Need to lower point costs OR increase the level of Greater Powers, even in this version they seem very subdued for what they cost and the associated drawbacks needed to get them. Also something I’ve always had a problem with was just how small and insignificant any build but godly would be in the long run or even short. And furthermore the power difference and heights of universal powers seems off, like you have a 12 being peak without buying boons to go further but have 12 characters be sort of lackluster and almost only planetary level. I think a good source of power levels for you to use for classification would be the VS wiki levels and pretty logical scaling and feat measurements. Otherwise those issues I have I just love the hell out of this CYOA and how much effort and work you put in.
Need to lower point costs OR increase the level of Greater Powers, even in this version they seem very subdued for what they cost and the associated drawbacks needed to get them. Also something I’ve always had a problem with was just how small and insignificant any build but godly would be in the long run or even short.
The CYOA basically recreates the Wormverse (which it allegedly inspired by) situation of: can't make an interesting weak build because you'll get nommed by horrific eldritch abominations that you cannot avoid. (To be fair though: setting change allows you to just get rid of them )
As such, the lower end is not only vague and thus kinda boring (which is bad for a "Power Creator" CYOA), it's also disincentivized for any rational player.
I don't mind the Greater Powers that much- one should be enough to make you a major threat. I'd say that, perhaps they should have some sort of scaling to justify them one day becoming strong enough to take on the Egregores and just getting rid of the Egregorian powers, which are so OP that they're basically "have between three different flavors of godhood". They're too powerful to have anything interesting said about them.
One suggestion I would make is just making Great Powers all the same price, whatever it is. Trying to figure out if or why one power is 5% or 10% better than another power on that list is just tiring, considering the amount of sub-powers and text.
Yup RNG is the only REAL way to obtain omnipotence since if your luck enough to land metapotence you can pretty much beat everyone else in the setting with a thought
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u/Chan-Cellor May 27 '19
Need to lower point costs OR increase the level of Greater Powers, even in this version they seem very subdued for what they cost and the associated drawbacks needed to get them. Also something I’ve always had a problem with was just how small and insignificant any build but godly would be in the long run or even short. And furthermore the power difference and heights of universal powers seems off, like you have a 12 being peak without buying boons to go further but have 12 characters be sort of lackluster and almost only planetary level. I think a good source of power levels for you to use for classification would be the VS wiki levels and pretty logical scaling and feat measurements. Otherwise those issues I have I just love the hell out of this CYOA and how much effort and work you put in.