>You're the chosen one because Fate will have you
>You're the chosen one because the Gods have given you the power to overcome any obstacle
Which do you prefer?
>You're the chosen one because Fate will have you
>You're the chosen one because Fate will have you
>You're the chosen one because the Gods have given you the power to overcome any obstacle
Which do you prefer?
I like it when my father was the King of Demons all along and I thought I was a random peasant
what about when you kill your father in a road rage incident and then frick your own mother and have like three kids with her?
Why not Fate/Gods do the whole thing themselves since they have so much power?
They don't want to risk a god-war and so pick a champion to represent them instead.
The perk of being powerful is that you have others do stuff for you. You're not a peasant, are you?
>You're not a peasant, are you?
Bitch, please.
What do you mean? Fate IS doing it
They don't have limbs so they need to borrow yours for a while
They can't affect the mortal realms, only influence it.
That's the same thing.
Wrong. Fat = You just survive constantly because of luck.
Power of the gods = You can only die if you basically just give up, or get countered by an enemy who is chosen by other gods.
"Fate" isn't luck, it's literally, "This was supposed to happen." When something is "fated to be", that means it was supposed to happen.
It's perceived as luck, you know what I mean, frick you homosexual.
I'm chosen because I have chosen so.
My n'wah.
> You're the chosen one because god knew 6000 years ago that you were going to do all of this shit because you went back into the past and told her about the apocalypse happening in the future that you needed help with, creating a stable time loop where God has spent the thousands of years between now and then stacking the deck in your favor as much as she possible can so the final days can be stopped once and for all specifically because its the one future that she knows gets mankind *at least* this far instead of being wiped out.
>You're the chosen one because you won (lost) the duke's grand lottery
>You're the chosen one because you rang two bells
>now go kill my enemies and then yourself for me goy
I like the Dark Souls deconstruction the best, where the entire prophesy and in fact the entire religion is just made up to dupe someone into doing Gwyndolin's (originally Gwyn's) bidding
Chosen One not because of fate, destiny, or gods, but because they succeed. All the other "chosen ones" failed.
I've never seen either in a tabletop game, you do realize this isn't a board for general fantasy tropes right?
The former makes it seem like you can just coast on by and circumstance will accommodate you, the latter still requires you to know how and when to apply your gifts.
> You're the chosen one entirely on accident
>you aren't the chosen one, but through a series of coincidences you are similar enough to pass for him
>You're the chosen one because you succeeded where everyone else failed and we're going to legitimize it with every fallacious mythos we can throw at you in order to manipulate you into being the figurehea-where are you going?
Literally what's the difference?
You're the chosen one because you duped everyone into believing it.
Chosen one (singular) has no place in TTRPGs, all it does is make said person the main character. Either the whole party must be chosen, or have nobody chosen and the party is just these guys.
This is why the Icewind Dale games are the only Infinity Engine games to properly imitate a D&D campaign.
>You're the chosen one because the Emperor thinks you'll be a valuable asset if you actually are so he's ready to get you kill while trying, like the dozen of others that tried before you and no one told you about.
Neither. I'm the chosen one because I choose to be the one who puts a stop to the great evil. The prophecies are merely my own ambitions predating me.
The chosen one is dangling on the gate of the city of the damned, an iron spike driven through his skull. The heavens and earth are in chaos. The god of fate has been reduced to a gibbering mass in the corner, driven insane and mumbling, "it's coming it's coming it's coming" before being unceremoniously mercykilled by the god of war.
>You're retroactively declared to be the chosen one as justification for why you succeeded and others failed
this one
>You're the "chosen one" because you happened to be in the right place at the right time and it serves the interest of those in power to deem you such.
>t. J K Rowling
Wasn't Harry Potter the chosen one because his mom loved him?
No, that made him the Boy Who Lived.
He was the "Chosen One" because Voldemort heard a prophecy that a baby born in July would grow up to challenge him and only one of them could survive, because the prophecy essentially predicted Voldemort would hear the prophecy and try to prevent it, thus creating his own enemy. Dumbledore knows this and leverages it into his series-long 4d chess match with Voldemort.
Honestly one of the more interesting takes on prophecies and chosen ones IMO.
>Voldemort would hear the prophecy and try to prevent it, thus creating his own enemy
Not trying to dab on you but this is pretty common in greek tragedies, the early example I can think of is Oedipus, his father hear the prophecy that his son will kill him and marry his own mother, to avoid this he order to the kid be murdered/taken away. Oedipus endup growing without knowlodge of the prophecy or his parents identity, so one day he kills a man and takes his women, just to find after the deed what the really did it.
In popular culture I always remember about a short story Alan Moore wrote about the Green Lantern Abin Sur, how he tried to avoid a prophecy that he would die because his ring would fail him. To avoid this he started to use a spaceship that one day crashed into yellow radiation and killed him. Had he used his ring alone he could have detected the yellow energy, so by trying to avoid he endup fulfilling the prophecy.
The greek myth of Danae, mother of Perseus too.
Her king dad was told by the oracle that he'd have no sons, but only a grandson that would kill him. So, he locks up Danae in a tower. Her weeping ends up attracting Zeus, who gets her pregnant... Etc etc, the child ends up killing his grandpa in a completely random incident.
>which do you prefer
The one where I generate a character to explore and fight in wilderness and dungeons, getting loot and powers over the course of the game.
Oh, you didn't list that one, my bad.
>You're the chosen one because the concept of a chosen one was seeded into the culture of the people by an organization to be utilized by them at a later date and you fit the bill and are convenient.
>You're not the chosen one. The chosen one was shanked in an alley and died two weeks before the announcement ceremony. The prophecy will never be realized. You kinda look like him so we need you to pose as the real deal to prevent mass hysteria and despair while we figure out what to do.
>we think you're the chosen one but you'll have to prove it
>doesn't really matter if you are or aren't it's just easier if you kill the bad guy for us
>You're the chosen one because you happen to be of a specific heritage or lineage that it would be politically useful if you were elevated as ahero