Welcome to /qtg/, a place to talk about quests. Mods please don't delete this, the other one hit the image limit while it was on page 5.Previous thread (it hit the image limit early)>>6102738>What is a quest?An interactive story in which a Quest Master (QM) writes and provides the readers with options on how to proceed — similar to a choose-your-own-adventure book or an old text adventureQuestionably Useful links:>QTG discord: https://discord.gg/dZavHuK>Skirmish discord: https://discord.com/invite/DZCVvVU>Evo Game discord: https://discord.gg/v55Xaaja>Old pastebin containing advice for QMs:https://pastebin.com/Z78p8gXfBadly in need of renovation.>Archiving guide:Go to http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/requestqstinterface.htmlFill out the request form to archive a thread.Threads are also automatically archived by other websites, such as archived.moe.>Formatting guide:Only the thread's OP can format. Note that should the OP change ID, they will lose this ability as well.Remove the spaces between the [] brackets and the letters:Bold: [ b ] text [ /b ]Italics: [ i ] text [ /i ]Red: [ red ] text [ /red ]Blue: [ blue ] text [ /blue ]Green: [ green] text [ /green ]>Formatting guide for everyone:Dice (type this in “options”): dice + [no. of dice]d[no. of sides on the dice] (optionally you can add modifiers: dice + [no. of dice]d[no. of sides on the dice]+[modifier]; for a negative modifier type: +-[modifier]Examples: dice+1d100 = a 1d100 roll, dice+1d100+10 = a 1d100 roll with a +10 modifier.Spoiler: [ spoiler ]spoiler[ /spoiler ] or by pressing alt+s in-thread>QM question:Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater?>Player question:What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy?>General question:Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive?>Lurker question:Vote or you'll get tricked!>Miscellaneous question:Got any Halloween plans?
>>6120952New QTG!>QM question:Halloween doesn't exist in the Versequest universe, so God doesn't. Fido however certainly does. I like to imagine it's one of the few times of year he can find any joy in life. It's also an excuse for him to talk about the macabre without looking as weird... He is most definitely a treater.>General questionI believe I made a little Christmas post in one of the Versequest threads, but besides that, I don't believe so. Maybe I will for the current Downerquest thread...>Miscellaneous questionEat candy and watch horror movies. The same thing I do every year...
>>6120952Not only does the local analog to Halloween exist in the world of Cutémon, but her friend Ward has three undead-type mon friends who only come out one night a year on that date.
>>6120952Loom where fore art thou? I want the adventures of Jet to continue.
>>6120952>Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater?Unfortunately, Lodestar does not have Halloween! The closest equivalent would be a holiday mostly celebrated in Voda, in which people leave out offerings rich with mana to dissuade a malevolent being, one described in ancient stories, from destroying and consuming them and their loved ones. The tradition has since shifted, with mischievous individuals going out and 'stealing' the offerings of people that have earned their ire over the past year. These targetted people, of course, have made a game out of making it increasingly difficult to reach the gifts. They don't poison the treats or anything though, because that would defeat the entire purpose of the tradition.
If FMH knew what Halloween was, it would probably be his favorite holiday.
>>6120981who's that baddie ?
Oh hey, new /qtg/!>QM question:Yeah, probably. Walter's from a place and family that had the holiday as a tradition even before it was a widespread American thing so he'd probably have indulged. His favorite activity is probably tricking others, funnily enough. He likes trying to figure out what scares the most people at once and how to scare them the best way. To that end, he's definitely a tricker.>General question:Yes, yes, a hundred times yes!I'll probably get a bit looser with time a little later in the quest just so that I can indulge in this. I love this shit to bits and it's a shame more quests don't do it. It's really leaves a world feeling static if you don't indulge in some seasonal fun from time to time. Sure, it can feel misplaced if your characters are celebrating Christmas in summer, but what's a little holiday fun in a fantasy world going to do to your immersion if the rest of the quest is in on the misplaced timing?I don't find it disruptive at all unless it's something like a beach episode interrupting a big climax. Which never ever happens in good quests. So kudos to every single QM who includes seasonal differentiation and progressive time mechanics in their quests, I love you very much.>Miscellaneous question:No idea. I'm not a party person so there's no way I'm substituting for trick-or-treating with some kind of party. I might end up just staying at home in some neat homemade costume and playing vaguely spooky vidya or watching creepy movies, I don't know.The holiday would be a lot easier if I wasn't such a wuss. I'll figure things out when I get there, I guess.Also, obligatory shilling below as I've finally had the time to put out another entry for Poképocalypse.>>6121015 >>6121016 >>6121017 >>6121019 I wish it didn't take so long, but the curse is real bros. Don't underestimate its power.
>>6121025I thought I'd be off for three weeks but it turned into three months.
>>6121000QTMummy, new characterMore art must be made of her I say
>>6121047I would accept her as a mascot.>>6120952>Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater?Existing in a fantasy world, probably not. However...>>Zith-ZiShe would probably feel a little awkward about it, up until she realized she essentially had license to harass people for free shit. She'd absolutely go for a slutty/cute costume instead of a scary one, though, to show off the new bod, and get liquored.>>Cara-ZiShe'd be amazing at tricking or scaring people, being a demonic goblinoid shapeshifter. All the attention on her would make her self-conscious, though... if it didn't trigger her <WANT> and make her go berserk. She'd need minding, and ZZ would be in no state to do so.>What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy?I'm genuinely not sure who my favourite character is, but I'll go with Hawthrone from GCBC and say... The Man With No Name, maybe.>Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive?I've always wanted to do it in my quests, but rarely found a good way to shoehorn it in, in-universe. Whenever quests actually pull it off, let alone at an appropriate time IRL, I'm always delighted.>Halloween plansI'd love to have some, but all my friends seem to be busy with responsible adult shit, so maybe the pub.
When was the last time there was a halo quest run here?
Obligatory one of these, too. WhatCHOO plain', /qst/?>>6121130I'd check if suptg wasn't down.
>>6121130iiirc there's a quest named Halo: Wolfpack or something like that
>>6121145https://twitter.com/ThunderheadQMYep
>>6121216>>6121216>>6121216Want to scratch that Halloween itch? Maybe you should see a doctor about that. But if you can't afford one, then there's always my latest quest...
>>6121130Halo Wolfpack will return buddy, i trust in Thunderhead
>QM question:The Hegemony does not practice non-secular holidays. Most of them serve an explicit purpose; and do to anti-religious autism Halloween would almost certainly be considered an anti-social behavior. However, if the Supreme Ruler deemed it useful to have a day of the year focused on fear; maybe it could be reinvented into a sort of "doomsday preparation" event.My other Quest characters are less defined. Captain Rich comes from a world which basically has no holidays because of how desperate everyone is. Max would 100% dress up and has extensive experience with making costumes from trash, as everyone does on Level 5. Probably the most wholesome Halloween celebrator.>Player question:For me? It's the humble one-bar fun sized Kit-Kat.>General question:I've attempted it once or twice, but I think it should be done more. Halloween is perfect for it as its aesthetic and can be made to be scary (as a horror off-shoot thread) or fun and wholesome (seeing characters dress up is the best). Christmas is a bit more typecast into being purely wholesome though, and I like it less for that reason. I also had/have a desire to run a one-off horror themed multiplayer quest every year in October, titled "Will You Survive" with players having to try and survive a night in some scenario. Unfortunately the timing was off last year and now THIS year too with me currently running another thread/being fucked constantly. I just get the feeling I'm never gonna get a chance to do it now. I suppose you could start it on Halloween but what's the fun in that?>Miscellaneous question:I'm going to a concert for the first time in my life around Halloween. Never been to one. I am packing ear-plugs because I'm a huge pussy.
>>6120952>Vote or you'll get tricked!Joke's on you, I already get tricked every day of my life.>Got any Halloween plans?No.I have no friends.
>>6121377>concertThey can be a lot of fun, just try to have a good time and get in the groove of it. I hope you enjoy, Mr. Bananas!
does anyone know what's going on with the sup/tg/ archive?
>>6121139thank you again for reading my quest
>>6121452Thanks for running such a fun quest!
>>6121410It got cancer from having an upvote/downvote system.
>>6121506>Upvote/downvote systemAn especially easily-abused one, too.
Things get real in this new Downerquest update...>>6121561>>6121561
>>6121145>>6121146>>6121273Oh, I asked since I didn't wanna step on any toes/ to see the sort of dice mechanics/ rules were used for it, cause I've had a brain worm of a spartan 2 quest roiling inside of my head like a bad taco in the gut
>>6121609Let it out! Run that Halo quest! (if you know what the questers like)
>>6121609If you run a Halo Qst, lemme get ughhjjhh... boneless lesser used Covenant & unaligned aliens. Maybe some Killzone stuff included for offshoot human colonies.
what is a good easy quest to run for a new QM
>>6121666Like the three fringe species and the October 10th aggressors?
>>6121697Yes
>>6121667Start with a one-shot with some major fixed points and a clear ending. Maybe something with a bit of simple combat or, alternatively, slice-of-life to hone your narrative chops. That's my advice, for what little it's worth.
>>6121667Sonic the Hedgehog x Jojo's bizarre adventure.
Posted without context.
>>6121759me
>>6121809Incorrect, you do not have the hate necessary to equal mine. Even as the anger has cooled off, a deep despising continues.
>>6120981Made a little quest for this little lady if you'd like to check it out!>>6121718>>6121718>>6121718>>6120952>QM question: Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater?I've got a few quests under my belt now. FMH, as stated before, would if he knew. Jack Jackson definitely does; he loves dressing up in costumes. He used to like trick or treating, but being a cyborg, there's little reason to. QTM knows of Halloween but doesn't care much for it. She would definitely play into it if someone she cared for wanted her to, though.>Player question: What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy?This is tough. I can't imagine DIESEL CRASH dressing up as anyone specific. Maybe Batman. And man, candy? I'll have to ask Bones later, but I'll go with candy corn.>General question: Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive?Before today, I haven't, but I'd like to do more! I love holiday specials... save one. I never thought I'd ever see Luke Skywalker with such heavy eyeliner.>Lurker question: Vote or you'll get tricked!Yipes!>Miscellaneous question: Got any Halloween plans?My girlfriend and I are throwing a Halloween party! We're dressing up, drinking a ton, and having a great time overall. Also making her a top-secret "boo basket". I'll take any suggestions on what to add to it.
>>6121818Oh wow, a halloween quest, nic->It's a dyke hoe romance story
>>6121609Won't be stepping on anyone's toes. More Halo is always good.
>>6121825Does that FRIGHTEN you? OoooooOOOoooOOO!
>>6121919Just not keen on playing as some manhating hoe.
>>6121825>>6121921It says she hates MEN. There's nothing to suggest that she doesn't like little boys.
>>6121921For the record, QTM doesn't hate men. In fact, most of her organization is comprised of competent men she respects. She wasn't a huge fan of being married because of a dower (I used the wrong term in the quest but let's ignore that), but she doesn't dislike the guy. She just doesn't find him attractive. I'm saying this now because this probably won't crop up in the quest.>>6121929Also, gross!
God damn it, just as my update schedule gets back on track some madman decides to leak almost all of gen 3's beta pokedex. What the fuck lol. LET ME WRITE!!!I'm gonna go do that right now but god damn dude, what great timing. Fuck these three for absolutely making my day and justifying my eternal love of Mudkip.
>>6120952DISFORTUNA continues. There will be a reckoning.>>6121972Also>Miscellaneous question:Wait until after Halloween then get fat off of discount candy in bulk.
Does a Nightmare Before Christmas quest need a unique dice roll system? Im making one for a quest I’m whipping up based on it but I’m not sure if it’s worth it. Im making 1d20 roll system in which a 20 is a treat and a 1 is a trick. Both of which change the environment in ways, so always going for a 20 isn’t always the best option because the scenario goes to both the opponent and the player. Trick mean’s something negative happens to the environment. Of course it isn’t a fuck you level of good or bad more like both may get new rules to play and adapt by.should I go for stuff like this or just do 20’s are good 1’s bad approach? Maybe I asked too much first time here I just wanna know if the board cares about ‘tism and slightly schizo systems. Should I ramble about the power system? I just rewatched the film and saw the spiral tree and thought it’d be a cool idea for the holiday worlds to be alive in a literal sense.
I miss elf maiden quest :(
>>6122062It was peak.
>>6121609GOD PLEASE DO IT I LOVE HALO SOB
I can't even think of a Quest to run.
>>6122049>Does a Nightmare Before Christmas quest need a unique dice roll system?It doesn't. I haven't seen a system like that before. Will it be best of 3? If so, you need to think of the swings caused by critical rolls.NBC is a setting I've never seen run before, would give it a try. Even though it's been a while since i've seen it.>Should I ramble about the power system?Go ahead.
>>6121992Whether you say she doesn't hate men or not, if a quest started with a male nobleman character bragging about having affairs with servant girls, even if his marriage was arranged, that'd usually be a sign of him being a jackass womanizer and not something to be seen as positive. It wouldn't be a positive thing. Add that to her just not finding men attractive, and i fail to see a reason why i, as a man who doesn't hate other men, would be interested in such a quest.
>>6122073Run for president quest
I believe we need a tiebreaker in Downerquest if anyone is interested!>>6122131>>6122131
All QMs running Pokemon quests... you might wanna see this...>>>/v/691719697>>>/v/691724403>>>/v/691701021>>>/vp/56571607>>>/vp/56572853>>>/vp/56569594>>>/vp/56573116>>>/vp/56562488>>>/vp/56571780
... Does anybody know what happened to suptg and when it's coming back up again?
>>6122186Folks checked into it and supposedly it's a hosting issue. Seems like it's just something that'll take a bit of time to take care of.>QM question:Oh shit, where do I start?>StanDefinitely. She's short and immature enough to still be mistaken(?) for a special needs child so she definitely goes ham on the candy. At least until Sybil wrangles her. Fave candy: Sour Punks!>DieselDude gets invited to a few parties by his fellow classmates, but he usually works on Halloween so yea. He DOES have some scary movies he likes to binge every year, though!>>6121818 here is right--CANDY KERNALS is where it's at for Diesel!>AntonAlso tends to work on Halloween, but he has a bunch of scary games he plays to make up for it. Once tried to stream, but no one watched apart from someone who was clearly jorkin it to the crappy Vtuber avatar Anton wasted money on. Favorite Candy: FINNISH FISH!>Player question:RALPH from DownerQuest would probably dress up like a WIZARD so that he could wear robes all day. Dude probably likes Root Beer Barrels>General question:Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? The BONERVERSE is pretty parallel to our own, albeit with a few minor changes, so yea--they've got similar holidays and whatnot. As for Zoral in Dark Quest, well... we'll just have to see, ey?In general though, I've wanted to write seasonal one-shots, but with how long quests last on the catalogue these days I'd rather not commit... maybe some day!>Miscellaneous question:Moved to a new state recently, but we're goin to a Halloween party. Vidya, movies, candy, the whole nine yards!While I'm posting, looking for a DARK and (maybe) SPOOKY quest? Join us as we draw to the close of THREAD 1 of DARK QUEST--a rip-roarin' fantasy adventure where you help the erstwhile protagonist ANTON PEAS try to find a way back home from a dimension where everything is shrouded in DARKNESS!It's DARK QUEST, people! Come check it out--it's seasonal, kinda!>>6095278>>6095278>>6095278
>>6122140>Humans having relations with their pokemonsWhat a bunch of degenerates!
>>6122222Not just that, but humans having children with pokemon is canon. And not even just the mammal-likes either, there's a story about a dude who impregnates an Octillery.Wild shit, really.
>>6122248>there's a story about a dude who impregnates an OctilleryKind of sounds like a Rule 63 allusion to the poem/painting 'The Fisherman's Wife'.
>>6122268They're all basically allusions to native stories, like the one where Arceus turns into a human woman and becomes pregnant with two twins from a human man. But that doesn't change the fact that there are actual official Pokémon stories about Octilleries, Lapras and Rapidashes getting impregnated by human men.
Did something happen to the suptg archive site? Can't seem to access it.
>>6122281Based??More seriously, it IS Japan. they might bleach their panties for the Western market, but I'm not surprised at all that they have/had such stories in the original draft for their own culture. 'Animal bride' stories exist in many cultures, and Japan has some pretty famous ones in particular with kitsune and such, right?
>>6122073Cat in a Haitian neighborhood quest.
>>6122294mfw
>>6122140already on itthough I will admit I don't think I expected to be reading THAT much about Pokémon-on-human rape and I have some uhI have a lot of cat videos to watch and a lot of uncomfortable worldbuilding to do
>>6122289>>6122186
>>6122522Thank you!Any idea how long it should take?
>>6122612Nah, and I don't want to pester the man personally. It'll work when it works. Nothing he can do to hurry it along, by the sounds of it.
>>6122072I'm currently doing some reading and lore diving to make sure I've got timeline and details right, and working out the choices for protag at the start and what'd make them special (Since every spartan has something, like John's luck)Currently, the two I'm certain would be on the list are an asian girl whose incredibly stealthy, And Sven the big motherfucker who could to look down on an elite after their augmentation
>>6122522Good to know, thanks.I kind of wanted to look something up there before reviving my quest, but it can wait a little longer.
>>6121139ah man I missed thisthanks a lot for reading my quest, anon! I'm very glad you like it :)as for what i'm playing... not as much as I'd like to, honestly. Two of the quests I was playing most recently died on thread 1 with a whimper and the other one I just haven't had time to catch up on. The new Pokémon leaks keeping me busy alongside crazy irl shit has helped nothing, and I just hope that God lets me have some time off soon lol.What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before.
One more time. After some delays (hope the archive gets back up soon, seriously), Core of Steel is back for a finale!>>6122691>>6122691>>6122691
>>6122692>What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before.Pirate Tier.No it basically means "me."
>>6122692>>6122698>What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before."R" for "ReptoidQM"
>>6122698>>6122701ah, got it, makes sense. Didn't realize your name was Reptoid lol, I think you lost your trip for that post.
>>6122705I don't usually deliberately ear it outside my own quest, but some folks have learned to recognize the style of my ranking posts.Anyway, your quest is great. Keep up the good work!
Is it autistic to watch several documentaries and read a 200 page history book solely in preparation for your quest idea that'll probably get like 2 voters max?
>>6122709Not at all
Confess your /qst/ sins.
>>6122729LurkingNot writing and running a quest
>>6122645SVEN MY KING
>>6122695KINO ALERTKINO ALERT
>>6122729I have been bashing my head against the next part of my quest for several months... and absence has not made the heart grow fonder.
>>6122729Sit on an idea for a quest but not have the balls to go through with it out of fear it'll flop instantly
>>6122729I've been putting off starting my quest for weeks.
funny, the new thread i created for part 3 of the Caretaker Quest (live now) pushed part 2 out of the catalog, poeticanyway, as i was saying, part 3 of the Caretaker quest is now live!your (not) girlfriend is VERY mad at you for being forced to grope a student right in front of her!what will you do to calm her down?vote now!>>6122821>>6122821>>6122821
>>6121609>>6122645thats fine, we all like spartans here.i am waiting for thunderhead but halo wolfpack is a different beast from what you have in mind. The missions we have done are mostly in space, while we have also done operations on ground and boardings with full command of the whole thing. From what you are saying we would be using a spartan II so not the same thing of a human like Norman, different perspective and missions.>>6121666>unaligned aliensmore enemies to kill ? i don't see them doing anything else but staying neutral or doing opportunistic raids against humans.>Killzone stuffgenocidal bald innies flavor to be glassed/nuked?Anything else would change widely things, an actual power would be difficult to make sense of. Innies where being kicked hard, and hunted down even harder by ONI (even the highly organized groups of innies Cole fought didn't do anything more than salvage/steal and modify old CMA ships or civilian ships, they couldn't produce anything of their own). When you add the Covenant is full cleaning up of anyone remaining in the Outer Colonies, or in less known colonized smaller outposts and the like especially if they don't follow the protocol or before it was implemented.
Forgotten, I summon thee! Bring back our quests! (Honestly, either one is fine)
>>6122775Which quest anon
>>6122754Saving that, nice job!
The final post-weekend numbers are in. An even 500 suckers peeked in on the /qst/ board over the weekend for possibly the first time. 4 cents per newfag is not a bad rate IMO. I know I've noticed a few posts from anons who seem like they're new to the board.
>>6122985Thanks for your service.
>>6122985Fantastic haul of anons, anon.
You try to calm down. You're the calmest guy in the world...>>6123076>>6123076
>>6122985Good work, anon.
>>6122985Doing god's work, anon. Atta boy
Easy addition to A-tier right here. Anyone in the mood for a spooky-season quest ought to check it out!>>6121216
>>6122985i'll be honest, i never thought these could actually work, glad to be proven wrong i guess
>>6122729I have infiltrated the spaces of the /qst/men. they do not know I lurk among them, a fake in their midst. as a certain vampire sorcerer would say, tee hee hee
>>6123178>Knows about vampire sorcerer>Still thinks he's not a /qst/manAssimilation was inevitable from the start.
>>6123178>>6123189Yeah, congrat you're one of us now, wether you like it or not.Now, show quest played.
>>6122985shame it coincided with the archives being down
>>6123206Newbies wont know much about suptg anyway. Luckily, we still have archived.moe.
i hate to be a bother, but i could use a tie breaker for the next vote in ther Caretaker quest>>6122821thanks in advance
>>6123121I knew you still loved me. Thanks, blud!
>>6122729I've become too invested in my own quest characters and world and don't know if I want to relinquish control of them back to the players by starting a new thread. I'm half tempted to rewrite as a novel or make it a videogame instead of continuing...
>>6123292Many such cases. You must be prepared to 'kill your darlings' to QM or DM, moreso than even as an author
>>6123292You like the characters because of the choices the players made, no?
>>6123292You better not be Forgotten (though if you are I'd read that, but also, I want to finish playing)
>>6123292From someone who also wrote a world of characters that were quite influenced by actions my players made in an older DnD campaign I hosted, it does get tough. Do write down your own ideas on the side if you get the spare time; there's always the possibility you might use it in your own project, or some nuance the players miss might come back to bite them in the butt.Though yes; like >>6123299 and >>6123298say, it could provide the more meaningful story for the players who made it possible to begin with as well.
>>6123314For me, the fun of QMing is in the emergent, unexpected details that emerge. Do I sometimes wish players went another route? Sure, but there's a weirdly-poignant authenticity is the (admittedly sometimes meandering or inconsistent) way players take a tale and direct a player character. I'm experimenting with (slightly) more predetermined and fixed MCs in my current quest, but even then the write-ins and off-the-wall choices of the players have helped characterize them and direct their story in unexpected ways. Same with dice-rolls: sometimes the MC fails when I'd sort of had a plan for their success, or vice versa, but that lend undeniable dynamism.
>>6123322Ahh, yeah. As someone who both wants to start my own /qst/ even though I'm relatively new here, though also having a good chunk of experience through other means in the past, I've been trying to read through various quests to see what that good balance of write-ins to predetermined courses is; I prefer being much more open-ended with my stuff, though my biggest fear is, give too many choices or don't give any suggestions and then, boom! Decision paralysis. Happened with a Battletech group I tried hosting once.
>>6123324As a little treat, go read Black Company Quest or especially, Sworn to Valour Quest (though ignore the anons infighting for the first dozen threads on that one lol)
>>6123324>decision paralysisVery valid concern. I've seen it take down quite well-written quests RIP Troll Quest, RIP Strogga. Mainly, I'd caution you to have some form of flow chart or similar device and to have a plan for every default option you provide, to vet write-ins you have no idea how to handle or genuinely do not like, and to NOT do "write-in only" choices until at least a few weeks in, so that players can settle upon a baseline characterization and solidify a short term and long-term goal. If they're wishy-washy, don't be afraid to just straight up put it to a blunt vote like "What is your short term goal? What is your long-term goal?" I learned that in my first quest, and while I tend to leave things open-ended and even give players a chance to "back out" of choices or directions (to mixed reception) it's a far cry from my fairly directionless, argumentative Quest 1 Thread 1.
suptg still down and the spam bs on the board. /qst/ has fallen, millions must goon to femcs.
>>6123332Flow chart? Hmm, never really did that in any of my campaigns before; then again, for the most part even if I did offer choices and suggestions my main campaigns were mostly open-world settings. I always set up some basic worldbuilding as well as basic backstories if the characters are in some way predetermined, yet still looking for some last tidbits of advice before I finally start putting a quest out... actually, I should ask those right now.For one, if the world that I've built has a 'magic' system that has a lot of specific instructions to it yet also allows for lots of fluidity, is it better to infodump the basic rules of various components as they're encountered and give the users a chance to explore each one, or just softly suggest some creativity through NPC interactions?For two, I suck at art. Like, REALLY suck. I also don't believe in AI usage for my imagery (nor have the money to purchase subscriptions to the actually half-decent AI image generators), and fear that if I embrace the drawfaggotry too much, it'll ruin... iunno, it'd probably ruin something. Is that the case, or do I not need to force myself to learn FireAlpaca for now?Thanks!
>>6123322I guess a lot of character choices and development only occured because of unexpected player choice and rolls. Its just now that the baseline has been established and I'm invested its daunting that a drastic change could be made by the one or two anons that decide to vote or roll that day...But if I don't offer meaningful choices I might as well just be writing a story or gameplay etc.
>>6123348Just don't include directions you'd be fundamentally uncomfortable running, would be my thinking.>>6123347Lots of quests have no art at all, so you're fine either way. As for the infodumo vs. diagetic reveal, diagetic is almost almost preferable unelss its a very "gamey" (vs. CYOA style narrative focus) quest.
>>6123371>Lots of quests have no art at all, so you're fine either way. As for the infodumo vs. diagetic reveal, diagetic is almost almost preferable unelss its a very "gamey" (vs. CYOA style narrative focus) quest.Good to know I shouldn't need art except just some generic cover-photo.As for diagetic, then it'll play out quite nicely. In the words of , I'll just 'let these newborn gods play with the tools I was gifted and let them mold the very universe that created them; that I created for them.'Might begin to post it starting a couple days from now- just gotta finalize one important NPC.
>>6122729Life got busy and I've been gone for a few months. I forgot some of the quests I liked.... Shame. Also why is suptg down?
>>6123448Florida cyclone
>>6123458Any alternatives? It's kind of cancer trying to find all the threads I missed out on.
>>6123466archived.moe is the only one
>>6123347 Is it better if you explain it step by step, and through the quest it self. If the info gets long, you can write a pastebin or more than one and put it at the start of your next thread for easy access.Not an issue. People will appreciate even if you use the draw function on your posts and make something basic, or even paint. It will ruin nothing. You could make a basic stickman, and anons would appreciate that. A basic map with a river that is a blue line, its fine too. Most of the anons make simple images, which are still okay nobody will judge them for it. No lmao.And if you don't think you can make images, you can just search and post images that are close to what you imagine they don't need to be made by AI or perfect. If anons like your quest enough, they might make some images and post them. Provided there is enough info for them. You should check around different quests, for get a better grasp of what i mean.
>almost ready to make quest>can't actually start it because I can't find a single fucking good battlemap makerI hate it.
>>6123526Wonderdraft/Dungeondraft depending on whether you want outside or inside
>>6123528Something free, anon. Something free.
>>6123529Piratebay anon, piratebay
>>6123529Inkarnarte is also decent iirc and has a free (albeit limited) version
>>6123530I wouldn't know where you can pirate wonderdraft. It's not in any of the "game" pirate sites. Also, who df uses pirate bay in this day and age?
>>6123531Though actually, that might only be for overworld maps
>>6123532People who want free shit..?There is a slightly older version of both Wonderdraft and Dungeondraft on piratebay right nowhttps://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Dungeondraft&cat=0https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Wonderdraft&all=on&search=Pirate+Search&page=0&orderby=
>>6123534>he actually uses piratebayThat place is literally the most virus ridden site on the internet.
>>6123535I mean... if you're smooth brained as fuck sure but alright anon, fuck me for trying to help. Gift horse and all that you know?
The Prophecy Names Me, So I Post About A Recent Update In /qtg/!>>6123553>>6123553>>6123553>QM question:No Halloween in fantasyworld, enough demons as in. Were one to exist, Niklos would be the type to put a bowl of sweets outside the door.>General question:No, it would probably be disruptive. >Miscellaneous question:Too old and childless for that.
>>6123347>magicI do not know how your magic system is structured and what you mean by "softly suggest creativity through NPC interactions", so it's hard for me to answer your question. Do you mean there's a set of predetermined spells and you'd offer them to your players while slowly introducing the option of changing the spells to their own tastes through NPCs' guidance? As opposed to infodump the rules and leave them to figure out their own methods themselves?I think both approaches could work. There IS a subset of /qst/ autismos that love crunching numbers and optimizing builds, so you could get away with a rules-heavy system, but I'd say most would be scared off by the need to understand it to participate. Though you mentioned you'd introduce the rules as they're encountered, not all at once, so I think you're going to be fine whatever you do.>artArt is not necessary. Neither collected images nor your own drawfaggotry. Though it usually raises the quality and attractiveness of the quest if present. If you decide to include them, it will take a lot of time, both drawing and searching for the perfect picture, be prepared for that.
>>6123535That's what the antivirus is for.
>>6123536>say you don't trust extremely sketchy, virus-ridden site>anon immediately gets offended and acts like i insulted his mother
>>6123580>thinking you actually have to go to www dot the pirate bay dot com in order to pirate somethingIs this the zoomer incompetence I've heard so much about?
>>6123586I'm not the one who said to use pirate bay and then acted like i was being "picky" when i said "no"
You have severe head trauma and don't know what to do. Fun!>>6123574>>6123574
>finally have a day (that isn’t taken up by some unique event or a natural disaster and its consequences) free to do more work on the quest>don’t get any sleepI finally understand the value of caffeine
>>6122985Thank you for your service o great Spender
>>6123457>>6123457>>6123457The Graverobber's Daughter resumes! Chlotsuintha has lied and winkled her way into the common room of Cancer House Coachery, only to conclude that she cannot risk boarding stage or team here. Unfortunately, this was after the Keeper of the House was sent for - which necessitated folding herself up like a pretzel and hiding underneath an out of the way table. Where she is stuck for the foreseeable future, lest she let herself be discovered and have even more questions put to her that she cannot provide answers for. Currently, she is trying to listen into a conversation between someone she presumes is the Keeper and the concierge she herself sent to fetch the Keeper just minutes ago. I need some anons to make some rolls. Also, a question for the general. If there are multiple rolls called for, would you prefer having them done all at once, then a big update, or would it be better to have updates for each of the outcomes of the rolls instead? I'm trying the latter at the moment, and I cannot tell if it is better or worse.
>>6123622>>6123622>>6123622Aaaaaaaand were back, even if its a day or two late. Thread 2 starts with... Gay feelings? What the fuck, where is the murder and killing?
>>6120952>Does your MC celebrate Halloween?Mamoru would celebrate with his little brother every year. They would dress up in cheap costumes based on whatever show Masao was obsessed with that year.>What is their favorite Halloween activity?Returning home and having dinner with the family before sitting down to watch TV together until Masao passed out.>Are they a tricker or a treater?Treater, though once in middle school he did go out with some friends and egged an old man's house. He felt bad and cleaned the mess the next day.He hasn't yet had a Halloween without his brother.
>>6123627Nice! Glad to see it back.
>>6121139>>6122692am i just retarded, that's just a B in a fancy font, right?
>>6123643It's R because (R)eptoid is (R)unning the quest.
>>6123648>>6123643The bottom tier on my list does, indeed, have a fancy B. Now that you're on thread 2, you'll probably be an A soon enough. My personal, bespoke, kind-of-autistic ranking system goes:>R, literally me>S, a quest I'd recommend without any reservation>A, a quest I really enjoy and would recommend with caveats (slow or sporadic to update, niche appeal even for this site, unusual writing style or odd pacing, lots of anons bickering and shitflinging, /pol/, etcetera)>B, a quest that I'm liking so far but which I'm not sure I'd shill too hard for just yet, because it's too new to tell if it will last, because it seems low effort/shitposty/ChatGPT-esque, it's pure coom, or some other reasonDead Site is good so far, and was only in B because it was new and had a few hiatuses. If it keeps going as it has been, it's easy A-tier. Which will be great! I keep getting invested in Digimon quests that just drop.
>>6122729I am partially if not wholely responsible for crashing several asoiaf quests.
>>6122813I feel the same way.
>>6123653oh thanks for the nice words, i just thought i was being a knuckle dragger reading a letter wrong i wasnt really questioning my grade. but ill always take a compliment
>>6122729>ConfessI've abandoned every quest I've ever run, even the successful ones, and I'm still thinking about starting another.
>>6123762Why tho?
>>6123766Because it's fun and I'm an attention whore.
>>6123588No no, you're absolutely being a zoomer. As if pirate bay is some scary place chock full of viruses
>>6123588Any of the websites on torrentfreak dot com slash top-torrent-sites are generally safe so long as you have an ad blocker. Browsing the internet without an ad blocker is like fucking Tijuana whores without a condom. Don't make a habit of it.
>>6123586>thinking you actually have to go to www dot the pirate bay dot com in order to pirate somethinghow was he supposed to download the thing without entering the site ?
>>6123762soj is that you ?
>>6123774I've been using p2p since 1999 and I've never used a website interface for pirating. Any decent torrent client has a native search engine that you can add sites to.
>>6123775no, but he may as well be
>Art: Jonathan Hickman>Alt-Text: A Diagram of concentric circles. At the center is labeled Nick Fury. Other circles bear the names of members of Hydra, the Secret Warriors, the Howling Commandos, and Leviathan. Five circles with Xs are labeled US Event, UK Event, Russian Event, French Event, and Chinese Event.The Map is the TerritoryAtlas Event in T-Minus 6
Suptg web page is back up but still broken. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
>>6123858Avengersquest is go??
>>6122729I counted a vote early to get the result I want.
>>6122729I sometimes samefag in a thread to avoid ties or meet a minimum vote threshold. I also occasionally change my legitimate vote to stuff I don't necessarily support for the same reason.I can tell the QM gets extremely annoyed when delays like that happen and I don't want to see him pissed off when it feels like he really enjoys running the quest otherwise.
[b]Testing[/b][i]Testing[/i][red]Testing[/red][green]Testing[/green]Is this correct? Would this be how i do it?
>>6124052As long as you are the thread's OP poster, yes.You can also do [blue]and[/blue] but sadly no strikethru or other colors. Wish we had more. You have no idea how many characters I want to have yellow dialogue text.
>>6123965Which quest?
>>6124057>>6124057>>6124057My new quest here. After realizing i was being retarded and thinking of a map as a drawing, I realized i quite literally had professional cartography tools at my disposal.Check it out, maybe?
>Player question:Considering that my favourite character is Pokepocalypse's Thomas J. Steele, I am betting on good ol' Uncle Sam. 100%>General question:I love quests being a little festive. I do want this festivity to be seasonally appropriate to in-quest time. I dont want the characters be scorching during New Year's or something like that.>Lurker question:Wish I could tbqh. Suptg is still having a hard time showing me any quests at all.>Miscellaneous question:Might go to some party in a ridiculous costume with friends, but I'll probably go entertain my American friends by being unacquainted with the holiday. Such is life for a European in these months.>>6122328Average Japanese work of fiction, really. Just because it has been hidden doesn't mean they didn't write the gross shit.
>>6124053I yearn for purple.
>>6124053 ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶s̶a̶d̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶u̶
>>6124078WTF!!!
>>6124081It's 𝘢 forbidden m𝘢gic, reserved for the wise.
>>6124088It's 𝐚 hidden m𝐚gic, reserved for the wise.
>>6120952>Player question:If she had to, she probably would just dress up in her normal work attire, aka light merc armour. If that wasn't an option, she'd probably just get a weapon and look like some sorta slasher, the burn scar she has probably helps with that. As for her favorite Halloween candy? Caramel apples. >General question:Not really. No. >MiscellaneousRead the above.
>>6124091 I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶t̶f̶o̶r̶m̶,̶ ̶s̶p̶r̶e̶a̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶m̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶g̶a̶c̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶e̶n̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶r̶e̶h̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t.
>QM questionI don't think there was ever time for Ford to do so. Not that there was much to go around given the post-post apocalypse environment they lived in.>General QuestionI did try to incorporate holidays into Enclave Remnant Quest. I think it's a good time to work on developing character relationships and most holidays are spaced out enough that on an appropriate time scale with good pacing they won't really be all that disruptive. That said depends on the setting ultimately.>Miscellaneous questionNot really. Maybe watch some horror movies or play some horror games.A note to anyone curious about me posting here or the status of Enclave Remnant Quest, I've been weighing my options and trying to get my life together for the last couple of months and I think I have to admit that despite my desire to see it through to the end that there's just something that has intrinsically failed on my end. You don't burn out faster and faster each time you try to come back on something without there being something wrong. I just can't find any enjoyment writing it anymore, so with a heavy heart I will say it's dead. Thank you to everyone that did participate, and bless all of you who had the patience to take that journey with me, for what it was it was an overall great experience for me. Will I QM again at some point? A solid maybe. The itch is certainly there. I've actually been workshopping some ideas over the last month or so that have some promise, but I think there's still some ways to go with those.
>>6124070European folktales and mythology are not really any different in regards to weird animal/monster marriages. The Japanese are just less ashamed about the sexual parts of theirs in the modern era, while Westerners try to scrub that stuff.
>>6124186Stay safe and thank you for running Enclave Remnant Quest!I'm grateful you've told us about this instead of just disappearing quietly.
>>6124056I can't say, I've already given away too much.
God I just want the Exalted quest to continue
[b]This[/b] [red]is[/red] [blue]a[/blue] [i]simple[/i] [green]test[/green]
>>6124325[vermillion]this[/vermillion] [fuschia]test[/fuschia] [chartreuse]has[/chartreuse] [cerulean]failed[/cerulean]
>>6124325>>6124327First of all, your notation was right on your first try. The issue is that you need to be a thread's OP in order for you to have perms to use things like [i][/i]. The only special text you can do outside of your own thread is A spoiler
>>6124329Thanks very muchDo you, personally, like fantasy or sci-fi better?
>>6124336Personally, probably fantasy. Both are good, though, and I think that sci-fi has more 'great' literature than 'fantasy' in the modern sense, for what it's worth
>>6124386>>6124386>>6124386Solarpunk Update! Where you find some very delightful yet unwelcoming guests - can you earn their trust?>>6120952>Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater?Fiona is a southern German girl worshiping pagan gods (as revived by a nwo government) so the closest thing on the calendar would be harvest festivals. Though Walpurgisnacht is a German/Norse holiday of repute, it's also a Christian one and thus avoided like the plague and it's in the wrong half of the year anyway.>Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive?I don't, though I might write doodle her in a halloween costume or something if I can, dressed up was my other QMC, Tristram.>Got any Halloween plans?October has been and continues to be pretty packed for me as I just came back from a trip and will be taking a second trip starting the 25th past Halloween into November, so apart from Halloween festivities there, nothing really.
>>6124068I will be going to sleep now but I'd appreciate if someone were to break the tie by the time I woke up.In retrospect, I guess the option was too open.
Obligatory spooky update for Poképocalypse as Halloween draws near!>>6124426>>6124427Nah, just kidding, it's just convenient timing. I completely forgot the season when I was writing this lol, I just wanted to have some practice with trying to portray really primal fear when faced with the unknown. Could've done better, but I don't think it's too terrible for a first try.Anyways, assuming my body stops waging war on itself and I can sleep well enough to drive again, updates should REALLY be back to normal from now on. Cannot believe the string of luck I've had the last 10 or so days, it's a serious shame. At least I can finally write again. Assuming I didn't just jinx it.
>>6123858>Writer/Designer: David Sexton>Alt-Text: Comic art of a psychedelic poster illustrating a chain of different dimensions. From highest to lowest: Cosmic Concordance (The Well Beyond the Worlds, The Sacred Suns of Cinnubus, The Many Moons of Munnipor, The Realm of Dreams,) The Archipelago of Anguish ( The Realms of Nightmare, The Splinter Realms, Otherplace, Veils of Valorr, Dyzzak, The Sevenfold Citadels of Sephiroth, The Winding Road), The Consecution of Colors ( Raggadoor, The Purple Dimension, Krimson Kosmos), Flickering Realm, Serpents Sea, Avalon, Astral Plane, The Crossroads, Earth The Inner Planes>Dialogue Sample: Mark WaidThe Mystery Intrigues MeAtlas Event in T-Minus 5
>>6124434Marvel Tarot? Interesting...
Quick question:WTF is going on with the Archive right now? I can't search anything and all I see on the page is an error message.
>>6124514It's busted. The owner is working on fixing it, but there's not much he can personally do. If you need to look something up in the meantime, use archived.moe.
>>6124531RIP.I take a short break from running Pokemon Trainer Quest and when I come back, it's to the archive being down. Figures.
Though, that does beg the question - how are threads getting archived right now?
>>6124535They're not.That is, outside of automatic archive uploads like archive.moe.
>>6124536Guess I'll remain on hiatus for the time being then.
>>6124319I've never seen any Exalted quest updated after page 3
>>6124537And I'll wait for your return. How's life in Stralia?
>>6124544Not bad.Bit stormy last few days.Work's been pretty damn dead.
>>6124514direct links to archived threads work, I haven't tested archiving new threads
>>6124186Rip. It was a great quest, too bad it's over. Putting down a protest, killing NCRs left and right, prolonging the conflict between BOS and NCR, the ranger duel, killing tons of ghouls, all our deception, keeping heat levels low, the whole exodus plan, finding other cells, stealing and disrupting the Shi plans, the internal politics, the tactics, our squad, the Granite trial, our family. It was cool, i am glad i played it. I really liked us using all those tactics at the Red Rain base. From the mines and bomb, to using that police car, to killing that giant mutant beast. We cleared that place through every trick we could think of, getting a considerable amount of stuff for our people lots of weapons, equipment, armor and even some vehicles. We even managed to save somewhat the ZAX computer and get a brief talk with the enclave in the east.And all the other plans we had in mind for future missions, fun stuff. We would have tear through that prison when it was time.>Will I QM again at some point? A solid maybe.Doesn't really sound like you are in a great period for make other quests in the immediate future or future at all. Thats the impression i get from reading your post, maybe i am wrong. Good luck, whatever you end up doing and stay healthy Warden. Thanks for making Enclave Remnant and running it.>>6124189Its better that never saying it yeah.
>>6124128Z̶̡̧̧̧̨̛̞̫̼̟̙̝͚͕̜̤̤̝̹͍̝̜͎̤̭̜̳̘̮̪̖̺̹̘̥̪͉̭̯̠̝͈̹̘̥͓̣̯͇͊̈͋̐̈̄̂̽̀́̎͊̾̓̎͛͋̊͛͗́̃͒̾̀̐͒̃̃̏̀̄͛͊̄̓̈́͒͋̎̄̇̽̌̇̑͘̕͘͘͜͝͠͝Â̴̳̠̾́͋̑̌̀͗͑͗̇̓̊͋̄̾̃̏́̑̀̍͑͛̈́̈́̑̕̚͘̚͝͠L̷̨̧̨̢̧̡̡̛̛̼̱̗̫̣̫̙̱͖͖͙̮̘̙̦̹̝͚͙̪̖̩̜̠̹̟̠͓̥̤͇̙̜̰̙̩̠̭̱͎̘̬̤̭̺̭̫͇̈̈́̽̌͑̀͆̀̓́̃̀̈͜͜͝G̶̨̢̨̢̡̢̡̢̛̺̯̗̹̩͕̹̟̟͙̟̭͙̬̞͍̮̙̩̻̱̠͕̜̖̙͍̰͔̦̩͔̝̙͙̠͍̘̝̹̗̪̳̥͙̫̩̬̣͔̼̯͚͍͕͇̙̺̭͉̼̭̮͓̘͙̯̗͍̼̝̻̝̬͓̜̺̍͐͛͐̒̉̔̿̇̈̋̀́̈̔͊͊̓͊̃́̏̃̐̽̔͒̇͌́̀͒̒̋̎͂̎̀̊͛̏̎̄͗́̋̒̿͒́̀̑̊̄͑̐͆͑̽͐͑͌͗̆̑̿͒̉̆̓͛̒̋͋̋̿̀̐͋̿͐̐͐͛̈́̇̊̍̊̉̃͐͒͌̓̐̌̍͊͐͗̏̎͆̀̾̈́͋́̚̚͝͠͠͝͝͝͠ͅÒ̴̧̢̨̡̧̡̡̜͇̣͇͎͖̖͓̗̮̞̪̘̰̙͍̦̗̞͇̩͍͔̘̯̖̞͖̘̜͍̼͍͓̞̼̳̤̻̳̘̮͎̤̫̫͕̣̘̙̱͇͚̯͕͌͜͜͜͜͠ͅ
>>6124543It had two good threads by Loom, which took an interesting turn. He managed to finish the second thread at a good spot shortly before it was archived. I just keep hoping to see the third, that this mfer didn't die in a hurricane.
>>6124591I'd ask a link to archive, but...
Who is the most heroic /qst/ MC?
>finally make the first proper update to my quest>mfw can't use the text colors because my IP is dynamic
I've started a quest about an ill-fated space voyage and trying to make the best of a deteriorating situation.>>6124601>>6124601
Apologies for the request, but would anyone be willing to give my quest some constructive criticism? I’ve got a few issues with it myself that I’m working to resolve, but I’m curious to know other peoples’ perspectives on it right now because my players have gone sort of quiet as of late so I’m somewhat out of touch. Would especially like feedback on the volume of information being communicated. I’m concerned i’m being a bit overbearing with the worldbuilding haha.
>>6124554I wouldn't say never again, but the near future is very unlikely yes. This year has been very hectic at work, things have slowed down but God only knows how long that'll last. That having been said it's less my job being the issue and more personal struggles. I'm on an upswing in that regard at the moment, last couple of months have been pretty good in regards to me doing creative works. Actually started drawing again after years of not doing it and the tabletop game I'm running has been one of the most fun I've run ever.So who knows if it will happen, but never is a long time, probably too long for my impulsive ass.
>>6124683I like westerns, so your game has been a fun read.I try to have an idea of what will happen after the next update for each option the players are given; i.e. if they have the choice between fighting and running away, I'll try to brainstorm the possible consequences of winning the fight, of losing the fight, and of running away, and frame the current update in such a way that each of these potential outcomes can flow organically from the current situation, and that none of the potential outcomes are going to be something I'm unhappy about.
Any interest in a Emperor’s children loyalist trying to survive the istvaan atrocity
>>6124683For a quick pulse (since I happen to be one of said anons and I still have a backlog) I can confirm the level of worldbuilding is fine. You still have scope to go either more or less detailed to attract different subgroups of anons, so if you feel your personal worldbuilding fix vs. effort involved equation is unbalanced then you can adjust it and likely pull in a new anons to replace those who may lose interest. You only have two threads, after all.If you’re personally content with your output then you can also leave it as-is.Discussion does tend to die down at different points depending on the crowd. A narrative-heavy quest likely won’t get much talk during combat-related scenarios since anons as a whole will try to keep things on-topic for the quest. If the quest itself is goofy, open-ended, civ-style, or the QM shows they’re comfortable with shitposting then it might get more constant discussion since nothing is ever really off the table, but your quest is a lot more character-driven than that.
so what is the deal with the do your best quest? why are there so many threads up at the same time without hitting limit in any way?
So it seems the archive is back up and running. Everyone should check and see if it's on for them as well. Maybe let any threads about to fall off know.
>>6124717This board has a "fun" quirk where threads automatically autosage after five days. Some people don't like this, because it filters out anons who use the default 'sort by bump order' catalog setting. I would guess that's part of the QM's decision.
>>6124723only a psycho would do sort by bump order on the catalogue setting on qst though
>>6124683I'm still enjoying it, though I'm eager to see more of the world developing and our boys Buchanan and Steele making their place in the new paradigm. Keep up the great work!>>6124599There's a fair few. Buchanan from Pokepocalypse is a good shout. Reynauld from Kobolt Klan and Elliot from Disappearing Hogwarts are both solid options, too, since they're genuinely good guys in over their head and fighting ancient evils with the help of friends and loved ones. They often display pronounced unselfishness.Or Hippo from Seven Against Thebes in the more classical sense.
>>6124747You'd be surprised at how many anons don't know you can change the catalog order, or the color scheme, etc.
>>6124608Is there even any way to deal with this? Seems like you're shittoutta luck.
>>6124793Formatting is nice, but you can run a quite serviceable quest without it. Software limitations are part and parcel to the /qst/ experience!
>>6124722Cheers for the PSA. Working again for me.New Pokemon Trainer Quest later.
>>6124599I daresay Avae. He's sacrificed a lot more for the Hegemony than other Supremes by staying in the closet. He consistently sticks to what is best for the whole when what's easy or desireable would be something else.A quiet hero.
>>6124722Works for me
>>6124793I wish i knew.>>6124817It's not going to stop me, but it does really put a damper on it because shit like bolding and italics are very much great for texts. Especially in a quest based on strategy like mine where readability is very important.
>>6124847You are extremely lucky I don't wanna bring a thread specific argument into QTG because this is so wrong it actually offends me.Like I'm not even talking about /qst/ as a whole since that would be too easy.
>>6124855My nigga just spit your shitWhat's this place for if not talking about quests, would you rather somebody bring up mousetraps as a tangent metaphor for something and then have Souv talk about esoteric bondage porn themed around mousetraps for five posts?
>>6124857Alright then>Oh WOE is me! I, the most powerful man of my race, am FORCED to be slightly careful about my fetish that violates the very legitimacy of my rule. The Supreme who willingly marched to certain death after finding out his society was being manipulated by an cyborg intelligence? The supreme who basically sacrificed his life for a woman he didn't even actually love? The Supreme that had to murder a grown adult as a child and then decide the fate of billions yet again as a literal child? They suffered NOTHING compared to the utter pain of not being able to have gay sex in public. Truly, I am the most heroic jaxtian to have ever existed. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go make my citizens be miserable and poor on purpose because an AI told me it'd give me some dank tech in the future.
>>6124793>>6124852As for changing to a static IP (so this won't happen again), it should be in your modem settings. Usually you can access these by dropping your own IP into your browser and logging in with your network's admin password.
>>6124683I get a little confused on some of the "action" posts, I don't understand some of the movements even if I understand where everyone is when the vote comes up
>>6124862>They suffered NOTHING compared to the utter pain of not being able to have gay sex in public.Who are quoting?Anyways. Sure, there have been a lot of heroic Supremes, some perhaps moreso than Avae. I'm sure I'd find one or two if I went through and reread the whole quest. Akule would probably be one. Avae however has willingly sacrificed decades of happiness. That's certainly something.
>>6124599Probably Muna, her whole MO is exterminating evil in basically any form.
>>6124695>>6124705>>6124748ah, alright, thank you for the feedback! I didn't know about the combat bit especially. Was under the impression that combat sections were actually where most of the discussion took place... I guess it depends on a quest-by-quest basis. >>6124868Thank you, too, though can you elaborate? I think I might know what you mean but just want to confirm
>>6124870>Who are quoting?I'm making fun of how you're acting as though not being able to be a fag in public is some sort of great sacrifice on Avae's part. He didn't even stop doing it, he just did it in secret. Like, fuck man, the entire legitimacy of the Supreme comes from being the "best genetic specimen" and he can't even be bothered to have a focken kid because he's too much of a prancing lala homo man. Not that he'd be able to raise one well given he's so selfish he refuses to so much as take a wife for reproduction purposes even though that's the literal sole "noblesse oblige" he has as a glorified high noble from a powerful family.There is nothing heroic whatsoever about Anae. He's not even doing the whole "care for the people" bit well he was supposed to lately.
>>6124847He's not even the first closeted monke, or the first monke to sacrifice romance for his position. I don't mind him at all, and I give no shits that he's gay, but the guy isn't even a good boyfriend.>>6124870>AkuleI mean, he's sure a GREAT monke in terms of objextive achievements and level of influence. He's a CULTURE hero it that he is essentially worshiped by his species. I struggle to imagine a definition of heroism that encompasses Avae and Akule at once, though.I'd be inclined to call Eoba II the most overtly, traditionally heroic Supreme. The other ones >>6124862 referenced was Val Takar from Thread 2 or 3, I believe. Hass also has soemthing of a heroic arc, and even Wrix, is we're going by a definition of heroism that doesn't penalize genocide, torture, rape, slavery, etcetera, which is the only way Akule is getting in.
>>6124878>no wife, no het-sex, no genetic continuityI always did find it weird that Kima and her predecesors needed to be groomed/steered/raped to preserve their super duper genetics in an authoritarian society with cloning. The Hegemony should really just be force-cloning or taking amndatory sperm and ovum samples to avoid issues with mate-selection.I assume it's something to do woth flaws or imperfections in the cloning process, or something, to facilitate the narrative beats.
>>6124879>Wrix, is we're going by a definition of heroism that doesn't penalize genocide, torture, rape, slavery, etcetera, which is the only way Akule is getting inEh...I wouldn't call Wrix heroic either. He was literally just handed the Supremeship, then all he did with it was genocide hundreds of billions. He didn't even properly kill all the Hazaar, which was the one fucking race everyone wanted dead, while murdering the ones no one had an issue with. That's why he went out like a bitch begging for help because he didn't want to die of carbon monoxide poisoning while Akule the lad literally fucking set himself on fire after he got too old.
>>6124593https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2024/6028398/
>>6124882>always did find it weird that Kima and her predecesors needed to be groomed/steered/raped to preserve their super duper genetics in an authoritarian society with cloning. The Hegemony should really just be force-cloning or taking amndatory sperm and ovum samples to avoid issues with mate-selection.Well first of all indigos only got invented during the game, by which point the houses already existed for millenia. Also, you're forgetting the issue of raising them. They're not just having children, they're raising them. At that point you might as well just do it naturally.Also that was an option, I'm pretty sure. Making everyone an Indigo. We rejected it.
>>6124888>indigo issuesWe had that tech by the time issues like Kima or, for that matter, Avae the Gay came up. And it's not about making EVERYONE Indigo... Literally just people like Avae who don't want to have reproductive sex and have the authority to not be forced to, or someone liek Kima who's genetics (not how she's raised, just her genetics) made her a super important specimen. There's no stated reason we couldn't just steal her DNA, stick it in a lady-monkey who actually wants to fuck our zombie ex-president and is a good mother, and still have our golden child. I assume there's SOME reason, but we don't knoww what it is.>>6124884Eh, fair. I don't really like him, but he WAS the first Blonde Supreme, the fiest Unsoekable since the OG, and struggled against the odds from a young age. He got handed the Supremacy and fucked up on certain key issues, but he also permanently (?) subjugated the rbeellious instincts of his species and created a new age fo monkey prosperity. I wouldn't call him a hero, but he has done more than Avae thus far.
>>6120952How much is too much with roll modifiers? How far do you guys go and what do you like to see in quests? I wanna do something with simple RPG stats, the stats gatekeep spells but i also wanna give some incentive with roll modifiers so it feels like there's something more tangible there too.
>>6124890>We had that tech by the time issues like Kima or, for that matter, Avae the Gay came up. And it's not about making EVERYONE IndigoWell it's kinda missing the point isn't it? Raising the next generation is basically like, the one fucking reason the elites even have to exist at this point. They create the next generation of high tier monkes to help the hegemony. And in exchange they get the best resources out of everyone else. Even if they could use their DNA, they're still kinda rejecting the literal only thing they had to do.>WAS the first Blonde Supreme,Doesn't it kinda suck to you that the first blonde Supreme wasn't someone who deserved it but someone who got handed the Supremeship literally because he was the closest person? Like he wasn't even chosen for being good or anything Kima just went "Hey here's the crown, take it or whatever, I'm out"
>>6124890I wonder if Bananas will give us an option to have Avae gene splive up a baby Monke with Fim?
>>6124915>polluting an elite genetic line with some literal who homo Why?
>>6124874For an example of a quest where the combat provokes a lot of discussion then you can take a peek at the duels in Magically Challenged. It offers a good contrast.The way to think of it there is the combat is a puzzle, where each side has a large variety of spells, the number of potential interactions is equally high, and the MC is too weak to have a simple “I win” combo. At least through the first thread, that is, as I haven’t started the second.Puzzles, by their nature, are going to provoke discussion so long as the solution isn’t obvious. More complex combat systems have a greater chance of creating a puzzle out of encounters, driving discussion for those interested in “solving” them.A fair number of quests I’ve read, yours included, are much simpler in what the best combat strategy is at any given vote. Write-ins can inject some chaos into the mix, but your system has to actively encourage and reward/punish such behavior in understandable ways if you want that to somehow be the sole engine driving combat conversations.It’s perfectly fine to not have that though, you can get discussion going through non-combat scenarios such as when the sheriff kicked us out or we step into a town and try to decide what to fix first. You like your worldbuilding, focus on providing opportunities and depth to interactions with said world. Everyone wins that way!Semi-related, I have no comment on how you do your action posts since I 100% skim them mentally even as I read every word. My brain makes zero effort to retain such knowledge unless I’m actively picking it apart for a clue or something. Not a knock on your skills, more a knock on mine.
>>6124916As a singular act of selfishness later in his reign? Perhaps an expression of "I've earned this?"
>>6124918>singular act of selfishnessLol. Lmao. >Perhaps an expression of "I've earned this?""Well, after a long life of purposefully impoverishing my people, I think I earned the right of going against the principles of my nation even more than what I already have"
>>6124920>>6124916We get it, you hate the gay monkey.>>6124893>Raising the next generation is basically like, the one fucking reason the elites even have to exist at this point.I thought they were arbiters of culture, and formed a managerial/administrative/officer class?>>6124915I'm not convinced Fim or Avae would be uniquely good parents, and Avae doesn't even seem to like Fim much anymore.
>>6124927>We get it, you hate the gay monkeyHe's just an incompetent ruler in-universe.>I thought they were arbiters of culture, and formed a managerial/administrative/officer class?They're noblemen. The hegemony denies it but that's what they are. But rather than having a "noblesse oblige" of being competemt honorable and fair, they just have to keep pumping out high quality kids.
>>6124933Avae is only as competent or incompetent as the voting base. As for the second point, that's not been my reading of the social role of the noble families, personally, but I'll cede simply because I weary of discussing monkey-business and have an update of my own quest to write.
>>6124917>Semi-related, I have no comment on how you do your action posts since I 100% skim them mentally even as I read every word. My brain makes zero effort to retain such knowledge unless I’m actively picking it apart for a clue or something. Not a knock on your skills, more a knock on mine.Nah, it's fine, I admittedly skim them while writing them lmao.I've never been one for combat, I find basically kind of it to be boring to read and and it's quite hard to write. I like the puzzle-y combat that you mentioned the best since it's quite engaging, but I am nowhere near the level where I am able to make most combat encounters akin to that. I will definitely try in the future when there are more mon and more moves to play around with, though.I'll definitely check out Magically Challenged. Everyone's been raving about it and my brain is giving me that fomo itch lol. A vote of confidence from you is just another selling point, so thanks for sealing the deal. :)
>>6124927They do seem to be growing distant. I suppose staying closetted had consequences too.
>>6124936While he could have been less incompetent if the right choices won (mine) it is still how he acts. People cheered when Wrix died pathetically pathetically though he only became unspeakable because of a vote.But fair enough. I've argued enough. This is kinda why I didn't want to start.
>>6124937If you made all your combat like MC duels then I’d probably burn out. Those are something you build up to. It’s like the difference between a wild pokemon battle vs. a gym leader battle, if everything were the latter then the only ones who could stick around are the romhackers.Meanwhile I’m the weirdo who does pokemon quests when the last pokemon game I beat was Pokemon Yellow, and I last played Pokemon Silver. There are many anons who could contribute to high-level pokemon quest combat and team build strategies and I am definitely not one of them. I beat down the Elite 4 entirely with a Blastoise that had both Earthquake and Hydro Pump and no PP-restoring items, that’s how bad I was back then.
>>6124940I liked Wrix. Wierd how he didn't kill off the Hazaar. Sucked he went out like that.
archives are back up
>>6124434>Writer: Jonathan Hickman. Designer: Tom Muller>Alt-Text: A chart of 18 circles numbered 1-18, arranged around a central circle with an X inside.X marks the SpotAtlas Event in T-Minus 4
In case any of the players who played my Fate Akeldama redux quest are still around, it's back on the board>>6124998
>>6124937>I've never been one for combat, I find basically kind of it to be boring to read and and it's quite hard to write.I know this feel as a reader, which is why as I writer I tend to be less granular or specific about action, reaction, play, counterplay, as a tactical ballet. Instead, I try to capture the feeling that always sticks with me in a good fight, drawn or written: The particularly victorious blows or terrible, painfully-punished errors.The rise and fall of confidence and anxiety as momentum turns towards or against the hero.The sensation of losing track of a foe only to refocus, to react just in time to avert catastrophe. To spot a chin in the proverbial armour and exploit it perfectly, or to miss the shot and curse a foe's escape to menace you again.That sort of thing.>>6124940I think the difference in perception is that most of the controversial things Wrix did or didn't do weren't part of a direct vote. Avae hasn't ever really gone against a player vote like Talacent or Agori did, nor dramatically superseded and advanced beyond our initial decision on his own initiative. He also hasn't really gone against initial player perception of him as Hass did; when he went back on his "man of the people" thing, it was only because WE, the PLAYERS, told him to. Apart from being gay, Avae really hasn't done anything players haven't demanded of him, for good or ill.>>6124987Such enigmas!
>>6120974I'm friends with the nigga. It physically pains me to be the bearer of bad news, but Loom has decided to discontinue the quest. He's uninterested in the current climate of /qst/ and finds it unfulfilling to run quests these days. He was actually an old head from the glory of the /tg/ days. From his perspective, /qst/ is dying a slow and painful death and he no longer wants any part in it; running a quest is a lot of effort for minimal engagement and isn't particularly enjoyable these days as he described it.I figured I should let you know since he doesn't want to announce the end of the quest himself, as he didn't care to post here any longer.
>>6125070Yowch. I can understand not really wanting to run here anymore, but not even wanting to post to say goodbye to your players of months or years? That sounds personal. My condolences to his players.
>>6124937>>6125049The nice thing about running a Drawquest is the ability to direct more action-focused scenes to drawing, which is still not easy since you have to actually draw them, but it takes the load off writing them as much.If you do insist on wanting to write highly physical and frenetic scenes; I highly recommend Robert E Howard's works, especially Conan, as much of the writing is directed to very physical sword based combat and I think is pretty good at that. But the strength of writing is in the senses other than sight and sound, so focusing on those is key to good action.
SPACESHIPS!>>6125081>>6125081
New update for The Caretaker Quest is up!and...is that *gasp* a hint of romance i see?!how will you react to it this uncharted and slightly awkward scenario?no votes this time, this time (You) have full freedom to chose whatever you want!come and write down your answer for this (possibly) romantic scenario!>>6122821>>6122821>>6122821
Solarpunk update! You found children! It is a crime to adopt them because they're part of overpopulation! You hate the government!>>6125149>>6125149>>6125149
Normal cultivator quest is back online>>6125175
>>6124948>>6124948>>6124948The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha has avoided the search of the Cancer House Coachery's common room, and is now in a desperate bit to sneak her way to the stables before Machares, the Night-Keeper of the House works his way there, and speaks to the night-grooms. If he does, then getting out of the Coachery with your stage and team is almost certainly going to be magnitudes more difficult. Unfortunately, Chlotsuintha has gotten as far as she can with the limited concealment the common room offers on the most direct route to the door she came in through, which leads out onto the yard. She must either commit to making the final stretch without cover, remain in cover while heading further into the house, hoping for an alternate route to the stable, or take action against Lucullus, the unfortunate concierge who has been ordered to remain in the room and keep watch. Before that vote though, I need some anons to make some rolls.
>>6124987>Writer (W): Jonathan Hickman. Pencils (P): Ed McGuinness. Inks (I): Tom Palmer. Colors (C): Chris Sotomayor.Letters(L): Dave Lanphear>Alt-Text: A chart of the Western Zodiac. Each sign is labeled with a person>Vasili Dassaiev. Alias: Magadan Title: Capricorn. Affiliation: Leviathan.>John Garret. Title: Aquarius Affiliation: SHIELD.>Shoji Soma. Alias: Hand Grandmaster.Title: Pisces. Affiliation: Hydra>Name Unknown. Alias Unknown. Title: Aries. Affiliation Unknown >Cornelius Van Lunt. Title: Taurus.Affiliation: Independent.>Nick Fury. Title: Gemini. Affiliation:SHIELD.>Baron Stucker. Alias: Supreme Hydra. Title: Sagittarius. Affiliation: Hydra.>Jake Fury. Title: Scorpio. Affiliation: Independent.>Timothy Dugan. Alias: Dum Dum. Title: Libra. Affiliation: SHIELD.>Name Unknown: Alias Il Professore. Title: Virgo Affiliation: Independent.>Name Unknown. Alias: Kraken. Title: Leo. Affiliation: Hydra.>Viktor Uvarov. Alias: Orion. Title: Cancer. Affiliation: LeviathanThe World Turns on a Broken WheelAtlas Event in T-minus 3
>>6124892Some of my favourite quests are those without rolls kek. They're hard to pull off though due to the need to introduce a high level of puzzle-strategy or drama to make choices meaningful, so I include rolling even in my own. With modifiers, I'd say so long as it's clear which modifier comes from where and they're built up gradually, it's okay to include as many as you like. I think your question is similar to >>6123347 anon's in that regard, which I answered in >>6123567 this post.You have to be careful, however. I tried making complex systems in the past, but always ran into a wall of scaling with the power level of the character and relativity in regards to impact of the dice. Basically 1. making leveling up and obtaining new skills feel meaningful, introduce new moves/mechanics while 2. fitting them into a d100 roll and 3. making sure they provide equal power for high and low DCs. Because if you introduce e.g. +2 modifier from leveling up, for DC = 50 it means a 4% increase in success chance while for DC = 90 it means a 20% increase, you've got to keep it balanced somehow. And when they build up to large numbers, unless you do really small increments (which contradicts with "meaningful leveling") or do rare level ups (which I don't like because I want to provide constant dopamine +SKILL +NUMBER shit), the d100 roll is made irrelevant. I feel like progression in some of the quests I'm making is an aspect that is as important as the drama and plot, and I can only run for a few threads without the characters growing in power too much. I tried fucking with exponential modifiers and weird-sided dice but failed.You have to keep these problems in mind and solve them somehow to construct a good system of modifiers. I myself have long since resigned to a simple Bo3 1d100 against a guesstimated DC, sometimes tiered. ig roleplaying systems solve it somehow but I'm too adhd to read rulebooks, browsing and taking note of their solutions to these problems lmao.tl;dr this is all just me going off on a tangent about why I use simple rolls.If you mind sharing your experience, have you made an elegant system and how? I'd like to hear more about the modifiers and skill+stat stuff you have in mind.
I wonder if there are QMs who use different IDs to discuss their quest like a player. I certainly feel the urge to do it, but refuse to do so because it'd be "cheating" since I know what exactly will happen.
>>6125409I've done it in the past. Drummed up interest for my most popular quest by shitposting about it negatively in QTGs back in the day.
>>6125412What would you even call that? Shiltposting?
Handler QM, Cleaner quest when?
>>6125409I’ve done it simply to vibe with my players. It can be fun and stir up discussion if used correctly.
>>6125450I guess but in my specific quest it would be too OP.I guess it'll have to wait for my character centric quest.
>>6125409I did it in my old quest from time to time, but mostly to clarify a correct someone else's misinterpretation of an ambiguous event with the intent of canonically declaring anything. I think one situation was>anon: so we're doing weird time bullshit? how are we seeing our own character from the start of the quest>me(anon): weird space bullshit. this place is an instance, whenever nobody's looking it goes back to normal, and normal is us being here. we are outside of it because someone else removed us from it.I haven't done anything with my current quest yet. Any clarification would be spoilery.
>>6125408my idea is just a simple RPG stat system so strength, speed, defense etc. The points are allocated like any old RPG. Lets say you have 1 strength, well you have a +1 modifier for rolls that require strength based solutions, max out the modifiers at +10 and keep it situational so the incentive for modifiers stays. I am thinking of doing either a power level thing like Dragon Ball or maybe a simple level system from RPGs, something to show differences between an opponent so lets say the gap the gap is like 5 levels well now you have to roll a 3d100. You have to win 2/3 DC to get a minor victory, meeting all the DCs is a major victory, meeting only 1 of the DC is still considered a loss, crits are still a thing but only apply to the first dice. Multiple DCs means the probability is not in the PC's favor. I'd still keep the simple Bo3 1d100 from time to time. I might also want to figure out how the PC might lose the modifiers if the battle is hard enough but maybe not as the multiple rolls would make having modifiers more valuable and maybe the DCs would test for different stats so anons won't just minmax one stat and actually have to spread out the points.If i wanna do the level or power level thing i can either use the level difference or use a percentage difference formula to calculate how hard a fight can be so if it's a difference of 10% then anons have to succeed with 2 DCs or i'll just roll a 4d100 that anons will have to beat with a simple Bo3 1d100.I don't wanna overcomplicate it and force everyone to take out a calculator, i want this to be on the backend and make it clear to everyone how these DCs are coming out
Saw a guy with this hairstyle tonight.>>6125506Why go anon instead of clarifying as qm?
>>6125635Honestly that reminds me, I spent the better part of two or so months working on developing a system for the Nasuverse that was meant to simplify the act of rolling while also providing built in progression. Strong characters were meant to feel strong, but it had means to overcome them under the right circumstances. Or at least that was the intention. I even made an encounter and experience tables, as well as got around to mapping out every potential unique skill/talent that I figured could be applied generally. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mX9WWpztD36Q9Ke833tnkEq7hr0JtcPTLDqpj8dL7QE/edit?usp=sharinghttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1csnzWIetsrqWNFJWAmwsRL_OjLuOrXMbRgCKjShv96w/edit?usp=sharinghttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hd74oqdTTi30_2V08pUIMyln1A65F9TvtqLxYspbgzs/edit?usp=sharingThis was the thing I was rather excited to try out but held back on back earlier this year when I was trying to finish Enclave Remnant Quest. Mind you it probably could use a good bit more refinement, but I did do some numbers crunching and built some characters from the actual setting and most of them fell where I would have expected them. I'd say the skills document is probably the weakest of them, mostly because it's incredibly difficult to define all those skills within the constraints of a single gameplay system, at least when you're just one person that is. I think the way skills work in the system is fine, I just never quite got around to smoothing out the specifics for each one from the setting specifically. Honestly would probably be better to ignore them and just come up with a more limited set of skills within the bounds of whatever quest is being run.Now to be honest I'm still tempted to run a game using these rules, but if I never get around to I'd prefer them to be out in the wild so that if someone takes a liking to them wanting to try them out they can do so. The whole point was for them to be used to have fun so if someone can that's great either way.
>>6125671For reference to the links the first one is the rules in generalthe second one is the experience chartsthe third one is the skills.
New Poképocalypse update in which you get to NAME. THAT. BUG!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8iOmVd1W_g>>6125519>>6125520>>6125521
>>6125070Jesus Christ this breaks my fucking heart man, he felt like a really good writer. I can't fucking stand how short some of the updates of other games are I wanna read progress for God's sake not choose breakfast cereal. That first thread I was breaking out the custom prompts left and right with suggesting Kaya stay with Jet's fiance instead of just running off and we got that nat20 on the letter with the bonus it got. Another for bargaining with the little demon bug for a secret which led Jet to getting the demon summon paper, his altered destiny revealed, and ultimately to being a GSP. I could tell he really wanted Jet to be a Green Sun Prince and switched my vote to make it happen lol. It did end up having some really fun payoff too.The Szorney powers were really great, combining it with the weird exalted gun thats almost more like a flamethrower he could reload with the extra limbs. Trying to design his outfit and Loom was thinking along the same lines with longer sleeves so Jet could hide the limbs, or how his alchemy would be good for smoke for cover. Couldn't get as many custom prompts in cause it takes a bit but managed a couple like calling out the shapeshifter on being an escaped slave. Even though I had pushed for enslaving the fae I didn't really have any idea what to actually do with it. Could perhaps have made the shepherd boy into a full on antagonist. Tried to get people to go for Lilith since she seemed fun. I was looking forward to whatever deal Jet was hopefully gonna make with Lilith so he could secure some support after the fight with the other GSP in Hell, which was excellent.How depressing. Atleast he didn't die in a hurricane so thanks for letting me know. Tell him I really appreciated it. Perhaps discord really is the way to go.
> there was a rapeman quest last year where joker gets the crazy raped out of him> todd philips made it canonmeme magic is real
>>6125070something weird happened in july. /qst/ lost like 50% users and never recovered
>>6125070>didn't even tell peoplenah, he's a bitch. a little bitch. If you can't even have the common courtesy to tell people who've been reading your stuff for such a long amount of time you're gone and it's not even for any reason other than 'I dont feel like it', then you're just a little bitch.t. didn't even read his quests
>>6125694I stopped running price *dabs*
>>6125408I essentially took Simple D6 and scaled it up to a d20. DC 15, sometimes modified by circumstances, and leveling up a skill means rolling additional dice. If any of them beat the DC, it's a success; higher rolls or 20s are critical/exceptional successes. If none of them pass the DC it's a failure, and a 1 with no successes is a crit-fail. It's worked pretty well for a few quests, and has the added benefit of making crits more likely and crit-faiks less likely the more skilled a character gets.
>>6125409Closet I did was launch a quest with a different OP name to hide the twist it was in the same universe another one of my quests
>>6125409Closet I did was launch a quest with a different OP name to hide the twist ending that it was in the same universe as another one of my quests
>>6125657It's an odd matter of reader autonomy and freedom to have interpretations. If I clarify anonymously, I am encouraging discussion and having people explore the ideas mentally because that "anon," to the readers, has just as valid an interpretation as theirs. He could be wrong, but what if he is right? This gets people thinking about it, and that's nice.If I clarify as a QM, I am shutting down the conversation and leaving it open only to questions and comments because my word is law in this context. The readers get their answers, and the mystery dies. Useful, but you shouldn't shortcut around things that develop useful skills, that just makes lazy and dumb people. I already try to write in a very forward and clear fashion, so I don't want my own commentary doing the thinking for people when there's so few things they can sit down and wonder about.Of course a lot of it swings around what is being clarified. Literal moment to moment happenings and room structure and shit is done as QM, but insights into a character's actions or words need to be handled with care as to not spoil any developments.
>>6125693He didn't get the crazy raped out, just the happiness and the fight. :( Arguably it started with realizing how badly he affected his coworker, anywya.
>>6125373>Map: Ta-Nehesi Coats & Manny Mederos>Alt-Text: A Map of Wakanda, an African Nation to the west of the lake Nyanza. It contains several fields rivers and lakes and mountains including Mena Ngai, The Great MoundFrom Above it FellAtlas Event in T-Minus 2
Heads up for anyone following Disappearing Hogwarts, we're updating again! Elliot is ever closer to going hunting dragons with his girlfriend!>>6125956>>6125956>>6125956
can I make a quest about gay vampires
>>6126053You can make a JJBA quest, yes.
A brand-new character who no one has ever seen before is introduced!>>6126008>>6126008
>>6126119COMBAT IS OVER!I learned to not use TRPG rules on /qst/ - hard earned lesson bought with wasted time. We're back to the narrative at least.
Guh. Gonna resume Star Wars Interregnum tomorrow evening. Didn't want to do it yesterday when I've got a business trip out of town and I couldn't immediately update.>>6120952>>QM Question...gonna answer as "Testament of Tatamu">Does your MC celebrate Halloween?Sinleq gets a bowl ready for trick-or-treaters, but doesn't do anything too extraneous nowadays beyond getting a pumpkin-flavored beer at the neighborhood potluck. But Babylonia at-large does have a very strong All Souls Day.>What is their favorite Halloween activity?As a child, making costumes with his father, Sinbad. He has a fond memory as a child of being the "pilot" to a PUEXO costume that his father wore. But they haven't done anything like that since the death of Sinleq's mother, Itani.>Are they a tricker or a treater?Treater. Sinleq is too straight-laced to be a tricker, even if he does like to tease his friends.>>General QuestionNothing insomuch as a side-story about observing the holiday that may or may not see the light of day.>>Misc. QuestionGonna watch either a horror movie or the last of the Rurouni Kenshin films with BolivarQM on the weekend of. He used to run Gantz Quest DC back in the day.Day itself, probably finish the last of my Oktoberfest beer and hand out candy to the kids.
>>6126056It's more of a bisexual vampire story.
>>6122729I run a degenerate yuri quest on akun, baiting civ autists with the civ tag. Except at this point it might be more like baiting yurifags and myself into spreadsheets. Send help
>>6125070If that's how he feels, then may he find happiness on his new path.
>>6126053Sure, I recently gave up on being a homo so you can take my mantle
I wanna run my first ever quest here, but I have no engaging ideas that would require little priorhand knowledge or too much effort from me. I can try and run something like capeshit, but something tells me I can fuck up even that without providing sufficient mechanical depth.
>>6126239>Capeshit
>>6126244That one looks like the easiest to run. My other idea was running a V20 VTM, but I don't know if anybody cares for WoD properties anymore.
>>6126053any quest about vampires is a quest about gay vampires. but yes you can, and should.
>>6126246I'd play wod
>>6125694I thought you were pulling this out of your ass for a moment but i've noticed spots of time where /qst/ is just dead. Properly unmoving.Just this morning the entire board had no messages for nearly 20 minutes straight in any thread, and my thread (with the last response having been 10 hours from the time) was still in the second row of "last replied". The third or fourth row had threads in it that hadn't been posted in for over a day.It's especially odd because isn't summer supposed to be /qst/'s downtime? From what I understand the place is most active during December/Winter break times and least active during summer breakish. Yet somehow the board seems significantly quieter now than it did even back in July.Weird.
>>6125997>Niganda
>>6125997>mfw it turns out Wakanda are also colonizers>>6126180Sounds like you've got things well in-hand.>>6126239>>6126246I'd play either. Vampire-themed capeshit sounds kino, if you merge them. Urban Dhampir Quest when?
>>6126308Yo, that reminds me of that Crimson Bat greentext, where the Malkavian acted like a classic noir esc super hero. That shit was the bomb
>>6126303Stv isn’t running.
>>6126365I can't tell if you're being serious. Is a single quest really that big of a draw(/has it been in the past)?
>>6126371STV is the biggest quest on the board. That and monke.
>>6126308The idea was more sandboxy - everybody votes on a starting difficulty that determines your EXP and Generation, then select a general archetype and a clan from which the character evolves and shenanigans occur. I am making some plot hooks before trying anything, but I think it's more interesting if the quest would be player-driven with the occasional plot happening to get involved in.
I just realized all I know about gay vampires comes from a gay vampire quest I played on the other chan.I need to find something else to run a quest about.I don't wanna put up a quest and drop it after forty replies because I don't know what to do next, so it'll probably take a few months until I have enough material to run something.
>>6125694This isn't just /qst/. You can go to 4stats and check the activity of every other board for the past three years and you'll find the same decline. 4chan is dying. If you ask me why I think it's because Zoomers prefer to have brains melted on TikTok rather than on Bhutanese basket weaving forums like us.
>>6126414I think its discord too, lots of people leaving 4chan to join discords
>>6126402 Worth a go, but my personal advice is beware of being TOO sandboxy at the start of a quest. Sometimes, new quests get players with very different directions for where they want to go and how they want to play, and inconsistent vote attendance can lead to a MC behaving (put mildly) erratically. I, personally, would suggest a vote or two early on to establish a baseline personality and a broad objective. Just my personal experience.>>61264144chan also developed a reputation for being a right-wing political space in the big dumb culture war, at the same time more modern and mainstream alternatives like Twitter/X and even Telegram or Truth Social were competing in the same sphere. I think it's a market-share/attention-share thing.
>>6126436Yep, that's what archetype is for. The idea is having a loose plot with little railroading. >reputation for being a right-wing political spacePolitics in general made this place lose users because it slowly infected other boards and refused to be contained. People take discussions on /v/ as an excuse to argue about stupid shit, and a lot of people don't really wanna waste time.
>>6120952>QM question:I don't have a current MC. Perhaps for the next quest idea I have, they might. I don't know.>Player question:Good question, but I don't have a favorite. I guess the MC from Banished Quest comes to mind. He strikes me as a candy corn type of guy. His costume? Probably a Rhynian.>General question:I tend to write whole stories/quests based on the current holiday theme. I actually DO wish there was more of that, whether whole quests like me, or little nods and winks in-thread otherwise.>Lurker question:I rarely vote.>Miscellaneous question:Plans? Doomscroll, practice Spanish, write. Rinse, repeat.
>>6126246I'd play WoD, just with something other than vampires. Especially if it's redone to give werewolves the edge for once. I hate how in MOST vamp vs wolf media, the former has main character powers and the latter is the whipping boy.That being said, I had an idea for my own quest. Just not sure how I'd go about it. I know I wanted to do something involved dreaming/lucidity/surrealism, but I don't want it to be too open like >>6126436 said, but also not a railroad (>>6126440). So far, I only have the power system written up. I think it's farily original or at least not-too-often-done-here tier. But I'm mostly concerned about my shit writing talent. If I get no bites or feedback on this post I might just pay Kaz to run it. IDK.
>>6126454>>6126454>>6126454The situation turns for the worse in Fog of War as your artillery is destroyed by enemy mortar fire.
>>6126459>Especially if it's redone to give werewolves the edge for once.Werewolves are rapists on WoD, though their strength may depend on the edition. In V20 at least, their war forms are immensely powerful, with ability to tank damage and regenerate mid-turn. They become less threatening for low gen vampires who have OP stats and disciplines of their own, but they can quite easily scare the shit out of neonates, and appropriately, have to fight tougher enemies.
>>6126459Wolves fuck up vamps in OWOD. Saw a cocky, munchkin'd to hell combat beast gangrel decide to pick a fight with a baby, literal starting character wolf, glassware I think, who had just underwent the first change while the gangrel had somewhere over a hundred xp + bonus dotsGangrel only survived cause the wolf didn't realize a torn in half vampire melting into the dirt wasn't dead Old world of darkness wolves shat fury on all but the creme de la creme of vampires It was funny seeing the power gamer shit themselves when the ST told them the wolf healed all of the damage they had dealt them in the first round immediately though, especially cause I and everyone else told him not to fuck with the furry
>>6126466Tell me more, anon. Can you lay out the mechanics of this for me?
>>6126474The post above tells you everything. Garou in OWOD have multiple forms they can shift into, all with a different purpose. There's the semi-wolf that looks like a human with animalistic features, war form that transforms you into a traditional werewolf, and the wolf form that turns you into the animal. They all confer different advantages, but war form is easily the most dangerous one. Being able to casually inflict aggravated damage (Supernatural damage in game terms) is huge, and these motherfuckers are also tanky, fast, regenerative, and can use a form of disciplines of their own that are basically spirit powers given to them.Their weakness against silver is insanely debilitating, however. They're also rare because they're terminal retards either fighting each other or failing to protect Gaia from Wyrm.
>>6126466>>6126471Not sure if you're both memeing. If not, then based, but I recall vamps > wolves because of the following... (keep in mind, I'm applying general vamp vs wolf convention; not just WoD)- wolves die of old age (vamps do not)- vamps can sire more vamps easier than wolves can gain new pups (I think they have to bang a non-wolf as a human?)- vamps don't NEED blood (wolves NEED food)- in later works, vamps typically don't have sunlight weakness (you know the one; ironically in that though, the wolves are actually OP as hell to the point that vamps had to genocide them all)But at least in WoD, wolves get to control when they transform, rather than being at the whims of the moon. Just don't like seeing vamps get all the cool shit. Even in later works where they each get a special snowflake ability, and regen as good as or even better than a wolf because silver wrecks wolves (and only not having blood for a million years wrecks vamps). But I'm not as well-versed in WoD as I once was, so set me straight if I'm tarding up my knowledge.
>>6126474While it's technically a werecrow power, werewolves can learn it as well. The power is summoning a miniature sun in your palmThat effects vamps just like the real thing, and can be used like a laser. This is just one way they dunk on vampires, who stay in cities partially because the wolves just fucking kill them if the go into the boonies.Werewolf the apocalypse is just several power levels above vampire the masquerade until the wacky, ancient blood god levels of bullshit you only see if the ST is feeling funny or decides to throw some fucker who saw the great flood to punish the Malkavian for being too annoying.And don't get me started on the were coyotes and their forced gay rape bomb magic power that they are mentioned in universe as using it for cheap laughs at the expense of innocent fuckers. The were coyotes deserve genocide
>>6126479Bigger numbers or immortality doesn't matter when Garou can kill you right now and here, and in order to deal with their bullshit, you need to gorge yourself on your brethren until your funny gen number gets low. They're described as killing machines for a reason.
>>6126479Doesn't matter, wolves have ways around it through spirit pactsWolves have to breed with wolf blooded (man or wolf) or they produced sterile deformed offspring there by RAW are the strongest choice between human, wolf and werewolf born PCsVamps need blood in Wod or else they frenzy/ torporUnless the vampire has enough fortitude dots, sunlight kills them dead quickAnd wolves can control it, in wta, but death rage is a thing and has killed a lot of vampires who thought "hurrrr, ill ambush and alpha strike the lone werewolf what could go wrong?!?"
>>6126485>>6126487I see. So then, which is stronger out of the two: Garou or Ananasi?
>>6126488Ananasi have poison strong enough to instantly cause aggravated damage that cannot be healed in combat, and may leave permanent injuries if untreated for too long.
>>6126488Spider. Their abilities are whack even amongst shifters. Swarm form makes them practically immortal in the true sense of the word, and having a blood pool in addition to the standard Wta mechanics makes them goofy brokenLike that one exploit using human sacrifice to turn a high gen anarch lick into the equivalent of a fucking anteduvelian
>>6126492>>6126494>vampires getting rekt by wolves and spidersWhy do we not have a quest of either of these two up yet? Why no love for anything other than vamps if the shifters go THIS hard?
>>6126499We had Rage Against Pennsylvania... RIP
>>6126499I dunno? Running vampire games in OWOD is easier, and it helps a lot that character are far less broken and grounded than the bullshit some other races pull.Shifters are also mostly jobbers compared to mages, the true munchkin race. These motherfuckers go from being D&D tier to ascending into Buddhahood and erasing your pathetic existence with a thought.
>>6126503>BuddhaI've changed my mind. I want MtA now. I very much like the "put in the work, become god" trope. Some Cradle series type shit.
>>6126499Because Garou are team killing fucktards who ruined everything and are the reason the world of darkness is such a shithole. And spiders are glowies working for an insane and abusive mother in a huge fight with her on and off of.Wererats are Irish car bombers. We're snakes tricked everyone into think Gaia needed dancers (they're actually gaias assassins), the were lizards are sad cause ancestral memories and can be kaiju if they want to be or dragons, were cats are every flavor under the sun and also oppress and kill themselves and other shifters like the wolves, were coyotes can go fuck themselves, werebats got killed because werewolves got racist at seeing something bat like, were bears got killed because they refused to give the rage tard wolves the power of resurrection, the wereboar got killed because they could cleanse wyrm corruption and wolves didn't want to admit they had a lot of wyrm corruption in their ranks. The were crow are the get of fenris' bitches. Weresharks are autists who just do nothing but swim and kill normiesAnd the were foxes are gaias perfect princesses who burst into fucking flames if a vampire bites them, killing them both and are canonically the creator of the shifting breeds favorite children
>>6126510Oh yeah and there are also were hyenas. Who are oppressed by the lion strain of werecats, that's all they have really
>>6126507It's entirely possible, and low-level MtA is easy to get a hang of.>>6126510Real gigachads play Abominations and roll willpower checks everytime they want to walk or breathe.
>>6126515How do mages attain enlightenment?
>>6126515Reminds me of that one werecroc abomination that's employed by pentex as an expy of barney the dinosaurs.He eats children
>>6126507MtA is great, been running it for the last couple months. That said everyone kind of has to agree on what each level of a sphere does when mixing and matching to make spells. Or at the very least I guess in a Quest the QM has to lay out very clearly what they do.Be interesting to see what kind of paradigm qst would come up with.
>>6126516They achieve such great understanding of their sphere that they ascend to dot six, becoming an Archmage. Other bullshit follows, like additional dots and the Golden Path, and I frankly forgot most of the lore on these things. But, in essence:>"Man, I don't like these limits. I know I am capable of more." >Ascend with help of your paradigm >Become insanely strong, to the point that one-shotting a Methuselah or an Antediluvian becomes an actual possibility with a degree of preparation>Also realize that Consensus works even worse on you, and the next Paradox you'll roll might be your last
>>6126518>>6126521Man say, y'all better come up with some MtA in here. For real. You all missing out on ALL this heat. Maybe you not ready for that. I dont know. But you're missing some fire with MtA not being on the board.
Captain Gāo has to make a decision about priorities... or not.>>6126539>>6126539>>6126539
>>6126522MtA is something I'd be interesting in doing a quest of, but there is no way I'm running one while I'm also running it on Table top.Mage is not something I can handle a double dose of, great system love it to death, would drive me utterly insane if I had to run more than one game of it at a time.
>>6126558I will say though I am working on my own setting that's inspired by WoD, and specifically focused on Mage the Ascension as the point of inspiration, and it's one of the things I'm workshopping for a quest.That, Nasuverse, and a Heian era JJK quest are the ones I'm workshopping.
>>6126522What is MTA? I assume it's not a game about trying to keep those damn vandals away from your Redbirds.
>>6126574Mage: The Ascension
>>6126156Tagged you on Twitter/X.
>>6126522Like the poster above pointed out, MtA can be quite heavy just on GM due to amount of tardwrangling you need to pull. I ran some games and feel like it's achievable in a form of quest, since it'll be multiple people potentially trying to pull off something stupid or fun. You can always try the meme approach and limit Arete to 2 for a while and watch your would-be mage fail every roll.
>>6126471>Wolves fuck up vamps in OWOD. Saw a cocky, munchkin'd to hell combat beast gangrel decide to pick a fight with a baby, literal starting character wolf, glassware I think, who had just underwent the first change while the gangrel had somewhere over a hundred xp + bonus dots>when the ST told them the wolf healed all of the damage they had dealt them in the first round immediately though,I dunno, this smells a bit fishy.was the gangrel not dishing out aggravated damage using protean? because garou can't auto-heal aggravated damage. if the gangrel player was a 'power gamer' and as high level as you're saying and had popped their claws, even a moderately strong garou is going to have a bad time.garou are tough but there's no way in hell that scenario should be happening in that one-sided a way unless everyone involved was running combat wrong.
>>6126614They could come back from that, but it's not exactly likely that they would, I'd be surprised if a no exp werewolf had enough rage out of char gen and the luck to actually survive a Gangrel with 100+ exp and bonus dots. Would just be extremely lucky if they did.
>>6126576This is why one must abbreviate it as MTAs or MTAw. Because MTA alone could refer to Mage: The Ascension or Mage: The Awakening.
>>6126660>Magic: The A-gathering
>>6125997>Chart: Jonathan Hickman>Alt-Text: A chart detailing a sequence of labeled circles. In order: Machine, Hive, Intelligence, a dividing line, Tehnarch, Worlmind, and Phalanx. A line connects The Technarch and Phalanx circles. [Come/Together]Atlas Event in T-Minus 1
>>6126614Oh the power game rolled like shit lol
>>6126705Doing anything with the "One Below All/Green Door/Eldest" cosmology expanded by the last few Hulk runs?
>>6126371It's pretty damn big yeah. It's one of the only games I play here these days (though I acknowledge there are definitely other good ones). But yeah STV draws in huge amounts of players and posts
>>6126365What is STV?
>>6126747Sworn to Valor
>>6126747Sworn to Valour (with a u, QM is Aussie)Threads herehttps://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=Sworn+to+ValourWiki herehttps://www.worldanvil.com/w/sworn-to-valour-albaniwarmachine
>501 posts>574 posts>568 posts>525 posts>566 postsGrim
>>6126371Not really. Last thread ran from July to September and had 1250 replies spread over 2 months. That's 21 replies per day. Nothing game changing
>>6126375Monke is 26 posts per day. Better than stv but nothing impressive
>>6126246I quite enjoy WoD. Bloodlines was very enjoyable
I had to take a week off because my ankle was killing me, but I'm back and updating Al Kimia Story again.>>6116909
>>6126765Oh it's like an anthology where the MC changes somewhat often? That's cool I dig it .
>>6126780Run a quest, invite your friends. if you're in other roleplay circles, let them know what you do here. buy more ads
>October 21st>No updates on UTUTU Quest Kaiju bros, it's so over...
>>6126308Well, yeah. Strong empires will usually push outward, even if only to secure their borders, then to prevent bandits from beyond those borders, then to provide law and build security for those communities outside their borders to stop the re-emergence of Banditry; then to secure their new borders which incorporate this newly wealthy area and defend them from the next bandits further on..
>>6126879Nah not quite, we accidentally got the MC killed in the first couple of threats because of a hubris and the QM not pulling punches. I'd say we learned out lesson but we still do a ton of crazy shit and just barely scrape through sometimes. Still though, Emile (the current MC) is going strong and has really developed as a character. It's been an exciting, wild ride and I can't wait to get back into it. I genuinely recommend you check it out.It follows 1 MC and his retinue, various people that come and go depending on what the goals of those characters are. There are a few mainstays (including our squire especially) but really, no one is guaranteed to stay with us forever
>>6126879If you like anthologies with multiple MCs, I'd suggest:>Simple Space Empire>Supreme Space Monke Ruler>Untamed Civilization ProjectTechnically, my quests do this on a more gradual scale, with:>Reptilian Infiltratorstarring the OG>Dragonborn Antipaladinfocused on her son>Seekers of the Esotericwherein players control the boyfriend/research assistant of the last two MCs' cousin>Cambionstarring Reptilian Infiltrator's other kid and her doppleganger who was created during SeekersLodestar also has multiple MCs, but simultaneously active and alternating between threads rather than sequential.
Solarpunk update!>>6127062>>6127062>>6127062After many warnings and murmurs, whispers and stories, you meet the faces of they who are why you are here in this pit. It finds you in its chambers where peace must be unbroken and spares your soul and body its immediate just wrath. Do not press Lorppo's mercy, overdweller.
>>6126705>Design (D): Jay Bowen>Alt-Text: A stylized logo reading "Marvel Ultimate Universe"ATLAS EVENT IMMINENTATLAS EVENT IMMINENTThe Great Wheel is BrokenThe System has FallenThe Age of Marvels has begun.Who will be The Ultimate Civilization?>>6127076
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The number of human-type mons in the party has doubled!>>6127236>>6127236
does anyone else style up their offline docs for their own pleasureI cut the margins thinner and set the page format to legal because I like having long pages, as well as made it dark and blueI wonder if some gigachad writes their fantasy quest in a script font on a fellum background or something
>>6127286i did what i could with my google doc, mostly because i dont have microsoft word in my laptop and i dont want to reinstal it just for this.i made the pages a dark-ish gray to minimize the blinding white that google docs has by default and wont let you modify, i also have a couple of colored lines at the bottom for reminders
>>6127286Google docsBlack backgroundGrey font
>>6127286i like it. kino
>>6127286I use Scrivener, this is how it looks:
>>6127286NotepadBlack view
>>6127214Okay.
>>6126156>Gonna resume Star Wars Interregnum tomorrow evening
>>6127286Funny how everybody else uses dark backgrounds to write, too. I use a program called Q10 which by total coincidence looks a lot like YouAndYourWaifu's setup >>6127335. Widescreen yellow Courier solidarity. >>6127390I used to use Notepad way back in the day. Check out Notepad++ if you haven't already-- adds a lot of functionality (including autosaving and the ability to have multiple tabs open at once).
>>6127286I use Notepad++ with khaki theme, except text made 11 size and changed to black for better readability. Consolas font. I think dark theme is harmful to eyes in spite of popular opinion being the opposite. iirc from my time reading stuff about this topic, it's better during nighttime hours because it lessens the contrast between bright screen and surrounding darkness, but light is more readable in general.
>>6127434Notepad++ user here; I like that khaki theme. Might try that out.
Any chance someone knows the No Talent Cultivator QM? Very sad if it just dies after such a fun and lucky run
>>6127471>>6127471GAME 1 ENDChoose the modifiers for the next run...
>>6127286Gigachads don't write ahead of time, we respond to the needs of the moment!In the Merchant Zombie Survival Quest: chapter 2>>6087641You too can join at a moment's notice to participate in the buffet of ultraviolence this week as we search for an old friend amid a sea of blac- . . . ahem, Zombies. A question arises>Merchant QM: Are you using Zombies as a metaphore for for something else?They sure do!So join in the mayhem!Create your own character and run amok, or pretend to be a regular worker inside a survival camp. It's your apocalypse, so play it the way YOU like it!
https://kadw.neocities.org/souvarineWow, Souv really made it. Nobody's ever made ME a fan-page, anyway
>>6127214That's exactly what a VATNIK would say! You're all Russian hackers on steroids!
>>6127422It looks like the Portal 1 ending song
>>6127577Is it really flattery if it comes from someone who considers Homestuck fanfiction and the SCP foundation as high art?>>6127286No, I'm a filthy heretic who makes my writing as awful to look at as possible. Google sucks dick and most other writing programs are too distracting; Notepad's pure blankness with nothing but a very minimal dropdown bar is the ideal.Also, for whatever reason, Comic Sans is easier on the eyes when I'm very tired. Given that i've been exhausted almost nonstop for the past few weeks and a lot of my entries have been made near midnight, it's been very helpful and I would genuinely recommend it to people for that (outside of the existing lulz factor).
>>6126303It's also likely the new spam measure they've got running, could be its site wide rather than board specific
>>6127660You can change the font in notepad? That's pretty fancy. I always just used the regular font.
>>6127664Yep, right here. I found out about it when I was way younger and obviously thought that it'd be hilarious if I changed it to Comic Sans, but I'm pretty sure it draws from every font on your PC so if you've got some custom ones you can change it to that too.
>>6127663Oh, shoot, I only just saw the new announcement. That probably plays a part, yeah.Seems like it's site-wide given the phrasing. Absolutely retarded move from the admins given how the site's already bleeding members.I wonder if this is due to the teraleak over on /vp/ and how many braindead Centro lackeys it brought over?
>>6127670I dunno I feel like while it's slowed traffic immensely it may have resolved the perceived samefag problem quest has (since ID is spoofable to a laughable degree)Eh, whatever I have a dental check up.
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>>6126590I don't think I saw you. Try reaching out with a DM.>>6127409Getting set up now. Been a while since I've posted, so the email verification to make a new thread caught me off-guard.
After a long hiatus, Star Wars Interregnum #3.5 is here!>>6127701>>6127701>>6127701
>>6120952>QM question:While the ancient human tradition of "Halloween" has faded with much of the TPN's lost history, various cultures still commemorate the anniversary of the Cataclysm in various ways that might resemble that spooky Old Earth celebration. FOr example, on planets where the anniversary coincides with the darkest nights of Winter, the Ulveng ward off the great dark with fireworks displays — a yearly Cracker night to scare off the devourer of stars. For our friends Dallas and Kiro, the anniversary coincides with the yearly harvest festival on their home planet where the excess produce would be carved by children into scary faces to frighten off the ghosts of those evil Wyrms. Dressing up as scary monsters yourself is optional and some children get into the spirit of the festival more than others...>Player question:You have already been visited by Lord Pumpkinfiend XXVII, banisher of Wyrms. No further dress-ups are required! (He will take any hard candy as tribute, however. None of that chewy stuff, gets stuck in his little teeth.)>General question:Referencing seasonal holidays is a fun way to explore different in universe cultures. Can also be a time for characters to relax and show a different side you don't normally get to see.>Miscellaneous question:Not really but I might actually think about running thread #4 of Voidship Bridge Sim come November.
>>6127643>>6127643>>6127643The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha's clean escape from the common room of Cancer House Coachery has been upset at the last possible moment by a squeaking door-sill! Before she is entirely unmade by the unfortuity, she must either commit to sneaking her way out of the house, or adopt an entirely new tack.
>>6127698Can't. You have verified-only on.
>>6127698verifying your info on this hellsite seems wrong
>>6128000It definitely does seem wrong.Exposing your identity is antithetical to a site that's supposed to be anonymous.
>>6127286I tend to make a point of using mostly default settings on programs so I'm not crippled by using an unfamiliar system. So it's default light mode Notepad++ and Cherry Tree for me. I didn't like CherryTree at all when I did my first quest, so it just wound up being a shitty repository of notes, but in my current quest I've come around to it and the whole thing is contained within nodes. Hasn't made me any better at documentation and notetaking though.
>>6128026We're anonymous to each other, but we've never been truly anonymous to the siterunners or governments.
Finally decided on what sort of dice system I'm going to use for that Spartan 2 quest I'm planning on running, Or I mostly have. Nothing special, just D20 Best of three, the one wolfpack used after its first couple of threads. Though If I don't vibe with it personally, I'll change it to something else. Still need to do more reading/ prep before I'm readyFeel a lot sorrier for grunts after my recent lore dives. And I've assigned numbers that weren't given to the known/named spartans of the first wave for the choices of the MC. 33, 108, 96, and 12
>>6128117Ah shit meant to write 97, my fat ass fingers slipped and hit the wrong key. 96 was Musa, who was discharged the augments crippled his ass and put forward the spartan 4 program after
>>6120952I hate to have to inform you all of this, but the Merchant Zombie Survival Quest, Chapter 2 is deadAND CHAPTER 3, HALLOWEEN EDITION IS UNDEAD!>>6128116>>6128116>>6128116We're preparing for the spooky season with MORE danger, ghouls and Thrills. So come along for the ride for co-operative survival game play, or drop yourself into the most dangerous part of the city to fight it out alone. Beware of Trick or Treaters, and try to keep your head and your BRAAAAAAIIIIINS!!!
>>6128117Super, convenient amount for a color coded fireteam too. We going to be one of the regulars or something more undisclosed like Gray or Black team?
>>6128117>Spartan 2 questChild soldier quest. Nice.
>>6128144Thinking, currently, that'll depend on your actions in the initial part of the quest, and how well you excel. Since Grey team was, to my understanding, made up of uniquely independent and rowdy candidates of the program, and black team was similar but with more teen drama thrown into the mix.>>6128146It'd even start with the abduction of the MC
>>6128149>and how well you excelWorks for me. You going to go off the rails or should we expect the general timeline? If the latter I'm hoping we can at least save Sam or Daisy or something. Maybe get a roll on saving James before he flubs and gets thrown out into space during Reach.
>>6128149I look forward to butchering whole families in the outer colonies for the crime of not wanting to pay taxes to their distant Earth overlords, at least until the covenant show up. And bullying ODSTs.
>>6128117i almost thought you wouldn't do it, but glad i am wrong.
>>6128151Well, since the four MC choices are going to be part of a little wrinkle to begin with, namely that there is a little more funding than there was in canon after some fucking moron in ONI reduced it so much that the numbers of candidates for the program got cut from 300 to 150 THEN AGAIN to just 75 for the initial batch of baby spartans.Not enough to make the number of spartans 2s produced in the end much bigger since the augmentation procedure further cut them down to thirty something I think? (at least from the first group) but enough for a few more, which include the MC picks, to be snatched and trained, at least.So you will get a chance to act as a proverbial nail or lack there of, provided you're present at said events to be throwing wrenches. Not going to make doing so easy, though. But don't expect me to snap the timeline over my knee, or included other setting aliens into the mix, not doing a cross over here or trying to treat canon like its my bitch>>6128154That's the spirit! and I look forward to writing that part maybe a little too much, to be entirely honest>>6128155No promises I'll be any good at it, but I am itching to pen some good old spartan action. No idea WHEN I'll start it, since I want to make sure I don't fuck up immediately and get some important detail wrong or something embarrassing like that
>>6128164>But don't expect me to snap the timeline over my knee, or included other setting aliens into the mix, not doing a cross over here or trying to treat canon like its my bitchAwesome, that works for me. We'll have to be the best damn spartan we can be. Long as the dice don't fuck it up.
>>6128247DCSS reference inbound. Very minor update, so let's chop chop this out.
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>>6128266Guys look, a real life pokemon
retard retard retard retard retardSorry, just testing something out.
>>6128269I'M SORRY, ALRIGHT?!I'M JUST TESTING THE FILTERS
>>6128272faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot
>>6128269Oh shit it's a shiny. GET HIM
ODSTs > Spartans don't @ me.
>>6128301>>6126111New QM started this game and it could use a few players
>>6128274>>6128266>>6128270The real test is:onionsdesusenpai
>>6128366Alas.>>6123121With art, a neat setting of a sort I'm always a sucker for, and a burgeoning cast of characters already and helmed by a proven, reliable QM, I think Escape The Maw is looking like S-tier material to me.
after an unusually and unintended long time betweem updates, we finally have more stuff for The Caretaker Quest!You now have a girlfriend! yay!now you have to decide if she will fight along side you or let her be cucked as a trade for an easier chance to wipe your target´s mind?vote now!>>6122821>>6122821>>6122821
Poképocalypse got an update that I accidentally posted out of order, so I’m just making this post to make things more orderly.>>6128341>>6128343>>6128500>>6128344There’s a new character involved, so if you’re curious feel free to read it! I’ll be keeping the vote open a little longer today so that more people get a chance to voice their opinions since the usual 6-hour voting period while I was asleep kind of got fucked by the accidental sentence omission.
>>6128106I thought that 4chan didn't cooperate with the glowboys even when a crime was committed. They just ban and delete. No?
>>6128551>I thought that 4chan didn't cooperate with the glowboysHiro is very cooperative when it comes to sharing user information with third parties.
>>6128164>No promises I'll be any good at it, but I am itching to pen some good old spartan action.thats fine
>>6128366>baka is already forgotten
Join us in Pondsmith's Symbipunk, where the hunted becomes the hunter, and the streets of Night City hunger for fresh blood and dying dreams!>>6128011>>6128011>>6128011As the inevitable march of deaths approaches, a mysterious alien creature wishes to create a symbiotic bond with you. Decide, and reap the consequences of your alliance. And don't let any cyberpyscho stomp your skull in, capeesh?
>>6128617Okay, but what is it?
>>6128623It's me combining the setting of a tabletop game Cyberpunk created by Mike Pondsmith, with elements from Marvel Comics like the Symbiotes. A mishmash of ideas I like, because it's simple and fun for a quest, and because I believe that particular setting has a lot of unexplored potential for the supernatural (the 2020 edition had a supplement that added minor psychic phenomena and tarot cards mechanic, not to mention that Pondsmith made a cyberpunk game about teenagers with superpowers induced by a cybernetic virus).I now see that the name is pretty shit at conveying the general idea, but I guess I'll have to stick with what I've made. Woe upon me for my foolishness.
>>6128635Are you familiar with the Marvel 2099 setting?
>>6128640Yep. It's cool, but it lacks the crunchy worldbuilding to make the world feel more alive, and I do not intend to make this quest too capeshit-centric. It's more like 40/60, for the usual cape adventures and pulling suicidal gigs for your fixer respectively.
>>6128635I do not think the core themes of Cyberpunk and Marvel Comics mesh well at all. Especially not Symbiotes. It's like having two instruments tuned slightly differently playing the same refrain, it'll just sound bad.
Today, I got reminded of Naruto Jounin Quest and I went to see when it actually ran. It was 2017. It has been 7 years. It never finished. One of the last posts was "He will run on monday."
>>6128649It's only elements, not the core characters or themes. Even 2099's themes are more on the surface than Pondsmith's attempt to explore a hypothetical cyberpunk future through the lenses of 90's paranoia about Japan 'n' stuff. But I appreciate the concern and will try my best to make it work, or at very least, fun to engage with.
>>6128651Never said which monday. Gonna have to go back to 1388 to see the end of it.
>>6128635Thank you for explaining patiently, I appreciate that.
You know, I may not like a lot of things about /qst/, but one thing i do like is that QMs don't have mod powers to allow them to ban anyone they feel like Why does literally every single site that give people this kind of power always end with everyone who has it turning into the biggest pretentious faggot alive?
>>6128772Alright anon, confess. Which QM just banned you on which site?I agree with you though, the curation of one's audience is the first step to turbofaggotry. Bans should be exclusively reserved for actually illegal shit or bots.
>>6128781I'm not giving the faggot advertisement.Anyway, it's not just the banning. I'd say that the fact that they have this option just effects the QM's mindset as a whole. They just seem to turn into these pretentious faggots who go around being fellated by a group of flunkies and get pissed off if you disagree with them or one of their decisions.>Huh, you didn't like this update? Well BANNED![cue the flunkies talking about how you totally deserved it]>Hmmm, i did put down this option, but i don't actually like it, so i'm going to just say it's samefagging and do the vote again so i can close it the moment the option i like is [Cue the flunkies talking about how it totally definitely was samefagging]The fact that you can't ban people who disagrees with you probably helps QMs not get too big for their britches.
>>6128783Well son, I'd say you shouldn't go sloshing through the sewers aka akun and expect to find anything other than piss and shit. Fair enough about the advertisement though.
>>6128772absolutely dogshit opinion by someone who sounds like a perennial shitter. nothing kills a quest faster than one or two whiney fucks who didn't have a vote go their way and instead of sucking it up drag down a quest by launch a massive unending bitchfest.
>>6128786I probably wouldn't have to if there were more interesting quests for me to follow.>>6128788>EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME SHOULD BE SILENCED!You sound like a massive bitch. Maybe reddit is more to your taste?
>>6128789>try le reddit!yeah, absolutely a massive shitter
>>6128792If your immediate reaction to someone disagreeing with you is wanting to ban them, why would you come to the site that prides itself on...you know, NOT doing that?
>>6128794>If your immediate reaction to someone disagreeing with you is wanting to ban themmy immediate reaction to someone starting shit in a quest thread for no other reason than they can't get the salt out of their vagina is, yes, I'd rather they not be thereclinging to the fog of the 'epic lolz' of a maladjusted teenager instead of acting like a goddamn adult is not a good thing. you absolutely sound like every ban you ever caught was justified.
>>6128797>Everyone who posts something i dislike is a shitter who's just shitting up the thread!>There's no chance whatsoever that someone could have a genuine reason to disagree with me!>I'm just too right all the time!>No, he must simply be a shitter! See, this is why i'm glad this site doesn't allow that tool, because of people like anon here who would instantly abuse it like the faggots in that site.
>>6128662I getcha, but for my part I think that the symbiote exactly steps on the toes of one of the core motifs (cybernetic augmentation). The idea/act of chopping portions of yourself off to replace them with the products of megacorps that oppress you is very poetic. That you do it just to be able to compete/survive in the environment those corps created in the first place is even moreso.The symbiote interacts with this specifically. Instead of selling your body and soul to the megacorps to play in their game bit by bit, now it's the symbiote that owns the Faustian bargain. Just doesn't hit as hard.
>>6128797>>6128798I like to shitpost solely to induce board/quest activity instead of just lurking. Why am I telling you this? I don't know.
New thread! It's the perfect time for new players to cozy up (or freak the fuck out) to the end of the world as we know it! Check out Merchant Zombie Survival Quest and create your character now!>>6128116>>6128116>>6128116
>>6128788I don't really like the idea of a curated quest audience, myself. I don't come to 4chan, even /qst/ for a safe space.>>6128772But yes, the other guy has a point, people continuing to whinge and even stooping to sabotage a quest after losing a few key vites has SANK good quests in the past, and almost killed others.The QM is not a machine. Players need to work with them, and wirh each other, to make the quest work.
I'll say this much. While the /qst/ cabal of cult personae (to include the discord especially) is a cancer, I do agree with earlier sentiments about the lack of banhammers being a good thing. You can have your Nazi protag, your "Nigger Quest", or whatever else without fear of being IP nuked. I also like how anyone with an idea can jump in and quest. It may not be a GOOD quest idea, but it will have its time on the board before sage.
>>6128945Name three.
>>6129013I remember Mecha Space Pirate died with an anon or two bitching about the quest. I can't remember if it was about the harem or storytelling. I do remember there was some animosity over a couple of characters and how things played out at the end, though.So there's one. Someone else can chime in now.
>>6129013royal rumble
>>6129013the original Trojan War Quest
>>6129013Bastard of westerosCrusader quest AdventA case could likely be made for STV and its samefag drama and I want to say House Malroy & House Reynolds own sad deaths were the result of it but I'm not 100% on that off memory.
>>6127990>>6128000What ultimately ended up happening was it asking me to "verify" that I wasn't a bot since it sent a verification link to a dummy email address I have expressly for questing.Anywho, Interregnum update. Arotta relationship advances, Potkin's trial finished, time to pick the next mission.>>6128528>>6128528>>6128528
>>6129087>>6129087>>6129087Solarpunk thread conclusion, maybe, whereupon Fiona talks to a giant to learn who the hell shot him and to persuade him to not squash her like a bug
>>6120952>QM question:Of course! And there's got to be kinds of Halloweens in other worlds too. I imagine a Sith would go trick-or-treating across different star systems...>General question:Yes, I try to write in the spirit of the season we're presently in. I guess that's why I'm coming back here, hopefully to write a /quest/ again. 'Ber months always get me in a melancholic blue mood which makes me want to write adventure/drama stories.>Miscellaneous question:Relax mostly, and take a break from academics. I really had fun writing here in /qst/ for the first time last year, so I want to try and write again. I QM'd a meme-y Star Wars-inspired quest featuring an anime girl MC and lots of OCs, written like a mashup between a visual novel and an R.F. Delderfeld military epic. The collaboration, and the idea of people directing and basically playing with the story I QM for them is super entertaining, and I think there's no place else like /qst/. I did learn some hard lessons though, like taking baby steps and starting small in order to avoid burnout and to finish quests to the end. There's lots of new things I want to do, and I think I can do it even better this time.
Need to make a>TEST TESTSeeing if the greentext remains with a spoiler afterwards
>>6129108>I imagine a Sith would go trick-or-treating across different star systems...I like to think that involves dressing up as a local cryptid or boogeyman and raising hell so you can drink their fear. Sounds like the Sith thing to do anyways.
Broke one hurdle to run the spartan quest. Which was figuring out, roughly, when the first part of Homecoming is supposed to take place Also,apparently, Johnson fought alongside/ trained the spartan 2s during one of their first combats against the covenant, just a few months after harvest and weeks after Sam diedSo that is giving me a very juicy carrot to tie to a stick to hold in front of myself
>>6129124>Also,apparently, Johnson fought alongside/ trained the spartan 2s during one of their first combats against the covenantSilent Storm, right? I need to catch up on Denning's books. Halopedia's pretty solid on rundowns though.
>>6129071So where do I contact you for the commission?
I, ArchAlien Längsnūz, am looking for 8 brave Klone Keeperz to answer my call! I have terraformed yet another planet, and need one of you to populate it with the finest Klonez!In this competition, you will face off against other galactic travelers, tend to Eggs and Klonez, manage resources, create alliances or enemies, and capture and fight over territory! Will you be crowned as my viceroy and earn the honor of naming this new planet, and ruling over it? In the end, only one Keeper will win.>>6129209>>6129210>>6129212Join Klone Keeperz now!
>>6129190Yeah. I only have the first trilogy on hand, so halopedia has been a life and wallet saver
>>6129227First three books and Cole Protocol are great. If I may make a suggestion, don't be afraid to include high quality fan stuff like Sins of the Prophets to fill out the setting or obscure shit rarely mentioned. Some of it's good enough to get canonized like the Abel-class destroyer.
>>6129231I'll make sure to check that out, thanks for the suggestion. And I do like obscure shit
>the next week or two>october 25th
Which Capetians (royal or prince du sang) would be most fun in an isekai?
>>6129296Local Lord Quest is already doing the pic on the left, so the right would stand out more.
>>6129296Louis VI? He was known as "the Fat" and "the Fighter", because his entire reign was basically BTFO'ing unruly subordinates.
>>6120952Evo Game discord link is broken
>>6129367>>6129367>>6129367The Fall of Hyrule is back with a Halloween Special
>>6129108>I QM'd a meme-y Star Wars-inspired quest featuring an anime girl MC and lots of OCs, written like a mashup between a visual novel and an R.F. Delderfeld military epicWhat quest was that?
Qm using AI art == qm using ai """"assisted"""" writing.
>>6129690here's your (you)
>>6129693He's right though.
>>6129690>>6129709I'm happy to use AI art in between commissions, because the art isn't the main draw of my quest and is just there for mood. If it filters out especially fussy people who like to pick fights for (you)s, that's a bonus.
What’s the average lifespan of a quest on page 9?I’ve kind of forgotten to check page number on mine and it’s already reached page 9. I think I just forgot to because the last thread had like 900 replies and this one has about half that (600 at time of writing).Want to know so that I can plan ahead. I was planning on posting into page 10 for this one but I don’t know if that’s a good idea.
>>6129782It really varies. Ever sincr the mods purged all those low-effort quests and maybe banned Wuxian the churn has slowed to a crawl, such that some threads last 60+ days from creation date.
>>6129782Probably a week at the least. Page 10 will last a day or two at the least. Page 11 is just the final countdown for shitposting, really.
I have started a quest, Evil Supergirl Quest:>>>6129826It's my spin on Supergirl from "My Adventures with Superman". I liked the idea of Krypton being more of an evil Viltrum style empire, but I don't think the show did a good job with it (or with anything much, it was either average or bad in every single way).The quest is set in the DC Animated Universe, probably around the beginning of Justice League.So yeah, let's have fun with the concept and see where it goes from there. All anons welcome. Write-ins welcome. Don't be a fag.
>>6129838>Don't be a fag.
>>6129838Can't play, too faggy. Well, that and MAwS was good, so a quest run by someone who actively disliked it is unlikely to be my thing. I wish you luck, though.
>>6129838Not gay enough.
>>6129907Don't get me wrong, I don't actively dislike it, I just think it had a lot potential and failed to meet most of it. It was the writers and directors' first gig and it really shows. Lots of cliche storybeats, one or two dimensional characters, most of the jokes weren't too good, pacing's all over the place, villains are dumb (dumb as rocks, cuz they have to make sure not to kill Lois and Jimmy), lots of issues that could stem from having a super-powered boyfriend and fighting his super-powered enemies don't really show up, it all seems to go too well and end too well, it's almost childish. And it's probably its intended audience, kids and teens. I'm almost 30 years old lol, so my criticism isn't too valuable anyway.There are things I like a lot though. Lois and Clark's relationship is lovely. Clark being a shy nerd is super nice and the possibility of seeing him grow as a character and become the confident, truthseeking journalist that he is in most other iterations would've been super cool. Lois would've been the perfect way to have him learn to be confident, then have her struggle with her capability to actually keep up with a superhero boyfriend. Jimmy Olsen meanwhile was actually the better one of the trio, he seemed to be the only one actually using his brain.It is still the best DC animated show since the 90s and I hope they actually keep producing shit like this. It's a stepping stone towards demarvelizing superheroes and being creative with them again.And if you want to turn your brain off and watch some cute shit happening on the screen, this show is pretty much perfect.
>>6129942I think it's a very good adaptation of Superman's Girlfriend/Superman's Pal/Superman Family, which I appreciated as someone who's grown to enjoy the campy Silver Age lore. I hope Season 3 has a bit more meat to it, but I don't mind if it stays mostly saccharine, episodic, and goofy. I sort of hope the empire they lost against is Czarnia instead of Apokalips or someone 'more serious'. What tone is your quest going for? I may check it out later.
hello anons, could i bother any of you with a tie breaker for The Caretaker Quest?>>6122821>>6122821>>6122821
>>6129690Why would AI know what I want to write next?
>>6129942I thought this show was gay and lame except for the slice of life stuff. Kara so cute
Thinking of doing a WoD quest with a minor splat as the protagonist (Kinfolk ideally), considering it's Halloween. Anyone interested?
>>6129988The tone I have in my mind is similar to the animated shows from the 90s. They had a sort of noblegrey vibe to them. The protagonists were really trying to be the best superheroes they could be and do good, but things are often more complicated than just good vs evil.Though it's still a superhero vibe, there should be a sense of optimism woven in everything, and quips and funnies should happen from time to time. There's a reason why the Flash was a key character for Justice League, he's the key element to keeping everything lighthearted and reminding the audience that this is a kid's show and not everyone has to be a batman tier sourpuss.I'm rambling though. Conclusion is, expect 90s animated show goodness.
There is a new update for The Caretaker Quest!the time for battle is fast approaching and things arent going according to plan!will you risk it and stick to the plan or lose your one chance?vote now!>>6122821>>6122821>>6122821
How do we stop losing QMs and players to akun and Spacebattles?
>>6130292I don't think i want the kind of QM/player that thrives on Akun to be here.
>>6130292Anyone who switches to Spacebattles is a tranny.
>>6130292You kinda just have to accept that the people who want to play in those spaces go and do so. No point in changing /qst/ just to pander to that segment specifically.
>>6129838>evil Supergirl questYou have my attention.
>>6129786I concur, I've seen multiple threads hang for like two months recently.
>>6130292Don't worry about that, worry about making normies realize four cans isn't the shithole they think it is. It's a much cleaner shithole.
>>6129786>>6130314In July (I think), the mods purged/banned 30 threads, or roughly 20% of the catalog. Two QMs also mentioned on Discord that they received permanent bans. The threads weren't all from the same person, as each user can create a maximum of five threads.The purge led to a significant drop in board activity, plummeting from over 1,000 posts per day to just 500-600 now. While most of these threads were low-effort, the QMs involved were active in other quests. By banning 20% of those low-effort QMs, the mods inadvertently removed a fifth of the active users and voters, resulting in a domino effect that turned /qst/ into a ghost town.
>>6130358I always said the purges were a bad idea.
Well I enjoy the lack of "Transgender Snail Quest" spam.
I was trying to think up a halloween idea for a quest but drawing a blank.
>>6130358Nothing of value was lost.Post quantity is a shit metric that gives equal value to a /pol/ shitpost sometimes done to intentional detriment of others' enjoyment as to a story post or a write-in post. If the board needs bad faith posts to artificially inflate post count then its better off not existing.
>>6130434Ghost waifu slice of life dealing with trick or treaters quest. Man has to deal with those dang kids trying to get into his haunted house when he's just trying to chill with his ethereal babe. Bonus points for being a cantankerous old man who is haunted by his actual dead wife and she's young and hot again just waiting for him to join her and they're still madly in love. A fun little oneshot.
Life fucked me over hard, is it worth to continue a quest after 20 days or should I just take the hint?
>>6130490From the same thread? Maybe not if providing a proper thread end fucks with pacing. New bread? Yeah, go ahead, just announce its return.
>>6120952so what's the protocol for using fanart or OCs i find on Pinterest? Cause I don't wanna get yelled at for using someone's art for quests
>>6130499There is none. This is 4chan, absolutely nobody gives a crap and reuploading someone else's copyrighted art is unavoidable unless you want to draw everything yourself or use the small pool of public domain stuff. I've never heard of the latter part happening and the main concern of your readers is it good art and does it fit?
>>6130499You can always use what you find on the web for inspo (and chances are no one is going to find out you're using their art for a collective game), but I think you should also consider making your own designs because it can be extremely fun and fulfilling than taking something someone else already made.Best of luck, anon!
>>6130499>what's the protocol for using fanart or OCs i find on Pinterest?Why are you gay?
>>6130499>that's my art!>No look, I drew an MSpaint dick on it. Totally OC. Fuck off.
>>6130499It doesn't matter. The only way it could would be like, if you tried to say you drew it or something.
>>6130496>From the same thread?Yeah thread is still around.>New bread? Yeah, go ahead, just announce its return.Hmm might be worth considering. I forgot the Curse and thought it'd spare me.
Klone Keeperz is still looking for up to 5 more players! Join the competition and fight for planetary rulership! >>6129210
t̶e̶s̶t̶ Test again.
>>6130644The Green Room opens.DISFORTUNA Featuring R̶e̶d̶ f̶r̶o̶m̶ R̶u̶b̶y̶ Q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶ Xom from the Dwarf Quest (tm) Threads.
pretty excited for HALO quest!https://youtu.be/kFchKKNZHLw
>>6130661So am I!
>>6130688How's it coming along?
Gotham City Beat Cop Resumed yesterday instead of tonight! If you love shooting the shit with your friends then come do it with your fictional co-worker. (Also vote so I have enough to go off of for tonight's update)>>6130210
>>6130689Need to find a good OP pic, decide on a few names and make absolutely certain I get the spartan 2 training right and don't flub dates and times So initial prep and setting research + hyping myself, more or less. I've got the special qualities of the four potential protags on lockdown, and have vague ideas of how two of them will be collected by the ONI spooks, as well as some earlier butterflies that can have ripples later on down the questAlso rewatched headhunters for the first time in years, still holds up
>>6130693Wonderful, glad it's coming along. And yeah, a lot of Legends is great. If you need a little gassing up them remember as long as you actually enjoy writing it you're automatically doing better than anything 343 did.
>>6130693>and have vague ideas of how two of them will be collected by the ONI spooksDidn't ONI just abduct kids from their homes, replace them with retarded cancer-riddled clones and make up a cover story about a rare and mysterious illness?
>>6130711Yeah, but it wasn't always as easy simple snatch and grab. Kelly kept the team sent to pick her up working for six hours, only being caught because she thought the attempted and then successful kidnapping was a birthday party game. Or the one who actually got away cause he could see the fucking future
>>6130715>cause he could see the fucking futureCaleb, right? Halsey thinks that was a bunch of bunk. But with neural physics being a thing in the universe I'll leave that one up to your interpretation.
>>6130715Okay then. By the way, are you using the new lore where the forerunners are aliens or the old lore where the forerunners were humans?
>>6130693>collected by the ONI spooksI look forward to trying to evade them. Will that be possible? Additionally, will it be possible to escape the program (even if only temporarily) and meet our flash clone? Just thinking about Oscar-129.
>>6130731I prefer the latter personally, just felt cooler. Probably because it blew my mind when I read the terminals in 3 >>6130739Yes on both, though key word on try on the first one and temporary on the second, since the quest will be about being a spartan, so preventing the MC from becoming one would kinda go against the spirit of it lol. And I have put some thought on interactions between the MC and their flash clone, though there will only be a brief window for it. Cause you know, most flash clones don't have a long shelf life, though how long that window is depends on which of the four protagonists you choose to play as.Pulling a homecoming is a possibility, probably the most obvious route being to do a runner with Daisy, Oscar and Co when they do theirs in homecoming
Still kinda lowkey fixin bouffa run a Homestuck Quest.
>>6128425Thanks for the kind review! Glad you're enjoying the story so far. Speaking of Escape the Maw, after a brief pause, the quest is back up and running!>>6130760
>>6130743>Yes on both>pic related
>>6130743>about being a spartan, so preventing the MC from becoming one would kinda go against the spirit of it lol.>he doesn't want to run a quest about escaping the UNSC and taking up a shield and spear in some lush land somewhereFucking helotes I swear.
>>6122729I STILL cannot write a character to save my life.
>>6128164I like these types of quests the most, sticking to the canon but with a few extra characters thrown into the mix that they can cause big and small changes
>>6130812You still get thread participation, so quit whining.
>>6130743>Yes on bothgrim.......
I remember way back a QM mentioned digital publishing their quest on amazon or something. I've seen some writers post their stuff for a cent or even for free just so that it's out there. Has anyone done something like that? Wondering how it would work with a quest.
>>6130962I've toyed with the idea, but I think most quests (mine included) would requiee very heavy editing to read well as a story on their own merits without the aspect of interactivity.
>>6130968>I think most quests (mine included) would requiee very heavy editing to read well as a story on their own meritsThat's been my impression hence why I wouldn't mind seeing someone else's solution to it, if they had one.
>>6130962>>6130975QM of Banished quest made his into a novel IIRC. There was one other that did something with theirs too, I can't remember which for the life of me, though.
>>6130812Consider drawing inspiration from your own life
>>6130983Any idea what the title of the finished novel was? "Banished Quest" seems to bring up a lot of false positives.
>>6131017No idea. I'd heard about it years ago so I can't recall. Someone around here might know though. Maybe ask the Discord.
>>6130873Based... my brother...
>>6131057>>6131058The Adlershorst Dynasty Quest is back. Please consider playing if you have the time.
>>6130984No, that's stupid. This advice only worked back when writers had cool lives and did stuff like go to war or explore the world, not when they were lame nerds.
>>6131060I'm pretty sure we here on /qst/ have some interesting life experiences and cool ideas, actually.
>>6131120>no mystery quest
>>6131188Sorry anon, can't play 'em all, and I missed the first four threads of that.
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>>6128783I agree.Any reasonably popular quest is inevitably going to get the attention of a couple shitters, but you can honestly just safely ignore them.Back when I was running, I picked up one or two, and it didn't take long to realize I didn't need to speak with people who were annoying. Talking to them at all is a fool's errand anyway. Some people insist on being malcontents no matter what because they get a high from the attention and the perception of control.
>>6131060Most past writers weren't cool adventurers, those were rare. A lot of them were nerds with too much time in their hands who read all kinds of stuff and inspired themselves on that stuff they read. Even Tolkien, though he had his own cool 'adventures', based much of his work on scandinavian mythology and christian concepts, in fact the guy denied that his experiences in the Great War shaped his writing in any significant way.As for writing characters. Take inspiration from other media (or straight up steal, no one will judge unless you're caught) and spice it up with what you know from your own life. I try to remember that you have to 'become' the characters when you write them, make sure they act in accordance to what they know, think like you think they'd think, speak like you think they'd speak. The rest is just refining what comes out of that.Initially characters will always be kind of blank slates unless you really put in the work (which may get overruled by player decisions anyhow). You will have a concept of a character but the character won't become a "person" until you've handled them for a long while. So yeah, just keep writing.>>6130962You'd have to rewrite the whole thing as the other anon says and probably turn it into 1st or 3rd person. That'd be the first big step, the rest is the bureaucracy necessary to get it out there.>>6131120Thanks for the B anon
>>6130962One of these days I'll turn Gaol Quest into a graphic novel or webcomic. Then Jail, when it gets finished.Needs some filling in of gaps and the like, but it is very possible.Alternatively, turn them into a visual novel or undertale-like rpg...
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>>6131357That would be pretty cool! It's a rich world that I feel we only ever really see a sliver of.>>6131348>Thanks for the B anonNo worries, keep up the good work!>You'd have to rewrite the whole thing as the other anon says and probably turn it into 1st or 3rd person. That'd be the first big step, the rest is the bureaucracy necessary to get it out there.Unironically something I hope an AI can one day do: a substantive edit like "take these PDFs, take just the QM posts, and change them all to be first-person perspective, plus edit out the typos."
>>6131060Some things you can extrapolate and transplant safely even from a boring life, such as variety of temperaments sometimes even across a singular person, moments of unexpected kindness or treachery, distinctive mannerisms...
>>6131060>This advice only worked back when writers had cool lives and did stuff like go to war or explore the world, not when they were lame nerds.The guy who wrote the Conan the Barbarian stories lived with his mother and did all his research at his local library.
>>6131579H.P. Lovecraft traveled later in life, but wrote a lot of his early work while being borderline terrified to leave his house and corresponding with Howard and others primarily by mail.
>>6120952I feel as if there's been a while since we had a star wars quest where you play some kind of an Imperial naval commander in the Warlord/post endor era. Do you guys think there would be interest in that, or does it need something to spice it up?
>>6131595We've had a bunch of quests playing as an imperial. Why not as a rebel this time? It's not like you have to be some standard x-wing grunt, either. Plenty of people like Borsk Fey'la who were pretty fucked up.
>>6131595I want to play that separatist jedi commander quest, keep Dooku from dying, which will end up causing Palpatine being discovered, ending his bitch ass, thus making the sequels never ever happen. Oh and the trade federations would wind up getting free sure, whatever. Too bad. Also buy Ventress a wig. Egg lookin' headass
>>6131599Hmm, if I were to guess, I think it's just because there's more freedom in being an Imperial in that era compared to being a good guy rebel. But you were thinking something like being a New Republic squadron commander or corvette commander, to begin with? Being one of Lukes first apprentices could be something to make it more fun, sort of like kyp durron and kyle who had active military commissions?>>6131602Well, I can't speak for another quest, but that sounds interesting, checked out sup tg quick. Star Wars: Against the republic is the one?
>>6131579Yeah, and Conan the Barbarian stories, despite creating a whole span of litterature, reeks of virgin meek boy powerfantasy
>>6131622>But you were thinking something like being a New Republic squadron commander or corvette commander, to begin with?I was thinking more like being the leaders of a rebellion branch in some specific region of the galaxy, and having to deal with stuff like local and senate politics and the like, as well as imperial shenanigans.
>>6131622I made sure style won that day. Our dude looked so fucking cool.....
>>6131622>Star Wars: Against the republic is the one?That do be the one.
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>>6131626Truly, he would have cleaned up on /qst/.
>>6131627Kinda like Saw Gerrera, guy was a terrorist. Disney's attempt at "rebels can be bad too you guys". They then coped out of having him around after the Rebellion fucked over the Empire.
I am begging Gamefreak to stop having private canon that makes me question my own worldbuilding and then proceed to have all that private canon leak specifically when I am running a Pokémon-themed quest.Please.It's been two weeks.How is there still more.This is mostly a joke post; I don't actually mind the leaks. However, they do indeed have VERY BAD TIMING and I would've much preferred that they started back in July when I was just laying the foundations for the quest lol.The Arceus shit (relating to its awesome glyph not its human-fucking habits) was so cool though. I hope there's more stuff like it to come.
>>6122729I simultaneously plan ahead way too much and not enough, leaving me with weird gaps in places that there shouldn't be and way too much in places that shouldn't have a lot. It's a bad habit from my worldbuilding-only days that I'm trying to kick, but boy is it hard to do when it's so fun.
>>6131765Have there been more leaks?
>>6131768They've been ongoing every single day since the start. The only exceptions have been the past 3-4 days when the leaker suddenly went silent, at which point people assumed that he'd been caught.Apparently he hadn't, because today he emerged from the shadows to leak [i]a metric fuck ton[/i] more stuff, including plans for the upcoming World Championships and sales figures (alongside even more beta designs, anime reference sheets, scrapped concepts, storyboards, animatics, etc.).
>>6131592I kinda love the horror at red hook because it was just a raw visceral reaction to his time in new York that tells you how badly he reacted to it.You definitely see the difference when you compare that to just about any story that's set in providence or the larger New england region.
its time for a VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE in The Caretaker Quest!The plan has been set in motion.Everyone is in positionBut you dont know if your target is there.Whatever you say or do in this next choice will dictate if you get a 1-hit or you start your toughest battle so far!vote to find out what happens!>>6122821>>6122821>>6122821
>>6130984>>6131060>taking inspiration from REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES for fictionhmmm, let's see if any of these 40k characters reflect relatable life experiences for the target audience>SISTERS Of SILENCEuntouchable voiceless emperor harem women, who literally cannot speak. Their role is just to wordlessly condemn and castigate all those who participate in the 40k hobby>SISTER EPHRAEL STERNShe experiences a hashtag MeToo incident of psychic rape by the Chaos demon imprisoned within the Screaming Cage, yet she is sadly disbelieved by her male interrogators. Both minions of Slaanesh (transgenders) and Grey Knights (military) covet the unbridled rape-power of female victimhood, as a means for their own ends. But how does the injustice end? No-one knows, Daemonifuge just finishes abruptly, it is too ashamed>INQUISITOR EISENHORNfirst he gets injected with some paralysing face toxin during torture and capture by heretic renegades, his face is completely ruined he cannot express emotion. Then in another battle his legs/spine gets crushed so he is a literal cripple, due to the exigency of the mission he can only use cumbersome retro cyber legs. So an emotionless expressionless tortured cripple>INQUISITOR RAVENORIn a thinly veiled X-Men (?) floating psychic wheelchair plagiarism a chaos atrocity heretic attack leaves him horribly burned and mutilated confined as an isolated shut-in within a completely enclosed floating life support wheelchair coffin / levitating gun sarcophagus box, he can only communicate with women via a form of body hijacking, telepathic puppet skulljack psychic rape. His only friend whom he completely trusts is a space elf (possibly psychopathological metaphor for schizophrenia) he just does everything the space elf commands>ELIZABETH BEQUINAll women are clones of this woman. She is Untouchable if you touch her she steals your potency/virility male sorcery psyker power noooo (wait, is this X-Men again??) It is not really explained why her Null power is bad, but it means that you cannot have sex with her, it is just too unpleasant. Also it is later revealed, if you just buy a FitBit wearable fitness tracker, this magic bracelet can somehow just switch off her evil male psyker leeching power, ensuring that the entire story of the original trilogy novels is completely obsolete. The best resolution to her narrative is to just make her character lose consciousness (it's like Sleeping Beauty in reverse), which is precisely what Dan Abnett does
>>6131994>WHEELCHAIR>>6131060>GO TO WAR...?recently I watched the NFLX adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover I also read the DH Lawrence novel. All novels should feature a scene of ROMANTIC PUBIC HAIR FLOWER BRAIDING sadly this is not in the film, though the actress does get very naked but it was not very erotic for me hmmmLady Chatterley is essentially about the eponymous heroine who has an affair with a lower class woodsman because her WW1 war wounded aristocratic husband cannot have a child due to his war injury.The DH Lawrence novel is probably only 10% sex it is about 30% Mining Bolshevism, 30% upper class English gentry inability to do the sex, 30% weird Merry England woodland hut Robin Hood paganism forest things. But there is this wheelchair scene, it is faithfully recreated with an appropriate exactitude in the nflx film. I don't really recommend NFLX films the music is terrible, the actress has too many modern mannerisms and instagram face for a period drama, but she does get naked***"I want this wood perfect ... untouched. I want nobody to trespass in it," said Clifford.There was a certain pathos. The wood still had some of the mystery of wild, old England; but Sir Geoffrey's cuttings during the war had given it a blow. How still the trees were, with their crinkly, innumerable twigs against the sky, and their grey, obstinate trunks rising from the brown bracken! How safely the birds flitted among them! And once there had been deer, and archers, and monks padding along on asses. The place remembered, still remembered.Clifford sat in the pale sun, with the light on his smooth, rather blond hair, his reddish full face inscrutable."I mind more, not having a son, when I come here, than any other time," he said."But the wood is older than your family," said Connie gently."Quite!" said Clifford. "But we've preserved it. Except for us it would go ... it would be gone already, like the rest of the forest. One must preserve some of the old England!""Must one?" said Connie. "If it has to be preserved, and preserved against the new England? It's sad, I know.""If some of the old England isn't preserved, there'll be no England at all," said Clifford. "And we who have this kind of property, and the feeling for it, must preserve it."There was a sad pause.(...)"The tradition of England! of this!""Yes," she said slowly."That's why having a son helps; one is only a link in a chain," he said.Connie was not keen on chains, but she said nothing. She was thinking of the curious impersonality of his desire for a son."I'm sorry we can't have a son," she said.He looked at her steadily, with his full, pale-blue eyes."It would almost be a good thing if you had a child by another man," he said.
>>6131626>meek boyNO
>>6131579>>6131626>>6132116>CONANremember after having THE SEX with a woman, you should throw her into the fireplace. Also when taking these screenshots I only just noticed for the first time the cool spiked Chaos wheel pendant thing he is wearing, hehe
Just now realized I should make my text regular and not make it all green-text options included. I’m stupid I apologize. Got too caught up in writing and mechanics. Damn it.
>>6132259On any other board, you would be greated with LURK MOAR.Here, we will say we're glad to have you there and it happens. Good to have such newblood energy. Care to link your quest?What are you playing?
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>>6132307You're not the OP of this thread, so you don't get formatting privileges.>[b] testing something [/b]>[i] testing something [/i]These are correctly formatted.
>>6131686If i had tony gilroys writing chops I'd write about an early cell around the first season of the andor tv show, after they do the heist and the empire starts cracking down.
>>6132384>>6132384>>6132384DISFORTUNA, Game 2 is coming! Vote for the next kind of story you want. I like the anthology format, really gets right into the action.
>>6131314Spirit, Akule? Sounds like somebody's entertaining the notion of the 'soul'...
>>6132389mfw
