/qtg/ - Quest Thread General

I had an idea for a quest I was excited to run, planned out the intro, characters, all that. Then I checked the catalog and found something with the exact premise and almost the exact same name for the protagonist. Fucking kill me

>>1420592
Just run it on Akun instead.

>>1418429
Nobles, prisoners, strangers, friends. Come to Answerer's Hall.
While we defer the coming end,
Let's Damborill recall.

In verse your tongue may come bemired,
But of Nobles only is it required.

I'm trying to run 'session 3' at the moment, but find no player base to run with (mostly cause my previous sessions were in dec and jan)
>>1416072
I'm aware that it's my own fault for being absent yesterday (1 response/player isn't really anything to drool about, honestly) but I really want to continue the quest (and in my absence have had lots of time to think through the ins and outs of the setting), with multiple characters as the main at different points in what I hope to be the plot.

>>1420485
So, is Spooky still undead?

>>1420803
Is Spooky even still a thing anywhere?

>>1420592
What quest with that? Join it and quietly take over when QM is kill.

>>1420814
I don't know, that's why I'm asking.

>>1420816
Takeover advice best advice.

>>1420803
>>1420818
The spooky in the archive has been dead for a very long time now.
The spooky discord server still kicking though.

>>1420877
>The spooky in the archive has been dead for a very long time now.
Dead dead or undead dead?
>The spooky discord server still kicking though.
No thanks.

>>1420891
Dead as in it doesn't exist. At all.

>>1420592
It was worm quest wasn't it?

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For anyone interested, a reminder that Capes of Rain City starts again on Friday at 5pm PST.

>>1420485
>QM Question
It's hard to say what my favourite part is, but I really do enjoy writing dialogue, irrespective of quality.

>>1421110
MAXIMUM HYPE

IT'S LIKE READING WORM AGAIN, BUT WITH BETTER WRITING

Any good Persona or SMT quests running currently?

>>1421711
>SMT
????

>>1421745
Shin Megami Tensei.

>>1421110
Wait, really? Neat, I figured it was gone for good

>>1421883
I KNOW RIGHT.

I've been on the hype train since Jim posted under his trip 2 weeks ago and confirmed it.

>>1421711
Not a lot, but sure. There's Devil Summoner: Task Force 666. Just started running again recently, actually. And there's a new Persona Quest but it's real bare bones and shit. Not my thing but if, you're cool with that kind of writing then more power to ya.

'[Prototype]Deviation: Initial Contraction' will be running next week. Hope to see you Anons in there. Do note. It will be in the perspective of a villain. I encourage you all to be as cunning and sadistic as possible. Unlike the main quest i have planned this prequel will start you off in a position of power. May the dice be with you.

>>1421711
>Good and running
There's Task Force 666. Good writing and mechanics but getting Kaz to run/update is like pulling teeth. Get invested at your own risk.

>Everything else
There is a Devil Survivor: Spain that's recent but it's pretty mediocre.

Haven't checked out the new Persona quest so I can't comment on it.

It isn't running anymore as it actually finished but there is Devil Summoner London if you just feel like reading. I think it's the only completed SMT quest on 4chan.

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>>1420485
>Player Question
Raven from the master-piece quest "Everyone is Bob" because I like her yellow bow tie.

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>tfw reading Homeless Mutant again
good times

>>1421989
Never ever again

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>>1421989
>>1421994
damn find smut regardless...

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aside from pepperidge farms

who remembers?

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>>1422019
what about this one?

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>>1422019
How could I forget?

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>>1422036

>>1422024
That was the first quest I participated in.

Mini-wolves!

>>1422149
it was the first one I cared about.

but I don't remember those, was it continued at some point?

>>1422237
It had a brief attempt at a revival.

The mini-wolves thing refers to a pack of wild dogs that were harassing the MC for a while. He ended up treed, if memory serves.

Some thoughts I compiled based on my experience as a QM, ignore it or whatever. I can't be bothered pastebining it.

What I learned from running Crusader Quest, and general advice for QMs:

Research is a valuable tool. Learn what you can about the setting. Plumb the depths of culture and weirdness that is the past, discover the stories of everyday people and the stories of the rich and famous to create a nuanced portrait of life. However research has its limits, and be prepared for blind spots. Don’t get overly caught up on minutia or you’ll never get anything done and the setting will be impenetrable. Verisimilitude (the appearance of realism to create suspension of belief) is more important than being one hundred percent historical accuracy or being truly ‘realistic’.

Have premade npcs ready to fill unexpected gaps. This can be as simple as a list of names to reach for when the players go looking for a black smith or the village priest. Keep it consistent, but throw curveballs. Jerusalem was a melting pot of European and Near Eastern peoples, a black man would be noticeable but not a complete oddity, and Saracens and Jews often had their own quarters in major cities and towns.

Keep the flow of action going. Let every choice run forward and build off each other, don’t give the players too much down time or events with static choices, it should all run forward to form part of a whole. Have every choice lead to both a resolution to their problem and an unexpected consequence, don’t let the players get complacent or assume they know what will or must happen. This keeps the game moving and maintains tension. Down time is important but should be parcelled out carefully, and even then downtime events should have impact on future scenarios.

Keep the characters dynamic. Avoid having them become mindless drones to the pc. They shouldn’t be pokemon blindly doing everything they are told and agreeing with every choice the players make. Give them their own dreams and ambitions, even if they aren’t large ones. Give them friendships and relationships that have nothing to do with the pc. Make them actual inhabitants of the world rather than a labelled resource to tap.
Keep the prose engaging. At the end of the day quests are a written medium. If the prose is boring the quest is boring. It doesn’t have to be publisher quality, but it should at the bare minimum be readable and preferably exciting.

Remember that it’s a game. Rewarding every action the players engage in without effort is as boring as never being able to win because its too hard. Find a medium. Reward creative thinking but don’t let players get too caught up on slamming the ‘do everything’ button or dream up unrealistic scenarios that are doomed to failure. Foots have to be put down on hair brained schemes early if it goes against the tone of the quest or is just outright impossible (like the peasant revolution plan floated early on in Crusader Quest).

(cont.)

Communicate with the player base. Talk to them if it doesn’t violate the meta, preferably after the session is finished. Unless foots must be put down quickly because someone has managed to convince multiple players their bad idea is tenable, save extra commentary to post session discussion. Let them know when they are doing well and when their behaviour is having a negative impact on the quest, but always be polite and respectful when you do so.

There will always be unhappy players no matter what you do. You can’t please everyone and you shouldn’t try. Listen to criticism, but don’t marry it. You will make mistakes, don’t get caught up on them. Don’t be rude to unhappy players, don’t engage in tit for tat insults. The tone of a thread can be managed by you, be civil to your players and they’ll be civil back. Don’t let players bickering with each other drag down the quest either, leverage your authority as the QM to get people to at least try to get along.

You will get shit heads, ignore them. They want to piss you off, don’t let them.

Have fun. If you aren’t enjoying yourself, the players won’t either. If you’re no longer enjoying running, take a week or two off and find your energy. If you can’t find it, do the gracious thing and let the players know if you’re going on indefinite hiatus or cancelling the quest. Good communication is usually rewarded by generating a good player base.

(cont)

An assessment on what I thought I did well vs what I did poorly:

Well:

I felt I maintained a consistent tone and a dynamic story without repeating myself

I felt my prose was mostly good and engaging

I felt I created a mostly decent cast of characters who were rarely two dimensional

I felt I maintained tension throughout the quest, the players never felt they had it easy

I felt the romance was mostly well executed

I felt I maintained a good level of communication with my players, with some lapses

I felt I wrote mostly good action scenes and sex scenes

I felt the choices of the majority of npcs were understandable even when they seemed unexpected

I felt I managed to keep the politics from becoming convoluted

Poorly:

I felt the female characters could have been stronger. I felt I slipped into writing them more as pretty objects for the pc to fuck than as people on occasion.

I felt I had made Wilhelm too much of a mary sue, and tried to deflect some of this by switching between Hugo and Mathilde as supporting protagonists with mixed results

While I’m glad I maintained explicit sex scenes, I felt it became pandering toward the later half of the quest. This loops into the female characters.

I felt I could have expressed period identity, morality and lifestyle in a better way

I felt I slipped up more often than I should have depicting early 12th century Jerusalem and the Middle East. I made mistakes of geography and culture on occasion that stricter notes and better research would have prevented.

While I don’t regret the ‘rape’ as a consequence, in hindsight I should have resolved that ‘behind closed doors’. I stand by the idea that there are occasionally (rarely) ‘unwinnable’ events, and the best a player can do is choose how they fail rather than how they can best succeed, but I could have handled that specific event in a more tasteful way.

I felt I struggled to maintain such a large cast, and characters would fade in and out of the background. I could have managed the large body of historical characters in a better way.

I felt I dropped the ball on Mathilde’s plot line, and could have carried her forward in a more interesting way.

I felt I could have resolved my desires for certain characters with the players desires in a better way. I felt there were times I forced the Sabeen/Hugo relationship against the wishes of certain segments of the player base.

I occasionally lost sight of subplots and ‘plans’ that would have been entertaining.

I let too many typos and grammatical errors slip past me.

That's all I've walked away with. Hopefully some of this will be useful to the rest of you.

Whatcha reading everyone?

On /qst/ I'm currently reading Hive Queen Quest for psychic space bug shennanigans and really need to get back up to date on Gorgon Child Quest for slice of life monster kid shenannigans.

>>1422450
>>1422454
>>1422461
RIP Crusader Quest.

Never Ever Again.

>>1422450
>>1422454
>>1422461
To be honest, I never so much as glanced at Crusader Quest. The premise wasn't all that appealing to me. But I feel you've definitely left some solid general advice and even better advice on writing a quest in a historical setting or even one just based on historical things. As someone whose going to take a serious dive into QMing soon, I appreciate it.

>>1422461
>regretting Mathilda being suffering
>regretting The fact Alexis was just an uncannily lucky motherfucker

I mean I guess I can agree the Hugo/Sabine thing peaked a little early but it was all still pretty great

I will forever not be be mad that Mathilde never properly resolved the issue of her independence/desires against her families desires/duty

Also The whole Alexandria/second crusade thing but that was god Ng to be a LONG plot thread thread

What would you people want to see in a Science Fantasy Space Exploration quest?

No I don't want to hear philosophizing about how it should be done, the feelings and atmosphere, that shit. I wasn't born fucking yesterday. I want to know what you'd want to see and do in it. If you want to blow up a moon or fuck an alien. The adventures part of space adventures.

>>1422461
would you have said Honour means diffrent things to Wilhelm, Mathilde and Hugo?

>>1422461
Ever feel the itch to just dive back into it?

>>1422850
Yes, but I don't have the free time.

>>1422826
I'd say Wil and Mathilde have similar concepts of honour, where as Hugo's is rather different.

>>1422853
I would have thought that Wil and matty would have diverged on the Idea of chastity being a core concept of a womans honour and the Ideal of indvidual honour, as tywin lannister says all thats left in the end is the family name and what it means

>QM promises thread in march
>it is now may
My despair is growing bigger and bigger.
I will add that spider quest to my list of quests I loved that are now probably super dead.

I don;t think I'll ever really be happy with my writing. It's average or just below. Another thing I find is that I loose steam when ever I do a Quest, what I mean by this is that I think the first post is pretty good, but the posts after just get worse and worse.

>>1422945
Yeah don't run quests then.

In fact, just kill yourself.

>>1422950
Ah fuckin' great can do my dude

>>1422952
Nice.

>>1422450
>>1422454
>>1422461

>I can't be bothered pastebining it.

Well okay. I think your general observations are generally in tune with my own, so I don't see any reason not to.

https://pastebin.com/AnEdiZcp

>>1422945
That's normal. Improve what you can and otherwise don't let it bother you too much. You can be certain it bothers your players far less than it bothers you.

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>>1422950
We don't tell people to kill themselves here. /qst/ is a safe place.

rip Crusty

A reminder nobody here is going to get more attention or interest in their ideas than a self-insert green-text quest based off a Disney children show property:
Star Vs.

>>1423017
I blame /a/ & /co/ for the banishment of quests from /tg/ to this sad purgatory.

>>1423065
I blame retarded mod decisions.

>>1423065
>not blaming general faggots that forced /tg/ the adopt a generals as a norm
>not blaming the brain dead mod that made this hell hole and doesn't even see fit to maintain it in even the most basic sense

>>1423070
I blame you.

Mheydahl is running

>>1423008
But this is /qtg/ we're in.

>>1423065
>>1423070
>>1423074
So what's the story of the movement of quest threads to /qst/ that is such the /qst/ mods aren't interested in moving them back to their original boards?

>>1423077
>implying quest even has a mod

/qst/ was made as a "containment" board for quests after anon bitched and moaned enough that mods took actions and banned quests from /tg/

>>1423077
>thinking mods visit /qst/

They wanted to boot out the anime and cartoon insert quests that prevented their 40k generals from being on the first page.

>>1423077
> So what's the story of the movement of quest threads to /qst/ that is such the /qst/ mods aren't interested in moving them back to their original boards?

Quests used to be on /tg/. Some anons complained about /tg/ having things they didn't like, and eventually that grew loud enough that /qst/ was made so that they don't have to see threads they don't like.

/qst/ wasn't made for quests. It was made for the people who hate quests. It exists so that quests will die quietly, out of the view of the people who complained the loudest. Moving them back to their original boards would defeat the point.

I haven't been here since December. What are some new quests I should check out?

>SB got caught stealing ideas from Akun

It's impressive that even when it comes to fanfiction, they can't be original

>>1423176
What happened now?

>>1423176
Did they need more shit to crossover with Worm?

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>>1423179
>>1423182

So, someone brought up the idea of a Manabu Akado Quest (he's that one 40-year old guy that's taking the Chunin exam in Naruto). Akun brainstormed for an hour or two last Thursday. Then anon shows up yesterday pissed off with this screenshot of some guy on SB trying to pass off all the stuff as his own idea. It's within an hour of this, that this guy posts stuff that is almost word for word what several people came up with on Akun onto SB, which is a pretty wacky coincidence.

>>1423012
RIP Guide.
It seems all my favorite QMs are dying.

>>1423296
What happened to Guide? He ran recently.

>>1423202
Rereading this, I realize it's not clear

1. Anon throws out quest idea around 3pm CST Thurs, main chat brainstorms for an hour
2. Screencap happens gets posted within 30-45min of Akun chat wrapping it up
3. An anon (who may claim to have thrown it out to chat to brainstorm), who browses SB for masochistic reasons I assume, comes across post and caps it.
4. Anon is irritated. Namefags who contributed are irritated.

And that's how Akun learned that SBers will copy even other people's shitty fanfic ideas.

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>people upset over their ideas being stolen
>after stealing said ideas from somebody else

I'm gonna run a quest.
How does friday/saturday/monday/wednesday sound for a schedule?

>>1423399
Forgot to mention, starting around 6pm est.

>>1423386
>fabrication
>inherently acknowledges that it's based on someone else's work
>same as passing off other people's ideas as something you came up with

Wew lad

>>1423399
>>1423407
Sounds fine, the weekend is always a solid choice as long as it's not a holiday. And 6 pm is late enough for people getting home from work and NEETS could show up anytime.

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Trawler Quest is running!

>>1413759

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>>1421110
so, I'm working on negotiating some more BlindSide art from the artists on /tg/ I got this, I'm trying to get the jacket color-swapped to black while maintaining that sort of stippled pattern it's got going on here...

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An update on the Paladin of Avalon is up!
https://fiction.live/stories/The-Paladin-of-Avalon/-JRvxJl3loGBg9Bo64XE/30-A-Hero-Must-Be-Alone/XFMpzuaivwm87CH6K
New chapter!

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>>1424177
Shipgirl Commander session is a go.

Say I'm feeling burnt out on one quest, and feel I want to keep myself fresh by doing another setting.

Are two week rather than one week gaps between threads tolerable for quests or am I going to have to run two at once? If not, what's preferable? I'm not good or popular so I'm concerned if I leave something for too long it'll lose players.

>>1424240
Ask your questers about it, they'll give the most relevant feedback.

Does anyone know what happened to Kuat Collection Quest? Was really enjoying it.

>>1424354
Schteel has a full time job now, so he's put his weekday quests on hold until he can get his schedule together.

>>1424358
Oooh, fair enough. Thanks for the prompt answer.

>>1422817
I'm interested.

Fuck. I didn't know threads stopped bumping after 72 hours. I'm screwed.

I was expecting my thread to last until Saturday since /qst/ is so slow.

Is dragon ball blue star quest cancelled?

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>>1424462
I think most people on /qst/ use the catalog though. Never seen a quest become slower after the bump limit expires.

>>1424462
It'll last til Saturday. /qst/ is slow.

Delete this board. I want my favourite quest to become popular again, and the only way that'll happen is if we get rid of this board.

>>1424486
We would if we could.

>>1424486
We tried, the mods enjoy our endless limbo of pain and misery.

Recommend me running drawquests please.

Who's your favorite quest villian /qtg/ or just villian type in general?

Almost every quest I follow is gone. Is it time to move to akun? A noose seems more appealing.

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>>1423017

Butthurt faggot detected!

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Fuck my quest is shit. It's fun but I'm having a bit of trouble making it lively. Also, waiting 2 hours for a reply is pretty fucking hard

>>1424694
What quest?

>>1424706
Deep Space Survival Quest
My writing also suck horse testicles

>>1424710
I skimmed a couple of posts, would recommend making sure you don't miss words out (you missed one out in the opening post, which probably didn't leave a good first impression), and remember punctuation even in quotes. "Like this." and not "Like this"

It'll make a big difference in writing quality for not much more effort. Sci-fi isn't my type of quest, but good luck!

>>1424720
Thanks. It's my first. What bigs me the most os I won't notixe the mistake until the second I press post.

>>1424723
Presuming all those typos in this post aren't a joke, I'd recommend typing your post out in Word or something with a spellcheck first, then copy and paste into the thread. That should point out 90% of any errors, but you'll need a semi-careful read-through to pick out the other 10%. If you haven't got Word, try putting it in http://www.spellcheck.net instead.

>>1424746
Thanks, I'm trying my best

>trying to read through a quest from when /tg/ still allowed them
>insufferable namefag attention whores and fuckhueg arguments
>try to read through a quest now
>takes hours for people to reply, even longer for QMs to respond
I don't know which is worse, waiting 2 years for a single thread to finish or the idea of having nicedaemonette back.

>>1424844
>takes hours for people to reply, even longer for QMs to respond

I am guilty of taking a few hours to respond to my players

>>1424890
same

>>1424844
The worst is realizing your QM is losing interest.

>>1423461
Sweet. Thanks. Now I just need to figure out which of my terrible ideas to run.

>>1425235
>Now I just need to figure out which of my terrible ideas to run.

You and me both. I find myself flip flopping between ideas seemingly at random and if I get a quest off the ground I need to squash a habit like that or it'll be shitty to me and my players.

>>1424844
>nicedaemonette

Nigga, you just gave me war flashbacks.

>>1425275
>nicedaemonette

I must be out of the loop please tell me the story of Darth Nicedaemonette the Wise

>>1425286
The most disgusting thing to ever plague /tg/. People like to shit on VirtualOptim but ND was way worse imo.

>>1425364
>>1425286
And as far as I know, VirtualOptim was content to shit up normal threads but ND would not only frequent many quests to make lots of large and sometimes completely inapropriate but always unwanted posts they would also make their own threads outside of that and insert themselves into any active conversation on /tg/ they were in a shocking amount of places at once. Haven't seem em in forever though.

Also Xenomorph Quest is back in action!


>>1416283

>>1422875
Amateur Goblin Hunter Quest is under new management and needs your help!

>>1425411
>>1424844
that's partially the result of clickbaity OPs, though.

>half-demon quest
>demon overlord quest

and using fanservice for the OP. ND never shit up the quests that were very clearly not about his sort of thing.

>>1425584
Now that you mention it I'm surprised I never saw them in Hellborn Quest. RIP

>>1425681
that's part of why I don't get how ND is so infamous: I've never seen him shit up any quest I followed.

The worst was seeing 1 picture, that's it. He's not even that great at write-ins, so he got completely ignored.

Only involved in a few quests so far.
>VillainQuest
All drawn by one guy. Artstyle is like an anime Sin City. Pretty decent two threads so far.
>Double King Quest
Sociopathy is always fun. Especially when you get a 20 and Metal Gear Rising tier crazy shit happens, all in character.
>Persona Quest
Not too bad. Slow start but a steady one.
>Devil Survivor Spain
Actually good. Okay start, okay characters, decent bantz.

I began in this board when It started and Ioved the concept and had a lot of fun in here but Lifeg g and lack of actual interest in things stopped me from visiiting the board. I came back to have some good fun annd was surpriced that some of the first quests keep going on. But there is something bugging me: where are the Cultural Civ quests? Those were really popular and the first one (god bless Richard) was the most fun I had in a thread like forever. Why did this quests dissapear? People stopped caring? QM stopped appearing? Was the first one with Richard the only good one? (I remember a secoond one but was meh)

Hey, LISTEN!

(Did you hear Navi's voice in your head?)

I fear that some of you don't know about a terrible quest!

>>1425539

Keep an eye out for this terrible quest and play it, anons!

QM is a real cool halp, I hear.


Additional info: No catch up reading required, very easy to jump in. And if you do want to catch up, the threads are all very short with fun drawings for each post!

Links found in the linked link. Link? Navi?

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> post quest with original idea
> 5 replies in 3 days
> post quest adapted from video game/anime/tv show
> 9999 replies in 0.0002 seconds

We dont deserve this board

>>1426940
Even if you're exaggerating though not by much people saying this stuff makes me real fuckin' nervous.

>>1426086
Cultural civ quests are the only ones that will save this board. Make one anon. I beg you.

>>1426966
Getting new blood is what will save this board. Take a page from the Star vs quest and make a subtle type of post on a board relating to a quest and then post about how you should take the idea over to /qst/ before the mods 404 the thread.

>>1426086
>things that never happened

>>1426977
>>1426966
Nothing will save this board. It was created so that quests would die somewhere out of sight. It was never meant to survive.

>>1427329
Someone just has to create a good enough quest that it draws in people who will talk about it in other places that aren't just 4chan.

Something so incontestably great it's not something just people who like quests will like, but something that will stand the test of interactive internet story/game stuff time.
But that's not happening.

I started trying to make a joke here somehow but now I'm just sad.
Man, why even bother trying at this point. The good times are dead and gone. Nothing matters anymore.

>>1426940
>post quest without shilling on qtg or anywhere else
>face in the crowd OP pic
>awful text from catalog
>being surprised that fanfic quests are more popular when at least it's easy to know what they will deliver.

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>>1427385
Anybody who could write that good would just write a book and get money for it

in other news, fuck me I didn't realize how wonderful it was to have a MHQ update every other day.

I neeeed moooooore....

So /qtg/, I know some (most?) of you have contemplated a switch to Akun, but have you ever considered switching to RoyalRoad and its ilk?

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>>1427487
>Akun
I would sooner run a quest on /trash/

>>1427499
You'd certainly get more players there than here.

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>>1427501
https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/overwatch.gamepedia.com/d/d8/Hanzo_-_But_at_what_cost.ogg

>>1427487
RoyalRoad does quests?

>>1427487
I've checked that out before.

It is definitely not the style I would ever consider for a quest. Not in how it uses pictures, not in the possible formats to present choice, and not in how it presents each individual story for browsing titles. I don't dislike 4chan's catalog at all.

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Does anybody else remember this fun little skirmish that ran here when /qst/ was first created? It was great but the QM mysteriously disappeared halfway through a session. It was called 80's souls I think.

Is there any Exalted quest ??

>>1427732
Exaltedfag is MIA since mid april.
And most other ones died within the first few threads. Or in the case of Alchemical Blade stagger along for several more threads with mostly 1 or 2 voters per 3 post update until the QMs will broke.

So, to answer your question, no. There is not one currently that can be described as active.

>>1427506
Almost nothing desu

>>1427746
>Or in the case of Alchemical Blade stagger along for several more threads with mostly 1 or 2 voters per 3 post update until the QMs will broke.
That's always depressing.

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>remembers a really good quest that was doing pretty good
>halfway through it just stops
>thread was last active in January
>qm seems to have just disappear
Whatever did happen to DWMA quest?

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>>1427799
faith friend. they might return.

Jim Mac did, apparently IRL shit FUCKED HIM UP for a YEAR, but Capes of Rain City is back tomorrow.

if you have gods, pray.
if you have rituals, do them.
if you have nothing, simply wait.

Terrible Quest is now in session.

Easy to join in, very little catch up required. You could probably get by just reading the summary in the OP and one or two of the last posts.

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>Come to Deep Space Survival Quest
>Watch me misspell simple words
>See as I write woth the finesse of a 3rd grader
>Listen when I scream because no one has answered my question
>Cringe at all things

>>1423156

>>1425411
Virt has a tumblr as a monument to his shitposting

>last lamplighter quest thread was over a month ago
>last Ouro tweet was about possible heart problems
guys I'm scared

>>1428050
The Curse strikes again.

That's our Gold Player.

>>1428028
>woth

>>1428167
>That one was actually ironic
>Unlike

>>1427471

Huamn

>I want to die

>>1428370
Aren't you supposed to figure most of that stuff out before you get anywhere near running so you can jump in with meaningful choices for the first thread?

>>1428381
It's all pretty new to me, but will be nice experience for another quest.

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>>1420485
>Who are your favorite quest characters? Why?
Aria priestess from priestess quest

>>1423017
You're welcome to come by anytime, friend
My style is loose but all I care about is providing a fun adventure

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XENO QUEST IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!

>>1416283

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>Filthy MAN-SLAVE Quest has 60 posters
>your beautifully written, OC, 500 hours of prep time, HD, draw-quest has 2 posters

>>1429758
>beautifully written draw quest
>implying those exist

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>>1429762
>implying I was implying that

So . . . What's the etiquette with starting a new thread vs riding the previous one down like Slim Pickens on the A-bomb?

Once my quests hit the bump limit, I see a significant drop in players from 6-7 per turn to 1-2.

I've been told that thanka to Twitter, people still play, check the catalog etc, but I find that bullshit.

Am I retarded? Is it a dick move to make a new quest thread every 72 hours? What's up?

>>1429779
Feel free to make a new thread, nobody cares

>>1429779
New threads only bump off shitty threads, so feel free to make as many as you can.

>>1429791
>>1429798
Glorious.

>>1429758
I can't control my dick, you stupid frogposter. In any case, the quest went to shit anyway after the qm busted his nut

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5 minutes in MSpaint. How do we get it added to the ticker?

>>1430409
If /qst/ ever gets its own banner it basically has to be one of the more autistic moments, though. I'm thinking such defiance or the snappening or something.

>>1430409
That's awful in every way anon

>>1430444
Meme vultures would probably be up their

New Capes of Rain City in an hour and fortyfive minutes!

>>1430409
That's boring. /qst/ should have players saying something hilariously stupid as a banner.

>>1430678
Fug ur imoto?
>yes
>OwO

>>1430722
What if instead of just a regular imouto, we make it a crippled hikki /fit/ imouto?

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>>1430678

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>>1430664
hype
>[sanitizes S&M equipment vigorously]

also I got /tg/ to draw a thing...what do you think?

>>1430764
Damn son, this is fantastic!

>S&M equipment
I'd almost forgotten about that

>>1430774
1.) I'll be trying to get a drawing of Blowout or Redline next.

2.) traumatizing people is what I do

>>1430833
>>1430833
>>1430833

Beleaguered Prince Quest is now live!

>>1430761
That works too.

I completely forgot that my ma is coming to visit tonight. In honesty I don't remember ever actually making that plan but she insists I did, so I'll have to postpone until Sunday. What a fantastic omen, postponing the first thread of a new(ish) quest.

>>1430917
FUCK

>>1430917
Butter up your schedule cuz fucked 'tis gonna be.

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Hot Dead Bodies of Messiahs in [Anonymous Proxy] want to meet and Fuck

>>1430683

>>1430929
>Butter up your schedule cuz fucked 'tis gonna be.
>cuz fucked 'tis gonna be.
that reminds me of a thing...

>>1430917
don't postpone again, or I will consult a really Sweaty Midwestern American Girl and have her write ATROCIOUS EROTIC FETISH FAN FICTION featuring Blindside and Belts...and maybe also Redline AND Blowout

I'll only green light her if you postpone again though, so you still have time.

I'm actually quite sad now. Maybe I should run my own quest if all the ones I like can't run.

Surely I won't turn out like them?

>>1431015
DO IT FAGGOT

for the record, while I make lewd comments in the threads I DON'T try and force lewd actions for characters and actively try and prevent any and all attempts to shoehorn waifuing...

FUCK WAIFUS AND FUCK LEWDS
if I want that I'll go out and do it myself.

>>1431029
Aww shit now I gotta do it.

Saturday night here I come, and I'm bringing a god damn quest. You better be prepared, big ol' Saturday night. This quest coming for you.

>>1431049
DON'T FUCK IT UP MAN.

What do you lot think of For House & Dominion Quest? I've started going through the archive, and it seems good, but holy hell is it long.

>>1431054
Oh boy you better believe it that I'm gonna fuck it up.

Ten thousand character introduction info dump with thirty pastebins.

A history recap that no one asked for.

Political synopsis of the setting that has nothing to do with what the character is doing.

A title image with script that's basically illegible.

Four different greetings in the OP, none of them spellchecked or grammar corrected.

First thing, gender vote.
Second vote, a color-by-number character class select.
Third to twentieth (unskippable) prompts detailing everything from profession to hobbies to third-cousin details.

And then the quest begins! Here's your mission and no you can't do anything else.

Foreshadowing? Lol no. Rocks fall you die. Wanna reset? Sure, just let me bank a nat 1 each time. Wanna have fun, be silly, or maybe have an impromptu rap battle? Too bad, git ded. Want to form meaningful relationships with other character that go beyond battle support roles? Get ready for twenty sessions of pace killing slice of life! And don't forget the world's doom clock still continues while you get your ""fun!"" Character consistency? Sure, easy, just write them all in the same voice. Done! Do you want a consistent schedule? Haha, enjoy four consecutive reschedulings followed by two posts of a thread and then no words at all forever.

No twitter.
No trip.
D20 (crits active).
Rails only.
Final destination.

>>1431366
and this is why we need QMs like Crusty Jones, Jim Mac, and Exabyte.

because someone has to set the bar...

>>1431366
And it's also a naruto/bleach crossover with elements of DBZ, Dark Souls, and World of Warcraft.

>>1431399
Don't worry anon. I'll set the new bar.

There'll never be a greater QM than me!

>>1431401
I am in no way familliar with 4/5ths of these things.

so I'll simply skip it, and assume you've fucked it up hard enough to send my naked flying sado-housekeepers after your unfortunate ass.

>>1431421
I think you're confusing GREAT with INFAMOUS...

>>1431424
Not to toot my own trombone (I let the women do that for me, tee-hee!) but I think, when you see what I do, you'll like it!

>>1431366
>>1431401
>>1431449
what horrors...

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>>1430678
Perhaps we should compile screencaps of such moments for source material.

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>>1430678
are these hilariously stupid or are they just neutral stupid?

>>1428050
Ouro is too good for this ugly world

Anyone done a medieval/rennaisance mech quest? Like clockwork or galley-slave powered clutzes whose power must nonetheless be respected.

>>1431778
Personally, I think that's more neutral stupid.

>>1431742
That's pretty good though. Just need to crop it to a good size and it would be great.

>>1432187
None that I recall. Sounds pretty original.
Can we design on our clockwork mech though? That'd be cool.

>>1432192
They're all probably semi-custom just by virtue of being made by a medieval economy, where secretive guilds that don't want to let out their trade secrets.

>>1432202
You had my attention at mechs and now a guaranteed player at secretive guilds. When ya gonna run?

>>1432204
Perhaps next Sunday. I'm a little busy at the moment, and I would need to outline things.

>>1432211
>actual preparation
Hot damn. Good luck. Will definitely look out for it.

>>1432187
>"magical" crystals that are valuable purely because of their vibration frequencies for clock syncing.
you have this, and I'm in

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>>1430761
Made my own "improvements".

>>1432362
Dark.

I like it.

>>1432362
Excellent

>>1421110
Whatever happened to this, I didn't see this thread on friday.

>>1432514
an unexpected visitation from his mother
rescheduled for tomorrow

>>1432514
nvm, different timezones.

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Just gonna shill this here.
We have Double King Quest starting up again.
>>1412575
>>1432607
So if anyone enjoys playing a sociopath who only cares for crowns, come on down.

>>1432269
It's an interesting dynamic because you want a more centralized state because of the lodesamoney you need to maintain a mech force, but you don't really want a Napoleonic mass army

>>1423079
>>1423092
While I have no delusions that there are mods that visit /qst/, there is at least one mod that I know of that irregularly responds to reports.

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>>1433081
Psion Academy Quest is back!

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>>1433846
New Melancholic Quest up

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Terrible Quest session begins in 28 minutes!

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How many characters do your favorite quests have?

This Quest had terribly shoehorned characters, and a terrible "Write in" option regarding one of these terribly shoehorned characters sent this once-good sequel to a great quest into a nosedive it won't return from.

What quest is this?

>>1434434
What is Mortal Kombat quest?

>>1434434
Yurifags BTFO.

>>1434361
A lot of those seem like background characters.

My quest has a fucktonne of those, but a relatively limited number of real characters, maybe 20 or so. 20 sounds like a lot, but when you consider there's a few different plotlines on the go it really isn't that many.

>>1434524
Some of those are background characters, no doubt. But what is a "real character" exactly? Can you give an example of a minimal amount of story significance and impact of a character for them to be considered "real"?

>>1434530
I'd say a background character is there for flavor, and to develop the world and make it feel more populated. So they have a personality, and they might influence someone's decision but they won't be changing the plot on their own.

Just like a TV show, the 'real' characters are your main cast. The other characters are extras, who are there to provide a bit of a backdrop. Like the main character's buddies at the bar he goes to sometimes. They won't directly change his life, but they might say something that makes him think.

Obviously the boundary between the two is fluid, and a character can graduate background status if they catch the players eye.

>>1434553
By that definition, the list above holds about 60-70 "real" characters.

>>1434361
That's a nice character list you've got there. I've seen better though.
From Ryukusa quest, posted at the start of every thread.
Ryuu Ryukusa is tall at 5' 8"; 6' in her true form. She is fully grown. Lesbian top.
Matagama Kiku is 4' 1” for ever and ever. Lesbian submissive.
Ryuu Akari is 5' 3" and has another few inches to grow. Sexuality is weird, switch, cosplayer.
Ryuu Yui is 6' 3” and will only grow due to circumstances beyond her control. Dyke, switch.
Ryuu Kiki is 5' 6" and is at full growth. Bisexual bottom.
Er Yin Long is the tall at 5' 10" and is fully grown. Lesbian dominant.
Ryuu Jinyuu is 5' 7" but persistently hovers an extra three inches. Straight.
Hinata-hakase is 6' 3". Sexuality is terrifying.
Hidesato is 5' 5". Straight.
Kushinada is 5' 8". Straighter.
Taisho Ryoga is 5' 9". Who knows.
Hyun Chisato is 5' 4” and is fully grown. Lolicon with plausible deniability.
Rie, just Rie, is 8” tall or 5' 5” and is fully cat. Her sexuality is cat.
Hagyu Genso is 12' 5” standing upright. He is by and large gay.
Mizumi Shoko is 7' 2” is fully grown. Bisexual top.
Yuuhi is 4'11” and is fully grown. Yuuhi a cute.
Tokei Isusangi, Inau-kun is 5' 3” and still confused.
Reiha is 5' 5 1/2” and is milfy.
Peta is 3' 2” Peta is \>.</ aka Her Most Imperial Highness Patanjali Piri Yokuhime Kuronogitsune Pa
Detective-san aka Mugon Chujo is fully grown at 5'11” and straight.
Kenji Soomi is 5' 4” and gothic lolita.
Musumi Kanako is 5' 6.5” and is pretty straight.
Hebiki Naoto is 5' 9” and belligerently omnivorous, sexually. You hope only sexually.
Kodachi Umetsume is 5' 4” and fully grown. Practicing asexual.
Melinda Blitzenberg is scattered to the winds and blessed in death.
Toshida Ginka is 5” 3” and fully grown. Turtles have a reputation.
Ryuu Wakaba is a head shorter and also deceased.
Margaret Steinhausen is gratefully dead.
Ryuu Sakumo is dead and spread far and wide.
Ryuu Nabiki is 5' 3” and fully transformed. Embarrassingly straight.
Ryuu Shinju is 4' 11” and fully grown. She is coy, maybe a dodomeki-child.
Ryuu Himeyuri is 5' 5” and is supposedly straight.
Ryuu Fuuta is 5' 6” and slightly less soft.
Kaga Kei is 5' 4” and fully grown. Might be experimental.
Kyubi-san is 6' 3” and fully grown. Hard to say.

>>1434736
>tall at 5'8

Tall? Where? In Loompaland? The Lollipop guild?

>>1434768
It's kinda tall for a female. Manlet memes don't really apply.

>>1434736
Is Ryukusa a smut quest?

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Death Among the Stars 75 is up!
>>1434391
>>1434391

>>1434856
I'm gonna assume so. I don't actually read it, I just like to make fun of the ridiculous character list I noticed

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Bounty hunter quest, aye or nay?

>>1435147
Fuck you

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Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 148 is up and live.

>>1435261

>>1423012
He might have actually died of ass cancer at this point.

>>1421536
You mean without the mc becoming a coal burner

god that triggered the fuck out of me, took me right out of the self insert and emurshuns, kills me to this day

>>1435712
>being so /pol/ you can't even imagine a fantastical universe where black people are fine, upstanding individuals worthy of romance

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Entertaining Drawquest, The Terrible Quest is now on SupTG read it for your entertainment or to catch up and hop in the game.

Although really, you can hop in without catching up. It'll be running again tomorrow. Let me know how much you hate it after just checking out two posts in a reply to this post! Or like it?

>>1435989
>a universe in which nigs don't nig
If their skin is black they're bound to attack. If they weren't agents of the devil in that fiction, then that fictions canonical god wouldn't have made them satan's choice of color.

>>1436008
(Forgot links!)

Episode 1: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1399776/

Ep 2:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1414705/

Ep 3:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1425539/

Ep 4: (In progress, continues tomorrow)
>>1434423

>>1435208
that a nay?

>>1431366
>just write them all in the same voice.

Giving every character a distinct voice without making them exaggerated or cliched can be genuinely hard. Writing advice hasn't been a thing on /qst/ for a long time it seems, if ever, but back on /tg/ this was one of the most often discussed facets of QMing,

>>1432187

I remember a guy doing something like that. It crashed pretty quick. Good luck!

>>1435147
Do you have more to show us than a picture from... Darkest Dungeons, I'm guessing? Any concrete ideas at all?

>>1436008
>>1436017
Why don't you just link to http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=terrible+quest instead? Is it for the same reason that you're trying to advertise a quest after deliberately naming it Terrible Quest?

>>1436029
Look, there's only so much useful advice that exists in the universe.

Here, in the qtg, in /qst/, we're past that. This is total useful advice scarcity in a post-advice world due to absolute useful advice entropy.

What you get in responses are just echoes of the past, remnants.
The event horizon speaks, and on your way to the center of calm armageddon it's saying only fuck you, kill yourself. Thus is world.

Speaking of Exabyte. Anyone know what they're running now? Lost them after samasara quest.

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Don't mind me, just shilling my scifi monster hunter quest. its got action, humor, and worldbuilding!

>>1436285
>>1436285

test

>>1436068
I just wanted to have a separate link for each episode!

I'm not sure the reason you think I named it terrible quest and the actual reason I named it terrible quest, are exactly the same. XD

How do we resurrect crusty and inspire languid to write again? I don't care if they go to anonkun or even fucking sb, we just need them back. I have chalk and a couple gallons of virgins blood ready to go, someone just tell me what to do.

>>1435208
>>1436104
Shitposting. Shitposting never changes.

>>1436017
>>1436372
This is the sort of stuff that should be included in your thread, not in your advertisement of it.
>>1436068
>>1436372
I think he meant linking to the search terms for your archives will simplify matters rather than having your lurkers have to follow each one.

The Terrible Quest runs in 10 minutes!

>>1434423

>>1436454
This doesn't seem terrible at all

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The sad thing is that one of the most creative posts on this board is being ignored.

>>1418429

>>1436740
Thanks! Yah, there are fun drawings and good adventure.

I don't have many players currently but I think that's due more to there being few people joining new stuff at this time of year.

Even my favorite quests are getting a lot fewer people. I think it's the end of the school year or something.

Also since I went 4 whole episodes with just two players that makes it feel harder to join for new players perhaps, like they'd have to catch up on too much, I think.

But the truth is anyone can just hop in and it's pretty easy. I try to mention that in every advertisement.

>>1436800
Psion Academy Quest is back again

Reminder that appealing to dick will always bring more success than any effort to write well.

Your choices are to die of starvation or die of cancer.

Is anyone else having problems posting on this board?

>>1436910
I was earlier, couldn't post to my own thread. Then had to go through further verification to prove I wasn't a bot, it's a 4chan problem right now

>>1436914
Not giving me extra verification steps, small posts work large posts don't.

>>1437083
I had the same thing happen to me earlier. I got the infamous 'connection error' message when I tried to post my long reply. I had to break it up into 2 posts.

>>1436910
Sup. Same problem as >>1437083
I've already canned my session today because of this horseshit, so you're definitely not alone.

>>1437083
Have you tried using the original form instead of some inline reply box?

>>1437105
....Okay, that asked me for Robot Verification and I could post after additional verification.

>>1436862
Man the publishing industry is even worse. All (most) publishers want their onboard editors to enforce a "movie-likeness" in their author's works so if they get popular they'll have a chance (not a guarantee) to get picked up and made into a movie or series or whatever.
Now, this doesn't sound so bad, as good editing techniques for dialogue and framing of settings are similar enough. The problem is they don't know where to stop the sheer ruination of something that could be just fine on its own. IE: It's really boring to read books that aren't new literature at all. Books that've been edited into dirt, soulless dry crumbs of whatever they were before. There's not even a guarantee the over-edited slop was actually anything good before, but the end product sucks enough cocky cock to ensure that if the writer had any original intent that it's fucking gone.

Shit's so crisp and primmed up you'll never ever know if it was good or if it's really just third parties trying to save face until they get "The One" that catapults their work history portfolio from just garbage to profitable garbage. And this is just one small part of the fiction publishing industry, the rest has it just as bad in their own highly specific disfavorable ways.

Also, porn is never going to become unpopular. Also, writing well is a meme. Also, people choose cancer over starvation every day by stuffing their primary facefuck port with shitty food.

Longue durée cancer!

>>1437155
Can confirm but it still asks for robot verification on every update. The quick reply still refuses to work.

>QD 10 minutes late
panic

>>1437522
PANIC

>>1430917
....stares at the clock....

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Amateur Goblin Hunter Quest is under new ownership in earnest. It is a serviceable drawquest about being small and sometimes brave.

>>1438032

Would anyone recommend the new Persona quest? Is it worth it?

>>1438085

Probably not.

>>1438085
>Persona
Lol..

Play some SMT, kid.

>>1438134
I do but how many good SMT quests are their currently?

>>1438155
Nice excuse, Personage.

>>1438170
Whatever helps you sleep at night.

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WHERE THE FUCK IS CAPS OF RAM SHITTY QUEST JIMMY BOY

>>1438203
Hopefully dead. If you want a Worm clone, go to SpaceBattles.

>>1438205
too late, I'm invested in capes of rain city.

I got 2 different versions of art of the main character out of the /tg/ drawthreads...

>>1438203
I KNOW RIGHT?

>>1438155
1 but it barely runs.

See
>>1421966

Someone give me fairly well written quests that are completed so I can get out of this slump that all my favorite quests dying along with their qms, sometimes literally, put me in. Thanks in advance

>>1438286
>Someone give me fairly well written quests
Ok sure give me a-

>that are completed
Oh. That's a bit harder.

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An update on the Paladin of Avalon is up!
https://fiction.live/stories/The-Paladin-of-Avalon/-JRvxJl3loGBg9Bo64XE/30-A-hero-should-only-be-one/XFMpzuaivwm87CH6K
We're rebels now

I like Star vs. Quest

>>1438286
Does infinite hiatus count as completion?
Banished, Hellborn, Homeless Mutant, Totemist.

If not here's some done ones:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Vedibere
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com
/archive.html?searchall=Shadow+Quest+
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=abdal
(this ones old enough to be considered as finished as could be... I'm only including it because of the players.)
Dead King's Quest is another but I can't be arsed to get it.

Each are given value of "fairly well written." Autism non-negotiable.

>>1438364
those are the exact dead quests I still haven't gotten over

>>1438346
Nobody cares about your shitty fucking fan-fiction quest.

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>>1438467
I also like Star Vs. Quest.

>>1437201
>>>/lit/

>>1438286
Hero Quest Rena
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Hero%20Quest%20Rena

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>>1438502

I still have all of the old, dank memes.

test

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What does it mean when players don't talk to each other, discuss decisions, or theories, and don't directly challenge votes or provide reasoning to shy their vote is best to try and sway others?

>>1439091
At best, it means there is a lack of controversy. At worst, it means there is a lack of enthusiasm.

Higher stakes or a wider variety of options might help.

>>1439091
>votes are different, but no discussion
it is either assumed that the QM will just take whichever ones are not mutually exclusive, or the choice is clearly about arbitrary preference and the players know it, so there's no point arguing because it will essentially be memeposting.

>votes are same, no discussion
Either it was a nobrainer "choice" and you fucked up, or you are pleasantly surprised that the players are unexpectedly united on some matter of principle.

>no theories/discussion
that can sometimes mean that it doesn't feel like there's a POINT: that even if they figure it out, the effort involved is not worth the amount of freedom you will give them to influence the future plot points. That's not to say that you should give them write-in only options, but more in how choices and player participation is framed. Write-in only is a trap that more easily encourages people to define meaningless tasks like the exact wording of "hello" and what pose you make while saying it, which takes away focus from more impactful choices.

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>Exalted Quest tomorrow
Woo

>>1439103
>How choices are framed
Can you elaborate? I know my lurkers come out of the woodwork when I have a stroke of genius with a prompt, but I actually have no idea what I'm doing.

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" It's like Steel Ball Run but way fucking worse"- Me

"I'd rather use Anonkun than play this"- Anyone who has played this

"This type of humor died in 2014"- Jesus

" Go play Star vs. Quest instead"- Me

>>1439096

>>1439216
> I actually have no idea what I'm doing.
nobody does

in a general sense, it's how the writing implies what kind of choice you're asking from the player. The clearest example I can think of is:

"I think slavery sucks, what about you?"
>I agree
>I disagree
>I think you're generalizing too much, not every slavery is chattel
>Can we focus on the slavers trying to capture us right now?

let's ignore how it's a bad choice in general. This kind of buildup implies that the players make a dialogue choice. Even if you removed the prompts and just put write-in only, they would naturally answer in dialogue form. Too much of this also implies that players mostly control how the player talks rather than acts.

>>1439297
Can't say I agree. There's nothing wrong with talking, especially when it's used to characterize and drive events forward. I get what you mean though, when the dialogue never seems to have consequences.

>>1439311
I'm not saying that dialogue itself is bad, but that writing style can frame the choice to ask for dialogue from players, whatever kind of prompt list you put in.

Just gonna shill this here.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1376174/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1411449/
Pretty good so far. Third thread is up.

So I've just gotten into making quest threads a few weeks ago. I like to think that I'm a pretty okay writer, and I try my best to make the quests fun and interesting. But it seems like a lot of people start following my quest at first, but when I have to leave and then come back to continue, I only get a single response, maybe two if I'm lucky, all evening. Am I doing something wrong? I'm not sure how to keep players coming back, or how to hook in new players when doing a quest that I've already started running.

>>1440943
Do you have a twitter for announcements and a consistent schedule?

>>1441043
No, I'm not that big of a GM just yet. I just want to know why people keep abandoning my quests

>>1440943
>Am I doing something wrong?
Yes, you're running your quest in a graveyard instead of an actually living website with a built-in notification system and a way for the players to follow QMs.

>>1441089
I'm afraid I don't understand

>>1441109
This place, /qst/, is a graveyard where 4chan's quests have been sent to die a slow death by the idiotic mods. There is no influx of fresh blood, there is no way to advertise your quest properly and get it to be seen by potential new players. All atop of the usual problems of having to set up additional means of player communication like twitter. Together, these issues have turned /qst/ into a pretty terrible place to run quests at the moment, far worse than /tg/ when they were allowed there and of course even more terrible compared to just a thematically fitting board.
The best advise to give to a new QM right now is "do not run your quest here". You will have more chances to be noticed and to build an audience on Akun. Akun is short for anonkun.com or, like it's called now due to the admin's terrible taste in domain names, fiction.live. Its format is very different from standard imageboard threads and it has some... controversial design decisions and 'features", but in general the site's a much, MUCH better place to run a quest than /qst/ is.

>>1441153
Yeah, my brother told me to look up anonkun, and so far it looks pretty intimidating, but something I could get used to. I'll probably try running a quest on there and see how it goes, work with the formatting and such. Thank you for your help, good sir.

>>1441186
No problem. The site's really not as scary as it looks, you'll get used to it in no time.
But for the love of god, please use the dark theme.
Good luck.

>>1441088
>>1441186
Well, a lack of consistent communication with players you do have makes it easy for them to abandon your quest. Twitter's just one way to make it easier to know when your QM is running or not.

Outside of knowing what quest you run and reading through it to figure out any details that may be specific to your style of GMing this is the... barest of advice. Post your quest?

For Akun make sure to flag your quest as having potential for smut, too. It doesn't actually have to have it anywhere or have the potential to have it, and you can in fact ignore the idea entirely. But having it open will bait more players in if you don't mind having players that are really only there for a sexual reward to minimum effort input. In my experience Akun is an okay place to quest but its chat leaves imageboard like conversation lacking. If you don't mind not having that kind of discussion it's a nice place to run. Fundamentally, although I have done no research upon this subject in any reputable regard, I feel you are more likely to get players there than here with the same amount of effort for the same kind of content.

And absolutely follow anon's advice of using the dark theme. Fucking please.

>>1441257
>if you don't mind having players that are really only there for a sexual reward to minimum effort input
Why in the world wouldn't he. They will derail the conversations, try to derail any choice toward the smut options, and shitpost in chat because the QM is a liar. I wouldn't even blame them.
If you don't plan to have any smut, just state as much. If you don't mind it but it's by far not the main focus of the quest, just state as much. "plotbeforesmut" is a very common tag.

>>1441292
Yes, yes, quite.
Now keep playing that quest that promises smut but never delivers.
Good, good...

>trying to read through orc warlord quest at the recommendation of a anon from here
>Starts out strong, liking it
>get about 50 threads in before getting frustrated and stopping because the quest was overtaken by smutfags who only care about getting the PC laid as much as possible

What are some good quests to read through while waiting for good QMs to come out of their slumber?

>>1441355
[shilling]Paladin of Avalon[/shilling]
But really, I genuinely consider it to be a very good quest.

Also, Promises pf Power should last you some time and it's in no risk of devolving into smut. So much so that it's become an inside joke.

>>1441355
What are your preferences?

>oh, just "good"

No.

>>1441355
Try Sleeping Gods.

>>1441355

It could be interesting if a Quest made sexual contact something to be feared. Joker had a lot of eligible girls (including at least two who were craving the dick) but the commitment involved made players flee.

>>1436910
It's not letting me post in my own thread either. I hit post and it says 100% then the red connection error. Tried restarting computer and wifi to no effect but I can post from my phone just fine on the same wifi

>>1441831
Joker Quest players are a bit of an outlier. They are a weird bunch.

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>>1440943

>but when I have to leave and then come back to continue, I only get a single response, maybe two if I'm lucky,

Did you expect people to sit around waiting all that time? I don't know which quest you're talking about so I don't know if you're guilty of this, but I've seen it as a disturbingly common symptom of /qst/ QMs that they post a new thread, sometimes an update or two, and then fuck off for several hours to continue later that day.

Now, I know that /qst/ is slow enough to make that possible, but that does not make it acceptable. If you can't find it in yourself to give enough of a shit to run a proper full-length session for your brand new quest, why should the players?

>>1441088
>No, I'm not that big of a GM just yet. I just want to know why people keep abandoning my quests

Even worse. You're not just getting abandoned by the players, you're actively shaking them off! If your schedule isn't consistent and you don't have a twitter for players to follow, how exactly DO you imagine them having any chance of catching the quest at all? They don't even know when it's going to run!

Players are actual people, and if you don't make the effort to accommodate them then they're sure as hell not going to make any efforts to follow you.

You could follow anon's advice and move to akun, but honestly? If you don't start doing the most basic things, the things so basic it's on the first page of the QTG OP pastebin that you obviously haven't cast a single glance at yet, then akun is going to shit you out as well.

Shape the fuck up.

Reminder that QMs are entitled to nothing but contempt and if you think you deserve anything else for your time you're wrong.

>>1441355
define good. You're going to need to be a bit more specific than "no smut"

>>1442096
That's 100% true.

Ages ago an anon said they loved my world.

Entirely and factually undeserved. Or perhaps love is an inherent undeserving thing, like sheer dumb luck.
I keep the screenshot to this day, as a reminder of a bygone era.

>>1442237

I'm back

>>1441831
No you see any waifu taken out to pound town would immediately have to be buried three threads later

Yui died because of that non canon smut I'm jacking that

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>>1427746
>Exaltedfag is MIA since mid april.

Kept you waiting, huh.

>>1442430
>Several sorceresses made fun of Huemac for his inability to get women who were fat enough. Huemac then had sex with them.

Wew

>>1442478
>he demanded that they provide him with women who had buttocks at least four hand-spans wide.
I can respect a man with good taste who knows what he wants.

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Chapter Master Quest is up.
>>1442668
>>1442668
>>1442668

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>QM ends a thread because no participation
>Lurkers burst out of the walls with excuses

>>1434423

Terrible Quest in 30 minoots.