CYOA Discussion

>>25726776
1st for pls enjoy my quest or your money back

SUDDENLY

BATS

>>25769978
One time stream pls

gay bat cyoas are the cancer killing you.

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>>25769978
Best bros

>>25769996
Shade's Waifu has a stupid face

Treads is for bully and bully only.

>>25770064
Brotherly love is purest love.

>>25769761
Daily Unlife with Vampony continues.

>>25770095
Why are people so mean to treads?

>>25770064
>You will never be winghugged by your degenerate older brother

>>25770173
So that's where the feather fetish began.

>>25770190
>every time he faps to wings he thinks of his brother.

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>>25770173
What a shame.

>>25770506
Pop rocks

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Alright, Semantic Error fell off the board, so I can finally ask.
What do the people who've read my trite, think thus far?
I'm trying a lot of new shit in that quest so there are bound to be a fuckton of slipups and mistakes and I'd like to nip some problems in the bud before anything catastrophic causes the quest to nosedive into a burning pile of fuck, that is unrecoverable. Like the last time I tried to make something short. R.I.P. Nadine.

So, I guess I should be asking,
>How's my conducting?

>>25770636
I don't know what to do in the quest so I just read.

>>25770636
I know jack shit about hacking so I kind of just sit back and let people who know what they're doing do their stuff.

Kind of a niche concept. Other than that, the characters are fine.

>>25770636
I've been enjoying it so far

>>25770636
MORE
ZEBRA
BUTT

>>25770636
No real plot so far, which is alright, but it kinda makes it hard to decide what to do next. I also know nothing about the hacking we're supposed to be doing, or how you'll make that work.

>>25770636

I think it's been going pretty good. Game part was a nice goofing around bit before back to hacker business.

I think a bit more use of the drug use trope (tripping) might be nice, but... well, there's time for that. It's been a solid start so far, character- and story-wise.

Sister x fruit baby when?

>>25770749
Boner no don't stop

>>25770749
>incest
rofl

>>25770636

This is the first quest of yours I've read, the gritty setting attracted me and I have to say it's blown my expectations out of the water so far. In particular I really like the atmosphere and quiet tension created by the intermingling of the mysterious hacker plot and the more mundane issues like drug addiction and watching your money slip away to the expenses of everyday life. I also like that the MC is just relatable enough to the player, dealing with loneliness, a dead-end life, and the confusion of feeling attracted to a nonexistent waifu horse, but with enough characteristics that he doesn't feel like a self insert, what with being a drug addict and also a magical horse hacker. Overall I'm pretty immersed and not much has even happened yet.

>>25770761
>>25770822

Gotta keep that half changling booty game stronk!

>>25770972
STOP MAKING ME WANT THINGS I'LL NEVER HAVE

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Soonish
And probably a name change

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>>25771133
oh my

>>25771133
Forgive me if I withhold my enthusiasm.

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>>25771133
alright then

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Congrats anon, you won the bet for Breakquest.

>>25771238
What do I win?

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>>25771452
A hug

>>25771478
>Changleing fags shitty up the thread with their fanon autism again

Anybody have the kekmaster nips cap?
İ need it for reasons

>>25770972
>>25771049

Have we ever even seen her butt? Doubting it's up to fruity booty level.

>>25771553
>implying it's canon that they live in a militaristic hive structure
>implying it's canon that Chrysalis is the only female
>implying it's canon that they impregnate ponies with eggs delivered through an ovipositor to breed
>implying it's canon that they capture ponies and enslave them as their broodmares to be repeatedly raped and impregnated by the hive to bolster their numbers
Jesus you changelingfags really are autistic.

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>>25771679
How's this?

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>>25771478

>>25771709
>Buttercup was Du$k the whole time

>>25771691

Unimpressive. Fruits booty is far superior.

https://picarto.tv/Pandacraft
Streaming shitty cyoa christmas drawings.

>>25771869
Must be those erf genes.

>>25771869

Isn't she a filly in that picture? That ass is awfully bubbly for that age.

Just use your imagination and think of what it looks like at fruit's current age, whatever the hell that is.

>>25771869
And she loves her little fruity booty so.

Can we have a confession time?

>>25771886
>tfw on phone

>>25772045

I'll start

too late have I realized I have fucked up on a conceptual level and made something far more difficult than it should be

now I want to go back, but I know that will only cause more problems.

>>25772045
No

>>25772045
>>25772062
No. Keep it bottled up and cry yourself to sleep.

>>25772062
it's okay hijacker.

Gib Skype address ples now.

>>25772045
I was under 18 until 9 days ago.

I also want Sundance X Pot.

>>25772045
I am actually very scared that CYOA has become the circlejerk I never wanted it to be.

>>25772045
I sometimes wonder how cyoa history will judge me for my acts

Getting ready to start a new (and my first) CYOA in about 15 minutes. Does anyone have last-second advice and tips to make it as pleasant as possible for readers?

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>>25772045
I'm having a hard time planifiying my CYOA

I wanna make it with only animated .gif files, yet it would fuck up with the players
If I delete char customization, It will fuck my shit up, and kill my CYOA
If I add it, it will fuck my shit up, and will turn my CYOA into ''Bump General''

>>25772098
Should have been b& tbqh

>>25772122

>Bump General

Hey now, that's MY thing...

>>25772115
Not everyone is bound to succeed.

>>25772115
If you can't draw, stop now

If you are doing 'alternate' Equestria settings, get out because no one wants your lazy-ass fact unchecked crap.

If it isn't going to have lewds, stop.

>>25772115
Don't fuck up

>>25772045
Rather scared to start my new CYOA, even though I have one under my belt already.

>>25772115
Gotta get a grip, and have fun. If you're not having fun, it's unlikely the readers will.

>>25772136
Then go update, faggot. I loose lots of sleep because of you and Ponies und Panzer.

>>25772151
So almost every cyoa is shit then

>>25771691

Fruit finally snapping and raping his family after all the keking when?

>>25772115
>half an hour later
WHERES THE CYOA MANSLEY?

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we live
>>25772410

>>25772045
I don't know when I'll be able to run my quest again. I keep deleting lines off this post because I keep forgetting this is the wrong place to post my blog.
It's been about three weeks now, and every time I say "tomorrow" I don't do it. So I've just stopped updating because I hate making promises I cannot keep.

>>25772045
In the wake of my first quest, I don't know whether to continue with it or move on.I don't know if I still regret the attempt, since it helped a lot more than it hurt in retrospect.

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Got an a CYOA cooking, wonder if there would be any interest at all in the idea.

A massive wildfire has broken out across Equestria, which is something that has not happened for hundreds of years. Pegasi can control the weather or dump large amounts of water over any potential blazes, Unicorns could cast spells, and Earth ponies took great care of the wilderness. But now, all containment efforts have ended in disaster. Any efforts to try to wrestle the unpredictable weather to cause rainfall has been met with, at best: failure, or at worse: death. No spell seems to help, and in fact several unicorns who came in close contact to The Blaze and survived reported their went haywire. Earth Ponies were perhaps the most effected though, if they are even remotely close to the wildfire they begin to have visions in their sleep, and can 'feel' the damaged earth.

It was quickly guessed that there was some unnatural force at play, but no one knew what it could be. The MC would be apart of an expedition team that is sent out to the 'Ground Zero' of the fire to investigate the cause of the blaze, and hopefully find a way to stop it. Things do not go well.

I'll probably allow the players to not only choose how the MC looks and what race he/she is, but also their skills and 'role' in the Team.

Into The Black is the current title unless I come up with something better. Still haven't really ironed out enough of the characters (There will be more than just the Expedition Team) or setting yet so I have no ETA for when I'd start. For example, I haven't even chosen a location for the Ground Zero. I was thinking the Everfree since it's pretty iconic, but it also seems really tiny now with all these new maps (even though early on some of the dialogue seemed to imply it was a much bigger expanse like in Magic Duel) and not too fitting for a massive blaze.

>>25772597
Hello me.

>>25772619

Sounds like a perfect quest to be titled The Holocaust

>>25772619
Has my attention in concept, at least!

Go ahead and use the Everfree, if you want. I'm not sure it is so small - the maps come with a big 'not to scale' disclaimer right on them, and if we assume Equestria is continent-sized then it's still a colossal expanse. Even if it is smaller than you want, the emotional response and expectations you evoke from the playerbase by using a well-kmown location like that is well-worth having to ignore the map to get the proper size.

>>25772619
>Into The Black

...Rev?

Tripcodes yes/no ?

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>>25772619
>Into The Black
HEH
HEHEH
YOU GOT ANY MAMMOTHS LAD?
ARE THEY ON FIRE LAD?

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>>25772619
Sounds interesting as fuck.

>Into The Black
wew

>>25772749
I assume you're asking as the person running it?

If you're worried people might hijack it (no reference to the CYOA), then sure I guess?

But as a player you're just asking for a bad time.

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>>25772744
>>25772752
>>25772760
>Tfw I totally did remember there being a CYOA with a similar name, but because it wasn't archived I thought I just saw it in a dream after playing The Long Dark too much or something

Whelp, time to go find a better title. At the very least it won't really be full wilderness survival. After all, it's kinda hard to be a plant eater in an area where pretty much everything green has been burnt to a crisp.

>>25772733
True, I also think that even if it isn't big, it's close proximity to Canterlot/Ponyville would create mass panic and add a bit of tension and weight to the player's actions. After all Fire spreads faster up hill.

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So, I'm not going to start a new thread tonight, I'm cold tired and angry. All for different reasons. I'll probably have some new 11-54 up in a day or two.

>>25772909
Spearmint pls, you already got a kid.

>>25772909
bath pls.
PLS.

>night terror
>shes blessed with the stupid face
I see someone has been doing some late night clucking

>>25772980
All bats have that.

>>25772909

Is she?

>>25772980
Shade gave his daughter plastic surgery to make sure she looked just like his true waifu.

>>25772909
Ow.

Sleep tight, sleepybath.

In case anyone cares, I've been trying to think up a better name than just the WIP "Hitmare Quest," especially considering that there should be a good deal less murder than I originally planned. "Odd Jobs" is my current thought, but I'm still unsure. Also OP images. I don't know what I'd do this time around.

>>25773064
I would offer my services but I've got too much on my plate at the moment. Try to summon another artfag.

>>25773064
Dirty Work?
and you can always just request something.

>Raiden
STANDING HERE

>>25773206
>worlds smallest villain

>>25773206
Thanks so much mate, love it!

Especially santa scorpion.

>>25773115
>>25773106
Hm, I like that one. And if I can think of something interesting enough for the OP, I'll request something here before starting.

>>25772122
>I wanna make it with only animated .gif files, yet it would fuck up with the players
I'm going to be doing that with LOST. What's the problem with it?

>>25773430
It's being an asshole to the players. I don't want to sit there spending extra time on an update looking for something that isn't there only for you to eventually go "HAHA GOT YOU! SEE, IT WAS RIGHT THERE IN THAT ONE!"

>>25773452
People like looking for shit like that you goof.

>>25773469
That's why Grayscale fell down the hole, right?

>>25773493
That's called doing it wrong.

>>25773469
It's less bad if it's an actual gif with things hidden all over the place in it. It's really dumb if it's a still gif with 25 frames of the exact same image and you're sifting through them looking for a tiny change that isn't there.

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>>25773493
pic related was my train of thought when making that part, but I realize that with the previous statement of not stressing over details, it was kinda my fault. I had meant that you shouldn't stress about minor inconsistencies in the ponies themselves, since i'm rather inconsistent, especially when trying to draw fast. I wouldn't put a stray hair on a pony, then have that pony kill you because you didn't notice it.
Looking back I should have been more clear about that. Sorry guys

Still waiting for Nyx quest with anonfilly in cutequestria

>>25772115
>>25773010

This is your fault isn't it.

>>25772122
It seems someone is going hard core with their character customizaiton

I wonder how deep it will go

>>25773782
You got me,

>>25773669
Hmmmmm

>>25773782
>>25774010

Wow, two new CYOAs at the same time?!!

CRAZY

>>25774010
Who could this be? Their art style doesn't look familiar at all

>>25774079
Come on, Anon. It should be at least a little bit familiar.

>>25774093
C-could it be?
GC?

>>25774108
>>25774079
Wow, RITS got really good at drawing

>>25774108
No. /spoiler]It's her evil twin sister, CG

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>>25774129
And she would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for the fact that she failed!

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>>25774108
Is it that time again?

>>25774226
That time never went away, Anon.

>>25774226
I bet she's doing it at this time to avoid the shit storm that would brew otherwise.

I find it hilarious that she comes back every few months. I guess she just likes to fuck with us?

Please, I'm dying over here
Where is that lewd comic of young Fruit Flank getting fucked by his sister? I can't find it.
Please
I'm horny as hell

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>>25774524
hitting the buttquest too hard there m80

>>25774524
Storyteller's dumblr

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>>25774509
she's trying to find redemption
I'll give this next quest about 3 weeks before it gets canned

>>25774534
Anon, you're amazing
This fap goes out to you

>>25774542
>3 weeks
It's already over, Anon.

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>>25772045
Welding school starts for me in the new year, and i can't being myself to tell my players. All five of them.

>>25772045
I rarely plan things.

>>25772045

I see all these well-followed old CYOAs and new blossoming ones with eager players (so many now!) and can't even imagine getting the attention either get, especially with my lack of wit and any drawing skill. It's a real 'why bother' kind of feel. My smile and optimism are gone indeed.

>>25774984
I literally just started one and its turned out great. Just do it. Really!

>>25772045
Nope.

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>GCucks

>>25772045
I want to continue my CYOA so damn much but I can't, I feel like I'm doing absolutely shit and the only reason I get replies is due to a few hardcore autists who enjoy gobbling up my shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBc1aQeqZTQ

Remember anons o matter how shit you are. You'll never be as bad as Jim Theis.

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>>25775146

>>25775146
Don't be so harsh on your players. You should be grateful for them.

Othervise, I know this feel.

>>25775146
Which one were you running?

>>25775179
You'll never know
>>25775178
Oh I am grateful for them and I'll try my best for them. But I know my best is still going to be shit.

>>25775191
Just who are you

>>25775210
He probably wants to keep himself fully anonymous.

Wise, very wise. Wiser than me.

>>25775262
He probably runs one of somewhat successfull cyoas
not too popular either apparently

>>25774546
I have extremely conflicted feelings about this... I'll try to be flattered

>>25775146
I feel similarly, though I have to say I'm thankful for every autist who bother to read my tripe.

I love running quests, but my main one kinda petered out. I'm helping run Vampony and I'm really enjoying flying by the seat of my pants with it. I hope I'll get some people from there when I start my main quest back up...

>>25775268
But your quest is fine, Bathwater.

>>25775275
I wish I could draw like bath. Also Bath doesn't run Vamp anymore because of the direction I was running it in, apparently...

>>25775287
Well, at least you draw.

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>those head shapes
It's totally her

>>25775287
Are you anomango

>>25775332
>>25775297
I haven't drawn in a while, but with the holidays I might have more time.

If I do have the time I'll draw, shittily, for Vamp.

>>25775379
Ha ha any art is appreciated

Active threads

SamQuest: >>25756499
Threshold: >>25768252
M&M: >>25736386
Rock of Ages: >>25761364
Vampony: >>25715786
FOE: >>25725760
JAD: >>25761761
Galloping Steel: >>25696743
Crystal Warlock: >>25723713
Name It: >>25773010
Along the Way: >>25773669
YRWYS: >>25734405
ButtQuest: >>25761764
Alchemy: >>25611490
Space: >>25711865
Urban Survival: >>25726776
Across the Ocean: >>25686232

I wasn't able to attend a couple of posts in my thread before it fell off the board, so I'm posting the answers here and hopefully the players will be around.

>>25769896
I have the entire story mapped out, plus any tangents that players manage to get into. Hopefully I'll be able to run at a decent pace so it doesn't take more than a couple of months after I return.
About the next story, I'll start mentioning details when I get back from holidays, hopefully in those streams I want to do and I never do.

>>25770585
Thanks for the criticism, I was comfortable drawing wings so far but I need to step up. As for any future CYOAs, I plan on running all of them the way I'm doing Trottingham, with short nightly sessions.

As I said, thanks a lot for participating, I'll be around and try to keep everyone up to date.

>>25775287
>because of the direction I was running it in, apparently
Let me guess: Too happy? :^)

I want to billy hijackie

>>25775516
Well? Get to it!

So. do you hate it when QM's go off into their own canon, ignoring or abolishing show established stuff?

>>25775668
No.
Nips, Hijacker, Innkeeper, and Res are all my favorite QMs who have quite happily ignored the show's constraints.
The concept of canon is inherently detrimental to the story-telling process. Abandon it.

>>25775681
Oh sick. how do people feel about the fanon races? what can i do with them as a fresh, virginal young kid on the block?

>>25775668
Depends. Some stories, like urban, basically have to do it to function and I'd rather have those stories be possible then have some sort of blanket ban on loose canon.

Generally I prefer canon though.

>>25775691
Fanon races can work but are less popular. If you're gud nobody will care about your moth pony but if you're mediocre then it will be a chink in the armour that people will pick at mercilessly.

The takeaway is that the better you are as a QM, the more you can get away with.

>>25775691
It depends on how willing to get memed on you are.

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>>25775691

>>25775691
You need to read some current cyoas.
http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/

>>25775668
I have no problem with things that haven't been established in the show being added, and also the tweaking of established show canon, but goddamn completely ignoring show canon triggers my autism something fierce.

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>>25773782
>I wonder how deep will it go

Ok, fuck it, i'll spoil it:

You're a stickman, and your mission is to collect different pony stuff to activate the portal to Equestria
You get to choose your color, and some silly hat's you find in the way

I'm autistic, I should burn in the hell of Hyun's Dojo

>>25775729
Which quests do you even read, then?
I can't think of a single quest that doesn't go off into its own little world except some of the really old ones.

I was a quest where magic is shit tier like in canon unless you're top 1% unicorn.

>>25775668
>>25775691
Whatever you do establish it early. Don't follow show cannon for six threads and then suddenly deviate. Don't be in a town with only canon ponies for half the cyoa and then throw in a satyr.

>>25775744
What was it like, being a quest?

>>25775744
For a lot of quests, magic is either OP as shit for everyone or weak as shit for everyone. But Urban Survival has Gar pretty much sucking ass 'cuz he barely performs his special talent and isn't good at telekinesis, teleportation, etc.

>>25775743
Well he said tweaks were fine as long as they don't ignore canon, so presumably Alchemy, Friendship is Tragic, Trottingham, [Archipelago?], Pumpkin-Panic, Mendacity, Daring-Do, Runaway Hayride, don't fuck up, etc, would all be fine.

>>25775743
Lemme just establish that I have no problem with CYOAs that break show canon. If they do it, I'll just mutter to myself how that would never happen in the show, but I'll continue reading them
I won't let my autism affect my enjoyment of CYOA, no way no how

>>25775744
First spiders, now quests can post on the internet.

>>25775790

It's a myth, there are no quests on the internet.

>>25775790
What's next
Ponies?

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>>25775799
Th-that's ridiculous Anon!

>>25775799
S[spoilers]kellies

>>25775810
B A R R E N
A
R
R
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>>25775770
Hey, that teleportation worked that one time

>>25775827
No, Spearmint is barren from years of eating pokeyfruit. that's peppermint.

>>25775825
>not using ctrl+s

>>25775841
When I press control + s half the time it gives me spoilers, the other half my picture gallery comes up

>>25775870
Which is you use anon

>>25775885
OS I mean

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>tfw you finally realize how stupid your face is

>>25775691
Considering that everyone is perfectly okay with all the autistic shit the fandom has made up about batponies, they should feel alright with just about anything else so long as it isn't written in a stupid way.

>>25776060
She looks quite cute in the left panel.

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>>25775447
Running, if anybody cares.

>>25776060
>tfw the weed hits you so hard, your eyes turn normal

>>25775827
We still don't know that for sure Anon.

>>25776372
>Bat smoking weed in school
Why am I not surprised?

>>25776248
Probably those Muffin genes.

>>25776468
Shade couldn't resist those big bootied erf mares

>>25776496
Can't say I blame him.

>Despite his best efforts Shade was unable to attract Tara
>Could only look on as she got married off to some oddly familiar looking pegasus
>Had to settle for the fat mare instead
Life is a bitch

>>25776693

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>>25776727
>Should I?
Never really read through quests in /mlp/, I don't know how responses would go
FRESH MEAT

Lot of new CYOAS around lately

>>25776835
Hiatus

>>25776835
I do think we need a Quest board for the stuff from here and /tg/.

>>25776961
Yea gets pretty confusing at times

>>25776962
>her first murder
They grow up so fast.

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alrighty anons
what was the edgiest part in your favorite cyoa?

>>25777082
>SS
uuuhhhh

>>25777082
Dandy dies
Then he hears us talking about his death

>>25777111
holy numbers

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>>25777082
I feel like we were forgiven far too easily.

>>25771656
http://pastebin.com/m9jiP2qa
This one?

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>>25771656

>>25777208
c.u.c.k/10
best read i had in a while

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>>25777082

>>25777249
Does nipmoot still censor cuck?

>>25777474
GCucks still roam the area
the censor is gone friend

>>25777521
>the censor is gone friend
that's a relief desu senpai

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>>25777607
>desu senpai
It appears that not all the filters are gone

>>25777607
You've been rused you kek!

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>>25772045
With all of these fresh QMs who are leaps and bounds better than me popping in and GC coming back, I wonder if there's really a need for a QM like me. Rki came back, and he's running Sam Quest which is like my CYOA only good. I'm just a little frustrated that I will probably always be worse than 70% of people out there no matter how much effort I put in.

11-54 should be up tonight.

>>25777617
>implying desu senpai isnt the best
BAKA

>>25777607
ur such a cuck baka desu senpai
word filters still work s.m.h t.b.h. f.a.m.

>>25777711
dont worry about GC, she'll be out of it after a thread

>>25777711
>thinking GC means anything
HAHAHAHAHA

>>25777147
You were, I turned down the difficulty since it had been a while since I ran that quest at the time, and anons stopped paying attention to the environment.
Going foreword I'm going to start punishing that behavior a little harder.

>>25776961

>like my CYOA only good

Are you fucking retart?

11-54 is awesome, noones stuff is ever gonna be perfect. Stop being a whiny emo kid and do what you do because you enjoy doing it.

and don't whine about art, last time i checked the most iconic quest in the history of quest had terribly drawn animal people because the QM wanted to get updates out quick. What matters is the experience your game provides for you and the players. people don't do this shit for fucking status, they do it for fun.

Why do you think nipnops has like 6?

Rude desu senpai

>>25777711
Stop whining, Bathwater.

It's my job now.

>>25777850
>linking to the wrong post
rki pls

>>25777850
>the most iconic quest in the history of quest had terribly drawn animal people
Hm?

>>25777850
>link to wrong post
>retart
SUCH A LUST

Male or female satyr? Best age for a young protag/ MC? Moraility and consequences for those choices? Fries with that?

>>25777935
Yes

>>25777956
Maybe?

>>25777711
please stop being a faggot.

>rki and GC aint shit and you've been here constantly for half a year now.

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>>25778013
>rki aint shit
HOT OPINIONS
WE GOT HOT OPINIONS HERE

>>25778013
>rki aint shit
W R O N G B U D

>>25778013
UNPOPULAR OPINION ZONE

>>25778052
>8 threads in 4 months
>only previous quest was cancelled
>already left again once
The only reason you or anyone gives a shit about RKI is because Nips sucked his dick when he came back.

Enjoy getting no content for a month before he disappears again.

>>25778102
>The only reason you
WEW
Calm down with those implications there bud.

>>25778102
Actually it's because I liked AQ but suck a dick or whatever desu senpai.And as much as I'd like to refute that last point, he is a little unreliable with telling us what's going on. If you're going to ditch us for a month, at least tell us beforehand.

>>25778102
Honestly i don't know and never heard about rki guy
but you portrait guy as pretty awfull
he seems awfull too ditching a quest

>>25777935
>Male or female satyr?
Female for cuteness.
>Best age for a young protag/ MC?
Between 13-23, I guess?
>Moraility and consequences for those choices?
Morality? What does that mean? That the MC might be more inclined to do good or evil things based on player responses? Or that those the MC meets may get bad vibes from him or her?
Are those consequences serious?
>Fries with that?
Can I have some dipping sauce as well?

>>25777711
Look, I wasn't trying to make anyone worry about shit. Which is why I made sure to let you guys know that I plan on running tonight.
There are always going to be influxes of people better than me, It's something I've come to accept, I'm not bitter about it because it means that I get to read/participate in some quality quests.
>>25777850
Rki, don't sell yourself short. Unlike me you managed to keep a consistent tone and have detailed environments that manage to stay engaging. Honestly, when I started 11-54 I was aiming for a feel very similar to what Sam Quest pulls off. but around the time the players found a way to incapacitate Spearmint without killing her, that feeling was lost.
I still enjoy 11-54 a lot but I'm not going to say that it's the best in it's genre either.

Also, what's with all of the Rki hate?

>>25778279
You wanna know the big secret to maintaining the creepy tone in things like Sam Quest or Ruby Quest?
Consistent POV and reused areas.

>>25778279
It's not rki hate you big Dum!

It's BWH love

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>>25777711
Self-doubt only goes so far before it becomes redundant and annoying.Luckily or not, I'm probably among the few that isn't so annoyed as much as I am dejected to read your thoughts. You're way too hard on yourself, and I can relate to that; so much that it makes me extremely cautious of trying to run another quest.

I made the fatal mistake of leaving mine largely underdeveloped, breaking into sweats long before it even began because I knew things would fall apart. There was fruit to experience, so I am thankful to have gotten over my nerves.

Still, I wanted to make people happy, and I failed that. But comparing this to you leaves me questioning. You succeed where I have failed (and will likely continue to fail), yet you seem entirely unhappy with this outcome. Like it's not enough for you. Like you're not enough. I can understand wanting to do better, but you apparently feel like you're not getting anywhere. And it pains me to imagine falling into this loop myself.

Also, hype.

>>25778194
Morality. Be an evil prick too much and your party members are liable to levae or just straight up turn on you depending on them.
Dipping sauce. We have mayo and ketchup.

>>25778279

i have a bad habit of dropping quests if i don't enjoy them, usually unannounced. my pacing can go from 2sonic to 2 hours to open drawer. its understandable that people wouldn't like me.

I just don't want people talking about my stuff as if its better when a lot of the stuff here is on equal or higher ground.

>>25777881
>>25777931

lets be honest it wouldn't be a post from me unless something was hilariously goofed.

>>25778312

have you tried doing a one-off?

>>25778378
I'd like morality.
>mayo and ketchup
I'll take both.

>>25778378
>Be an evil prick too much and your party members are liable to levae or just straight up turn on you depending on them.
And why WOULDN'T that happen? Characters not reacting to actions means you have a pony shaped void you're talking to.

>>25778441
>id like morality
It would affect the story as well. Oh you killed that child, well shit now the fucking inquisition is after you.
>ill take both
you sick bastard.

>>25778312
I don't really focus so much on success, I just obsess about improvement. What I'm afraid of is stagnation. I don't want to be stuck at some level I want to perpetually get better. I should probably stop posting my thoughts on the subject since I'm always give the same old, "it's fine, don't worry about it," or, "stop being a little bitch," speech but then I see other people with the same doubts and insecurities here on this thread. It's strange to think that people here look up to me,because I know that objectively, I'm not shit, but just because I suck, doesn't mean that I should stop trying not to, even if I feel like it sometimes. Which is what I thought the Confession part of this thread was for airing.

Either way, Nothing gets better without effort, and even though it may seem like I don't recognize that, I do, and I only wish to build from there.

>>25778517
You'll never be worse than me so take that.

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>>25778517
>>25778548
Yeah, seconded.

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What do they see in each other? What could bring these ponies together?

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>>25778601
Sex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzO2mi4uHAs

>>25778601
Blitz got drunk and mistook Tara for Eve.

>>25778494
I think he means that players are able to vote for the MC to do evil things if they really want to. Like, steal from a store so you can buy better gear in another town later or something.

Let's face it, not many quests here let's you do evil things because the minute someone sugeest something evil, then the QM either completely ignores it, or everyone starts nagging about how the MC shouldn't do that because it's evil.

>>25778652
I don't know, I've seen the "evil option" used successfully a few times. It's just that most times, choices in CYOAs are morally neutral.

>>25778601
I can easily see Rocky and Steel, but the rest is a mystery. Especially Sundance and Emerald.

>>25778601
Speed seems like a laid back enough dude to end up with Rem. Tara and Blitz are both adventurers. Rocky and Steel both like beating up bad guys and being heroes. Willow would enjoy Pot's food. Emerald is so nonthreatening that Sundance would probably not be afraid of intimacy with him. Also he knows his way around bigger mares. Whispen and Gar felt a strange connection, as though some cosmic dice roll bound them together. Harvest could totally charm Tactic into doing whatever she wanted. Chalk and Patches both have firm, no nonsense attitudes. Muffin got dat booty bats can't say no to. Nina and Dandy both have quirky styles. Easy gave Fruity a chance after what happened with the last changeling she met.

>>25778765
She couldn't resist his /ss/ charms. He couldn't resist the iron hoof around his neck after he impregnated her.

>>25778784
But Harvest could do that with lots of ponies. What makes Tactic special?

>>25778898
CC is the one quest with a character on that list that I haven't read. What is Tactic like?

>>25778909
edgy

>>25778909
Edgelord

>>25778909
Generic male anime protagonist.

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Heyo. Since someone in Threshold requested a more detailed pic of Holiday Special, here's my shitty first attempt.

Bear in mind that I went off the 8-bit and Paper Ponio sprites more than my own stuff because I have Bathwateritis and self-loathing and all that shit every QM seems to have, so it's not like this design is set in stone. That's why the Cutie Mark isn't finalized either. If you have anything to add, subtract, or adjust, go for it.

>>25778913
>>25778929
She probably thought the nerd trying to be cool and edgy was funny and decided to break his act with a little 'charm'.
From what I heard about him he was kinda naive. An easy plaything for a mare like Harvest.

>>25778978
Oh yeah, Tactic's totally whipped. Harvest is definitely the one wearing the pants in that relationship.

>>25778971
I'd have it be a normal wreathe, but turned upside-down to look like a noose.

>>25778996
I like that idea. A noose wreath.

>>25778971
At first I thought her cm was a Soviet coat-of-arms.

>>25778971
Flames

CYOAs a shit.
Prove me wrong.

>>25778971
she looks fat

>>25778429
>have you tried doing a one-off?
That's what my first quest was supposed to be, but I sorta panicked. An unrelated one-off is probably where I'll start anew.
I still mull over the idea of abandoning where I left off, since there still seemed to be some interest after the trainwreck, oddly.

>>25779130
Your mom looks fat.

>>25778978
Now what would scare me is Tatic's apathetic nature combined with Harvest's killing ability.

>>25778784
What about Jet and Jolly?

>>25779221
Rude.

>>25779253
That is pretty much what this kid is. It's a natural killer.

>>25779253
If he has an apathetic nature, what's he doing getting in a relationship in the first place?

>>25779255
Jolly has an ongoing condition. I imagine she still needs regular attention from doctors.
I can see Jolly enjoying Jet's unusual bedside manner. Their personalities go quite well, really.

>>25779221
Wew

>>25779221
calm down with that rude inept gosh

>>25779221
Fuck off Holly.

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>>25779221

>>25779221
#rekt

>>25779221
meanie...

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Now that I'm done alienating my dwindling playerbase, Threshold time!
>>25779612

>>25778784
You got something for treads and cutie?
İt seems like the one that would be the hardest to explain

>>25779811
Treads reminds Cutie of his sister.

>>25779851
>his

>>25779811
Not in a millions years can I see QT satisfying Treads in bed, the kinky bitch that she is.

>>25779890
He has a dick Anon.

>>25779896
She's a cuddlecuck, and Cutie is highly cuddlable.

>>25779903
Oh I misread that

>>25779638
>dwindling
Please, you can get dozens of people with a well timed cyoa, I struggle keeping three people. Don't be a smarty pants, ms smarty pants.

>>25779638
You attacked the only woman who will ever love an anon, that's just low.

>>25779896
İm sure Cutie would be surprised to meet someone more submissive than him

>>25780082
Theyes met up looking for a pony more submissive than themselves.

Their bedroom chemistry is sub/sub and they love it

>>25779989
What quest are you running?

>>25780111
Edge Quest: The Edgening

>>25780138
I poke it from time to time.
I like the thing. After you'll actually get time to run, you will get more players.

>>25780198
I don't think so in his case. He bled off a lot of players early on. Chances are what he has now is what he's going to have.

>>25780276
I'm gonna agree. A combination of the writing and the top edge tone doesn't do the quest many favors.

>>25780294
Interestingly, I had more issue with the terrible setting than the edge. The castle in the center of a kingdom apparently had five ponies working in it. And only two ponies were bad enough to accept his rule apparently. I don't mind edge, but I can't handle a setting that doesn't make sense.

Though of course the writing was a bigger issue.

>>25780319
More Medusa Gear Rising

>>25780392
I think the quest also suffers a lot from something I like to call Anakin Skywalker Syndrome.
Basically, the main character whines too much.

I can deal with edgy tones. Hell, Heat was one of my favorite text-based quests and the story had some really edgy stuff early on. But in Heat, Harvest was never a whiner. She reacted heavily to the edge, breaking down at several points, but her character didn't point out the edge by constantly complaining about it.

From what I read of Warlock, the MC constantly complains about how much Sombra sucks, how much better her life was before Sombra. General angsty stuff. I know the situation sucks and it's okay for the characters to feel bad about it early on, but as the reader I don't need to have it rammed down my throat.

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>>25726776
Urban is good to go

>>25780555
That really goes back to a core principle of storytelling. If you're repeating yourself over and over you're doing something wrong.

It's weird when people talk as you.

>>25780421
Apparently this newfag is giving a unicorn a chance to live in Cloudsdale? I can't wait to see this burning wreck in action

pls no billy

>>25780623
It's maaagic nigga.

>>25780630
This looks like actual critique to me.

>>25780647
Don't be silly, we don't critique people here.

>>25780623
>be unicorn
>live in cloudsdale
>have to levitate myself everywhere
>all the other ponies laugh at me
>at least I can see a lot from up here

>>25780138
I don't think this person meant the Crystal Warlock Quest as, well, it isn't me.

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>>25780623

>>25780669
You got honest opinions and critique anyway.

>>25780669
I really don't know what quest he meant then.

Which cyoa pone is the WEWest?

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>>25780749
This one

>>25780701
Yeah. Most of what was said is true so there only thing I can do is continue improving. I probably fucked up majorly in the begining but as long as there are players I'll run it, if not it'll die and that's not a big loss.
>>25780727
No idea why he didn't elaborate.
Back to being anon.

>>25780759
You are correct.

>>25780623
>CYOA GM letting a unicorn live in Cloudsdale
Personally, I think this would be awesome. Imagine having to grow up tied to balloons and a parachute your whole life because you're a random genetic throwback to your unicorn great-grandpa.

>>25780908
>"Honey, did you tied the balloons to our daughter before you put her to sleep?"
>"Oh shit."

>>25780908
I'd imagine they'd find a more permanent solution than that. Cloudwalking spells are a thing after all.

>>25780908
>your dotting parents carry you everywhere and fly a unicorn into the city every week to teach you the cloudwalking spell
Could be cute.

>>25780924
I'd assume an enchanted pendant or something.

>>25780940
Yeah, and it would probably end up being the first spell they ever learned.

>>25780919
Kek. That's why balloons AND a parachute.

>>25780924
>>25780930
>>25780940
All possible solutions, but we haven't even decided for sure where we live yet.

The vote's still neck and neck if anyone else wants in on the ground floor of this ridiculousness.
http://www.strawpoll.me/6279412

>>25780959
The votes already useless, and getting people who aren't playing involved doesn't help.

>>25780971
Nobody is playing yet, lad.

>>25780971
It does cause this though.

>>25780974
I've been there since it started. Pretty sure that counts as playing. And you know exactly what I mean. People in this thread aren't playing, so why are you linking polls that don't involve them?

>>25780987
Because it was deadlocked and I'm impatient.

>>25780990
Funny how it suddenly exploded to over fifty total players. At least the GM seems to be taking it in good humor

>>25780953
That is both horrifying and hilarious.

Also, appulface

>>25781008
This would mean over fifty people browse MLP

>>25781008
Those people are welcome to stay and play with everyone else there.

>>25781008
That just means someones making the botting obvious to deligimatize the poll. an actual cheaper would filter in one vote every few minutes.

>>25781045
A clever cheater would rig the poll slowly to make one be winning more constantly and then delegitimize it to end it quickly and say 'before it exploded x was winning'.

>>25780953
I feel bad for scared babby erf pone now.