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[ParrotWatcher]

@VioletHikari

@ParrotWatcher I don’t fully agree with you. I mean, you do have a bit of a point that it will be difficult, but @MahatmaDagon hs been doing it with his W.I.S.P. game, and so far I think it’s coming out well.

Actually, that’s pretty much my main complaint with WISP (I’m writing up a comment on it right now).

[Ernest_Mani]

There is definitely gonna be a civilian romance options, but I’m not too sure about romancing your mentor I’m planning to make them a fair bit older.

[Ernest_Mani]

I really wanna give the player full control over there story so I’m gonna let them choose.

[Spire]

@ParrotWatcher

I don’t want to appear unnecessarily negative here, but I do feel that giving the players the choice of their powers will probably be a detriment to your game. It’s almost impossible to balance different powersets without either making them basically identical (and then, why bother pretending they’re different?) or effectively writing a different story for each (which would be far more profitable to release separately).

I’ve been struggling with the same line of thinking for something I’ve been working on but then I realized something rather important: It all depends on how you work your powers into the game system and it all depends on the kind of story you are trying to tell.

In my case I resolved that having certain powers would allow you to bypass certain skill checks (without replacing a single skill) as opposed to having power ratings instead of skills. And with that system I could have a bunch of powers if I wanted to without things becoming unwieldly.

In this setup the powers themselves are obviously not the focus of the story. If you wanted the powers and/or expression thereof to be the main thrust of a story I’d generally agree with you but if they’re just an aspect of the whole thing then there’s nothing wrong with that in my book.

[ParrotWatcher]

@Ernest_Mani

I really wanna give the player full control over there story so I’m gonna let them choose.

The problem is that it’s not our story, it’s your story, and giving us too much control can lead to a far blander story. (But obviously don’t give us too little control, either… )

@Spire: I guess it could work that way, if you’re careful to avoid situations where you only have one correct choice.

[Chaosteress]

You could make it so that the more powers we have the more weaker we are in each of them but it’s more diverse than having single all powerful ability that the MC has honed.

[Ernest_Mani]

I guess I’m gonna have to find a balance