/cyoa/ - Choose Your Own Adventure

>>9798

It is powerful, but it comes with a heavy downside in that any further magic has to be "bartered for". Compare that to Wizardry that can simply learn magic from books and wizard is by far the better long-term choice. Also, some high level spells don't include their low level counterparts, so you don't always get everything with one purchase

>>9799

In the short term the witch has more power because of their ability to purchase any power without needing the lower levels. I think that gives me a much stronger start, which lets me enjoy myself from the very beginning.

As for which one advances faster, I think the witch could outpace the wizard in advancement if they are willing to take any deal as it comes along. I would not do that though. I would not trade my humanity away, so the deals would come much slower for me. I would only be open to trading certain memories that I make in the world. So, I agree that in my case the wizard would out pace me and be stronger in the long term.

However, in the very long term both the wizard and witch will eventually obtain all abilities.

>>9791

Wizard

Planescaping 3 (-3)

Creation 3 (-3)

Shapeshifting 3 (-6)

Healing 3 (-3)

Scrying 1 (-1)

Mind 1 (-1)

Binding 1 (-1)

Warp

Techno Magic Dystopia

I'm going to create my own world inside my pocket dimension. There I can create everything I want or need. I don't have the ability to create people though and my tech is somewhat limited. That's why I chose the dystopia setting, as it will be easiest to find people willing to leave the world to find or make something better, and it also gives me the most advanced tech after the first condition. Techno frontier offers better tech but the first goal becomes a lot more difficult

This one really needs some work, but I'm sure you didn't make it so it's moot. However, I'd like to point out a few things regardless.

Firstly, there are a lot of strange mistakes here. To name a few, on the actual spells page some things are marked like "Biomancy I, Biomancy II, Fleshcrafting III" and others are marked like "People (1), Animals (2), Magical animals (3)" Furthermore at the top it says

>Each power eosts a number of runes, as noted to their right. Lower levels of powers must be taken before higher ones can be taken.

Now, ignoring the spelling error "Lower levels […] must be taken before higher ones can be taken"? This means that what, it costs 1 to get Nature I, then 2 more to get Nature II (3 points total) and then another 3 points for One With Nature (3)? If so you'll burn up all your points REAL quickly. Perhaps that's the point but more often than not that kind of point buy has been an error of clarification in these kinds of things than anything else.

>>9808

I'm pretty sure the only the choices with a number in ()s cost more than one point, that's the assumption I'm going with anyway.

I'm a wizard, anon

I'll take a rival for 3 extra

[21]

[-1] Telekinesis

[-1] Telepathy

[-1] Compulsion

[-2] Illusion 1-2

[-1] Time 1

[-3] All healing

[-6] All enhancement

[-1] Alteration 1

[-1] Foresight

[-1] Familiar - Eagle with peek

[-0] minor power - Aware

[-2] Bodysuit

Techno-magic dystopia

All I need now is a lightsaber and I'd upgrade from wizard to Jedi :)

>>9804

I thought planescaping I costed 1 point, planescaping II costed 2 points, and planescaping III costed 3 points. So, to get all of them would cost 6 points, not 3.

>>9815

Like I said here >>9809, I'm assuming that ONLY those options with a cost in ()s cost more than 1 point. It's conceivable that the roman numerals denote a cost AND the ()s denote a cost, since they are never used together, but the existence of both in the CYOA suggests that only one of them is cost-related.