I mean, Magic is just "all of the above".
I would say with 'insanely rich,' 'intellect' and 'gadgets,' you could pretty much achieve any of the rest you wanted on your own.
Plus insanely rich is the best way to do things like have people adore you, avoid jail, etc., depending on where you live of course.
Personally I would prefer heightened memory to intellect. But a way to not let the embarrassing moments affect my brain at all.
Give me arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation in the simulation we live in and I'll be satisfied.
Just give me being attractive and fuck the rest.
With chameleon, healing and unarmed combat I could rule the world.
Shapeshifter, telekinesis and magic. Efficiency and modularity. And i'm lazy.
Just need Magic and you can do all of the other things
Insanely rich: cheat codes for a comfortable life.
Shapeshifter: renders attractiveness options irrelevant and has enormous utility.
Psionics or magic, depending on strength and utility. For pscionics it really depends on how broad a range we're talking about. If it's just one thing or two things, nah. Being able to fling things around with my mind and pyro/cryo/electrokinesis are all tangently attached to telekinesis is great. But so is being able to throw fireballs in reanimate the dead. So really it would depend on the rules and mechanics for the magic/psionic systems. I think pscionics if it's more like The Force or something strong from GURPS or RIFTS, magic if it's something strong from RIFTS or D&D. If both are awesome then I'd pick whatever has the most utility probably. Especially since magic can duplicate psionic abilities using certain magic systems. But if it's lame magic or requires something like Faustian pacts or answering to any kind of more powerful entity, screw that. But depending on the mechanics, psionics and magic are just different kinds of magic systems.
Tldr, being a stupidly rich shape-shifting reality bender sounds like the life.
You could use many of the other options to become insanely rich relatively quickly 😅
But yeah I guess skipping the part where you rob a bank or something does have some appeal 😅
Attractive female, attractive male, invisibility
I'm the most beautiful creature on earth, and only I decide who gets the privilege of knowing it
Wouldn't "chameleon" be enough for that? Or "shape shifter"?
That depends on what chameleon means exactly. Does it let you change color, is it more like a predator cloak, or is it like being an octopus, or is it more like being able to blend in through body language and pheromones and become kind of hidden, or being a social chameleon who can fit into any circumstances. It's kind of a vague word without any more description.
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Shapeshifting: kinky (having sex as a boy or a girl, becoming any celebrity your partner likes), recreationnal (flying like a crow, swimming as an octopus) and useful if you want to do crimes
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Telepathy: perfect understanding of the others, or mess with their brain if they deserve it Also, this is the perfect combo with shapeshifting to impersonate people (if someone is suspicious, you have the perfect answers to their questions)
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Healing, because I know the feeling of being powerless when a loved one suffers
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wtf is this list, these are absolutely not equal powers. Magic alone accounts for 80% of this list. Magic, Divine Power, Attractive Lady is just the meta choice. Who the hell is gonna take something lame like Stamina or Invisibility when you could use magic powers to make yourself invisible and fly.
Lmao I didn't see divine powers, I guess you can just pick that and stop there, once you're a literal god give yourself anything on the list, easy-peasy.
I'm taking it to mean something more akin to a cleric's Domain from D&D, as opposed to you turning into divinity. So you can pray to your god, and as long as it's within your god's domain, it will be granted.
That is still fucking busted, especially if combined with magic, but to your point, godhood makes the whole list moot.
Teleportation, invulnerability, siphon abilities.
And then I teleport to everyone in the thread.
Unless someone has teleportation, intellect, and siphon abilities. Then they might outwit me and find someone invulnerable before I do. But I might find someone intellectual before they do. And then it becomes a race.
Comic adaptation when?
【 That time I got 3 superpowers from a Lemmy post, but so did everyone else? Yuusha no Skill Siphon 】
Yeah, the power gamer one is siphon abilities plus whatever two give the best advantage with that. Though psychic might be enough to negate any other, plus would help figure out where to get the others.
Though it's hard to meta game with just ability names. Like it could be god tier where teleportation works like you said and can be used on its own to find things or people, or it could be the kind where using it at all is risky because you might end up inside a wall.
Psychic could mean you can freely look into the future, past, and present (like knowing your opponent's poker hand). It could mean you get a warning if you need to deal with danger. Either of those could make invulnerability unnecessary (along with very rich, intellect, physical fighting, and others). Or it could just be con artistry like psychics that sell their "abilities" in the world we live in.
Siphon abilities might be permanent, temporary, or might require contact with the ability owner to use the ability. Maybe you get a copy of the ability or the original owner loses their ability. Maybe it applies only to powers on the list or maybe to any skill/ability.
Magic and divine power are especially vague, could be anything from the most powerful on the list (maybe even including everything else on the list already) to what real life magicians and priests can do.
good luck bitch im in madame web's anus
Insanely rich, Intellect, Invulnerable. You could totally change the world - you would be like Elon Musk with a brain. When the shitty oligarchs throw you out a window, you just bounce.
I think insanely rich is probably the worst thing on the list. How are you immortal and the smartest person alive and still broke? You should find ways to make a fortune easily oorr if you really want to change something you can use your power to actually improve the system in the long-term and not just profit yourself.
Attractive female, immortal, divine powers.
But, not any major religion. Just start making flowers bloom in the name of some minor goddess that has good rules. Go around healing people and giving out free food.
See what that does to the world when basically every main religion is "wrong"
The Wiccans I know are generally good folk, what chaos when healing crystals actually start working?
Attempt to not to go mad with power.
I feel 'Magic' is able to cover a lot of these....
Anyway
Immortality, Insanely Rich, Magic.
I will then become a supervillainous evil wizard. Sorry-not-sorry.
Enjoy being 16 trillion years old and bored out of your mind, if you're even still sane lol
Methinks eventually going completely nuts is part and parcel of the supervillain lifestyle
I know what I signed up for.
Now all I need is a hero type who will antagonise me and mess with my plans... But never kill me or take my wealth to reduce my power. And also we'll have a rivalry that borders on the homoerotic sexual tension.
Immortal, invulnerable, teleport. I'm sure the super rich I can acquire in a lifetime or two in 1 hour deliveries. Cargo ship from U.S. to Australia in an hour, got you. Rich people need organ transplants? Poof.
Military needs someone to take someone out? Poof. A few contracts and now your stacking bank accounts.
Doesn't divine powers mean you can get anything on that list?
Its weird that not a lot of people decided to choose it.
I think it's closer to Level 2 Priest compared to Yahweh.
But then how many abilities will end up crummy for balancing purposes? It's like "pick a sword, bow, or gun to defend yourself", but you don't have the strength for a European longbow and your pirate-era flintlock has enough spread to hit the neighbor's dog.
What if teleportation is 2 inches, or flight is 3 feet? What if invisibility means light goes straight through your corneas and you end up blind? What if immortal just means only your brain will survive??
Nevermind
Anyone who is planning shenanigans and doesn't take phasing or teleportation is asking for it. Sooner or later some government entity or another is going to try to put you in some kind of prison and you'd better have an escape card. Especially if you also take immortality. If you're immortal and some asshole Cask of Amontillados you, you're going to be pissed off about it forever.
And is "divine powers" just a free combo deal of magic, invisibility, and immortality?
If you take immortality, you also probably need to take healing. Being mortally wounded and unable to die sounds, uh, bad.
See. I thought "immortal" was "non-ageing" and impervious to cancer and Alzheimer's, etc. I took Healing because I felt it close the injury loophole.
Of course teleport because life may not be too short but I'm still going to mars and I don't have to learn the katana. #thereCanBeOnlyOne
Attractive male, insanely rich, teleport.
I will no longer be single, I can vote in the US (only the rich get to vote with SuperPACs), I have a low carbon footprint
Submariner necromancy size manipulation. Hoards of tiny zombie whales and giant zombie plankton.
Immortal, invulnerable, teleportation
Now I can do whatever I want without having to worry about consequences.
I picked teleportation because I'd hate for example if somehow someone launched me into a sun or black hole and there was nothing I could do forever.
Being immortal an invulnerable I assume I'd be able to get rich very easily.
I also assume the following:
- immortal mean that you don't die of old age or sickness
- invulnerable still ages (counter with immortal)
- divine is not godlike but jesuslike. Can perform miracles or even come back to life but has limited power. Not immortal, not invulnerable
You'll have a nice, long life followed by countless aeons witnessing the slow heat death of the universe
When the time comes, I'll teleport inside a black hole where I will be frozen in time , thus rendering me essentially dead
Feral. Radioactive. Submariner.
Sealab 2021.
Attractive male, insanely rich, intellect.
Y’all have fun being superheroes. I’m gonna enjoy the fuck out of life.
Vampirism, Divine Powers and Magic. These three pretty much give you every other power on this list. You are essentially God and need only keep the human race alive so you can feed off their blood.
I feel like immortality is always a monkey's paw.
Can we replace it with like... Negligible Senescence?Assuming it's not a monkey's paw (since invulnerability is also there) then:
Immortality, teleportation (to escape capture), intellect.Also wtf is Devine Power?
Immortality is fine, until you end up stuck somewhere forever.
It's inevitable, it might be 10 years from now you'll get stuck under a mudslide and buried forever, but conscious.
In a billion years, you'll get stuck inside the expanding sun forever.
In a few trillion years you'll get stuck floating in the void of space forever as the universe expanded into nothingness.
Immortality needs some sort of way out, or else you'll eventually end up suffering forever (what's a trillion years to someone who will live for eternity?)
Immortality is fine, until you end up stuck somewhere forever.
This is the literally why I called it a monkey's paw, and suggested negligible Senescence instead.
It's also why I selected teleportation.It's like you didn't read any of my comment except the word "immortality" 😑
Immortality+invulnarability has to break physics somehow. Use that loophole to extract energy and build an entire civilization around yourself.
Be the immortal sun god of the endtimes.
Will probably be fun for a few trillion years.
Why doesn't "Divine Powers" include everything else? 🤷
"Divine Powers" means you can make anything Fabulous! with just a glance.
Hell yeah
Super hearing, super sight, sub-mariner.
I'll take Divine Powers. I think the rest will then sort out by itself.
Well, immortality and invulnerability are a definite to deal with some existential dread.
Then I suppose insanely rich because you're going to need a lot of money to make investments on a forever time scale.
I can give you some immortality-related existential dread if you want
Wikipedia's Timeline of the Far Future didn't make me comfortable with my own mortality so much as it made me even more afraid of immortality
If invulnerability means not being subjected to all the forces eventually pulling apart and decaying all matter, I'm still on board. I'll roll the dice that things eventually find a way to come back around, whatever that means.
I feel like teleportation gets you an ability that makes money just fine. Hell, just invulnerability makes you valuable for cleaning up nuclear accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima.
All choices depend on the degree of the power. How much can you lift with telekinesis and how dexterous is? Is magic cantrips, level 9 spells, or something even more arcane? To what level are the speed and strength "super"? Are you a "Captain America" super human or Superman?
Thankfully, my constant favorites are pretty definite: invulnerability and immortality.
What even is "psychic" and how is meaningfully different from "telekinesis" and "telepathy"? Is it bundling all the other -kineses? Yeah, I'm giving it too much thought but personally I don't like discussions based entirely on everyone not having enough information.
That was my take as well. I already have a degree of elasticity, agility, and healing. Guess I'm tapped out and cannot redeem this coupon for god-mode.
Yeah it would be interesting to know the limits. Mine would be SuperSight+Teleport, with the understanding that I'm able to perceive time very slowly at will and maybe see very far if I want to. Also, sneezing wouldn't trigger a teleport.
I don't want any Saiki-K situations where I'm unable to be attracted to people because I can only see through their skin by default
Most of the powers are achievable with just intellect and magic. The third power to choose is immortality because most of the sci fi or magical immortality has a catch.
Easy: Attractive Female, Attractive Male and implants.
“What kind of implants?”
“Yes.”
If I'm a plural system do we get to pick 3 for each of us? :)
If it's one set for everyone, I'm going with Shapeshifting, Healing, and the third kind of depends on how this stuff works.
Shapeshifting I'd take even if I was only allowed one power. I'd finally have a body that fits. Several of them, in fact. Some might even be human. We could swap between us physically, and turning into stuff for a while just sounds fun.
Healing because if I don't pick it I'm eventually going to regret it. Shapeshifting might already let me fix any damage that isn't incapacitating or instantly lethal, but that only applies to my own body. I'd want to be able to help others, too.
For the third power... Magic could mean a lot of things, including many on this list. Maybe it's a "jack of all trades, master of none" kind of deal, which I'd be fine with. A bunch of spells that cover a wide range of situations but aren't as strong as specializing in a single power.
Teleport is really appealing. Lots I can do with it if I can take people or things with me, or set up something long-range that doesn't require line of sight. If it also allows me to create permanent portals then we're really going to have fun.
Or I could take Invulnerability to remove that "incapacitating or instantly lethal" weakness and really lean into being some kind of unstoppable healer. Divine Powers? Depending on what that does, it could replace Healing while also giving a bunch of other benefits. Hell, if it lets me resurrect people too, and I also take Invulnerability, then I'm basically an emergency respawn point for the entire community.
Supersight Weapons master Super strength or super speed
What exactly are divine powers? Are you basically the blue dude from Watchmen?
The religion is Greganism. Greg believes in Ferraris and Skittles.
Ever drink Bailey's from a show?
The religion is Shinto and you gain the powers of a kappa
1 level 2 and 2 level 1 Cleric spells
I can't even Remove Disease?! Fuck that shit!
divine is religion based. like spawning 6 arms and dividing oceans. powering things up by blessing and being able to seal or banish evil.
dr. manhatten is physics based. he could maybe do similar things, but his powers are not magical. he can't force a spirit to stay in a piece of armor or things like that.
A very interesting explanation. Totally enjoy the physics aspect! Maybe that can ne the radiation power??
This is so imbalanced and vague.
People used to go full on Rainman designing these CYOAs.
HeroMaker3
Attractive female, insanely rich, and teleport. I'll have a gf, have money to finance my 1000 hobbies and help others, and never have to stand an hour in a crowded bus trying to hold in a fart again.
I think Insanely Rich means that you're actually an insane guy called Rich
I think Attractive female means you become an attractive female, so the genie got you.
Isn't all of this magic?
oh yeah, the magic of "insanely rich" 😄
teleport, size manipulation, super smell. i am constantly teleporting into the rectums of famous actresses and experiencing ego death as their farts wash over me and erase all other sensations. i don't even remember my name or how long I've been doing this for. all i know is my mission. i am the fartshifter
Size manipulation, stamina and blast power.
F-for for fighting crime, r-right?
I really like that this set works for both men and women.
Magic. Two others at random.
Magic, 3 times
Immortal, invulnerable, teleport. I can be where I want to be, when I want to be, until the end of time.
Guys you don't even eye siphon abilities? It's the pro strat
I figure that and attractiveness will enable you to borrow any other ability you need.
Attractive Female Attractive Male Third one doesn't matter
Add Shape shifting and you're Ranma.
Stamina.
Submariner it is!
Sir, an unidentified vessel is hailing us! It wants us to... spread?
Being a necromancing immortal weathercontroller sounds fun...
Bah, thanks to my years as a shut-in tech dweeb I already have lots of Gadgets, a Feral appearance, and I Super Smell.
Chameleon, Invisibility, Shape Shifter.
Guys, I don't know what I am and I'm scared
You could be an old walnut tree in Istanbul! No one would be aware of you, but neither would the police.
You're a cuttlefish!
You can be whatever you want.
Shape shifting, teleportation, and insanely rich
"Attractive Female", "Divine Power"
because what power doesn't fall under that, and "Insanely Rich."I already have autism, PTSD and depression. I don't know if I can handle more.
Radar sense, submariner and radiation. I'm about to go defend Greenland mortherfuckers!
Teleport - force field - healing
Pretty much nothing you couldn’t do and get away with it. Go anywhere and nobody could stop you. Healing seems redundant with force field, but I assume you’d have to turn off the force field to do some things which would leave you vulnerable.
Magic can accomplish all of this, so I choose that
Steal his look: Divine Powers, Healing, Immortality.
Fire Control, Radiation, Weather Control
burning radioactive acid rain for everyone
You’d be wasting your opportunity for powers, at this rate that’s coming up this year anyway
With Invisibility and Phasing you don't need to pick Super Rich.
Magic Feral Submariners will take over the world one day.
If you do "Attract Female", "Attract Male" and "Vampirism" you'll be able to pull the entire gender spectrum!
I choose to become a nuclear submarine: radiation + sub-mariner + super hearing
Depending on which deity we're talking, "divine powers" is a no-brainer. Besides that: Immortality, invincibility, siphon powers. Use the time I have (i.e. all of it) to learn unarmed combat and weapon master, and become insanely rich and very intelligent, then invent implants and a powersuit (why would anyone pick those if they're a freebie with immortality), then wait around for others who have picked different powers and siphon off their powers. Since I'm invincible, I can also swallow some plutonium and become radioactive.
So, in conclusion, I would like to be a sci-fi lich.
Am I misunderstanding siphon powers? Add invisibility and super speed... Aita?
I think if you siphon a rich man, you get his wealth. If you siphon a poor man, he'll thank you and ask how much it is to go all the way
Psionics (a la Legion/David Haller), Divine Powers (more Legion reality-warping fun), Immorality (until the Heat Death of the Universe). I've got a lot I want to do, starting with planetary reform and cultivation of the species.
I will be Useless Man!
Radiation, super smell, syphon ability (there are no super heros so no abilities to syphon.)
From this chart, being attractive, smart, or rich are abilities, even gadgets is listed. Logically it doesn't make sense, but following the rules laid out, those are probably up for grabs.
Also, who knows what they mean by magic, maybe you can go look up David Blaine.
He can siphon a tank of gas quicker than anybody else. He makes a living stealing gas from parking lots.
Immortal, healing, shape shifter
the rest I can get with time and cunning
I went with immortal, shape shift, and teleport.
There’s no range to the teleport listed, and I’m just going to assume that shape shift can alter biological function and not just the meaty outer covering.. but ultimately it doesn’t really matter that much because immortal.
This would be a great way to explore the universe and a search for life. Maybe settle down somewhere if you find an advanced society that sucks less than humans.
Honestly, I'd prefer healing over immortal.
Sure, you don't live forever but at least your health will always be excellent. No permanent insuries, no cancer, no chronic pain, no dementia etc.
Size manipulation is all i need...
They make pills for that
Intellect, immortal, shape shifter.
Shape shifter makes the attractive male/female redundant.
Intellect will get you gadgets/implants/power suit. After a bit of work which you have infinite time to do.I wonder if shaft shifting would fuck with your sense of self too much. Who actually are you if you can be anyone?
Is this a trick question? You're you. No amount of bodily alteration will change that. Shapeshifting will, however, allow you to have the most you-like body imaginable.
I guess that you would spend most of your time in a "default" look. Other times you would play a role to meet a specific end.
Does it matter at that point? You're all powerful
Hmm...
Agility, Radiation and "gadgets", or
Immortal, Flight and Invulnerability?
Nah, Attractive female, Insanely rich and Super Smell of course!
You are now very rich, anything and everything female comes flying towards you, and you smell really bad.
You are now very rich, anything and everything female comes flying towards you, and you smell really bad.
Teleport, invisibility, and psionic as long as that includes mind reading.
Magic, weather control (magic), invulnerability (magic also)
What is psionic if not psychic? And how are telekinesis and telepathy separate from both?
Telekinesis is moving objects with your mind while Telepathy is reading minds.
Psychic I would guess is a lot closer to telling the future than anything else.
Psionics is literally just a category that includes all 3 of those though so I have no idea.
Psionic might have some extra sensory perception as well.
Not a meme.
Immortality, invulnerability, and shape shifter to not attract too much attention (hide)
Attractive Male, Immortal, Divine Powers.
shapeshifting teleportation and electricity control sure why not
You can now freely move shale.
lmao
Divine Powers
Immortality
Phasing
Bitches think they can bury me in a cave behind a boulder? I don't fucking think so.
That said, I do need more detail on "power syphoning." Seems like a no-brainer if you get to keep them.
Shape Shifter, Teleport, Insanely rich.
- Be anyone/anything I want to be
- Go wherever I want instantly
- and if i need anything else, just buy it with money
Do you need money if you can just teleport into a bank vault, grab some gold, and teleport out? :p
Shape shifter makes half of these redundant. I pick that, teleport, and electric control.
Immortal, Teleport, Intellect
Idk how magic fits in here, since Teleport is typically a part of magic.
I will use it to fix the world buy making a lust for power and greed to the detriment of humanity a death sentence. My super hero name can be Incentive. I will make it my duty to make sure that the ruling class finally has a proper incentive to do what is right. I'll be like if Kira from death note wasn't a moron.
Teleport is creating wormholes, that's science, not magic. I'm an adult I think.
Well it's either I suppose, but I have a hard time seeing creating wormholes with science as something I could do while bound, so I'll stick with magic at will teleportation.
Ignoring the devine powers weather control is ridiculously op. When i was smaller i was thinking of what extremely op devil fruit you could get in ome piece and i picked weather control. You can literally strike anyone with lightning, controll air pressure, create extrelemly strong winds that are localized(air bending), create a firestorm(firebending), rain an shit(waterbending), depending on weather you count disasters as weather(i would normally not count eartquakes but floods are def weather) you can literally turn whole cities, countries to dust. Also potentially you could just spawn certain animals that are commonly found in hurricanes if we count that. Also flight probably because of the wind powers. Your temperature range is basically -100 to 100 which is also op. You could travel with 500km/h because that was the fastest wind ever recorded. You could also rain 1kg pieces of hail on people. So yeah you would be a god basically even without the devine powers. You can add immortality of course and with that you are literally a god at that point. You can add attractive male/female(which i presume means extremely attractive because youre spending a slot on it) or super speed so you can be fast while doing this shit or anything else tbh as youre already a god.
Me when I picked immortal but my opponent spawned a tsunami that sent me to the kabillion PSI ocean floor (I am doomed)
Shapeshifter, magic, immortal. Boom.
Necromancy necromancy necromancy.
Easy!
Im thinking... Rich, healing, teleport
Solve any current problems with money, heal people/animals, easily and instantly go anywhere.
I would attempt to "heal" the ultra-rich from whatever their obvious problem is. Lol
1 insanely rich so i dont have to work. 2 divine powers so i can be impressive and perform impossible fears, thereby recovering the majority of the skills i didnt pick 3 psychic so i can know what others know, uncover secrets, predict behavior, prevent crime, predict weather, and potentially talk to pets
Immortal, invulnerable, magic.
Magic would probably enable a lot of the other things on that list, and having unlimited time to practice it, you could become a demigod in, to you, no time at all.
Insanely Rich x 3
What if I already have the power of being attractive 😎
Do I have to waste a choice to keep it?
And does immortality come with eternal youth?
Invulnerability, Invisibility, Psychic
How fast is the super speed?
Fast enough your skin melts from the friction and incidental contact results in amputation. Have fun!
That's why you need to co spec invulnerability
Immortal, Flight because it's more fun than teleport, and Magic for whatever else I want.
Immortal, teleport and stamina. I am going places bitches!
Immortal, Teleport and Super Sight
Does sub-mariner come with flight and super strength or is it owning an actual submarine?
It would be kind of hilarious if all of these were actually fully achievable in real life.
Magic is just close up street magic, if you select divine powers, someone offers you a job at the local cathedral. Radar sense, a box from amazon with some radar parts literally shows up on your doorstep.
Unarmed combat + necromancy
I think I'd go immortal, phasing/ghost, shapeshifter.
Can't die or age, can't be caught, and can turn into whomever/whatever.
Super sight, Invisibility, Insanely Rich.
