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Questionable Questing

frooglestien
because I'm a fan of your Exaltation cyoa and I've been considering how a combined power system made of all six power types, all of their upgrades, and all the beneficial perks except for archmage & heiromagus would look like and I've been unsatisfied by what I've come up with.
frooglestien
Would you be willing to collaborate with me on that? because it'd be nice to have a specific, coherent example to be able to point to for when I'm mentally writing stories, making certain cyoa builds etc.
Subrosian Smithy
Subrosian Smithy
If you're talking about Veil of Fantasy, that's actually going pretty well. I've ironed out a bunch of details that were bothering me in the past, and I'm feeling happy with its direction... sort of a spiritual successor to Exaltation, actually.
Subrosian Smithy
Subrosian Smithy
As for a maxed out Exaltation build - with all of the upgrades and everything - I think that would just be a cultivation world.
Subrosian Smithy
Subrosian Smithy
Arete: body & skill cultivation
Psyche: spiritual sense techniques
Arcana: ancient arcane spells
Identity: dao-based techniques
Othering: yaoguai exploitation
Creation: artifice & magitek

Passengers: your nascent soul acts like a zanpakuto spirit
Lay of Land: there are special cultivation zones, etc
frooglestien
good to hear about veil of fantasy, thanks for replying, in hindsight I was probably overcomplicating how a maxed out exaltation would look like in my head
frooglestien
I forgot to ask, how fast would the progression of a user of a maxed out Exaltation cyoa be? like linear, quadratic, exponential?
Subrosian Smithy
Subrosian Smithy
quadratic progression by default, but weakly exponential with clever use of synergies
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