Quest Thread General

Hey, can I be removed from the Twitter directory? The new one at least since it's the one I'm in. It's not like I'll be doing another quest anytime soon. If I would run another one, I'll just ask again.

>>1001344
>What would you say are your weak points? Both as a QM and a writer.
Complete naivety and inexperience, so many things I'm doing for the first time.

>>979396
>>979396
>>979396

Mistborn quest finished. You can still vote for the next PC until it archives though.

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>>1001344

Still trying to make the wiki a thing, huh? Good luck with that.

>What would you say are your weak points? Both as a QM and a writer.

Moving faster than a glacier is pretty hard. Can't really seem to do it. Maybe it's just the universe that moves too quickly? I wonder if something could be done about that.

Putting aside the obvious, I feel that the part I have most trouble with is establishing/describing scenes adequately. It's just really difficult for me to either not wind up being far too vague and leaving out important details or to wind up with a very mechanical description so aesthetically displeasing it makes me want to cry. I know it can be done, I've seen it so many times, so why is it I can't just do it like they do?

It's of course far from my only flaw, but it's definitely the one I'm most conscious about.

>>1000000
It's gone, isn't it?

>>1001405
Write the scene establishment like a story.
Which yeah, duh, but still:
Make note of your important bits, then draw in your reader to the place. e.g.

The cavern light flickered and cast shadows across the rough stone walls, with trembling breath a hooded figure walked between bracketed torches. The swish of a robe leaving faint contrails in the dead air and eddys of swirling dust as they passed.

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>>1001344
>What would you say are your weak points? Both as a QM and a writer.

My autistic need for very minute details yet a limited vocabulary that doesn't allow me to go into the heavy detail I want.

I obsess over setting a scene. From the temperature of the area, smell, the light, any animals, sounds, people, actions. Everything. If I put the players in a new area or they go there and I don't spend enough time doing that I'd feel like I wasted everybody's time. Also I'm overly critical if myself

As a QM pacing and power distribution is my bane. Too much power basically put my first question on indefinite hiatus and my other questions I'm focusing on hadoing me taking a maybe too slow pace with it although I kind of enjoy it occasionally and hate it any other time

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>>1001435
Thanks for the advice, anon.

Really, I sort of already know this, I just don't seem to actually be able to put it in action when running. But I'll try my hardest to keep your advice at the front of my thoughts next time I run and try to keep it there until it becomes natural. In the end, that is the only real way to improve, isn't it?

>>1001344
QM: Writing men well. That an linear plotlines. I have trouble with those.

>>1001551
That...

Is not an admission that I think I've ever heard. What trips you up on writing men?

>>1001650
Well, aside from the fact that I'm not one, unless I'm writing a scary dominant male type, I have a tendency to write them rather plainly, without much characterization despite how much i try to give them.

Now, this could actually be a self-inflicted blinder issue, and I may not be perciving the same thing that others are, but to me, without the aspect that most people seem to really enjoy in male characters (because everyone likes a good bad guy, even if he's the good guy) I just can't make their characterization stand out the way I think it should.

Lots of people like my scary dominant males though. Men and women. 's weird.

So I have been thinking about starting up a quest for a while now. I consider myself a middling to decent writer, and I plan on starting soon. Any tips/rules I REALLY need to know besides the ones that apply to all SFW boards?

>>1001717
Start off interesting.

Don't do chargen.

Have in-quest choices shape character personality/already have an established personality.

You won't get a flood of readers off the bat (unless you're doing fanfiction). Just keep going.

Don't be afraid to give consequences for the readers making awful decisions.

>>1001344
> QM Questions
Pacing; I tend to get ahead of myself, which can rob climaxes of their satisfaction. I also have difficulty with life gut-punching my ability or motivation to update, which is why my threads lately have been so god damn short.

I'm so sorry. Please don't hurt me.

>Player Question
The audience.

>>1001682
Well if you'd care to log into the chat again sometime I'll see if I can lend a hand.

>>1001717
There will inevitably be something that makes a segment of your players piss, whine, moan, scream, tell you to retcon it, and otherwise make them mad.

If you have a plan, a reason, and the decisions they made were informed and honest like telling them they are about to put their arm in front of a sword shearing through a car, for example then be aware that if you change things, if you give in, you will be expected to give in at other, more critical issues.

On the other hand, if you dishonest about their choices in some manner LOOKING AT YOU PGQM then you should pay attention to them and consider their requests and thoughts on it AFTER the quest session, and (try) to discuss it rationally and calmly with them.

Good luck.

>>1001746
I will need to wait until I have replaced my glasses.

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Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 143 thread resumes. Slow burn.

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>>1001743
>>1001747
Thanks all, I read the GIT GUD GUIDE, but I wanted some other perspective.

>>1001743
>Don't do chargen.
Do Chargen if it actually adds to the quest.
And if you do, make it more like Joker Quest and less like applying for social services.

>>1001344
So, anyone interested in doing a few informal awards?
I would like to see the next few threads have questions about superlatives.
e.g. "What was the best duck ride", "Which shitstorm was the most atrocious", "What thing in a quest did you feel the worst about" or "What's the most derailed quest".

>>1001896
>applying for social services.
I swear I've never seen a more perfect analogy for bad chargen.

>>1001896
>make it more like Joker Quest
Expand, please.

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>>1001717
There's bad chargen and slightly less bad chargen.

Here's a particularly bad chargen. If this is the kind of stuff you where thinking to do for your quest then you'd better stop and work on it some more.

>>1001940
Jesus Christ.

That is a lot of shit to worry about plus having just one of those topics generally causes a shit storm but with /all/ of them...

>>1001940
Was the QM of that an Akun regular? Because gigantic votes on chargen are a regular thing on Akun.

>>1001940
I seriously think Paladon of Avalon's QM had the simplest intention with all of this; to make the worst aspect of their quest the chargen. Everything else was above average.

>>1001984
That was before Akun but he did migrate there. It's Paradyne or something.

>>1002001
>Avalon
Meant *Joy.

I'm thinking about starting a quest based on alt history American frontier. Would you play that? Any tips for a first time writer? I'm kinda shit at describing settings

>>1001912
Really simplistic.
You start in the action, with just a single post of description and get two choices with three fixed options each.
The fight also serves as a tutorial, by showing of the basics of the system.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/19195465/

Personally, I'd suggest trying to do it over multiple posts. It would be interesting to see a start in the middle of a fight, where you generate the character as part of the first three choices. (e.g. "You attack with weapon X" in the first post, "you defend by Y" in the second", etc.)
It could be quite an action-packed beginning.

A quest shouldn't start with three posts worth of exposition. No one has time for that.
The exposition should come slightly later.

>>1002099
>Any tips for a first time writer?
Don't start with quests. Start with blank pages and peer review, but mostly with reading.

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Is 2017 the death of quests?

Been a shit factory for months now

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How can I make sure that players care about certain character, given there's no room for development?
For example, let's say quest starts off when MC's mentor is kidnapped, and MC has to follow the kidnappers, exploring strange lands and experiencing whimsical adventures on the way.
But where's the guarantee that players won't abandon MC's mentor to fuck around in goblin bordello? I can't start quest with mentor and MC "bonding" - while not necessarily boring, that is just not the kind of thing to bait players with. Should I let players to fuck around in goblin bordello just to railroad them later?

>>1002215
Give them a reason to care. Explain to them how important this person is, that they're like a father/mother/whatever.

Essentially explain the connection, if you make it serious enough, it would make no sense to just pull a 180 and run to a new story

>>1002215
>MC has to follow the kidnappers
>guarantee that players won't abandon MC's mentor

sounds like railroading

>>1002215
Dude, readers will go after the overarching quest regardless of whether they're fucking around or not. How long they'll fuck around is entirely dependent on you as a QM, but in general readers LIKE making progress towards the overarching plot.

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>>1002224
That's what I'm aiming for, but in more "show don't tell" fashion.
>>1002225
That's partially why I'm worried.
>>1002233
That's nice to hear!

>>1002215
You could have a prompt where it outlines their relationship and the players get to pick the form they like the most.
Within those, or just with the base narrative, give them reasons that they would follow them. "My mentor is an ass but if the kidnappers get his secrets the land is doomed and I like being alive." There's an almost infinite amount of mentor-student relationships to draw from, and the reasons could be anywhere between personal or setting-wide, or a healthy mix.

Beyond that, write it in a way where the bond is assumed. It's a part of the MC, it's not something that goes away. This is the person who taught them- their ideas either have some alignment, conflict, and memories. A single sentence explaining a past memory or a metaphor to a previous event or a "just like that one time when we" reference can go a long way towards characterizing the relationship without cluttering the post, so long as the details themselves are presently important.

For quest examples, Totemist would be a good one for this.

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What's the etiquette on fetish quests?

>>1002256
>>1002233
And certainly this. Your initial players will go with the initial narrative as long as it's interesting.

If not, they'll change or add to it. Sometimes that takes a while, and depends on if your updates have something the players want to add to.

>>1002275
I miss BFQ.

Anyway, they're fine so long as nobody reports them.

>>1002215
Flashbacks of MCs memories with mentor.

Frequent references to mentor "just the way <Mentor> taught me to do it" and "makes me feel just like when <Mentor> would comfort me that time I hurt myself real badly during training" and the occasional "what would <Mentor> do?" Do it a lot to underline how critical this person is to your MC. Remember to write your quest in first person because it is superior.

If your players know what is important to the MC, they will generally pursue it.

>>1002275
Keep it to yourself, or go to Akun.

if there's smut, just don't post explicit images and you'll be fine maybe we don't know really one QM did smut and got a ban warning, or go to Akun

>>1002275
Fade to Black or pastebin it.

You can't post explicit stuff on here, but I'm not sure how suggestive is too much for the mods.

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>>1002261
>>1002279
>>1002280
That's some really in-depth advice. You guys are good.

>>1002398

Also remember flashbacks are a thing.

>>1002212
Most quests have never been great. I honestly think having a board dedicated to it has done more harm than good.

I think we're having a problem getting new players because the only reason anyone visits is for the quests they already follow. No one wants to give a new quest a try.

>>1002498
Which sucks because I've given new quests a try.

For your 2017 New Years resolution, /qst/, I'm asking you all to start a new quest to try out once a month at least.

>>1002515
I'm glad you have. And I try to give attention to whatever looks interesting as well.

But it's just not enough. There are not enough people in /qst/ to balance out the massive disparity. Several quests that looked pretty interesting and would have gotten a cult following on /tg/ starved to death over a period of a week. Even old fan favorites are starting to sink into irrelevancy.

But doom and gloom aside. I'm thinking of re-booting an old fan favorite.

I say 'fan favorite' but it's just Magical Girls again.

Plus, I didn't write the original, just got permission from him to run it.

Has anyone else tried this? What are some examples of reboots of quests not written by the original author. Is that typically good? Bad?

>>1002574

It's probably going to suck and is, on the surface, a relatively subpar idea.

But that's not going to stop you nor should it.

>>1002577
I ask because I do miss that quest. It ended without an ending, and it had a tone that no other quest really strives for.
I could run a completely original idea, as well. I have one that has been on the backburner that seems relatively tempting.

If I run the original idea; it would probably be on Anonkun.

>>1002574
AE rebooted Hollow Quest with a redux, it turned out okay.

>>1002588
What if this was an original setting, characters, story? Just used the title.

Would it be a redux, then?

>>1002609
I don't know. The closest things I know of are where a QM has taken a quest off someone else to continue it because they died or the original QM was just that much of an incredible faggot or where the QM requested it for some help.

Maybe you'll need a different word for it. Revamp, Renew, Revive/Revival, Remake, Restore, or just plain old Reboot.
Even if you don't spell it out, I'm sure anyone who liked the original will know it is it's own thing. Honestly it doesn't seem like an important distinction for anyone but die-hard autists.

I'm a new player on /qst/, I guess. I'm a newfag in general, but I'm especially new to /qst/.

>>1002654
Welcome!
Despite what some will tell you, we are DESPERATE for new blood. Stay around! Read some stuff! Gossip here about that little annoying thing your favorite writer did recently!

>>1002654
Leave before you are trapped forever, newborn. Heed only thus of the unkind gods.

>>1002665
Oh, I'm already involved in.... 5? Quests already. Shit's fun.

>>1002669
Sorry man, but my soul has already been scorched in the flames of wrath, and chained to pillars of eternity. Can't get much worse than that.

>>1002671
Welcome.

What quests have you been stuck to so far? I recently went back and read all of the sith apprentice quest threads which is probably now my favorite quest so far.

Here's a link if you're interested. It's around 50 threads and they are about a sith apprentice name Xanth who eventually becomes quite potent in the dark side by using the power of joy. http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=Sith+apprentice+quest

I also recommend Vox's quest Dungeon Life Quest which is now in the triple digit range of threads. It follows a necromamcer who was sent into a mysterious dungeon. I'm not too far into it but it is one of the best ones out there. Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=Dungeon+Life+Quest

The newer quests like Doll Shop, A goat girls fantasy, and Lich quest are pretty good too. Doll shop in particular is very well polished as it is made by a more vetran QM.

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>>1002744
>Doll shop in particular is very well polished as it is made by a more vetran QM
XS would be somebody who's polished, Valencia just comes up with at least interesting dilemmas.

>>1002744
I'm reading stuff like Ravenking's Overwatch and Thug Quests, Zap's Starcaller quest, Plague's Marvel Quests (both) and I'm trying to catch up to Dark Gate Academy. (I think I'm never around when they run.)

Thanks for the recommendation!

https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/nazis-in-fantasyland.4409/page-33#post-1053400

Nazis in Fantasyland has been updated. It's a pain you have to register just to view it, BUT if you want an idea of what it's like you can look here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=Fantasyland

NiF is a reboot of the original by the same QM.

Pitch: Wehrmacht expedition from 1939 gets sent into a fantasy world with the hopes of providing a means of letting Germany not only prosper, but potentially rule the world.

It's like GATE but not a curbstomp, with the biggest reason being that supplies/reinforcements are limited because of how long the portal can open per month.

>>1002770
Forgive me anon but I'm unfamiliar with XS's work. As I said I've only recently finished Sith Aprentice Quest and I'm actually behind on reading others. But from the look of the newer stock of quests Doll Quest is quite polished or at least well put together and interesting.

If you would link some of XS's work I'd give it a read.

>>1002846
>>1000966

S/he's apparently a writefag, so polish is a given

>>1002846
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=Ryukuza

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=The+Raiders

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I'm running a session of Starcaller Quest right now!
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>>1002864

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>>1002861
Alright thanks Anons! I'll put it in my list to read later. I'm in the middle of catching up on Broken Sky Onlind

>>1002744
Aww, I'm flattered. I look forward to seein' ya when you catch up!

>>1002872
:D

>>1002890
No problem man! From what I've read it's pretty damn solid stuff.

I think we all agree getting new blood is the biggest issue, so how can we go about that?

>>1002977
Go out to other boards and kidnap unwilling participants.

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>>1002977
git gud

>>1002993
I read the manual of "Gitting Gud", it was pretty specific.

>QM question
As a QM, absolutely consistency. My running schedule is a a fucking mess that I need to be better about. As a writer, I focus far too much on dialogue over setting a scene with surroundings and feel.

>Player question
Because it fucking ENDED

>>1002973
>>1002973
>>1002973

Norseman Saga, Vol. 7.5 is live

>>1002609
>>1002574
Just tell us what it is, faglord

Discussion: what do you think has been the most popular quest in /tg/, /qst/, or overall 4chan history? What made it successful?

>>1003081
Ruby Quest because FUCKING WEAVER

>>1003081
Blatant Fetish Quest

All the rapes

>>1003081
It would have to be Ruby.

>>1003081
Has to be Dive Quest. Ran during the height of tgchan's popularity and since everyone had already read Ruby Quest people were already hyped as fuck. Add the amazing Knight Blades by fucking Reaver to that and you've got the golden era of questing. The amount of copycats alone was ridiculous.

Then Reaver dropped off after lots of hard work, and Weaver went on to do other stuff. The blueballs is legendary even to this day and arguably started the decline of questing until /qst/

>>1003081
So by sheer number of readers I think it would have to be Fuck Quest by a mile. There were a couple thousand people voting on every one of the choices at its height.

Why it was popular: fetish pandering, and being allowed to run on /a/ unfettered for like two months.

>>1003081
As of right now the most popular quests running are going by posts during a session

1.Hive Queen
2.Shinobi Quest
3.Mecha Space Pirate Quest
4.Magical Academy Quest

>>1003160
Oh shit I forgot about Fuck Quest.

Maybe because it was so stressful.

Wait

That was actually a thing

Not some rumor someone made to mess with the newfag?

>>1003180
Fuck Quest was real.

>>1003239
Wow.


.....


Archive? I wish to do.... Research.

>>1003257
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=fuck+quest

>>1003269
Those are just the parts that happened on /tg/, mind you.

The "best" stuff happened on /a/ before the move.

You'll have to go to foolz and search /a/ for the subject line "fuck quest" to get those.

>>1003269
>>1003283
Blessings of Kek upon you.

>>1003289
Here's a pastebin with links to everything:
http://pastebin.com/u/DirtyCeriseFaggot
http://pastebin.com/9ndXKm8V

>>1003314
Thank you.

>>1001344
>Why is your favourite quest shit?
Man, I've got a whole laundry list of gripes.

Unless your a europoor or some kind of vampire, just staying awake to play the quest is almost as much suffering as the quest itself. God forbid you actually fall asleep though, because the moment you aren't there for a vote, someone votes to do something just monumentally stupid and you come back to this trainwreck of regret and misery in the morning. I'm not even sure what's worse at this point, coming back to find everything's gone to shit because of some careless idiot, or BEING the careless idiot and getting to personally feel your heart being stepped on in new and exciting ways in real time.

If you're reading this, and you voted for "Clarity" back then, fuck you. Just... Fuck You. I will never forgive you.

Then there's time schedules. Holy shit, when you say you're starting in an hour, start in a goddamn hour. The tweet goes out for a thread and I'm checking twitter every five minutes from an hour to two hours from then because the QM lives in some isolated time-dilation space or something.

It's not technically part of the quest, but fuck that ebook anon too. Or those ebook anons. Fuck you guys for constantly claiming you're making progress on ebooking it for quicker Forgettings. It's been over a year dammit, I haven't seen shit.

I just want to be happy. Why is it so hard.

>>1003461
What quest are you referring to specifically?

>>1003486
Valen Quest. It's... special.

>Weaknesses

Holy shit, where do I begin?
Characters, mostly. I also tend to leave things a little too vague, and people start asking ALL of the questions and clog the thread. I throw too many rules in, or make the rules too complicated to understand.

Changing topics, what's a good way too deal with trolls? Ignoring them seems to work, kinda.

>>1003500
Does it have an archive? I'm kinda binging on archives while I'm doing Starcaller Quest.

>>1002744
>more vetran QM.
Is being a veteran QM a good thing when every single one of your quests is based on your own expansion fetish with the rest of the setting as an afterthought?

>>1003520
Just type in Valen into the Search by Tag

>>1003520
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Valen+Quest
This has 'em all, I thiiink.

>>1003538
So many beautiful bastards in /qst/. Kek smiles down upon you all.

So is Orc Warlord Quest dead?

>>1003564
I'm pretty sure it runs on anonkun now actually.

>>1003564
akun

>>1003566
>>1003575
I ask because I'm thinking of running a very similar type of quest on akun, but swapping orcs for something else.

>>1003709
Hentai logic rape and conquest quest will do fine on akun so you're all good.

>>1003716
Hell, they did pretty well on /tg/ before the smut crack down.

>>1003719
It's kinda overdone on anonkun from what I can see but I doubt anyone there would actually care

I haven't really used akun before. Is it any good?

>>1003526
Writing's not shit anon.

So the answer is yes. What I was getting at was that the QM has experience and knows what they're doing and would come up with a compelling narrative which can be attractive depending on your own biases. If you like the quest is entirely up to you but being a vet is almost entirely good when we are talking about quests.

>>1003790
Interface sucks. Better for smut quests.

>>1003790
It's made by someone who looks at failed mobile site designs archived by google from 2005-07 and it's basically for smut quests.

>>1003790
You'll get more players but a huge percentage of them are human garbage

>>1003802
Ok, thanks. Go there if I'm bored of /d/, got it.

Anyways, my new quest, Star Wars Warlords, has r e a l l y taken off, for reasons I am unaware of. What do you guys think it is? My thoughts are that it's an established IP that a lot of people know about. What do you think I'm doing now that I wasn't doing in my old quest?

>>1003816

What was your old quest?

>>1003816
Congrats on getting a good amount of players in the first thread but there's usually a huge decline in participation in the second thread of new quests. Good luck though. Make sure you use the same OP image and tweet a warning prior to linking your next thread.

>>1003816
There has been multiple successful star wars themed quests also.

>>1003829
This.

>>1003820
Phoenix Knight Quest. It died, not with a bang, but with a whimper.

>>1003907
I don't know anything about that quest but it seems like fantasy quests have been doing badly overall lately. Maybe because there's kind of been a lot of them.

>>1003790
I prefer it much more to 4ching only because I hate looking at pastebins

There's a chat instead of posts
Editing story posts
Formats like bold and italic no colours to my knowledge
Easy to access archives

But the site has a slew of problems from the fact that one or two man's is doing anything

>>1003927
What's annoying for me as a player is how much samefagging happens there. In bigger quests literally every vote ends with a blatant samefag competition between the top two votes.

>>1003927
>There's a chat instead of posts
That's much worse. It's amazing how much retardation gets filtered cause people have to fill out a captcha.

Akun's chat is almost always cancerous as fuck.

>>1003915
Wasn't fantasy. It's on sup/tg/ under PKQ, check it out (if only to laugh at how bad it is.) I had literally one poster half the time.

>>1003936
That's pretty much for anything extremely important the voting is like five minutes and I hide the votes

>>1003941
I know exactly what you mean. But I've been on the Internet long enough and 4chan enough that I can safely ignore it

Until they get really salty over their own decisions

But I do in fact like the post style of 4chan better for the fact that conversation flows easier and you don't have thirty or more people talking about several different things. Although they mainly stick to a certain topic in between posts

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>>1003961
Hue hue hue hue.

I had the same problem and that's why I got disenchanted with my own quest. Most players were even fandoms who never read the previous threads. Hopefully I'll return soon in which I'm going to try to retcon the entire thing because dispite the lack of players it was a neat world.

>>1004001
Randoms*

I'm too tired for this shit.

i wanted to run a mass effect quest but i don't really know if i have an attention span to continue which is my main drive why i don't want to run a quest.

So QM what really drives you the courage to run your own quest? It may help me or maybe get some strength from it.

>>1004138
Overwhelming personal curiosity and the need to write at least 500 words a day to stay in practice.

>>1003160
>Fuck Quest
Nah.

>>1004148
>500 words a day
So what kind? Anything or worldbuilding? Maybe Character fleshing or something?

>>1004138
The players.

>>1004138
A chronic desire for approval and attention from people I know I'll never meet.

>>1004138
I love building worlds and seeing people experience them.

>>1004166
Anything. The writing group that 'raised' me as a young author emphasized the importance of dedication over motivation. My mentor suggested a bare minimum of 500 words a day, rain or shine, no matter your mood or circumstances, of writing. Questing neatly fills that requirement while allowing me to practice writing all manner of things.

>>1003772
What kind of smut quest isn't over done on anonkun? serious question here.

>>1004224
Guro maybe

>>1004229
No theres one over there

>>1004229
Forget that.

>>1004224
Bestiali- no wait there's several of those.
Gay shit? Nope. Damn.
Uh... as far as I know there isn't any vore but I'd say it's only a matter of time. What a shithole.

>>1004190
>>1004178
>>1004175
>>1004172
well as of now i'll gonna do some story background since i still don't have the balls to run a quest. But i hope i can do it someday though.

>>1004229
I've always threatened to run a quest on Gurochan....

>>1004277
I remember when I first thought about running a quest. I was terrified, I had no idea what I was doing, and no idea how it would go down.

I passed the premise by a QTG and got a decent response, but the best bit of advice I got was "just run it", so I did. That was over two years ago, give or take a few hiatuses.

Just run it.

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The Raiders Continues with slave fun.... >>1004315

>>1004294
What's your quest?

>>1004321
Hive Queen.

The first thread is always the hardest to post.

>>1001344
>Tfw you want to run stuff
>Tfw your schedule's kinda busy an drew you're kinda lazy so sitting down for a multi-hour run just isn't a possibility

Granted, /qst/ runs really slow, but I still doubt people would be willing to put up with a wait time of an hour or more between posts. Wouldn't anonkun be better for that sorta stuff?

>>1004454
this is what i thought too. Given /qst/ really has a time window for any vote time+write up it may eventually die down and make the players bored out of their seats waiting for the next post

>>1003161

Joker has an insane number of posters, too. It might be because this was touted as the finale.

It wasn't, but it's an amazing ending.

Joker ends up back where he's started, but he's learnt something about himself in the process.

>>1004484
Ooh was it one of those, travel back in time to the beginning of the quest but with all the knowledge of how things went type endings like in Jumanji or The Dark Tower series?

>>1004486

Not really, no. But the PC, who has spent the entire Quest fighting out of hatred, spite and existential despair, finally performs a genuinely heroic act.

The ending does have him walking across a desert though.

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>>1004484
The thread's been up for about a week, it doesn't actually have 81 players.

>>1004138
Pain

>>1003081
Waifu Quest

It was the one time that *everyone* on /tg/ came together. No other quest had that amount of activity in the history of questing.
Even the anti-quest shitters praised that quest and joined in with glee.

>>1004531
were you the waifu or did you just have a waifu

>>1004532
You were the waifu and would die if the MC stopped caring about you.
You also really hated the MC and had bitch fights with other girls who had the same problem.

Which quest feels/felt the most 'alive' to you?

>>1004547
"Alive" as in the setting and characters feel like real people and places or "alive" as in "not a dead thread."

>>1004548
The first one.

Also, does /qst/ have an archive other than archived moe?

>>1004547
Crusader quest

>>1003504
>people start asking ALL of the questions and clog the thread
Have you considered that might be what a quest thread is for?

>>1004555
Presumably you're asking because moe is down.

There's bstats, but it's shit.

There's also suptg but that requires people to actually upload the threads.

Qst drawthread when

>>1004571
Fuck drawfags

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>>1004547

Lessons.

In.

Knighthood.

>>1004567
>Presumably you're asking because moe is down.
Yeah, pretty much.

>>1004481
That's why some quests have Discords to tide players over between updates.

>>1004224
Little girls with big dicks.

>>1004577
fuck now i miss the nicole shenanigans and her background shadowruns that even eclipsed MGNQ

>>1004622
You can only blame yourself. If you hadn't stopped missing Nicole, you wouldn't be noticing any change at all now.

>>1004572
T. Eternal Requester

But seriously why fuck em?

>>1004454
Boy, would you be surprised

>>1004571
Wouldn't be a bad idea, would give the quest without drawfags a chance to get fan art and hopefully would build more of a community

>>1004830
All I ever need is one person to agree with my bad ideas

>>1005025

>>1004571
>>1005027
There was one thread, it died fairly quickly since there weren't many drawfags and requesters.

>https://yuki.la/qst/495321

I miss Crusty.

>players spend a whole quest white knighting while gently coaxing girl around to their way of thinking
>make a really cute relationship and become the chad
>final two chapters
>completely mind break the girl
>give her schizophrenia
>make her their slave
Loner on akun might just have one of the best bad ends of all time. It's an end where you've lived long enough to see yourself become the villain, and barely anyone who played understands why it's messed up.

I still loved the outcome because I'm not a faggot.

>>1005344
>because I'm not a faggot.
Lies

>>1005350
Check my poster id against the Op if you don't believe me

>>1005344
It was shit to be frank

>>1005363
Not really. It was drawn out and repetitive but the writing was good and they actually managed to make vanilla activities fun to wank to.

>>1005344
Mind control is a retarded fetish

>>1005027
While I like the idea, I somewhat doubt this'll manage to get off the ground. But good luck regardless.

>>1005344
Why is akun so weird?

>>1005461
They're all qms and players banned from other sites due to smut and other assorted faggotry

>>1005461
>Why is akun so weird?
They wanted to make her a bit bisexual, but she didn't like them messing with their head so they went all out and made her a slave sub-slut with an alternate personality devoted to making the main personality more of a slave sub-slut.

It wasn't where I saw that story ending really, but I found it hilarious.

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Running a session of Starcaller Quest today:
>>1005619
>>1005619
>>1005619

Modern Necromancy Quest Thread #10 up and running!
>>1005957
>>1005957
>>1005957
Come join and help our MC navigate Fae politics in the Unseelie Court

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I'm back from the holidays ya'll!

Alchemical Blade Quest is now up and running! Do you enjoy cyberpunk, magic in said cyberpunk, espionage, conspiracies, and high octane action of slicing tanks apart with sharp pointy objects? Then you make like it!

>>1006007

Know about Exalted? Then you may tangentially enjoy this as it's set within the Modern version of it!

Starring special guests!

>>1002515
I would, but my writing is shit and I don't have a PC.

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>>1002117
Forgot to link this earlier, but after forever a new thread is up

>>1006450
I meant as a reader not a writer.

https://foolz.fireden.net/tg/search/subject/modern%20satyr%20%20/
https://foolz.fireden.net/tg/search/subject/new%20Olympian%20%20/

Some anon on anonkun found links to my second favorite smut quest. I thought this shit was lost when archive.moe went down. This is like finding pornographic relics. I figured I'd share the links here on the off chance any of you guys had been looking for it too.

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Would anyone be interested in a fantasy political thriller mixed with mild civ macromanagement?

>>1006661
Yes. You probably won't execute it well, but yes.

>>1001344
A Tale in Ruins: A Dice-less Storytelling Game of making our own takes while ruining stuff from specific TV shows, Books, Movies, and Video Games at the same time is up for voting if you are interested. >>1006652

>>1006661
If your characters are interesting enough in the sense of a political thriller, yes.

I made the sudden realization that the only quest I've ever followed with a male protagonist has been dwarf quest. Oh, and I guess magical girl academy quest, but that doesn't count one bit.
Every one after that was a lady.
What's more, like 75% of them were "monstergirl on an adventure" quests.
So, uh, I guess I want more of those? Nothing else I am looking at seems particularly interesting.

>HQQ potentially hiatus again after revive
WHY CRUEL WORLD

>>1007044
QTQD gon die 4 reel yo.

>>1007074
NO

>>1007078
yus
and it's all /qst/'s fault

>>1006976
This level of shit taste honestly blows my mind

>>1007110
I guess I like pretty specific stuff in my quests.
I don't like porn quests, so there goes a huge chunk.
I don't like quests I can get for better in another medium, so there goes a huge chunk.
I sort of am interested in the dead space and plant guy quests I see in the catalogue, but I doubt I'll give either of them my time since the first may end up as just dead space: the quest and the second seems not adventurous enough at first glance.

How many of the quests here have gay male protagonists?

Just curious, since a lot of the quests here I've seen seem to have a guy trying to find a girl or a girl trying to find a guy/girl.

>>1007164
Maiden White. Albeit it ran on /tg/ and is already done.

>>1007164
The mc of Mecha Space Pirate is bi but only for traps

>>1007172
It's not done. It's still running on anonkun.

>>1007269
I know. But it's finished anon, all that's left are the epilogues.

Good evening.

I'm remembering staying up late to read PGQ back when that was still big.

I don't care how it ended, that was some of the most fun I've had at 11PM at night.

What quests do you read at 11PM at night, and then go to bed expecting to read how it turned out tomorrow?

>>1007324
Black Company Quest.

>11PM
>Late

>>1007324
I have a weird sleep schedule so I get the opposite problem where sometimes I wake up halfway through a run and have to catch up

>>1007324
Broken sky online went until like 4 am the other night. It was worth it.

For running a quest, would shorter updates and faster uptime on the thread be better than wordier, more complex posts that take up much longer?

>>1007711
Depends on personal taste I think. There's really short ones with paragraph-long updates, ones that do 2 or more long posts, and some balance of in-between. Really, it's up to your personal style and how you want to run the quest.

>>1004577
...yeah. I'll have to second this claim.

>>1007324
Northern Beasts

>>1007324
Valen Quest.
But it's not "go to bed expecting to read how it turned out tomorrow". It's more "doggedly fight off sleep so that some moron doesn't fuck up an important vote"

>>1008052
See, you say that, but we still managed to majority-vote through the Mim thing. I don't think any other decision I've made fucked me up as badly as getting to see that unfold.

>>1006661
>political thriller
YES
>fantasy
Eh, maybe not

>>1008139
What experience with fantasy did you have to make you veer from enthusiastic to wary so quickly?

>>1008139
How about political fantasy?

>>1008149
Political thriller is more exciting with real characters and well-defined roles rather than bullshit lords and ladies that doubtlessly will have more in common with D&D/Game of Thrones than real life political intrigue (either modern or historical). Nobody knows what the actual responsibilities of a fantasy character are, or what they're legally allowed to do and what they're really capable of unless you REALLY put in work to define it.

If I wanted to read an exciting political thriller about nobles, I'd pick up a history book on Roger Mortimer, or Liz I's spymasters.

Fantasy is played out, cliche and shit. Give me a cyberpunk GiTS type shitfest or nothing.

>>1008157
It sounds like more of a problem with the writer than the genre, with the politics streamlined to put more of a focus on adventure. Although I suppose with fantasy's typical focus on fantastic adventure against apolitical opponents (ie monsters and shit) a general lack of attention to political detail wouldn't be surprising.

Then again from what (admittedly little) I've seen of Cyberpunk the attention is also less on politics and more on the struggle of the common man in a posthuman society.

>>1008163
In its classic Gibson incarnation it was really about how humans will use technology to dominate and control others. At one level of society you had consumer drones that have no idea how society is run and spend their time buying stupid shit like celebrity patented eyes. The punk heroes know what's going on and buck the system but are immoral and selfish.

The only post humans in neuromancer are Dixie Flatline who wants to die because he realizes he's read only memory with a personality that can't develop and change and Neuromancer who nopes off to Alpha Centauri because he can't find anything on Earth worth talking to.

Cyberpunk is about how technology makes us more human and how that's not necessarily a good thing.

>>1008157
There were 2 cyberpunk quests on /qst/, they had like 2 players and lasted one and two threads. There was also one on anonkun, it lasted few months but now it's dead.

>>1008201
Cyber Demon died because the qm's campus internet got banned due to someone looking at cp

>>1008061
Yeah. The only thing worse tham seeing a moron fuck up an important vote is being that moron.

I swear I never felt so guilty before a fictional character.

>>1008201
Is that quest with the hacker turned killler cyborg dead?

>>1008207
>>1008217
I guess there were more cybepunk quests than I noticed.

>>1008201
BioArmor is cyberpunk, although I haven't updated it in awhile so you might consider it dead.

I miss bladebound retainer quest and the one with the main guy named Yuu who is autistic, the second is really comfy, the first one fullfills my medieval thirst.

Forgot to add, belieguered prince quest is pretty good too.

>>1008269
For the first few threads, maybe

>>1008304
Ouch, what happened?

>>1008191
You forgot Case's old squeeze that got herself killed and dragged into Neuromancer's little world. And Dixie got ascended to True AI status and flitted about the grid from then on out.

Either that or Neuromancer made another one

>>1008342
I thought Case shut down Dixie? And it was sort of ambiguous if that was actually his girl or just a hologram Wintermute made to trap Chase in the virtual world.

>>1008304
Eh it isn't bad now either.

>>1008359
Did you even fucking read the novel? Yes, it's ambiguous, but Case (not Chase, you fucking retard) sees her brainscan clone sitting with the brainscan construct of HIM made when he went braindead upon meeting Neuromancer and he heard Dixie's trademark laugh when surfing the grid in the epilogue.

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>>1008415
>>1008415
>>1008415

Jedi Knight Quest is back and we're talking about Revan.

Running quests is the only happiness left in my life. And now /qst/ is slowly but surely dying.

>>1008430
The problem is that almost everybody viewed /qst/ as a lost cause when we had to move here so they don't care about trying to fix the board since they view it as pointless.

>>1008430
I don't know, to me it seems like there are always less quests in the winter and more in the summer. Once the summer starts, more quests will appear and more players will come.

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Starship Idols is alive and well.

>>1008484

>>1008407
Sorry. It's been awhile sense I read it.

I've always wondered what it meant that Neuromancer left humanity behind. The scene with him and Case talking about how humanity was like RAM instead of ROM seemed to paint a positive picture of humanity, but then Chase is getting high as usual while the post human intelligence leaves for space. I don't think he even stays with Molly like Johnny did.

>>1003835
>There has been multiple successful star wars themed quests also.
"Successful"

>>1008600
Has there ever been one where you control a squadron of fighters?

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Update on QuestDrone:
He's out of surgery and was able to text me to let me know he's in recovery now. I'll keep folks updated as I learn more

>>1008433
We can't fix the board. I don't know how we are supposed to magically make players appear or change the coding, which are the two things that make /qst/ severely detrimental.

>>1008615
The curse is having mercy? Excellent.

>>1008264
>I miss bladebound retainer quest

Well the QM just got a job so you might be more shit outta luck then you were before.

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>>1008839
>>1008839
>>1008839
Pokemon Island Adventure Quest is up

>>1005975
Modern Necromancy Quest Redux is up again for an extra session! Same thread, so come say hi and help Liz Shepherd make her way in the magical community!

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>>1009063
>>1009063
>>1009063

Alive.

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We be plants

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>>980226
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>>1001344
hey guys.
beat the new obsidian game tyranny and did every path.
disappointing ending but i think the world has some serious potential -- does anyone think a quest in this setting would be a good idea? i was thinking you could play as an archon sent to kill the MC shortly after the events of tyranny, as a sort of alternative history scenario (since the game will almost certainly have a sequel/dlc)

>>1009228
>does anyone think a quest in this setting would be a good idea
No.

Take what you like and run something similar. Don't run fanfic of an obscure IP.

>>1009228
It's just gonna be another weird OC setting for most people. You may as well switch the terms of things to make it OC.

As far as settings go it's pretty basic, though the gameplay/story introduction is something above par for video games it's a minimum for text based narratives. The characters are fairly well written, even the Archons show depth beyond the whole idea of their existence. So if you can run an OC fantasy quest with things like that it would likely be okay, if not fun.

Might be a noob question but what is the difference between tg and qst? Looks the same TRPG boards to me.

>>1009418
We don't discuss games, we play them in a CYOA/story format

>>1009418
/tg/ discusses table top game's mechanics and lore.

/qst/ plays "quests" or a story driven narrative which is written by the op(QM or quest master) and decisions are made by the anons (players).

I think the "We play games" distinction is kind of strange because /tg/ still plays games. They just don't play "these" kinds of games anymore.. They have threads for video games, even.

Quick question about Akun. How often is an acceptable post rate for there? Can I go two or three hours without a post and still retain interest?

>>1009510
Nope

Update should 30 to 45 minutes tops, and you shouldn't bank on your (non-existent) godly writing skills to keep the audience waiting for one update every 2 hours

>>1009518
I see. This is per session or periodically for a set amount of time?

>>1009522
Per session? I ain't sure what you're asking for exactly, but in general people expect a relatively speedy response.

>>1009522
You can take an hour break or a two hour break maybe once a session if you have a long enough session.

>>1009818
>>1009584
Thanks!

>>1008650
The people who are lurking could certainly be more open-minded. But they have it ingrained in their heads that this medium has to be high-end literature that also keeps a 20 minute or less rate of posting. It really doesn't have much to do with Twitter, though there are some faggots who won't bother reading if there's no link (this also includes other sites not related to 4chan).

Yeah, there are a lot of shitty new quests. My problem is with the sheer amount of fanfiction quests. I understand, if the setting doesn't work out, it's all that effort wasted. I know that feeling. But you just need to take the leap and do your best.

The readers need to be more open minded, and the writers need to try just a little harder. The resources are available. We all need to get out of the mindset that this is a dead board, and get some goddamn energy flowing!

>>1008532
He doesn't LEAVE for soace, retard, he's TALKING with something on the same level as him. Because he's the ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET and is already the sum total of human information.

The whole fucking point of that final scene of him playing house with Dixie and the girl is showing that humans still entertain him you fucking ponce.

Do you not understand basic literature? Is that why you're stuck writing self-insert romance fanfiction of motherfucking Scooby Doo: Ghoul School?

Is there still an IRC for quests? There used to be one back on Rizon.

>>1010310
Reading the first post may aid you in your quest.

>>1010245
>take a leap and do your best.

But that's what I've been doing, 5 OP's at a time. Like, man, I'll flow this energy right up your damn arse! But only two of my ideas really have traction and players, the rest can just die.

But it doesn't change that this place is more like a hook proving ground to me than an active board.

>>1010323
Indeed it will. Thanks.

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So I was thinking about running a Harry Potter quest with expanded time travel (closed time loops Homestuck style, with elements of Doctor Who shenanigans). The main plot happens in Beauxbatons (French wizarding school with all the magical girls), which is assaulted by airship pirates in mecha suits.
Any takers?

>>1010245
>all that effort wasted
This fear is too much for me.

>>1010245
To be honest, I wish this board could support sub-20 minute post rates. When I ran quests on /tg/ I used to go fast as hell. Last time I ran a quest here I spend like 6 hours to get 80 posts or something, it was miserable.

>>1010437
>6 hours to get to 80 posts
>miserable

I have no sympathy.

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>>1010428
I make up plots and settings in spare time as a hobby. If the quest doesn't pan out, I can turn it into a webcomic, a short story or even a videogame if I feel dedicated.
Fun is everything.

>>1010437
Though this might just be my experience, I feel like people take a lot longer to respond, too. And just a bit less discussion-seeking, like there's a layer of quietness added to everything but a few long-time exceptions.

>>1010456
I agree. Going back over the quests from a few years back there was a lot more chatter and general discussion that helped boost numbers, a bit, which in turn convinced people to come and take a look.

>>1010447
Are you saying that it gets worse than that?

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>>1010460
>Are you saying that it gets worse than that?

>>1010460
>Are you saying that it gets worse than that?
Ahhh... my worst quest has long fallen off the board, but I remember putting a huge amount of effort into what's basically shite. Getting 7 IPs (mine included), and winding up with a thread that was 90% my own posts across three nights of running. But the quest was pretty bad at everything. A learning experience for sure..

It was before the forced switch, but I don't feel things are hugely more active now than then since even bad my ideas on /tg/ got more dedicated discussion than here, though that's also just personal experience.

Things work here if you're lucky with a hook, but it's still not quite the same.

>>1010518
>>1010488
I used to run quests a lot from '12-'14. One quest series I ran was like 32 parts and we'd fill up an entire thread sometimes. Those were the days.

I understand why people pushed this board into existence, but it kinda sucks. I guess the biggest thing is I wish that there were anything we could do to fix it.

>>1010397
Just no, please no.

>>1010537
>I understand why people pushed this board into existence

Because idiots were butthurt?

Because some people couldn't stand the idea of anything that they don't like being on the same board as them?

Because the mods listened to whoever crowed the loudest and went through with a poor decision that nobody actually wanted that once gone through with would be irreversible?

This board is nothing but a middle finger. To its own inhabitants.

>>1010560
I agree wholeheartedly with you. It killed off one of the few genuinely fun things about /tg/ that was a staple of the board. And for what? MtG posting?

>>1010572
Generals :)

>>1010437
This. Quests are snail-paced here. You could be the fastest writer ever, but it depends on how fast you get replies.

>>1010456
This, too. Several quests I used to peruse which were brimming with discussion are now ghost-towns. No one wants to talk, everyone just wants to put their input into the story and leave.

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>>1010437
>6 hours to get to 80 posts
I'm currently running a quest at 5 hours with 31 posts.

>>1009063
>>1009063

>>1010593
Fucking outstanding. /v/ at least moved generals off-board, and with damn good reason. Rotating generals are the masturbation of the boards.

At the very least quests were, sometimes (and there were a lot of shit quests), genuine creation.

>>1010612
I feel for you, bro. After seeing how things are, I'm debating whether or not I even want to try to run one tomorrow.

>>1010610
Does this mean I missed my chance to run a quest?

>>1010537
There was really no reason to make this board because the writefagging eventually returned to /tg/ anyway.

It's just now they're not calling it quests. /tg/ now has the same number of writefag threads as quests on the catalog. Writefagging just being writing without the player input.

>>1010639
No, feel free to run a quest here.

It just means that /tg/ is no longer the de-facto place to run a quest. It used to be that if you wanted to quest with a good audience, you could do no better than /tg/.

Now you have lots of places to choose from. You could run on tgchan. You could run on Anonquest. You could even run on spacebattles or Sufficient Velocity IF your quest is relatively harmless and you're okay with being pushed around by some mods.

Just as an FYI, Anonquest and Sufficient Velocity are WAY BIGGER than /qst/. To the point of having thousands of people playing at one time.

>>1010639
There's always a chance. From what I've heard, though, it's all about dogged determination.

>>1010640
So all you did was lower the quality of the writefagging by turning /tg/ write threads into some sorta /lit/ -lite garbage.

Isn't there some sort of venue to maybe get this decision reversed?

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Maybe this is in some way, somewhat inevitable.

Interactive gameish storytelling exists in a lot of places, a lot of forums, and on other image boards.
But this is it's death, the final throes, because there has yet to be anything that exists specifically to genuinely support the medium, or even the idea of the medium. There's no market, and people don't really make money on it.

It has no drive because as popular as some few quest-like ideas of interactive storytelling/gaming are still just fractional things that exist from hearsay and shared through people that share similar interests.

Let's change that.

Let's involve $$bill. After all, it's money that gets things going. It's not hard to pay for out-of-site advertising via google, and most quests are PG enough that they can be advertised to the widest possible audience. So if you have a semi-popular quest, why not make a couple gif banners and stills and submit them to google's advert system with your spare change? Pay for a chance of popularity, and even if you fail you've still attracted eyes to the idea. Youtube, garbage mobile sites, etcetera and so on.

If it gets big enough, we can slowly establish a sort of publisher's cabal of QM-player paid advertisements, ensuring well-efforted new quests get the eyes they deserve and the posters most fit to their demographic, by ensuring as controlled and as predictable a system as necessary. Bigger than that, bait investors with ideas of websites filled with authors and authorial-participants (players) with the idea of people paying to put their own interactive content in front of Big Views, artists/authors love active audience feedback and can be baited with ideas of earning percentages, something like a quest version of TwitchTV for DMs/writer's and bam; Quest Commercialization.

There is no way this can backfire.

>>1010639
You missed your chance to run a quest with properly speedy response time and depthful discussion.

Make no mistake there are quests that have these but they're either

A. Generally Appealing

or

B. Retaining fame and players from before the jump to queef sucking troglodytes

>>1010640
At this point I'm pretty sure everybody's given up with the notion that they have any idea what the fuck they're doing. Writefaggotry is even less related to /tg/ by nature of not even having anybody role play in them. I'm not going to say they don't have a place in /tg/ because they're exercises in developing (or wanking) lore but if they stay why don't the actual role playing stories.

>>1010662
>So all you did was lower the quality of the writefagging by turning /tg/ write threads into some sorta /lit/ -lite garbage.

Yes, with space marine and xeno forbidden love.

>>50973859

>>1010663
As semi-joking as you may have been, I was actually considering this some time in the past. At least, starting with trying to just get a wide appeal and use the Collab-RP element of it, on a grand scale, to try and generate some interest. Don't know what I'd do with it, but probably just have some fun. Your idea of making money though is pretty interesting.

>>1010685
Damn, trying again.

>>>/tg/50973859

>>1010663
Didn't they want to do this on Akun and it was such a bad idea that they scrapped their paypal links?

>>1010662
>Isn't there some sort of venue to maybe get this decision reversed?
Also best venue to get this decision reversed is sadly Hiro at this point. There was a long war fought in /qa/ about this decision, and nothing ended up changing. Some guy who was named the 'board manager' visited this board twice and then never again.

I'm not even entirely sure if we have janitors. We have mods who visit, but we get less attention than /mlp/.

remember, /mlp/ got to vote on a banner in the competition. We didn't even get a vote. Ponyfags get more respect than quest players. (and /mlp/ got to keep their quests because GR15 keeps them from being moved here).

>>1010663
Only monetization I'd support is if some QMs either open a tip jar or a patreon. There's some QMs I'd be willing to give a bit of money to, and as long as it's my choice on how to spend it and the QM doesn't become a complete asshole by holding the quest at gunpoint over money then I'd be willing to spend a bit.

Though this doesn't stop QMs from making up sob stories to gouge their players for extra dollars

>>1010691
Yup. It was very specifically what I was thinking.

>>1010691
What happened when Akun tried it?

>>1010715
Akun wanted to do quest monitization.

As in
Expansions
Microtransactions (Hey, m-maybe that character didn't actually die)
Donor-specific material
Extra canon

The problem most people had with this is A) It's taking the Electronic Arts approach to questing, and B) it's opening the avenue for QMs to possibly consider treating their quests as a job. Which for one suddenly means that Devfag is now a manager. Then for two also means that he has employees and Anonquest is no longer a place for fiction to be made but for a product to be sold.

Which seemed like a step nobody wanted to make.

>>1010667
Is weeaboo trash inspired by Chobits/Gunslinger Girl generally appealing? It's the only idea I have, and it wouldn't really work for any of my gaming groups.

>>1010727
need the details

>>1010662
>Isn't there some sort of venue to maybe get this decision reversed?
There were some threads on /qa/, Hiro showed up in them, told us to make a thread here, we did, he showed up there too, said he'd listen to us, didn't do shit.

>>1010726
>Expansions
>Microtransactions (Hey, m-maybe that >character didn't actually die)
>Donor-specific material
>Extra canon

There isn't a single aspect of this that doesn't reek of cancer. I'm glad people chose to go no further with it.

>>1010726
The greatest thing for the terrible idea to flourish would be to find the people that are just good enough writers to write interactive fiction but have no problem considering it a job or a service. They only have to compete with people that don't advertise beyond their bubbles, after all.

Man, no wonder I have so many failed quests. My bad ideas flow like syrupy clotted wine.

Problem is we have players it's just their all separated in their own places. I mean the only thing thing is all together as a board is that we all like questing. We need to figure out how to get more lurkers to actively post and have people try out different quests

>>1010766
Well, you can't force engagement, but I think this thread has the right idea. Personally, this past conversation we've been having has been some of the most engagement I've seen on /qst/ in a while. Maybe pimp the IRC more? I'll do my best to start making a regular appearance.

>>1010780
We can't force it but We have to figure out a way to make people want to engage.

>>1010788
Threaten their waifus and steal their bros.

>>1010788
I guess the root question is what made quests more popular and more engaging back on /tg/? Was it just number of eyes on the board?

>>1010730
It'd probably take the human/robot relationship exploration from Chobits and Gunslinger Girl's handler/brainwashed cyborg girl relationship exploration and blend them into a story exploring the MC/robot girl death machine relationship, with players influencing how it develops. There'd be a plot serving as a backdrop, like a conspiracy or something, or maybe the MC has a problem and they use the girl to fix it. I don't have the idea fully fleshed out yet. I know that the relationship would be the core theme, though.

>>1010797
wasn't it steal their waifus and threaten their bros?

>>1010799
so how would it differ from, say, Kancolle?

>>1010798
Quests were great on /tg/ because we were running with /tg/. /tg/ was an excellent board for quests because most quests at the time were /tg/-centric (see: Techpriest quest, Space Marine Quest, Dozens of D&D variants).

It used to be that, at one time, quests existed on every board. They weren't something that sprung up because of the writing type, but sprouted from people wanting to run /a/ quests on /a/ (bromont quests were amazing on /a/), /v/ quests on /v/, etc.

At one time, /b/ used to be the biggest questing hub.

Then moot decided to put an end to it for no discernible reason except for his hatred of generals. Generals on /v/ and quests both got moved during that time.

>>1010638
>>1010612

Final count.
38 replies in 6 hours and 30 minutes.

Tomorrow is always there though. You should post up a quest and see how it fairs. I think my timing was off as I posted a bit later into the day. Plus winter is usually a dead zone. I think once summer is here we should be fine. But that's either impossibly naive or just silly.

>>1010798
Eyes on the board was probably the biggest thing. Plenty of people didn't follow over with the switch to qst and that's the problem. Maybe some of the more popular and could try and convince some of their players to go out and read other quests on the board. Or maybe when some of the bigger quests are running being up other quests you follow and talk about that between an update

>>1010804
>wasn't it steal their waifus and threaten their bros?
Well, that's how we got full-flung shitstorms before, I figured the opposite must hold true in these times.

Either way, somebody's favorite character has a date with the chopping block.

>>1010805
>>1010798
This.

The quests existed where people would be interested in them. /co/, /a/, /v/, /b/, /tg/, and so on. It's not really eyes so much as it's people that are generally interested in board specific subjects.

>>1010819
>It's not really eyes
Whoops. What I mean by this is that it's not "eyes generally," sorta.

But I did just list the most populous boards among the top places to quest, so the participation pool being large has always been helpful.

So we need to figure out a way to get people on those boards to see quests that relate to their interests. If only we could get a banner

>>1010819
That's a very salient point, /qst/ has no identity other than "the quest board", and we don't get to have any of the board culture around us. So we have to just make something.

>>1010807
I'll try tomorrow, in the early evening, and swing by the IRC. I do think timing matters a lot though.

>>1010805
/tg/ also has one of the broadest range of interests of any board on the site. My most successful quest was a historical italian nobleman quest, and it wasn't even close.

>>1010811
I think a more unified effort would be good for us all.

>>1010826
Pretty sure crossposting would just get us reprimanded, unfortunately. That would be my first instinct.

>>1010826
The problem is the solution to our problems are not things we're capable of achieving on our own,

and this was the intention from the very beginning.

Isn't it kind of sad that the best discussion we have is when we get angry at this board of which we can do nothing about?

>>1010883
It's really the only thing we're unanimously angry about

>>1010883
It's something everybody here can relate to.

Some people like little anime girls
Some people want people who like little anime girls to die
Some people want to be the little girl
Some people want to play dry realistic settings that take themselves way too seriously

Everybody gets angry at being kicked out of their house.

>>1010804
I've only watched some of the show, so if you're asking about a kancolle quest, I'd need to read it.

For minor points, the girl would be an actual robot, with all that entails, rather than a human with robot attachments that repairs by bathing. It'd also take itself more seriously, like not using war as an excuse to interact with a cute girl/watch a cute girl do cute girl things.

It won't be groundbreaking philosophically, but there should be merit in a quest about asking and answering the questions of "What would you do when in possession of a combat robot?" and "How would you treat a human-like robot?", right?

Maybe look into trying to build more of a community. The drawthread is a good idea we just have to support it and keep trying it should work eventually. What are some things akin does to build community?

>>1010898
Uh oh. I'm running a very, very similar quest very soon. Only it won't be kancolle, but a different fanfic quest altogether.
It's fiiiiiiine though. It's fine.

>>1010905
Being able to talk about stuff related to questing outside a single meta-thread.

>>1010898
>How would you treat a human-like robot?
the answer is waifu. The answer is ALWAYS waifu. Except when it is husbando.

more seriously, it sounds like a good time. Hope you can push through with it!

>>1010910
Remember when this thread was even getting banned?
That said, I think we could probably have meta-threads now because I highly, highly doubt any mods are reading this. If they are, then they must be incredibly bored or doing it because they are being told to.

>>1010908
Oh boy. Great minds think alike, at least? FWIW, I don't know if I'll even run, or when, because I have a hard time getting off my ass to do shit. Knowing that someone else wants to run it (and >>1010915 encouraging it) makes me want to at least try.

Who knows? Maybe they'll be nothing alike because we have completely different characters. I hope your quest is successful, though. I might even participate in it to break my quest cherry.

>>1010915
I figured, but there's always that slim chance they'll be outvoted and decide to go full asshole. Thanks for the support.

>>1010927
Chances are, when I run it you probably won't even know I did because it will be on Akun and be non-lewd, so wish me luck in surviving in lewd country

>>1010934
Godspeed, anon. Don't let them corrupt you.

I'm happy to hear I won't have direct competition from you. It's my first time and it's probably going to be a spaghetti fest of fuck-ups. No pain, no gain, though.

>>1010934
There's plenty of non-lewd stuff on anonkun.

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>>1010988
Yeah, but they very rarely get the kind of attention smut quests automatically draw in

>>1010992
They still probably get more attention than the average /qst/ thread.

>>1010992

This is what worries me the most
But if I can get a dedicated readerbase of a couple dozen people, then I'll be happy.
It probably doesn't help that it's a loose fanfic quest, either.

QUICK! SOMEONE NAME A RANDOM QUEST THING TO DO AND I'LL ROLL WITH IT WHEN I WAKE UP

>>1011050
Sharkfucker Quest