/qtg/ - Quest Thread General

Why do we even bother with male characters when there's enough art out there to fill the entire cast with waifus?

Cosmic sucks!!!!!!!!

>>836283
>Player question
I don't shitpost during character creation.
I save that for other parts of the quest.
>>836293
Would that make waifu wars worse or better?

Threadly reminder: Sandact6 is the QM responsible for getting quests banned from /tg/. That is all.

>>836300
More frequent, at least.

>How can character generation be done well?
By not letting the players participate

>>836303
How so?

>questions
Character creation? Psh, who has the patience for that?

>>836306
>By not letting players participate
I can agree with this.
Even if the QM does it well people might still bitch or leave.
>More frequent waifu wars
That'd be entertaining for me at least.

>>836303
ebin meme forcing, bruh

Dead board

>>836320
I think the issue is that for a well-written character the illusion of player choice doesn't work out. If you invest the time and effort into clarifying your MC's love for the woman of his dreams or something it just doesn't make sense that the players have the option to go do unrelated shit instead.

Good quests probably require shit MCs so that the player can feel in control, rather than having to consider a more complex character's feeling.

>>836293
Because Anon wants to live out a power sex money fantasy and the best way to do that is with a male, 17-25 year old main character they can easily insert their mindset into.

Where have you been all this time?

>>836361
Masturbating to the thought of fucking my harem of magical girls, how bout you?

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Mecha Space Pirate is Live
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>>836283
>How can character generation be done well

We're making characters for the third game of Slasher Quest. Its going pretty well. We create Survivors by combining a QM or Quest character with a slasher movie archetype.

Well so far so good with the first day of my surprise quest >>835372

Since it is a mystery I have a basic story planned out, but I was wondering how flexible should that story be? I don't want to railroad, but if I let it get too out of hand then the mystery might not be solvable.

>>832213

Mission 9 of Alchemical Blade Quest has commenced!

>>836283
>QM question
honest question: are you seriously asking? Because the player question implies otherwise.

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>>834487
I'd probably be down for that

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>>836283
>QM Question
Easy. Build it into the narrative, try not to do it all at once, introduce the setting as you generate the character. And take controversial votes like gender and bundle them with slightly less controversial shit like age, random backstory, name, or a less important physical quality.

>Player Question
Because my tears taste nice.

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>>836283
>How can character generation be done well?
By not doing this.

Anyone else notice that 4chan's money troubles started not too long after this board was made? Money troubles that have been blamed on having too many boards to support?

/qst/ is so cancerous that it's killing the entire fucking site. Congrats to everyone who thought it was a good idea.

>>836283
>Player Question
Because the chargen is usually just picking the character's physical looks and/or backgrounds. It's a terribly boring way to start something off.
I honestly don't give a shit if the character's got a rack or not, or if their hair's brown or black, and the background should be told in the story instead, not chosen beforehand.

The most controversial choice, character gender, would only ever really matter in romance, but even then that doesn't matter, because /qst/ will choose to woo women 90% of the time.

>>837316
This pretty much explains it.

So many of those options look like they would've made interesting points to start the story at. Why do we have to pick what we did at the Church of Konig or with the cleric-apprentices of Mazon? Why can't we play through those moments instead and choose that way, know what I mean?

I also looked up Paladin of Joy in suptg

>He made them choose the character's breast size

>>837337
Or Hiro may be lying, and considering his track record, that is far more likely.

>>836527
How important is it that the mystery be solved?

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>>836283
How does one save threads to suptg from yuki.la
After a busy few months , I want to pick up from an unfinished quest since I have free time now.

>>836283
>QM Questions:
How can character generation be done well?
I don't think there is a right way to do it. What i do is mostly giving the character a five line motive to be alive. To lower characters i give two or three lines of motivation. If you give a reason for a character to exist and the player wants to play such character that way. Then, in my opinion, is a success

>Player Question

I don't do it. I am fully aware that, the majority vote will always win over what ever decision i think it's best. And it's like selecting eandom on character creation making the players focus more on playing the character as he is then a anon inserting a self in the quest.

>>836300
HPQ. Never forget.

>>837435
Store it all in a pastebin of Yuki links.

>>837452
thanks

>>836283
>QM Question
By not giving players a choice.

>>837404
It's a Danganronpa quest, so I think it's extremely important.

>>837435
What quest?

>>836283
>Player Question
I rarely do.

But when I do, it's to help the QM try to redeem themselves. Character creation is almost always a mistake. Even when it goes well, it still usually has the effect of taunting players with something they won't get before you've given them any reason to stick with your quest. It's anti-advertising. So if the QM can either splendidly roll with and semi-direct the shitposting, or set their foot down without spazzing out, then they've at least shown _something_ to give confidence in their ability to run the quest.

>>837647
People say good character generation is something that flows with the narrative introduction, but even in that sense if the choices themselves are strong or genuinely different people will still be shown things that they won't be getting for their own characters, though they will know its part of the setting. Ala powers, upbringing details, family matters or profession specialization and so on.
Yet examples of this being done right have never been provided upon asking.

Frankly, I don't think it exists. This is just some imagined thing that does not happen, a novel idea. There's no right way to start a quest because players are always inherently uninformed ignorants and all strong char-gen akin choices are by default anti-advertising.

>>837669
Unless you're talking about an established setting, as in fanfic tier shit.

If I make World of Darkness Quest and then give you a list of vampire clans, you know what the fuck a malkavian is.

>>837677
I almost included the detail that none of this shit applies to fanfiction quests with a stable knowledge base and that's why they're the superior form of questing but I didn't want it to get dismissed as shitposting.

>>837679
I mean you could also expand that to anyone who is genre savvy when it comes to certain obvious quests that fit a genre, which is why naming sources of inspiration or the feel your quest is going for in the first post can be helpful.

If i tell you the quest is going to be like a space opera, then when you suggest being a rogue space pilot, people sort of know what they're talking about.

So, y'know, if you conduct your quest like an tabletop rpg shit will just work out most of the time.

>>837669
>There's no right way to start a quest because players are always inherently uninformed ignorants and all strong char-gen akin choices are by default anti-advertising.
I disagree, there's nothing wrong with simply forgoing character gen altogether. There's nothing wrong with starting a quest with a solid idea for who the protagonist is, as far as background and physical attributes and such are concerned. It's not going to turn people away any more than the setting is going to turn people away.

Imagine a quest where we get a little bit of intro about the world, but it mostly boils down to be a high fantasy setting taking place at an academy, with the PC being a student. And then players are given choices on gender, background, course focus, and so on. With that sort of setup, at that point of time the character will matter more to many players than the rest of the quest, because the rest of the quest is currently just a container for a story that has yet to begin.

So players wanting a budding male alchemist of humble origins trying to learn his trade to fill a need back in his home town, might not care for playing a noble girl learning magic to fulfill her birthright. And vice versa. Even though this just one piece of the setup to the actual story, at this point we don't have that story, we just have a bit of setting and the potential PC, and the latter stands out more. So you get a segment of players who didn't get what they want, and that hurts their motivation to continue following the story.

There has to be enough of a hook to keep them interested. Which is why character gen is generally terrible, because it had to come early so we can use the character, yet having it early can put off readers.

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>>837391
>He made them choose the character's breast size

quests are dead and we have killed them

Random reminder that Afterlife Quest was the greatest quest to ever quest and Apophis was a genius unappreciated in his time.

>>837792
>2014
Or you know, PoJ was just really autistic

That's like saying RPGs are dead because some pervert made FATAL

>>837809
I was using hyperbole for effect.

But yeah he seems kinda fucked.

Magical Girl For Hire is once again running!

>>831701
>>831701
>>831701

I have been planning to do a quest sometime this or next weekend and have planned out a ideas for a few different possible quests. I am still deciding what I actually want to run so I am putting them out here to see what other people are interested in.

- A Magical Burst inspired quest. Basically a darker magical girl quest, but not to Madoka levels of darkness. Basically it boils down to, you are a magical girl, fight monsters and balance your social life, try not overload on magic and lose all your friendships or bad things will happen. Defeat enough monsters and you can have your wish can be granted.

- An OC setting inspired by Tyoko Ghoul and JokerOp's Youkai Quest except with magical girls. Basic premise is you have died and turned into a monster that must drain human souls to survive, and avoid or fight magical girls that will try to destroy you. You have the unique ability to however disguise yourself back as a human and be able to interact with people.

- A heavily Naruto inspired quest with a completely redone setting. There is no peace between all the nations, but instead a cold war esque flury of espionage and proxy wars between the various nations. Aimed to be slightly darker than your normal naruto quest. While a lot of the basics of the Naruto setting might be the same (ninja villages, jujistu, ninja ranking systems) all of the cannon locations, history, and characters have been completely replaced with OC. (I hate quests that are just OC character inserts into a setting)

- This last idea is one I am most aprehensive about and least planned out. It is inspired by Nerv Bridge Simulator. Basically it is XCom with mechs. You are the commander of a special organization trying to fight back an alien invasion using advanced Mechs that can only be piloted by kids. Deal with moody teenagers and politics between nations who would rather watch the burn then work with their rival nations to fight off the aliens. Oversee the recruitment of new children into the team, the upgrading and design of new mechs, and the growth and development of your team. This is my least planned out quest and might actually be a little to ambitious for a first time QM.

dice+2d6

2d6

>>838025
Put it in the options field.

Rolled 2, 6 = 8 (2d6)

roll

>>838034
Thank you. How do I know if I win a roll?
Does the firs 2,6 = 8 have to be higher then 8 for me to win?

>>838012
I enjoyed last Magical Burst quest we had.

Rolled 4, 5 = 9 (2d6)

sorry to liter the thread. I'm figuring this out.

>>838012
Cold war naruto, just because I enjoy reading about weird politics

>>838045
What?
2d6 means you rolled a 6 sided die twice.
The 8 is just the sum of all the rolls you did, those being a 2 and a 6.
To "win" a roll is up to the discretion of whoever's asking you to roll in the first place.

>>838045
anon is... m..moe!

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Afternoon, anons. What's good in the Questing world?

>>838133
Getting really nervous in anticipation to starting a quest I've been envisioning and preparing for for a while now, so instead I'm saying "fuck it" and starting a silly dumb quest with minimal forethought first to gain momentum so I can make a running start at the other quest.

A little worried that preparing for stuff in advance always seems to ends in getting burnt out early for me.

>>838133
To crush your audience's hopes, see them salty before you, and hear the lamentation of the waifus.

>>838146
That's the spirit, anon. I go by the logic that if you think too hard about things, you'll never get started on it. You can think of the world's greatest novel, but one has to actually write it first.

>>838147
Pls, my players haven't been salty in ages. It's actually kind of scary.

>>838133
Apparently I have managed to captivate people with my worldbuilding/racial development skills....

I really should write up the not!Githyanki for a system.

Kuat Collection is back.

>>838211

>>838208
That's good, anon. Build on that, and get to writing them Quests.

Alchemical Blade Quest will begin posting at 7 PM EST today!

>>838217
>>822486

I do, thanks.

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>tfw your players are race traitors

How does /qtg/ feel about this?

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Running Episode 6 of Starcaller Quest, we're dealing with douchey space-elves right now!
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>>838314
>>838314

>>838311
My players aren't

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>>838311
>using light theme

>>838311
Mine prefer robots over their own species, does that count?

>>838436
>>838436
>>838436

NEW THREAD FOR JEDI KNIGHT QUEST

Come Join us in Vigilante Quest where it appears we're going to be a modern day cowboy hero.
>>838417

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>>832167

Mission 9 of Alchemical Blade quest has recommenced!

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Planning out what I'll do after Ninja Monk Quest's completion, as we're now like a third of the way through it.

Still trying to decide exactly which idea I want to run as a quest. I figured I might as well post in QTG for some feedback, suggestions, and opinions.

-Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Quest
-Fate/Quest
-Revival of a Star Wars Bounty Hunter quest
-Quest involving something FF8
-Boku No Hero Academia Quest was suggested to me

>>838680
For Boku No Hero Academia Quest, would we write in a power, choose a power from a list or already get a power?

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I posted this in the last thread, but I'll do it again for shits and giggles.

Would anyone be interested in a quest where the primary goal is hunting and killing rebel scum?

>>838695
yes, yes, no

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>>838699
Go for it, as long as we can seduce some Imperial waifus and hatefuck some rebel scum.

>>838704
Would there be anything else that would be chargen?

>>838724
>as long as we can seduce some Imperial waifus and hatefuck some rebel scum.

That was the general idea, yes.

>>838732
powers, general appearance, background

pretty simple chargen, character will be shaped throughout the quest by the players

>>838748
Sounds good, doesn't seem to have anything that could cause a huge shitstorm like most chargen.

So tomorrow over on Akun I'm running the beginning of my first quest. 8 PM GMT, I think.

Anyway, it's a Naruto quest. But! Before you turn away in disgust:

First of all, the setting is extremely different. I was bothered by how homogenous the Elemental Nations were and so I've gone ahead and changed things to correspond with a larger region than just Japan and also to match what I know about how cultures develop.

Second, I abhor quests that slap a parasitic MC into canon. So the MC is born a generation before Hidden Villages even get started, and also on the other side of the continent, in a border region between cultures.

If you're interested, I'll stick around and answer questions about it, but it's not going to be published until tomorrow, when I'll shill it with a link and everything.

>>838801
>Anyway, it's a Naruto quest. But! Before you turn away in disgust
Too late.
>b-but it's fixed!
If you're going to change things then call it something else. Fans of the series will be annoyed by the changes and non-fans of the series will ignore it because it's a fucking fanfic.

>>838801
>>838942
>If you're going to change things then call it something else.
This. Might as well file off the numbers and names and make it an OC setting if you want different things than the original IP offers. We had this very same discussion before when some idiot thought it'd be nice to add guns to the Dragon Age or Witcher world.

Would anyone be interested in a turn-based strategy type of quest?

Basically you'd be playing as some lord of somewhere, and every 'turn', a week/month would pass and some story would happen, you'd get some decisions to make. It would have a system with factions where you can gather favours and battles, with soldiers and gold as the primary resources.

I realise it's rather ambitious and I'd need some help with it, but I don't think it's as hard to pull off as you may think.

>>839017
That's a Civ, or at least it sounds a lot like one. Civs tend to be somewhat polarizing on here, though I don't see any reason why that should dissuade you from running it.

>>839027
I know it's like the Civ ones, what I mean is I want to prescript the whole event sets so you can actually win/lose based on the decisions based on something other than the QM's mood.

>>838680
What about something original holy shit. Then again getting weeb players is easy mode.

>>839034
>so you can actually win/lose based on the decisions based on something other than the QM's mood.
So a good quest?

>>838942
>>839004
I considered this perspective when planning — I obviously disagree. Modifications of the original is sort of the point of fanfiction. It's an interaction with the source that I think can be rewarding, as long as the way you go about it offers something new and isn't just rehash. Pride and Prejudice, for example, has a lot of 'fanfiction' that's successful in its own right.

Of course there are bad ways to do it, just like everything else, but that doesn't mean the activity itself is bad. Just tacking Mongols to the side of the Elemental Nations would be a bad way to address what made me start this, which is why that's not what I did.

>>839046
Let's not get ahead of ourselves now

>>839049
>I obviously disagree
Then you're wrong.

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>>839054
okay

>>839049
>Modifications of the original is sort of the point of fanfiction.
No, the point of fanfiction is to see your favourite characters doing things and also fucking your other favourite characters. Nobody who reads fanfiction reads them as an "imrpvement over the original".
>as long as the way you go about it offers something new and isn't just rehash
You mean like by making something new? If you're going to make OC then you at least owe it to yourself to call it OC.
90% of fanfiction is just halfbaked ideas that the writer slaps onto the original work because they can't be bothered filling the gaps. The ones that got successful got successful after they realized they had something and then bothered to fill those gaps. That's how they can be successful.

The way I see it there'd be nothing wrong with your basically copy/pasting the setting, changing some names and arbitrations (eg rename "ninjas" to "wizards" -- that pretty much what they are already anyway) and slapping a different name on it, because a lot of fiction is that already.

And most of all: Don't try to justify fanfiction. It's the very bottom of the barrel, and is definitely not an attractive thing. You describing your work as "a naruto quest" will only turn people who aren't bottom feeders away.
Not that quests are really much better, but they have the excuse of being almost more performance art than polished and published scripture.

>>838748
>powers, general appearance, background
>simple

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>>840133

The world is in chaos. The wind dies, the seas turn violent, and the Earth begins to rot. The world is dying, and has been dying for generations. Society the world over is breaking down. No one knows how it started, and no one knows how it will end.

These are the stories about how the world was saved.

WATER: Fleet 8 Quest.

In what was once known as Brazil and what is now known as the Hodgson Sea 25 fleets of survivors hunt and harvest and thrive off the strange lifeforms known as the Lovecraft that populate the Hodgson Sea...and sometimes flee from them.

25 "island" ships filled with factories, homes, and repair bays. 10 "rig" ships designed for combat with the Lovecrart. And 1 mothership, the Alveric, against an endless, inescapable, inhospitable, living sea.

BOAT MECHS VS LOVECRAFT

PUNCH CTHULHU IN THE FACE WITH YOUR GIANT ROBOTIC FIST

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>>839096
>No, the point of fanfiction is to see your favourite characters doing things and also fucking your other favourite characters. Nobody who reads fanfiction reads them as an "imrpvement over the original".

I disagree. There is no inherit point to fanfiction. They vary across the board. Some people want to see their favorite waifus and characters fucked bY a self insert, others want to explore new ideas within a ignored or neglected aspect, and or just tell a story within the universe.

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>>840492

Black Company Quest is back.

Expect unheroic deeds and ruthless pragmatism.

>>840502
Holy shit, you're alive! Awesome.

>>841311
They aren't the only one:
https://twitter.com/RevengeGoldQM/status/799460347492986882

He lives.

>>838311
My man, that's nothing. I once had a 100+ thread Quest where players didn't just choose to be race traitors, they literally chose to help another species conquer their own homeland.

>>841438
give link

>>841552
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Snakecatcher%20Quest

>>841800
It was justified.

Vigilante quest, where after day one our secret identity is already known.

>>838417

>>840496
Don't bother. Almost anyone you talk to about it has a fixed opinion already.

>>841804
Never said it wasn't

>>841886
Good.

>>838699
I wanna be a TIE pilot that enlisted solely to kill people, working our way up to a Punisher.

>>838699
I don't want to be down to earth. I want the protagonist to be 100% officer material, with all the smug self satisfied Englishness that entails.

>>838801
live in 20 or so
http://anonkun.com/stories/daughter-of-earth-and-wind/vgQXLMh4XQeLWfiNG/home
captcha: shepherd 1000

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https://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/837022/

A quest about being an alchemist in semi-fantasy Renaissance times.

Oh and also you're a werewolf.

>>842307
Wow that was an very literal looking link.

Running now.
>>842470
>>842470
>>842470

So I'm thinking about running a quest involving Furies, but i'm scared people will misread it and get the wrong idea.

Is this a reasonable concern?

>>842474
Which Furies? There's like a dozen dude.

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Where Wolves Fear To Tread will be running in 1 hour's time.

>>842492
Very loosely based on the greek depictions, specifically Allecto (Unceasing Anger) and Tisiphone (Avenger of Murder)

It'd be in it's own fantasy setting though, rather than just happening at some point in history or pre-existing myths.

Mainly I just making a semi-serious joke about people misreading it as "furry" rather than "fury", which i could totally see happening.

>>842519
Make it vbery clear int he first post what you are writing about. Spell it correctly in the title too. And add a picture which depicts the furies in the OP.

There will be no mistakes except those which are meant to get on your nerves.

>>842519
>>842544
Or you could call them 'Divine Punishers' or something else that conveys the message

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>>841898

While piloting will feature often (and as resources expand, I plan on allowing the main character to have access to wings he can command), the character is actually an ex-Stormtrooper captain who is now working for an Inquisitor.

He's an okay-ish pilot but is more infantry officer material, great in a firefight.

>>841917

He's an officer alright (as I mentioned previously, an ex-Stormtrooper Captain) but is fairly gritty in nature.

Here's my pitch for how the quest begins: going undercover in Mos Eisley to track down Stormtrooper-turned-rebel traitor Davin Felth, AKA the "Look sir, droids!" guy (pic related). He killed his superior officer in the firefight that happened when the Millenium Falcon took off because he let his moralfag conscience get the better of him after they took out that Jawa crawler and burnt Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. His ultimate fate was never determined in the EU so I would treat this like an alternate universe kind of thing.

This mission would be the main character Agent's first field mission given to him by his Inquisitor, but afterwards I would plan for him to no longer be uncercover and could operate more as an officer/agent.

>>842600
>going undercover in Mos Eisley to track down Stormtrooper-turned-rebel traitor Davin Felth
So you're going all out with the ridiculous shit in the EU?

The first chapter of Fair of Dusklight is almost over. I published a small update today and I plan on publishing another tomorrow. Drop by if you're interested!

http://anonkun.com/stories/fair-of-dusklight/FJxy496a43Zuecpq3

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>>842669
>>842669
>>842669
Back with nekomimis.

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Where Wolves Fear To Tread is running right now.

>>824482
>>824482
>>824482

>>842623
>So you're going all out with the ridiculous shit in the EU?

I like the rediculous shit in the EU. Besides, what's rediculous about Davin Felth? Dude had a duffel bag, that's not rediculous.

Now giving duffel bag a page BECAUSE he had one, that's a bit silly, but whatever.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Duffel_bag

I want the quest to be about hunting rebels of all shapes and sizes. Original, canon, EU, don't matter to me.

Kuat Collection is now up. It's time for Star Wars shipsluts.

>>842695

>>842679
Yeah, the Wook was always kind of autistic like that. You should see their page on sex.

>>842703
>Yeah, the Wook was always kind of autistic like that. You should see their page on sex.

I have, many times. MANY times.

Alright like once just for shits and giggles, same with Breasts

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>>842723
It's hilarious because breasts, sex, and all that nonsense have bigger Legends pages than some Canon pages on stuff that actual relevance to the Star Wars lore. The Wook was pretty passive aggressive about the EU wipe and all.

>>842733

Well just about everything that had a page that made the transition to EU is seventeen times bigger than the canon articles now.

Give it time, though. Eventually Disney will have just as much shit in their pile as the old one.

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>>842743
Yeah, one thing I love about nuEU is that we're getting a lot more consistency and a lot more connection. Plus, it's not like they're completely trashing the old EU thanks to Based Filoni.

Hopefully Wendig runs out his contract and they run him out for some more competent writers and Timothy Zahn stays on to do more Thrawn.

>>842744
>>842744
>>842744
New quest. Let's keep it fast and loose, and preferably fun.

>>842749

>Hopefully Wendig runs out his contract and they run him out for some more competent writers and Timothy Zahn stays on to do more Thrawn.

herkily-jerkily

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Starting a Xianxia (chinese fantasy) quest here
>>842882
>>842882
Hope it goes well.

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Tankies Quest is live! We are being as sneaky as 30 odd armoured vehicles rolling through the French countryside can be.

>>842936
>>842936

>>842474
You could word it primarily in the singular form. Fury is a lot harder to mistake, and gives a greater connotation of wrath.

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Lamplighter Quest is up!
>>843056

So where do people generally find art for their quests? So far I've been hitting up /tg/ character or monster art threads, but is there a good website for this kind of thing in general?

>>843037
I think that sounds like the best option.

>>843141
Boorus and such

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>>843141
Google, Boorus, /wg/ when I find a good thread, and I basically just sort of save images as I find them if I think they might be useful at some point.

>>843141
I do my own

Modern Necromancy Quest Redux is running for the next few hours. Come get spooked
>>829337
>>829337
>>829337

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>>838724
>>841898
>>841917

Someone else beat me to it

>>842769
>>842769
>>842769

But, not to be deterred, I'll just use another name

Can I have some suggestions?

>Rebel Hunter Quest
>Imperial Agent Quest
>Inquisitorial Acolyte Quest
>Agent of the Inquisitor Quest

>>843197
Shadow of the Empire Quest

>>843197

Oops, ignore that ">Imperial Agent" one, forgot to take it out.

>>843181
Wish I could draw better. I've been trying lately, but I don't know, I'm easily frustrated and making anything nice (aka not a stick figure) takes time, which is at odds with how i like to run my quests, which is as rapidly as possible.

Yo if the guy in charge of the twitter directory is here could you take Specificity Jones off of the list? He just retweets smug political shit constantly and it's really annoying. I'm not even sure he runs a quest.

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>>843225
Yeah, drawfagging takes quite a bit of time and effort. Makes me wish I tried harder on my own drawquest.

>>843259
cute waifu

>>843273
>>843273
>>843273

Beleaguered Prince Quest is live.

>>838012
>mechs

You know what they say about Sturgeon's Law? When it comes to mechs as a subject, and running a story around it? It's like Sturgeon's Law recursions into itself, so we get "99% is crap" for that subject matter. Or if you're stricter, then it's 99.9%

From how I've seen quests, they bungle the mech thing and juggling a story or whatever element so badly it snowballs.

>>843225
It's easier if your quest is slow as balls and you're expecting to take a while anyways But it means when everybody's on and votes quickly you can't dawdle on doodles

>>843249
Speaking of the Twitter directory, can I also be taken out of the list? I don't think I'm gonna use it for anything but lurking now that I'm done.

>>843327
I like mechs though. Titanfall 2's campaign kind of reinspired my love for them, or at least the fucking campy anime bullshit surrounding it.

God the Titanfall 2 campaign was anime as fuck.

>>843327
How?

Surely mechs are the thing you fight in, and the plot happens outside of them.

Then you have all the prototypes and crazy pilots that fuck up the status quo and build on the mecha element. Upgrades are okay, but I'm more in favour of an MC fighting in an inferior one for a while then shifting to a much better model.

>>842679
>Duffel bag page

Are warsies more autistic than trekkies?

Maybe something where you're a bounty hunter that slowly warms up to the ideals of the empire and becomes official? Then you'd have jealous bounty hunter scum wanting to kill you for selling out and rebel scum to deal with. You'd fight ALL the scum.

>>834492

come join us torture elves as a flying gobbo

>>842733
>EU wipe

I don't get why they're so salty. Its not they had a crisis on infinite earths that said "Yeah no. All those characters and stories and settings? They died screaming. A big anti-matter monster ate them. Enjoy your new continuity now. In a few decades a scottish wizard and a cereal king will fix it so that they're not really dead just existing off screen in the infinite multiverse somewhere maybe"

All they did was say "we're doing something else".

>>843141
Writefags or google searches.

>>843583
It's the feeling of having everything that you invested yourself into suddenly be said "yeah, it doesn't matter anymore". I can understand it, but I was never too invested in the old EU anyway. It had a LOT of stupid stuff that simply couldn't be fit into a Star Wars movie without it seeming fucking stupid.

Not to say JewJew Abrams did anything justice, he gave us a great Star Wars film but it'll be a New Hope hopefully compared to Rian Johnson's Episode 8.

>>843610
>It had a LOT of stupid stuff that simply couldn't be fit into a Star Wars movie without it seeming fucking stupid.
Nobody said it ever had to go in there.

JJA belongs in a fucking gas chamber. That movie was shit. I should know, I watched it again to confirm.

>>843635
There were a lot of interesting ideas in TFA and I liked the fact that compared to the Prequels at least, it felt like a really grand adventure. I had no problems with any of the characters except Max von Sydow only getting five minutes of dialogue at best before being slaughtered.

I can give TFA a lot of the benefit of the doubt because it accomplished pretty much what it set out to do, make Star Wars great again.

>>843654

I disagree but you are entitled to your own opinion on the matter.

>>843654
>I liked the fact that compared to the Prequels at least, it felt like a really grand adventure
Not really. It felt like watching a shit play. They kept jumping around following a boring story and the sets changed behind them.

>>843141
Go into google and type

_____ Concept Art

_____ Portrait

Works like 85% of the time

Also reverse image search

>>843141

Depends on the genre really.

Most of mine came from /m/.

>>843610
>"yeah it doesn't matter anymore"

I can see that, but its not like a cosmic black hole ate everyone and spat out the new universe. The old canon is still "there". Think of it as pure and untouched.

>a great Star Wars film

He played it safe to a satirical degree, basically hitting all the New Hope beats for nostalgia bux while making derivative looking stuff for the toylines to sell. All the Ren stuff he's leaving for the next poor bastard in line to explain.

I can't see how anyone could resolve the Ren stuff to a satisfying conclusion.

>>843770
I've got to say, I love the Darth Rey vs purified Ren Solo angle that /tv/ is preaching. It might save this trilogy.

>>843712
>>843770

These.

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>>843201
>>843197

Which of these seem best?

>>844097
Rebel Hunter.

>>844097
I still stand by Shadow of the Empire regardless of aesthetics.

>>843455
>Surely mechs are the thing you fight in, and the plot happens outside of them.

Try a non-Western mindset?

The mechs are means for the plot to happen/advance, or something like that. Or they're a mirror/analogy/metaphorical window to the plot at hand.

>>844178
It depends on the story. A tomino show where the mechs have some psychic connection to the character like Gundam, Aura Battler Dunbine, and Ideon? Yeah. But for something like Big O or Full Metal Panic the mechs are simply a means to an end. The general plot would change very little if you wrote the mechs out.

>>844178
They don't have to be though. That's like saying that because your MC is a race car driver that every single thing has to revolve around the race car.

If the mech in question is purely a machine, it's just a vehicle. Not every mech has to be a gundam or evangelion.

>>844307

> But for something like Big O or Full Metal Panic the mechs are simply a means to an end.

Wasn't the Lambda Driver a big big deal in FMP though? With the powers it gave and how only a single pilot can use it, the psychic connection may have well have been there.

>>844342
So why even have the quest feature special snowflake mechs that need special kinds of pilots then, if the mechs will be background dressing?

>>844718
Basically it's there to make certain situations possible that would be unreasonable otherwise. You can have things be important to the plot while remaining in the background. In fact, some would argue that the best plot devices are those that hide in plain sight.

I'm mostly just playing devil's advocate here. I don't feel strongly one way or the other.

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>>844112
>>844105

I don't know, I'm leaning more towards Rebel Hunter, myself.

>>844745
You sound like you just copy pasted off a lecture or something, like you can't rephrase it like you really know it.

>>844951
What is your complaint exactly? That quests shouldn't have mechs if they aren't the main focus of the story?

>>844951
Whatever man. I know what I said.

The whole point of the mechs could be that they're there to force plot stuff to happen that wouldn't make much sense without them. How else can you have angsty teenagers in a military setting? Make them the only people who can pilot them. Otherwise it'd be silly to have people like Shinji Ikari involved with the military.

It isn't my fault if you're not used to people having a decent vocabulary. Go fuck yourself.

So is Brine dead again?

Just want to update, DWMA quest will be running a day earlier than normal. I'll be on tomorrow at between 5 and 6 Mountain Standard Time to do a short run. Had some family stuff change days from Saturday to Sunday, so you all get to finish talking to Emma the Saltiest Nurse sooner.

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We should start Above and Below in a few hours

>>845775
>>845775
>>845775

>>836283
>>QM Questions:
>How can character generation be done well?
>>Player Question:
>Why do you always shitpost during character creation?

I really liked the way Exalted Quest did it. You know, creating it a bit at a time over various threads whenever a NPC asked for details, a la flashback. Did other quests do it?

>>844097
I like the Shadow of the Empire more but that must be my edge side so use the Rebel Hunter one.

>>845280
Star Wars QMs die often around here.

Quick question, what are the commands for text formatting on /qst/ again?

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>>845861
>>844105
>>844112
>>838724
>>841898
>>841917

Hm...

I think they are both good, honestly.

Help me out here:

http://www.strawpoll.me/11685838

>>845928
Does it matter? Do you really think you have the capacity and will to manage a community while also writing anything with a semblance of quality if you can't even locate and read a sticky?

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>search 'maids'
>0 results found
Disappointed in the lack of taste around here since I vanished. Hitmaid Quest is still alive, and will run next week Saturday. Hope my players haven't died since I dropped off the grid.

>>846022
Whoa, chill the fk down. It's a dumb question, but you don't have to be a dick about it.

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>>846025

>>846044
It's for the common good. It's become the norm on /qst/ to be clueless and incapable of doing even basic research and preparation before shitting out a thread. Only hope of changing that is to yell at people until they leave or stop being lazy shits.

New thread of Sanguine Quest, come check it out!
>>846235
I promise I'll work twice as hard if you guys vie me vote, I'm so ronery ;_;

>QM Questions:
How can character generation be done well?
Just integrate it seamlessly into the story. Of course it's easier said than done but even if it isn't done very subtlely it can still work (see Banished)

>Player Question:
Why do you always shitpost during character creation?
I rarely do and if I do it's mostly to see what the QM will do with an original concept.

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>>846251
>(see Banished)

>>846256
While the mark was a nice addition, the gist of the chara creation was this:

What did you do for the tribe?
>You were a Vatis, skilled in manipulating the energy that resides in all living things.
>You were a soldier, a master of the Marsala Ve.
>You were a merchant, growing wealthy off the trade of sea silk, pearls, and coral.

... which is hardly subtle.

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"that's update!"™

>>825978

>>836283

>QM Questions:
It can't.

>Player Question:
Because fuck you, that's why.

Is there a site where i can look at a bunch of completed quests like this?

Why is Sanguine Quest not getting more voters? It's a fine quest, what's with the shunning?

Yo might run later today!

>>846413
suptg

SHIMIGAMI SAVANT QUEST IS LIVE AND RUNNING!
>>846373

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Continuing the Xianxia quest from yesterday.

>>842882

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Somebody make a thundercats/He-Man inspired quest please

>>845846
Didn't Exalted Quest also end up with a big titty brown chick who's fucked literally thousands of randos?

>>846560
Fucks anything and everything.

>>846560
>fucked literally thousands of randos
Thats exalted for ya

>>846546
I had an idea for a game based on 1980's action figure toys, maybe even a civ game. It would all take place on one planet and you would have one faction made of ancient transforming robots (Transformers, Go bots, Rock Lords), another of military specialists from Earth (GI Joe, MASK, Inhumanoids), an empire of magic-tech humans (He-Man, Visionaries, Crystar), a rival empire of beast-people (Thundercats), and a composite bad guy faction of evil humans from Earth (COBRA) and natives that would eventually splinter off into competing factions as the good guy factions put their differences aside and band together to fight back.

The idea is that at first none of the good guy factions get along while the bad guys do. The beast empire is an old enemy of the human empire. The ancient robots remember the world as it was millennia ago. The Earthlings don't know what the fuck is going on. The factions will either have to unite through diplomacy or by subduing one another to stand a chance against the composite bad guy faction.

What do you think?

>>846560
>Didn't Exalted Quest also end up with a big titty brown chick who's fucked literally thousands of randos?
You say that like it's a bad thing, but no it's was more like a hundred during a bad time.

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>>846791
>>846791
>>846791
A cat is fine too.

>>846560
>>>845846
>Didn't Exalted Quest also end up with a big titty brown chick who's fucked literally thousands of randos?

Bit of an exaggeration, but yeah, EQ's MC has a lot of sex. Does that mean the chargen was bad?

Sons, Stars & Sins is up:

>>846882
>>846882
>>846882

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>>846933

LGA2 is up.

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man I miss writing quests
I just don't have time for it anymore

what's the quest scene like these days

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>>847035
Oh wow, thanks for the pic! You sick pervert

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Where Wolves Fear To Tread will be running in 1 hour's time.

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>>847067
this took a while.

>>847354
jesus fucking christ

of course it's a person of color

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>>847354
Hey, this is a blue board! But nice stuff, GermanSchteel, thank you! Never received anything like this before, I like it.

>>847354
What is even happening?

>>847458
I'm bored between posts of LGA2 even though I still have stuff to pre-write.

My priorities are infinitely skewed.

>>847450
I'm glad you enjoy it.

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Where Wolves Fear To Tread is now running! Stop on by for some good old fashioned Nazi killing.

>>847585
>>847585
>>847585

>>838436
>>838436
>>838436

WE'RE BACK!

Am I allowed to post my quest in here when I'm not running or what

>>847656
No, the cops will come and arrest you if you do that.

>>847656
What's it about, VoxelAnon?

>>847690
o shit

>>847749
cute girls doing cute things in (possibly cute) tanks

except now they're British

>>847779
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=CSC
anyway I'll just leave the archive for the first two quests for people to look at if they want

I'm on twitter @Pixel_Anon if you want to follow for quest times
Next one should be next friday

Also if you don't like /u/-boats this probably isn't the quest for you

DWMA Quest is continuing soon.

Like a half hour or so.

I don't have a lot of time, but I'm gonna do what I can. There's some FRESH ART for those who come by!

>>847044
Everything I've seen, it's not fantastic, but I'm still having fun.

>>843455
>and the plot happens outside of them.
Have you not seen the drama that occurs when your mech gets shot or wrecked while you are in it? Did you not see Pacific Rim?

Running now.
>>847847
>>847847
>>847847

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Only 6 hours
3 Shots of liquor
One fight
One near arrest later and I'm finally live

http://anonkun.com/stories/symbiote-quest-20/nLFhaigrSfd8Kdqfr/issue-8-valentines-day/dqs3d8XNfxhdZzQS4

Time for four or five hours of the waifu bait/war chapter

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For those interested, an update on the Paladin of Avalon is up!
http://anonkun.com/stories/the-paladin-of-avalon/-JRvxJl3loGBg9Bo64XE/28-a-rising-shadow/8jBXrRko89FZoxwQd

As someone who's not been to /qst/ since the great divide, can someone inform me of how the board's going? Are there a bunch of short-lived quests or are there plenty of long ones? Are there lots of one-shots? Quality? Anything, really.

I'll probably lurk anyway but I wanted to ask. Feeling melancholic this afternoon.

>>848850
Eh, it's alright. Could be better.

>>848850

Things are slow. But I will continue with my quest, even though I preferred /tg/, until it is done.

>>848850
Things move much slower than on /tg/ but a small solid community is here.

/qst/-tan Quest 2 finally continues after a few days hiatus!

>>816164
>>816164
>>816164

Could use some players, kind of just spinning my wheels at the moment.

>>842744
>>842744
>>842744

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I forgot to post it but pokemon island adventure quest is up:

>>848697
>>848697
>>848697

I love civ quests, but I was wondering if there was a way to play it at the table top. either where the players play as one civ or play as different competing civs. Has anyone tried doing this, and what where the results?

>>849939
You'd probably have better luck asking /tg/

>>849986
I did about a week ago, but unfortunately all I got was two comments. One saying it wouldn't work, and another saying to try the Reign System. Neither of which really gave me any ideas.

>>850017
Risk
Settlers of Catan, maybe

>>850059
Maybe, the hex map format of SOC is an interesting idea. though I'd like to integrate some role play somehow.

>>849939
there ARE board games that are just that. Go watch that board game youtube channel thing, they've covered at least 2 as far as I know.

If it's not what you're looking for, then what ARE you looking for?

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>>850381
Something that allows people to role play in a similar fashion as these civ threads. Something that can either be quick, or actually progress into a real story. Not really a board game experience, more of a role play one.

>>850416
>people to role play
>Something that can either be quick
My experience with civs seem to contradict yours, so could you elaborate?

>>850440
Sorry, my bad; I needed to be clearer. I mean either the game (theoretical table-top-rpg version I want to make) could be played as a couple of sessions (one offs beer and pretzles game). Or it could be played over multiple sessions that develop into a game of thrones style narrative, spanning across several sessions(Which is what I'd prefer).

>>850519
>beer and pretzles
I would have to recommend the faction/risk type deals, where each player has their respective civ. It's a bit of a problem getting people to work together otherwise.

If it's a relatively fast game, have maybe 2 decks: events(storms, gold rush, famine, etc) and resources(clay, iron, gems, silk, etc) each race has stats that are better at weathering certain disasters or taking advantage of boons.

Victory is obtained when you get a set list of resources, one based on the race, one randomly picked from the resource deck(inherently decreasing the copies of that resource), and one roleplayed/declared by the player as a resource their civ specializes in and adds said copies to the deck.

Get players to negotiate each other for said resources or aid if a disaster hits them pretty hard.


That's my spitball pitch, anyway. You'll need another set of mechanics to make culture/political roleplay matter more.

>>850639
Very interesting. Merfolk could be able to shrug off a flood, but would be in dire straights if they experience a drought. So they'd need to possibly work with the tribe of elementals to survive. I like the idea of random events shaping how the players would either help or hinder the others.

perhaps the role play aspect could take the form of player goals.
Goblin player: I want to defeat the dwarf tribe
Elves: I want to be the most advanced race
Humans: I want to have a lot of land.
etc

Races could possibly have biases, elves help dwarves and humans fine, but can never work with goblins or orcs.

>>850708
>Races could possibly have biases, elves help dwarves and humans fine, but can never work with goblins or orcs.
no that takes up valuable description space. If a race is going to be racist, let the player roleplay it, no need to waste a possible perk/flaw

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The Raiders Part Two, session 1 is up.

Storm and Snow edition, because goddamn.

>>851071

>>>/tg/50318561

>>851344
Honestly, the sheer amount of autism required to even have a thread like that makes it hard for me to miss /tg/.

>>851382
It's this reason we'll never have another shadow quest or a new quest with supremely overreacting players, and just maybe, juuust maybe, that's a good thing.

>>851392
It's a sad commentary that I'd honestly rather have a running discussion of MtG or boardgames in one of my own threads than on /tg/. The board's grown that stale.

>>851406
I still miss /tg/ sometimes. It was nice having a flow of incidental players finding Quests for the first time.

>>851382
Then stay here, faggot. Go back to freeforming with your waifu

>>851418
Hands down the best part were the reaction images. It feels like, at least in new threads, people don't post those as often here.

>>851427
Reactions of anons were amazing. Now they're like unicorns here.

In the threads I've looked over from to time, it feels like Questing has become of a business thing to vote in and watch rather than discuss, react, or have fun in.

>>851427
>best part
for me*

>>851419
Why are you even here?

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Bored and looking for something to read? Want to archive dive? Read my quest!

It's a wuxia story where you play a wandering swordsman in an alternate earth setting with fantasy elements.

There's a lot of overlapping plotlines which all have an influence on future events, and I love to drop foreshadowing or hints into the text, so an eagle eyed player can find details that'll really change the direction of the plot. It's about 90,000 words long at the moment, which should take a few hours to get through and arguably well written.

Highpoints so far include;
>clearing out a whole gang of bandits
>sparring with a legendary swordsman
>toppling a tyrant
>sparking a revolution
>challenging four legendary merchants to a battle of skill
>teaching an old friends son the way of the sword
and soon
>becoming a father

Come check it out. New players are extremely welcome, and reviews are too, (even of the Cosmic trolling variety).

http://anonkun.com/stories/invincible-swordsman-quest/WL2ENCoy6uAmXvfjX/home

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>>851436
Because they can't help but gloat over their victory.

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LGA2 is up.

>>851887

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Where Wolves Fear To Tread will be running in 1 hour's time.

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Where Wolves Fear To Tread is running right now!

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For those interested, an update on the Paladin of Avalon is up!
http://anonkun.com/stories/the-paladin-of-avalon/-JRvxJl3loGBg9Bo64XE/28-a-rising-shadow/8jBXrRko89FZoxwQd

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Starcaller Quest is running now.
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Relic Quest is now live.

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>>851431
That's probably the entire reason why this board is so slow

I just want to read something lighthearted and fun to read. All these quests with some enormous danger looming overhead or some great goal to accomplish are incredibly tiring

>>851431
>vote in and watch rather than discuss, react, or have fun in

This is probably the thing I'm the most sad about since leaving /tg/

Player numbers aren't a huge issue, just leave longer between updates and such, take it a little slower. But the lack of talking between different anons, lack of discussion or even jokes, memes and shitposting. It makes quests as a whole feel a lot less quirky and fun and a lot more like a serious thing.

>>852948
And to make it even more serious, IDs. I'm glad there's a setting that let's me turn them off but keep trips although I doubt the casual viewer is going to bother.

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http://anonkun.com/stories/symbiote-quest-20/nLFhaigrSfd8Kdqfr/issue-8-valentines-day/dqs3d8XNfxhdZzQS4

Thanks, Doc

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>>852963

Personally, I think the attitude of having to better oneself with the whole "Quest review" things and the "you need a better premise than that" this and what not is kind of hurting Quests in general.

Trying to make your Quest good is one thing. But trying to make it the best thing ever is not fun. Editing, having to worldbuild every single detail, having to plan out every single encounter "just because" isn't fun, at least I don't find it fun.

Part of the appeal of Quests is the pulp aspect of it, that you can just jump in, have some fun, laugh, and be amazed at what's going on no matter where you are. And that's what helps people get into Quests in the first place.

That's just my two cents anyway. I just want to write fun quests and have fun. People always tell me that I should stop writing cute girls doing cute things but I do it anyway because I like to. When did it suddenly become vogue to be all serious in doing Quests?

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>>852963
what's the problem with IDs?

>>852974
I dunno. But in keeping with the spirit of semi-random fun I'll name drop A Wizard and his Tower. QM is kinda insane with their updates though.

>>852984
More used to anonymous boards, s'all. Simpler. Also, colors clash badly with my other features. Something between screaming fluorescent pink and shining emerald puke green isn't great against my background. But it's removable so there's that.

>>852974
Funny enough, I feel like since the swap to /qst/ it actually makes less sense for us to focus so hard on refining quests.

Every board has shitposts or bad threads and we can sure as hell afford to have some now that we have a whole board. Weird experimental shit, with no real limits imposed on it should be flying up out of the wood work, but instead we have... well, what we had in /tg/ but worse.

>>852974
> When did it suddenly become vogue to be all serious in doing Quests?
I feel like it's reached its height since /qst/ was made the only questing board. Player numbers here dropped quick and perhaps understandably a reaction to that was the idea that because there are less anons around to read/play quests, if QMs want to keep/build playerbases we have to 'better' the quality of their work, which means they need to get serious about quests.

Whether that's a valid viewpoint is obviously up for debate, I personally don't really share it, at least not wholly. Though I do think thorough editing's something any QM should strive towards, just as matter of courtesy.

>>852974
Maybe readers are just emotionally uninvested in what's happening. I know that tensions running high and great successes or awful rolls get the reaction images coming in droves, so maybe people just don't feel any real highs or lows when reading. I know I do sometimes.

Jedi Knight Quest is back up again!
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>>852974
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>>853048
Here's one thing I've been noticing

It's not really the quality of quests changing, all the new ones here generally have a good level of competence when it comes to grammar and writing. This has been true since before the creation of the board also, from what I saw.

The thing that got most of my interest in quests was how easily attached us players got to the characters. It shows even now - the quests that get the most attention aren't so heavy on deep lore or interesting settings (although this might be left up to opinion), they're more focused on player interactions with the characters

>>853039
We have to make a return to drawfagging in quests

>>853198
>We have to make a return to drawfagging in quests
I've never run a drawquest before /qst/ but since coming here, run nothing but, so I like to think I'm doing my part

>>853198
Indeed. One thing I always tell people who want to run Quests is to focus on making likeable characters. In fact, I believe it to be central to making a good story period. You can write the best story there is with an amazing plot and a thrilling adventure but no one will give a shit if they don't like the characters.

But people will go through hellfire and ice just to see a character they like succeed.

>>852974
I kind of have a problem where I'll have an idea of what I want the quest to be when I start it, then I find that the players are even nearly as silly as I want them to be and find that the tone ends up completely different from what I wanted it to be.

Then as the quest goes a bit the world grows a bit and the setting gets laid down and I get bigger and bigger ideas that keep getting dashed. By the 50th update I start getting depressed and tired of it and as they go on I start wishing I hadn't started it.

Maybe it's just my mistake, but I find the players take it too seriously almost. I just want to make a goofy little thing and then end it without disappointing anyone, but the actual quest always turns out way more serious than I want it to so it feels like I'm a huge failure for abruptly wanting to end it.

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>>853214
What is it? I'll pop in and take a look sometime maybe probably

>>853219
Tone is left up almost entirely to the writer though

If you wanted something silly you have to inject it in

If the players wanted to stab someone, there's nothing stopping you from going pic related, you know what I mean?

>>853254
The players didn't really decide to do anything all that silly though.

Perhaps it's my fault for not making the intended tone clear enough from the start.

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>>846010

I guess that's that, then. Shadow of the Empire quest it is!

It's not ready yet, but keep an eye out in the future.

>>853219
I feel running a quest is a constant up and down situation. There are always times I feel like I want to end the quest, but then there are times that remind me how much I enjoy it.

I was pretty much ready to put my quest on indefinite hiatus today, but an anon said it was one of his favorites and it got to me enough to come back and continue running, and you know what? Suddenly I'm having a great time again.

>>853254
Ongoing one is Tome of Quest
also done a few one offs.

>>853271
ah shit wilba?

I just found your quest too, damn

I see what you mean, your players just wanted to kill stuff

Although I think it's not your start, it's that you only have enemies around and the only helpful thing around was the absentee dad

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If there's gonna be a surge of silly drawquests soon, then damn, I'm waaay too early to the drawquest party. Although I don't really have much in the way of investment, honestly. I originally came here to try one thing then hop back out. Still, I'd like to thank my players, all five of them, for sticking by me until the end. Whether /qst/ will die or not, I'm okay with that.

>>853279
>I feel running a quest is a constant up and down situation. There are always times I feel like I want to end the quest, but then there are times that remind me how much I enjoy it.
It really bothers me because I just can't seem to get myself over that first dip. The only quest I feel like ended well and was reasonably funny the whole way through was posts long and ended on a hook to a sequel quest that I give up on like 3 posts in.

Maybe I should stick to lolrandum stuff. It feels like every time I start thinking of the setting making sense and hitting the story notes I wanted to the whole thing just falls apart as I'm writing it.

Might be a problem with drawquests, too. It's a lot easier to write "You jump out and stab him! Then the guards take you away for murder." than it is to actually draw it and the following consequences.

>>853306
It's not even the wanting to kill stuff. Its not the player's fault really, it's more that I feel like I can't really keep up when I set the precedent that there's supposed to be actual consequences for the actions. I think I just need more experience to keep thing flowing properly without everything falling apart in my brain as I try to predict the player's actions and make sense of stuff I think up on the fly.

Man I think this trip is gonna end up with a reputation for flaking at this rate.
Granted, I haven't done enough to really have a "reputation" really.

>>853373
>was 50 posts
fix'd
Godamnit.

>>851431
I remember that one time i was talking off-topic stuff with another player on a quest thread, right after quests got banned.
The difference in atmosphere was incredible, and so was the response to banter from other players.
Now, i am more careful where i talk or discuss stuff with other players, but until i have a better idea of how each "sub-community" works, i feel like i am walking on eggshells.

This is the culture of this board, that i can accept.
There are ways to encourage banter between players and discourage this "all bussiness" attitude that is so prevalent, but it comes to the individual QM in their threads.
Some encouragement from the QM can go a long way when promoting banter and discussion. Players also tend to be respectful enough to stop when asked by the QM, or even fellow players, so it's not like you guys are all out of options.
Encourage the dialogue you want, and discourage the one you don't

>>853389
I remember the first truly furious shitpost I got... It felt great.

It makes sense when you explain it this way, that if I want that feeling again I must furiously shitpost at my players. Thanks anon.

>>853198
>We have to make a return to drawfagging in quests
Welllll, you didnt hear this from me or anything, but i heard drawfags feed on attention and praise Not even "Woah, you drew this shitty thing in MSPaint? You are our new god!" but "Hey, thank you for that, now continuing..." since they tend to do it either to get some recognition or to show the QM some measure of gratitude for running their favorite quests

Seriously, you wouldn't believe the times i've seen good art that goes unnapreciated by their fellow players or even the QM

I used to think it was because people tend to give more praise to artists who draw the waifus and forget about the others. But that isn't true, it is a more general thing.

Not that i would know this from personal experience I do fine, i just stop drawing in quests who ignore my drawings, and any problems just disappear


Aand before someone comes and says it; No, no one is entitled to recieve praise or feedback. Then again, no one is entitled to recieve anything, so if you want something you like to keep happening like, say, recieving fan art, then why not encourage it? Just a little bit?

please, please, please. Never do that thing where votes with drawings are worth more that was talked about a month ago, even if it was in jest. That will only end in tears

>>851431
Honestly one of the biggest killers for my motivation is when nobody discusses anything at all, or all that happens is just filling in the circle on the vote choice. I'm thankful that people bother to read my crap in the first place but I have no idea what's going through their heads, no clue what they like or dislike, if they just do the vote and nothing else so I feel really disconnected from the players.

I don't want to ask them either because I'm concerned that they'd just tell me what I want to hear instead of how they actually feel.

>>853533

This hits uncomfortably close to home for me.

>>853533
Yeah, this gets me too, even if you're not necessarily going to banter with other anons, just give a little blurb or something after the vote to explain your rationale or tweak the stock vote or something to show you're a little more engaged.

The sad thing is I notice myself doing it less as a player too, due to tiredness or just laziness. Feels bad in hindsight.

>>853533

I get this feeling all too much as well. Probably why I haven't run in over a month...

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/qst/-tan Quest 2 continues!

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>>853576
>Spoiler
I can agree, I find myself taking part in quests less and less as a player actually, I think it's cause i have the attention span of a gnat

>>853697
>quest is a faggot

not really surprised senpai

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If you eat a steak that is still pink after cooking it you belong in a zoo

A lot of my players belong in a zoo

>>853973
Blame the players of /qst/-tan Quest 1, they voted for it.

>>853981
Well aren't you just full of vigorous opinions.
Hey, how's Spartan II going?

>>853985
Fair enough. I don't hate you anymore :)

>>853981
Finally, someone gets it

>>853981
>liking steak well done

And you belong in the trash

Does anyone have any recommendations for battle systems? I want to keep it simple enough without just nescesarily being "you roll higher then ___, you win"

>>854545
I made mine like a tradition JRPG battle system, and I do all of the rolls off-screen after the players pick what they want the characters to do. However it is a lot of number crunching and may be annoying for some people.

>>854545

I think FATE could work pretty well.

If you are really good at crunching math, what >>854595 said could also be good. Just literally use JRPG health and mana