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.

Reborn as myself. Once my vocal chords develop people will be amazed at the conversations they can have with a baby.

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.

Reborn. I wanna see my mom again.

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.

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.

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.

Can I choose to just die?

Neither. I'd make my parents choose people who actually love each other which would prevent me from being.

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

What kind of monster would saddle a newborn with the weight of my current knowledge?

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.

Reborn, any day. I'm quite happy with my life, but this and being a multimillionaire through some minor investments in bitcoin, and a stat screen to minmax? 11/10

Neither. I’ll take absolute absence

I think I’m kinda done.

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."

First one. Need to stock up on amphorae first though.

I really don't understand what magic you think we don't have? Chances are you typed this question on a slate of crystal and wire that allows you to see and hear across the planet in nearly real time. There are people who, with the right tools can summon fire at their fingertips, unleash arcs of lightning, draw water from thin air, and make rocks that talk. We are surrounded by forces that both well mapped (at least locally) and are completely incomprehensible to the best of us. While we have not mastered the veil between life and death, we have certainly learned to draw it back.

You are, I fear demonstrating the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. You're confusing the comprehensibility of the world with mundanity. We are living in a world full of "magic"... It just doesn't look like the magic you read about in old fairy tales, and importantly, it's not shared equally to everyone.

I'll take reincarnation with my mind intact.

I'm assuming that all of the magic would be hoarded by the spellionaires. I'd be stuck in some warehouse loading an infinite number of potions that I can't afford onto a Pallet of Holding.

Magic easily. Why would I want to come back into a world like this?

Give me a new body and a brain without chemical imbalances, please.

I'll take the new life+, thank you. Gonna be trivial to become a child prodigy, earn money off that and then have a very smooth adult life

World of Magic, I don't wanna live through the Trump presidency again, nor gender dysphoria.

Magic world. That sounds more fun and interesting to me

Second one

Unless the magic comes with sex and gender fuckery spells, neither. I'm not really keen on doing a whole lifetime without access to trans health care

I don't understand. you are born in a world of magic with the potential for magic vs having all your current knowledge? you are born in a world without magic but all your current knowledge vs born into a world with magic with no memories of your current life but potential for magic?

Option 2. Much easier to get set for life.

Besides, magic already exists. We just know how it works now.

Let me finish this play through and get back to you.

This is not really the right community, but I wanna play anyway lol.

If I'm getting your scenario right, the choice is between being you, but not having access to the Wizard class (or whatever it would be called) and limited to other classes; or not being you at all in terms of consciousness and being a wizard.

If that's accurate, what would be the point of reincarnation? You wouldn't get to enjoy any of it as your self. So unless the scenario factors in souls having memory and you'd get to enjoy it that way, it seems a pretty bad choice in terms of experiential immersion.

So, obviously, with that in mind, I'll take the brand new body, thank you. Though if I can't do so with my people also being present, I'd opt out entirely. I'm not sacrificing the good in my life, abandoning the people that love me and rely on me, just for an adventure. That's what d&d is for, you dig? Taking an adventure like that without at least my wife is a hell no.

You said "with your current knowledge still intact". If that means I can know beforehand which things I've already invested in which didn't pay off and those which did (and I mean relationships, careers, life choices, not necessarily money) that alone would be a massive perk. You want to give me physical perks on top of that, I'm not complaining. But the deal was already a no brainer.

If there isn't knowledge remembered then I'm a bit ambivalent about which of the two. I think I might go for magic but if you strip all memory away I would have nothing to compare it to.

Magic no question

If the Harry Potter universe taught me one thing, it is that a world of magic is a terrible place. Anyone could be anyone else transformed, people can read minds, etc etc etc., no wonder Alastor Moody became so paranoid.

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.