/qtg/ - Quest Thread General

>>528558
Would anyone play a civ/normie quest hybrid

>>528563
Someone would, of that I am sure.

>>528558
>What do you think is your strength as a writer/QM and what is your weakness?
Strength?
None.
Weakness?
Autistic need for details and over description with a lack of meaningful description. Also a slow writer
If I don't explain what that donkey looks like in 300 words or less I'll kill myself

>Does you prefer chargen or established QMCs in the beginning of your quests? Why so?
I prefer "established" in the sense that they have likes, dislikes, skills, a past etc etc buy to the point where it can lead to further character development

I also hate characters who are more or less 100% pragmatic. It gets boring although that'd probably be on the players more than the QM

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Reminder that Hero Guardian Quest might resume on September 9th if I'm feeling up for it. Twitter is here.
>https://twitter.com/ShounenQM

It's either going to be that or some Science Fiction Quest on /tg/ with Power armor, High Frequency swords, Humanity vs Synthetics, and Xenos Houses that's basically Noble Houses similar to the ones in A Song of Ice and Fire, but in space.

Haven't settled on anything yet. Cheers.

anyone doing ASOIAF House creation? and what happen to the classic asoiaf quest?

>>528558
>QM
Strengths? Probably my combat. That seems to be what people show up for. At least I get way more archive votes on threads with combat in them.

Weaknesses? I feel like I rely too much on dialogue over description, and I can't help myself but continue that. Also, all my NPCs kind of feel the same to me. I don't know how my readers like them, but I think my writing voice doesn't have the range my reading voice does, so I kinda have to give them some little gimmick to make them different from each other.

>Player
I like doing chargen. But you assholes never vote for anything I like. Stop picking the mage option.

>Bonus
I kind of picked something I already had an interest in, so I'm not sure how to answer that

>>528585
no one really cares

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>>528600
>The Civfag thinks his opinion matters
Wew lad

>>528600
I care

>>528606
I thought you closed your quest because no one cared about it? :^)

>>528606
Aww yeah that sweet ol' awoo snark.

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>>528608
Leave it to a Civfag to be wrong.

>>528611
That's strange, I thought you and your 2 players left because of that. :^)

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>>528612
>2 players
All the previous threads beg to differ. I'm sorry, I shouldn't expect a Civfag to have read an actual quest, least of all mine. Not being able to read a lot explains your preferences.

>>528575
>>I also hate characters who are more or less 100% pragmatic. It gets boring although that'd probably be on the players more than the QM
So give them a weakness that isn't obvious. Nobody is totally devoid of emotion.

>>528615
Well I assumed that because even the shittist civ thread has more posts then your "superior" quests

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>>528617
>Implying quantity trumps quality
So you're essentially saying that having 5 irremediably broken items are better than having 1 functional item? Great talking with you, Civfag. :^)

>>528617
And the Big Bang is a popular television show, Bazoongo. Doesn't make it good.

>>528617
>counting IPs
>not consistency of playerbase
>not long term retention of readership

And this is why you are shit.

>>528622
>>528623
>what is the soviot Union during world war 2
Quantity is its own kind of quality

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>>528617
Post number =/= quality, Civfag.

>>528628
>Citing a failed state as a justification of your argument.

>>528626
>implying I'm counting IPs, not returning members
The smallest civ quest is on right now and has 5 returning posters

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>>528628
>He's comparing a "state" with Quests and Civs
You've really outdone yourself this time, Civfag.

>>528630
>failed state
>world super power
>beta the Germans with their "Quality"

>>528633
Not shitposting or memeing for a second here.

You can't really compare civs and quests by player count and post numbers.

In civs it's literally you guys just talking to each other like a chatroom until the OP shows the results of the 'turn'.

>>528635
>shitting on the soviot Union
>greatest threat the US ever faced
>trying to defend people's lack of interest in his shit quest

>>528636
>Couldn't feed it's population
>Thought supermarkets were a myth
>Collapsed in the 90s, like your pregnant mother falling down the stairs.

>>528639
So in you quests you don't discuss things? I guess you never had a player base that cared enough to debate

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>>528642
Bootyblasted vatnik detected.

>>528643
>it's actions shaped the modern world
>it could cause a nuclear holocaust if it wanted too
>not good
Choose one

>>528649
>important I'm russian

>>528645
Of course we do, but in Civs thats ALL you do. It's you talking to your faction or whatever for days on end.

Quests have prompts that get discussed and once chosen the players usually wait for the next update while occasionally chat about one thing or another.

Civs you guys have to talk constantly.

That's why I said you can't compare them via players and post count.

>>528650
>it could cause a nuclear holocaust if it wanted too
90% of your missiles would fail to launch due to going 40 years without proper maintenance.

>>528645
Most quests really don't have a lot of debate though, unless the particular choice is extremely contentious, failure is an actual possibility, or there is the threat of routelock.

Or everybody's just chatting about irrelevant shit, like what form of government a harem resembles the most, whether traps are too gay to be guys, etc.

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>>528642
>Full damage control
>Poor one at that
>Can't even argue for Civs - Only talks about a failed state
>Growing more mad with each new post
Whelp, you tried, Civfag.

>>528654
have you never been to a civ quest, it's just as much talking as you guys do, it's usally just one guy

>>528658
>you changed the topic in the first place
>it wasn't even a civ debate
>it was the fact that no one cares about your quest

>QM question
Details. It's both a strength and a weakness. I get hung up on technical details and often want to get it "just right". Tends to slow down writing and narrow down the appeal of the quest.

>Player Question
Middle ground. If a QM can pull off a chargen from scratch and still make the MC imersive, then great! But often that's not the case.

>Bonus question
Recently wrote a semi hard sci-fi quest and learn so much cool shit from the research.

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>Being this mad when people shit on civs
>Bringing up the USSR
>Actually trying to say the USSR was anything but a backwards shithole

>>528658
>>528661
Why don't you guys just share an archive link so he can read the quest for himself if he really believes in testing that assertion?

>>528660
>>522833

>One guy

Dude this a chatroom with a lot of people throwing on trips and RPing.

But if you are just going to shitpost then whatever.

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>>528661
>b-but you!
Great Friday Show, my friend! Will you be back next Friday with even more salt?

>>528665
>backwards shithole
>was fighting Germany while America was shitting around with the Great Depression caused by your ignorance

>>528667
>meme civ quest
>realistic depiction of all civ quests

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>>528673
>Goalposts
>Shifting

I just picked the one with the most posts since you implied that is indicative of quality from your earlier statements.

>>528669
>disregards my points by just saying "You Mad XDDDDDDD"
This is like comparing someone to the Nazis during a debate, you have no points

>>528670
So what you're saying is that since they were successfully inflicting casualties against a superpower (Which could be debated. most of Germany's forces were on horseback.), the USSR was a proper superpower?

I guess the Taliban is a superpower then.

>>528678
>my points
Oh, you mean the ones where you keep prattling on about the USSR like a buttblasted Civfag or where you goalpost and go back on what you previously stated? :^)

>>528678
And what, exactly, are your points? :^)

>>528683
>mentioned the USSR be visas of there focus on quantity
>moving the goal post by saying that the discussion in a meme quest isn't accurate
>try's to change the subject again
I think you are running out of good points. :^)

>>528686
>think you are running out of good points.
At least I had points to begin with, friendo.

>>528682
I think it counts when they make Germany compitulate and take the capital.

>>528686
>SRG
Now you fucked up. You've just outed yourself as one of the least intelligent players in one of the least thought-heavy civ quests here.

Is it just me or are these new /qst/ QMs way more obnoxious than the old /tg/ QMs? Maybe I'm just being blinded by nostalgia.

>>528692
They were always this obnoxious.

>>528684
He has a small quest, so no one wants his ego posts

>>528692
This

>>528692
The QMs who regularly post on /qtg/ have always been obnoxious man, and shitposting is a proud tradition of /qtg/

>>528692
The old /tg/ QMs just shitposted their discussions anomalously. Unless they wanted attention directly, which happened a lot in the old /qtg/'s.

>>528689
Considering Germany was a fucking joke to begin with, that shouldn't be surprising. I mean come on, Germany's forces steamrolled countries without proper militaries early on, but as soon as they encountered any respectable armed forces, they were almost constantly getting BTFO.

>>528691
I put this trip on yesterday and I haven't even made a choice in the civ yet. What are you talking about

>>528701
>Germany would of won if they didn't invade the USSR
>lol they shit
Listen to yourself

>>528705
Go to sleep, kid. You're a disgusting mess right now.

>>528710
>resorting to this

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>>528705
How does one win a war they never started? Unless you're talking about WWII as a whole, in which case you're mistaken. England alone could've taken Germany down. They kicked the shit out of them in Africa quite easily before the US showed up.

>>528703
>37 posts by this ID
>hasn't made a choice yet

>>528714
>England crushed them
>who is Rommel

>wanting to be informed before I start

>>528692
QMs kept their heads down more before because there were more shitstorms. Now there's nothing to stop your average egomanic running away with it because there's no community to piss off.

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>>528717
>>who is Rommel
A general who was forced to fight a campaign he knew was already lost.

Anyway, regardless of the fascinating history of various military operations in the Second World War, Civ quests are dumb, and you are the minority here in thinking they deserve any merit.

Here, have a Waffen.

>>528734
At least I tried to beat the QM circle jerk

Magical Girl For Hire Quest is running again!

>>513191
>>513191
>>513191

"The main problem of fighting against monsters is that you become the monster yourself. But that's not a problem for you, you were a monster to begin with"

The Garden of Cripples part 3, now ongoing.

>>525533

>>528558

>What do you think is your strength as a writer/QM and what is your weakness?

Strengths?
>Implying I have any.

Weaknesses?

I over-explain/over-detail every little thing in a description of a character's mood or the flow of conversation without anything really meaningful behind it. I also repeat words/expressions/phrases/euphemisms all of the time, write horribly slowly and generally have no kind of hard plan to any of my Quest's storylines.

>Bonus
I wouldn't be running a Fanfiction Quest if I didn't have an interest in the source material.

>>528558
> QM Question
I like writing characters. I like doing fun things with characters.

As for weaknesses, probably everything else.

What's up, /qst/, Starship Idols is gonna run in a half hour.

We got out Farra 92-S Rapulse, we are set for those sweet Plaso-Silicate grains

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>>520605

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IT'S A GOOD DAY TO DIE.

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>>529132

Something something about my quest

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>>528558
QM of Whirlpool Quest
>QM Question
Strengths:
- World Building (Even though my quest is a Waterworks fanventure, the quest itself takes place on a completely different location, only taking cues from the source in its art style)
- Dedication/Passion (No matter how long it'll take me, I'll at least post two updates within 24 hours)
- Gratefulness to fans (I don't know if this counts, but I cherish the 2-5 players I get)

Weaknesses:
- Tendency to rush updates (despite taking at least 30 minutes to do so)
- Sporadic updates (update rate is measured in HOURS unless I am reusing panels)
- QM Naivety (I ran with a futa MC unironically because I believed in being a good sport and I thought it was a sign of skill to work around joke inputs into pleaseant surprises)
- Poor jokes (I am not as talented as LuFa when it comes to humor)

>Player Question
Somewhere in between, a starting "preset" with room for further development as the quest goes along

>Bonus Question
My quest is a Waterworks fanventure. Every now and then I go re-read Waterworks to check out info. Sometimes I message LuFa (either on a forum or through his tumblr) to ask questions about the lore. Needless to say, I think he has to keep things generally-vague to avoid spoilers for his own MSPFA. Still, I did get my questions answered

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Shilling for Gun, Germs and Zero.

You are the collective unconscious of /his/ and you've come into a iteration of history different from the rest. As a master /his/torian, how will you affect the ultimate fate of Halkeginia, a world that is not your own?

>>521680

>>528692

Not me, I'm fucking great. It's just my quests that suck.

>>529403
Congrats on the most autistic quest premise I've ever seen

>>529466
>>529466
>>529466

Beleaguered Prince Quest is live once more.

>>529425
You apparently haven't seen that many quest premises, have you?

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Ight so what makes a good star wars quest

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>>529517
Adventure and action.

AND FUCKING DARTH FILONI CANON WOOOOOO

>>529517
A healthy dash of pseudophilosophy

>>529517
Skip the Jedi/sith academy

>>529517
If set in the Old Republic, make the Jedi morally ambiguous. They're an all-powerful monastic order that executes the will of Space EU, as an organization, I could definitely see them being less of an idealistic force of good than portrayed in most media. Especially right before and during the Clone Wars.

Also, waifus.

>>529534
>Darth Filoni

Literally, spiritually, and metaphorically who?

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>>529553
The genius who gave Anakin Skywalker the hottest piece of ass in the galaxy as a Padawan.

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>>529553
The man who is saving Star Wars as we speak.

>>529577
He's pretty based, though I wish he'd grown some balls and killed his waifu at the end of the last season of Rebels, instead of bitching out.

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>>529582
He is absolutely based. Every good thing in the old EU is canon because of him, and he planned recanonizing even more in the Clone Wars before it got canceled even the Yuuzhan Vong the madman

Also, I can understand why he'd never kill his waifu, those orange buttcheeks are not for killing.

>>529583
> Every good thing in the old EU is canon
No Rogue Squadron yet, so I dunno about that. He also hasn't recanonised the Pinook.

It was the perfect ending to her story though, and her relationship with Anakin. And that's coming from someone who thinks Ahsoka ended up one of the better characters in TCW/Rebels, though she is not my waifu

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>>529534
I can do that

>>529538
I can also just pull bull shit out my ass

>>529540
Sooooooo
>The republic is order tend to it at all costs
That sorta thing?
What waifus are we talking about famalam

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>>529592
The best kind

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>>529591
I think right now the current situation surrounding Ahsoka is still ambiguous as fuck. I do treat her as kind of dead from time to time.

Also FUCKING YOOOOOOOO EVERYTHING GOOD ABOUT THE EMPIRE IS BEING RECANONIZED

>>529592
>>529593

>What waifus are we talking about

You know what we're talking about.

>>529539
But everybody loves training days and being a young idiot last I checked

>>529592
>What waifus are we talking about famalam
As many as possible. Gotta have those waifu wars.

Also are you thinking of having your MC be a Jedi, or something more akin to a Han Solo type character? This affects both the waifus as well as how the Jedi Order is portrayed. I'll bet if Han had been an adult during the Clone Wars, he would've thought the Jedi were just as big of douches as the Trade Federation.

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>>529592
>>529595
Make way for B-est girl.

>>528558
>>QM Question
Strength: Dialogue and characterization. Do a pretty good job of getting people to react to my characters, whether like or dislike. I tend to spend a lot of time researching canon characters and trying to get their voice and mannerisms down.

Weakness: Combat. Specifically melee, just not that great at describing it, have considered taking some HEMA classes to get a better feel for it. Also, typos, repeating myself and posting time. Ah well.

>Player Question
Pregenned mostly. Just haven't really encountered a chargen from scratch that worked out to anything other than tg/qst default hero.

Small note, A Song of Revenge and Gold: House Malroy Quest returns on Sunday, 4 September. At 2PM EST on /tg/.

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>>529599
I don't know could be anywhere from random chcuklefuck #7 to mercenary mando #265 to the kidnapped apprentice of a disillusioned and crazy jedi master

I can pretty much do anything except Sith stuff maybe I'm not a good edge load "hah I backstab you now because" writer

>>529599
It doesn't really matter whether your character is a Jedi or not so long as you as an author treat Jedi and the Force with a little respect.

Don't make them all retarded dicks. Even the misguided ones should have a fairly deep understanding of the way of things, but they're conceptually skewed by their attachment/detachment to/from the material.

>>529606
>>529608
This guy gets it. The Force isn't a tool nor is it a weapon nor is it something to mess around with. The Force is a living thing, you treat it with respect, it treats you with respect too. You whip and lash it, it's going to lash out at everything like a beaten dog.

>>529608
Adding to this.

For the love of fuck don't treat Jedi like superheroes.

They're monastic empaths enlightened by spiritual awareness. Even the evil ones.

>>528558
>QM Question
I have been told I write action scenes well, but as the quest has gone on I find myself enjoying writing the more quiet character interaction scenes more, although I'm not sure if I'm all that good at them. As for my weakness, I feel like I sometimes get caught up too much in descriptions and sometimes it muddles up the details of what I'm actually describing. I've had more than one occasion where two players will read the same post and think two almost totally opposite things are happening because I went a bit over the top in how I described some big explody thing going on.

>Player Question
Always an established QMC, from both the perspective of a player and a QM. Never do chargen, it's a pain in the ass for everyone involved and only serves to give the quest just one more way to die in the first thread. Quests as a medium tend to get the best results from in medias res just to get the first batch of players involved and interested, and then get them invested further from there, but there are exceptions. I have never seen a quest that I thought actually benefited from starting off with chargen. At best it brings nothing to the table.

>Bonus Question
All of the time. I am regularly reading up on biology, astronomy, history, linguistics, various foreign cultures both living and dead, physics, both practical and theoretical, and geography, among others on occasion. The issue is that I very rarely ever have time to actually read up on a topic to my satisfaction. I just skim what wiki pages and articles I need, assemble it together into a decent package of quasi-science and mask what I don't know with relevant sounding technobabble to make whatever it is I'm working on sound at least as plausible as the rest of the things in the setting.

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>>529517
Include uglies, ships cobbled together from a number of other ships, generally used by pirates or idiots, but they positively ooze flavour and eccentricity as well as differentiating a ship from any of the major factions at a glance and I wish more Star Wars stuff included them.

I mean just look at this unholy child of a Tri-Fighter, V-19 Torrent and a Y-Wing, perfect for the late-post Clone Wars scavenger fleet with a budget.

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>>529617
>>529608
>>529616
Ight so a bunch of dudes decided that being at peace all the time is the best thing etc etc and the light side is best girl and they apply that knowledge in nonsensical, confusing, and often inane ways to outsiders?

That the gist?

>>529648
If thats the conclusion you reached you probably shouldn't run a Star Wars quest. Stick to capeshit.

>>529648
Have you not played/read/watched much Star Wars?

>>529648
That's a bit TOO simplistic IMO.

>>529652
I barely do capeshit

>>529653
>>529656
Alot was heavily into it what three years ago and eventually fell behind
That was pretty much the most basic of basic descriptions I made wasn't meant to be how it is

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>>529663
You should catch up on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Dave Filoni's Star Wars is the best Star Wars.

>>529663
Sort of this >>529666 most of the Clone Wars is certainly worth watching, and I'd recommend at least the last 4 or 5 episodes of Rebels Season 1 and all of Season 2.

>>529683
>>529666
Last of the clone wars I remember was when the clones had to deal with that incredibly shitty jedi commander with four arms. Also feel like I watched way beyond that but can't remember

As for rebels I never really gave it much of a chance beyond the first couple of eps

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>>529715
Give Rebels a chance. It gets MUCH better. And if Season 3 trailer is any indication, will get better.

>>529715
The first couple episodes of Rebels aren't very good, but it does get much better.

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The Bizarre Adventures of Victory is live!
>>529734

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>Trick went to akun

Huh?

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>>529880
I hope he enjoys a barely functioning site and an even more toxic place for players to chat in. There's a reason I haven't run there in a while.

I don't mean anything against my players during my stint there, but when I see AE's players go nuts in their chat, I don't regret not staying there.

>>529885
Who's AE?

>>529891
AzureEarth, he ran Hollow Quest Redux on /tg/ before moving to Akun to run World of Lewdness. He's a pretty cool guy.

SOMA SUCKS

>>529897
Is it worth trudging through the Jack chapters to catch up or can I safely skip them? I feel like I might be missing the point of a lewd quest but I'm really not enjoying the degree of 'anons make terrible decision because their dick told them too' that seems to really kick into overdrive around Winners Don't Do Magical Girls.

>>529943
To be frank, I only go into World of Lewdness to banter with his anons, I really don't know what the hell is going on.

>>529944
Probably the smart choice. I guess I'll give it another shot later, if I'm not feeling it might just skim the rest or drop it.

>>529943
>'anons make terrible decision because their dick told them too'
This is literally the entire MO of questers on Anonkun myself included

>>529880
I run my smut quest on akun because I try my hardest to abide by the rules of this site.

>>529968
Link?

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I want to run a quest called "The Triarchiad"

It basically is Three Kingdoms IN POST-APOCALYPTIC AMERICA.

Currently thinking of names for the characters.

Cicero Caesar (a nasty juxtaposing name) as an analogue to a certain scheming bastard.

Even I am cringing. It sounds so bizarre I don't no if it can work or not.

Thoughts?

>>530005
Luther Buster for Lu Bu
Konrad Minnow for Kongming
Luke Bay for Liu Bei

For a second there I read that as "Triachnid" and a tri-legged spider quest would be nifty

>>528692
Partly nostalgia, and I won't bash all the /qst/ QMs with the same bat any more than I'd paint all of/tg/ with the same brush. But /qst/ does seem to somehow promote a lower standard of QM behavior.

We always used names before, so posting on this board doesn't mean we're losing our anonymity at all: nearest I can figure the lack of competing non-quest content and slower speed makes some people believe that they can literally do whatever they feel like.

I think maybe /qst/ QMs have to have minimum standards for their quests so we don't have another velo, egotism and obnoxious QMs. Maybe have rules people abide by and a jury of other QMs.

>>530039
Literally fucking Sufficient Velocity-tier bullshit.

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>>530039

>>530023
I will say, it does seem like QMs here don't seem to give too much respect to experienced QMs. Hell, even I look to planefag's Quests occasionally for a bit of insight.

>>530039
How about let's not. What usually brings down an egotistical and obnoxious QM is a playerbase that understands their QM is a dick. We don't need a peer review board.

>>530039
What a shit idea

>>530039
>Maybe have rules people abide by
Questing community's always run on pretty much social rules though, same as much of 4chan

>jury of other QMs
No. Just no.

>>530053
>any QM
>deserving respect

>>530039
Some others might believe this is bait. But I for one think you are extremely genuine in your opinion and recognize the merits of your argument.

>>530068
It's still a pretty shitty idea though, you gotta admit.

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>>530053
>it does seem like QMs here don't seem to give too much respect to experienced QMs

>>530039
That's getting a bit silly, anon. Rules only matter so far as they can be enforced.

If people are genuinely put off by how certain QMs act the best thing to do is support the QMs who don't act that way. Build up participation for those threads and let the others wither and die. Eventually what you would be left with is a board where there's an unspoken understanding that successful QMs do certain things and don't do other things.

Good luck getting enough people on board with that for it to matter though.

>>530078
This idea looks sensible, I support it. At least the others don't get caught in the crossfire.

We need this because of all these /pol/ and /b/ tier threads. We need these rules to keep this board from being overun

>>530114
No, we don't. The /pol/ and /b/ stuff is just straight up regular 4chan and within the rules allowed by moderators, and most likely run by people doing it because /qst/ is either new or as a joke. With time, the quality will go back up, albeit at a slow rate.

>>530114
What we REALLY need is for a fairly old questfag to make Moderator. So if extraordinarily stupid shit happens someone can actually do something meaningful to discourage it from happening again.

Not content police, just a proverbial lawman to come down from on high every so often to remind people not to be faggots.

>>530137
How long will that take? /pol/ looks like it's here to stay. /b/ is a cancer that will keep coming back. This board will allow us to have a quality guaranteefor quests on this board

>>530145
But which one? Not everyone recognizes all the names.

>>530157
planefag would make a great moderator.
Consistent run scheduling, understands board culture, knows enough other QMs, etc.
I vote planefag for /qst/ Prime Minister.

>>530157
>instead of a board of directors, anon is lured towards a dictatorship
Welp I tried

>>530148
>How long will that take?
Literally years. About as long as it took for quality control to happen on /tg/ quests

>>530166
I second this motion.

Planefag is an experienced QM, a tried and tested thread starter.

He deserves our respect and as such he should be the mod of our community.

>>529603
wohoo

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>>530178
So I'm guessing the new Trick is the old Trick but with a tone more consistent with a smug anime girl image

>>530173
/tg/ still has that quality control too, if anyone wants to run a shitty or non fanfiction quest there it's guaranteed dead. For as much traffic as the board has shit quests die faster there than here.

>>530145
>>530157
>>530178
>>530166
Why is anon always drifting towards fascism

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>>516955
Although I have IRL stuff on my plate, quest is still alive but at a significantly-slowed update. It would be inefficient to declare a hiatus when threads last a long while.

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>>530213
Because /pol/ is cancer

>>530191

No I'm being completely sincere. I know I've had some altercations with planefag but in my desire to reform I've decided to rebuild burnt bridges.

I acknowledge Planefag's experience and quality as a QM.

He should be the mod of /qst/.

>>530213
Fascism is only as bad as your level of enforcement.

I picked planefag because he has no need for /qst/ and thus has that level of impartiality befitting a good judge of situation and the characters' of new QMs. I mean, feel free to suggest a superior candidate but I doubt you'll find one.

This thread is impressively shitty, even for /qtg/

>>530232
Power corrupts, how would this one man change anything for the better? If we don't enforce what he says, then what's the point of him

>terrible qm in charge of a terrible board
it's like poetry, it rhymes

>>530252
planefag is pure, you won't have to worry about that I assure you.
Sometimes a leader that isn't overwilling to enforce rules is the best one you can have, especially when that leader may instead lead by their example in how excellent they are to others and only enforce the rules for notably awful outliers and exceptions.

You might say power corrupts, but the opposite is also true, in that powerless leadership causes a corruption within the hearts and minds of people.

If anyone is going to be the mod of /qst/ it should be me to be honest

>>530277
Alright, what you said made no sense, but other people agree so have your fun

>>530232
Planefag goes out of his way to be an asshole, it's part of his charm. And you can't just nominate mods: they're supposed to work anonymously anyway.

No, that line of thinking begins and ends with getting SOME QM who meets the usual criteria for mod selection into the position, guaranteeing some degree of active, well-informed mod presence for the board. At least through the nebulous"trial" phase.

>>530295
Huh, maybe...

Maybe if we get a mod the trial period ends?

Quality will go up on its own via natural selection just like it was on /tg/.

You don't need this QM Overlord selection process thing.

Like fuck nigga the point of quests is just to have fun. That's all that should really matter.

Inb4
>Quests
>Fun

>>530333
People have been saying that since the board was first willed into existence in a cloud of salt.

> ITT: Anon conspires to turn the /qst/ board into the biggest Civ ever.

>>530333
Quests stopped being fun when Planefag started running them

>>530376
I'm down for a 4chan civ game, maybe /qst/ can be the plucky underdog or something.

>>530434
Pls no. I was just making a joke about anons preaching the elected mod thing, reminded me of the kind of lobbying for bizarre, nonsensical political choices you tend to see in Civ threads.

>>530441
I know.

It would still be a fun civ though

>>530454
/qst/ would be a town of writers and artists so insignificant that nobody gives a fuck about it, formed from exiles of /tg/ who got thrown out by a law that was passed on a whim by an idiot judge, and has some trade relations with the people of /tg/ who, from time to time, make vague noises about exiling everybody but nothing comes of it

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Wat.

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>>530693

>>530693
Would you like to run for the Mod Election of /qst/?

>>530693
4chan did that thing where we take a concept to its illogical conclusion.

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I was thinking of running a one-three shot Gunslinger (Dark Tower) Quest, then remembered that while there's few enough people in /qst/ during the American daytime, the number of people at night is even more sparse, and the number of people who would be interested in such a quest even smaller.

Being creative is suffering.

>>530730
Welcome to /qst/ buddy.

>>530740
Been here since it's inception. It hasn't improved from what I was afraid would happen. It's sad.

>>530730
Why not just run a gunslinger quest (don't mention Dark Tower) one-three shot on /tg/ fri-sat-sunday night? There's a decent enough pop there that you'll have a semi-good chance some may be interested in the concept, and the board is suited to threads that will only be up for one or at most two days.

Also, but this is only my experience, there appear to be more night owls EST time on /tg/ than /qst/.

>>530741
General quest quality is improving, player base numbers are still rather low unfortunately.

>>530745
You're right about the night owls hanging on /tg/. Might run it there. You have sound advice; I can suffer a week longer.

>>530746
That was my original assessment; the player base will always be fairly low, I think. Still, the fact that quality is improving gives me hope for the future.

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Dark Gate Academy is up with a new thread!
>>530786
>>530786
>>530786

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Quueesstion for QMs:

Does debate and discussion matter to you, and if it does, why?

>>530746
Speaking of quest quality. How bad of an idea is it to plan out my entire world that I would run my quest in. Areas, cities, what factions and enemies can be found there, faction leaders, etc. I've been told NOT to do this by all my friends who DM already.

It just seems like a useful thing to do so I can just let the players chose where to go and not have to worry about creating areas as I update or railroading.

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>>530812
>Does debate and discussion matter to you
Absolutely.
>and if it does, why?
Why wouldn't it? Gratification and positive reinforcement helps those that hasn't found a way to be their own motivator. If players discuss and debate between themselves about issues, choices, lore, and characters etc. in a quest, it shows said QM that his/her players care and are invested. In return, they are more inclined to continue running. Quiet players are bad players in my opinion, albeit not as bad as baiting shitters.

Just my 2 cents of course.

>>530815
You won't be able to create EVERYTHING beforehand. And the one thing you don't create is inevitably the one you will need.

Also, there is the danger of falling in love with your work or not wanting it to go to waste. Players can tell when you're inserting your favourite place/character/lore fact, and will ignore the plot hook/kill the character just to spite you.

>>530861
I know not everything is possible, but just a general framework of Faction A exist, and their HQ is located in this area, and NPC A is their leader. That way I atleast have something to go off of or change when shit happens.

Well the idea was to create a sandbox so I'm NOT inserting favorite characters, places etc. It would be up to the players to explore the world and find the stuff. I'll keep that in mind though, so I don't run into that trap.

I can't have my storyline destroyed because an important NPC died if every NPC is disposable.

People just stopped playing my quest all of a sudden. does this mean its bad? its on the first page so lots of people can see it.

>>530969
It might be a matter of timezones. Did it rate late for the people who were playing? People may have gone to bed etc. Did you railroad the fuck out of them and ignore their votes etc? Did you constantly ask for write-ins with no other options available?

Which quest was it?

>>530972
Did it run late*

>>530969
It depends. There are a lot of potential reasons. How long d'ya wait until you decided it's not played?

Link it, maybe?

>>530974
people started playing again after I posted this its weird but if you want a link here
>>529604

>>530982
I don't even know where to begin. Handing this one off to >>530973, git to it other anon.

>>528558
I have announced the news that the first movie crashing quest is on hiatus, so if you want to host a Movie Crashing Quest on “The End of Evangelion” or some other movie that you like to crash, you can!

Thread Post Here: >>530994

>>530993
Uuuuhh.... no thanks. Ugh fine

>>530982

>>plz play my quest its my first one...

I immediately stopped reading there and judged it not worth my time. Fuck it, I'll do a quick look and summary. Firstly though, don't ever beg, don't beg for players, don't beg for participation etc etc. It just doesn't come off well.

Ok so I might be bias here, this isn't the type of quest I would ever give a second glance to. That's just me, it's not my style. The real problem that I can see though is that is lacks any motivation or drive to play.

Who are we? Why should I be invested in the character? You've got the absolute barest skeleton of a premise or story so it makes it difficult to get into it. The MC has literally no description or characterization.

>>You wake up in a dark, cold room mad of stone.

That opener seems really low effort and low content. You've done the bare minimum in describing the world or the atmosphere. You don't really describe anything beyond the most basic details. You don't seem to attempt to create any feelings. Am I scared, shocked, hungry, paranoid, tired, sore? Is the bomb big, red, blinking, spouting wires, marked with a skull? Is the room dusty, dank, are there rats scurrying about, perhaps bones? Or is it all meticulously clean, industrial and military like? Perhaps a single yellow stripe at waist height along every wall? Heavy steel doors at each entrance, do they creak or open silently?

So basically:

Lack of story elements
Lack of characterization
Lack of atmosphere
Lack of descriptions of any kind

Oh and you went to bed like an hour after starting the quest? I realise that this is a slow board but that is a no-no. You quest will never take off if you aren't there in the beginning. Set some time aside, a good chunk of time that you can run mostly uninterrupted.

Anyway, that's my take on it.

>>531014
Oh and this shit

>>The rat drops a bottle with red liquid in it. It might be a heath potion

Don't be so obvious with shit. Let the players decide if it's worth the risk of trying out the potion. Why tell them straight up it's a health potion?

>>531014
>>You wake up in a dark, cold room mad of stone.
>That opener seems really low effort and low content
Given it's the default opening for people who don't know what they're doing, it's not in the least bit surprising.

I could rant all day about 'you wake up in a cell wat do?' because I've seen so many of them, but that would be more effort than any of these so called QMs are actually prepared to put in so I won't.

>>531018
Because it's not a story, it's a shitty boring roguelike without the zaniness that those generally entail

>>531025
I suppose, I just don't see the value in being so on the nose with stuff like that. Then again, this is an QM with literally no experience running a quest with no forethought or planning whatsoever so it's not surprising.

>>530982
If you are still about and reading all this, I suggest taking the time to actually read some popular quest and see how and why those quests do well. Try to learn from their mistakes etc etc.

>>531018
I said it might be a heath potion to give them doubt it might not. I was planning on it being a harm potion and having them accidentally hurt themselves but I can't do that now cause i just said it here.

>>531014
I said how big it was in a response to someones reply I said it was the size of a baseball if you had bothered to read that!

>>531034
Ok my mistake but generally speaking if you intentionally mislead your players like that they will have a shitfit. It's better to leave it vague and simply give them the option to try it and find out what it does.

E.g. You find a small glass bottle containing a strange red liquid. Unsure of what it does, or how it may affect you, you briefly consider taking a sip.

>>Try the potion, who knows what benefits it has!
>> Don't try the potion, it could poison me and leave me weak!

>>531039
I was giving a general overview of the sort of things you should establish in your posts. Things that you should try to do before the players ask about them. Obviously the players will always ask about things you haven't considered, that's the nature of these games but try to be more descriptive.

>>531034
Alright. Let's pretend you went with that original idea.

Let's talk about Agency and the QM-Player trust paradigm of information conservation and latency-to-play effects.

Let us presume the quest goes on for a while. Your players have been given, by all rights, the idea that what they have is a health potion or potentially so, and so they're not going to try it yet.

They're going to wait until they're already injured- and what's more than that maybe some will question why the harm potion existed in the first place, which leads to the QM moreso than where they got it as a character. This is because the characters internalization of the potion is "it might be a health potion," and that only sounds like a vague conclusion to the most paranoid readers, there is no trick to figure out and being misleading in this way does not establish the kind of trust (in logical or almost logical conclusions) players expect.
IE, you're trying to pull a fast one but there's nothing in the world to support your smooth move, from the player perspective later on of taking the health potion it will look like railroady fiat.

>>531021
I'm tempted to cobble together some high effort quest openers or things close to that as examples but that too takes good effort. And then there are a lot of quests with absolutely shit-tier openers that make me question how the hell they survived as long as they did and continued running.

Not that anyone would be interested in that sort of thing, right?

>>531052
It would be a harm potion because you could throw it at ememies to harm them. I'm really sorry my quest is bad and that I got so salty I was just really excited to make a quest that people played.

>>531052
Not that anyone would be interested in that sort of thing, right?

As much as I like the idea I feel like you'd be fucking yourself. I can imagine a bunch of people taking the quest openers, creating these threads that provide high expectations and then default back to super basic inexperienced stuff like OP-friend above us.

You could use a couple to point out WHY they are good openers though. Do a bit of a deconstruction of a quality opener.


>>531055
It's all good, you just lack experience. I get the excitement of running a quest and the disappointment of things not going well. It can suck. As I said earlier, read some popular quests in the style that you like and try to learn from them. Learn the good, learn the bad. See how they interact with the players and feed them information in certain ways and not others.

Listen to >>531052 as well because his advice is on point

>>531052
I put it as "it might be a health potion" instead of "its a health potion" because I wanted it to sound like the characters thoughts

Is /qst/ the new /tg/

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>>531072

>>531059
desu I only really go on /r9k/ and I only go on /qst/ once in a blue moon

>>531077
>/r9k/

Besides that, go to suptg and read the archived quests there. Look for something you're interested in, then read a quest about that. Fanfic quests, tacticool operations, space opera, idols, whatever, just find a quest about something you like and read it. Then read more, because reading what's been done before is part of getting good, same way that you can't be a good writer without reading books.

>>531055
>It would be a harm potion because you could throw it at ememies to harm them.

That is an end result, and though you have it in mind the world has to support it prior to that result if you want the players to make use of it that way, and similarly if you'd want to trick them. You mention here >>531060 that the question is the characters' internalization, but that doesn't meet any criteria or imply a further question, or even a reduction of as much.

There are some big exceptions, plot related and character insight related, or things they shouldn't know about the world at whatever stage they're at, but for this, if you really wanted to trick the players allow them an opportunity to test the potion. If they can't think of anything or say it's not worth their time then what happens after is on them. If done cleanly, it would not be a write-in but several in-character questions similar to what's been suggested upthread within the same prompt the character questions the uses of the potion.

And should they elect towards a cautionary test of something simple, like a drop on the ground and it sizzles acridly upon the stonework, or they smell it and the solution has a terrible non-medicinal stench or sickly odor, etcetera.
These can be small touches which communicate the idea of a harmful purpose, and the opposite for a healing purpose. Of course these are not direct tells, they'd have to elect caution in the first place and test something with an exercise of agency you've prompted. Hopefully, that too is put in the characters mindset, which you should know very well.

If you want more info regarding that feel free to read my collective essays titled; "How to Trick Your Players, QM! The five essentials to narrative fuckery, sincerely Anonymous." I just finished adding the "Waifus: Keep their noses to the rails," as an amended section, too. It's a worthy read, I promise.

>>531059
I mean, it wouldn't be all that different than the advice in the pastebins, just a teensy bit more direct.
And oh boy I know just the openers too.

>>531072
>>531077
Far from it, friend. Far, far from it.

Magical Girl For Hire Quest will be running shortly!

>>513191
>>513191
>>513191

(Also I read the old qtg thread and JUST noticed someone asking to review my quest. I'm honored, but at the same time I don't think it's really 'worthy'? Like, there's undoubtedly an assload about it folks could find wrong/bad, but I'm fairly happy with how it's going so far, minus a couple of improvements I'm trying to make.)

>>531060
Right, one small thing. The clarity between a characters guesswork and the reality as-is that they've found themselves in is entirely up to the QM, and players tend to be smart enough to figure out if you've jipped them in that department. Usually.

>>531105
>Usually.
Meant to say
>*Sometimes.

>>531106
I don't think I have it in me to be able to continue my quest. Its so bad i'm so bad I wish I could go back and never make it I don't think i'll ever make a quest again ;-;

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>>531111
It's alright to drop a quest you don't like or don't have fun with, but that doesn't mean you should give up.

I believe, I believe in you kouhai, you can become a good QM, anon!
Don't give up, no matter what!
I believe in you soaring to your dreams!
Just remember, nobody’s ever accomplished anything simply by wanting.

Now excuse me while I iodine this taste out of my mouth.

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>>528583

Come play BioArmor Quest with us. We're fighting a tornado and other weird things.

>This thread

Man, how did bitching about civ quests and IP power levels turn into WW2 discussion?

qst i have a problem. I want to run a bionicle quest and explore the Mata Nui jungle as a biomechanical element warrior, but I also want to write cute girls. which toa do I genderswap?

>>531137
>which toa do I genderswap?
All of them, obviously.

>>531137
>which
All of them, why is that even a question? If they're not all girls there's something wrong with you.

>>531060
Okay, here's some general advice for you.

Firstly, figure out how you want to present information.
Are you an impartial narrator? Present things as fact.
Are you the MCs thoughts? Present things subjectively, from a first person perspective and frequently reference how they/you feel about things.
Are you an impartial narrator? Make it clear by using snark, or admitting to lying about things, or by blatantly changing story elements - DO NOT DO THIS UNTIL YOU'RE REALLY GOOD.

Secondly, decide what kind of world you're trying to build. Think about the kind of things you want to put in it.
Now you're going to think about the kind of language that people use in certain genres, there is a difference in vocabulary between fantasy and sci fi. This'll help to ease your players into the right frame of mind.
Now think about ways that you can reveal elements of the setting to players in a time-efficient context. Is there electricity? Have a sparking lightbulb in your dungeon. Magic? Glowing fungus or a pixie lantern. They found a knife? Is it a military style KaBar? Is it a crude rusting shank? Does it have a golden inlay on the hilt? Details like this will reveal to them what kind of place they're in.

Thirdly, draft your opening postS. The S is capitalised because ideally you should have two.
Why two? Because you want to convey the kind of story that you're going to write and you'll want a decent amount of material to highlight what sort of tone you'll be using and whether it'll be narrative heavy, descriptive or action packed.
Make your opening posts a decent length. You have all the time in the world to work on them, and they're the only thing that will sell your quest to players at the beginning.

Fourth - Content. If players are going to feel emotionally involved enough to participate you need a hook for the quest.
This can be;
>a mystery to solve
>a goal to accomplish
>an enemy to defeat
>a problem to overcome
It doesn't have to last longer than the first thread, but you REALLY need something for them to do. Exploration doesn't count since the character will naturally do that in the course of the story.

Fifth - system. Decide if you're making inventory an important part of the quest. Keep a running tab of it if you are.
Decide how much of a combat focus you want, and what level of complexity you want to have for it.
The more action in your quest, the more mechanically complex your fights should be. If it's the main draw, you want your players to make more complicated decisions than rolling a D20.

Sixth - How will you give advance notice of things that will happen next? Going into a different area? Give some foreshadowing of what to expect.
If there's a fight ahead, say that the corridor narrows and you can hear savage grunts.
If there's a platforming section say that the stone tiles of the floor give way to worm-riddled wooden beams which creak underfoot. Have the PC shift his footing to balance better.

>>531152
Seven - payoff. Decide how often you want to reward your players. When do good things happen? When do bad things happen?

Most importantly - why are they being rewarded? Good decisions > good rolls.

Eight - rapport. This doesn't necessarily involve chatting to your players. Find things that they like, isolate the elements that make them like it and build it into your story more.
Do they think your orcs have funny dialogue? Have them as a regularly recurring enemy.
Do they like your character interactions? Set aside a certain number of posts each thread for inter-character dialogue.
Are they invested in your descriptions? Think of ways to make each new area unique and worldbuild quirky features into your buildings.

This is about finding things that make your quest distinct and your players happy. The more distinct and recognisable your quest is, the more of a brand you have and the more players you'll get.

Nine - Character. The development of the main character should be a constant focus of any story.
As they become more experienced, they should draw upon a new depth of experiences, get greater understanding of the world and become more emotionally complex. Don't be afraid to build scenarios that will emotionally test the MC, and don't restrict them to a certain path of range of emotions.
Players can learn to love a troubled or cowardly protagonist as much as a courageous or straightforward one, it's about the way you present the character.
Offer scenes that help your players to identify with the kind of person that your protagonist is. You don't need full flashbacks to give your character memories, stuff like scents or spoken phrases can remind them of their past. If they're a kind person have them help an old lady or get drawn into playing with a child as they explore a town. If they're a bad person have people start trouble with them so they can get into fights.

>>531141
>>531142
um. doesnt that seem a bit excessive?

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>>531152
I have a original idea for a quest!

It could be a watamote quest where you play as tomoko and try to make friends!

>>531162
Quests: Go Big or Get Forgotten.
Simple choice, anon. Make the right choice.

>>531160
Tenth - high concepts. This is the chance for you to add recurring themes or metaconcepts to your quest.
Most QMs don't do this, but it's a great way to create narrative depth.

Explore philosophical questions, or focus on certain emotions and decide if they're harmful or positive. Does fighting with monsters make you a monster too?
What makes a hero? Is it his strength or the content of his character?
Is love even something real? How do people treat each other and is it right for them to act that way? Contrast familial, platonic and romantic love.
Consistently link colours to emotions, or smells to people or powers to mental states, it'll add emotion to the piece.

You don't need to address any of these directly, but you can weave them into your writing as recurring plot points that challenge the way that the MC and the players approach the world.

>>531164
could you make a non-anime version of that?

>>531170
I don't watch the watamote anime I just read the mange I only chose that picture because it looked good

>>531164
Okay, what kind of characters do you want to use?
What's your projected character arc for Tomoko? Success? Failure? Depression and suicide? A happy highschool life? Whoring herself out to faceless men?

How do you want to build success in? Little triumphs like getting someones number or talking to a stranger?

How will you prevent your players from simply voting 'fuck it, ask them to be friends'.

And finally, how will you make your main character relatable?

>>531162
>>531165
>not genderbending all but the self-insert MC
Step it up sempai.

>>531176
Now, that is a great idea.

>>531176
ITS ALL TOO CONFUSING!

>>531180
Work on it a little at a time. Remember, you are writing a story, not a videogame.

>>531176
>how will you make your main character relatable?

I'd think Tomoko would be automatically and immediately relatable to 4chan crowd.

>>531188
>I'd think Tomoko would be automatically and immediately relatable to 4chan crowd.
It's still a good idea to reference things that Anons may have common ground with, like common socially awkward scenarios 'You too' or being afraid to talk to pretty girls (Tomoko is fairly les) or through depression or laziness (being unwilling to leave the house or wanting to do something but not ever getting around to it.

People will recognize the character of Tomoko but you should really make a bit more effort than that.

Our mining trip on Vul-A was a relative success.

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>>531111
Good news. Failing at something and then doing it again but better is one of the fastest methods of learning if people point out where you were going wrong.

Why does akun get so many more players? The quests are generally worse or of similar quality to quests here.

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>>531230
Because sex sells anon

>>531233
This

Still regret the day I sold my dignity twice

>>531230
Over the years it's managed to build up a large community of regulars.

/qst/ is a board nobody wanted so it has a lower turnover than /tg/.

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>>528558
I have opened a new Movie Crashing Quest thread, but this time, it's for the second quest.

In this quest, as requested by an Anonymous player on the first part of the Wreck-It Ralph Quest, we are going to crash the anime film that was The End of Evangelion.

If you want to join the game or sign up as a GM, go to this thread here: >>531225

>>529517
I've been on a Star Wars kick recently. I think I'd like something that sidesteps the Force stuff and goes into the grittier stuff like bounty hunters and fighter squadron.

Sense I learned Rouge One isn't actually going to be a Rouge Squadron movie I'd kill for a quest where you play as a fighter squadron.

Also, how about a Trade Federation Quest? Defeat the Republic and stop Palpatine's plans. Expose the Republic for the corrupt and incompetent fools they are and win independence from their rule.

>>529574
Damn it. I generally hate prequel stuff but I can't deny I like Ahsoka. Between her and Shaak Ti I have to ask why are Togruta so based?

>>529577
What does this explosion mean?

>>529582
That's a shame he chickened out. The best end would have been her dying at Vader's hands.

>>529583
>Everything good in the EU

Where's my Thrawn?

>>529616
Sounds sort of like the Hermetic tradition's framing of magic.

>>529617
>>529648
Go watch the Yoda scenes from Empire and Return. That's how you do it. Ignore prequel shit.

Don't make them holy than thou dicks with the personalities of people on ambian. Don't make them ascetic monks. Make them people that listen to the heart of the universe and find truth and beauty in it.

And for the love of god don't fetishize the light saber. Yoda never had one. Yoda never needed one.

>>529718
I think I might give the CG cartoons a chance after hearing it hyped up here so much.

Please don't hurt me.

>>529968
Trick, if I can get away with Mechagirl Pit Fighter quest you can get away with ANYTHING.

>>530005
>California falling in with the Northwest

>Hawaii not defaulting to an Asian power

>Alaska apart of the Northwest power

>Midwest not being gang raped by the other factions for being the place with all the food.

>Northeast not raping the south like its the Civil War because of its industry hubs

You got some explaining to do Anon!

>>530039
>QMs should have minimum standards
Good idea. We should all work to raise the bar.

>Rules and a jury of other QMs
Bad idea. This system would become corrupt so damn fast.

>>530046
>Google Sufficient Velocity

>"Why are there so many Worm fanfics on sufficient velocity?"

>Spacebattles Wiki entry

>Sufficient Velocity Members in Naruto Roleplay TV Tropes page

Oh dear Jesus, what fresh hell is this?

>>530053
Who is an "experienced QM" worthy of "respect?"

I dare you to answer.

>>530067
This. We're all sad losers who write sub paperback tier stories for attention on the internet version of the Mos Eisley Cantina.

>>530068
Trick Neo you continue to be...very tricky. I'm having a hard time getting a read on you.

>>530114
And what exactly will these rules be?

>>530145
Who would this sheriff be and what exactly would you want them to do? Be specific, not vague.

>>530192
>Non fanfiction

My Ghoul school stuff is basically fanfiction in name only. And Mechagirl had like 30 IPs last night.

>>531253
>Where's my Thrawn?
Season 3 of Star Wars Rebels.

>>531253
>Don't make them ascetic monks
That's kind of what Yoda and Ben were. Yoda lived in a swamp and ate shit and there was no indication he was hiding from anything.

Ben lived in the middle of the desert and saw nobody except when he went into Mos Eisely to buy some Rodian ass.

Can anyone recommend a quest for me? i'm board and wanna play a quest but get bored looking for one. I wanted to play darkworld academy but I wasn't there for the beginning.

>>531271
What are you looking for exactly? Action, mystery, medieval fantasy, urban fantasy, sci-fi, tacticool shit, we need to narrow it down anon.

>>530213
Because Trump-kun is a hot meme fright now. Anon is hot and bothered by thoughts of big strong authority figures telling them what to do.

>>530252
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>>530305
What do you want the sheriff to do? Be specific.

>>530693
You and me both wolf-girl. You and me both.

>>530812
Very much so. I love it when my anons are really involved what's going on.

>>530815
Your anons will surprise you. Make plans, but always remember to be flexible.

>>531048
Oh great, now I'm having bad Nethack flashbacks.

>>531137
Wasn't one of them already a girl?

>>531164
They told me the anime was a comedy...fucking Johnny Got His Gun made me less depressed than Watamote.

>>531256
I am suddenly very, very interested in cartoon Star Wars.

>>531260
I got more a sense that they were in hiding then anything. I thought it was implied they were enemies of the Empire or at the very least not neutral to them.

>>531271
Sayyyyyyyyy buddy come on down to BioArmor Quest to get your fill of Slan meets Kikaider meets Guyver action!
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>>531271
I've been enjoying this quest tonight, it's pretty new so there isn't a whole lot of catching up to do:

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>>531286
>I got more a sense that they were in hiding then anything. I thought it was implied they were enemies of the Empire or at the very least not neutral to them.
Yes, but they lived very simply. Both of them had shitty robes and zero material possessions.

>>531253
>>531286
>responding to basically everything in the thread ages after it's relevant
Can you just fuck off or something?

>>531290
Well you got me there. Luke never seemed to go full on ascetic though. But I can see your point.

>>528558
Does anyone want to host the movie crashing quest on The End of Evangelion? >>531225

>Diarca and Sylvetican being drama queens about /qst/ instead of improving it with their quests
I used to think they were cool guys.
I still think they're probably the same person

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>>531489
Why would you start a thread and then expect someone else to QM it?

Can someone review Tuffle Quest? I would do it, but I kinda have biased views on it from being invested in it so long.

Hey, i've not been questing since /qst/ opened, did it gut the community like predicted or was the move a good thing?

>>531560
It's more or less business as usual. We got people still running on /tg/, /qst/ is slow as fuck with a relatively tiny playerbase, and the board is more or less in a state of limbo about its trial status

>>531560
It created a place where slow-paced quests can be run more easily. I wouldn't say it gutted the community, just made it... Different, I guess?

>>531560
Bit of column A a bit of column B.
It didn't end up as bad as the worst case scenario that was predicted, just the moderate predictions for the most part.

>>531560
Player count is way down. The only worthwhile /qst/-original quest is northern beasts quest even though it's almost completely on rails.

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>>531605
>The only worthwhile /qst/-original quest is northern beasts

>>531543
Got a link?

What's a Tuffle by the way?

>>531614
Well yeah. Obviously that's just an opinion. What /qst/ quests do you like?

>>531624
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Tuffle
A Tuffle is kinda like a space hobbit, they all got genocided by the Saiyans of King Vegeta during a full moon that lasted a few weeks.

>>531629
Peter Titmouse, Starship Idols, Hitmaid, UnDead Quest, and Pilot Quest, to name a few.

>>531530
I'd believe it.

>>531629
Does the new Three Kingdoms count as original?

There's also Hero Guardian (indefinite hiatus) and Dark Gate Academy.

>>531543
Decent/Above Average fanfic quest that sports probably the most childish, immature playerbase I have personally seen. Though it's mostly a few, very very vocal, bad eggs.

>>531702
>>531637
It's Dragon Ball Z?

>>531717
Yup.

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>>531689
>Hero Guardian (indefinite hiatus)
>indefinite hiatus
>>528585

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Any draw quests going on right now? What are you guys following? What do you think of draw quests in general? I know about Peter Titmouse, anything else?

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>>531763
Whirlpool Quest, updates glacially though

Also following Titmouse along with any other drawquests I see. And I like drawquests, I think they're nifty.

>>531763
unDead Quest has some pretty nice artwork, and the QM updates surprisingly quickly when active.

>>531735
Glad to see you haven't quit. I really want to see where your quest ends up.

>>531334
I'm sorry anon. Please don't send me to the salt mines.

>>531763
Homeward is a drawquest, technically.

>>531763
While not active for now. Audit Quest is a must read. Funny, great debate and legitamately entertaining. A thread runs sporadically because Larro is juggling quests. But its well worth your time.

>>531689
I will also sound support for DGA and Hero Guardian, but be forewarned that they are anime quests in style. Original content, but if anime quests aren't your thing. Consider seeking other quests.

>>531763

Mine is going on right now. But it's pretty shitty though...

>>531890
Which one? Can't be worse than mine.

>>531894

it's called "Not so Glorious Quest"

Should someone writing a Nazi quest first write a legal disclaimer just to be safe?

>>531908
>pretty shitty
You're underselling yourself, your stuff looks pretty amazing.

>>531918
Depends on the tone

>>531908
Dude, I like your stuff.

>>531919
>Depends on the tone
To be honest, the tone will vary depending on how fanatical the players choose to be and how much they indulge the NPCs

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I'm thinking of running a playthrough of King of Dragon Pass as a quest. I figure this would be the best place for that kind of thing, but I want to get some opinions on the decision before making the attempt.

What does the /qtg/ think?

>>531890
>"pretty shitty though..."

NIGGA, YOU INSULTING MY TASTES.

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Review your favourite quest!

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Pilot quest is running again! Stop buy for more fighter jet action!

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>>532067
YES. I'd love something like this!

>>531722
That explains the player base. DBZ are usually chill Black guys or obsessive compulsives.

>>531918
>>532023
No disclaimer. It would just make you look weak. Remember this is 4chan. Half your players would be GAS KIKES NOW and the other half will post holocaust denial disinfo.

If you could make the two sides fight however your quest will be epic.

>>532145
I was going to do it on Akun, but maybe I'll take your advice

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>>532110

>>532145
If you're reviewing Tuffle Quest, would it be one big review, or a review of the first ten chapters?

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>>532110
An attempt was made.

>>532145
>>532197

Quest here.

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>>532067
Do you mean a Glorantha quest set in Sartar or a KoDP playthough using /qst/'s choices like the Runic Men?

I'm okay with both but would prefer the first one.

>>532203
The second thing.

How do I stop myself from writing hugely meandering prose that goes nowhere and wastes loads of time for little payoff?

It seems like I can't stop myself from writing garbage poorly written dialog when I should be skipping straight to the action.

I have a bad habit of reading quests but not voting in them or anything.

>>532297
That's kinda shitty anon, pretty much every quest needs more voters

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>>532297
People like you are the reason good quests die.

>>532297
I try to always vote unless

>1. I don't have the context to make an informed vote for some reason

>2. The prompt I want is being chosen already by 5+ other players and there is no real contention. If it's less than 5 I vote cause QM needs to see people are still alive.

>3. It's an exposition vote where honestly we are supposed to choose everything to get the exposition.

>>531530
Their writing isn't all that similar.

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>>532297
That's not very nice thing.

So if you could, at a certain point in your quest, grant only the participating players up to that point the right to vote in the quest, and everyone else would have to lurk, would quests become better or worse?

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>>531919

Thanks! But I do have a lot of faults to overcome to be amazing.

>>531951

Thanks! I appreciate it!

>>532078

I'm afraid I have some bad news... ;-) (but thanks for supporting me!)