I tried to address that by 1) having the silent protagonist option where the story unfolds as it would without the flourish before the canned response so now it’s only 3x as much, and 2) all of the response dialog is the same because they were going to reply the same way as they would to the good or bad option anyways.
This will triple the amount of PC options that need to be “written” but the rest of the writing (NPC dialog) doesn’t have to change at all, and that’s where most of the writing goes anyways.
I tried to address that by 1) having the silent protagonist option where the story unfolds as it would without the flourish before the canned response so now it’s only 3x as much, and 2) all of the response dialog is the same because they were going to reply the same way as they would to the good or bad option anyways.
This will triple the amount of PC options that need to be “written” but the rest of the writing (NPC dialog) doesn’t have to change at all, and that’s where most of the writing goes anyways.