/cyoag/ - CYOA General

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least fave: real photos.

also mixing western and anime art.

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Plains X20 (100)
Water X16 (180)
Mountains X6 (270)
Volcano X2 (300)
Wasteland X100+

Aeons ago a meteor slammed into a lifeless surface, creating the life sustaining world you see before you in the crater.

D2: The Empire of the Black Sun
Capitol X1 (15) [15-20]
Black Harbor X5 (90) [15-40]
Fallen Empire X1 (100) [15-45]
The imperials claim heritage of an ancient civilization, their true connection is suspect but they prefer it over just being conquering, enslaving assholes.

C4: Mountains of Peace
Mystics X5 (100) [50-75]
The hidden library is located here. The mystics protect their secrets against the imperials zelously, even when their own children are used as fish bait.

E3: Dark Halls
Tunnellers X8 (80) [8-40]
Deep Dwellers (100) [10-50]
Vassals of the imperials, they offer up yearly tributes of virile men. In return they are left more or less in peace.

D4: Dragon's peak
Riverfolk X10 (100) [10-50]
The water is constantly steaming yet it's the coolest thing around. Land is not safe here.

C6: The Far Reaches
Highbuilders X3 (90) [45-60]
Those that live on this landmass think it's the end of the world.

C7: The Big City
Hubtowns X20 (100) [20-100]
There's casino's here

D7: The Ridge
Hermitage X10 (100) [50-100]
The trek anybody that's from the humble beginnings must make to reach The Big City

D8: Humble Beginnings
Husbandry X7 (70) [7-35]
Barbarians X6 (100) [7-65]
This is the starting town.

Now for the monsters.
E5: Tritonia
Immediately make the minimum pressure for all areas except the mountains of peace, the far reaches and the ridge

the mountains of peace I'll deal with by throwing wild merfolk in the path of the imperials (C3). That'd be anywhere between 10 and 18 units. I'll stay in-between with 14.
The Dark Halls also get offered as fish food with 5 units of wild merfolk on E2. They also have 15 units of Devil Bugs infesting their sewers.

The Far Reaches have 10 units of harpies and 3 units of domestics to bring them over the minimum

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>Name
Felix Jowell
>Class
Sorcerer
>Staff
Tir
>Stats
Strength- 3
Defense- 5
Agility- 7
Intelligence- 10
Skill- 5
>Blessing
+3 stat points
>Skills
Physical: Toughness(+1 Def.), Martial Arts(+1 Skill)
Magical: Catalysts (+1 Skill), Arcane (+1 Int), Finesse (+1 Int), Spellsurge, and Psionic
Spiritual: One with Nature (+1 Def), Poisons(+1 Def), Bindings (+1 Int), Bloodlust (+1 Str), Soul Spirit (+1 Agi)
Weaponry: Marksmanship (+1 Agi), Ancient Weapon
Elemental: Adaptation (+1 Skill)
Ethereal: Indomitable (+1 Str), Blessed (+1 Def), Recall (+1 Int), Pocketing (+1 Agi) Premonition, Healing
>Licenses
Ancient Forest
Desert
>Resources
Library
Alchemy
Bar
Hot Springs
Upper Class House
Campsite
Map

A wonderful world fill with fantastic beast and people.

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Optional content with rolling

Additional setting info and we're done.

I think freedom is one of the big perks the "media", and I like it when authors take advantage of it, e.g. using them to explore an actually original setting; going meta ; not caring about IP, or making them extremely long (see Traveller's Tale for both).
I like it when they're fun (pic rel), I like it when they make me think or feel.
In other words, I like it when they have a soul.

The Ridge can be kept down with an endless horde of goblins, 40 units to be exact

then there's monsters that aren't necessary but fun to include
like the 4 dragons and and 2 units of dragonkin at dragon's peak
and the 10 units of domestics at Humble Beginnings (7 of which don't exert pressure), one unit of naturalized domestics and 1 unit of lamia
or the Big City having a Danuki unit running the crooked casinos and 10 units of amazons that find jobs as enforcers

the empire of the Black Sun isn't safe either, they have some pressure left and I'm filling it u with 3 units of Cancer

Events:
Plague of Wrath at the Dark Halls. Not with the expectation it'll be triggered, just in case.
Hell and High Water. Because it'll flood everything except for my castle and my army of merfolk. (and the starter town, but it'd have to be a pretty darn impressive sea adventure to get to me then)
Turbulent Skies at the Far Reaches. Would Hell and High Water trigger it? It's happening everywhere. That would make for a great army of Sirens.
I'll take some extra husbandry stacks on the plains next to Humble Beginnings so I can set the Monster Famr event. Just because I think it's cool.
I can also make sure not to fill their pressure up too much, just so the black harbor can have a slave rout to one of the lower ones, crossing E5, which I can then fill up with sea slimes and set up the Sunken Atlantis event

Anyway. My castle is at D1, the farthest possible from anybody heroic.

Design, Lore, Characters, and Choices. Long ago the four elements to a cyoa lived in perfect harmony in /cyoag/. Then, everything changed when the Tok attacked, only an authorfag a master of the four elements could stop them, but when the /cyoag/ needed one the most, they vanished.

>Design, Lore, Characters, and Choices
CYOA cyoa: pick only two of the above.

Repostan for 3_tankista

Mostly because if you want a few laws you pretty much have to nuke your stats into oblivion, which means the only way to actually reach an outcome is Willpower. Let's look at the math real fast, the theoretical maximum for each of the stats is

Glory: 14
Honor: 25
Will: 40

Already pretty slanted, yeah. Now let's look at how much stats you could potentially lose:

Glory: -32
Honor: -32
Will: -21

That's....less than ideal. But that's just surface level stuff, when you get into it the picture becomes worse for non-Will stats. First off, maximum Honor requires you to both take Maiden (already the most unpopular start iirc), then choose the extra land and stat boost abilities, the Pagan religion, and then give up all seven of your non-Capital holdings to Nikita Popov. Not to mention one of the allies encourages negative honor and Vladimir being hard to secure an alliance with even with positive Honor. Glory is already handicapped in terms of how much you can get, but it limits you to a total of 5 laws (4 if not Oligarchic). The bonuses for the laws aren't bad (Orient Company, Sudebnik, Collect Tribute, Zastroyka Edict, and Trade League), but they aren't something great like Sanctioned Spellcraft. Of the companions that take negative points from Glory, Helgi will likely hate you if you pass any laws regardless and has a high alliance threshold, while Vasiliy is easy to ally with even with negative Glory. Glory also basically requires your Bogatyr to do pointless shit instead of something useful like kill glaciers or Koschey

There is a metric fuckton of Will available, and the drawback for it (strained or hostile relations with other nations) aren't that bad. Two potential allies encourage bad relations with foreign powers, and the penalties for Strained (not being able to hire their units) is situational at best, pointless at worst.

Lore and Choices

Choices and Choices.

I'll take these

Hello. I searched the impressively organized archives for this one CYOA, i could not find it.

It was about moving into a new town that was isolated. You can choose how it's isolated: two of the choices I can remember were the paths winding in on themselves and an infinite wilderness. You could choose an occupation, two small items, and a mentor. But you can choose one more of a small item or a mentor if you choose an additional mystery at the last section.
If anyone remember something like this, can you please post it?

A time of Troubles build, actual CYOA in last thread

Glory- 6
Honor- 4
Will- 3

Born in White
War Child

The Maiden
Svetlania Allies
Alliance with Norseland
Pagan
Cult of Savrog

Dynasty of Vasnetsor
House Vsevolodovich

Diplomacy
Leadership
Riding
Archery

Falcon

Wild Field Frontier
Wyrmland
Long Shore Frontier
Konotop
Volynov Capital

Cossak Population 2000
Svetlanian Population 9000

Military 1600
Gold 800

+15 Dissent

Ostrog
Roads
Rye Fields
Pagan Idols

Bookkeeper
Spymaster

Strained relationships with Lyakhia & Tunguskians

Ivan the Fearsome
Neutral
Helgi the Seer
Neutral
Olga the Widow
Alliance Proposal
False Nestor
Neutral
Vasiliy the Dark
Neutral
Vladimir Stereomakh
Neutral
Vseslav
Alliance
Koschey the Deathless
War

Emperor of Ages

Bogatyr- Kolyvran
We choose to fight

Armored Mammoths 100
Regiment Horsemen 500
Regiment Footmen 1000
Regiment Footmen 1000
Bombards 100

Landships 100
Boyar Cavalry 250
Archers 500
Archers 500
Archers 500
Priests 100
Regiment Infantry 1000
Northern Crusaders 250

Oligarchic Republic
Mikhail Sedykh
Free the Serfs

Ending: None (Remembered as the woman who slew Koschei the Deathless)

You can use power to safely get high stats without losing out on army strength while also becoming a bogatyr all your own. My old build finished out at 6 glory, -1 honor, and 9 will and I don't think it would be that hard to tweak it to focus on glory instead. As for honor, you would be hard pressed to get it with power but a lot of honor points seem better suited to one of the merger endings rather than thrice ninth tsardom making 9 honor rather redundant. The real problem is how building and some laws have no mechanical value, an infrastructure stat or something similar needs to be implemented to make them a reasonable choice beyond flavor.

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Power doesn't give you stats. The fact is there just isn't as much Glory as there is Will, and Glory is required for more things. Plus maximizing your power limits the amount of Glory you can collect.

You can get 9 Glory, I'm not denying that it is possible, I was just providing proof on why High-Will negative-everything else builds are so popular.

Focusing on having acceptable relationships with other rulers all around let me focus on purging the taint of Koschey from the nearby lands, as my bogatyr searches for the needle that hides his soul. I'll lead the troops myself, and I assume it's mostly the risen dead I'm fighting so I'm not worried about things like guns. Also because my units tend towards defense and I'm not attacked by my neighbors I'm in for a good long campaign without taking too much damage.

Afterwards I'll occupy the lands the dead ruled and create infrastructure so that the future republic has a good start, hopefully becoming the future breadbasket of the region

>Stats
Str 5
Agi 4
End 4
Skl 4 (6)
Att 8 (10)

>Ravager
No fun allowed.

>Fae
The narrator is a fucking edgelord holy shit...

>The twin
By all terms and purposes it gives you double the DPS/CC so it is clearly the best choice

>Greatsword
Fairy claymores are the shit for many reasons including watching a tiny person carrying a huge sword to kill you with it Is that a motherfucking dragons dogma reference?

>Cash shop
Burst crystal x50
Adult mode
Personal island

Everything else i can get eventually but a floating island and access to lewd stuff? That shit is P2W only.

>Republic of tutoralia
Fuck this gay earth.

Well i think i will do nicely until there is a power cut or something and everything blows up.

Changing the stats earned for having each nation as strained or enemies or perhaps giving bonus glory for every nation/kynaz you are at war with beyond one you have and changing some of the laws so that they give honor and take away glory would balance things quite a bit. Glory is probably intended to be harder to get than Will while Honor is just something that most won't bother with due to it not fitting the theme of an ambitious knyaz seeking to rule all of Svetlania that the cyoa pushes.

This was exactly it, thank you very much.

meant for

I might be a bit late, but Happy Turkeyday /coyag/ do you have any Turkey-based coyas?

nani the fuck is a coya

I'm Canadian.

Turkey day has been over for a while now.

Is the inescapable eternal void a mystery box? Either way I choose it.

Choose our yearly anointed

Someone from this thread must be offered up in sacrifice to the gods of creativity, lest all the OC dry up.

>people who choose to fight dragons in underwater volcanoes or whatever
Now why would you do that?

Hunter
STR: 3
DEF: 4
AGI: 7
INT: 2
SKI: 3

+20 Tribute

Skills:
>Tempered
Meditation to heal wounds really helps ensure survival if you can get away from trouble.
>One With Nature
>Poisons
>Bloodlust
>Monster Within
>Bindings
>Fleet Footed
>Killer Instinct
>Hybrid
>Incarnation
>Twin Soul
>Siphon
I like all of these spiritual skills, they lend themselves well to careful, calculated hunting. But the monster stuff lets you kick things up a notch or three if you need to.
>Marksmanship
Stay out of harms way.
>Pocketing
I'm just going to assume this storage space is infinite (or at least huge). So I could just collect loot for as long as I want.

Licences:
>Coast
(15)
>Forest
(30)
Siphon should make these Threat level 0, which is the best threat level.
I'll probably be regarded as a pussy by some, but I'm not one of the guys dying in their first season, so fuck 'em.

Resources:
(50)
>Market
(40)
Probably saves more money to get the discounts here than saving the tribute, honestly most builds would probably do good with this investment.
>Campsite
(35)
Making camp sucks and takes time.
>Map
(30)
Getting lost would suck.
>Teleport
(25)
>Bar
(20)
>Servant
(10)
>Knowledge
(5)

Basically the gameplan is to stay out in the wild for extended periods of hunting, learning and looting. Only returning to town when in need of resupply or repairs (or help, if I'd ever need that for some reason).

Teleport back to town when out of potions/poisons/arrows/food/whatever then sell what I can and buy what I need at the market, then after some drinks and relaxing it's out innawoods again.

As for the servant an exta pair of hands can't hurt, and some company would be nice on long hunting trips. If I get to choose what kind of monster the servant should be I want a dragon for that "supreme intelligence".

I would offer myself but i have stuff to finish.

Underwater volcanoes are actually safer than aboveground volcanoes, as the water forms an insulating envelope around the lava via evaporation which prevents the surrounding water from becoming dangerous hot. Air has no such mechanism, so the air around exposed lava is often too hot via convection for you to survive.

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I still say it's a dangerous place to go hunting for dragons.

Water may insulate but the absense of air causes its own share of problems for most people.

We got ourselves a winner

>Not having a leviathan soul ready for the occasion
What a fucking casual

Seems like a lot of effort to slay a leviathan just so you can challenge a submarinal, volcanic dragon.

I'll just be over in the woods, killing tigers and slimes and playing some chill tunes.

The master of the hunt is (probably) disappointed by your lack of bloodlust

As I see it, as long as I can reach my quotas and survive the culling he has no right to complain.
Heck I say I'm much more dedicated to hunting than the town-dwelling, culling-skipping luxury addicts who only meet their quota and then live it up with parties and fancy food until next season.

Good point.

If buildings gave things like Glory/Honor or had their own stats then it might be worthwhile.

According to the sheet, your build should be:
STR 3
DEF 6
AGI 7
INT 10
SKL 6

Added to sheet.

This build is running a -10 Tribute balance. Might want to fix that.

>Sorcerer
>STR:1 | DEF:2 | AGI:2 | INT:5 | SKL:2 |
>Gift : Free Skill

>Physical Skills (5)
>Martial Arts[i], Flurry[ii], Athlectics[ii], Enhanced[iii], Sixth Sense[iii]

>Magical Skills (9)
>Catalyst[i], Spellsurge[i], Arcane[ii], Inscribe[ii], Blink[iii], Detect Magic[iii], Warp[iv]

>Weapon Skills(4)
>Marksmanship[i], Ancient Weapon[ii, Homing Punching Daggers], Enchantment[ii], Overcharge[ii]

>Elemental Skills(1)
>Adaptation[i]

>Ethereal Skills (2)
>Indomitable[i], Pocketing[i]

>STR:3 | DEF:2 | AGI:7 | INT:9 | SKL:6 |
Let's get cuhrazy.
I know kung fu, but I prefer throwing daggersbayonets and prepared spells at enemies rather than go toe-to-toe with them. Or wield two microuzis, that's always cool too.
As a sorcerer, I always have an extra trick or two prepared that sets me above the common hunter.

>Terrain Bounty : Twilight Mountains, Deep Glacial
>THREAT LEVEL 8
>105 Crowns
My extended mobility and high arcane insight help me hunt those obnoxious bats and medusa heads that mess up your jump.
>glasscannon
Blink scrolls prepped at all times.

>Tributes
>Persona : Exempt(25), Physiology(5), Visitor(15)
>Low Housing(20), Forge(10), Library(10), Healing(5), Training(5), Bounty(5)
>Automap(5)
Take advantage of the culling season to check back on earth.

reminder
3D waifus>2d waifus
that is all
enjoy your turkey

What's a 3d waifu? I do not understand.

He doesn't know.

Scotty doesn't know?

ah Pope cuckus the first

Wasn't this getting updated a while ago?

So don't tell Scotty

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Does anyone envision Frozen Heart giving you a vulnerability to heat?

I'm rethinking my old build, ditching Undead's Ceaselss Etch in favor of Nature's Leafmetal, while investing the two extra points I gain from that into Ice Unlock and Frozen Heart. I'm not sure how I feel about a vital part of me being magical ice

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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to fathom the concept of 3D waifus.

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>that feel when 2 3D waifus

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>having more than one waifu will ruin your laifu
>3D waifus will always ruin your laifu
>having more than one 3D waifus wil...
You should consider suicide user, only misfortune awaits you.

But they're my sisters

3D waifu is reserved only for 3D significant others, or one's you've put your dick in.
Shove off, ya virgin faggot.

There is only one way to avert a catastrophe user.

If the user who archives the builds is around, I noticed that you took the time to add mine () and I just wanted to say that was neat of you. If you'd be so courteous as to name the build B. L., I'd appreciate that.

>implying both of them aren't
You jelly
No way fag

>Noble

>1 skill point

1 Martial arts
2 Flurry
3 Finesse
4 Arcane
5 Inscribe
6 Bloodlust
7 Monster within
8 Hybrid
11 Twin soul
12 Blunt arms
13 Ancient weapon
14 Ancient Armor
17 Ancient will
18 Adaption
19 Affinity
20 Indomitable
21 Adaptation

STR 4
DEF 3
AGI 5
INT 4
SKL 7 (+5)
Affinity
Fire
Souls
Tiger
Ceberus
Beatle

I have devloped a unique martal art that combines punches with elemental and arcane power, by both coating myself in an element and activating infused papers I have stockpiled in hammer space as I punch using my four arms and flurry of blows, my weapon can also activate if I need a helping hand. This technique is applied over a number of clones each with four arms who can all access my near endless pockets of spells, and actvated them at full power as they were stored by me, as well as summon there own beatle hoard to distract the enemy or bomb them with spells safely. This makes a fight with my hunter more like a fight with an army, pelting monsters from all sides with fists and explosions.

And my stats are pretty balanced which is nice.

>Terrains
Hunting only 3 monsters sounds boring I want to explore, and I can get the souls I want helping others out anyway as I dont need to personally kill the monster

Ruins 30
Dessert 75
Ancient 95

-5 Physiology for a clean bill of health
-20 Travler
To prevent bordom
-10 Library
-5 Training
Can probably up my stats here and pick up some new skills, (reals skills like monster skinning) might even be easier to learn things by using clones.
-5 Dinner
-5 Hot spring
-5 Underground
Selling things from other dimensions and buying rare shit sounds good
-20 Low
-10 Servant, Strange
-5 Personality, Helpful, protective, business minded, bookish
-5 Knowledge
She can help me with her kind and manage my accounts

WHAT THE FUCK

sauce?

Can't forget about OMNI-LAW!

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I tried googling, it didn't help. Please share source? I enjoy creepy visual novels.

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I honestly think the teeth option is the best considering how if you dont care of your teeth you can really get fucked up & dentalcare is mad expensive

The food one is pretty fucking good too. You’d be shocked at how quickly food goes bad.

The sleep one is crazy fucking powerful.
Save time, get sleep.

>Immortal liver

no
>tfw no CyOA to be thankful for this year
It hurts.

Have you tried looking at the title located on the image user?

Should I let you choose you choose family and such in my next cyoa?
Serves for nothing besides having a daughterfu and extra background for your character.