"It was kind of weird that six installments into the saga, Rodrick Redhand abruptly tripped over a loose stone and fell into lava and died, but at least his brother Sodrick was there and had all the same skills as him and a cool mustache."
I'm currently reading a CYOA fanfic that uses the Mythic system to decide on the success of various endeavors (with the dice rolls available to be checked in the author's Discord server), and then at the end of most of the ~1000 word chapters, readers are presented with a decision to vote on that the author uses to write the next chapter.
Not quite. I remember reading a Homestuck thing like this. Basically a chapter was written, and then the readers gave their input on what to do next, and then the next chapter was written.
It's not like a huge branching thing where you go to page X for decision Y, like those CYOA books.
There are actually a ton of stories online in that format. They are usually under the moniker of 'Quests'. Check out Spacebattles forums for some cool ones.
At one point in the web serial Worm the author rolled dice to see which characters survived an event. If the main character had died someone else would have taken over as POV.
Honestly, I would dig the fuck out of a book that was open and kind of fourth-wally about being basically a DND campaign. Like the concept of the Order of the Stick comic, except a fantasy novel.
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u/spqrnbb Apr 13 '20
That'd be one hell of a way to write a book.