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Ripple Effect

How to limit a choice

A choice that is used up, or whose condition is false, stays on screen greyed out and unpressable, so a passage never becomes an empty slide.

Limit how often a choice can be taken

Section titled “Limit how often a choice can be taken”
  1. Open the choice on a Narration node.
  2. Fill the Times box beside its name with the number of times one playthrough can take it. Leave it blank for as often as the reader likes.

Once the choice is used up it stays on screen, greyed out. The card shows the ceiling as ×3 at the end of the choice’s row.

Offer a choice only while a condition holds

Section titled “Offer a choice only while a condition holds”
  1. Find the small input on the choice’s row. Every wired choice has one.
  2. Wire a bool into it. The choice is offered only while that value is true.

Times and the condition combine on one choice: three times, and only while you carry the lantern is a single choice with both set.

Place the deciding cards in the flow

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A condition is only worked out in time if the cards that decide it sit in the flow leading to the passage. That holds for any card whose answer depends on something the story changes, such as a Comparator reading a dice roll.

  1. Put the cards that work out the answer in the flow that leads to the passage. For several, use a Do all with a chain on each branch.
  2. Wire the Do all’s completed port into the passage.
  3. Play the campaign and check the messages panel. A card that is not in the flow is reported there, with the choice named.
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