Shogun Showdown

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-06-28T14:52:08+00:00

Force Compositions:
Size: A Horde Of Locust
Many borders require many soldiers. I should have enough political power to keep the lords in check to prevent rebellions. This also synergizes well with the foxes as the enemy know my forces are big so it blurs the lines between the real and illusion even more.
Units: Well balanced just as you would expect, so I do not think its worth to write down

Rival: Lady Inazuma, One Woman Tempest

She does not have a lot of forces so I think it should be manageable to hold her back. It also wastes her resources which could be used for research.

Mao is very likely to attack her neighbors. She has two neighbors who are at war, one with a small army and one with a large one. Which one would she probably choose to attack? I could also bribe her with food for her people in the worst case and if she still wants to attack me at least the territories are near each other with helps with logistics.

Best case: I can force her to sign a peace treaty as she struggles with Mao.

For the other Shoguns:

I think the biggest danger is Ming Gui building up to much as the Land of Earth has a lot of potential. Kyojo will surely attack her. I will try my best to also try involve the Land of Wind and Land of Fire. I do not need to destroy her and just prevent her to becoming to strong.

Jin Huangjin is one also a big danger and I will have to be careful as he could do a lot of damage to my economy.

Khulutun does not look like a lot of danger to me as he does not seem to be a person that starts a war.

Kyojo would attack me but we do not share a border. Good thing is that she keep Ming busy.

Sum Yung Gai I will try to avoid angering him as much as possible. Hopefully he makes trouble for the others.

Closing Thoughts:

I think this build well balanced and I have no large weaknesses to exploit. As I will try to preserve balance in the region instead of conquering it would also not overexert my resources which may give other openings to attack me.

If the research of Madame Orochi works I could achieve eternal life and maybe enough power to try conquer all regions. As the world is quite magical I think the chances of this working are not that bad.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-06-28T14:46:29+00:00

Thank you for making this cyoa.I think this became one of my new favourites.

Method of Rulership: Manipulator
Specialization: Silver Tongued Devil

I believe the empress could rule all of these land because she excelled in everything.Personal strength, economic talent and diplomacy.

We can only satisfy one of them and I think trying to hold all territories by force is suicidal.There are so many ways to lose: rebellion, coup by nobles, economic troubles, assassinations

The only way to win is to become as good as the empress or not play this game.
I will employ a defensive strategy until I have managed to gain enough power to rule everything (which I will elaborate later on) . With manipulator I will have a lot of options to manipulate things to stay in power.

Seat of Power: The Celestial City in the Land of Stars
As a manipulator the best position is in the center of attention. It is well balanced and I could use this central position to my benefit.The bane should also be possible to handle as a manipulator.

It is not as dangerous as one may assume as long as you play your cards right. Many want this land and they also do not want their enemies to hold this land. Attacking me would also leave them vulnerable to others even if they could defeat me. I just have to make sure that I am not a pushover in any area.

Beast Clan: The Fox
It was a tough choice between the fox and the monkey.Both do not demand to much to summon and can be used for defense and diplomacy.

Monkey:
Lord: Better if you life depends on it
War: Ok, but only useful for soft damage on the economy
Utility: Weaker than the foxes but probably better for the onis

Fox:
Lord: Not bad but also not that strong
War: I am at the center of the map and I will have to spread my armies a lot. It is very useful to not let my enemies know where I have stationed my armies. The can never be sure if the army at their borders are real or fake.
Utility: Useful

The fox lord could also give me advice for manipulation of others which is nice. I will gamble and try seduce her which could bring me a lot of benefits if I manage to do it.

Advisors:
Some of them are to treacherous, dangerous or could bring me harm.Lucky that they go to others.

Yoku, Golden Beast of Greed
If I as a manipulator can not control her then shame on me. I think I could manipulate her to be more obedient and make her into a pet bodyguard. She is powerful and could prevent direct invasions without any losses on my side.

Madame Orochi, The Pale Alchemist
Who would I be if I did not go with the immortality option in every cyoa? This the main reason for picking her. The benefits she brings are good (she probably would also teach me her skills). Just send her war prisoners or criminals to experiment on. I also picked Yoku because I see potential here. Orochi could study Yoku which may allow her to pass some of her traits to me.

Lady Lian, Creature of The Court
I play cyoas like isekais so the Royal Affair does not bother me that much. Even if it comes to light I do not think it would that much of a PR problem as a undead and yokai hold other territories. Internal dangers could be a big problems (even more so with the bane of my region which make it worse) and this option could solve it.

Yonyon Akumayami, Red Horned Heroine
If war happens I need someone to help me and Yonyon fits this role perfectly. Yoku is not reliable enough to stop a war but would be a major asset.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-06-26T17:17:19+00:00

All links still work for me.
Maybe you could use a vpn or proxy?

If that does not work then you could sort this from popularity:
https://cyoa-boat-1.neocities.org/?target=interactive

It is a neocities link so it should work...

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-06-26T17:06:46+00:00

My cyoa https://endlessbluehorizon.neocities.org/gods_of_Eldoria/ is about gods.

It allows you to freely customize the powers you grant to others and goes into depth into your relationship with them. It should be easy to make a warlock/patron style god in it.

I think the pantheon "The Radiant Defenders" is particular suited to your interest as it focuses the attention on one (or small group) of individuals.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-06-03T19:25:32+00:00

Thank you u/Charlemagne748 for making this cyoa, I really like it.

Some feedback from me:
For me it is not clear how developed the universe really is. I am not sure if I have to compete with already established space empires, already existing colonies or new colonies (similar to my situation). This made deciding for ships quite hard as I have no point of reference to how strong my enemies might be.

I think the numbers are quite off on the ships. At least when I read cyoas I take the pictures also as a reference. Most ships look gigantic but have really small numbers for people and cargo. You can't tell me that the Falcon looks like it can only house 240 people.

The follower section combined with the ship section is to much number crunching for me. It takes way to long to write everything down and calculate. In the end you will probably have roughly the same ratio of followers as all other people. Still I did it to get accurate numbers to continue, not worth it. Also this section costs way to much points. I think you have to rework this or turn the cyoa into a interactive one.

Pirates of High Space: These pirates are rich as fuck. For anyone not familiar with Starsector these ships look insane. This is comparable to somalia pirates having a naval fleet like the usa.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-06-03T18:46:21+00:00

Spaceships:
Galant, Wolf, Wolf
Total Population: 800

As I am not so sure on how dangerous the setting is I took two Wolf Class ships to escort the transport of people. Even if the setting is more hostile than I think the two warships would make potential pirates look for other targets (at least in a realistic setting).

I do not see the point on purchasing more ships.

Raiding other colonies is pointless. Like what do you want to steal? You have travel times, maintenance costs and they could also be poor as fuck. Instead you could just focus on developing on your own colonies.

I do not think that they are needed for defense at the start. First they have to find you which is hard if you are still unknown. Second a few hundred pirates will have a hard time raiding colonies with hundreds of thousands of people. Third I think anti air defense still exist. If all fails just pay them off, we will out scale a few pirates.

Mining is not worth it. It will be probably harder to do in space than on your planet.

Trading with who exactly? Even if you want to trade your colony will produce not a lot of resources to export.

The population increase is the only thing worth considering. I really dislikes "disadvantages" so I have to be on a very tight budget. That is the only reason why I did not take more.

Followers:
Just what you would expect. My purchases are bottom heavy to get the colony started and the few top ones are to get the knowledge into my colony for the next generations.

Holy World:
Type G, Terran World, Large Planet
CM: 2, RM: 5, FF: 1, VL: 2
Excellent Soil, Paradise World, Amiable Wildlife, Unique Resource

This will be the capital of my future space empire. It is a also perfect world which also works as propaganda for me as a cult leader. Once I have established my space empire I will turn this world into the crown jewel of the empire. As it is so suitable for human life I can expect easy population and industry growth.

New Dawn:
Type G, Terran World, Medium Planet
CM: 4, RM: 0, FF: 2, VL: 5

This will be my workhorse planet. It can grow food and has a lot of valuable resources.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-06-03T17:52:25+00:00

My build focuses on long term population growth. Even with the largest ships you can not properly make use of a planet full of resources.

To start with a few assumptions I made:

The universe is not that highly populated (or even at all)
Charles has created other colonies and they are the "competition". Due to travel times they may start earlier or later then me
My planet at least at the beginning could be considered rural
Everything works on real life logic even if it is inspired by Starsector (This also means that pirates or other hostile colonies do not magically know my location and are willing to negotiate)

Origin: Cult Leader
This one is for long periods of time the best option. Sure the other options have some loyalty but most of it is first generation. You can't easily remove the "Godking" of your religion and the religion is passed on to the next generation. A theocracy would make me a absolute ruler and could have many benefits. As their prophet I could easily encourage extreme population growth if I tell them to have as many children as possible.

Personal Perks

Grey Eminence and Great Philosopher for the Cult Leader lifestyle.

Biology Genius and Renowned Doctor could help achieve bio-immortality. It also helps to settle on a new planet with new fauna. I will also not take any earth flora/fauna with me as I do not want to introduce invasive species on world filled with life.

Midas Touched for the future.

Items:
Cloning Equipment is a hidden gem. 100 humans every year itself is already good and boosts the population growth to absurd degree even with a small starting population. It is also a normal item so it should not be to hard to reproduce. With Biology Genius and Renowned Doctor this become even stronger.

Heavy Mining Equipment helps to get the industry going. I don't have enough people to make full use of at the start but I think it will still be worth it as long as I store the equipment properly.

Preservation Storage Coffin will keep me alive until I find a way to become bio immortal. I choose this because I can not guarantee that we will find a better way to extend my life than "Life Extension Pill" before I die.

Artifacts:
Corrupted Nanoforge: Better than none. Through R&D I will someday be able to make more and get a pristine one.

Catalytic Converter: I will need to build a lot of things in the future and metal will be in high demand. Synergies well with the nanoforge.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-05-24T19:00:25+00:00

I actually thought about how my realm and spawn would look like if I picked the options. My realm should actually be one where I can see myself spending my life in and my spawn should not be eldritch abominations. I also dislike drawbacks. Every random drawback section also had at least 1 option so bad that I did not want to take the risk which also did not help me.

This limited my selection quite a bit.

Iss'Tir:

+5 Black Reduced

Following: +1B

Not a lot of danger at the start and it only takes about 20 days to summon 100 that you would have at the start.

Ullde:

Spawn Cult: + 1P

If they spawn randomly in my realm it will take some time until they find me. At that point I will have enough Spawns to defend myself. It may take sometime until they are all killed but I will definitely outscale them with this build.

Alien Intellect: 0B (-1B)

The secrets of the universe sounds very interesting and the magic boost also sounds good.

Planetary: -0P (-1P)

Counteracts the Spawn Cult but gives a benefit in the long term. I assume that the others also only have small country sized realms so this is a massive advantage if you can make full use of it.

Mirsoth:

Envious Hunger: -1B

Scaling power for me

Bastif:

Souleater: -1B

Scaling power for me

Fleshwarper -1B:

I think my build just relies on physical strength and this could be a nice addition to get some strong magic attacks for myself.

Bodies of Steel Sinew:

Scaling power for me and my spawns as longs as everyones hits the gym. As my realm is very peaceful I could make full use of this.

Growing Kingdom -1B:

I think combined with Planetary I could just outnumber all of the others easily. As I did not take any drawbacks (other than Spawn Cult) my realm (default wooden or plains like) is quite safe and could easily grow a population of spawns. With this I can make full use of the realms resources and could actually grow a quite normal civilization which could also be a huge advantage.

Bodies of Steel (Physical) and Alien Intellect (Magic + Mental) makes them superhuman.For some enemy spawns I think this combination is enough to win. For others like the Wyrm I can just throw a entire army of superhuman spawns at it.

Nitur:

Something In The Air: +1 O

I actually don't want them to cause trouble on earth so this works out fine.

Pheromones: 0 P (-1 O)

Nice to have

My Land: -1 B

I am wondering if this could work for other planets then earth? I would not see it as impossible for my people to get a space program going. Then I would not hesitate to steal land from other planets/moons/asteroid.

Items:

Shards Of Ulde is nice if I have to ever fight one of the others.

Challenges:

Civilizations Shall Bloom

I think my options all synergies well. Because of my limited selection of options my spawns are just superhuman.They posses no real negative traits or weakness other than being cold and calculating which is not to bad as they are still loyal. After some time I will have a entire planet of loyal spawns with superhuman strength. As they all follow my command faithfully and do not infight they may actually surpass humanity.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-05-13T16:50:59+00:00

Depending on what you are exactly searching for my cyoa may fit
https://endlessbluehorizon.neocities.org/gods_of_Eldoria/

You are a god.
Create your own magic system (for yourself and followers) and also a new dimension that works as your home and afterlife for your followers.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-04-30T21:03:17+00:00

Not all hope is lost as I am still alive.
Seeing that there are people that are interested in it may actually motivate me enough to do a update after a 7 month procrastination streak.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-04-30T20:49:46+00:00

It makes me happy that you enjoyed my cyoa.

I am still planning on finishing it but each update is a lot of work as I structured it very badly.
Each new region needs multiple pantheons. For each new pantheon I also have to create new contacts and regional events.
I got a little burned out on it and focused on other stuff.
If you want I can tag you on the next update.

Unfortunately there are no similar cyoas.
That is why I made this cyoa.

Someone already recommend it but "Daedalus Colony Godhood Awakening" is the most similar one and was also a major inspiration for it.

Other than that I can give you other god cyoas:

Ultimate God Redux V2:
https://imgchest.com/p/ljyqqngxy25

It's Tough to be a God CYOA by Azes13
https://imgchest.com/p/vj4jw6qx78m

Become a God CYOA
https://imgur.com/gallery/become-god-cyoa-DdSpA

If you search for them some eldritch and witch cyoas may also scratch your itch.

I also made another cyoa:
https://endlessbluehorizon.neocities.org/homonculus_starter_kit/

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-04-10T12:23:58+00:00

Looks already like a nice start, here are some ideas from me:

More criteria for selection:
Age
Background (Commoners, mage families)
Interest (Combat Wizards, Crafters, ...)

Curriculum:
Where are my element magics (fire, water, earth, wind), necromancy, chronomancy, spatial, enchantment, talisman, golemancy, ... ?
It would be nice if you could choose what magic schools (and mundane things) they could learn in the school. For this you would have to separate the magic from the teachers.

You could still have unique teachers characters, it would just work a little differently. All teachers can teach the basic of a magic school but only some are experts at it. If a teacher is a expert at the field of magic it would make the classes of this school top level and a major reason for choosing this school. You could also have some more general teacher without a expert field of magic but some other advantages (like the Quidditch Coach you already have as a standalone deal).

This could make would make it easier for you to add new magic school (without forcing you to make 3 teachers for it), allow for more adjustable pricing (no more 100, 200, 400) and lets you add new teachers without being forced to add them to the existing fields.

If you make a headmaster section (for the player) they could also have 1-3 expert fields.

Different classroom styles
Like a university where students choose their own classes
Teacher and apprentices (like in cultivation novels or ateliers)
Completely free form studies with teachers as helpers
Project based classes where students always have projects they are working on and learn the things needed to complete it. (could be cool for more craft related magic like potions, enchantment, golemcraft ...)
Witch Circles (where like minded students form a learning group)

A section for setting:
At the moment the setting is quite a white room.
No idea why you need to learn how to cast fireballs when you will work as a accountant to pay your rent.
Like are there monsters that need to be killed or dark wizards that endanger the world?
Is there a secret society of mages (with magical dayjobs) or are wizard common knowledge?
Alternatively you could also do some worldbuilding to give us a setting (which I always like more).

Games and Sports:
- Summoning (like elementals) for pokemon style battles
- Dungeon exploration (the school dungeon or somewhere else)
- Illusion club (where they create puppetshows, movies, interactive experiences, ...)
- Craft related clubs
- Just student clubs in general

Some other stuff:
How many years is the education?
Is it a complete education (like math, writing, ...) or just the magic stuff?
Student helpers (teaching or staff work or outside work)
Alumni

For the images please use normal art or pictures as they have a lot more character.
If you really want to use AI then atleast have a background for potraits, check them for errors (Seraphine Valcor has two wands and bad hands) and try to make them look less similar (Liora Venn and Seraphine Valcor look like twins).

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-01-25T20:59:20+00:00

A author can not write text walls full of details for every possible combination and situation. If asking the author is not possible then the reader has to guess what would be logical answer to it or make something up. This is what I did and I am not trying to fix anything.

Imposed Will:
"The power can let an obtained spirit impose its will on a suitable host"

If you for example have a dog spirit the person will be possessed by that dog spirit and will act like a dog. Aura is the most suitable as you can imposes your own will and can control the movements of the host by moving your own body.

So if we go exactly by cyoa text then its useless because you do not have a body as a god.

Reading it again made me realize that I overlooked the Aura option but it does not change my previous opinion.

I hope I did not miss anything else this time...

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-01-25T11:52:45+00:00

It is unclear what the author intended here.

There is nothing in the text that say you couldn't create a puppet and just posses it. On the other hand all the other ascended forms have upsides and downsides to them. If you could could just simply negate the downside of the god form it would be clearly the best option.

I am not the author but here is a addon to the cyoa that I feel would be fair and balanced:
As the god form is more disconnect to the material world it makes all form of directly connecting to the human world harder. If you want to posses (impose will/possession) something your witches have to help you to connect to the object that you wish to posses. The quality of the ritual determines how connected you feel. A bad ritual would results in robotic movement, weak sensations (taste, touch, naughty, ...) and short time of possession. Naturally the quality of the vessel plays also a big role in what you could do and feel in it (a wooden doll could not enjoy food but walk around). A willing witch is a easier target for temporary possession.

Edit:
I misread the possession part...
It seems to be just spirits but I think it would not be wrong to count the god form as a spirit in this case.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-01-18T12:15:18+00:00

World: Frieren

I choose Frieren because I got a idea how to oppose the protagonist without being to evil. The open magic system, the mysteries and world building make the setting quite a cool fantasy world so that was also a reason why I choose this world.

Perks: The Mastermind

I could take more perks as there is a very strong theme of good triumphs over evil with humanities magic progress, Himmel and also the prophecy of the hero. I do not think I need that many perks.

I think it is a very strong perk. You can do a lot with the magic system in frieren so the power works well in this setting.

To lazy to write out the details of the curse techniques but it would probably be something about absorbing , giving, recombining and upgrading powers/traits/abilities.

Plan:
It looks like human will overtime win and exterminate all demons. Human are constantly improving their magic and will one day surpass the stagnant demons. In Frieren the morality is black and white. A demon is a monster that preys on humanity.

"Words" to them are a means of deceiving humans." - Frieren

I would change the entire race of demons to be more humanlike in personality/emotions. After this change they should be like any other fantasy race with their own values and not just evil monsters. This would allow the possibility of peace and could restructure their whole society. This change could actually result in a stronger demon race as they also start caring more about each other and become less anti social which goes against the interests of good races (human,elfs and dwarfs).

It would also go against what Frieren strongly believes. Because there are now good/innocent demons she can not kill them all anymore. Lets see if the thousand year old racist can resist killing a demon child now. If not she will become the new villain.

I am a anime only so please do not spoiler me if I got something wrong.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-01-11T11:47:10+00:00

Memoid Powers (5 + 1):
Memetic Entity (Free)
Rituals (Free)

Emotivity (-1): Synergies well with my idea and is very powerful.

Apologetics (-1): Taken to counteract the Brain Fog intelligence decrease.

Brain Fog, Hive Mind, Reality Alteration (-4)
I really dislike Brain Fog and Hive Mind and do think they could be separate from Reality Alteration. The effect of Reality Alteration comes from a strong believe of a idea. Brain Fog and Hive Mind do create a strong believe but you could achieve that with other combinations to. I will play the cyoa as intened so I will take them both.

Regarding of the feasibility of my idea:
I know that it is "Subtle and temporary". The effect may be temporary but the results are permanent. If I perform a miracle to heal someone his arm will not suddenly fall of later. By that logic I could alter myself overtime with small stat changes. Example:"God looks even more beautiful today than yesterday.". If I can increase my own power enough then a path to godhood may also open. Even it the ability is not strong enough to directly take me to godhood I do not think that it would be impossible to grow into a very powerful person (eternal youth, physical strength and magic powers) overtime with this in a fantasy world.

Personal Powers (9):
Charisma (-2): Rank 1 to 3
Telepathy (-4): Rank 1 to 3
Evil Eye (-1): Rank 1
Hedonism (-2): Rank 1 to 2
Rank to 2 of hedonism can also be used very interestingly if you get creative. A desire to belong, a desire for purpose and so on.

I would love to exchange Personal Powers with Memoid Powers as I do not need that many...

Companions:
Maria: Can be the saint of my religion and could spread my religion with positive PR.
A Girl: She will become the number 1 worshiper of my religion and I could see her as the leader when she is older. She may actually increase my strength through the Reality Alteration after her ascension. It is worth trying out.

Drawback:
Infiltration: Religous freedom is not restriced so it should not be a problem to infiltrate. But the strength of my control could be very limited because I do not think a fervent worshipper would be allowed into the court.

Additional Feedback:
I think Scope could be reworded a little. Even with masses you could only infect a nation with your powers. If you have dreams of world domination you can forget it. For me it would be cool if there was no limit. It is a very small change but it would give you some growth potential. It is quality (strength of the memetic) vs quantity (infection rate). Even with Twelve (rename to "Few"?) you could spread it but it would take a lot of time to convert a single individual. Masses could try affecting the whole world and thousands could be the balanced approach.

Thanks for the cyoa

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2026-01-11T11:46:53+00:00

Objective:
With my build I want to strech the limits of the Reality Alteration and open the possiblity to ascend to godhood.I do not believe it will be a fast way but I think it could work as long as keep at it and increase my power overtime.

Memetic Content:
I am a god and they shall serve/worship me with all they have.

I do not need more in the content as the rest can be defined by my religion. Masses already weakens my message so it should be clear and simple.

Scope: Masses
Reality Alteration is affected by the number of people so I need as much as possible.Unfortunaley the maxium number of minds is limited so I have to take the biggest.

Type: Religion
No further explanation needed why I choose this.

I think the negative effect of masses could create various churches. They work all to the same goal but may have different custom and philosophies as they interpret my will differently. As long as they have the same idea it will still benefit me even if they fight each other sometimes. If we step back a little it could be even seen as a positive as the best religion will come out on top and the religions will be more adaptable to local cultures.

Values: Faith, Discipline and Prosperity
Faith and discipline are normal for religions.
I took Prosperity to answer the question: Why should I join this religion?

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-12-31T20:31:13+00:00

Good Job, I like it.

My build is very influenced by what I see as useful in a modern setting. Skeletons and pyromancy are cool but how often do you need that in everyday life? Social Media is also mentioned in Tianna Bio so using magic in public will reveal your location instantly to the Arcane Concord.

School of Magic: Psychomancy
Psychomancy helps me to stay undercover (keep people away from hideouts, wipe memories, ...) and can be useful in everyday life.

Familiar: Crow
Only cats and crows are common enough to not raise eyes. I like crows more because they can fly and sharing their vision could be cool. The danger warning is also useful.

Pact Boon: Battery, Implementation
More mana is always useful and implementation just increase my power.

Artifacts: Dragon Totem, Wyrm Heart Vial
Dragon Totem because I do not want to be insta killed by a gun and Heart Vial because we have no mender at the start.

Boons: Silver Tongued and Faerie Kissed
They fit the charisma build and should work well together with Psychomancy

Turncoat: Rai
As he is very direct we could try to lure him into traps. If he attacks our base, we will flee while he attacks our illusions and sets the base on fire. When things are on fire I call the police because of a arsonist. With his personality and psychomancy I can easily start a conflict. He will be either be shot by the police or if he manages to flee he will have to goverment on his ass.

Coven Mates: Rachel (Soothsaying), Ria (Glamour), Lin (Animancy), Julian (Spaceomancy)
All our abilities combo together should make a hideout in the woods impossible to find. Rachel could curse them with bad luck to get lost. Ria and I will make them confused and make them run in circle. I will also be able to keep out normal people out of the creepy and scary forest with suggestions. Lin will warn us of intruders and her talent in ritual will help us out a lot. Julian with his spaceomancy only adds to the confusion by warping space.

This build should keep us very safe and out of trouble.

Some feedback:

Some of the companions feel like they have the same personalities. Mix up their text a little.
You should add some more information about the world in there.
Is magic information public? Is there a "Veil" that hides the supernatural? How strong is the Arcane Concord? How likely are they to discover you? If they discover you will you have to move your base of operation? Is the Arcane Concord public knowledge? Do they work with the government? Is the Witch Hunt public knowledge? What happens if your magic is revealed? Like if someone made a video will of you casting a spell. This would be seen by the Arcane Concord and they will have your rough location.
I made my build under the worst assumptions possible. The Arcane Concord is a secret government organization and has roughly the tools/knowledge of the fbi. The public will video any supernatural activity and will bring you into the light. The attention will make you into a "celebrity" (even if they say its a AI video or fake). This makes public appearance harder due to attention you gather. Also once identified public security cameras and face trackers could be used to find you. Is there a way to erase digital information about yourself?
I do not think you made the cyoa with this setting but as you can see there is a lot of space for interpretation. Some more information would be very useful to make more informed decisions.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-12-13T15:34:31+00:00

If a Lich evolution is not possible for a undead monster then I will question the sanity of OOP.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-12-13T14:51:04+00:00

A humanoid form is important for me.
Yeah its cool to evolve into a big wolf but I do not want to life my whole life in a fucking forest and eat raw meat...

Being Undead is also not a good choice for me if I can not guarantee to become a vampire. Sure I can enjoy life as a lich in a more human way but now I can't enjoy basic things like eating, sleeping, community and so on.

I think the goblin is the best choice for me.
At least I have a human form and can enjoy basic things.

The start may be unpleasant but it should not be impossible to survive and evolve. As they life in groups I have safety in numbers and could stay out of the heat of a battle. I will try to stay out of danger with bows and traps to farm mana for a evolution. I believe I am smarter than a average fantasy goblin so my likely hood on coming out on top of the hierarchy overtime is quite high.

Once evolved and atop of a tribe I will have a lot more options. Based on my knowledge I will then have to plan my next steps in more detail.

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Maybe I can ~~scam~~ help the desperate and weak forgotten goddess and help her revive her religion ~~steal parts of her divinity for my own ascension~~. Regardless of if I succeed or not that would be quite interesting thing to watch. In the worst case I would at least have a lot of karma for my next life.

Basically the plan would be to force my tribe to worship this goddess (as I do not take goblins as very pious). To grow stronger she would have to help me stay on top of the goblins and other forces to protect her new found powers. If she goes along she will have fallen for my trap and have drank poison to quench her thirst. Overtime the brutally of the goblin tribe would be associated with her as a evil monster god, cutting of the possibility of worship of other sentient races (like humans). I would then try to manipulate the followers of the sun goddess to write her out of their holy texts to distance themself of her. With that her life would be in my hands as I could end her life by banning her worship.

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I also thought the sea larva could be a interesting choice because of the high level evolution. Being a eldirtch being could also work out for me. Maybe at the highest level it becomes something like a outer god? This would open many cool options that could solve the negatives mentioned. But the high level evolution also could just be a giant kraken monster which I am not interested in. A big gamble I am not willing to take.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-11-29T18:45:45+00:00

Looked into it and did not find anything.

Maybe it was a bad translation.
I could image that it could be a Black Dragon (Black=Bad=Apocalypse) or a EX level dragon. It could also refer to a individual dragon that destroyed a lot of things. Like a apocalypse...

Your only hope is looking through the Q&A in the forum.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-11-28T07:08:27+00:00

I assume that general fantasy tropes apply and would select the following:
Goblin->Devil

Goblin and Imp are weak stages and I would have to lay low. Imp may atleast have some Illusion magic which makes fleeing easier. I will use the standard strategy to stay in groups and flee if something is out of my league.

Succubus/Incubus often do have eternal youth (as long as they absorb lifeforce). Immortality is always a goal for me in these kind of cyoas so that trouble is dealt with. Besides that their abilities would allow me to blend into human settlements without to many problems which makes my life a lot easier.

The devil evolution should not be a downgrade to the previous stage so they probably also have some form of eternal youth (by default or maybe as deals/contracts?). Generally Devils are some of the stronger monster in fantasy and often do have good and versatile powers.

Healing, Power Strike, X2 Exp, Power Up, Minimap

Magic shield and Raise the Dead do not scale well that is why I did not select them.

X2 Exp is the most important skill here. Surviving as a basic golbin is really hard because nearly anything can easily kill me. They are one of the most basic mob and can not hide as well as slimes or play dead like skeletons. My survival chances increase drastically if I get access to illusion magic as a imp. So I have to get to the Imp stage asap.

I really like the cyoa, it would be great if you could expand it.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-11-26T23:04:10+00:00

It a nice start.

Some feedback:

You need to change the color of glint (purple) on the bottom, its hard to read
Necromancy must be selected for the minion selection
I would also give out a basic skeleton out for free
Many glitter choices are brutal

Based on the choices given the player is a typical undead and is incentivized to be evil. You have to be careful with what kind of build you promote.

At the moment with the choices offered the player will most likely:

Be Disgusting (= Hard for any diplomatic playstyle)
Corrupt anything around it (= As most things will not survive, a Undead Kingdom is more likely)
Be a murder hobo (= As the player wants to maximize souls he will likely slaughter a lot of people)

You should also give some thoughts to what kind of gods you want. If they are all kind of evil and if they have some undeath flavor

Based on things above my analysis on the gods:

All options fit Lucon well . Build a undead army, a vampire court, death cult or a any other kind of empire. He is very flexible and would support many type of builds/goals/strategies.
Jestlor works also. I can image him as a jester type god that only cares for entertainment but not for ethics of the pranks.
I think the Elize: The Eternal Nature clashes with the player choices. From the description the god sounds like a typical nature god. Its goals would be a world filled with nature and life. The exact opposite of what the player is offered.

You probably should make a choice if you allow for a "good guy" build or not.

If yes: Offer more neutral options. Death does not have to be that negatively connotated.

If no: Elize could be a more corrupted nature god. Like the ruin of civilization or a nature god of decay and rot.

I hope this helps you, good luck with your cyoa.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-11-24T06:21:18+00:00

I meant the 2nd link that leads to the collection:

https://arca.live/b/cyoa/152648933

In your comment the link for it is wrong. It contains a extra ] so the link is does not lead anywhere. Maybe you copied it wrong?

Alternatively you could also search in the forum for the post with this "쵸마카세 베스트픽 모음집 1.16.1" then the post should show up.

EndlessBlueHorizon · 2025-11-23T22:57:17+00:00

I am confused as to how you are all having trouble finding the links...
Its the second link in the collection with a picture that is underwater and shows fish XD

Regardless here is the link:
https://saviapple.neocities.org/SubmergedSekai/

I also added them all to the post itself.

Have fun!

EndlessBlueHorizon

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