Quest General CYOA Thread

Stardust CYOA
  • Duke Nukem

    Hail to the king baby
    This is a thread for CYOA .

    Here is one to start with

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    What path will you take?

    This is a long one So what build will you guys pick?
     
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    Drow CYOA
  • Bear Ribs

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    Vs 1.1 of the Drow CYOA is ready.

    Changes:
    A few formatting changes to make it more consistent, number of fonts used reduced.
    Number of Fragments raised slightly.
    Colors and pictures adjusted to be easier to read.
    Wording refined on some options to make meaning more clear, rolling "Free Male" no longer invalidates house size choice.
    No longer completely hosed by a bad roll in selecting rank.
    Price of Artifacts slightly reduced and advantages increased for balance reasons.
    Disadvantages generally weakened to be less troublesome and able to be removed over time with effort.
    Fifth page added with potential outcomes and plot hooks, as well as thanks for people who gave advice and proofreading.

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    BattleTech CYOA
  • Bear Ribs

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    Drakensis put together a Battletech Successor State CYOA. My entry on it:


    Komonumo

    The Komonumo Flag's six stars represent six disparate groups that came to an agreement to form their nation. The black represents the dangers losses of the past. The yellow represents a bright future, with the orange representing the present danger that must be navigated to attain that future.

    Founded initially by SLDF Scientists who declined Kerensky's invitation to vanish into the wilderness, the Komonumo are an eccentric group with a strong emphasis on science and education. LostTech hunters consider Komonumo territory a goldmine of lost libraries and data repositories and rumors that the Komonumo have secret research facilities duplicating the Royal Technology of the Star League abound, though those in the know consider that absurd as their emphasis on research-sharing and information technology means they're terrible at keeping any secrets.

    The Komonumo are known for having a solid manufacturing base that has a focus on older designs. They produce a single Liberty JumpShip every 9 months and their most common DropShip is the DroST. For all of that, their technology is not inferior to the rest of the Inner Sphere, they favor PPCs and manufacture said weapon in great quantities. Their ability to produce fusion engines is sharply limited and they prefer designs that can use their few options. If they salvage 'mechs that they can't replace the fusion engine in, policy is to sell or trade it for one that they can.

    The Komonumo practice an odd form of Democracy in which there are no elections, ostensibly to avoid expensive campaigns. Instead, once a vote is “parked” by a voter on a candidate, it remains there until the voter changes their mind. Should a candidate's total votes fall beneath the threshold, they have 30 days to either regain the confidence of a sufficient number of voters or turn power over to the new elected representative. Term limits are constitutionally forbidden. Consequently their government is known for long periods of stability punctuated by short but extreme political campaigns as several candidates just at the threshold of becoming leader vie for those last few votes, until one does something flash enough to catch the public's eye and settles into position. As an odd side effect, the Komonumo have no political parties as other states would recognize them. The greatest threats to a politician are those who have very similar views and thus can sponge off their votes. Meanwhile a diametrically opposed candidate is no threat to the politician's voter base, so they prefer to deal and cooperate with extremely different policies. Politics leads to strange bedfellows in every system but the Komonumo carry this to extremes.

    Mocking hereditary rulers and other's political systems is a national pastime. This has not endeared them to their neighbors.

    Militarily the Komonumo are uninspired but fairly large. Most worlds have at least a lance of 'mechs and an armored company with industrial worlds having significantly more. Leaders who can't attract enough military power to deal with the endless pirates and lostech hunters that ply their space tend to be voted out quickly. Their war college emphasizes accurate long-range fire over piloting skill, and their military prefers to fight a defensive game and stay at long range to avoid taking expensive damage while peppering enemies with PPC fire.



    Location and Time

    2 Former Terran Hegemony

    8 Post-League

    Size

    2 More than 200 Lightyears Across

    6 1d3*100=100 Inhabited Worlds

    Things Lost

    7 Many Fine Universities Shattered and Lost Libraries

    5 Damaged Recharge Stations dot the Landscape

    Government

    1 Representative Democracy

    Relations

    8 All Neighbors are Hostile, Two Realms unfriendly, others Neutral

    -Lyran Commonwealth and Draconis Combine Hostile

    -Capellan Confederation and Federated Suns Unfriendly

    -Free World's League Neutral

    Military

    9 1 One Regiment per four worlds = 25 Regiments

    3 1d6+3=4 Regiments of Mercenaries

    6 Two Armored Regiments per 'Mech Regiment (excludes mercs) 50 Regiments

    9 3 Infantry Regiments per 'Mech Regiment (excludes mercs) 75 Regiments

    10 Intelligence is nonexistent

    Designs Available

    6 Battlemech

    1 Light

    -Spider

    3 Medium

    -Clint

    -Vulcan

    -Hermes II


    1 Heavy

    -Rifleman

    1 Assault

    -Awesome

    5 Aerospace

    1 Light

    -Sparrowhawk

    -Centurion


    2 Medium

    -Hellcat

    -Stingray


    1 Heavy

    -Deathstalker

    1 Small Craft

    -Aquarius

    7 Conventional Vehicle

    2 Light

    -Warrior

    -Galleon


    3 Medium

    -Maxim

    -Ballista

    -Monitor


    2 Assault

    -Schrek

    -Demolisher (Devastator)


    3 Military DropShip

    -Union

    -DroST

    -Condor


    Predominant Culture

    1 None, Wholly Original and Speaks Esperanto

    Good and Bad

    1 Robust Economy

    9 A Small JumpShip Yard

    3 Strong National Identity

    10 Major Piracy Problem
     
    Star Wars Spacemusu CYOA
  • Bear Ribs

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    While throwing out my work might as well revisit this old shame. Star Wars Spacemusu CYOA, a crossover between Star Wars and Kantai Collection. It was my first try at making a CYOA.

    This one's pretty flawed, I didn't get the points balanced the way I wanted and it's not really equipped with much in the way of fanciness. It's also possible to randomly generate the extremely weird condition of starting on Coruscant but also being unable to find any civilization.

    Many people on Spacebattles were offended that they could roll up a repair yard or transport when I... really didn't see the issue given even a light transport Shipgirl (and you couldn't get something that small, the table for them was if you wanted a pet following you around) should be strong and tough enough to pull off Darth Vader's head like popping a champagne cork. Apparently they felt they should only be able to roll large, high-end combat ships and were unhappy I didn't include an option to play the Death Star, which I felt was to over-the-top. The option to play in different time periods also wasn't popular, everybody wanted Ahsoka for an admiral.

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    Cheaters Chest CYOA
  • Bear Ribs

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    Huh, missed that one the first time around.

    I don't normally meta-CYOA but for a world as utterly cursed as ASoIaF, and a CYOA as ungenerous as this one, Imma pull out the Cheater's Chest.
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    Because I like rolling for random effects, my go-to is normally Dice of Fate but this CYOA utterly fails at giving me any dice rolls so I'll pass. Because it spells out the numbers, the magic pencil would let me edit "you get three blessings" into "you get thirteen blessings" within it's three letter limit.

    However this being ASoIaF, Imma go with the Chains of Olympus. I get six blessings (suck it you seven), I'm physically twice as strong as a human of my build should be, any spells I cast have twice the power and duration for a person of my training, and all other benefits I'd get free are doubled.

    @BlackDragon98 took the build I'd normally go for already (who doesn't want a dragon? Also the free cities are way better.) So I'm taking Dorne, which tends to be well-protected by it's various natural defenses and doesn't get hit much in the books. The fact that it's much warmer won't hurt when Winter comes. Staying male because @^%$ being female in a world where rape is that common.

    I get two jobs free so I'll go with Blade and Coin. Buying and selling will be my primary occupation and the Blade will come into play when I meet bandits or snooty nobles who mistakenly believe they're entitled to a 100% discount on my wares. I'll expend two blessings to get Higher Education on both.

    I get two gifts free and those will be Tools of the Trade for a Valyrian steel blade and Giant's Blood to be even more ridiculously strong. I'll expend three blessings to get Valar Morghulis, Touched by Magic, and Grace and Beauty.

    Disadvantages: $%^& no, none of those!

    The rest will go towards getting a nice mix of companions and setting up my party. I get two free companions and they will be Muwari Vaballatha and Jon Sharp. Rather than a sugar daddy Muwari will be my adviser in the trade. John Sharp will follow anybody honorable and the most honorable person in Westeros is basically average Joe by our standards so I should have no problem being the most honorable guy he's ever seen. For two additional blessings I'll take Corton Penrose to be my magical teacher and Tarrina Gargalen fits this character since I'm also from Dorne and might know her.

    We'll be the officers of a merchant company and charter a ship, hauling goods between Dorne and Qarth (unless Muwari's issues prevent him from ever returning to Qarth in which case adjust our typical routes a bit) with stops in Essos and possibly even sometimes trading stuff with the Dothraki . It's not like they can possibly be operating any mines with their lifestyle so they must be getting iron for their swords from somewhere. Granted there's the question of what the heck they're selling me since they apparently have nothing but grass and horses (I mean honestly their lifestyle shouldn't be possible anyway but whatevs). I can probably get their respect via fighting prowess, with Chains of Olympus I'm twice as strong as a I should be and with higher education on The Blade I should count as at least moderately physically conditioned. Were I an average male of about 200 pounds that should put my Bench Press at around 500 pounds, for comparison Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is about 450. But I'm not average sized, I'm giant blooded, so quite likely I'm more around 1,000 pound bench press. Coupled with being a master water dancer with a a Valyrian Steel sword, I suspect I won't have a problem wowing them and convincing them I'm worthy to trade with.

    Depending on the timeline, see if I can recruit Viserys and Daenerys during the period of time they were street urchins and starving before Illyrio got them. That would be significantly better for them (they won't starve as much) and me (they'll be much more appreciate and amenable) and get a superior outcome, before Illyrio poisoned Visery's mind with dreams of conquest. Potentially get them to abandon the idea of rulership and instead embrace the seafaring merchant lifestyle. With the canon truly off the rails we may never find those dragon eggs but then again we're wealthy travelling merchants with significant magical power behind us, we may find them anyway. Alternately just try to get them to embrace a saner outlook on life before getting together with Varys.

    Probably have to use Valar Morghulis to kill Cersei. By itself that will probably save Westeros from a lot of it's ridiculous wars. If necessary, burn the second use on Baelish though he seems more vulnerable to regular assassination and I'll try that first. The last one try to spend on the Night King though I suspect he's beyond the abilities of a Faceless Man. Alternately if Illyrio already has Viserys and Daenerys I may have to burn a use on him to get them on board.

    When visiting Dorne the Targaeryns will learn the joys of Black Walnut Hull.
     
    Tsar of Svetlania CYOA
  • King Arts

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    Now, this is alot for anyone to make a build for, so I would just do small stuff, like say which wife you will take, or what nation you want to ally with, and what ending you think is best to shoot for. But I have to say Kaguya is OP she has every blood line limit ability. And it would make sense that it would get passed on to your kids, that would make it the best of the dynasties. Though the Theodosian, and Lykhanian units are cool as an alliance also.
     
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