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>>6029851
>Player Question
Lots of things come to mind. Stuff that ruined quests. But you know one thing that is small, but really pissed me off? I'd Save Radjo, from Monke Quest. Dude becomes a fuckin' Jedi Master and then dies like a chump out of nowhere because of am almost 100% samefagged vote to jump headfirst into the psychic equivalent of a black hole.

>>6029851
>QM Question
If I were not XOM, I would also wish to be XOM.

>>6029893
Yeah, that hurt.

GOOD fantasy quest, etc. etc.

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Kaz... Please come back...
We're sorry for whatever we did... Just please tell us what it actually was...

>>6029851
>If you were given the reins to someone else's quest, what would you do differently? What current quest, that isn't yours, would you want to run if you weren't running yours?
I think I would hate being in that kind of situation. I want to run my own thing, not somebody else's thing. Either it's not up to my standards or I could never live up to the standards of that quest - no inbetween for my gay ass mind. But if I had to choose any quest, it'd be one of the ancient dead corpses littering the archives that never saw completion. There's too much potential in them to end like that, bro...
>If you could change one thing, anything big or small, about a quest you're reading, what would it be?
I'd put more blackjack and hookers in Drowned Quest. In fact, forget the blackjack.

>>6029851
>If you were given the reins to someone else's quest, what would you do differently? What current quest, that isn't yours, would you want to run if you weren't running yours?
If I was also gifted with his artistic talents, I would pick up Royal Rumble where Sojourner left it. If not... Batquest, maybe? I do like Batman a lot. I could never do the deeply-researched and meticulously-referenced approach Hypercrisis Bro does, but I believe I could do SOMETHING cool with that character and setting.

>If you could change one thing, anything big or small, about a quest you're reading, what would it be?
I'd make Forgotten Realms Quest or Kobolt Klan Adoption daily-update quests again. STill lvoe 'em, though.

>What sort of direction turns you off from a quest immediately? What's something a QM can do to get your investment back?
I have a very high tolerance for lots of things (bad grammar and syntax, lewdness, politics I don't like) but if the formatting makes reading the text block a slog, if it's really mechanically-involved right out of the gate and every event/combat/encounter takes forever, or if it's quest where the main character is a sexy lady but she seems way, way more into her own TnA than makes sense, it can lose me pretty quick. Also, anything with 'cunny'

>Would a "stronger board culture" make you want to vote more, or would it seem forced?
I already spend a lot of time on this site, so I don't know if I'd vote MORE, but I would enjoy a greater sense of community.

>Summer is upon us! Got any plans?
Get some walks in, hang out with friends and family... Write quests.

>>6029893
The pain is real. That arc, aborted. PAIN!

>>6029928
Kaz is living the dream, you'll have to find your Star Wars fix in another quest. For now, at least.

>>6029851
>>QM question:
I'd probably either take a combat focused quest and try to implement my dice net rolling system into it. Or take a cozy quest and add illustrations to it... Probably Kobolt Klan because that's because I can at least draw lizards and they feature in like 85% of that quest.

>Player question:
I'd change the thread schedule of a certain mech based merc skirmish to be now. I need my artillery fix.

>General question:
Lack of compelling characters. Spend more time building a fun character base for players to influence and interact with.

Might as well drop my thread here since we're on the OP and the new /qtg/ just dropped. We need some votes.
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>>6029851

>General question
Detailed lore dumps that don't really serve any purpose as the opening.


Question for the peanut gallery. Do you prefer quests that are more 'game' like or quests that are more 'story' like?

>>6029965
Story, personally.

Remembered an Idea I had where the players would run throw a norse family's saga, with a focus on not only the deeds of each character and their eventual death, but the person they chose to marry, to determine who the next PC would be/ look like, like some JRPGs have done.

With bonuses for achieving great deeds before you ride to valhal, or get sent straight to Hel

wouldn't be 100% story accurate, mostly cause I got this idea while listening to Herr Mannelig and ugly crying, So there would be fantasy elements, like say, you go to arabia, you might just loot a genie in a bottle or something

And there'd be grand ambitions, that would carry over to generations, like migrating and establishing a new kingdom far from home

>>6029851
Question for veteran QMs, I'm having difficulty getting some players and was wondering if this is expected of new quests and what are some ways to get more players?

>QM question:
I read Cyberpunk Princess qst before, I would've continued it was a fun read

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>>6029851
>Player question:
Finished thread 3 of Curse carrier quest today. Would have been cool if It stayed in the original town with wacky magic fights. I understand why the players voted otherwise.
>General question
I'm pretty open, prefer original to fanfics. Even when its made for newbies the fans of the original knowledge can be daunting. Like a One piece quest set before Marineford and the fans talk about saving characters from death.

>>6030033
Dynastic quests are one of my favourite subgenres. Space Monke is one of the best examples, and NationQuest/CaptainQuest did it well. I think I heard Simple Space Empire does that, too? My own quest(s) have sort of ended up being a bit like that in their own way, as a result of my habit of absorbing bits and pieces of quests I enjoy.

Norse Dynasty quest would be really cool to check out.

>>6030035
>I'm having difficulty getting some players and was wondering if this is expected of new quests and what are some ways to get more players?
Advertising what it's about in the QTG can help, sometimes.

>>6030033
Norse fantasy raider goes pretty hard. Sailing up the various rivers until you get to the black sea and the end of the silk road and fighting giant desert moths for a bolt of purest silk for the most luxuriant bed in all of Scandinavia one day, telling tales of your grandfather's legendary sword which slew an iberian horse demon the next. Eventually getting to the Varangian era and fighting horrific creatures of the night to protect some dumbass young byzantine emperor taking a tour in his extended territories in the edges of the Balkans.

Shit sounds wild.

>>6030047
Yeah I like them to, and simple space empire is one of my favs/ inspirations

>>6030052
Exactly, you get what I'd be going for if I did it

>>6030057
Here we go boys! Since I decided to do a oneshot, I also decided to go way outta my comfort zone and make it very combat heavy with lots of skills and dice and shit! So either I improve and grow as a writer, or it crashes and burns and I solemly move back to Storkie's Wacky Fantasy Adventures, we'll see how it goes!

>>6029851

>QM question

Eh, honestly I like the fact that most of the quests on the board are extremely different from the kind of thing I would write. I much prefer a world where the quests I like are as different from mine and each other as possible, and therefore I don't really want to touch them

>General Question

Honestly, the two biggest things are probably prose and /pol/shit. The latter is kinda self evident- I get enough politics in my real life, but the former is probably kind of a hot take. I can tolerate a lot, but if the writing doesn't flow well or read in a more satisfying manner than a high school lit essay, I find it difficult to get invested

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>>6030061
I'll give it a go! I pruned my read-list and need some more quests, anyway.

>>6030047

Gotcha, thought you could do that only once per new thread you make.

Hello /qst/ I'm the QM for Holliday's Rahpsody, a quest about a bounty hunter in a fantasy world of mercenaries and glory. Please come check it out!

>>6025658

I also am running it on fiction live as well
https://fiction.live/stories/The-Iscariot-ContingencyHolliday-s-Rhapsody/MQE8uDQkBDzAJrz9u

I look forward to seeing you there.

>>6030035
Yeah, that just seems to be the case for newer and less established Quests and QMs. I've run several on this board and took a long break. Now that I'm back I find the voter count going up and down. I get maybe one, two, if I'm lucky - three votes when I'm posting updates.
But, half of the fun for me is just posting and seeing where things go anyways. I'm happy even if there's just one person in my audience!

>>6030072
Your art is really cool, and I'll giev it another look tomorrow, but my personal opinion is that leaping right into a conflict situation with immediate combat and a bunch of dialogue before the setting or characetrs have really been set up is maybe not the best start for a new quest. Not to say this has doomed it or anything, but I just find it a little hard to care, or follow the action, if I'm not first grounded and given a reason to care about the stakes.

>>6029851

>QM question: If you were given the reins to someone else's quest, what would you do differently? What current quest, that isn't yours, would you want to run if you weren't running yours?

Elf Maiden. I’d shorten the scope a little; offer several methods on how to bring back peace and reconnect the different races and have each thread centered around fulfilling that smaller objective. Also shine more light on the other NPCs especially someone like the chunni baron - he’s way too great to be left as a one-off.

Right now? That’s tough. I do like Soj’s The Prince but RQM’s Seekers of the Esoteric 8 would be interesting to write.

I do like the mesugaki basis already established in the quest proper but I want to lean more on this back-and-forth dynamic of him and his bodyguard. Right now it feels too prince-dominated.

Seekers… well, the other players probably know my feelings towards people who force the burden of pregnancy and children onto those who cannot handle it. My Tips - and even Costella - wouldn’t be so forgiving.

The feud with Carlos is interesting. Personally If I was him - and my goal is to remove him from Costella - I wouldn’t be confronting Tips even with friends; send a few people (who weren’t there on that night) to cripple and kill him in my stead while I and my friends stay at somewhere else at the time to provide an alibi.

Since he is a mage, anything that disrupt his spellcasting would be good; a few bags of flour or dust should either blind him temporarily or choke him for a moment. Ranged weapons would also be effective if Tips is in an area without cover, for example an empty street. Hell, shooting crossbow bolts into a crowded street is viable if Tips is at the forefront; it would seem he was just another casualty rather than a targeted attack.

Costella would probably figure it out and hate us but since our main “goal” is preventing him from having her in the first place, it’s a success. She probably can’t go after us legally nor publicly anyway. Good enough.

>Player question: If you could change one thing, anything big or small, about a quest you're reading, what would it be?
I have noticed a lot more misspellings in Seekers compared to most other quests. Most of the time it is not major, but it can get jarring when a word is in full caps and the letters are in the wrong place. In thread 7 Costella’s dad calls Ekaterine a cuckquean but the spelling made it incomprehensible.

His math is also wrong. Usually when that happens we roll over the DC by a wide margin anyways but nevertheless it is annoying. I don’t remember it messing up an update but the fact it happens at all is something I dislike.

As I have said before — take your time.

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>General question: What sort of direction turns you off from a quest immediately? What's something a QM can do to get your investment back?
Overly non-serious, sarcastic prose and dialogue. ‘Marvel humor’ as some would put it. A comedic tone can work - Bones & SliceQuest’s bombastic narration is a good example of that, but even then it knows when to pull back in certain moments.

Lengthy character creation. I care more about his backstory than the colors of his hair and height - unless that’s important to the plot at large.

Change it and I’ll probably give it another chance. It doesn’t have to be a whole 180, but if the QM takes into account the criticism, yeah.

>Lurker question: Would a "stronger board culture" make you want to vote more, or would it seem forced?
I don’t even know what that means. Closest thing we got is the king & queen tournament. And QTG. I did like the start of it - the Q&A, and roleplay between different characters were nice.

It shouldn’t be done very often. Maybe once or twice a year. No more. This tournament is fatiguing enough.

>Miscellaneous question: Summer is upon us! Got any plans?
Draw. Write. And maybe run picture related.

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Rolling to summon the vampire sorcerer to this thread

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>>6030072
People can be wary due to so many quests dying at thread 1.

>>6030035
>what are some ways to get more players?

For thumbnail, you don’t need to commission or draw art or anything of sorts, but just make sure the thumbnail fits the mood of your quest. Making sure the text - if you have any - clearly visible is also good.

For update frequency, know your limits. If you think you can only update every two or three days, say so. Try to keep updates consistent. Keep players updated if you cannot update.

Advertise on qtg. Give a bit of a description on what readers should expect from your quest.

Get archivebro to review your quest, although I don’t see him around as often nowadays.

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>>6029930
I always wanted to get back into royal rumble but truth be told I kept all the facts of every character / ages of children / plot points / characters motivations / personalities / economy / politics / etc in my head and when I stopped for a few months I forgot basically everything.

>>6029851
>QM question
In a roundabout way, that's how I started my first quest. A QM I was following stopped updating, I made a thinly veiled knockoff on it because I desperately wanted more content, and now I'm here.
If I was forcefully given someone else's quest? I wouldn't bother.
>Player question
No comment. The only quest I'm reading right now just started so asking for changes already feels a bit insistent.
>General question
If it's obvious meme bait or if it's from a franchise I have little interest in. I have no doubt that Gotham City Beat Cop or Disappearing Hogwart are probably good quests but I basically know little to nothing about Batman or Harry Potter beyond cultural osmosis. I doubt I would be able to fully invest.
>Miscellaneous question
Pft. Write my quest, chat with friends online, that's about it?

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>>6029851
What's up with that gay flag? Here's a better one.

After being plagued with medical issues for most of my actual weekend, Gotham City Beat Cop is back with an early release.

If you like about 10k Character updates then this is the perfect time to jump in.
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>QM Question:
I would pick up Naruto: Feeling Blue. Though despite being a Narutard myself, I don't think I could measure up to Blue's WoF and True Ninja system or the really charming way he wrote the character interactions. But I think I could turn it to a more narrative focus (whether or not that would be good for a Naruto story is up in the air) but overall I just think it's a premise and a main character that are really interesting and a plot worth seeing through. I'm sure he had his reasons for dropping it though, life gets very busy.

>Player Question:
If I could change a single thing about a quest I'm reading it would be Azula Grows a Conscience and I would just want more updates lol. AzulaQM does a fantastic job staying true to all the characters while still realistically building on them and handling their reactions to things, plus I'm a fan of alternate timelines.

>General Question:
It's all in the early stages of the quest for me, if a QM can sink a hook in with plot or a specific character I like then I'll follow it until it ends even if just lurking sometimes. On the flip side once I lose that interest I have yet to have anything manage to pull me back, I'm a fickle bitch when it comes to reading my stories.

>Misc.
Continue my quest and prepare for my second week long break since starting GCBC, I came back from the last one and looking back it does seem rather ominous to announce at the end of your first thread a week long break. Glad people trusted me to show up again lol

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Soj hear my big gay call

People give you too much shit dude if you rebooted royal rumble somehow or just did something similar and don’t let the retards try to get into your head I would genuinely escape samsara and ascend to nirvana

>>6030037
Honestly that's fair. If I have to be honest, I think past thread 3? is more or less a drawn out epilogue, and I don't think I'd blame anyone for dropping the quest past that point since it does shift quite massively from what it was before. It can get a little repetitive and handling a looser plot isn't my forte. I thought that as a writer going out of my comfort zone and trying to write something I wasn't used to could be interesting. I'd say I've learned a lot from it, although applying that knowledge is something else entirely.

>>6030086
>In thread 7 Costella’s dad calls Ekaterine a cuckquean but the spelling made it incomprehensible.

That one wasn't my bad, in fairness. I got word-filtered. At the time (not now, I guess? you just types it...) 'cuck' filtered to kek' as 'onions' (or s o y) does to 'onions'.

>>6030152
It's only a few threads, so if you reread it I'm sure you could reconstruct it. However, and I say this without malice or derision, you seem a bit quick to get demoralized/discouraged... I think maybe starting with something new and smaller and building out and up to a level you're comfortable maintaining might be less stressful and more sustainable? Even if Royal Rumble lives in my head rent free forever

>>6029928
+1, along with Drunk QM of Sunbelt Crusaders

>>6030033
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>>6030052
+1, that sounds fucking rad

>>6030069
What's up with the R-tier?

>>6030304
… what program are you typing in that even does that

>>6030362
Reptoid - his name. Those are his quests.

>>6030163
Wananow Wananow Umbracow

>>6030080
Thank you, I thought dropping into action first was a fun way to start. I'll reflect on that.

>>6030094
That's fair, I'd be too

>>6030365
4chan does that, friend. Apparently cuck doesn't get filtered anymore, but it was when I wrote that scene, by the same mechanism that turns 'f a m' to senpai and turns 's o y' to 'onion' and 't b h' to desu, and so on and so forth.

>>6030362
Literally me tier. Therefore, the best quests on the site, if you have a high tolerance for typos and like long-running, wordy quests full of weird relationships and (fictional) politics in a sort of generic D&D-inspired setting, and also for some reason aren't reading one of the much better quests that already do that.


>>6030380
Dropping into the action works best in a second thread, I think, or in a setting that's already very familiar (like a fanfic quest) because people already have an idea of what's going on and why they should care. That said, I voted in yours, and will keep an eye on it and add it to the list.

>>6030391
Thank you very much for the vote!

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Hello. If you like Dead Rising, please enjoy my quest. Frank is about to land in a new outbreak.
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>>6030069
Anybody got a blank template for this?

>>6030408
Anon, I literally just used the screengrab tool and MS Paint.

>>6030408
Double digit IQ moment.

>What sort of direction turns you off from a quest immediately? What's something a QM can do to get your investment back?

I find lewd quests boring and honestly don’t understand the appeal at all.

—-

Friendly reminder we (maybe just me though?) are planning to do a “Kaiju Month” on /qst/ this coming July, complete with at least one paired ad to draw in new anons. I’m running a semi-original oneshot in the theme and welcome other QMs to do the same. If we’re successful we might do other “themed” events in the the future.

In other news, Seven Against Thebes Quest will likely resume in mid-August and run more or less continuously until complete. It’s my intention to bring SATQ to a close by October 2024 - the one-year anniversary of the demise of Nikandros Hippomedion.

>>6030033
>>6030052

I would definitely play this, as well. Sounds lit.

>>6029851
>QM

I make a habit of adopting orphaned quests now and then, and some of my most popular quests, like Giant Spider Wife, started out as someone else's quest. I highly recommend it if you have the time, it's a perfect way of getout of your usual box/comfort zone and you can learn a lot from both interpreting someone else's ideas and style. As well as interacting with players you normally might not, or who want something from a quest you may normally not be used to providing.

>General

The biggest is excessive character generation. Charagen is always fun and engaging, but in moderation. It it's 20 QM posts in, or a week later and there's still consecutive charagen decisions then don't have high hopes.

Some lesser issues, are poor formatting, and I guess you'd call it writing or prose structure? If the quest is written in a script format, or as huge blocks of unbroken text.

>Misc.

Try to find a place to live and get a stable living situation again!

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>>6030442
Well if I don't end up running it, anyones free to take the idea and run with it.

If I do it, one of the first wife/husband choices would be a troll. Cuz Herr Mannelig.

And I have some really good ideas for other potential mystical spouses, especially in scotland/ ireland/ Britany.

I'd just need to find a good OP image, really

>>6030439
>kaiju
>THEEEEBES
Get hype!

>the appeal of lewdness
There's the base instinctual appeal to COOM, of course. Sex, like violence or food, is just a really fundamental aspect of the human condition, and something almost everyone has strong feelings about. Sometimes it's desire, sometimes revulsion. How one feels about sex, violence, and consumption of food and drink says a lot about them; even indifference implies a detachment or removedness which can help characterize them strongly. The way they approach these things, how feelings change around these things, they're all big deals.

There's also and believe it or not, this is the bit I enjoy playing with and why I include lewd elements in my quests the social, relational aspects of it. Sharing a meal, a battlefield, or a bed with a character changes how the audience feels about them. When that changes again, such as with enemies-to-lovers, or lovers-to-enemies, or someone agreeing/refusing to fight against the main character or alongside them... Or even something as simple as a breakup or another character refusing to share a meal with someone... I think readers feel that shift, and it's especially poignant if they are invested on a fundamental, base level with that character.

Too much focus on the lewdness itself over the emotional underpinnings and consequences puts me off, though. If the characters' reactions and relationships don't feel authentic, or the lewd/sexy scenes don't do anything to change or shift the story and are just indulgent, I lose interest.

>>6030475
>troll wife
Speaking of lewd! Monstergirls keep winning.
jk jk

>other mystical spouse options
Like a selkie or swan wife or something? Someone fey, like Dame Ragnell from Arthurian legend?

>>6030488
And some more obscure picks from the local myths. Are you the man who'll make Jenny Greenteeth a mother?

>>6030492
>Are you the man who'll make Jenny Greenteeth a mother?
Maybe, but I'd marry and lewd the Mari Lwyd.

>>6030493
Based

>>6030035
From my experience, the biggest determinant of player count usually has come down mostly to whether you can catch attention with the opening post. A good image and introduction combo, does it have the kind of oomph that can sit on the catalog for weeks and still draw attention.

Another important factor is the kind of quest you want to run, since some genres have a greater appeal or core block of interested players on this board. Pat of this can relate to established or "hot" IPs, like if you do a Star Wars quest as just one example, then you're going to get more players. Unfortunately this can be a little disappointing if you want to do your own thing, original content quests inherently have a harder time of things.

Lastly, it's important to know and understand that there is the quest you want to run, and there is the quest players want to play, and they may not be the same thing. It might be that the only thing you can do is just try to align them as best you can. Not every QM has the luxury of having a dedicated playerbase who are on the same wavelength of what they themself want or how they run a quest, or the talent/experience of being able to draw and hold a general (in this board's sense) playerbase.

>>6030488
I think that's a big aspect of it. Sex means a lot more than, well, the sexual aspect of it. There's a whole culture around virginity, faithulness, casual hookups, using it as a way to get what you want, ect. I think exploring those dynamics are very interesting, and I think it should ideally add something to the characters. Of course, I won't say I don't get indulgent sometimes, but I do try to at least address how each party perceives sex and what it means to them personally beyond how hot it's supposed to be.

>>6030497

>Not every QM has the luxury of having a dedicated playerbase who are on the same wavelength of what they themself want or how they run a quest, or the talent/experience of being able to draw and hold a general (in this board's sense) playerbase.

I think Olympus Incarnation Quest has been lucky enough to garner the former but has failed in many ways to garner the latter. I didn't really intend to do it at first, but my final product ended up having a villain mc- already polarizing- a strong emphasis on powergaming and system management (in other words, a borderline autistic degree of fiddling with numbers and theorycrafting power combos), and the story practically changing genre depending on what our resident psycho is up to and whose face she's wearing- anything from college rom-com to buddy cop show to action thriller to political drama to eldritch horror.

I think the general lack of set direction and near limitless potential regarding different powers might be interesting, but remembering all of the powers and items of both you and your subordinates can be a lot and I get why the quest doesn't have a ton of broad appeal

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S: The Best
A: Excellent
B: Good but Flawed
C: All Right
F: Was a Mistake

>>6030475
Grendel's Momma where you at girl? Where the wight witches at? Sail down the Volga and pick up some Rusalka (thankfully they weren't considered evil killer bitches back in the day).

>>6030086
>Seekers… well, the other players probably know my feelings towards people who force the burden of pregnancy and children onto those who cannot handle it. My Tips - and even Costella - wouldn’t be so forgiving.
This is why you're known as the abortifacient QM.

>The feud with Carlos is interesting. Personally If I was him - and my goal is to remove him from Costella - I wouldn’t be confronting Tips even with friends; send a few people (who weren’t there on that night) to cripple and kill him in my stead while I and my friends stay at somewhere else at the time to provide an alibi.
I begin to understand your Carlos paranoia.

>>6030391
>and also for some reason aren't reading one of the much better quests that already do that.
Woah these exist? Names?

>>6030503
>remembering all of the powers and items of both you and your subordinates can be a lot
Yes
I have to go through the info pages every time I vote these days :(
Some simplification would be nice

>>6030503
I'll be real I just read and think "haha powers go brrrr."

I'm pretty bad when it comes to keeping up with complex mechanics, etc., but I think the concept and playing as a total, unrepentant bitch are pretty fun (even though there are characters I feel pretty bad for when they get killed. Please don't let Ate kill PerdixI lowkey ship them, in spite of their differences in goals.).

Ate already has an overarching goal (world domination), so I think you're doing a decent job keeping readers on the hook, plot-wise. If you want a more "set direction" like you mentioned, all you pretty much need to keep doing is building upon the hooks you've already thrown out.

Overall, I'm enjoying the quest though. Extremely fun read!

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>>6030439
Can I interest you in a lewd kaiju quest?

>>6030508

Thanks for reading (and for the high rank)! Glad you're enjoying the quest!

>>6030526

I have tried to throw some hooks out for power simplification- combining powers with miracles (though that kinda blew up in my face as far as reducing complexity goes) authority grinders, the opportunity to sell stuff off at the auction, and not providing the character sheets for any new characters after Slavíček were supposed to help keep things more streamlined, but it does ultimately become the case that versatility is useful and, if you want to do write-ins, you kinda have to constantly check. Of course, I like to think that the options I provide are usually good (except for a few super obvious cases like Braun's time under <Touch>, there's always at least one provided answer with beneficial outcomes for the focus character), and casually interfacing like >>6030533 does is also completely fine to do; unless you have some specific idea in mind, don't feel pressured to be 100% informed with every vote- even I have to go back and check the text of some of Atë's less used authorities every now and again

>>6030534
There was mention of an idea for a kaiju quest where a washed out idol manager gets press-ganged into a JSDF plan to turn a captured kaiju into a local idol after she rampaged through a small Japanese city. The plan would both be to tame her and teach her to perform so that the town can repay the money it owes to the Japanese government for rebuilding. Also, all the kaiju would be cute girls for some reason.

>>6030539
>combining powers with miracles (though that kinda blew up in my face as far as reducing complexity goes)
Yeah, now we just have the originals plus the miracles, and we need to keep the originals for the miracles lol.

I guess the authority cap does a lot of heavy lifting in keeping our list from growing out of control, as frustrating as it feels sometimes. Plus a lot of those authorities are generic str up, spd up, stealth up, etc. Just worried that Gifts will grow out of control since they don't seem to have the same limit.

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>>6030555
So basically picrel.

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>>6030555
>Your town is under attack by an evil kaiju (Rodan?)
>You awaken the ancient protector of humanity (Mothra) and form a psychic link with her
>Mothra saves your town from Rodan
>She then takes a humanoid form to heal from her injuries and better understand humans
>She starts living in your house and going to school with you
>Every time she saves your town from an evil kaiju, you reward her with headpats, hand holding and sweet food
>Slice of Life shenanigans
>The quest ends when King Ghidorah attacks your town
> Mothra sacrifices herself to save humanity
> you die from grief
>The end

>>6029851

>>QM question:
>If you were given the reins to someone else's quest, what would you do differently? What current quest, that isn't yours, would you want to run if you weren't running yours?
For someone else's quest, I would've had Diesel Crash keep his cool tentacle powers. I feel like it could've worked out somehow, we could've broken out of Rivka's brainwashing, and Pepper would've forgiven us eventually. As for current quest, most of the quests I'm reading I don't think I'd make any changes.

>>General question:
Lewdshit. Dropped. Immediately.
>inb4 prude

>>Lurker question:
I think /qst/ has a strong enough board culture. The only reason I would not vote is if I am not caught up to a quest, or I do not believe that my vote would bring any value to the outcome (in which case I simply +1 the most logical vote)
>>Miscellaneous question:
See my abs, try stand-up paddling, figure out a way to become happy.

>>6030575
Gonna edit this a little...
>Mothra sacrifices herself to save humanity
>But not before sharing a night of kaiju snoo-snoo with you
>A few months later, you discover a bunch of exercise ball sized eggs on a tree nearby your home...
>Decades later, you've been forcibly relocated into the Appalachian Mountains with your family of two-story moth-human mini kaiju daughters
>the sequel involves having to fake mothmen sightings for both their safety and money, and keeping them from having sex with local teenagers and accidentally getting pregnant with more moth-human hybrid babies

>>6030508
the dixie one sounds interesting, but there hasn't been much going for it as of now and qm is slow to doot

>>6030534
>>6030555

I mean, I would support any Kaiju-themed quest in service of “Kaiju Month” and would even consider funding the ad for such a quest, but I personally am not motivated by qooming and wouldn’t play it.

Then again, I never got into Japanese manga and have watched practically no anime at all, so quests that partly derive from manga tropes are usually not that interesting to me either.

>>6030654
Don't worry, I'm not trying to convince you to play it. I'm trying to convince someone with QM skills to run it.

>>6030660
>I'm trying to convince someone with QM skills to run it.
I will not run it. You never said good QM skills

>>6030660

Be the change you want to see in /qst/, anon!

>>6030660
Viking saga dude here. I also had an idea for a kaiju quest once

>>6030663
I actively refuse to do so on the basis of sheer anxiety and terror of disappointing an audience.

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>>6030654
>YOU MUST NEVER WATCH ANIME

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>>6030667
Given the flag theme of this qtg thread, why anyone would bemuse themselves with even a casual interest in Japanese cartoons when this superior and enviable lifestyle is available and readily accessible is truly beyond my understanding

>>6030666

I can appreciate this, but at least you can drop your trip here if you blow it and start fresh.

I actually ran a bunch of meme-y one-shots in 2016-2017 and a semi-serous quest about a space marine aspirant, but I don’t hold those failed quests against myself; they were still good experience.

>>6030671
Always remember that failure teaches more than success, everybody. Just put your balls out and fuck up.

>>6030508
Ayyy I'm alright. I'll take it.

>>6030503
> and the story practically changing genre depending on what our resident psycho is up to

But sooner or later it always comes back to 'my god what have we unleashed on the universe?'

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>>6029851
>Player question
Go back and spare the cute rabbit that did nothing wrong.

>>6030699
Tomnadashan hands wrote this post

>>6029851

>QM question

I would kill more people in SfV. Not nearly enough people die there.

> Player Question

I would make at least one character in the quest a loli. The lack of lolis is disturbing.

> General question

gay shit, furry shit and torture

> Lurker question

we need more and better civilization quests and similar, used to love them back in 2013, but now they are all shit and all the QMs flake

forgot one

> Miscellaneous question
no big plans for summer, might run a loli quest if I can figure out a good plot

>>6030699
I wanted to but she just wouldn't stop trying to kill us, and by the time we injured her enough that she backed off she ended up dying.

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GNOME QUEST IS BACK! New post is up. I know I made a habit of posting at least daily, but had a bit of a delay for some personal reasons.
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>>6030701
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>>6029928
Kaz got hired to work on that Berserk fan animation. He's moved up in the world from 4chan questing.

>>6030047
>>6030058
Where is Space Empire QM? Hasn't it been a bit since the last thread?

>>6030786
Yeah, which was supposed to come out months ago, and which he said was going to come out the weekend he last came on, about May 15 2024 from a quick look on the interwebs.

>>6030789
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>>6030802
thank you

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As a photographer, Frank has to decide what parts of this tragedy are worth capturing...
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>>6030814
>>6030814

QM Question
I might give something like "The Tyrant's Death" quest a try if I didn't have my on soft-hiatus Fate quest going on.
Or maybe something in a similar vein to "The Lady Knight's Quest" is the next story arc almost ready LadyKnightLoverQM?
My quest's MC doesn't have very strong erotic urges partially by player-choice, partially by the circumstances of the quest's premise, partially because of unrevealed backstory reasons, so I haven't seen many realistic excuses to start hornyposting that let the story remain tonally-coherent.

General question
Some genres/IP's just don't do it for me. I don't read/play very many quests to begin with due to personal time-constraints but I might give one that I'd normally dismiss a look if /qtg/ gave it a lot of "rave reviews".

>>6030163
This is as good a time to ask as any, why are the stars laid out the way they are? Is it an equatoral/southern hemisphere constellation? The US flag just has the stars arranged to meet the number of states in a way that looks somewhat aesthetically-pleasing the 48-star US flag was way better.

>>6030880
Thirteen stars was the best.

Halo Wolfpack is up and running!

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>>6030876
>>6030876

New post is up.

New update is up!

>>6030735

With (shitty) art!

>>6029851
>Player question:
stop making the voting process so slow and biased with those stupid "events", they only tilt the balance of the votes, it would have been better (and probably faster)

>General question:
nothing really, if they lost me, they lost me

>Lurker question:
what?

>Miscellaneous question:
nope

>>6030508
Aaaay, I'm on the list. Guess I better update, eh?

When does Kaiju Month start?

>>6031176

I had arbitrarily picked July 1st but this is up for discussion, we could certainly adjust this if desired

>>6031267
This works well for me!

I do think, if I end up trying to run the norse fantasy saga thing, It'd begin in Gotland. Cause I like gotland and it has some pretty neat myths

>>6031274

Teehee, it’s too late anon. You’ve caught the bug. Soon you’ll be planning quest arcs and dramatic twists instead of sleeping like the rest of us damned souls…

>>6031291
Oof

>>6031274
Interesting, at one point I was mapping out the tribes of Scandinavia before they were united into kingdoms, although Norway is a harder nut to crack. There were the Got(h)s, Geats, Saxons, Angles, Jutes, Frisians, Gutes, Svear (Swedes), & across the Baltic Sea, the Balto-Slavic Wends.

>>6031360
>>6031360
>>6031360
Lodestar's back on the menu!

>>6029851
>If you were given the reins to someone else's quest, what would you do differently?
I'd change the title to something that's less like buzzword-salad and I'd make the protagonist into other women instead of being baby-crazy.
>What current quest, that isn't yours, would you want to run if you weren't running yours?
I'm not running one at the moment, but I'd like to run The Silver Contract. Though I'd probably end up straying from the intended vision, given my lack of knowledge of its cultural inspiration(s).

>If you could change one thing, anything big or small, about a quest you're reading, what would it be?
I can't pick out just one specific quest in this case; I'm getting really tired of becoming invested in a solid premise, only for the QM to disappear without any word and the quest dying.
I get that shit happens and players aren't entitled to receive content, but it seems to be happening a lot lately. Too much.

>What sort of direction turns you off from a quest immediately?
I tend to lose interest when something previously established as hard fact is contradicted, when there's a hole in the plot, when a character does something that makes no sense in terms of their own personality or the context.
Losing too many votes can make me want to drop out, too, but there have been exceptions where I turned into a lurker to see where things went.
Also, a higher focus on romance in general and real-world politics are deal breakers. These things are shoehorned into every other form of media, and it's sickening.
>What's something a QM can do to get your investment back?
Narrative inconsistency is something that will always be present once it has been locked in, depending on how bad it is, I might never become invested again.
If I become a lurker, I might try to vote again if I really like the direction things are going in, or have a strategy I want to discuss.
When the narrative starts screwing around with side plots, distractions, or becomes preachy, it's not likely I'll be won back, because it'd be really unreasonable to expect the QM to drop a scenario everyone else is having fun with for the one or two guys who are cringing.

>Would a "stronger board culture" make you want to vote more, or would it seem forced?
If anything, our board's culture is too strong; we need more variance in what our audience is willing to participate in, and we need to adopt the mindset that no, only one update a day ISN'T okay, so things can get rolling and stay rolling for both the QMs and the players.

>Summer is upon us! Got any plans?
Work is probably going to need more of my time, with the tourist season heating up and all. I might try to run something anyway, though.

>>6031366
>we need to adopt the mindset that no, only one update a day ISN'T okay, so things can get rolling and stay rolling for both the QMs and the players.
No. That’s up to the QM himself. A QM who puts out 2-3 posts’ worth of updates will need less time than another who puts out 4-5. Rushing an update to keep pace with another will only lead to sloppy writing.

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>>6029851
>QM Question
If I really had to change something about another quest, I'd probably just bring back one that didn't reach completion due to flaking or other issues. Really I wouldn't want to have the reigns over someone else's quest because that's THEIR quest, and there's no way I'd be able to run it in a way that makes it better while also keeping its original spirit intact without involvement from the original QM.
Even if I might not like a quest, at the end of the day it's them and their players' story, not mine, and I can't confidently say I could do anything about it better.

>General question
Overly horny OP images. I generally don't like overly horny or NSFW stuff, so if you're being horny right in the OP image I can't imagine I'll enjoy the rest of the quest.

>Miscellaneous question
Versequest will be coming back this summer after the current Downerquest thread is archived, so I'll be working on that!

>>6031366
>only one update a day ISN'T okay
now you got me curious, how many updates a day you think is the minimum?

>>6030391
The soi filter is annoying because I have to spell it Soilent Green or else get whacked with a big Onions Green (unless the full word doesn't get filtered

>>6031423
Three fiddy.

>>6031366
>one update a day isn't okay
That's just unfair. QMs have the right to run their quests how they want, and at the pace they want, and if that means one update a day or less, then that's their choice. That pace can actually work for a lot of people, and a slower quest is usually much easier to get into halfway through a thread than a faster one.
Keep in mind, that time between updates gives your quest a chance to reach new players, as it being static allows people to catch up much easier.

>>6031412
Can you draw a black woman in verse style ?

>>6031443
Maybe...?

>>6031379
>A QM who puts out 2-3 posts worth of updates
Updates (plural) is still more than one update (singular).
>Rushing an update to keep pace with another will only lead to sloppy writing.
This is about improvisational and adaptive writing, and our roots are from a board where threads used to die within an hour if they didn't get bumped.
The big question (that will likely go unanswered or be deflected) here is "why didn't those QMs who had to maintain a rushed pace have an issue with sloppy writing, if rushing to keep pace only leads to sloppy writing?"

>>6031423
Depending on how many posts make up a given update, two to three minimum.
I'm curious why you think this matters to the point. Not that I expect a straight answer, but still curious.

>>6031442
>That's just unfair.
It's also unfair to invest a bunch of time into a story as a player, only for it to drop off a week later without getting into any major plot points or action sequences. Yet this is seen as fine.
It's also unfair as a QM to have an audience with the slow-burn mindset only come in and check once a day, letting things stagnate even further when by all rights the update could have been written hours ago.
Yet this is seen as fine.
>time between updates gives your quest a chance to reach new players
A quest that has been advertised in /qtg/, even once, already has all the players it's going to get, and this is assuming said players know how to use the catalog and pin threads.
A week old thread at 20 posts, barely even into its introductory conflict, and a tied vote sitting on page 6 is effectively dead. Stalling for that one late comer who doesn't even exist just doesn't make sense.
Shill in /qtg/ too much? You're seen as a needy annoyance, or "why would you want random votes for a tiebreaker" deflections get thrown out.
This isn't fair either, by the way, but it's seen as fine.

>>6031456
>Updates (plural) is still more than one update (singular).


>Rushing an update to keep pace with another will only lead to sloppy writing.
>This is about improvisational and adaptive writing, and our roots are from a board where threads used to die within an hour if they didn't get bumped.
Well, our roots isn’t us anymore. Threads last longer. We can afford to take longer.

>The big question (that will likely go unanswered or be deflected) here is "why didn't those QMs who had to maintain a rushed pace have an issue with sloppy writing, if rushing to keep pace only leads to sloppy writing?
There’s shit writing everywhere. The QMs of the past are no different. People didn’t suddenly become worse because their threads have more time to exist before they expire.

>It's also unfair to invest a bunch of time into a story as a player, only for it to drop off a week later without getting into any major plot points or action sequences. Yet this is seen as fine.
No, it’s not, what the fuck are you talking about. People dislike flakers. Always did.

>Shill in /qtg/ too much? You're seen as a needy annoyance, or "why would you want random votes for a tiebreaker" deflections get thrown out.
This isn't fair either, by the way, but it's seen as fine.
You are literally making shit up. People advertise in qtgs all the time and people do not give a single shit because it’s not an annoyance. Look through the past qtgs right now and see how many people complain when a quest needs a vote / is advertised

>>6031456
The fact is, not everyone has the time to be pushing out more than one update a day all the time. To expect every QM to do so is unfair, and if it became a part of board culture to try and "force" this it'd lead to a dead board with less OC.
A QM is gonna run their quest how they can and how they want, and that's the way things are and should be. As shitty as it is to have a QM flake or abandon a quest you really like, it's just a thing that's going to happen, and there's nothing we can do to stop it without making the board toxic and less fun.

perceived necessary frequency of updates is an important factor in audience retention
for a long time one update a day was considered adequate
I suppose the demand for faster pace is returning
this is a good thing, I miss the crazy pace of /tg/ where some QMs would write ten updates in one day
since it is summer it might just be bored teens who got used to chatgpt and think all QMs have to shit out stuff at the speed of light otherwise why bother just prompt the AI and have your own adventure
if YOU can maintain three updates a day for months on end, then by all means, go ahead
just try not to be struck by the curse

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The latest issue of Maximum Spider Quest just dropped! Be sure to swing on by when you get the chance!

>>6031469
>>6031469
>>6031469

As Halloween approaches in the Maximum-Verse, strange events begin to occur. Such as the return of the Morlock's mascot, Donny. But his new form is far stranger than his previous incarnation...

>>6029851
I WILL update once three days.

>>6031462
>


>our roots isn't us
*aren't
And yet they are, because we still follow the voting structure, use of dice, and naming conventions of our roots.
If we aren't our roots, shouldn't we be moving past the prominent aspects of our roots?
Deflect again.
>threads last longer
Describing the issue back at me is neither an excuse nor justification of the issue.
>The QMs of the past are no different.
No shit. There still were people who could rush without getting sloppy though, despite the assertion that rushing automatically results in sloppiness.
>People didn’t suddenly become worse because their threads have more time to exist before they expire.
So then they should be fine with a faster pace. They aren't worse than the people who had to rush but didn't get sloppy, after all.
Still want to know how the people who did rush without getting sloppy did it when rushing supposedly intrinsically leads to sloppy writing. Deflect again.
>what the fuck are you talking about
Examine the difference between someone who flakes after a week when the story has barely passed the "prologue" and someone who flakes after a week when the quest has progressed to the second or third "chapter".
Both examples are unfair, but one gives far less of a return for time investment, but the slow pace that facilitates reduced returns is defended.
If we want to make appeals to fairness, I will gladly do so. There are many other instances of unfairness on this board that just get glossed over, too. Of course, if we no longer want to make this about fairness, I'm cool with that too, but make sure you don't flip-flop on your standards, okay?
>see how many people complain when a quest needs a vote / is advertised
If it isn't an issue, why was there the sentiment a few threads ago trying to deride the validity of inviting random voters for tiebreakers? Also, on average, how many times does asking /qtg/ for tiebreakers end up with a positive outcome, or any changes to status quo at all?
The lack of explicit complaints isn't proof that it isn't a problem, especially in a community that can't directly answer questions.

I'm proud that I made it to the end of my first thread on my first quest ever, albeit a bit slow. I really underestimated the amount of time and effort it takes to run one. I wish I was able to do multiple updates a day but that would just burn me out. I would If I could but my brain is too slow.

>>6031463
It's not about forcing things, it's about having a healthy pace, and about resolving the unfair bullshit I mentioned that you blithely ignored.

>>6031519
Imagine going through all that time and effort, but being unable to finish it.
That'd be pretty unfair.

>>6031519
Congrats, yeah running a quest is hard, especially if youve got a job and family.

>>6028531

Here's a recent quest that 21 updates in one day. Most of them are 1-2 paragraph updates but I enjoyed the old rapid-fire style of questing.

>>6029851
>QM question:
I wouldn't want to play someone else's quest. That's someone else's baby, and they've put plans into motion that I have no idea about. I'd much rather start from scratch.

>General question:
Overly specific meme title/premise, deeply personal political influences, and blatant coombait. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be allowed to run their quests, but I'm just not the general audience for it. I want a story that I can immerse myself in, with believable characters that I can grow to care about, and those aren't things that I can get from certain quests.

>Lurker question:
Some people are terrified of making a mistake or putting themselves out there, even in the best of cases, and there isn't a whole lot we can do about that.

>Miscellaneous question:
Write, work, chill with friends and loved ones, repeat.

>>6030304
Happened to me in my quest. I mentioned a word that got auto-corrected to "onions", and it sort of ruined a joke that my character made. I wasn't aware of it because I've never once had a reason to type that word on this site.

>>6031519
Congratulations, anon! I also wish that I was capable of updating multiple times a day like when I first started Max Spider. But I've got a job and a group of friends that I enjoy spending time with, so I try to make time for each of those things. It's important to find balance while being a QM.

>>6031456
>The big question (that will likely go unanswered or be deflected) here is "why didn't those QMs who had to maintain a rushed pace have an issue with sloppy writing, if rushing to keep pace only leads to sloppy writing?"
Quests on /tg/ were much more slapdash and often wacky or random than most of the quests around here tend to be. They were run in sessions, often involved a QM just picking the suggestions they liked the most and running with them rather than tabulating votes, and generally WERE sloppier, as I recall. Which is fine, and I like quests like those, but quests like mine and many of the ones I like to read wouldn't work well like that. I wouldn't be able to keep up with as many quests if they were all raid-fire like that, that's for sure.

>It's also unfair as a QM to have an audience with the slow-burn mindset only come in and check once a day, letting things stagnate even further when by all rights the update could have been written hours ago.
How is that 'unfair'? What??

>>6031522
I ignored the rest of what you said because like >>6031462 you made half of that shit up. I've been here for less than a year and even I know it's very clear that people do not like flakes, nor do they treat those who advertise in the QTG like nuisances. I post most of my updates in both the QTG and the server, and I'm yet to get a complaint.
>healthy pace
My point is, that what a "healthy pace" is is different for everybody. There is no set "healthy pace", just what works for you.

I invite you anons once more to Unbroken Empire: New Frontier civ quest. We're making a coat of arms for the ruling dynasty and there are some interesting designs.

>>6031261

>>6031519
Good job, anon! Finishing a thread is one of my favorite feelings. Hope your quest goes well!

>>6031517
QMs already dedicate 2+ hours every day for an update, and you want them to dedicate 6 or more, unless you want quality to suffer. How about you screw yourself??

If I could change one thing about any quest I'd make it so Crusty's ass tumors didn't kill him. Or have anons not vote to put on the mask. Either or.

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>>6031524
You are absolutely right, zooming updates anon, slow updates are killing quests, QMs degraded and should now write 12 hours a day to keep up the old standards. /qst/ has fallen, billions must die

Man I hate writing after work

>>6031618
I love ti as a way to destress, most days.

>>6031366
This isn't the /tg/ days when an entire thread's worth of updates could be pushed out in a night. For one thing, we don't have the same player base as we used to that could support that kind of pace and keep it fun. Also, go back and check out some of those old /tg/ quests. Not like the GOATs but just some random ones. That multi update push results in some poor, bland writing and choices a lot of the time. The QMs who could keep it up were exceptions, not the rule.

Don't get me wrong I am super excited when my fav gets an extra update or two in a day, especially during action-y parts but I hardly expect it.

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>>6029851
Why are there always some civ quests on the board? And what are some in-depth ones?
>pic rel

>>6030526
>Woah these exist? Names?
Forgotten Realms, Local Lord, and Silver Knight if you squint. Lodestar also just came back (S-tier, easy), and while it's more JRPG-inspried it scratches a similar itch.

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>>6029851

hey, thanks a lot for the formatting guide. it's going to come in handy.

>QM question:

my inspiration to run my first quest was Disappearing Hogwarts Quest, so I'd love to write a couple guest updates to show my fanboyism, but nothing beyond that. As for what I'd do differently I'd try and save Lily. Arty is lovely, but Lily's death was just heartbreaking. It's far too late for that, but a man can dream.

I think the QM's decision to stick to it was a good inspiration for me as well and he's doing an excellent job so far.

That said, I'm currently in love with my own quest and players' reactions, so I'd stick to my lane probably.

>General Question:

Character generation taking too long is a big example.

Or gimmicky quests that do not develop characters. I tend to score a 0 in originality myself, but character and setting development is a big point for me.

I also tend to dislike too much lewd in quests. It tends to mud the engagement. I still enjoy lewdpastas or extras off-site. On the other hand, sprinkling a little bit of eroticism may be a good way to find a balance. Sex is part of life and ignoring it as a motivation for a character is... silly, IMHO. It just doesn't have to be the focus of the quest. This ain't the portal fantasy section of Amazon after all.

>Miscellaneous Question:

Of course! Go on with my quest, rewrite a yuri fantasy/historical novel about witches and princesses and hopefully find a new job before the end of summer... and do more workouts

>>6030069

>Silver Knight Quest in that pic

That's my quest over there! I'm really glad you are reading it! Hope I'll get better as a QM and it will one day be worthy of an S tier.

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>>6031453
can you draw one with a shirt like pic rel ? thanks
>>6031653
>filename
QM is that a spoiler or just our mc on an AU ?

You can only keep the good quests suppressed for so long trannies, I will preach Herders praises and keep his memory alive long after all these BAD fantasy quests run

>>6031653
Keep it up for a second thread, and you'll pretty much get bumped up to S automatically. Your writing and setting are both very cool.

>>6031453
>>6031412
Can you draw one of my quest MC? Thanks

>>6031919
what's your quest, anon ?

For any 40k guys I've just made a planetary gov. quest
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Sushi navy quest when?

>>6031919
lol get a job you bum

>>6029930
If you want to do a Batqiest spinoff I would be interested in "editing" it to borrow a comic book term and letting you do your own take on the material. I'd just be there to answer any lore questions you may have and make sure contradictions don't go too far.

>>6031985
Nah, sorry. it's fun hypothetical, but Batquest is fine as is, and I have my own needlessly-convoluted fictional universe to run quests in these days.

>>6031695
>DAT filename

just some good old-fashioned trolling unless...

>>6031889

Thanks! I hope we can at least reach the end of the night cult investigation before the dreaded Page 10 puts everything in ita big dusty bag.

>>6030508

>look mama, Argia is on TV!

took me a while to notice this pic for some reason. Thanks for reading SKQ and for giving it such a lovely rating anon

Curse Carrier ended. Finally, a quest that reached a definitive conclusion without the QM dying or flaking. This is a rare occasion

>>6032260
The Berserk quest of Becchi ended not too long ago

https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=BecchiQM

>>6032279
WHAT? I STOPPED READING IT WHEN THEY GOT ON THE BOAT Even now, Miura's mistake carries so much memetic force... DID VLAD GET HIS HAPPY ENDING?

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I installed Stellaris to scratch the space nrp itch and now I'm just playing the game instead of working on the multiplayer space faction quest I described in the last thread. I've got the galaxy map with sector tiles and space borders ready, basic rules laid out, need some rolling tables for random events and stuff and some lore and I'm ready to go. Yet I'm playing the game instead of working on them.
But it is NOT over. I will begin the final push tomorrow or even today and may very well finish it soon... but the real challenge is keeping up the updates, of course, even with the relaxed pace and number of players I've planned.

>>6032260
I've heard of very long-running quests finishing recently, although it's true that the great majority of them flake it's not exactly unheard of. Now to decide if my next quest will be something simpler to unwind or something more advanced but more work intensive. Probably the former, don't wanna burn out or anything.

>>6032315
What will the name be? I'll check it out but I don't usually look at civ quests

>>6032282
Its a worth read. I suggest you to do it. I was there from first to last thread and i enjoyed it.

Much the same for the end. Trust me and do it for Becchi, anon.

>>6032260
It also had the protagonist get the girl and start a family *before* the epilogue. I respect that. I hate how quests will have romance, have the characters bang, but if you even get something like that, the 'family' part only comes on like, the last update on the epilogue.

>>6032320
The most ebin name COSMOGONY was taken by Souv so I decided on something similar like simply COSMOS but I am considering other options since it makes it seem like I'm plagiarizing the name of the quest itself as well. Unfortunately they are all unsatisfactory so far. You'll know when you see it, it'll be in all caps like DISFORTUNA that's present on the board right now (cool quest btw check it out), and have a space theme to it. If you're unsure just check the opening posts.

>>6032371
How about KOSMOS, for the original Greek word? Alternatively some fancy shmancy name using words like "Waltz" or whatever.

Rolled 3, 10 + 1 = 14 (2d10 + 1)

Test

>>6032409
Starting the tutorial combat encounter on my new oneshot quest! Have pretty much no experience making my own combat system, so I hope this will be a good learning experience...
I'm gonna try to have combat updates happen way more frequently than normal updates since it's way less text to write, though I'll have to take a few hours long break in 3 hours because of Work Stuff.

>>6029851
>>6032260
>Horus Heresy QM flaked on a cliffhanger
>Azula Quest QM flaked
>Pokemon Loser QM still hasn't returned
>Lord of the Rings Dragon QM still hasn't returned
I'm not sure if I feel anything anymore.

>>6032456

>Lord of the Rings Dragon QM still hasn't returned

This was the deepest cut for me.

>>6030224
>>6030307
I was thinking for a long time how to answer these posts, but ultimately I think Ill just say that its best to leave ~high effort~ questing to younger QMs with more free time to kill. I need to save my energy nowadays, so ill just stick to low-mid effort questing.

>>6032541
Whatever works best for you. Nothing worng with short quests and one-shots. How old are you?

>>6032456
Still miss White Tower Quest and Violent Masquerade

>>6032577
Violent Masquerade was so great. Why did it die? Just a busy QM?

>>6032456
>Pokemon Loser
Yeah that still hurts

>>6032597
Yep. I mean getting engaged is abot as good of as excuse as there is but...

I also miss the Pokemon quest where we were a check cooking them up. Sad it never returned.

>>6032640
Fork & Spoon? Yeah, that one was awesome, too.

>>6032574
I think quest run length and effort are completely separate variables. Won't name names, but there are plenty of long running quests that are, in my opinion, very low effort. Likwise, I have seen many short one shots that are very high effort.

>>6032788
>Won't name names
Why not? Are the QMs gonna hunt you down and kill you?
After all, effort doesn't actually directly proportionally produce quality. Somebody trying to bake a cake with sawdust can spend all the time they like on it but it won't make it taste better. Considering the term of investment and how a quest demands time and focus for a long period of time, I don't think something having less effort put into it is necessarily an indictment. Only if being lazy is significantly negatively impacting their work.

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>>6032792
>Why not? Are the QMs gonna hunt you down and kill you?
Depending on who he names?

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>start a new quest
>barely put in any effort compared to my main quest
>it is much more cynical quest
>I'm getting over double the votes for this new quest compared to my main quest

>>6032456
Is it bad that I take solace in my incomplete quests not being on the list? They have passed and no one wept, and that's a bit of a relief.

If a QM takes an extended break(week+) for no good reason in the first two threads that means the QM will flake and its not worth getting invested imo.

>>6032792
>effort doesn't actually directly proportionally produce quality
No, not at all. I agree completely. But that wasn't what I was trying to say.

>>6032840
Which quests?

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>>6032792
>Why not? Are the QMs gonna hunt you down and kill you?
Every QM of a long running quest is in a secret, shadowy cabal who will kill anyone who attempts to slander their names. Don't you know this, anon?

>>6032954
My shadowy cabal is not a secret.

I think we need a quest about a dance competition.

What mechanics could we use to make the dance-offs interesting?

>>6032788
Saiyan Conqueror quest

Lesches, if you're here, is the next SATQ going to start with Nira and Peleus meeting?

>>6032954
Come fight me. Shirtless. In the rain. On top of a cliff the loser will fall from into the darkness below never to be seen again until the sequel

>>6032960
>What mechanics could we use to make the dance-offs interesting?
The QMs have to record themselves dancing how their characters would dance. Points are awarded in typical "Asshole panelist judges who can't do jackshit themselves" fashion.

>>6032970

Yes, I'd like to finish the Deianira interlude before we move onto regular business, although it feels a bit awkward to start the next SATQ thread with a "flash-forwards" sequence featuring characters from other quests. However, seems better to finish the 'Nira scene before we move on, not to mention - I see these interludes as being important connective tissue linking TWQ, TWQ:DS and SATQ together. I had earlier been willing to drop the Deianira threads, but now that Trojan War Quest has ended, it seems wrong to leave Deianira's future in doubt... I have a nice idea that in the future, someone could binge all these threads - it would be easier to see all of the fun hints and foreshadowings that I've been sprinkling in.

I've been reworking the next SATQ thread's arc as well - now that we've established some of the core cast and characters of Hippomedon's time and I've revealed approximately one half of the main dramatic tension of SATQ, I'm feeling more comfortable jumping ahead to the next "interesting time" in Hippomedon's life. If we have any prayer of finishing SATQ this year, I'll have to be efficient, and that means our time in Argos has nearly passed us by...

Everyday I check the catalog for a quest that caters to what I want
No I wont just run it myself id just flake

>>6033021
What do you want?

>>6033022
A hug would be nice.

>>6033030
We have quests for that!

Halo Wolfpack is up and running!

>>6017840
>>6017840
>>6017840

>>6033022

DWARF FORTRESS MOTHER FUCKERS. SONGS OF STONE AND STEEL BY ARMOK! TWICE I HAVE LOVED AND TWICE I AM SHATTERED BUT I WILL LOVE THRICE AND FOUR TIMES EVEN FOR THE GLORY OF STONE AND STEEL AND PRECIOUS THINGS MADE WITH SKILLED HANDS.

>>6033022
You weren't supposed to actually ask
Urban Fantasy SoL
Shounen Sci-Fi Adventures
Edgy Loathing and wallowing in pty

I'll be fair I didn't look that much.

Holliday returns to his home at Albatross Island, a haven for mercenaries, criminals, and assassins.

>>6032940
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>>6032977
>The QMs have to record themselves dancing how their characters would dance.

I mean, motion capture and virtual characters exist, so it might actually be doable if the QM is a good dancer.

>>6033104
>Urban Fantasy SoL
I, too, would enjoy this

>Shounen Sci-Fi Adventures
It's not QUITE what your'e looking for, but I think Lodestar would be up your alley, or maybe Solarpunk Cleanup Agent.

>Edgy Loathing and wallowing in pity
I don't really play a lot of quests like that, but there are elements in Silver Knight and One Life. Oh, and Downer Quest, of course, whenever it starts back up!

>>6032883

Nay Anon, better you dream of autistic warlocks, superhuman patriots, or a boy and his starved mutt than any ilk of mine. I've lost the soul and I don't know where to find it again.

>>6031517
Be the change you want to see. Run a quest in sessions, churn out updates at the rate they are meant to be churned

>>6033103
Brothers of the mine rejoice!
Swing, swing, swing with me
Raise your pick and raise your voice!
Sing, sing, sing with me
Down and down into the deep
Who knows what we'll find beneath?
Diamonds, rubies, gold and more
Hidden in the mountain store

Born underground, suckled from a teat of stone
Raised in the dark, the safety of our mountain home
Skin made of iron, steel in our bones
To dig and dig makes us free
Come on brothers sing with me!

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole

Hey so, I'm gonna try my hand at running what is essentially a settlement/civilization game, do you have any tips? I was going to have some funky little blob creatures be the focus, and they'll develop mutations and new traits as we play and as their colony grows.

>>6033184
It's my experience that /qst/ prefers civs driven by a few dynamic characters or families/dynasties, as opposed to ones that are broader, zoomed out an impersonal, and focus on minutae and micromanagement of resources.

>>6033184
My only suggestion would be to put some good planning into it, systems that are easy to understand and can cover wide bases.

A lack of planning and a complex or plain bad system for rolling kills so many Civ quests because the QM just doesn't know where to go after update 3.

>>6033104
write those yourself you lazy bum

>>6033186
Well dang. That kinda dampens my urge to try. BUT I WILL DO IT ANYWAYS.
>>6033187
Hmm, that's good to know. I like keeping my systems relatively simple.

Thank you both for the input.

>>6033104
After spending way too much time writing DHQ lewd/altfics, I checked out my old notes for something I had an idea to run years ago which is Urban Fantasy with a good amount of action but had a strong emphasis on some world building and character interactions. Not sure how much banal SoL I had planned but I might end up trying to run it after summer is over.

No promises about if I will do it or if it would actually scratch that it

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>>6032960
Voidship bridge sim dice mechanics. Hit the right numbers more than the wrong.

>>6032960
Demon general QM is that you?

>>6032960
Give it dimensions of energy, artfulness, intimacy, passion, conmposition, consistency and figure out relationship between them

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>>6033199
hand it over

that thing

your DHQ lewdpaste

Hey qtg discord fags ur link isn’t working

>>6032373
Hmm... maybe... no I don't like it. I think I'll just add something to COSMOS like COSMOS: RETURN or COSMOS: COMEBACK to signify the humanity returning to the stars after the HORRIBLE CATASTROPHIC EVENT motif.

>>6033253
I know I said I'd take a break but I opted for the dumb quest idea I wanted that sounded simpler. I've always been fascinated with shitty game creepypastas, so I thought the idea would be kinda fun.

>>6033255
"Kinda fun" doesn't sell your quest very well, bro. Is this some kind of low self esteem shit. Tell me it's so scary I'm gonna peepee my diapers.

>>6033268
Well, you're playing AS the haunted game for one. So it'll mostly be trying to mess with people in interesting ways while trying to gain power. It'll be fun from the player's point of view, probably a terrible experience for the people you torment.

>>6033129
>Be the change you want to see.
This would require me to get multiple personality disorder and samefag my own quest from different IPs.

>>6033251
1. I'm very flattered by your praise.
2. How about HOMECOMING?
3. Here's a really good quote I saved from /lit/ years ago:
"Go, be free. Stretch your new wings and take flight. Those rocks which haunted your dreams are all can be yours to claim. A new era of man. What’s that? Life out there isn’t much fun, you say? Those worlds, which your greedy hand grasped are no true home? That’s all right, pack your bags, come on home. There’s soup on the stove. The seats of power are still warm. Never mind those who got left behind. I'm sure they'll get along just fine."

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>>6033301
>This would require me to get multiple personality disorder and samefag my own quest from different IPs.

>>6033424
HOMECOMING is pretty good. The quote... it would be ironic considering the location of Earth is lost and it is obliterated. At least, that's what everyone believes... But it is indeed cool, it has given me inspiration regarding the content of the opening post. Thank you.

>>6033240
Isn’t the link set to never expire?

>>6033546
it's failing for me as well. Anyone got a new link?

>>6033237
Haha sure. I can post some of them again. Been trying to find a place I can put all the pdfs that won't disappear or stop working suddenly. Fuck suptg for not archiving pdfs.

Got to go do shit for a while first.

>>6033565
thanks anon

Enclave quest ...... CIS quest....

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>>6033673
>>6033673
Easy way or hard way? Frank has to make a split-second decision in Dead Rising Quest!

>>6033577
FUCK, Return to us Warden

One day in the far future I will own a computer, & then I will finaly start QMing & run the following:
SKAVEN WARLORD QST
RWDS QST
RETRO-FUTURISTIC POST-APOC BRI'ISH QST INNIT?
KILLZONE HELGHAST ASSAULT SQUAD QST
MK TOURNAMENT QST (with crossover fighters, ironed out metaphysical topology & origins of the realms, & an actual tournament structure with martial arts from around the world)
WEIRD WAR 2 EASTERN FRONT QST
METRO EXODUS QST (but the scenario is way different, no Artyom, & lots of route changes)
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WESTERN QST (protag is an anti-red Cossack)
SEMI-HISTORICAL VIKING/VARANGIAN QST (light supernatural elements, attention to detail with different tribes)
WARHAMMER FANTASY BORDER PRINCEDOM QST
POST-APOC CIVIL WAR REDUX QST (North-South divide on the East Coast)
FELLOUT: NCR TROOPER QST
FELLOUT: ENCLAVE RESERVES/SECRET SERVICE QST
MERC QST: FOURTH WORLD (Country) EXTREME
GTA: GANGBANGER QST (Y2K/GTA3 vibes)

As for Qst Ideas that I'm not so sure about eventually running, but would love to see:
JAK & DAXTER: THE RISE/REIGN OF MAR QST
BONKLES (BIONICLES) QST
CHAOTIK QST (minus the human/virtual bullshit)
D&D: DARK SUN QST
THE STRAIN QST (Guillermo del Toro)
WATERWORLD QST
CONQUISTADOR(E) QST

>>6033806

Have to say that I'd play most of these anon, good taste

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>>6033760
Also, I have a question if any of my players are in here (or if you just want to share): what is the best part of Dead Rising as a series and at what point did it lose the way? Hoping to make something that really appeals to fans of it, like myself.

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>>6033575
>>6033237

Here is one of them, one of the less crappy of the bunch I think. I wont shit up the thread posting all of them, maybe dump them all at beginning of next DHQ thread or something.
Just as a note, these aren't like 100% smut things. I enjoy writing alt stuff and character interactions more and seggs is just a cherry on top. The stuff I have written also tales place where the interDickt of Merlin Exists, so everyone is like 30% hornier.

https://rentry dot org/bwd7isxx

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Solarpunk is back from an extended vacation, starting off with some fighting against sewer-dwelling noita.
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to all of those who are waiting for HeadQM´s return to the Disappearing Hogwarts Quest
i (and i cannot stress this enough) MIGHT run a Wizarding World themed quest this weekend, it MAY or MAY NOT be related to HeadQM´s story or at least set in the same canon, i still have yet decide that.
so if you are looking for a place to hang out while waiting for HeadQM, you are more than welcome to join in.
important note, if i do this, IT WILL be my first time running a quest here, i´ve done some DM´ing before for a local D&D group a few years ago, but still, be ready and expect a lot of improvised shit and misspellings

>>6033974
I'll check it out. An don't feel too bad: I've been posting almost daily in quests for three years now and I'm STILL 90% typo by mass.

>>6033560
https://discord.gg/K4ACFAcfmF

Try this one if you like

Halo Wolfpack is up and running!

>>6017840
>>6017840
>>6017840

We need a quest about a loli sharpshooter that has a robot witch companion that is scared to use magic because it malfunctions randomly every time it casts a spell.

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>>6033184
>>6033192
The setup is good, as people have said before, focusing on individual characters is a good way to get engagement in the game, as it puts a "face" to the more generic and vague systems of government, resources, and so on. I also quite like blobs because it both makes art/representation easier and you have a nice setup for differentiation between the characters (blob colors, mutations, etc.) however as someone who has ran a Civ game for a few years game I'll give some general advice.

I don't really know if more traditional Quests have this problem as much; but civ quests seem to have an especially large number of "pointless" updates, as in updates with no meaningful choices. You'll write it up with the intention of offering choices, but the players will all flock to a specific choice which, in hindsight, is obvious. Civ Quests are especially prone to this because of the lack of emotional and more material focus of the game, and secondly because of the larger time span and importance to each vote. You'll get a feel for this as time goes on; but a good example would be something like a "short term payoff vs long term investment vote". Players will never vote for the short term payoff, even if it is both realistic, obvious, or even optimal in your eyes- Quest players are risk averse and prefer efficacy in their choices and votes. This isn't ideal, because you want to make each choice meaningful and equally good for one reason or another, even if players are acting with the best interest of the civilization in mind, subtle changes in how they perceive the culture or potential "end point" of the Quest will give them multiple avenues for development. Do they want to invest in the military/warriors and be stronger? Do they want to focus on food and growth? etc. This is a useful replacement for the "roleplaying" aspect you'd find in more traditional narrative-driven quests, where instead of roleplaying as the Quest's MC, they are roleplaying the civilization as a whole. My Quest featured multiple chances and ways to direct the core culture and government of the Hegemony, which was interesting to see develop alongside the player choices with some QM fiat thrown in. However as a secondary warning again; anything that leads to exponential growth (Science research) is going to be far more desirable to the players and lead to "pointless" updates more- this is due to the multiplicative and exponential growth of technology often being a feature in sci-fi, which is why I've had to intentionally decouple it from the generic "science" branch of government in my game. It's a small thing and may not be applicable for blobs, but if you have a magic system or mutation system with a similar theme, you'll be constantly annoyed at players just pouring their resources into what you view as a boring, safe, non-intrusive choice- as to them it is the most optimal choice and the one that leads to the least setbacks.

Secondly, Civilization games are inherently reactive. Usually, your civilization or culture is going to be sedentary and, unless you follow a very specific set up, will rely on farming/industry to support themselves. This inherently means there won't be much "exploration" in the game, meaning most threats or problems have to "come to you" so to speak, since most civ games have an element of building up or capturing territory. This also has the added problem of meaning you'll be facing the same enemies, the same neighbors, etc. This lacks the excitement of a more traditional quest, where you could just up and move the MC to somewhere else when you get bored of the current background. For this reason, you'll have to invent problems that come internally, which can annoy players- managing people is not easy, but trying to simulate the difficulty of ambitious/rebellious underlings, disobedient clients, unexpected behavior or just straight up incompetence at the lower levels of your society will very easily feel like the QM just making shit up for drama or like the game is "rigged" against the players. This is in stark contrast to most single-perspective focused Quest where most of the players resources (skills, equipment, close allies, etc.) are going to be MUCH more reliable. It's reasonable for players to react this way, even if it is far more realistic for your player's favorite retainer to just up and quit or die in a freak accident then have them always be ready to go on demand over the course of a whole campaign, it can quickly become grating if you do it too much.

I've personally found that a good method of this is switching focus between multiple different aspects or long-term goals; juggling between them when one gets tiresome or feels fully explored. The nice thing about civilization quests is this is inherent to the narrative; buildings take time to make, populations take time to grow, etc. However, you have to make an effort to remember and continue these plotlines instead of letting them fade away, else the players will feel like their decisions don't matter as much or are being forgotten. Thankfully, as a QM, you'll have the advantage here as you will know way more about your Quest then anyone else will.

These are a couple of small things I thought about for running a civ game on /qst/, I hope my limited experience was helpful to you.

>>6034009
thanks it worked

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>>6033974
I would check it out. A quest in the same universe but with no relationship to what Elliot and the gang are doing could be fun, but something 100% not related could be good too.

If you plan on writing in the post box vs in a word processor, AI Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool catches most of my spelling errors. Better than default spell check at least.

> my first time running a quest here

Got to start somewhere.

>>6034144
Gee, not very subtle with that imagery, are you?

>>6034266
welcome to the fag arc, anon

>>6034338
I definitely love it when the civ strategy turns into furry yaoi.

>>6034266
I like his tail has a little faggy hand limp

>>6034266
>>6034338
>>6034345
>>6034354
They seem cute. We'll see if it ends in tragedy.

>>6034355
I'm sorry to say, but if i wanted to see tragic furry yaoi, i'd have gone to a red board or wherever they write that shit. Time spent on that is time that could have been spent on cool shit like psionics, space wars and exploration.

>>6033943
thanks! will gladly read your stuff

>>6034361
But Anon, how will people live if we don't have gay representation in absolutely all of our media?

>>6034368
Wasn't Bluey, Yuan and Yellow Fellow enough?

>>6034361
I see no reason one precludes the others.

>>6034368
Are you accusing Bananas of all QMs of pandering? Lol. Lmao even.

>>6034361
It couldve if you had argued your vote better anon, but life goes on, and the story moves in a direction you have less and less control over as a quiet voice who cant argue his points, stay or leave the quest will continue the way it is without a voice of reason, will you fight or perish?

>>6034371
If you read my post, instead of getting defensive about the idea of anyone saying even one negative thing about Bananas, you'd see that I'm not accusing him of anything, and rather expressing exhaustion at having to see gay shit everywhere in general.