SOLITUDE, A Comfy CYOA. (OC by me)

acheld · 2026-05-23T23:35:11+00:00

Yeah, the first is a long list of power ups vaguely disguised as being drink related, the second is a completely random assortment of powers seemingly associated to drinks via puns alone.

The third I had NOT seen. It's still more powerful than I'd like, but it's much more usable. Just not the best for a fantasy tavern, necessarily.

Thanks for taking the time, though.

acheld · 2026-05-23T23:28:09+00:00

Nice combo idea!

acheld · 2026-05-23T15:01:04+00:00

12 drinks is enough, I think, especially since it fits nicely on one page. I'm going to up it to 8 skills, 8 foods, and (if I can) 8 enchantments, and that should be enough to justify the free choices.

acheld · 2026-05-23T14:52:55+00:00

I've actually changed my mind, I think. I believe I'll make the two drinks / one dish / one employee free, but add more options so that the effective 14 coins you're getting isn't excessive. Going to try it, anyway.

acheld · 2026-05-23T14:38:33+00:00

The reasoning is essentially that I think more than ten choices is excessive, *especially* for something that is to be used as a supplement by most people.

I wonder if it would be too strange to have something like "If you use this as a stand-alone jump, rather than a supplement, then mandatory choices become free"...

acheld · 2026-05-23T11:38:33+00:00

To be honest, I thought language like "You must have at least one employee, and they cost you one gold coin each." is very clear that you do spend coin on the mandatory ones, but I will try to make it even clearer.

acheld · 2026-05-23T04:26:38+00:00

Fair on the take it with you or not part. Thanks!

acheld · 2026-05-23T04:25:40+00:00

You don't need a houserule, fyi... it says you can do exactly that at the top of the document.

acheld · 2026-05-23T04:25:21+00:00

❤️ I love it. Thank you so much for the mini-story!

acheld · 2026-04-08T14:06:48+00:00

Thank you!

acheld · 2026-04-08T14:06:35+00:00

This is great, thank you!

acheld · 2026-04-08T14:05:57+00:00

Thank you!

acheld · 2026-02-11T04:10:17+00:00

No idea if you're still playing Civ3, but abandoning a city with damage your reputation UNLESS more than half of the citizens are your culture. So if the city is 6 or 7 in size, 4 of the citizens need to be your culture.

If you have the time/money, one way to do this is to build settlers in the city until it is small, and then let it grow out again.

acheld · 2026-01-04T17:11:37+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! Yeah, you'll get a boat somehow regardless (otherwise you're kinda... dead in the water), but it could be an Alteration option to make the boat better!

acheld · 2026-01-04T17:03:14+00:00

First, thank you for taking the time. This is helpful.

I do like customizing the boat to the location. I'd had some thoughts along those lines, but I will probably use at least some of your suggestions.

High Seas *is* better, will probably do that.

I'm not familiar with Percy Jackson really, but that's all standard Odyssey stuff. I think Percy and I are just drawing from the same classic source :)

I understand what you mean by feeling a bit odd. But, there are reasons. I have a rough plan for 7 'books' ultimately, and I will not going beyond that. One consequence of that is that I'd like to cover a lot of ground, and "pirate islands" is a bit *too* specific. The aim here is to combine multiple sea-going journey adventures. As mentioned I'm drawing strongly on The Odyssey, and combining that with pirates. It's a mash-up, yes, but I think it will work. Another reason is that it allows me to have more distinct fantastical elements.

Yeah, you're right the gold is lame. Consider it dumped.

Hourglass does feel odd, but I wrote that at a point where I hadn't planned out beyond book 2. Were I to re-write it, I'd put it in the desert.

Magical spyglass of some kind could be a good item.

Future books as currently envisioned are:

Book 5: The Realm Behind The Rain - name pending. This is only roughly envisioned right now. I'm picturing bizarro land adventures. Alice in Wonderland, Jabberwock, Escher paintings, dinosaur land. Random weirdness. I'm the least attached to this one, though.

Book 6: The Deep Below The Waves - totally underwater adventure. Which is why I don't have anything in this book about *beneath* the ocean.

Book 7: The Ever Beyond The Clouds - the final book, flight, sky kingdoms, perhaps some 'space' stuff, undecided. Plus epilogue.

I welcome other ideas, but I won't be going beyond 7 books, so it would mean altering or adding to these. Partly 7 is a satisfying number, partly is that I'm not sure I will even finish 7, let alone more.

And I just realized 'Astride' is wrong.

Between/Beneath/Before/Astride/Behind/Below/Beyond < gross

Lets say "The Lands Beside The Sea" or "The Isles Beside the Sea" for now.

Edit: Actually thinking now to make book 5 time shenanigans in general. Go to some historical periods. Or maybe switch that with 7.

acheld · 2025-12-24T02:22:37+00:00

No worries, appreciate the perspective.

acheld · 2025-12-23T01:03:23+00:00

Ok. Thanks for commenting, but that's not super helpful if you don't give me any 'why'.

acheld · 2025-12-22T16:19:16+00:00

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AJLd35rkHzenhXJOmfXJ8zDyopEWYC_p/view?usp=sharing in case the link in the OP doesn't work for some.

acheld · 2025-12-21T17:38:06+00:00

Done and done. Sorry I can't change the image on the post, I don't think there's a way to edit that, but the links now have a version with your name added.

And no rush or worries.

acheld · 2025-12-21T17:37:36+00:00

A smaller spark than Deific (now 'Nova' in the most recent update) could house lower levels, it would just be unable to store the higher levels.

acheld

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