That Human's Guide to Equestria fic made me tihnk of something... · 3:49am Feb 10th, 2012

It reminded me of the Choose Your Fate story-games we played the Midna Fan Forum.

To anybody who cares (Prolly not many, as this is a fan fiction site and is not a forum), Choose Your Fate is essentially like the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books, but is played with multiple people and decision-options numbering normally in four with one Good choice, one Okay choice, and normally two Bad choices whose effects can be either mild (such as getting a torn shirt or broken equipment), or death-inducing. Each 'player' would get three to five lives depending on the length of the story, and after each choice made there would be a paragraph of text for the 'simple' story-game, or four to seven for the role-playing stories.
Before starting, there'd be between three and seven days for everybody who wanted to participate to join in and make their choice of character (for the role-play stories. the narrator would be making the character types and their abilities) and their story-option. Sometimes we'd choose not to have a life-limit at all (and for those who picked a bad option would read the results of their choice but be otherwise unaffected), and it would simply be a story that's story-path was dictated by the fans.
Sadly, these almost never got very far due to folk not checking back to see when they'd been updated, or they'd forget to place a vote when they said they would and then the narrator would try to wait and then- etc.

Given the writing ability of so many Beta-Authors (my term for non-publishing fiction writers) I think that a number of good ones could result if anybody gave it a shot. From going on a quest to camping with friends and forgetting to pack food (or eating a plant that gave a character or two the runs), it's like regular role-play, but with more story and less dying.

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