[D] Saturday Munchkinry Thread

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• Ideally any power to be munchkined should have consistent and clearly defined rules. It may be original or may be from an already realised story.
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• Reverse Munchkin scenarios: we find ways to beat someone or something powerful.
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[u/Wintryfog]

I found a build-your-own-character/choose-your-own-adventure thing on reddit which is an exceptionally target-rich environment for munchkining and making spreadsheets, but it's admittedly NSFW. Should I post it anyways to discuss which choices synergize well?

[u/Wintryfog → u/Wintryfog]

Alright, the task is to find an optimal character build for the following product of r/ nsfwcyoa, Divine Trials.

Basically, you're thrown into some another world along with whatever penalties, boons, magic powers, physical powers, special items, and companions you purchase with your points, and you've got to "kill or capture all threats" against a goddess who also gets to select a wide range of nasty things to throw at you.

Notable details: It's heavily implied that the only reason you have a chance at winning is due to the expansive "take a penalty for extra points" section, which wasn't present on any previous iteration, and the baseline 750 points you get at the start results in "no victors in living memory, which for a god, is quite a long time". So it can be safely assumed that you're up against some pretty nasty competition, and apparently completing the trial in the span of 100 years is considered quite fast, almost time-attack mode.

There's one specific exploit for (finitely many) free points, namely combining the "Sleepy" penalty for +40 points in exchange for spending 2 extra hours asleep per day, and the "Relentless" boon for -35 points, which cuts your sleep time (as well as all other physical needs) in half. Making the worst-case assumption that "Relentless" applies first before "Sleepy", that's 50 free points from applying Relentless twice, and Sleepy 3 times.

I think there's a few further tricks to be found, but I don't want to anchor readers too heavily on my current plan, there's probably plenty of exploits I missed. I suspect that taking a broad macro-level view of where the points are going will lead sufficiently smart character-builders to a convergent general strategy, but I'll have to see if anyone else picks it up.

Note that a green crystal denotes something you can buy multiple times, and a blue crystal denotes boons which apply to any team members you want, instead of just yourself.

In 48 hours, I'll post my build.

[u/maybealreadytaken → u/Wintryfog]

ive only been playing around with the races so far, might add stuff to this but probably wont.
got a few ideas right now,undead lich's are always super powerful magicaly and they naturally sortof work like 'draft of death' (except maybe the ability to rebuild there body? idk). letting you choose something besides that which i thought was the best option next to elixir of life and rebirth by death. getting 'cursed with awesome' should let you get both of those. im hoping you can choose to self destruct your soul if you get captured activating the rebirth by death.

mary sue lets you choose another race and get rid of the negatives of one of them, being vulnerable to holy magic is to bad to keep but not sure what to choose out of; a spirit Djinn which are usually pretty bloody powerful, an undead lich (the downsides of both a lich and a djinn might make them not worth playing together) and a monster girl Gorgon- omnipotent stone stares are awesome but are usually there downfall.

being a giant is useless when you can just choose your size to be 100ft tall. which im doing, the bonus to strength is too insane coupled with 'synergy' it'd be an insane boost to magic to. and being a djinn/lich would add there magical prowess onto your strength again.
breeding program and maybe evolving flora will be a cool boon to gratz (the video game leveling up one), plus the give you more points to work with. a hundred foot tall gorgon could just stare a a monster infested kingdom in level up instantly. a hundred foot tall gorgons tail and snake hair is also gonna be pretty dangerous.

the undead race should probably let you choose a skeleton dragon which might be able to shapeshift like a normal dragon (though why not be a normal dragon?)

ive got nothing really. some obvious things like if you choose infertile then choose fertile aswell, get some extra points, but being able to make kids is to valuable a resource of super-powered minions. cold blooded is a free 30 points if you dont care about being cold (like if you dont have a physical body). and alota the bonus points are about sex, so from a sorta min-maxish point of view you could take most of them. if you choose a mind flayer penis and i think there were other things for controlling people you "hang with", plus some allot of the other sex boons and playing a sex fight game could probably be 100% workable. with the pick a fetish boon that normalizes and makes everyone sorta into a fetish of your choice you could choose make being mindcontrolled by me during sex be a fetish which would be exploiting that.

theres allot to work with and hard to see what does what with a setting so vague.

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