(WIP) Drink Your Villain Juice! (Superpowers, Horror | 356k) Updated 12th May 2025

[TheLazyKnight]

@izzily

I get you on this point, and including more roleplaycentric choices alongside statcentric choices was something I hesitated on a little bit, but I do have reasoning on it. This may come across as a semantic distinction, but those choices are an opportunity to recover (or to concentrate on things other than recovery, which has other consequences) first, boost stats second.

I sort of view it as unlocking different story opportunities, if that makes sense. Not boosting one’s guts means not accessing certain possibilities in the fighting segment, but not checking up on friends may mean not accessing other possibilities in another scene. And even then, I kind of view failure (of a check or whatever) as another storytelling option rather than a solely negative outcome.

In any case, there’s going to be at least a couple of points in the story where stat increases are available strictly alongside other stat choices; training rather than recovery.

That’s fair, I can understand that. It does feel a little punishing when you have to pick between game and story aspects, but it sounds like that’s sort of the point. I do hope we’ll have another opportunity to look into our friends later on in the story though, that feels important enough to be it’s own choice. Especially with the easy angst of Dime being afraid to even look