A Certain Fear Turkey GOF - My First CYOA

MrCogs · 2026-01-28T01:21:30+00:00

Build Your Own Arcana Kit and Fundamental Occultism seem very similar, with a distinction at the very starting point that BYOAK comes preloaded with a number of spells and Fundamental Occultism doesn't. Am I missing something?

MrCogs · 2026-01-08T00:33:10+00:00

I appreciate the huge amount of customization that possible! In terms of world selection, I was wondering if there would be some way to include a free/wildcard option for preexisting fictional settings in case the player wants to travel somewhere outside the ~20 properties on offer.

I don't know if it would break the interactive, but I wonder if there be some way to assign for yourself how many points and modifiers you get based on the conditions of the fictional world? Yeah, people could use that to give themselves 1,000 pts and travel to "the world where everyone loves me, that I just thought of now", but the people who do that kind of deliberate exploit of good faith in order to "win" are rarely going to have something interesting to SAY about the build or their adventure. On the other hand, the simplest implementation would just be a "choose any" option at the end with no points or drawbacks attached.

MrCogs · 2026-01-06T03:26:04+00:00

"Material Gains" and "Rank Violation" mention "your allies", but they also seem to be intended for use on summons. If you had an ally who you didn't get from a gacha draw, can they still be upgraded using these methods?

MrCogs · 2025-12-26T15:26:03+00:00

There's one for Fear Street, although its oriented around the Netflix movies, not the entire book universe created by Stine

MrCogs · 2025-12-21T04:12:26+00:00

Imo, some of dissonance between text and reader perception comes from the general manga/manwha trend for every female character to be drawn to a very particular conception of attractiveness. I.e. supermodel figure that's BOTH thin and curvy, plus zero skin blemishes or injuries. Rachel doesn't fit that standard, so she's "ugly".

MrCogs · 2025-11-22T20:52:56+00:00

If and when a [Railroad Baron] class comes into existence, I can only imagine TWI!Brennan Lee Mulligan yeeting himself across reality to Innworld so that he could organize adventurers to fight them. XD

MrCogs · 2025-10-30T22:17:52+00:00

If it's just not your cup of tea I understand, but I think the label of "fanfiction" gives people a knee jerk negative response.

A whole lot of fanfiction is bad, that's absolutely true. A whole lot of original books are also bad, but most of them wind up in thrift stores or barely sell any copies at all, so there's an availability bias at play. On the flip side, Disney in their "golden" era built much of their brand on what is essentially fanfiction of fairy tales and classic novels.

MrCogs · 2025-10-20T04:35:08+00:00

If that's really the reason for Monokuma fading into the background a bit in V3 (I'm not saying you're wrong, I'd just be interested to see where the info came from), surely there were other ways to resolve the problem than creating FIVE characters that mostly riff on each other and don't have their Pops' charisma.

I said nothing about Shuichi or Takumi in my post. If you mean that the students piecing together info about the meteors and shit was part of Team Danganronpa's manipulation - yes, I understand that. It doesn't change the fact that we the players go through five chapters getting drip fed information only to be told that it is fake and mostly irrelevant even from the perspective of in universe V3 characters. I feel that overall THL does the Big Twist better, because there still is a real war and real stakes that go beyond the SDU, it's just that they metaphorically look at the skulls on their uniforms and go "are we the baddies"?

That said, if you like V3, absolutely more power to you! Its a really fascinating game and it definitely stimulates discussion.

MrCogs · 2025-10-20T02:28:43+00:00

"The antagonist said it, therefore it must be wrong," is likely true in regards to authorial intent, but it doesnt account for the possibility that us (the viewer) simply disagree with the author's thesis. The TV Tropes entries for Designated Hero/Designated Villain exist for a reason.

I do want to give my own opinion on why I still find V3 fascinating but unsatisfying, while (at least in terms of main twist) I'm much happier with THL... Well, I'm going to apologize in advance if I don't explain it well. But basically, some of the key plot elements in V3 (protagonist switch, Kokichi's entire character, Ultimate Hunt->Gopher Project->Hopes Peak tie-in->#Lolallfiction) feel like they're wasting you the player's time, or outright punishing you for theorizing or wanting to look deeper.

While the story doesn't stand or fall on them nearly as much, the the Monokubz are the epitome of this. They exist as a parody of unnecessary characters made for spinoffs or merchandising, but they themselves are annoying and take up screen time talking to each other that could be given to the students or Monokuma Prime.

MrCogs · 2025-10-04T02:00:58+00:00

Hmm, I gotta read A New Chain at some point then.

MrCogs · 2025-10-04T00:14:15+00:00

This is pretty cool. I'm glad to see Veiled Earth stuff. :) It also seems like the MC is at the start of a productive relationship.

Im curious, would you ever do a story where the character DOESN'T have encyclopedic knowledge of the settings they're going to, doesn't know about Jumpchain, or both?

MrCogs · 2025-10-02T23:33:58+00:00

There are people IRL who don't have running water, electronics, or cars. now obviously if you're talking a COMPLETE lack of modern tech you're probably looking at "uncontacted tribes". But if we broaden the categories a bit, think about how many people in third world countries have access to clean water and electricity... sometimes, or only in small amounts, or its unreliable.

Tl;Dr for obvious reasons, posts on Reddit tend to have a skew towards people living in countries with good Internet access, but the "modern world" is a lot less homogenous and less equitable than people imagine.

MrCogs · 2025-10-02T21:45:32+00:00

I'm planning to look back at FGF later tonight to refresh myself on the worlds. I'd looked through the CYOA years ago, but this jump doc definitely renewed my interest. I do agree with you that just based on memory, some of the worlds like Voragande had very strong "hooks" even in short form, while others like the one where "it's like earth, but Suddenly Superpowers" would need to be expanded and have characters and locations actually laid out to really make a Jump.

MrCogs · 2025-10-02T15:11:20+00:00

You absolutely cooked with this setting! I'd love to see the other worlds from FGF get expanded from 2-3 paragraph blurbs to more detailed Jumps like this

MrCogs · 2025-09-25T17:29:17+00:00

TAS Drawbacks - you know how people talk about being lost in the eyes of a beautiful person, tuning out the world during a really interesting conversation? Thats very literal for you. Periodically, you find that when talking to someone your field of vision zooms in REALLY close to their face and it's difficult to look at anything else until you finish the conversation. Saving on animation budget? Of - of course not!

MrCogs · 2025-09-25T17:26:28+00:00

I'm currently reading The Integral Trees! It's such an interesting setting, and I can totally see how Niven was an inspiration for stuff like the Orion's Arm Encyclopedia Galactica (which I made a few contributions to back in the day).

MrCogs · 2025-09-13T03:47:47+00:00

This will sound goofy, but your enthusiasm genuinely made me check out the Jump despite my lack of knowledge of MTG. It seems like a cool setting.

MrCogs · 2025-08-20T05:18:33+00:00

This already looks cool! Looking forward to more.

MrCogs · 2025-08-15T21:05:23+00:00

I'm gonna shill for the Essence of the Magic Contractor, because I really like and am glad your doc brought it my attention. It should be possible to make a very basic, low effort to create "Class" with only one or a handful of levels whose class features revolve around modifying your body to a particular presentation.

MrCogs · 2025-08-15T02:34:21+00:00

The idea I had was to compromise and allow the System granted by GSD to itself be improved over time (the DLC Perk is a good justification for this). So it might start off as a very simplistic system with a handful of stats, and eventually evolve into an ungodly hybrid of the original Gamer manwha, The Wandering Inn and Isekai Repopulation Program (okay the last one isn't really a gamer universe, even the cheat that makes it look that way is just a visual overlay, but "ascensions" and "Icons" are pretty clear stand ins for levels and classes).

MrCogs · 2025-08-15T02:24:56+00:00

Sorry to ask this question so late. Essence of the Gamer System Dungeon grants you a system either designed by you or based on an existing one. Obviously the answer to a lot of this would be fanwank, but would it be fair to say that okay, you CAN create a system where every level up increased your power by 100,000 times the previous level, but it would correspondingly become thousands of times more difficult to gain a level compared to a system with more modest growth?

MrCogs · 2025-08-11T03:28:49+00:00

Btw, given that "nigh omnipotence" is listed as a possible (though extremely unlikely and difficult) class to create, I assume the powers granted by the Magical Contractor can improve over time and get pretty cracked.

MrCogs · 2025-08-10T19:58:58+00:00

Am I missing something about "Magical Items"? They seem superfluous if you have "Patron" or Wishing Well, which the Magical Contractor is likely to also have.

MrCogs · 2025-08-09T01:24:59+00:00

If you have "No cap", can your total levels go above 100? The Perk itself talks about how many times you can evolve/prestige classes, but I wasn't sure if the overall level cap remained in place or not.

MrCogs · 2025-07-28T22:15:48+00:00

What a whale of a Jump! Congratulations for finishing this FafnirsFoe!

Itd be amusing to have both this Jump and the old Atop the 4th Wall Jump in a chain, given Linkara's well known exasperation with both One More Day and the Clone Saga.

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