I might mention that 17000 ending permutations isn't actually all that much. Just a basic calculation: if you have 10 NPCs and each of them can have three endings, name them "good ending", "evil ending", and "dead", you'll end with 3 to the power of 10 = 59049 ending permutations. And you'd only need 20 different scenes for that, two for each NPC.
Having said that, I agree that having no epilogues, in whichever form, is undesirable, but on the plus side we'll not run into the situation that no possible epilogue fits what we want.
Last edited by Ieldra2; 14/08/23 09:51 AM.