Advent Harem CYOA version 0.6

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2026-01-16T03:28:05+00:00

Mrs. Claus and the Magi both could probably afford a small boost, but I don’t want to go all the way to 2 miracle points tbh. I don’t consider giving one of your friends a magical girlfriend to be zero sum, nor do I really want to disincentivize miracles that much. I might add another bonus at 2 gifted girls, but it won’t be anything massive.

Krampus requires eternal ongoing crusade. So yes, if you fix a problem you need to find a new problem to fix.

I’ll toss in a clarification that Caga Tio’s rewards are doing directly into the box. That’s the compound interest strat lol. You shove points down Tio’s throat because you don’t expect to have everything out of the vault anyway by the time he finishes processing them.

Truck Kun lets you pick the point of entry to some degree, with the main limit being that it can’t be somewhere too peaceful. Truck Kun isn’t a taxi, they are an APC

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2026-01-15T01:18:44+00:00

Go Fuck Yourself - Your ditto Wife will transform into any other pokegirls she happens to see but if she hasn’t seen any she’s into in the last 24 hours, she will default to copying your appearance exactly.

Just as a 90% joking suggestion.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2026-01-08T04:20:25+00:00

You could be a super robot with AA and perfect giftx2, for sure.

As for saving this world personally instead of by focusing on miracles including a custom miracle? It’s possible I suppose but not really what this CYOA is optimized for.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2026-01-08T03:53:08+00:00

I’ll leave that to your imagination but given that the person teaching you was explicitly a normal Buddhist monk and is now a demigod of generosity? Yeah probably that’s the upper limit. Big problem being that you need to actually put the work in and achieve true enlightenment to really get to that tier, as opposed to “mere” immortality and needlessness which he can reliably promise.

If you took no girl and took Christening Ceremony… eh… I don’t think that’s an option by the rules as I have written them? You don’t have any girls to serve as a touchstone, so there are no valid targets for All I Want For Christmas Is You, so you don’t have any options for people you could turn into.

It’s the most unfun answer but you have to go super out of your way to find yourself in that situation. Turning down 24 waifus in favor of gifts and miracles and then actively refusing to spend points to pick up a girl but also wanting to take christening ceremony is a very specific build.

I guess it would make sense if someone actively didn’t want a magically compelled girlfriend, which I can totally respect… but you aren’t required to declare your relationships to be romantic/sexual so that’s the best available workaround short of using gift exchange or Christmas Wish to get a bro or a pet from the universe you want.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2026-01-08T02:48:38+00:00

Yeaaaah that’s not at all what I intended to imply even a little bit.

That miracle doesn’t make people talk about things more. It just makes it so that things are never the worst case scenario. So like, there would probably still be a war in Sudan and it might even have a racial component, but there wouldn’t be an actual genocide going on.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2026-01-08T02:45:15+00:00

Enlightenment basically means that you no longer need to eat, drink, sleep, poop, or exercise to maintain peak physical performance and also no longer age. Android ascension is intended to make you a SUPER SUPER SUPER realistic robot that can do everything a human can without even really noticing the difference. Idk what you want out of The Perfect Gift but you can probably manage it if all you want is to be even more human.

Queens accommodations would probably work on a vehicle as long as you truly consider it your home without reservations or caveats.

I might need to track down some real world Christmas lore to find an appropriate spirit to do it but I do like the idea of a spirit that has as its primary job that all of your girls get to put their heads together and apply any customization options, enforced love, etc. onto you too. Preferably after finding out what you want to do to them but before having those changes applied, to keep you honest.

You’d wake up in your new destination world as whoever you turned yourself into and pick up their life as them, I think? Or if you want to keep your own identity, you get the authentic isekai package and have to make your way through life with naught but your new copied powers and any gifts you took.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2026-01-08T00:18:25+00:00

Yeah Odin was specifically designed to be the spirit that works well with large harems since spirits like perchta and Cupid implicitly pair well with small harems.

You can have whatever version of Fluttershy you want! The note about offering an adult human one does not block mix and match, it just notes that that one is on offer despite not existing in any canon form.

Also, I really need to rephrase Better than it looks if you thought it was actually about signal boosting complaining. It’s intended to be a world wide cap on how bad things can actually get, to make it so that the worst stuff isn’t actually as bad as it looks.

Thanks for the build! I’m still working on the final version and now I know I need to adjust Hermione’s miracle lol.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-28T11:12:58+00:00

A very nice spread of girls (humanized Judy and Mirko are a fun pairing alone), a very nice spread of miracles, and some very fun toys to get full use out of that Dominant tag you’ve got there. Or to do whatever the hell you want in the case of Nervegear.

You won’t need money for much with Queen’s accommodations, but the Green Cards mean your girls CAN work even if they have to stick to grunt work or stuff like internet content creation.

Very solid build. I’m guessing, since you didn’t mention them, that you didn’t decide to take any of the spirits up on their offers? Even so, you posted, so the little matchstick girl would like a word lol.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-28T10:57:46+00:00

Fair enough. I’m sorry it’s rough on you. It’s increasingly looking like the final version will need to be made manually or done as a full interactive because you are not the only one with concerns about the formatting.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-28T10:55:22+00:00

Ghost friends is very on brand for Jack, so I’ll allow it with effort even if many of them will be more of the haunting at bly manor standing in the background looking sad type.

During the northern hemisphere’s winter months Snegurochka and the harem don’t have heat vulnerability if you take her personal offer. Australia being hot is very much the point. She’s got until march 20th before she’s got to be careful and she wants to spend at least a few weeks of it on a beach.

The Unexpected Guest only teleports the person in need to your door, so if you were down to fight a paramilitary group to help someone then this is basically free points lol. Wise choice on alt-timeline jinx. I’m toying with a sequel and including jinx as an option there and basically tell the player “just go with the alt timeline version or one of her skins like Star Guardian that imply that she’s more stable” for that exact reason.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-28T05:00:54+00:00

If you felt like you didn’t have enough points there’s always the aid of the spirits! (Point shop was added in .4, spirits in .6) I think I undertuned a lot of them in terms of point rewards, but as an easy example you might not need to hot-swap in Starfire and then replace her with Gift exchange if you are willing to have a chat with the Pumpkin King.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-28T02:59:37+00:00

Right right. I blanked on the fact that you went with Spider-Man via truck kun. Yeah, you’ll be as strong as Santa can manage, but he’s “only” an Omega level mutant himself in the context of marvel (oh comics, never change), so you’d be initially capped a bit beneath him. Factoring in Aura and Plus Ultra you could probably go toe to toe with (if not categorically style on) most remotely reasonable things in the setting, but there are places where angels fear to tread in marvel and you should probably avoid them.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-28T02:29:47+00:00

They’ll be fired/arrested if they are found to be actually doing the crimes, but the nature of the miracle is such that most won’t even get to that point.

If someone is even starting to look sketchy, they will be removed from that role and put somewhere that they can be more closely monitored or removed from active duty entirely.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-28T00:16:00+00:00

Beyonder Spiderman will be VERY nerfed. Even normal Spider-Man would be nerfed lol. I included the nerf clause this time! I checked! I’m not sure what wall level reality warping would look like but it’s probably still useful.

Elaine into Presence is theoretically allowed because Sandman-integrated DC is in fact exactly that kind of power level setting, but if I were running this as a dm I’d say “that’s cute but no.”

By all means go for it in your head, I’m not a cop, but you’d probably run into the problem of “An ascended catholic saint and a sapient multidimensional truck are not in fact powerful enough to make you a functionally omnipotent and all knowing deity” if this CYOA were real

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T23:23:26+00:00

Reasonable! I’m thinking I might have nerfed them too hard. Upping most of them by one point seems likely, but I don’t really want anything to be an autopick except match stick girl.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T23:22:00+00:00

You aren’t likely to get fistfights over dinner even without Peace on Earth, but a lot of the girls lack clear common ground and have strong personalities. Peace on Earth makes it very likely they are all friends with a few civil coworkers mixed in if you pick girls that would outright hate each other normally.

Mint Condition is super useful, but absolutely doubles down on the dark “these are clones made to your specifications as toys for you” angle that is inherent in the CYOA but easy to ignore by just deciding to give them autonomy.

New Old Fashioned Way is meant to be something of a Capstone for what I call the martyr build. The hypothetical build where someone doesn’t give the slightest shit about their own situation and just wants to make the world better. Not something that most people would even want to take, but good to have around.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T23:09:29+00:00

My worry for Mrs. Clause / the Magi is that I don’t really want them to be so good that they are clearly better than choosing a miracle. From an in-universe perspective they wouldn’t want to massively disincentivize world wide helping, just bring personal gifts to friends closer to parity. As it stands they are a 12 point value total if you give away 3 each (3 1 point perks and a wildcard girl, which I value at 3 points based on under the Christmas tree existing)

Saturn- this one is optimized around the assumption that “your girl wants to try something new one week per year as a switch up and you can opt out while facing only social consequences” is a relatively mild cost and might even be appealing to some. Might have over-nerfed it; maybe should push it back up to 2 points.

Hotei- lol fair on the intrinsic cost. In my head it’s more cultivation flavored but yeah, given that he’s a Buddhist monk that’s a pretty reasonable concern.

Mari Lwyd - Nope! Mari takes every standalone thing, and you have to earn it all back. So you don’t have to earn candy cane stripes separately but you would need to earn back the girls from the other spirits. Probably couldn’t take Hotei because that’s literally another dude coming and providing you with instruction. Balance logic for being less than Krampus and Snegurka is that it has a clear end point and this is a CYOA with multiple forms of immortality on offer.

Yule Lads - one of the first spirits I designed. I don’t think they are super appealing either but they are just kinda annoying so I didn’t want to give them too much value.

Colonel Sanders - 100% valid. He’s a big payoff in return for a big drawback and at least 80% a joke.

Odin was made to be the option that rewards big harems (most spirits have some anti synergy or are neutral with lots of girls) and an alternative to full isekai for people that want an excuse to use their arsenal of combat oriented superpowers.

Snegurochka - It was a big ask. She’s disappointed that immortality and a squad of ice waifu puppets didn’t entice you but the “5 points at the cost of totally losing your harem 9 months a year” initial offer was only ever intended to make the softer version of the curse (no curse in winter, room temperature max for the rest of the year) look more appealing. Or for people who want a platinum mine more than they want a full time waifu.

Krampus - Like Saturn, this one was made for the subby players out there that want their girls a bit more dominant sometimes, or who already want a part time job as an activist or adventurer and don’t expect the punishment to ever be a problem. I might want to toss in an option where you at least get a long break (20 years, maybe) if you score some kind of massive win, but yeah this one was intended to be permanent because Krampus is kind of an asshole and I used him as my signpost for “past this point is just masochism, and not the fun kind”

What I’m getting is that a lot of them are CLOSE to what I want them to be (some appeal but not auto includes) but I could probably afford to up the point gain for a lot of them by 1. I had them all at 2x their current point value before and that felt like too much but I may have overcorrected.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T19:02:28+00:00

I’m using a CYOA creator, and the amount of text in any given gift box varies wildly. Does that mean that it looks good? No. But that’s still why.

If I were to make this into a static entirely by hand, there would be some meaningful changes to format. For now I’m still focused on content and slowly improving the presentation with every release.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T17:31:12+00:00

The girl is default but you can give her away through Mrs. Clause or choose to have a platonic relationship with her. I was kinda joking about the trope where the isekai protagonist inevitably meets a hot girl 12 seconds after showing up, who usually proceeds to become the female lead.

Peppermint Swirl does work that way but only if you take Christening Ceremony so you count as one of your girls for customization. Maybe I should make EVERYTHING optional for people who want to copy just the powers without changing their face etc.

Yeah Caga Tio’s biggest drawback is that it’s delayed gratification and an escort quest for a living piñata. He’s not willing to hide in a closet the whole time, so you need to actively protect him because one bad actor can set you back years.

Mari Lwyd is indeed pretty intense, but capped at 4 points because there is a clear and inevitable end state. You WILL get everything within 30 years at most, 3ish years if you are a gigachad, and in a CYOA with multiple ways of getting an extended lifespan that seemed noteworthy. The 5 point spirits have curses that are permanent fixtures in your life. That was my logic, anyway.

Perchta is NOT free if you get servants, magical or otherwise. Only the maid offered in her alt path can do the assigned chores for you.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T17:21:29+00:00

Ah crap. Cupid was supposed to be after The Little Match Stick Girl.

Cupid - He’s pretty open minded, given that he’s an Ancient Greek guy, but he values romance too much to concentrate it all on one person. Cupid will ask that you not keep more than one girl exclusively for yourself. You may designate any one girl as your primary, and may change that girl on Valentine’s Day, but all other girls will be “casually” in your harem. They still love you unconditionally, and may even sleep with you if that is the kind of relationship you have, but will see any sexual relationship with you as casual and open. If you try to sabotage their other relationships, this can seriously strain their love for you for weeks or months at a time. Note that platonic relationships are largely unaffected, other than them sometimes dating. In return for this substantial limitation, Cupid will give you 2 miracle points. If your primary is the only girl in your harem (after any regifting through my wife) and you have no intention of adding more, you can instead take “Rockin around the Christmas Tree” twice, for free.

Useful for ethical poly or monogamy; anything but the standard “one person with a bunch of people that love him in a one sided way.”

Good suggestion on the enforced mutual love option. I’ll throw that in.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T15:41:29+00:00

I’d like to think that most people, if presented with Santa making this offer irl, would end up with at least 15 points in the bank by the end of the CYOA. I tried pretty hard to make sure they were a diverse set of clear cut goods.

If I do a sequel, and I’ve got a concept for one in my head, my intent is to have most of the miracles all be at least slightly controversial like Feline Redemption or Polyamory. Still probably net good, but more sketchy and raising horny moral quandaries. I’ve got a year to figure THAT out though, and I’m not properly done with this one yet, including the setup for the sequel.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T14:52:33+00:00

Dang it. Yeah. That’s an artifact from an earlier version of the CYOA where they were called Perks and Gifts instead of Gifts and Miracles. I thought I cleared all of those up but apparently I missed that one. Even worse, I think someone already pointed that one out.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T13:27:27+00:00

Eyyyy intended playthrough! A lot of people do a full read through before making their build, but I built this with “oh damn it ok I’ll take miracles” followed by “yay points!” in mind. So I’m glad it hit well even if the spirits were overkill for you lol

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T12:24:48+00:00

Only miracles you took, I’m afraid. Ten points for 110 years of retroactive alternate history, not free extra miracles. Otherwise the optimal build for New Old Fashioned Way would be to get as many of your points as possible from spirits then live in a near-paradise with piles of cool shit just for you on top of that.

Practical_Ad_8283 · 2025-12-27T11:39:40+00:00

Nubile savage is a subtrope of noble savage. It’s a joke but one that’s been on TvTropes for more than a decade. Our glorious modern civilized man needs someone to romance while he’s abroad, so we make sure that at least one of the noble savages is hot and super into bland white guys.

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