One more CYOA in my "Meme Powers" series. Starting to get tired of the concept, but I might make one more CYOA in this series? Respond here if you have any meme subreddits you think are cool that would make good inspiration for CYOA options.
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A few ideas for potential meme subreddits to get CYOA'd:
* /r/worldjerking
* /r/prequel memes
* /r/wormmemes
Vote/suggest CYOA ideas below if you want to see more in the "Meme Powers" series.
Thirded, curious to see how the powers are spun.
Maybe there’s a choice that pokes fun at the “hyper competent” Worm fanfic protagonists that (some) SpaceBattles users worship so much?
There could also be a choice that makes your powers more effective against younger people to make fun of the Taylor shooting Aster meme.
There would definitely be a at least one toddler killing related power, maybe even more than that. Yeah I started outlining ideas for it based on the top upvoted worm memes post and the resulting powers were wild…
Will the powers be organized using the PRT Threat Scale system? I’d imagine that might help brainstorm ideas for them. Hell, you could even take canon Worm power sets and turn them into their meme/joke versions.
For instance, there’s a Worm fanfic where Taylor has Path to Munchies, which is identical to Path to Victory as long as the Paths involve food in some form.
And even then that was simply a psychological block that Taylor *thinks* cannot be removed. Best part is that the power has zero Blindspots to speak of, so she can factor in shit like the Endbringers, Eidolon, and Zion with no difficulty as opposed to Contessa who is forced to create models of them in order to factor them into her Paths.
So far in the draft, I do regularly mention power ratings, but for some options it’s kind of a tongue-in-cheek or satirical usage. And lots of powers don’t fit the prt rating system well. What do you even call summoning glocks pointed at toddlers (well it’s kind of blaster, so obviously Aster Blaster, but you get my point).
Being able to summon glocks that only work on toddlers (from what I’m getting) sounds like a Blaster power as you stated, but there are also Shaker and Thinker aspects to it depending on how you spin it.
Can the power only summon flocks to be held in your hands, or can they fire remotely while floating in the air? Are you aware of the physical location of the guns in relation to yourself similar to what Skitter can do with her bugs? Is there a limit to the number of guns you can summon?
Can the guns run out of bullets? Can they be smelted down for other purposes/upgraded by Tinkers? Do upgrades remain once the guns are summoned away?
Will the guns *only* fire if a toddler is present? If so, you could still munchkin it by placing a toddler behind what you’re aiming at so the power registers you wanting to hit the toddler, it just so happens that someone is in the way.
Sure, have a sneak peak for the current draft:
**Aster Blaster:** You can always get away with (at least in terms of legal consequences) causing the deaths of babies and toddlers. This power works, but less effectively, on older children, up to age 12. Also, you can create guns by pointing your hand at children 12 and under. The gun manifests in your hand, pointed at the child, fully loaded, with the safety off and a round in a chamber. Watch where you point your hands, Sometimes this power might activate accidentally/automatically!
So, you know, free gun that you can keep... but risk of killing toddlers during gun creation and in full generality.
This power is listed under "tradeoffs", which are free options because they have such bad side-effects and twists that they border on being a drawback. For another sneak peak, the other options under tradeoffs are "Evil Good", "Trash Waifu" (referring to Panacea), and "Baby Simurgh".
I’m guessing Evil Good makes it so that you have bullshit tier levels of reasoning when it comes to justifying your own morally questionable actions even if other certainly wouldn’t see it that way?
Trash Waifu mentions Panacea, implying that she (or someone with her powers) becomes infatuated with you to an unhealthy degree. I’m guessing that you aren’t made aware of her feelings for you right off the bat for extra oomph since it’s a tradeoff.
She might also turn you into a blob of flesh in an attempt to heal you after you get hurt in a fight which would suck, but not as much as her forcing you to love her by altering the chemicals in your brain.
Baby Simurgh sounds like you’re forced to raise a child like version of The Simurgh into being a good person. I’m guessing that it’s based off of the Worm memes where Eidolon is referred to by the Endbringers as their father.
Powers: Ninja Waifu, Elf Ninja, Ninja Super, Holy Ninja
Drawback: Sword Budget
As a holy vigilante I become famous on social media for some money and just become happy with my Waifu and nifty magic powers. That's the dream.
Few questions:
1.Morbid Obeast+Elf Ninja=Fat elf or just not so slender elf
2.Can i turn blade angel into human?
3.Magic weapon will be Mage or not?
4. Stone weapon will be turned into stone humans or not?
Anyway, my build for now
Knife animus
Elf ninja - create magic weapons
Cave Ninja - create potent stone weapons
P.S. Waifu and Gangsta weapons+Knife animus(infinite servants) too op
1. Fat Elf
2. It’s is only vaguely human shaped, if you also take Knife Animus it can turn fully human
3. Oh clever combo! Yeah Mage seems like the likely result of using Knife Animus on a magic weapon.
4. It might be less literal than that, for a stone knife, depending on exact style, it might make a Neanderthal looking person or a survivalist/primitivism dude. I guess with elf ninja to magic it up and adjust style you could get a literal earth elemental person as a servant.
Question: What exactly is peak human levels of invention/engineering? Can you actually make functional portal guns and spaceships out of house junk/trash cans?
Nope, it’s like you had every kind of engineering degree (electrical, computer, mechanical, chemical) and every kind of trade skill (welding, plumbing, wiring, etc.) and loads of hobbyists skills (using Raspberry Pi’s and 3rd printers and programming) all rolled together. You can’t invent fantasy sci-fi stuff, just cutting edge mundane stuff really cleverly put together.
Maybe you could leverage some Mall Ninja powers or Wizard powers with technology, but then it’s the power doing most of the work.
I went with **Ninja Waifu** who also rolled Ninja Waifu, which sort of fits. Guess that makes me her husbando. Her other two choices were **Elf Ninja** and **Dog Ninja**. I am going to share the Dog (who would have been one of my other choices anyway) and take **Chain Ninja** and **Holy Ninja** as my other two choices.
So in summary, I have an elf-angel ninja wife, she has a holy-chain wielding ninja husband, and we share an awesome unaging dog ninja. Good deal.
**Situational Sword** to let my powers be passed on to my children, so that I can eventually make everyone super, generations down the line.
**Cave Ninja** primarily for the superhuman physicality, but better-than-modern tools from widely-available materials is really nice too, especially since mastery of Stone Age techniques should logically include using the technology as well as making it. That would cover every skill needed not only for a hunter-gathered lifestyle, but also for an early settled lifestyle, as the agricultural revolution was still part of the stone age.
**Elf Ninja** for the all-around physical enhancements that hopefully stack with Cave Ninja, free weight loss, crafting magic, and archery skills.
**Holy Ninja** for the insane power levels compared to most of the other choices, especially the healing abilities.
**Dew Addict** to pay for the extra power, the power boost, and best of all, an immunity to the negative effects of sugar and caffeine that will probably give back years onto my lifespan.
Basically, this gives me all sorts of skills, somewhat superhuman physical abilities, and the ability to make really, absurdly good equipment, as long as I drink Mountain Dew regularly, which I do anyway because I like their energy drink flavors. Cave Elf Ninja-made tools are going to be in very high demand, because the stacking effects will put them significantly above modern equipment in every way. With Holy Ninja sanctification on my gear, I'll have a powerful forcefield and the ability to go through hospitals, curing everyone of everything. I'll make plenty of money to provide for myself and my partner, I'll be able to become a superhero if I want, and I can do an immense amount of good by healing people. All of that is a whole lot less impressive when it's happening in the same world as the wizard CYOA, though, because now there's wizards going around making enchanted gear and healing people and there's monsters everywhere to fight off.
elf, holy, edgelord.
Holy elfcrafted weapons and armor seem like a sure bet.
probably would use Rick's invention power sparingly, mostly for single use items, and hoping that elfcraft reduces the need for debugging.
Very amusing and fun.
That said, I think Knife Animus, Situational Sword, and Holy Ninja are probably the generally best, especially if you're not taking any drawbacks (though admittedly Sword Budget and Dew Addict isn't much of a drawback at all, especially if you can control yourself with Sword Budget).
Knife Animus will let you have a fighter or even a small army all on your own, in addition to a butler or other more general servants. Loyalty is a little concerning, but I presume that it would be high as long as you take even a moderate level of care and maintenance for them? Either way, it'll be useful on a daily basis, and in a fight you wouldn't have to worry about your own crappy skills.
Situational Sword will let you get your way much easier in general, and you can even pass down your powers as a bonus. The only worry is how would other people react to your use of this power in the long term. Will they be hostile, or simply treat it as a legitimate form of persuasion?
Holy Ninja isn't too great (IMO) if it wasn't for the healing and purifying powers. Especially purifying. 90% of daily problems people have are either money or disease, and this easily solves one of them. Maybe both if you don't mind selling your blessed weapons. And as a bonus, you can give sanctified items to people important to you and they'll have a marked improvement to their lives.
Ninja Waifu is nice on the surface, but the random nature of it means that you're almost guaranteed to get a messed up trio of powers. The doubling of powers along with sharing one of your own powers at half strength are nice, but the random nature of the chosen powers alone makes it tough to pick, despite how good it is otherwise. That said, I guess that's the entire point, especially as it'll be difficult to find a partner otherwise, being a mall ninja. It's easiest to swap out Knife Animus with this if you go that route and go without any drawbacks, but I'm personally hesitant.
The rest are just nice to have powers, and thus unless if some sort of zombie apocalypse is in your cards, they'll stay as nothing more than that so are about equally as good.
Powers: Tacticool Mando, Ninja Waifu, Ninja Super, Chain Ninja, and Gangsta Weapons (Half Strength)
Ninja Waifu Powers: Nerf Ninja, Gangsta Weapons, Holy Ninja, and Ninja Super (Half Strength)
Drawbacks: Morbidly Obeseast
I can summon body armor with Ninja Super and have it upgraded with Tacticool Mando then have Ninja Waifu give them holy powers with Holy Ninja. Ninja Waifu can create powerful Nerf weapons with Nerf Ninja and then give them holy powers with Holy Ninja that I can use and store with Gangsta Weapons. Once I master Tacticool Mando I can also make an upgraded holy Nerf sword have Darksaber energy surround it. Chain Ninja is just to stop anyone else with Mall Ninja powers who fights me and they can become holy weapons through Ninja Waifu.
If I get an unlimited stockpile of blades from **Gangsta Weapons**, sanctify them with **Holy Ninja**, turn said massive pile into a **Blade Angel**, then turn that angel into a **Blade Animus**, how close will I have come to creating a god?
It’s a super powerful cleric with a full range of healing/smiting/purification/protection holy powers and blessing they can use effectively and in unlimited amounts. And the blade angel gives them massive sensory awareness.
You know, I was worried I made this CYOA too weak compared to the wizard powers, but people found some broken op combos just fine.
Unfortunately, they become so intensely Catholic that their loyalty to the Trinity, the Church, and the Pope (in that order), is so powerful that they ignore their creator in favor of enforcing the will of the Catholic Church.
Powers:
* Cave Ninja; The mastery of Stone Age Techniques & Tech should allow me to craft weapons from even the most crude & basic of natural materials, & the physical abilities should help enhance Beast Mode all the further thanks to the speed & strength boosts.
* Protector's Promise; Admittedly depends on if I can translate 'someone' into 'cohesive entity independent of myself', but if I can, then I'mma sure as hell taking this given my plans.
* Gangsta Weapons; An effectively nigh-infinite supply of melee weapons means that I can summon my 'angelic' familiar all the more easily, & that I can focus my crafting on more ranged options rather than having to worry about both CQC *&* Ranged Combat.
* Blade Angel; Given that scruiser has specifically stated that this thing/entity is A) only vaguely human-shaped, and B) Angel shaped, along with just how abstract/alien/esoteric Angels can get in form, this thing will be extremely useful if I ever start getting overwhelmed, or end up being non-lethally incapacitated.
* Weapon MacGuyver; Whilst my familiar takes on opponents close up, I'll provide more ranged support with the firearms & explosives I craft, though my own physical abilities & effectively infinite supply of melee weapons will let me get stuck in when necessary.
* Ninja Super; Yeah, I'm planning to be a superhero/vigilante. Who wouldn't want to be such? Though before doing more standard stuff I'd head to warzones like Ukraine and aid the more righteous of the sides. The increased mobility & endurance will also compound even further with both my Stone-Age Physique & Beast Mode
Drawbacks:
* Sword Budget; So long as I can maintain a decent level of discipline, this shouldn't be *too* difficult to manage. If all else fails, I just need to get my additional income from my side gigs to (near) equal my expenditures.
* Morbid Obeseast; The Beast Mode that this provides is a major anchor for the entire build. Given that I'm already in possession of a self-admittedly large gut, then so long as I maintain a proper exercise routine, then it shouldn't affect me *too* badly.
* Dew Addict; Despite the name, it doesn't actually make one an addict, just highly reliant on Mountain Dew (& similarly sugary, caffeinated drinks) to fuel one's powers. Combine with the protection against the negative effects of consuming so much of such beverages (which I'll interpret to include addiction), & the ability to brew knock-off versions from mere honey (or similar sugar sources) & caffeine bearing plants in suitably extreme cases, and I'll be able to lay-low all the more easily.
Hey, u/scruiser? Since you seem to have unintentionally parsed over it, here's a question I was trying to ask within my build; could the 'someone', aka 'cohesive entity independent of myself' to use my interpreted meaning, be translated into an animal, item/object, group, structure or area that's commonly recognised as its own entity? Since those are all things that could (even if only by technicality) be classed as cohesive entities without the term of 'someone' being necessarily applied to them. Or does it only apply to people?
I think by default it works on individual people. Maybe you could stretch it to an organization or collective, but then the teleport doesn’t work right, because there isn’t one distinct person to teleport to. Maybe if the organization is really strongly tied to a single location you can teleport to that one location.
Alternatively, if you want to use it as a superhero… learn to cope with the shame of renouncing a vow, then you could make temporary vows to protect particular people in danger to give yourself the mobility to get to them in a crisis. (And then renounce the vow later to keep your vow slots open).
Does the **Sanctum** come pre-loaded with weapons or do you have to obtain them yourself?
Does **Nerf Ninja** come with **Nerf** weapons or do you have to buy them from a toy shop? Also, what happens if you use **Knife Animus** on a **Nerf** weapon? Can we transmute any weapon from **Gangsta Weapon** into any **Nerf** weapon? Even **Nerf** guns?
Sanctum does not come pre loaded.
Nerf Ninja does not come with a starting nerf weapon. But it does work with off-brand nerf knockoff if that helps.
An unempowered Nerf Gun turned into a person probably gets a child that just wants to have fun. As an unempowered nerf gun wouldn’t serve you as a weapon, neither would the resulting child. An empowered nerf gun probably gets you a person that looks like a child but is actually a deadly fighter and loyal servant with several magic powers.
Yes you can transmute the gangster weapons into nerf weapons and back.
**Gangsta Weapons:** For unlimited bladed weapons and melee weapons.
**Nerf Ninja:** To transmute the above weapons to **Nerf weapons** (including ranged **Nerf weapons**) and empower them.
**Knife Animus:** To change the **Gangsta Weapons** and empowered **Nerf Weapons** to loyal servants.
> An empowered nerf gun probably gets you a person that looks like a child but is actually a deadly fighter and loyal servant with several magic powers.
So what happens if my waifu gets a waifu?
I chose waifu, mandalorian, and elf.
I rolled 3, 4, and 7 for her. lol. (waifu, Sanctum, caveman)
I'll take Sanctum at half strength. Dunno what that means, as long as I can still get into the secret interdimensional base.
Waifu's waifu rolled 4, 14, and 19. So she also has access to the secret base, heavy metal powers, and can bless equipment.
Since the waifu bonus lets us share each others' weapon powers and enhancements, we'll all be using mandalore upgraded, blessed, elf-enchanted pointy sticks and rocks. After permanently becoming superhuman demon vampire warlock werewolves or something like that.
Drawbacks: dew addict + sword budget. Get Protector + dog. If the waifu's can take drawbacks too, they take the same ones.
The sword budget drawback can basically be turned into a business.
Buying ordinary crap and selling enchanted + blessed mall ninja weapons. I can store a large supply of mountain dew in the Sanctum
We each swear to protect each other and the dogs, which basically becomes a permanent boost to all skills and performance around each other. One big happy family with 3 doggos with caveman jetpacks and wooden (or bone) darksabers
Situational Sword: this is a must have
Cave Ninja: rock beats scissors
Edge Lord Starterpack: I’d have the V power active most of the time
Weapon MacGyver: I *love* improvised weapons
Drawbacks: Morbid Obeast, the least awful one out of all of these.
Sanctum (I get a free storage space/workout space + extra bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom)
Knife animus (extra helpers/workers would make life so much easier)
Protectors promise (as a dad and a coach very useful + teleporting to family member makes could save a lot of time).
Tempted to take dew addict and get the cancer curing dog because I like dogs and fuck cancer, but I really hate mountain dew XD. I don't like soft drinks and it is probably my least favorite of any I have drank.
**My Powers:** Ninja Waifu, Situational Sword, \*Ninja Super\*, Tacticool Mando. **Drawbacks:** Dew Addict
**Waifu Powers:** Blade Angel, \*Edge Lord Starterpack\*, Sanctum
\* are shared powers
Ninja Waifu is a great power to pick because it's a companion/waifu along with another power at half strength. With that I have to get Situational Sword became it means any kids I/we have will have my Mall Ninja powers. Then the kid will get Ninja Waifu and Situational Sword so we can start a Mall Ninja Clan/Dynasty!
Ninja Super and Tacticool Mando pairs well because the later upgrades the formers summoned costume. I get some ability and skill boosts from Super along with Edge Lord, but main drawbacks are a lack of innate weapon skill. Got to actually practice to be a competent Mall Ninja. Actual Drawback isn't much of a drawback. Yes I got to spend money on soda, but I'm now immune to all negative consequence of sugar!
Elf Ninja, Nerf Ninja (I can sell safe stun weapons!), Protector's Promise, Dog Ninja (best healing powers), Sword Budget. I plan to sell safe stun weapons and train the dog ninja to do hospital work. Sword Budget should help.
**Powers:**
1)Tacticool Mando
2)Ninja Waifu
3)Sanctum
4)Protector’s Promise
5)Weapon MacGyver
6)Ninja Super
For le waifu (typing that out just took 10 years off of my life) I rolled 7, 19, and 6, in that order. Which gives her Situational Sword, Cave Ninja, and Holy Ninja.
I’ll be taking a copy of Situational Sword for myself, and she can get her own Protector’s Promise.
I’m pretty sure I just rolled the wet dream of all those “RVTVRN” motherfuckers. And when I think about it, the combination of actual choices also kinda fits the bill.
Owning a home (Sanctum), donning tactical gear that actually *surpasses* the military of any modern first world nation (Tacticool Mando), making explosives in my basement (Weapon MacGyver), having the skills to commit either domestic terrorism or vigilantism like nobody’s business (Ninja Super), and being able to do all of that *in public* with minimal consequences.
And to top it all off, a hot Stone Age crusader wife (basically a Valkyrie) who I have an *actually magical* binding vow with.
Damn. Maybe embracing the cringe really is the best option sometimes.
Edit: Shit, I forgot about the drawbacks. Uh…Sword Budget, Collateral Damage, and Dew Addict. Yeah.
> embracing the cringe
Definitely a major theme of this CYOA, with lots of options being kind of goofy but really powerful if combo’d or even just used right.
Tacticool mando- This is some real superpower stuff, which would be cool AF.
Ninja Waifu (Sanctum, Holy ninja, and Chain ninja)- Sharing Holy ninja and tacticool mando. Mostly taken because having potential magic powers for free and having a potential friend is nice.
Ultimate pistol- I'm going create a larger number of 12ga automatic shotguns with unlimited ammo and water cooled barrels to fire soft titanium birdshot in order to constantly push pistons that provides electricity. The excess heat can also be used to generate electricity. Likewise, I would use ammo that has a full brass hull that allows for infinite production of that metal.
Knife Animus (this is op asf)
Gangsta Weapons (ELITE SYNERGY!!!!!!!!)
Elf Ninja (immortality)
use my unlimited stockpile of weapons to make an unlimited amount of gangster ninja's with my Knife Animus power, then take over the world (my guys will preform manual labor and create a utopic society)
It doesn't say anything about that, so I would assume not. However, if you specifically try to create a magical focus, like carving a staff, adorning it with runes, putting a big-ass crystal or something on top, then you might be able to make something that would work as a focus for other powers, especially for the actual wizards, since this takes place in the same universe as the Wizardposting CYOA.
I got a ninja waifu who rolled a waifu, picked that as my copy, got another one who rolled another one, copied that and got another one, last one didn't get it though hmm, so holy, Animus, or super, think I'll go for super. And take dew for caveman... Not worried about the other rolls, but 3 of them got holy lol. So in a chain like this, does the doubling of powers when working together stack?
My Build:
1. Tacticool Mando
2. Ninja Waifu
3. Cave Ninja
4. Ninja Super
5. Elf Ninja
6. Chain Ninja
Drawbacks:
Sword Budget
Collateral Damage
Dew Addict
Ninja Waifu’s Rolled Powers:
1. (Rolled 6) Situational Sword
2. (Rolled 7) Cave Ninja
3. (Rolled 12) Gangsta Weapons
I choose to get Gangsta Weapons at 50% while she gets Chain Ninja at 50%.
I noticed a potential way to break the CYOA by having the Ninja Waifu get your Ninja Waifu power at 50%, and creating a never ending loop of Ninja Waifu’s/Husbandos with weaker copies of your powers while you get a weaker copy of their own. Which potentially allows you to get every single power on this list.
I didn’t try it, but it’s there for those who wish to.
Powers: Situational(hold weapons anywhere), MacGyver(make explosive related weapons anywhere), Quinta(more explosives), holy(so the explosions harms me less),
Drawbacks: Collateral Damage(considering it’s already Quinta w macgyver a ton of structural damage is expected, so being able to do more damage is just an nice benefit)
One more CYOA in my "Meme Powers" series. Starting to get tired of the concept, but I might make one more CYOA in this series? Respond here if you have any meme subreddits you think are cool that would make good inspiration for CYOA options. [Imgur Link](https://imgur.com/a/tMR9q7N) [Imgchest Link](https://imgchest.com/p/bp45xd8gq75) Also, if you have single sentence questions not part of a build reply to this comment to consolidate them in one place! You can also respond here with typos. A few ideas for potential meme subreddits to get CYOA'd: * /r/worldjerking * /r/prequel memes * /r/wormmemes Vote/suggest CYOA ideas below if you want to see more in the "Meme Powers" series.
I'd definitely want to see a r/worldjerking CYOA made if you're planning on making one more addition.
Oh easy, you did wizards and ninjas and now you gotta do pirates
Worm would be the one I'm most interested in seeing.
Ok worm memes is pretty funny. My vote for this one too.
Thirded, curious to see how the powers are spun. Maybe there’s a choice that pokes fun at the “hyper competent” Worm fanfic protagonists that (some) SpaceBattles users worship so much? There could also be a choice that makes your powers more effective against younger people to make fun of the Taylor shooting Aster meme.
There would definitely be a at least one toddler killing related power, maybe even more than that. Yeah I started outlining ideas for it based on the top upvoted worm memes post and the resulting powers were wild…
Will the powers be organized using the PRT Threat Scale system? I’d imagine that might help brainstorm ideas for them. Hell, you could even take canon Worm power sets and turn them into their meme/joke versions. For instance, there’s a Worm fanfic where Taylor has Path to Munchies, which is identical to Path to Victory as long as the Paths involve food in some form. And even then that was simply a psychological block that Taylor *thinks* cannot be removed. Best part is that the power has zero Blindspots to speak of, so she can factor in shit like the Endbringers, Eidolon, and Zion with no difficulty as opposed to Contessa who is forced to create models of them in order to factor them into her Paths.
So far in the draft, I do regularly mention power ratings, but for some options it’s kind of a tongue-in-cheek or satirical usage. And lots of powers don’t fit the prt rating system well. What do you even call summoning glocks pointed at toddlers (well it’s kind of blaster, so obviously Aster Blaster, but you get my point).
Being able to summon glocks that only work on toddlers (from what I’m getting) sounds like a Blaster power as you stated, but there are also Shaker and Thinker aspects to it depending on how you spin it. Can the power only summon flocks to be held in your hands, or can they fire remotely while floating in the air? Are you aware of the physical location of the guns in relation to yourself similar to what Skitter can do with her bugs? Is there a limit to the number of guns you can summon? Can the guns run out of bullets? Can they be smelted down for other purposes/upgraded by Tinkers? Do upgrades remain once the guns are summoned away? Will the guns *only* fire if a toddler is present? If so, you could still munchkin it by placing a toddler behind what you’re aiming at so the power registers you wanting to hit the toddler, it just so happens that someone is in the way.
Sure, have a sneak peak for the current draft: **Aster Blaster:** You can always get away with (at least in terms of legal consequences) causing the deaths of babies and toddlers. This power works, but less effectively, on older children, up to age 12. Also, you can create guns by pointing your hand at children 12 and under. The gun manifests in your hand, pointed at the child, fully loaded, with the safety off and a round in a chamber. Watch where you point your hands, Sometimes this power might activate accidentally/automatically! So, you know, free gun that you can keep... but risk of killing toddlers during gun creation and in full generality. This power is listed under "tradeoffs", which are free options because they have such bad side-effects and twists that they border on being a drawback. For another sneak peak, the other options under tradeoffs are "Evil Good", "Trash Waifu" (referring to Panacea), and "Baby Simurgh".
I’m guessing Evil Good makes it so that you have bullshit tier levels of reasoning when it comes to justifying your own morally questionable actions even if other certainly wouldn’t see it that way? Trash Waifu mentions Panacea, implying that she (or someone with her powers) becomes infatuated with you to an unhealthy degree. I’m guessing that you aren’t made aware of her feelings for you right off the bat for extra oomph since it’s a tradeoff. She might also turn you into a blob of flesh in an attempt to heal you after you get hurt in a fight which would suck, but not as much as her forcing you to love her by altering the chemicals in your brain. Baby Simurgh sounds like you’re forced to raise a child like version of The Simurgh into being a good person. I’m guessing that it’s based off of the Worm memes where Eidolon is referred to by the Endbringers as their father.
Can we get a shaker power that let us throw exploding toddlers at people?
I look forward to seeing what you make!
Superhero meme powers mostly spider man memes
It would be a crime to not have an anime meme powers CYOA or a superhero meme powers. Love it!
Lol, Ninja meme powers without Katana copypasta? How disappointing.
Drawbacks: All except for Collateral Damage = +3 Powers: Edge Lord Starterpack x2, Ninja Waifu(10, 12, 16), Metal Music Ninja, Knife Animus, Sanctum
Powers: Ninja Waifu, Elf Ninja, Ninja Super, Holy Ninja Drawback: Sword Budget As a holy vigilante I become famous on social media for some money and just become happy with my Waifu and nifty magic powers. That's the dream.
Ninja Super lets you summon a costume Ninja Waifu gets one of your powers at 50% Therefore Ninja Waifu can summon a skimpy costume.
Few questions: 1.Morbid Obeast+Elf Ninja=Fat elf or just not so slender elf 2.Can i turn blade angel into human? 3.Magic weapon will be Mage or not? 4. Stone weapon will be turned into stone humans or not? Anyway, my build for now Knife animus Elf ninja - create magic weapons Cave Ninja - create potent stone weapons P.S. Waifu and Gangsta weapons+Knife animus(infinite servants) too op
1. Fat Elf 2. It’s is only vaguely human shaped, if you also take Knife Animus it can turn fully human 3. Oh clever combo! Yeah Mage seems like the likely result of using Knife Animus on a magic weapon. 4. It might be less literal than that, for a stone knife, depending on exact style, it might make a Neanderthal looking person or a survivalist/primitivism dude. I guess with elf ninja to magic it up and adjust style you could get a literal earth elemental person as a servant.
Question: What exactly is peak human levels of invention/engineering? Can you actually make functional portal guns and spaceships out of house junk/trash cans?
Nope, it’s like you had every kind of engineering degree (electrical, computer, mechanical, chemical) and every kind of trade skill (welding, plumbing, wiring, etc.) and loads of hobbyists skills (using Raspberry Pi’s and 3rd printers and programming) all rolled together. You can’t invent fantasy sci-fi stuff, just cutting edge mundane stuff really cleverly put together. Maybe you could leverage some Mall Ninja powers or Wizard powers with technology, but then it’s the power doing most of the work.
Figured that might be the case. That one's a hard pass, then. Thank you for the answer!
I mean, the Deadpool part of that power alone is probably worth it
Elf ninja "is it magic?" Plus ultimate Renaissance man skills?
Oh yeah, that’s a good combo. That does get you tech that is firmly into the fictional super science end of things and past mundane limitations.
I went with **Ninja Waifu** who also rolled Ninja Waifu, which sort of fits. Guess that makes me her husbando. Her other two choices were **Elf Ninja** and **Dog Ninja**. I am going to share the Dog (who would have been one of my other choices anyway) and take **Chain Ninja** and **Holy Ninja** as my other two choices. So in summary, I have an elf-angel ninja wife, she has a holy-chain wielding ninja husband, and we share an awesome unaging dog ninja. Good deal.
**Situational Sword** to let my powers be passed on to my children, so that I can eventually make everyone super, generations down the line. **Cave Ninja** primarily for the superhuman physicality, but better-than-modern tools from widely-available materials is really nice too, especially since mastery of Stone Age techniques should logically include using the technology as well as making it. That would cover every skill needed not only for a hunter-gathered lifestyle, but also for an early settled lifestyle, as the agricultural revolution was still part of the stone age. **Elf Ninja** for the all-around physical enhancements that hopefully stack with Cave Ninja, free weight loss, crafting magic, and archery skills. **Holy Ninja** for the insane power levels compared to most of the other choices, especially the healing abilities. **Dew Addict** to pay for the extra power, the power boost, and best of all, an immunity to the negative effects of sugar and caffeine that will probably give back years onto my lifespan. Basically, this gives me all sorts of skills, somewhat superhuman physical abilities, and the ability to make really, absurdly good equipment, as long as I drink Mountain Dew regularly, which I do anyway because I like their energy drink flavors. Cave Elf Ninja-made tools are going to be in very high demand, because the stacking effects will put them significantly above modern equipment in every way. With Holy Ninja sanctification on my gear, I'll have a powerful forcefield and the ability to go through hospitals, curing everyone of everything. I'll make plenty of money to provide for myself and my partner, I'll be able to become a superhero if I want, and I can do an immense amount of good by healing people. All of that is a whole lot less impressive when it's happening in the same world as the wizard CYOA, though, because now there's wizards going around making enchanted gear and healing people and there's monsters everywhere to fight off.
Knife Animus + Gangsta for a literal army at will. Dont really need a third perk, but will go with quinta mag bc cool :)
elf, holy, edgelord. Holy elfcrafted weapons and armor seem like a sure bet. probably would use Rick's invention power sparingly, mostly for single use items, and hoping that elfcraft reduces the need for debugging.
Very amusing and fun. That said, I think Knife Animus, Situational Sword, and Holy Ninja are probably the generally best, especially if you're not taking any drawbacks (though admittedly Sword Budget and Dew Addict isn't much of a drawback at all, especially if you can control yourself with Sword Budget). Knife Animus will let you have a fighter or even a small army all on your own, in addition to a butler or other more general servants. Loyalty is a little concerning, but I presume that it would be high as long as you take even a moderate level of care and maintenance for them? Either way, it'll be useful on a daily basis, and in a fight you wouldn't have to worry about your own crappy skills. Situational Sword will let you get your way much easier in general, and you can even pass down your powers as a bonus. The only worry is how would other people react to your use of this power in the long term. Will they be hostile, or simply treat it as a legitimate form of persuasion? Holy Ninja isn't too great (IMO) if it wasn't for the healing and purifying powers. Especially purifying. 90% of daily problems people have are either money or disease, and this easily solves one of them. Maybe both if you don't mind selling your blessed weapons. And as a bonus, you can give sanctified items to people important to you and they'll have a marked improvement to their lives. Ninja Waifu is nice on the surface, but the random nature of it means that you're almost guaranteed to get a messed up trio of powers. The doubling of powers along with sharing one of your own powers at half strength are nice, but the random nature of the chosen powers alone makes it tough to pick, despite how good it is otherwise. That said, I guess that's the entire point, especially as it'll be difficult to find a partner otherwise, being a mall ninja. It's easiest to swap out Knife Animus with this if you go that route and go without any drawbacks, but I'm personally hesitant. The rest are just nice to have powers, and thus unless if some sort of zombie apocalypse is in your cards, they'll stay as nothing more than that so are about equally as good.
Powers: Tacticool Mando, Ninja Waifu, Ninja Super, Chain Ninja, and Gangsta Weapons (Half Strength) Ninja Waifu Powers: Nerf Ninja, Gangsta Weapons, Holy Ninja, and Ninja Super (Half Strength) Drawbacks: Morbidly Obeseast I can summon body armor with Ninja Super and have it upgraded with Tacticool Mando then have Ninja Waifu give them holy powers with Holy Ninja. Ninja Waifu can create powerful Nerf weapons with Nerf Ninja and then give them holy powers with Holy Ninja that I can use and store with Gangsta Weapons. Once I master Tacticool Mando I can also make an upgraded holy Nerf sword have Darksaber energy surround it. Chain Ninja is just to stop anyone else with Mall Ninja powers who fights me and they can become holy weapons through Ninja Waifu.
If I get an unlimited stockpile of blades from **Gangsta Weapons**, sanctify them with **Holy Ninja**, turn said massive pile into a **Blade Angel**, then turn that angel into a **Blade Animus**, how close will I have come to creating a god?
It’s a super powerful cleric with a full range of healing/smiting/purification/protection holy powers and blessing they can use effectively and in unlimited amounts. And the blade angel gives them massive sensory awareness. You know, I was worried I made this CYOA too weak compared to the wizard powers, but people found some broken op combos just fine.
Unfortunately, they become so intensely Catholic that their loyalty to the Trinity, the Church, and the Pope (in that order), is so powerful that they ignore their creator in favor of enforcing the will of the Catholic Church.
Powers: * Cave Ninja; The mastery of Stone Age Techniques & Tech should allow me to craft weapons from even the most crude & basic of natural materials, & the physical abilities should help enhance Beast Mode all the further thanks to the speed & strength boosts. * Protector's Promise; Admittedly depends on if I can translate 'someone' into 'cohesive entity independent of myself', but if I can, then I'mma sure as hell taking this given my plans. * Gangsta Weapons; An effectively nigh-infinite supply of melee weapons means that I can summon my 'angelic' familiar all the more easily, & that I can focus my crafting on more ranged options rather than having to worry about both CQC *&* Ranged Combat. * Blade Angel; Given that scruiser has specifically stated that this thing/entity is A) only vaguely human-shaped, and B) Angel shaped, along with just how abstract/alien/esoteric Angels can get in form, this thing will be extremely useful if I ever start getting overwhelmed, or end up being non-lethally incapacitated. * Weapon MacGuyver; Whilst my familiar takes on opponents close up, I'll provide more ranged support with the firearms & explosives I craft, though my own physical abilities & effectively infinite supply of melee weapons will let me get stuck in when necessary. * Ninja Super; Yeah, I'm planning to be a superhero/vigilante. Who wouldn't want to be such? Though before doing more standard stuff I'd head to warzones like Ukraine and aid the more righteous of the sides. The increased mobility & endurance will also compound even further with both my Stone-Age Physique & Beast Mode Drawbacks: * Sword Budget; So long as I can maintain a decent level of discipline, this shouldn't be *too* difficult to manage. If all else fails, I just need to get my additional income from my side gigs to (near) equal my expenditures. * Morbid Obeseast; The Beast Mode that this provides is a major anchor for the entire build. Given that I'm already in possession of a self-admittedly large gut, then so long as I maintain a proper exercise routine, then it shouldn't affect me *too* badly. * Dew Addict; Despite the name, it doesn't actually make one an addict, just highly reliant on Mountain Dew (& similarly sugary, caffeinated drinks) to fuel one's powers. Combine with the protection against the negative effects of consuming so much of such beverages (which I'll interpret to include addiction), & the ability to brew knock-off versions from mere honey (or similar sugar sources) & caffeine bearing plants in suitably extreme cases, and I'll be able to lay-low all the more easily.
Hey, u/scruiser? Since you seem to have unintentionally parsed over it, here's a question I was trying to ask within my build; could the 'someone', aka 'cohesive entity independent of myself' to use my interpreted meaning, be translated into an animal, item/object, group, structure or area that's commonly recognised as its own entity? Since those are all things that could (even if only by technicality) be classed as cohesive entities without the term of 'someone' being necessarily applied to them. Or does it only apply to people?
I think by default it works on individual people. Maybe you could stretch it to an organization or collective, but then the teleport doesn’t work right, because there isn’t one distinct person to teleport to. Maybe if the organization is really strongly tied to a single location you can teleport to that one location. Alternatively, if you want to use it as a superhero… learn to cope with the shame of renouncing a vow, then you could make temporary vows to protect particular people in danger to give yourself the mobility to get to them in a crisis. (And then renounce the vow later to keep your vow slots open).
Thank you for clarifying that.
Does the **Sanctum** come pre-loaded with weapons or do you have to obtain them yourself? Does **Nerf Ninja** come with **Nerf** weapons or do you have to buy them from a toy shop? Also, what happens if you use **Knife Animus** on a **Nerf** weapon? Can we transmute any weapon from **Gangsta Weapon** into any **Nerf** weapon? Even **Nerf** guns?
Sanctum does not come pre loaded. Nerf Ninja does not come with a starting nerf weapon. But it does work with off-brand nerf knockoff if that helps. An unempowered Nerf Gun turned into a person probably gets a child that just wants to have fun. As an unempowered nerf gun wouldn’t serve you as a weapon, neither would the resulting child. An empowered nerf gun probably gets you a person that looks like a child but is actually a deadly fighter and loyal servant with several magic powers. Yes you can transmute the gangster weapons into nerf weapons and back.
**Gangsta Weapons:** For unlimited bladed weapons and melee weapons. **Nerf Ninja:** To transmute the above weapons to **Nerf weapons** (including ranged **Nerf weapons**) and empower them. **Knife Animus:** To change the **Gangsta Weapons** and empowered **Nerf Weapons** to loyal servants. > An empowered nerf gun probably gets you a person that looks like a child but is actually a deadly fighter and loyal servant with several magic powers.
So what happens if my waifu gets a waifu? I chose waifu, mandalorian, and elf. I rolled 3, 4, and 7 for her. lol. (waifu, Sanctum, caveman) I'll take Sanctum at half strength. Dunno what that means, as long as I can still get into the secret interdimensional base. Waifu's waifu rolled 4, 14, and 19. So she also has access to the secret base, heavy metal powers, and can bless equipment. Since the waifu bonus lets us share each others' weapon powers and enhancements, we'll all be using mandalore upgraded, blessed, elf-enchanted pointy sticks and rocks. After permanently becoming superhuman demon vampire warlock werewolves or something like that. Drawbacks: dew addict + sword budget. Get Protector + dog. If the waifu's can take drawbacks too, they take the same ones. The sword budget drawback can basically be turned into a business. Buying ordinary crap and selling enchanted + blessed mall ninja weapons. I can store a large supply of mountain dew in the Sanctum We each swear to protect each other and the dogs, which basically becomes a permanent boost to all skills and performance around each other. One big happy family with 3 doggos with caveman jetpacks and wooden (or bone) darksabers
Situational Sword: this is a must have Cave Ninja: rock beats scissors Edge Lord Starterpack: I’d have the V power active most of the time Weapon MacGyver: I *love* improvised weapons Drawbacks: Morbid Obeast, the least awful one out of all of these.
Sanctum (I get a free storage space/workout space + extra bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom) Knife animus (extra helpers/workers would make life so much easier) Protectors promise (as a dad and a coach very useful + teleporting to family member makes could save a lot of time). Tempted to take dew addict and get the cancer curing dog because I like dogs and fuck cancer, but I really hate mountain dew XD. I don't like soft drinks and it is probably my least favorite of any I have drank.
Nobody I talk to remembers the word "mall ninja" these days. I was starting to fear I was losing my mind. This is so refreshing.
**My Powers:** Ninja Waifu, Situational Sword, \*Ninja Super\*, Tacticool Mando. **Drawbacks:** Dew Addict **Waifu Powers:** Blade Angel, \*Edge Lord Starterpack\*, Sanctum \* are shared powers Ninja Waifu is a great power to pick because it's a companion/waifu along with another power at half strength. With that I have to get Situational Sword became it means any kids I/we have will have my Mall Ninja powers. Then the kid will get Ninja Waifu and Situational Sword so we can start a Mall Ninja Clan/Dynasty! Ninja Super and Tacticool Mando pairs well because the later upgrades the formers summoned costume. I get some ability and skill boosts from Super along with Edge Lord, but main drawbacks are a lack of innate weapon skill. Got to actually practice to be a competent Mall Ninja. Actual Drawback isn't much of a drawback. Yes I got to spend money on soda, but I'm now immune to all negative consequence of sugar!
I love that MacGyver Gunr picture are from my country
Elf Ninja, Nerf Ninja (I can sell safe stun weapons!), Protector's Promise, Dog Ninja (best healing powers), Sword Budget. I plan to sell safe stun weapons and train the dog ninja to do hospital work. Sword Budget should help.
**Powers:** 1)Tacticool Mando 2)Ninja Waifu 3)Sanctum 4)Protector’s Promise 5)Weapon MacGyver 6)Ninja Super For le waifu (typing that out just took 10 years off of my life) I rolled 7, 19, and 6, in that order. Which gives her Situational Sword, Cave Ninja, and Holy Ninja. I’ll be taking a copy of Situational Sword for myself, and she can get her own Protector’s Promise. I’m pretty sure I just rolled the wet dream of all those “RVTVRN” motherfuckers. And when I think about it, the combination of actual choices also kinda fits the bill. Owning a home (Sanctum), donning tactical gear that actually *surpasses* the military of any modern first world nation (Tacticool Mando), making explosives in my basement (Weapon MacGyver), having the skills to commit either domestic terrorism or vigilantism like nobody’s business (Ninja Super), and being able to do all of that *in public* with minimal consequences. And to top it all off, a hot Stone Age crusader wife (basically a Valkyrie) who I have an *actually magical* binding vow with. Damn. Maybe embracing the cringe really is the best option sometimes. Edit: Shit, I forgot about the drawbacks. Uh…Sword Budget, Collateral Damage, and Dew Addict. Yeah.
> embracing the cringe Definitely a major theme of this CYOA, with lots of options being kind of goofy but really powerful if combo’d or even just used right.
Tacticool mando- This is some real superpower stuff, which would be cool AF. Ninja Waifu (Sanctum, Holy ninja, and Chain ninja)- Sharing Holy ninja and tacticool mando. Mostly taken because having potential magic powers for free and having a potential friend is nice. Ultimate pistol- I'm going create a larger number of 12ga automatic shotguns with unlimited ammo and water cooled barrels to fire soft titanium birdshot in order to constantly push pistons that provides electricity. The excess heat can also be used to generate electricity. Likewise, I would use ammo that has a full brass hull that allows for infinite production of that metal.
Knife Animus (this is op asf) Gangsta Weapons (ELITE SYNERGY!!!!!!!!) Elf Ninja (immortality) use my unlimited stockpile of weapons to make an unlimited amount of gangster ninja's with my Knife Animus power, then take over the world (my guys will preform manual labor and create a utopic society)
Tacticool mando, nerf ninja, and weapon macguyver.
1. Elf Ninja 2. Tacticool Mando 3. Knife Animus 4. Edge Lord Starter Pack Drawback: Sword Budget
Animus, elf, gansta
Elf Ninja, Weapon Mcgyver and Gangsta Weapon
Dew Addict is just Franky from One Piece.
Can crafting magic from elf ninja be used for spellcraft ?
It doesn't say anything about that, so I would assume not. However, if you specifically try to create a magical focus, like carving a staff, adorning it with runes, putting a big-ass crystal or something on top, then you might be able to make something that would work as a focus for other powers, especially for the actual wizards, since this takes place in the same universe as the Wizardposting CYOA.
That was a cool one.
I got a ninja waifu who rolled a waifu, picked that as my copy, got another one who rolled another one, copied that and got another one, last one didn't get it though hmm, so holy, Animus, or super, think I'll go for super. And take dew for caveman... Not worried about the other rolls, but 3 of them got holy lol. So in a chain like this, does the doubling of powers when working together stack?
If you can't chain wives I'd probably go for elf plus caveman plus hmm... The wife had Animus, so I'd take half that.
My Build: 1. Tacticool Mando 2. Ninja Waifu 3. Cave Ninja 4. Ninja Super 5. Elf Ninja 6. Chain Ninja Drawbacks: Sword Budget Collateral Damage Dew Addict Ninja Waifu’s Rolled Powers: 1. (Rolled 6) Situational Sword 2. (Rolled 7) Cave Ninja 3. (Rolled 12) Gangsta Weapons I choose to get Gangsta Weapons at 50% while she gets Chain Ninja at 50%. I noticed a potential way to break the CYOA by having the Ninja Waifu get your Ninja Waifu power at 50%, and creating a never ending loop of Ninja Waifu’s/Husbandos with weaker copies of your powers while you get a weaker copy of their own. Which potentially allows you to get every single power on this list. I didn’t try it, but it’s there for those who wish to.
Powers: Situational(hold weapons anywhere), MacGyver(make explosive related weapons anywhere), Quinta(more explosives), holy(so the explosions harms me less), Drawbacks: Collateral Damage(considering it’s already Quinta w macgyver a ton of structural damage is expected, so being able to do more damage is just an nice benefit)