >>97332586 , say simply "Pick 0 to 3" instead of "You may pick up to three", it's concise and unambiguous.

>>97341340
Yes and no. The Authority did bring forth the "superheroes are corporate sellouts who kill people" idea, but Worm popularized among new audience, in addition to making people think that overcomplicating power structure in superhero world and making everyone a hilariously petty and dramatic asshole is how you make a MATURE and DEEP story about superpowers.

>>97341550
>overcomplicating power structure in superhero world
Isn't it the other way round? In Worm, there's an explicit power structure for how things are run, how capes fit into society and its institutions. In cape fiction in general, you are normally given a small glimpse of how power structures work in the context of a particular story, and you're not supposed to try to imagine what things work like outside of it, but if you did try you'd end up something needlessly fractured, complicated and incoherent.

I have a bunch of issues with Worm worldbuilding but it at least made an attempt at these things, it seems to me most cape fiction keeps the limits of the worldbuilding at the limits of the current story.

>>97341576
Look up what words mean if they confuse you.

>>97341620
What confused you?

>>97341624
Words.

>>97341499
>I like complex CYOA, but they also need to be accessible to the intended audience.
You seem to misunderstand something.
There's nothing wrong with complexity, but you have to balance it out against the length of CYOA. If it's like five pages, making it an exercise in calculus and cross-referencing conditions is fine.
When it's sixteen fucking pages, it just gets extremely unwieldy and annoying.
Also, the text isn't lending itself well to a more complicated character building. Remove all irony and lame jokes, cut away the fluff. Make it concise and to the point. Standardise and streamline the technical info, for example instead of
>You gain one MAJOR POWER in th PHYSICAL POWERS section yadda yadda and if this is your only source of power, then you gain yadda yadda
Use
>Gain 1 MAJOR POWER (MIND), 1 BODY TRAIT.
>+1 MINOR POWER (PHYSICAL) per level of power if this is the only source of power.
This illustrates another problem - your insistence on repeating obvious things that don't need repeating.
As a reader, I understand that BODY TRAIT will be listed in a section about body. No need to hammer that it.
Third problem is tautology and confusing terminology. An absolutely insufferable example is page three.
>BONUS POWER
>If this is your only source of poser, then for every level of power that you are you gain one MINOR POWER in the "PHYSICAL POWERS" section up to total of four at ARMAGEDDON.
>Your powers scale with training, usage and knowledge about your own limits.
That's an insane amount of POWERS POWER POWERS POWER POWER POWERS, and they are all referring to slightly different things. It's distracting and completely useless.
Plus the last bit should be BEFORE all the bonuses. You should put the crunch in one place and fluff in the other, don't just mix them (and yes, the way your powerspowerspowers increase IS FLUFF, it doesn't contain any numerical bonuses or conditions one might need to remember for later pages. Group it with the description).

>>97341650
>There's nothing wrong with complexity, but you have to balance it out against the length of CYOA. If it's like five pages, making it an exercise in calculus and cross-referencing conditions is fine.
>When it's sixteen fucking pages, it just gets extremely unwieldy and annoying.
you fuckers did it with magocratic convention

>>97341661
magocratic convention update*
The original had none of that.

>>97341661
Note that the update had a fewer builds.

>>97341576
>In Worm, there's an explicit power structure for how things are run, how capes fit into society and its institutions
Yes, and this is not needed. In Worm, everything is standardized, normalised, labeled and put into small boxes. Everything, from government agencies to powersets to powerscaling. It completely removes the super part. Which is not terrible by itself, but people decided that it's 'the correct way' to write cape stories. It really isn't.

>>97341680
Worm is our best shot at SOLVING superheroes thoughbeit.

>>97341680
If you put something in a setting like present day Earth, with no masquerade, then it will inevitably become something digestible for regular modern institutions, anything else is unrealistic.
It takes a whole different kind of environment to allow superpowers to retain a mystery about them. Like, a post-apocalyptic depopulated and divided future Earth, for exmaple.

>>97341688
>unrealistic
And why shouldn't it stay unrealistic?

>>97341772
Powers and phenomena can be as unrealistic as you like, people and the choices they make have to match something recognizable, otherwise the story is just a bunch of flashing colours.

>>97340620
>What counts as waifubait, in your opinion?
Making a clearly attractive character, or at least one that is supposed to be, and not making them a companion/someone you can bring along with you. Like a narrator that leaves you after the start or something like that. All of your options are not bait, they are just waifus, you can get them. A bait needs to be something that looks like a waifu but isn't. In a way Carlotte is waifubait, or any of the elder gods really.

>>97340620
>What counts as waifubait, in your opinion?
Making something with the sole purpose of being a waifu, with no point beyond it. Like a girl companion built off tropes, with an attractive figure, but no connection to the plot/mechanic/power/theme and more. It's the lack of depth for me.

>>97341844
So a rival who's clearly attractive would count as waifubait despite being present in the story?

>>97341772
I meant unrealistic in the sense that it contradicts itself. As in, modern institutions work in certain ways which we can know and intuit; and a particular work of cape fiction describes how its capes work; and we're supposed not think of these 2 elements together? What's worse, if it's a cyoa, you're probably a cape yourself, so it would especially relevant to you and your everyday doings. So you can't just look away from it.

Gil ;_;
Where is he ;__;
What happened to him ;___;

>>97341869
No, that's just a waifu candidate. She can be waifued, you can get her. Enemies to lovers is a thing, and rivals are not necessarily hostile either. She would be even easier to waifu because sometimes rivals are closer to you than friends. A better option of waifubait in my opinon is the narrator from Like a Rising Dragon from Koarriganon. She is an attractive woman that clearly puts a lot of faith in you, even if it starts out as desperation, but the only two options you have with her are watrching her die or having to kill her yourself if you make her evil with the mission at the end. That's bait, you are tricked into caring for her but can do nothing about her survival.

Would you accept raped goods, Anonymous?

>>97341955
I see. Thanks for elaborating and providing examples.

>>97341955
>the narrator from Like a Rising Dragon from Koarriganon
You can create a story where she survives, Anon. A Fate Unravelled, if you will.

>>97341976
>A Fate Unravelled
But had Fate Stayed Night or was it Zero?

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>>97341966
Yes. Were I a dirt poor farmer, I'd accept anything that improves my lot. Else I'd have nothing at all.

>>97341993
B-But she's not livestock...

>>97341276
The coolest things about capeshit is the fantasy and sci-fi vibe, take most of that away by greatly limiting the setting, and you're left with tv drama slop.

>>97341966
No. It's a shit trope, a shit plot point, a shit narrative and a shit backsory. There is no reason to include it or pick it unless there is something wrong with your head.

>>97341966
What the other guy said. It's pointless and only done for a cheap trauma backstory and affection points. Dishonest practice.

>>97341955
>Enemies to lovers to exes to lovers to divorced couple to enemies to lovers again

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>>97341966
Can you even conceptualize the amount of work needed for the girl to be functional afterwards?
The only "good" example of raped goods I've seen in cyoa is the Onryō in pic related, and she's not really a romance target.

>>97341976
Kinda. You can do pretty much whatever you want, it's your adventure, but it would have to be very convoluted and probably not worth it unless you really want her for some reason. Like getting with the goddess in one of the many cyoas where one takes you and dumps you in a random world where you can't reach her. I remember one cyoa where the narrator was already dead and you were just remembering what she told you a long time ago, that would also count as waifubait, and since the cyoa mentions nothing about resurrection you would have to come up with your own very convoluted method too.

>>97342046
This cyoa made me sad but also determined to save everyone, its miserywank done right. Cyoag will never recover from the loss of nxtb.

>>97342052
It's worth it if your story lends itself to that kind of plot.

>>97342046
>Mommy truly is the source of all your powers.
>Mommy is dead.
I don't know how to feel about this.

>>97342056
>its miserywank done right
Because it gives you the right weapons to fight against the misery. The powers are pretty strong and the existence of the tome and curses means there is a lot more you can do with enough pratice and research.

>>97341993
>PICK 1 USED GOODS ANIMAL
No thanks.
I'll abandon civilization and build meself a harem of wolves, just like my great great great grandfather before me in 690 AD.

>>97342017
Sure although I liked Nolan's Batman movies, I meant focused in terms of cast and especially territory. For an extreme take: the city was surrounded by a magic bubble and became a pocket plane, no contact with outside world, food and raw materials are produced by food-and-raw-materials-producing capes.

>>97342069
Time to resurrect mommy then.

I sleep

>>97342079
Most Curses are from the supernatural or the dead - there is a solid chance she comes back 'wrong'.

>>97342076
You fool, your harem of wolves would've loved the used goods as a wedding gift.

>>97342094
Then you fix her. The reason everyone failed until now is clearly that they didn't try hard enough.

>>97342094
You can defeat all Curses in a non-lethal way.
Surely you can save your Mom, right anon?

>>97339463
Perspective:
Anti-Heroic

Super Goals:
Guardian
Power
Knowledge

Motivations:
Self-Serving
Glory
Responsibility (Adrenaline Condition)

Power Levels:
Armageddon

Level Modifiers:
One Level Above
Super World(x2)

Danger Level:
Dark

Danger Modifiers:
Evil Corps
Forced Conversion
Plot Protection

Sources of Power:
Chemical
Mutation
Intelligence
Meta-Physics
Super Suit
Abstract

Power Source:
Universal

|A New Earth|
Name: Earth Pioneer

Timestamp:
Stable

Governance:
Continental

History and Climate:
Historical
Climate Catastrophe

Earth Modifiers:
Super Soldiers
The Long Peace
Survival of the Fittest
Resource Rich
Exotic Resources
Cosmic Resources
Unremarkable Earth
Super Rehabilitation
Shadow Governments
Secret Facilities
Shadow Supers
Corporate Rule

Alternate Dimensions:
Fyros
Kryptos
Distonia
Spiritas

Common Threats:
Thugs
Professional Thieves
Natural Disasters
Violent Radicals
Ferals
Delusional Veterans
Sickos
Cultists
Hired Crews
Crazed Scientists

Rare Threats:
Assassins
Organized Criminals
Mutant Freaks

>>97342094
>Mother Dearest comes back as the Eternal Queen of the Blackest Night
>send a firebal at anon's friend
>anon is grazed
>anon start to tear up
>Mother Dearest is overcome by motherly instincts and starts to fuss over him
Reminder that the familial weakness goes both ways.

>>97342134
Powers:
Hyper Power:Absorption
Superpower:Willpower
Superpower:Madness
Major Power:Supernatural
Major Power:Bestowal
Major Power:Teleportation
Major Power:Regeneration
Minor Power:Durability
Minor Power:Telepathy
Minor Power:Pre-cognition

Foundation:
Human Male

Body Traits:
Longevity
Peak Genetics
Enhanced Durability
Enhanced Strength
Genius
Tall
Handsome
Cut Like Marble
Special Eyes
Fine-Tuned Hearing
Commanding Voice
Contortionist

Benefits:
Hidden Lair
Fanatical Followers
Henchmen
Super Body
Martial Artist
A Little Something
Inheritance
Wealthy
Secret Identity(Mask)
Bullet Time
No Pain
Steel Mind
Internal Furnace

Drawbacks:
Unpredictable
Super Metabolism
Super Scrutiny
Ultra Addict(Alcohol)
Rival

Canon Events:
Mentor
Training Arc
Power Up
Unlock Potential
Last Stand
Grand Failure
Public Perception
Identity Revealed
Defeated by Trash(Hired Crew)
Power Bleed

The Multiverse:
Shielded

Companions:
Powerfist
Magnet Boy

>>97342149
Build is an indomitable mad genius that can mimic/absorb the abilities of others, and then bestow those mimicked powers to mundane people to temporarily uplift them. This works via the combination of Absorption(Hyper Power) and Bestow(Major Power), such that I can copy a power from others and then give those mimicked powers to my henchmen for up to 1 week. Teleportation allows me to quickly move myself and my henchmen anywhere needed, allowing us to advance and retreat depending on the situation. Teleportation also allows me to reach touching distance towards my enemies which is a prerequisite for mimicking their abilities. Genius abilities includes Madness which allows me to create great schemes, and Supernatural which grants insight in magical stuff. Beyond those powers, I also have superhuman regeneration and durability, as well as a bit beyond peak human physique.Minor Telepathy allows me to read surface thoughts and more crucially communicate to people within 10 kilometers around me, which allows me to use tactics such as sending my empowered henchmen while I send orders kilometers away. Minor Pre-Cognition allows me to detect threats and quickly teleport away when I feel something wrong.

The setting of the world is that the governments are using super powered individuals as new frontier in warfare and development, causing many secret experiments and supernatural wars to erupt from the struggle. Corporations soon followed afterwards as they successfully managed to monetize the ability to create new superhumans through some miracle drugs, simultaneously cooperating and competing with the shadow governments for control over the new superhuman population. I somehow reincarnated into this world, and by the universal laws of Isekai I gained a bunch of OP powers including an ability to mimic other powers and multiple mental reinforcement to my mind, apart from the general superhuman physique upgrade.

>>97342145
>Mother Dearest comes back as the Eternal Queen of the Blackest Night
That sounds like an upgrade to me.

>>97342134
Your build deserves a picture!
As does every long build.

>>97341891
Ascended to Heaven

>>97341891
he released oc recently

>>97342163
I'm not so sure about that.
Most Curses are obsessive with some genocidal thoughts derived from their origins. So something like;
>Witchcraft is the most interesting thing in this boring town!
>We are the humble guardians of the Veil. It's our duty as the strongest mortals of the town.
>I need to make a safe world for Anon.
will shift into something like;
>Humans are inferior to Witches in every way.
>I am the ruler of this Veil. It's my right as the strongest Witch of this town.
>Anon is my spawn and the only spellcaster I recognize. He will either bend the knee or be remade in a better form and spirit.

Obviously it wouldn't be exactly your mom.

>>97341891
he made radiant paladin and left in shame after getting hated on

>>97342243
NTA but I fail to see the problem in Dark Mommy's logic.

>>97342260
His detractors got filtered. Many such cases.

>>97341891
Dead, he died in a war.

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>>97341521
I appreciate the feedback anon!

1. I did not think it would be an issue, since we are talking about only a few lines of text. But I understand. Using separate colors instantly makes your eyes bleed, so a box solution is more preferable. I just wonder, why other CYOA never get this criticism, who constantly mix decoration text with mechanics text. There must be some secret I dont have. I guess.
2. Again, I understand the feedback. I dont know how to apply it though. We are talking about nothing more than a few lines of text. This is the least text-heavy work I have ever made. I'm sorry anon, I'm just not skilled enough to please your demand for instructions.
3. I agree, pick 0 to 3 is superior or pick 1 to 3.

My biggest problem with including a "Requirement: you must be LETHAL or higher." on every single choice, is that it is a massive space bloat, for something that is kindergarten tier simple instructions. There has to be a more superior way to do it. I agree, it is better to just write it out then, and the way I did it originally is worse, clearly.

>>97341650
What fluff do you want to cut away? There is barely any to begin with.
>This illustrates another problem - your insistence on repeating obvious things that don't need repeating.
Incorrect. My previous CYOA feedback has absolutely taught me that you HAVE to repeat instructions, otherwise you WILL get one trillion questions to clarify something. Yes, feedback atm is that its complex. But there are very few questions, questioning the actual mechanics this time around. Which means the mechanics are understood, just disliked and too unwieldy at large.

But I'll repeat myself. I am just not skilled enough as a writer to satisfy. The way I write is the way I enjoy to do it. I appreciate the feedback, nonetheless. But I doubt I will be able to improve in the exact way that you critique it.

>>97342243
If she's not romanceable, that's waifubait.

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>>97340781
>POWERS
Level 3 DEDUCTION, for 6 DP
>Companions
All
>Where to Start?
Skyward City
>DID YOU MAKE IT?
6-10 Dedication Points spent.

I considered going 0 DP, because 6 hours per day is still a lot. But, it would be lame to live in such a world and not make use of the super spechul Will power at all. And DEDUCTION is the most useful for getting ahead in civilian life.

>>97341966
Yes, if I like her.

>>97341966
Yes, if Anon likes her.

>>97342295
>But there are very few questions, questioning the actual mechanics this time around.
Because barely anyone pays any attention to them.

>>97339463
As an author, I enjoy neither masochism nor sadism. I like equal partnerships that make both of us better people, undying romance without a hint of pain, and long cuddling sessions.

>>97342326
I have yet to see a build posted that did not follow the instructions.

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>>97342320
Same. I want to wingman for anon and be the best man at his wedding so I can give a speech about how the two lovebirds saved each other.

>>97342295
Can you take multiple Genius Powers? And do Heroic Powers take up one of the three Super Powers you can have?

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>>97342364
You understand.

>>97342046
Freinds:
>Rosemary Hawkins
>Anthony Ward
>Sophie and Fiona Atwood

Adults:
>Miss Pierson
>Officer Hannity
>Reverand Mother Freya
>Allistair Hillingham

Spells:
>Inner Peace
>Warding
>Psychokinesis x2
>Rejuvination x2
>Sixth Sense

Curse: The Doppelgangers
>Fairweather Friends
>The Other You
>Exorcise The City

Extra Notes and Thoughts:
- Between 'Inner Peace' and Rosemary's music we should be able to help Anthony control the worst of his affliction
- Excellent Rivaly turned Bromance between Hannity and Hillingham
- Those two should be able to make the most out of Anthony's Fathers arsenal
- Not sure how the Reverend Mother would treat Anthony. 50/50 on seeing him as either a poor soul or an abomination
- The Reverend Mother Would also probably be a great help in Dispelling the Curse
- Probably easier to convince Hannity that the're alien 'Pod People' rather than demons
- Between Taking 'Fairweather Friends' and 'The Other You' atleast we'llnot have to worry about eachother. Not sure if that extends to the adults as well

NxTub always delivered.

>>97342385
I know you're trolling now, but I will play ball. There is a small box, called "Hyper Powers" on page 7 that address your question about "Heroic Powers". For genius powers, you can choose only one, as stated in its section, right where you choose them. Its even capitalized.

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>>97342399
>NxTub always delivered.
>past tense
I hate it. You cannot fathom the depths of my hatred towards the concept of time.

>>97342429
...I knew that :(
I was only asking because a bunch of other people were saying otherwise.

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>>97342295
Sylen can you please explain, if i pick say intelligence in the sources section and then pick psionics in your source section, does it count as two sources or nay?

And also, why did you make it so complicated man? I just wanted my magic to be biological, but i just cant figure out how!

>>97342430
We all have to grow up and leave at some point.