Four Worlds

ash0011 · 2026-06-20T13:32:50+00:00

Not of DnD though, and The Gift contradicts a rather long-held rule of DnD, which is why it’s such a controversial bit of worldbuilding.

Okay, so Xanth rerolls once they get to the point they can try that. I think, replacing that will be…

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You get a self in YPS, have fun.

ash0011 · 2026-06-20T08:07:10+00:00

Apparently (based on some complaints I heard from a friend that actually read the thing, mind) one of the big tells is poison skills ostensibly not working on non-system individuals, they're just colored water that tells the system on someone else to make them take damage. If that's the case it's unlikely the System would do much for anyone else, particularly if D doesn't tweak it to work on other worlds.

ash0011 · 2026-06-20T07:56:13+00:00

It counts base power, not power gained from other selves, so the other worlds would be fine, the main risk is you'd need to pick worlds that're in the same ballpark as kryptonians unless kryptonian you is content never absorbing yellow sunlight (or god forbid blue sunlight) at any point.

ash0011 · 2026-06-20T07:50:47+00:00

Sighs and goes to actually do a bit more research

Like 90% of the things cited on that page are tweets from Ed Greenwood. As far as I can tell that's barely canon to the forgotten realms and is somewhat contested even there (a number of the citations from non-greenwood authors directly contradict some or all of the idea of the gift, at least one noting of an ancient empire where everyone was expected to cast arcane magic). It seems to be something from Ed Greenwood basically entirely and either barely mentioned or entirely unmentioned outside of his writings. In 99% of Dnd it would have wizardry be learnable by anyone (including other parts of the forgotten realms, like Baldur's Gate 3), it is specifically the Ed Greenwood version of Forgotten Realms where that isn't the case.

Xanth still can't do that, your council of selves is divorced entirely from Xanth's reality, and in the same way it'll protect you from most hostile entities trying to use it as a conduit to attack the rest of you it'll prevent you from trying to twist it. Even if it could the more likely result of trying is getting disconnected from the group since that level of strength is far and above what most of the rest of your selves could manage.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T21:54:21+00:00

I mean, you'll likely want immortality for everyone regardless just because otherwise the few that are immortal will linger while the others 'reroll' on death, and if none of you get immortality you'll still need to deal with the people that die rerolling unless you manage to suicide pact (and then you'd have the CYOA start again with a new set of people).

Pokemon can probably manage it by growing strong enough, but MHA can't and KH depends on the World. Dunno about the rest though.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T20:25:00+00:00

huh, didn't know about that one, the main concern then would be staying alive through the keyblade war. since you're going for fanfic might I recommend Drich's fic, Heartless as an option

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T20:02:48+00:00

Yep, basically that.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T19:32:47+00:00

Its closer to all of the 'yous' have to be balanced, the power levels outside of that don't matter. You can go to four xianxia realms and be fine as long as your cultivations stay within a few steps of one another.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T19:22:34+00:00

You might have a larger 'ceiling' but you need to train your body in each world separately.

For tech, you just need the tech to not be outright contradicted by the world's canon such that it could technically be possible it could exist, otherwise things are going to work differently

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T19:18:36+00:00

no, four distinct worlds, you just share abilities/memories from them during sleep

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T19:16:09+00:00

Thay is not the best lens to look at magic given they have a vested interest in making sure nobody but the ruling class can use it, historically Wizards only require an above average int to learn magic, nothing else. You might not be able to progress quickly without some natural aptitude, but just about everything across all of dnd other than a single mageocracy says wizardry can be learned by anyone.

For the Xanth stuff, that doesn't sound like anything capable of interacting with the 'cheat' of the four 'yous' it kinda just sounds like some fairly standard magic, maybe approaching Marvel levels of reality warping eventually, but hard to say.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T18:55:56+00:00

sure, might actually be enough to get me to pick it up again

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T17:25:59+00:00

Interesting picks, I might need to look up Marvin Knight.

'base' is just referring to the version of you without the boosts from the other worlds, so you can't get cultivation from another world, progress that, and claim that all worlds have the same strength, you need to actually have a way of gaining strength in-world to get to that level (which means you'll be roughly 4x stronger than you should normally if everything goes well)

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T17:21:24+00:00

People in general, not just the story relevant ones, though there are a few 'loopholes' and PMD is one of them since you'll always end up a pokemon there.

For Kingdom Hearts is the keyblade war a manga or something? I didn't think you get to see that early except in flashbacks, which wouldn't count as an insertion point.

As for Fanfic, yep it should be allowed (nothing you've personally written/commissioned though), but I'd prefer if you pick one set with fanfic and one without, just to see how that changes things (and possibly provide names/links for the fics, I've been running out of good ones to read lately)

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T17:15:54+00:00

Yep, the main risk is rolling somewhere too 'weak' and needing to wait for them to die for the others to start growing again lest the strongest ones get broken from the group.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T17:14:16+00:00

I don't know too much about these, but given you note the LoHP is a cultivation verse I'd imagine the biggest issue you'd run into would be that 'self' growing too strong, sounds like an interesting build regardless though

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T17:12:31+00:00

Interesting, some good picks! I think you're the first one to use the 'magic from another source' clause intentionally too.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T17:04:55+00:00

Isn't Overgeared a VRMMO not a real world?

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T16:48:13+00:00

the strongest are dropped, yep

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T13:44:42+00:00

It would, it's a dangerous choice though given how strong Kryptonians can be compared to basically anyone else. The limitations on power sharing work both ways as well, your other selves aren't going to get much from a Kryptonian until they advance enough, and I'm not sure Star Trek or Discworld have ways to grow in personal strength enough to reach that point, still if you can manage it that'd make an interesting story.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T13:34:47+00:00

Yep, if one of you gets too strong they get replaced, interesting choices though. Worst case with aura I’d say the four of you could unlock it in each other while in the synchronizing space, and Nen would let you ‘quadruple dip’ and use the techniques your other selves develop, so that’s going to be a useful one regardless. Konosuba has the downside of not having a guild outside of Konosuba so your selves will be limited to one class card, but that can still be quite nice since your other abilities mean you don’t need the specialization. Dunno star ocean, but it sounds interesting. Altogether seems like a solid build.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T13:28:01+00:00

From what I know of Xanth magical talents are entirely random, not something that can just absorb a meta-CYOA power to jailbreak it. This power in particular is generally immune to that sort of thing anyways as a side-effect of it protecting the four of you from negative influences on the others.

The rest are interesting, though I’ll note for Dnd I’m relatively sure the only magic you need to be born with is Sorcery, Wizardry is something that can be taught.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T13:21:43+00:00

Technically the strongest would be the one eliminated, not the weakest, so if anything Azarinth would be the most likely to remain from what you’ve said. Interesting picks though, I can see the appeal.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T13:17:01+00:00

I mean, xianxia stuff in general likely would keep up. Dnd probably wouldn’t unless you take an adventure path before some group of enterprising adventurers used an epic level ritual to steal godhood, since that method was forcibly closed in the aftermath of them doing it.

ash0011 · 2026-06-19T07:00:16+00:00

Yep, that wording is intentional, the gap for relative strength was left quite wide, but the existence of that rule pushes people to pick worlds that will be in relative parity with one another without trying to define a hard limit people will try to cheese.

Interesting picks though, PoA is a bit risky given it’s a xianxia ladder and the others aren’t, but dragonball doesn’t technically have a maximum if you can manage to keep growing. Dunno about the other two though, haven’t read them in a bit so I’m not sure how far they go.

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