If you choose to be reborn, you will not have magic powers, but you will unlock a status window and a skill tree that you can use to give yourself new skills and abilities and improve your physical characteristics.
You’ll get the same thing if you choose to be reincarnated, however, magic will be a factor. And the age of the world will be somewhere like 50-ish years before the full rollout of the industrial revolution, technology-wise. (minor clarification, you keep your current knowledge either way)
However, you will not be the hero or the chosen one. You’re just going to be a person with a perk.
I would never choose to be reborn as myself with my current knowledge. I would know how my life could turn out without knowing all the steps I did to get there. I don’t think I would be able to get my wife to fall in love with me and I know that I would never be able to find the exact breeder that sold me my dog.
As much as I would love to imagine how much better my life will be if I made the right decision at some juncture, I would not want to lose out on all the treasure I discovered taking the wrong road.
Sure I would be able to see loved ones who have passed, but would I be able to enjoy that extra time knowing that they will soon develop a disease that will kill them?
Magic no question
I think I would choose to forget everything, and have a chance to be reborn in a world where everything is new
This is commonly referred to as death.
Please clarify the details.
Is it reincarnated into a world without magic, retaining all of your knowledge just in a preindustrial revolution knowing and timeline will remain the same minus the changes I make? (Like everything that happened without human influence such as earthquakes, volcanoes, stellar phenomena etc would still happen at the same times, but magic now exists and I don’t have it?
And the other choice. Being reincarnated into a magic world without knowing who I am or anything I knew in my previous life but I will have a magic system to utilize that I’m fully informed of? And also does everyone in this magic world have magic or would I be a rarity or at least uncommon as someone who can use magic?
You would either start your own life over with all the knowledge you currently have and a status screen,
or,
you would begin an entirely brand new life in a world of magic, remembering and knowing everything that you know, and having the status screen
Thanks for the clarification!
Magic me allllll the way!
Reborn as myself with my knowledge.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Young people don’t listen to old people. But, if the old person is myself, then I’ll listen… when I’m young again.
Yeah, this question… like, this isn’t even a question. So much stuff I would re-do…
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Reborn as myself. Once my vocal chords develop people will be amazed at the conversations they can have with a baby.
And before that, your parents will be amazed that you didn’t need potty training 😅
What if I already need potty training?
Anything sufficiently advanced that it isn’t explainable in the current culture is magic.
Considering I’m already a modern day wizard, I’d go for being able to use my existing skills from birth over being born into a society where the laws of physics may not be the ones I’ve spent decades studying. That sounds like a recipe for abject misery and early death.
Gonna reincarnate without magic and then just pump up my INT so I can invent magic myself.
Unfortunately I don’t think you get to repick your stats, just resets your str, dex and con
I’m not respeccing, just leveling it up. It says I can do that.
Reborn. I wanna see my mom again.
Ok, this one is too wholesome for me to make a dark joke about.
It would be the best, man. I miss her. I could do a lot of stuff differently, sure, but mostly I would just like to spend some time with her. She was awesome.
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So new game in magic world or new game + in normal world?
Do I have to be the chosen one in new game +? I’d do that if I don’t have the added responsibility of saving the world.
If you’re of a certain age, you’d STILL have to save the world.
Imagine you go back in time, to the year your born. You can’t even speak yet, but you know 9/11 is coming.
If you try to warn others, they won’t believe you. But after it happens, they’d blame you. You’re the guy who knew 4 planes would be hijacked on one random tuesday.
Because thats what 9/11 was before the planes hit. Just another random tuesday. Very calm. Nice pleasant weather. If you watch what the today show host says at 8am, he says “It’s Tuesday morning, the sun is shining, and it’s a nice quiet morning. Maybe a bit too quiet.”
Oh believe me. That’s about to dramatically change!
But how would you know that on Sept 9th 2001?
So now you have a choice. Let thousands die on the day, and hundreds of thousands develop conditions related to the attacks. Ranging anywhere from mild, to lethal. Everything from a persistant cough, to aggressive cancer.
But in choosing to save them, you most certainly go to max security federal prison.
Or, you can pretend to be shocked when 9/11 happens. Knowing you let hundreds of thousands suffer.
Your choice.
You did this wrong. I would spend the time using the info I know to get massively rich very early and connect with people who can do something, and start working that front
Would it really matter if we get reborn? That implies pretty strongly that death isn’t the end. Sure, you could choose to be a hero, or at least try, but all those people already died, maybe even you did (depending on how this whole thing works).
Given those surrounding circumstances, I don’t think the concepts of life and death would carry the same weight in a second run through life.
Going to a world of magic sounds pretty sweet, but only if I can remember that I once lived in a world without it. Otherwise, I’m just a schmuck in the only world I’ve ever known, and magic wont be any more fascinating than technology is today.
The current world with knowledge would be more advantageous than a magic world from scratch.
@Rhynoplaz @bizarroland what greater magic than kindness and compassion? We have that here, you have that power, here, now.
Fireballs.
Kindness and compassion are great and all, but Fireballs are MUCH greater.
@Rhynoplaz <3
Why would I live in a preindustrial society just for the minute chance I could use magic. Because statistically speaking you will be a subsistence farmer in a world where the powerfull can literally alter reality.
If you take the magic route, you are guaranteed magical ability of at least C tier rank, and since you have the status window, you will be able to upgrade that through patient and dedicated practice.
I did not see the changes you made to premise. But I would still stay with modern comforts and lack of terrible diseases.
Can I choose to just die?
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BANG!
…wait, did he say something?
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What kind of monster would saddle a newborn with the weight of my current knowledge?
Neither. I’d make my parents choose people who actually love each other which would prevent me from being.
I have quite the skill tree that I’m too old and broken to make use of.
Reborn with my knowledge of skateboarding? Yes please.
The timeline is changed. Skateboards are now square wheeled. You either know how to make it roll, or you hurt yourself.
