Archives & Other Resources: https://rentry.co/cyoagAllsync: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3Previous thread: >>97717122>Thread Question: Which CYOA do you think handles its point system best?
do NOT post THAT cyoa
>reaches S3 before you because of luck>immediately gets rid of all your fate and thus any coincidences you invested inhow the FUCK do you protect yourself from this?
>>97725313>>reaches S3 before you because of l-ACK!!!oops your good fortune was balanced out by an awful disaster at low sequences, better luck next time hahahahahaha!
>>97725289>Thread Question: Which CYOA do you think handles its point system best?I don't have a specific _best_ in mind, but Animus did well and inventively with it.
Rolled 93 (1d100)>>97725313Will this anon be able to become a Misfortune Mage?1-30 - he's fucking dead31-65 - yes, but it will seriously cost him66-100 - yes
>>97725340It's over bros... the TRVE Key of Light will take all our fate away...
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Rolled 86 (1d100)>>97725340Will we be luckier and advance before him?
https://imgchest.com/p/dl7p68mg34oDivine Candidates: https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97712322/#97712362Divine Candidate Review: https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97712322/#97713358>In Modern Day:Engineer https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97696813/#97696856The Omniscient https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97706005/#97707387The Wizard https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97706005/#97706196The Baleful https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97712322/#97714201The Enlightener https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97692424https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97693124https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97693481Thief of Hearts https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97693768GOO Servant https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97696060Angel of Travelers https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97717122/#97720147The Hacker Known as 4chin https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97696813/#97700984https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97696813/#97700991Wise Holy Man https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97696813/#97704995Friendly Neighborhood Necromancer https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97706005/#97706674https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97712322/#97713134The Vicar Maiden https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97717122/#97719993https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97717122/#97724726
>>97725457>In the 5th Epoch:Celrog https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97684791/#97685926Warrior Angel https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97684791/#97688599Ego Death Offer https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97694267Luckiest Bastard https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97690702Clueless Mommy https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97692134Laurence Rubelle https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97694187Eyes that Bind https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97696813/#97699439All-in-One https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97690609/#97694728Mommy God https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97696813/#97700581Castiya Heir https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/97696813/#97705238
Rake status?
Magi case was better
>>97725362man these powers are lame.
>>97725632Yet we're not talking about his cyoas. Curious!
>>97725649cape cyoa authors are always scared to give out the good stuffExcept pca ig
>>97725729he gives me so much good stuff i'm bored again
>>97725467>only one nascent buildis it really that complicated?
>>97725758What's yours big boy?
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>>97725758idk what kind of pathway I'd make
>>97725758I honestly did open the mystery box but went back to modern day, both for MP and because I simply do not have it in me to create an entirely new pathy.
>>97725758I was working on it, some thread ago I even posted my pathway, but I'm indecisive on wether I want as a S4 Fool and S2 Moon or the reverse.Also I was sidetracked by my other two builds.
>>97725792Don't be so hard on yourself anon.
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>>97725457>The few decent items are high up in sequences>The only way to get discounts on the huge cost is with pathway benefits>You are mostly going to get benefits in YOUR pathway, so that's where your discount is>Most of the time the items in your own pathway are literally useless to you
>>97726194Bold of you to assume it was a cringey teenage phase and not a mtf tranner.>>97726207Devils advocate but if you stick to potions/companions in your pathway you can use the saved points to buy items in other Pathways.
>>97726238>you can use the saved points to buy items in other PathwayYeah senpai let me blow all 23 of my Wealth on ONE item because I don't have a discount on that Pathway.
>>97725374GlitchDragonbornPrisonerRealm of PossibilityComprehension Level CapSold SoulDoomed WorldWith Glitch, Prisoner and Realm of Possibility I should be able break reality enough to un-doom the world and take back my soul, after which I'm gunning for CHIM.
>>97725457Nobody is named "Lilith" without being massively fucking cringe so how does that omniversal constant apply to the Earth Mother during or after her embarrassing teenage phase?
I have the concept of a CYOA readied in my head.
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>>97726346nah the author said she is not a mtf, also the demoness sect didn't exist until much later so real female demonesses were a thing
>>97726346Any kind of early stage immortality is practically a teen compared to full on godhood. Mortality? Fetus.
>>97725457Can we all agree that
>>97726392No
Something posted by Gremmlin, author of Battle of Dreams
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>>97725457is it normal for a cyoa to intentionally try to confuse the fuck out of you?
Feel like most of the confusion comes from people not reading it thoroughly enough and the rest comes from anons trying to turn everything into a trap option
i feel like most of the confusion comes from the cyoa being a jumpchain in all but name and anons here aren't familiar with the fact that if it's a jump for some franchise you don't know you probably shouldn't bother with it
Bounty automatically kills any companion you meet before sequence 7
>>97726453The problem of this cyoa is that you have very little choice.>look at all these options!>Now choose only 2 of them.
>>97726498I think it's more to do with the fact that you are asked to make choices that are not explained and often totally irrelevant, and you get a shitload of "points" that are not explained at all until much later, when you have to go back and rearrange your shit. So basically in order to understand how to play this CYOA I have to read it in its entirety, and it's very obviously made by an MtF lesbian
>>97726508My headcanon: all the partners without Fish out of water start at s9.
>>97726530>it's very obviously made by an MtF lesbianDon't blame Tankista for this one, that's Cuttlefish's undisguised fetish
>>97726506>the cyoa being a jumpchain in all but nameAnd why do you say that?
>>97725457Do people enjoy playing CYOAs where every choice involves you suffering a fate worse than death for all time?
>>97725457Reformatting the Wealth, Knowledge, and Influence sections to just go ahead and include the items, recipes, and companions would have been a lot more readable.
>>97726573On trash they do. But this isn't one of those cyoas.
>>97726591I like the slate as it is. The only thing that would be better is having each path with its own page so companions can have a better description and maybe the sequences can have a couple more details too. It would be good to have a list of what abilities you get because you got that sequence and what are upgrades instead.
>>97726598>uh yea if you get powerful a god will take over your body, or you will go insane, or you'll become a murderous psychopath>have fun :)
>>97726641>you'll become a murderous psychopathThis is a power tho?
>>97726573>>97726598>Anyone who lives for too long will be predestined, as a hard rule of the setting, to be vored by the supreme god of the setting.>Who you'll never be, by the way.>Said god is slowly inflicting insanity and ego death on every player.>You're expected to care about the setting even though the CYOA expects you to be a rootless elitist sociopath.>Pantheon makes no secret of the author's "dommie mommy" fetish.>Power system is not remotely deep and amounts to using your one element as a generalist conceptual power.>Anyone who's read the original property has been cucked by the exclusion of the original cast and storyline.>Play Ultimate God>Pic unrelated
>>97726641There are ways around that and the cyoa allows you to straight up cheat the system. Everyone else has to deal with that, you don't. The game was rigged from the start, and you are the one it's rigged in favor of.
>>97726656murderous psychopaths generally live in constant mental anguish and are unable to enjoy anything beyond carnal pleasures
>>97726657You are immune to all of this by the way, there's an answer for everything if you just read and stop being retarded.
I fucking hate chinktivation
>>97726659If you weren't already partway there or interested in living like that, you wouldn't have chosen the Abyss pathwayIt's an ability that allows you to excel at your chosen pathway in the same way other pathways grant you physical enhancements, spirituality enhancements, and savant gives you perfect recall. You wouldn't be complaining about Monster enhancing your spirituality to the point that you can sense things far beyond your level to handle and go insane, now would you? If you're joining the murderous psychopath pathway, it's because you want to be a murderous psychopath, and the Abyss pathway is helpful enough to make sure those trivial morals won't get in the way of your acting.
>>97726683Nta, I think it's the only path that deas that. All the other paths give you powers and skills, but don't really help with acting out your namesake. In a way it's the easiest path to progress because of that, it has built in Acting Method Perk.
>>97725457Reading up on Moon's powers it seems like Blood Servants are the only good thing it can do, since generic spells and potions seem kinda dogshit and otherwise it just goes fast and regenerates. Summoning is also basically trying to fight quality with quantity. Wouldn't the best play for them to be to force as many Beyonders as possible into being Blood Servants and hoping one of them manages to hit a high sequence in a better Pathway?
>>97726722>All the other paths give you powers and skills, but don't really help with acting out your namesake.Do you really need anything more than that to act out the names of most pathways? A Reader doesn't need anything more than enhanced intelligence and increased reading speed to be, well a Reader.
>>97726725>generic spells and potionsThey’re not bad.>Summoning>Normally, the Summoned Spirit World creature is equal to or slightly stronger than the High Summoner, but it can also be weaker or far stronger.It’s good. If not for the last part, it would be one of the best abilities.
>>97727205>They’re not bad.The wiki doesn't have a lot of descriptions of them, but the ones it does have don't sound very good. Like a potion that lets you do a fire breath attack seems like a waste of time to make. The only spell that seems good is Gaze of Darkness.
>>97726838It's more involved than just doing the basic task (like reading books). To master your current tier, and "digest" it, you have to understand how it applies to the world as a whole. Reader presumably includes everything from tracking ("reading" the tracks) to understanding the social dynamics of a party ("reading" a room) to interpreting art. Basically every way to implant meaning in the world, that an observer could look at and understand.(So "Reader" might actuslly be a very difficult tier for an introverted or socially awksard person.)
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>>97727234They are basically all encompassing in what they can do. Resistances, type attacks, stealth, mobility, attack… You can think of them as versatile lesser but still same level abilities of their sequence. They rely not on raw power but countering the opponent to work.
>>97727234>Emlyn somehow got his hands on magical anesthetic Moon gas at sequence 7>we never again see any other examples of Moon beyonders using magical chemical warfareSorry anon it's another pathway hampered by lack of examples
A Fate-style battle royale from our friends in the /trash.https://imgchest.com/p/m9yxql5r37q
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>>97727334Had to edit two of the images on this page. Original is at the link, though.
>>97727325>USA daughter is all native spiritualism and not a gunslinging cowgirlDamn for once I dont like any of these waifus
>>97727371Better?
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>>97726681greetings brother we are of the same mind
Why do they hate kino?
>>97727325Cool, very cool
>>97726657We read it the first time.
Dark City, by Azes13(Cue Bach's "Tocatto and Fugue")
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The Eternal City - a very pretty cyoa with very big files.https://imgchest.com/p/a8469pldo4x
It think I'm going to die this year, so if you could release OC before that happens that would be great.
>>97728006nah
>>97727636>no magic>fake historyGay
>>97727602This is actually good >there are less than a hundred abnormalsThis is also good; I hate when settings (…world of darkness…) pretend that it’s possible for there to be societies of hundreds (nay, thousands) of vampires without any sort of obvious impact
>>97727602>"Dark City">not about Dark City (1998)dropped
>>97728119This is a big minus. Although to be fair nothing can top Metropolis.
>>97728119How do you feel about the fact that three Dark City cyoas exist yet none of them are about the movie you're talking about?
>>97728133Metropolis is very blatantly (visually) based on the movie. But not entirely. It’s just a blatantly obvious nod to it. In fact it’s quite expanded and implies there’s more afoot than what the movie shows.
>>97728128True.>>97728133Strife's and Liminal's?Liminal's was ok I think (I don't remember it very well, but I know I made a build), I couldn't really get into Strife's and didn't read far into it.I just realized this conversation has made me a franchisefag. I feel dirty.
>>97725457Wich deities do you think would accept giving their uniqueness to help strengthen the astral barrier if you took All The Time in the World?
>>97728160>who would kill themselves?None.
>>97728172They can just return to king of angel status, like what happened to Amon after he fought Klein.
>>97728180Giving up immortality and putting themselves at the mercy of gods? What a joke.
>>97728151Buddy we've been discussing LOTM for the past week, dunking on franchisefags is stupid nowadays.
>>97728229Well, if they don't do that in 19 years even more powerful gods will arrive and destroy the earth, but ok, I get it.
>>97728160The better question is which gods most of the others could be convinced to gank and give you the uniqueness and potentially the GOO position of
>>97728350My original idea (and the one I will follow) was aiming for uniquenesses no one accomodated (mainly was planning for moon, just reflecting on the best way to pass the beauty goddes trial at 10 year old)., this was mainly an idle thought.Hell, I'm not even sure I will take All the time in the world.
>>97725362>Time PeriodModern Day> World ModificationsAnon MultiverseDiscriminationAtlanteansAlien LifeOverpoweredIQ BoostInfertilityKnown Identity> Power DensityOne In A Million> Power LevelGodlike> OriginsOff World Mineral> PowersClairvoyance Technovision Telepathy Mind Control Memory Browsing Increased Awareness Mental Shield Emotion ControlEmotional Infusion>Limit BreakersClarivoyanceTechnovisionPower Exhaustion> SuitHigh Tech> ComponentsDimensional BandsAdvanced AIDivinely LinkedSelf Repairing> MissionsSaving PeopleStopping CrimeDefeated Villain (Lock Them Up)Robin HoodDetective Work (Keep It Private)> UpgradesLasting ConnectionManipulator (Trust, Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Surprise, Anticipation)Emotional Drain > CompanionSidekick Personality ModEngineer (Self) Hacker (Self) PI (Self) Idea is to combine Clairvoyance and Technokinesis limit breakers so I can copy vast swathes of supertech at once, on top of being an incredibly powerful psychic and manipulator in general.
>>97725457I was tinkering with a several builds, and realized that all of them have 1 sequence boon pathways, forsaken location, and twilight order.Also, artifact and knowledge origins, while flavorful, gimp you too much, it is better to use other origins for building paragon/mystic/whatever than dedicated option.
>>97728558Wait till you realize that fake person is the best origin not in modern day.
>>97728558Lost Stranger is so ass
>>97728466>Time Period>Modern Day
>>97728587it's the BEST.
>>97728558>knowledge originIs it really that bad if you start as an angel of Hermit pathway?
>>97728576I already realized it. Fake person with excess imbuement turn every other origin into a joke.
>>97728611You'd be way stronger if you picked any other origin and started in the FLoG for a free Sequence 5 skip instead
>>97728611>Is it really that bad if you start as an angel of Hermit pathway?You can do it with others origins, and without lost stranger status.
>>97728587>pic relatedCYOA that got you like this?
>>97728587Stop being a contrarian and join the MP.
>>97728631The same would be true for Chaos Sea Flotsam if it didn't give you the Sefirot perk for freeIt's still not the best, but it's saved from being the worst origin by itLost Stranger is such a horrendous nerf that you probably wouldn't catch the first couple times you make a build
>>97728665>It's still not the best, but it's saved from being the worst origin by itActually... pretty sure it still only beats the other Lost Stranger(Apocalyptic Survivor seems debatable) origins
>I hate when settings (…world of darkness…) pretend that it’s possible for there to be societies of hundreds (nay, thousands) of vampires without any sort of obvious impactAre there any ways to make this problem more plausible? Like the way Mage the Ascension forces muggles to forget?
>>97728660>Stop being a contrarian and join the MP.
>>97728665I feel like Mother's is pretty bad too. Its got the most points in the worst point pool (Wealth,) its default benefits are in some real ballbuster Pathways to advance in, and you get doubledipped on corruption. It's not like True God's Seal is a bad bonus but does it really make up for the rest, your only other bonus is being able to take age advancing options without aging which seems like it's just a flavor thing.
>>97728720You will need downstream protection with it, but it one of the most useful talents anyway, and arguably must have if taking boons.I would say it is better than every lost stranger and evil spirit origins.
>>97728621>Excess imbuementActual, in-universe, trap, good if you are a fool so you can graft them away, or something similar.>>97728720>worst point pool (Wealth,)Angels have infinite knowledge, for them that's the worst point pool.
>>97728665I don't get how, you lose some points but most of those origins give a lot of things to compensate and it gives more events that you will do anyway, I think it's better than having fake sequence
>>97728766>Actual, in-universe, trap, good if you are a fool so you can graft them away, or something similar.It don't matter, all your past advancement characteristics a fake anyway, and mechanically its allow you to circumvent convergence lock of imaginary soul.
>>97728767>it gives more events that you will do anywayYou also only get 1 point from any of them and can only get a coincidence point from the accidental advancement event. All the good ones are also locked to other statuses.
Post DanmachiI have a craving for rat meat
>>97728786Doubt that, every characteristic in your past is an illusion (as your past is an illusion), why would excess imbuement be an exception? After all it isn't like you have a real past where you drank those extra potions.
>>97728822It exactly that I say, dude. Use excess imbuement for an additional events without fear that it fuck you up later.
>>97728814Just for you, one of these days, I’m going to make a “Ratmachi” cyoa where you get isekai’d as a rat into a rat themed fantasy world where you slay giant fire breathing cats and magic casting praying mantises, and worship mysterious giants.
>>97728846But thats actually cool though?
>>97728838Also, family matters event save a lot of madness for that strat if you have a spare coincidence(and fake person should be swimming in points).
Being a mouse would suck. You only live like two years.
>>97728903As long as I don't outlive my grandma it's cool.
>>97728903But these are sapient magic mice with thumbs and the ability to do maths. They live longer obviously.
>>97728903Even worse, a mouse's brain is simple enough that nothing much of (You) would remain if your brain were translated to it (because you turned into a mouse). The human brain is a very special thing.
>>97725362>Time Period + ModificationsModern dayLate Start, Anon Multiverse, Super Families, Super Teens, Lost Worlds, Atlanteans, Alien life, Extinct Creatures, Uplifted animals, Mutant animals, Uplifted plants, Fantasy Creatures, Sexual Dimorphism(Female), Gender Imbalance, Natural disasters, Inconsequential, New you, Polyglot>Power levelRare SupersReal supersInsect Bite - Butterfly>PowersRegenerationUnagingHealingBeast Form - Butterfly + 5 forms Volukinesis>Super SuitShowySelf-repairing, bulletproof, Elastic, Mighty Belt(more beast forms), Portable, Mind Shield>MissionsGetting Payed, Acts of Kindness, Saving People - The starter missions to get a handle on my powers most upgrades will go to upgrading regen or learning new formsSuper Celebrity - The first real milestone to my true goalSuper School(heroic?) - the long-term goal. We're teaching control and understanding of the gifts + living a life with powers. Technically socially good but we aren't making super heroes >Companions & Renown spendingSidekick - The first Student - Atlantean, Body mod, Personality Mod, Super x4, Role Model Sidekick 2 - The 2nd student - Ayy lmao, Body mod, Personality mod, Super x4, Role modelSidekick 3 - The 3rd student/The head of the school in my absence - Body mod, personality mod, Super x4, Role model, OratoryRenown Upgrades - Melee Fighter, Parkour, Psychiatrist, SurvivalistPretty basic powerset(Mostly applications of "I can change shape" although healing is a slight stretch), but my whole thing is just helping to create the new normal now that the chaos has subsided and the teenagers will need guidance in the setting. 3 is a little low to start a school, would have liked to add an uplifted and robot in there but hey its fine for now.
>>97727602Must the mandatory negative adjective from the archetype be from the chosen archetype ?
>>97728995You’re not wrong, but, brains can get surprisingly dense/efficient, like as seen with birds. > Bird brains possess a significantly higher density of neurons compared to mammals, with songbirds and parrots packing roughly twice as many neurons into their forebrains as primates of similar brain mass. Their smaller neurons and compact neural connections facilitate higher cognitive power per unit volume, enabling complex behaviors like tool-making and problem-solving, which are often comparable to those found in primates.Our brains could be a lot smaller. In theory.
>>97728006I think I might die this year, so wasting my precious time on OC that I may not even finish before my death isn't appealing.
>>97729064But what If you get a burst of lucidity right before you die where you could have made the greatest cyoa of all time?Don't you want to be the strongest?
>>97728711I wasn't asking.
Secret of NIMH is kino and we really need a cyoa like it
>>97729088You have a whole thread for it already.Huh, I wonder how they're doing these days. Perhaps they're finally out of the MHA craze?
>>97729102they split up the thread into mha free and mcyoag and now both are dead
>>97729135I guess the Harahel curse lives on.
>>97729135I don't get why they ever did thatReposting that massive wall of text just made the whole thing seem really unapproachable, and it would have lost nothing from being a rentry
>>97729177they don't want to be approached, they just want to jerk off the same characters and thread personalities over and over
https://imgchest.com/p/m9yxdobq64qnarto narto
>>97729196> they just want to jerk offsame desu
>>97729135You know when that happens they're supposed to join back with the main thread.
>>97725457So what benefits does Hidden Realm actually provide, beyond the obvious storage space?
>>97729216>>97729196maybe we're not so different after all
>>97729231perchance
>>97729227It's a divine kingdom or even a sefirah when applicable. Like if you're a LotM Pathway it's the castle. What benefits it provides is going to depend on that. Sadly some Pathways never have something like this shown off in the series so you'd have to completely make up what it would do or just not take the option (another reason wealth sucks.)
>>97729227Anything you want that a s1 is capable of, which should be appropriate for a divine (s0) kingdom remnant.
>>97729286>>97729292So I assume this is the sort of thing Dark Trailblazers aren't getting until way later?
>>97729286I doubt it's meant to be the Sefirot itself, as the Sefirot option would cover that.I imagined it as an option was more something similar to the starting level Kelin had, but without the rest.
>>97729325Yes.
>Dark TrailblazersNot me, I will be a Light Trailblazer. Isekai Light Overlord > Isekai Dark Overlord btw. Darkness always loses.
>>97729225damn, what if they're so dead they join back here? people would just start talking about multiplayer all of a sudden?
>>97729366true, dork lords and dork trailblazers stink
>>97729386Softiebros...say it ain't so
I’m tired of pretending that mattergal isn’t based >>97729408>>97729444>>97729461
>>97729470>dood he is le mean to trans he is le heckin basedNo? That’s just mean.
>>97729378>what if they're so dead they join back here?People here don't like CYOAs dominating the thread, people there don't want to stop their collaborative daydreaming. Sorry Dido, but reunionism won't happen.>>97729470Who car- MASAKA
>>97729470cringe
>>97725457>OriginMother's Little Reincarnator>FatePast: The TowerPresent: The ChariotFuture: The Hermit>BodyMale, Educated, Faithful, Well-Spoken>Age10 years old>StatusWild Beyonder, Noble Descendant>Noble FamilyAncient God Descendant(+2 Hermit, +1 Paragon)>RegionForsaken Land of the Gods>Secret OrganizationTarot Club>Pathway Mystery Pryer>Personal HistorySeq 9: Accidental AdvancementSeq 8: United In Blood, Gathering Attendee, Bounty HunterSeq 7: Hero Bandit, Dark Ritual Witness, Gathering ConvenerSeq 6: Mysticism Notebook, Gray Wedding, Tomb RaiderSeq 5: Legend in the Back, Card of Blasphemy, Common AdversitySeq 4(+3 low madness): Forbidden Lore, Deity Mark, Ancient TreasureSeq 3(+1 high madness): Old HorrorSeq 2: Shadow of the Third Epoch(Child of an angel from then)>PurificationShatteringCureIndulgenceCold Reasoning>WealthAffluencex3Hidden Realm>KnowledgePathway Lorex3Acting MethodMystical RitualsEpoch HistoryMystical Languagesx3>InfluenceAnchorsTacit AgreementBlessed: The Celestial MasterMost Secret organizationCustom Wife(Probably betrothed): Literally just Octavie Raph, but it makes more sense why she's betrothed/married to a 10 year old (Mother 2 summon)>CoincidencesAngelTrue God's Seal(Evernight)Uniqueness: HermitSefirot: Knowledge Moor>TalentsHuman Heart, Hand of Divinity, Downstream Protection, Deep CogitationPicked the Celestial Master for Blessed because I'll need his sect ancestors to help me accommodate the Knowledge Moor anyway.Really hoping the info from Pathway Lorex3 is as detailed as what we have for Fool and the LOTM pathways.
>>97729480>defending the trans mental illnesscringe
>>97729498Cute bait, mudslime.
>>97729498>poor muslims for merely trying to live in peacelmao
>>97729542Cute way to blow up desu
>>97725457DESCRIBE YOUR HIDDEN REALM. AT LEAST GIVE IT A NAME.
>>97729606Why?
>>97729542Muslims would never do this to a cat. They love cats too much. In fact, I’m pretty sure they love cats more than their own children; whose lives they’ll willingly forfeit due to their martyr complexes You wouldn’t see a Muslim cover themselves in cats as a form of living shield. You WOULD see a Muslim cover themselves with their own children. You would never see Muslims sending cats into mine fields to clear the way. You WOULD see Muslims sending children (blindfolded) into mind fields to clear the way. Islam’s love of cats is like the one and only truly good thing about the religion. Their glorious pedophile prophet even condemned a woman to an eternity of hellfire for starving a cat to death. That’s right. Even someone who had sex with a nine year old girl will weep for a dead cat.
>>97729640They conquered egypt by strapping cats to their shields (and the egyptians, to whom cats were holy couldnt attack them)
What are some cyoa where the best choice is to do is nothing?
>>97729490>People here don't like CYOAsYes.
>>97729702>TheyThose people died over a thousand years agoThere is no more continuity through time then there it through space
>>97729703All of those without an instant win button.
>>97729506Softie...
>>97729909I don't play that shit cyoa.
>>97729703The one where it's a murder mystery and it's implied the girl who somehow died causes a plague that at worst turns you into a ghoul or into a clone of her(?). The one with the spooky painting given by one of the potential roommates in the end. One of the patron god options sends you back to /our/ world.
What world does this CYOA take place in? irl? Alt history? Generic Earth-like world?
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>>97729987Are You Still in Pain, by Stage Play?
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>>97730054Wherever you want
ococococ¤~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~¤THE CURSE OF DOING NOTHING¤~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~¤Someone cast a curse on you:THE CURSE OF DOING NOTHING.The victim of the curse should stop enjoying things, and fall to hapless passivity as there's no prize to guide his action.But you're no ordinary victim. You're an anon of cyoag. Your mind? A bastion of indulgent enjoyment.So you can fight off some of its effects, but not all. 3 will remain.CHOOSE 3 things you stop enjoying!>HUMORYou no longer enjoy humor.>MUSICYou no longer enjoy music.>PHILOSOPHYYou no longer enjoy philosophy.>NATURAL BEAUTYYou no longer enjoy natural beauty.>WINNINGYou no longer enjoy winning.>A SENSE OF COMMUNITYYou no longer enjoy a sense of community.>SEXY THINGSYou no longer enjoy sexy things.
>>97729205>setting where everyone and their dad have unique jutsu, summons, bloodlines, or equipment >CYOA is just a laundry list of powers that other characters have, no way to make your ownDisappointing
>>97725362>SettingThe Affairs of Gods>PositivesAttractive>NegativesInconsequential>NeutralAnon MultiverseLost WorldsPower Density - One in a MillionPower Level - GodlikePower Origins - Lab Accident>PowersTelepathy+Increased Awareness+Mental Shield +Mind Reading+Sleepy+Memory Browsing+Mind ControlSleepwalkingPossession+Longer x31Limit Breaker: PossessionLimit Breaker Cost: Power Exhaustion>Super-suitOrdinary: Shapeshifting, Dimensional Band, Divinely Linked, Self-repairing>MissionsDefeated Villain, Lock them up (+2 Hero, +7 Powers)Defeated Hero, Torture and Maim (+2 Villain, +7 Powers)Detective Work (+2 neutral, +7 Powers)Divide and Conquer, Good or evil (+2 renown, +7 Powers)Evil Mastermind (+9 Powers)>RenownHenchman or SidekickShort Sleep>CompanionGhostSuper x5Hidden Potential: Clones>PowersPortalsUnagingInvisibilityCloning+Empowered++Upgraded+Hivemind+LegionA completely invincible build once I've finished my missions. Mental shield gives immunity to all attacks on my mind. Once my missions are complete I can use the possession limit break to take over my companion's body, becoming a ghost immune to all physical attacks.With my companion's cloning powers I can create 9 clones with a little over three hours of possession each, which gives me the ability to infinitely chain possessions on a single target. Invisibility, hivemind, memory browsing, and portals let me do this seamlessly.There's no way to harm or kill me, and even if an enemy is immune to telepathy I can just infinitely possess other people to attack them.
>>97730077Yeah that's it. Thanks. Saintslayer, That, and Dream of Genie always had a fun mystery without taking away from the choosing aspect.
>>97730124Humor, Music, A sense of communityI need sexy things to have children
>>97730160Play Lord of the Mysteries, it's less rampant there.
>>97728690Mage the Ascension doesn't do that, in fact a big point of the game is that you DON'T want to hide your magic to force your paradigm on othersMage the Awakening is the one where muggles can't remember it
>>97728248>God gives uniqueness to anon>anon repairs barrier>Anon gives uniqueness back>God gives Uniqueness to anon>repeat like 300 times>barrier will now last for like 6 thousand years
>>97730218>Beyonders (read:cultists) in virtually every cellar>10,000+ Secret Cults>Forsaken Land of God, 'nuff said>get too strong and you lose >stay too weak and you go insane>world still ending btw>With all Tankista's twists, it went from ANON MUST DIE to HELL difficulty The best play is not to play.
>>97730320>'Nuff said>Continues to speak
>>97730294>the one where muggles can't remember itAlso Changeling: the Dreaming and Werewolf: the Apocalypse.
>>97730320I mean, LOTM had a sequel. If after the escalation of the original, everything is good enough to allow another protagonist slow ascent to power, we're fine.
>>97730160>no way to make your ownthere is thoughyou can make your own jutsu and kekkei genkai
>>97729074You misunderstand; the lucidity already burst, but it was too vast. With my potential death fast approaching, I doubt I can bring it about before my death, if my death were to come this year.
>>97730320>The best play is not to play.you just now figured that out lol
>>97730175>Yeah that's it. Thanks. Saintslayer, That, and Dream of Genie always had a fun mystery without taking away from the choosing aspect.Actually, I didn't like the mystery aspect of Are You Still in Pain. Now, don't get me wrong - I love the idea of the cyoa. A cyoa where something went horribly wrong with (your) isekai adventure, and an amnesiac (you) has to piece together what happened, and fix things? It's an amazing concept, and off-hand, I can't think of any other cyoa even remotely close.However . . . I don't think the author gave us enough to work with to even understand how to begin solving it. At least not without making all kinds of assumptions, to the point that you're basically Sartre-ing the whole thing.Sigh - if the transitions between sections had been better, or if there had been mystery boxes, or . . . Simply having the player find a note (in their own handwriting, about the white haired girl) would have done a lot for the cyoa. Oh! Or a picture of her, with a note to "Find Her!" scrawled on the back.Oh well - it is what it is. For anyone who hasn't seen the cyoa: https://imgchest.com/p/qb4zk2834jm
>>97730466>I don't think the author gave us enough to work with Agree,
>>97730327He gave you more than enough.
>>97729606I barely know what it even does.
>>97729703The Angel one where you can just choose to go to heaven instead.
>>97726017>My Major ArcanaStrength>Minor ArcanasLegendary WeaponChivalrous KnightEndless CouragePublic Enemy>Ally's Major ArcanaThe Chariot>Rival's Major ArcanaThe Magician>Nemesis' Major ArcanaThe Empress
>>97729606OkayIt's a citadel that appears in landscape paintings that allows me to access little pocket worlds based on those paintings>>97724726The general idea behind this build is to be in a position to help others along their Paths. Half of my companions are ones that seem like they need help. Teale Hawthorn for making connections and Wilmer Redt to hopefully help me with my own Path.A secondary goal is to learn as much as I can about what's going on and why so I maxed out Epoch History and Languages. Combined this should really help. Not sure how they work 100% in Modern Day tho.Still have a lot of Wealth to spend. I guess I should invest it into Potion Ingredients for me and my Companions? None of the Artifacts really jumped out at me at a glance.Also not sure how Blessed works in Modern Day but I like the idea of getting a little guidance and purpose to really motivate me forward.I like my Talents but I picked them when I was using a different Origin so I'm not sure if there's better ones I should be picking instead now that the Benefit cost is removed.Origin: In Modern Day>Wealth, 25>Knowledge, 25>Influence, 25>Coincidence, 0Fates:>The Magician (Past)>Temperance (Present)>Moon (Future)Body: Male>Lucky>Trustworthy>Well-SpokenStatus: Dark TrailblazerPathway: ApothecaryWealth: 26 -19>Hidden Realm (The Painted World), -7>Forbidden Literature x1, -3>Affluence x2, -9Knowledge: 26 -26>Pathway Lore, -3>Mystical Languages x3, -6>Epoch History x4, -12>Mystical Rituals, -2>Beyonder Creatures, -3Influence: 27 -26>Gathering Invitation, -2>Spirit Messenger, -2>Blessed, -4Partners:>Daud Wilt (S1 Assasin), -1>Jeffery Kellen (S1 Seer), -1>Leslie Meadows (S1 Planter), -0>Alain Pascal (S8 Secrets Supplicants), -1>Teale Hawthorn (S6 Reader), -6>Wilmer Redt (S4 Apothecary), -10Coincidences: 2Talents:>Eye for Wrongness>Contracts and Honorifics>Guiding Interest>Human Heart>>97725457Give me a name List/Rank Anon!
>>97730320>>Beyonders (read:cultists) in virtually every cellar>Seq 1: 3 Seq 2: 9 Seq 3: 27 Seq 4: 81 Seq 5: 243 Seq 6: 729 Seq 7: 2,187 Seq 8: 6,561 Seq 9: 19,683>Total (Per Pathway): ~29,523>Beyonder Characteristics Total (22 Pathways): ~649,506 Beyonder Characteristicsreminder that 66% of characteristics in the world are just sequence 9
>>97730341>slow ascentLumian's ascent was anything but slow wtf
>>97730527anon you have to title yourself
>>97730540I always hate giving myself names. Feels kinda wrong. It's like, giving yourself a nickname, yaknow? Who the fuck does that.The best names are thoughtful ones that others give you. I feel like they have more meaning.
>>97730555I name you Spunky
>>97730555Where is your whimsy? Your pride? Your CHUUNI?
>>97725457How does " Younger "+ Reincarnator work? Do you cut your age in half before you choose your future path or after? It doesn't seem right that I can reach Sequence 5 and only be 23.
>>97730578Fitting, I suppose. My ejaculations are quite plentiful and there was a years long period of my life that I was having up to 3 wet dreams a night.
>>97730601And only have a 23 year old bodyAlso you don't have to take any of the age options
>>97730638bruh
I love gift of slop cyoas
>>97730652I read something about that but did not understand the wording. If aging is optional, instead of 23 at sequence 5, would I claim to be any age instead at that point?
>>97730684You start at 20, you could be 10
>>97730601Reincarnator actually reach sequence 5 at 10 years. With younger it would be 5, I suppose.But Lumian reached goo level in that, less than an year? I think its fine.
>>97730707No, it locks you to 5, cannot be changed
>>97730707If this is the case, I don't have a need for "Younger" and can trade it for something else. In the case of reaching Sequence 2, the ages can be ignored there as well?
>>97730752It locks you to 10 by default, how young affect it is debatable, but locking to 5 with young is more hilarious.
>>97730776>how young affect it is debatableRaw only things that increase your age are ignored, so young should still work.
>>97730766Age can help with some rituals, I suppose, but otherwise its just a flavor.
>>97730786>locked into starting at the age of 10 years oldI don't see there only things that increase your age are ignored.
>>97730799I was going for how much of a child prodigy I could be and cram in as much advancement as possible in youth so Adulthood becomes "easier" to continue advancement. If it's just flavor then I can relax.
>>97730218No thanks I’m not a homosexual masochist with 120 minutes to read it
>>97730851So you're a homosexual sadist with 120 minutes to read it? Thanks for sharing ig
>>97729205>still references characters in perks and drawbacks that haven't existed for like 70 versions>still no world alteration that lowers the power, scale, and feel of the world to pre-shitpoopden levels>no way to just uncanonize everything after the SRAstill needs a lotta work, 5.5/10 would only spend one afternoon daydreaming about
>>97730638are you from some niche fetish porn game
>yeah I have cultivated the supreme chingchong lvl 374757 from the 495866868 fragments of the ping pong sea of mystery, this allows me to ascend to a lvl 486868 ping wonger and access the twentyfold supreme ass realms
>>97731027You FOOL!I Have Cultivated the Supreme chingchong lvl 374758 from the 495866869 fragments of the ping pong sea of mystery, allowing ME to ascend to a lvl 486869 ping wonger and access the twentyonefold supreme ass realmsYou are about to be ANNIHILATED
>>97730124>MUSIC>NATURAL BEAUTY>SEXY THINGSI feel these 3 are more closely linked to my senses, and less to my fundamental thought mechanisms, so it should alter the core of my mind less.
>>97730851You're free to talk about Danmachi ig
>>97731052How did you get there so fast?!
>>97731096Work harder idk
>>97730124>SEXY THINGSNothing changes. Trivial.>WINNINGI already don't feel satisfaction by doing things nor feel a competitive spirit. Also trivial.>NATURAL BEAUTYEverything else is too important.
>>97731096It's a mystery...a [LORD OF THE MYSTERIES] even!
>>97729512you can disapprove of the mental illness while still being nice to the mentally ill
>>97731120>niceWe're on 4chan.
>>97729972Shut up you imposter.
>>97731123>>97731120I do thisI just also don't talk about those topic, because they are almost meaningless
>>97730124great OC, doc. I love it>WINNING>MUSIC>SEXY THINGSsex is not the biggest part of relationships, I would much rather lose my lustful impulses than my need for community and love. Music is something I treasure but can do without; there is plenty of beauty in the sounds of the world. winning is basically unimportant a lot of the time, too>>97731069>>97731112literally all the other things stem from something that could be described as natural beauty. To me it is the single most essential one of these
had to chop this motherfucker up to post it here. I like the art and concept. Well executed time travel CYOA (rare)
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>>97731027Based catposter
>>97731027God I love watching you suffer.
https://imgchest.com/p/na7konjjwy8
>>97731707These companions are so shit. PCA can't write to save his life.
>>97726657>Anyone who lives for too long will be predestined, as a hard rule of the setting, to be vored by the supreme god of the setting.Isn't the "supreme god" of the setting basically the Skai? If so, I don't know what you're talking about. The Skai aren't voring horrorterrors, which are amongst the oldest entities around. In fact, the Skai barely interfere at all, which is perhaps why there are so many evil entities roaming around.>Said god is slowly inflicting insanity and ego death on every player.The work in progress includes countermeasures and preventatives to corruption now, if corruption is what you are referring to. Cosmic dreamer and the breath of Skai are the most critical ones, as they outright reverse corruption. Bubble of Skai prevents it altogether. Monster's maw dampens corruption.>You're expected to care about the setting even though the CYOA expects you to be a rootless elitist sociopath.Nowhere in the CYOA are you expected to be sociopath. You CAN be, and there are choices that appeal to that, but nothing stops you from not picking them.>Pantheon makes no secret of the author's "dommie mommy" fetish.I approve of this fetish.>Power system is not remotely deep and amounts to using your one element as a generalist conceptual power.It's actually very well thought out, and the WIP allows for multiple "secondary" attributes now, depending on how many family members you have.>Anyone who's read the original property has been cucked by the exclusion of the original cast and storyline.I don't care, as long as she keeps Daoris.
>>97725289>https://fiction.live/stories/Urban-Unease/svkBADdjsWtWAJpdhAnyone done the Urban Unease cyoa before?
>>97731737>t. Provoked
PCA? The greatest of all time.
>>97731707Transmutation my beloved...
What type of abilities do you gravitate towards in a cyoa? I prefer intel-gathering abilities like scrying and shapeshifting in a fantsdy setting or mind-reading and computer hacking in a sci-fi setting.
>>97732224Do anything abilities like magic. Beyond that, fate manipulation, luck, precognition, that sort.
>>97732190Its ok.
>>97732224Anything that lets me have my weapons at all times without physically carrying it on my body, doesn't matter if it's spontaneous manifestation, or pocket dimensional storage, or whatever.
>>97732224Lightning and darkness powers because I'm a badass.
>>97732224Crafting and tech powers because they're the coolest
>>97732224Creation and summoning for me
>>97732224These >>97732294 >>97732545
>>97732224summoning and intelligence/charisma
>>97732224Anything that can boost my physical strength is a must, for me. I love lifting heavy things and putting them down.
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>>97732224Psionic abilities. Extrasensory things, all brands of kinesis, some mind upgrades.
>>97732224Shapeshifting/Summoning/Pets are my usual combat-related go-tos with a sub-focus on defensive tools like healing and durability boosts
>>97732224anything related to creating 'space' or travel usually, I feel a certain kinship with creatures like snails or nautiluses and wish I could simply bring home with me wherever I go or atleast to be able to return there quickly.also being able to shut things out or keep them in is since because it gives you time to think
>>97732224Biological manipulation.
>>97732224Always the simplest powers, which almost always means just straight physical enhancement. My power fantasy is essentially just being able to out-punch anything.
>>97732224Mind control, inhibition removing, and corrupting things to the side of light.
>>97733104*swings clock in front of your face* ooouuuuuuu you will be a goooooood person toooodaaaay oooouuuuuu youuuuuuu will help grandma carry her grooooooceriiiiiiiies...
This is the blandest dragon CYOA I ever played.
>>97733190it looks pretty tho i'll give it that
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This is the CYOA that killed cyoastuff. Say something nice about it.Part 1: https://imgur.com/a/mvm-1-15-tghpt2sPart 2: https://imgur.com/a/mvm-16-31-2eqeTqsDownload: https://cyoa.allsync.com/s/owWor64yLTngDk3?dir=/CYOA%20Creators%2C%20Authors/C/cyoastuff%27s%20CYOAs/Mech%20vs%20Monsters%20CYOA
>>97733238>Say something nice about it.The setting and player's role in it seems cool.But I'm not going to play it. Cyoastuff caught the terrible disease by which each new cyoa must be longer than the last...>This is the CYOA that killed cyoastuff.And the disease was fatal?
>>97732454Objectively Kino, yes.
>>97732224top choice for me is healing because it reduces the chances of me getting permanently crippled/killed and it's an amazing power to make new allies.
>>97733238>mechaMeh.The plot was nice though.
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