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.

  • Godthrilla@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I think I would choose to forget everything, and have a chance to be reborn in a world where everything is new

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    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?

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    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?

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    15 hours ago

    i would want to be reborn in world with magic with my memories so i would appreciate more

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    I’d rather be reborn as myself with my current knowledge, that way I have more time to learn. I’d do so many things differently.

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    The magic one for sure. I have no doubt that I would not only recover my memories of past lives but would ascend to much greater heights, perhaps grasping immortality itself.

    All the amazing adventures to bizarre worlds await.

    With dimensional and time travel, shapeshifting, I might even come back to this world. Maybe I’d turn my other self into newt and take his place. Or imbue him with forbidden knowledge and power. Or take him with me. Or maybe we’d just end up having a bunch of freaky shifting magic sex.

    “Hey me, it’s you, from a world of magic. I’m here to rescue you.”

    “Wow, how unexpected. Also, you’re hot.”

    “Baby, I’m about to blow your mind.”

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    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.

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      22 hours ago

      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.

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        19 hours ago

        I did not see the changes you made to premise. But I would still stay with modern comforts and lack of terrible diseases.

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    I couldn’t imagine a single scenario where I wouldn’t choose to reborn as myself. IMO it is objectively the correct choice: more stable/safe world (compared to pre-industrial revolution with dangerous spells), and I’ll almost be guaranteed to do quite well in it given the status window and skill tree

    My intrusive thoughts tell me to choose world of magic and go kaboom though

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    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.

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    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.