CYOA image thread

[Iku Rex]

CYOA is short for Choose Your Own Adventure, and this thread is a place to share the image versions that are commonly posted on 4chan's /tg/ (or from elsewhere).

What is this?

It's sort of a one person roleplaying game. Someone posts one or more pics containing a number of options. It might involve you, personally. (Potentially turning it into a weird psychology test.) Or you could be making choices on behalf of some character. You try to make the "best" choices possible.

Ideally you also make a short post in this thread with your choices, and why you made them. I suggest not reading other peoples replies before posting. It's more interesting that way.

What is it not?

It's not a free-form play-by-post roleplaying game. I'm not "recruiting". There is no campaign, and no GM.

Now what?

Unless the thread crashes and burns, or I suddenly lose interest, I'll be posting CYOA pictures I've saved. I'll try to space them out over time. Obviously other people are encouraged to post their favorites as well, or even better, original content. (I'd appreciate it if you don't dump your entire folder at once though, if you have lots. Quality over quantity.)

Rather than try to explain in more detail, I'll just start with a variant of one of the more popular CYOAs, the "Power Armor CYOA". It involves more math than most CYOAs, but the concept is fun and well executed.

Power Armour CYOA (edit: uploaded in better quality - big):

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Inspirational videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7P9_e304lM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttzxpmZUb9M





Builds:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/shows...53&postcount=2
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/shows...38&postcount=3
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/shows...99&postcount=4

My choices:

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Light Armor 0
Avian 20
Soldier AI 10

Brain Implant 20

Advanced Suit Status 5
Hawkeye 5

Radio Transmitter 0
Terminal 10
Defense Maze 10

Metalstorm 20

Scout Drone 5

Environmental Controls 0
Camouflage 10
Collapsible (Watch) 5
Storage 0
Cyber Brain 10
Memory Palace 5
Veteran Soul 5
Kinetic Stabilizers 10
Meneuvering Rockets 10

Canvas II 10
Hydra 10
Mycelium II 20

Total: 200

I feel the need ... the need for speed. :D

I have several excellent utility features, like regeneration and no need for sleep. Sure, I can't take a hit, but if I'm wearing my armor I can fly away invisibly at great speed at the first sign of trouble. And if I really need to kill something, overloaded metal storm with +3 firing rate adds up to a lot of dakka. Canvas II lets me disappear if/when I'm "outed" as an armor holder.

Others from this thread:


Overlord CYOA

[Jormengand]

All right, let's make a few of these:

Spoiler: "Assassin" Mesh-class power armour

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Mesh 0
Flight 20
Biped 0
Agent AI 10
Nerve suit 5
Suit status + Advanced suit status 5
Night vision 10
Beam sabre 15
Rail rifle 20
Plasma Shield 15
Scrambler 10
Emergency Evac 10
4 scout drones 20
Environmental controls III 20
Storage 0
Collapsible 5
Grappling hooks 5
Hydra 10
Mycelium 10
Berserker 10

The Assassin is the last word in reconnaissance and, as its name suggests, assassination. It is designed to optimise stealth, evasion and killing ability.

Spoiler: "Marine" Light mech

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Light 0
Amphibious 20
Brainwave Harness 10
Suit status and Advanced Suit Status 5
Hawkeye 5
Night vision 10
Thermal vision 10
Radio transmitter 0
Terminal 10
Defence Maze 10
Crowd Control grenades 5
Battle rifle or flamer 10
Blade 5
Revolver 10
Environmental controls III 20
Capacitor 10
Storage 0
EMP shield 10
Cyber brain 10
Martial arts 5
Veteran soul 5
Kinetic Stabilisers 10
Hydra 10
Mycelium 10

The Marine's power armour is designed to survive in practically any location, even space. Some marines use power fists to fight larger vehicles, or beam sabres to fight other marines, in which case they do not have battle rifles/flamers or blades. Other marines, known as assault marines, fight with vibroblades instead of their battle rifles and flamer, and can levitate but do not have blades or hawkeye vision. Finally, some marines known as devastators will carry machine guns instead of their battle rifles, or swap out their blade as well to carry an RPG.

Marine commanders often carry heavy shields called Storm Shields.

Spoiler: "Hekatonkheir" Fortress-class mech

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Fortress 0
40*Extra Limbs 200
Biped 0
No AI 0
Manual controls 0
Suit Status 0
Radio Transmitter 0
Environmental controls 0
Storage 0

The Hekatonkheir is a massive, towering suit of armour. Cumbersome and unwieldy, it fights by picking up and throwing objects, or smashing its enemies with its forty-two arms - not half as many as its namesake, but enough. Weapons are an alien concept to it, and it has limited capacity for anything beyond combat.

[Iku Rex]

^ Interesting builds Jormengand. I like your Spess Mehreens.

Why no Camouflage for the assassin?

And shouldn't the Hekatonkheir be using tentacles, for more limbs? All controlled manually from inside the suit.

New Power Armor build:

Spoiler: Iku Rex Can Into Space!

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Fortress 0

(Flight) 0
Tentacles 10

Mount Body 20
Bio Body 10

Engineer AI 10

Brainwave Harness 10

Advanced Suit Status 5
Radar 10

Radio Transmitter 0
Comm Buoy 10
Defense Maze 10

Missile Launcher 20

None 0

Scavenger (2x) 10

Environmental Controls III 20
Storage 0
Cyber Brain 10
Memory Palace 5
Maneuvering Rockets 10
Capacitor 10

Hydra I 10
Mycelium I 10

I can carry fairly large payloads ... into space. I'll probably have some suited competitors, but I should still be able to make vast amounts of money hauling people, satellites and components into orbit. (I foresee some initial problems convincing people that climbing into a semi-organic tentacle-monster is a good idea, but I'm sure it will work out. ) My AI, tentacles and drones lets me do advanced build and repair work. High power and recovery stats ensure that I don't have to shut down all the time. Comm Buoy and the Fortress Suit Commander ability adds up to very long range communications.

Once I have enough money to buy the necessary supplies I'll go for Mars, and start work on colony infrastructure. It'll take a while to get there, but the AI can keep me on target while I relax in the Matrix my Memory Palace and plan. A few round trips later Mars, also known as "Iku Rex's World", should have it's first human colony.

Pushing asteroids into earth orbit for mining is another interesting option if transporting people to mars proves to be too much of a hassle.

Radar-guides missiles provide some defense. But I'll try to recruit a few other space-capable suits to assist with security.

[Jormengand]

^ Interesting builds Jormengand. I like your Spess Mehreens.

Spoiler: "Predator" medium tank

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Medium 0
Tank 10
Soldier AI 10
Manual control 10
Advanced suit status 5
Floodlights 5
Night vision 10
Thermal vision 10
Radio transmitter 0
Terminal 10
Defence maze 10
Autocannon 15
2* Machine guns 20
EMP shield 10
Environmental controls III 20
Capacitor 10
Storage 0
Cyber brain 10
Veteran soul 5
Kinetic Stabilisers 10
Hydra 10
Mycelium 10

The Destructor-pattern Predator tank. Others, known as Annihilators, have particle beams instead of autocannons, and laser rifles instead of machine guns. Destructors are an anti-infantry tank while Annihilators focus on vehicles, but both support the marines in battle.

Spoiler: "Crisis" medium mech.

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Medium 0
Levitation 10
Hopper 10
Soldier AI 10
Nerve suit 5
Suit status and advanced suit status 5
Hawkeye 5
Night vision 10
Radio transmitter 0
Terminal 10
Environmental controls II 10
Capacitor 10
Storage 0
Kinetic Stabilisers 10
Maneuvering rockets 10

This is the base, unarmed Crisis suit. It has numerous weapon configurations, as shown below.

"Lone Hunter:"

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Flamethrower 10
Metalstorm 20
2*light drone with 2 pulse rifles 20
Hydra 10
Power Fist 15
Cyber brain 10
Martial arts 5
Veteran soul 5

The "Lone hunter," equipped with flamer, burst cannon, stimulant injector and onager gauntlet, leaps into battle with no-one to speak for it but its two gun drones, making short work of infantry before running forth with its onager gauntlet and ending the existence of battle tanks.

"Sunstorm:"

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Wave-motion gun 20
Plasma rifle 20
Plasma shield 15
2* light drone with 2 plasma rifles 20
Cyber brain 10
Martial arts 5
Veteran soul 5

The sunstorm battlesuit, armed with fusion blaster and plasma rifle, usually deploys in a team of three. It is the death of others of its calibre, designed for the destruction of heavy infantry and light mecha alike.

Spoiler: "Broadside" Medium mech

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Medium 0
Adhesion 10
Biped 0
Soldier AI 10
Nerve suit 5
Suit status and advanced suit status 5
Hawkeye 5
Night vision 10
Radio transmitter 0
Terminal 10
2*Rail Rifle 40
2* Plasma rifle 40
Plasma Shield 15
EMP shield 10
Environmental controls III 20
Capacitor 10
Storage 0

The broadside battlesuit is part tank destroyer, part long-range assassin. It is sometimes equipped with rocket pods instead of its rail rifles, in aid of the destruction of aircraft.

And shouldn't the Hekatonkheir be using tentacles, for more limbs? All controlled manually from inside the suit.

Spoiler: "Cthulhu" Fortress-class mech

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Fortress 0
19*Tentacles 190
Overlord 10
No AI 0
Manual controls 0
Suit Status 0
Radio Transmitter 0
Environmental controls 0
Storage 0

Two hundred twenty-eight giant tentacles extend from this massive machine. It eats 1d4 people per round.

[Tengu_temp]

Oh hey, I remember this one from /m/!

No time to make one right now. Maybe in several days.

[Iku Rex]

Overlord CYOA (note: big):

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My picks:

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Cliffside Castle (+1 Shard)

Island

The General

Diplomat
Study
Form Changing
Natural Leader
Gold (+4 coins)

Werewolf

Followers (10+4+1=15 coins total):
Scholar Angel
2x Guild Master (Shipwrights, Merchants)
Captain of the Guard
Squad of Guards
4x Merchants
4x Ship Captain
Spymaster
Diplomat

Complications:
Monsters (+1 coin)

I've gone with a wealthy little island realm. We will prosper though peaceful trade and diplomacy, not war. Though if need be I have a badass general, lots of money for mercenaries, the beginnings of a fleet, and wolfy superpowers. The minor monster problem should be easily dealt with.