Bad Ideas Edition.
ITT:
>We discuss Current, Finished and Upcoming CYOAs.
>Give advice on CYOAs
>Pitch ideas
>Get critique
>Trade art
>Shitpost
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http://strawpoll.me/10160199
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http://strawpoll.me/10160202
>What genre are you interested in?
http://strawpoll.me/10160203
>What if I cannot into art?
http://strawpoll.me/10160205
>What race would you play?
http://strawpoll.me/10160997
Remember: Stop while you're ahead
Last Thread: >>27412556
Never forget
>>27400547
Just Another Day continues! Save the Wispy, save the world.
I want to bully Treads again.
Reminder that moths a cute
She's still here.
Active threads
Super: >>27426223
Stuck in the Middle: >>27427733
Pocket Watch: >>27429453
Hype Quest: >>27406361
JAD: >>27400547
Boatquest: >>27438222
Coltquest: >>27407128
Dirty Work: >>27363917
Vampony: >>27428588
Miracle: >>27394937
Alchemy: >>27377662
FOE: >>27407231
Crystal Symphony: >>27344969
Tinypone: >>27426946
Spicyquest: >>27362094
SIM: >>27303978
Yeeeah baby, work that grill.
>>27439444
!brushie
>>27439450
SIM: >>27303978
JAD: >>27400547
FOE: >>27407231
Super: >>27426223
Miracle: >>27394937
Alchemy: >>27377662
Tinepone: >>27426946
Vampony: >>27428588
Coltquest: >>27407128
Boatquest: >>27438222
Dirty Work: >>27363917
Spicyquest: >>27362094
Hype Quest: >>27406361
Pocket Watch: >>27429453
Crystal Symphony: >>27344969
Stuck in the Middle: >>27427733
I have a condition it's calledlack of memes
>>27439645
>i suffer from a lack of memes
You poor thing. Take some of mine.
JAD is perfect, tara has a stupid face, treads just hallucinates tanks, batfags are cancer, antibatfags are cancer, shimmerfags are cancer, glimmerfags are cancer, bath is edgy, wolvan is relevant, i care, nobody cares, i hate you all, go fuck yourself.
>>27439645
>Wanting more memes
>>27439665
Your waifu a shit.
>>27439680
That too. Shit, I knew I forgot an important one.
CYOA
>>27439772
OKAY
>>27439806
MEMES
>>27439810
SOME
BATFAGS
>>27439813
TIMES.
>>27439823
Didn't link the last one, doesn't count.
>>27439645>KKK[opper/spoiler]>KKKog
>>27439645
Take this meme starter pack.
>>27439913
>tfw twice in the same pic
>>27439960
I feel ya
>>27439960
Go for 3.
>>27439490
>>27440033
>>27440048
>>27439999
well, quads demand
>>27440058
Last one I have, which brushies am I missing?
>>27439999
>Quads in a Whispen post
You know what you must do, anon.
>>27439913
Aditional supplementation
>>27440075
This
>>27440075
>>27440083
And doxel's
Is brushie new meme
>>27440120
>new
>>27440075
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/166962979563241472/182523106617851906/DoxelBrushie.gif
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/163057860333273089/182742913862729729/ChoosieBrushv3.gif
Cyoas are allowed here, right?
>You are a filly, lost in a big city. >You're pretty sure your parents just got on a train bound for the other side of the country, without you.
>You're certain that they thought you were right behind them.
>You're also sure the train won't be stopped because of one lost little filly.
>You are currently sitting on the platform, alone and scared, watching the train get smaller and smaller.
>What do you do?
>>27440220
Scream
>>27440083
>>27440092
>>27440163
Excellent, thanks
>>27440256
>>27440120
It's vintage
>>27440220
Focus on your parents and use instant transmission.
>>27440220Also, should clarify that this isn't really a cyoa, I just wanted to do a test run.
>>27440237
>You scream out to the world.
>There aren't many others on the platform, and an official looking pony comes over right away.
>"L-Little filly, what's wrong? Where are your parents?"
"I- they're on the train!"
>You point with your hoof, down the tracks.
>The train is now out of view, having just gone around the mountain.
>"Oh goodness! How awful! Where were they headed? Where do you live? What's your name?!"
>Well, where do you live? Where do you come from?
>>27440296
My name Doop Snog fo rizzle and I live up on that hizzle.
>>27440296
I live in Vanhoover
>>27440296
My name is nor important. Where i'm from doesn't matter, where i live is irrelevant.
My parents are headed to hell, for i took the brakes out of the train.>CRAWLING PLAYS LOUDLY IN THE DISTANCE.
>>27440296
My name is Scootaloo, and this is my origin story.
>>27440424
>Coldsteel the filly begins to laugh maniacally.
>Her small reign of terror and edginess begins now.
>>27440372
>>27440402
>>27440437
>You were starting to cry.
>This wasn't fair.
>You didn't exactly know where your house was.
>You just remembered the city.
>And a rhyme you think you heard a friend saying once.
"M-My name be Doop Snog fo rizzle, and I live up on that hizzle!"
>You sniffle.
>What if you never see anyone you know ever again!
>"Sorry, what did you say? Your name is Doop? Where is the hizzle?"
"I- No! I mean, that's just- I live in Vanhoover."
>"Oh! Well, that's quite a ways young filly- Er, Doop? Is that really your name?"
>Is it?
>Are you actually an orange filly named Scootabloo?
>Or were you messing around?
>What is your real name?
>>27440559
Scootaloo is our name.
>>27440559
Sure, why not? Scootaloo's birth parents can be from Vanhoover.
>>27439665
You forgot 'wolvan is a qt'
>>27440574
>>27440587
"Scoo-Scootaloo. That's my name."
>"That's a good name. Uh, Listen. I'm going to go get someone. Did you want to stay right here for me?"
"I-I guess."
>The pony wanders off, looking for a guard or policepony or something.
>Time passes.
>Some trains go in an out of the station.
>It sure is taking some time.
>The pony is still not back.
>Another train pulls into the station.
>"All aboard! Seaddle Express!"
>W-Wait. Seaddle!
>That's like... Not actually that far from Vanhoover!
>You bet you could find your way there easily!
>You look back, the official pony sure is taking his time.
>You could- You could just take the Seaddle train! You still have your ticket!
>It- It wouldn't be too hard to find your way.
>Someone would help you, right?
>What should you do?
>>27440888
Yeah. Let's take the train.
What could go wrong?
>>27440888
Yell to the official that you're going to take this train. Give him a few minutes to respond, the train will be at the station a while. If he doesn't get back by the time the train calls all aboard, we go.
>>27440888
Holy fuck the official pony is not following procedure at all, fucking go over there and rail on him for not assisting a lost filly immediately.
You could have dangerously taken a random train to somewhere and be lost forever.
Also
>888
I've been wanting to post this for ever.
>>27440888
No train run over to that poner tell him we're horny and need the bathroom to get off.
Mind giving Rarara a hand?
>>27441401
>>27441437
Sure. What else am I going to do, sleep?
>>27441497
>Sleeping at 9 am
Every QM should share an advice.
IF YOU READ THIS IT MEANS THAT YOU’RE WAIFU A SHIT, SHIT!
>>27442059
Think at least twice before running.
>>27442059
My ban is supposed to lift at 6:30 Eastern and I'm not sure if they meant AM or PM. Either way after I get back from work today I'll need to scribble down a new 11-54 Title-card and I should be back to business as usual. I'm sorry about the delay.
>>27442059
Play instead of running. It takes less time, less effort, and is more enjoyable.
>>27439913
Haven't drawn in a long time. And have never drawn a Whispen.Sorry it sucks.
>>27442237
>>27442201
That means AM.
>>27442201
How'd you get banned?
>>27442201
That's a qt as fug chooser bath
Reminder
>>27443192
Good ending?
>>27443192
>tfw you will never again engage in armored warfare with small mare
>>27443192
Reminder
>>27441437
>it was a ruse
I'm upset.
>>27443260
But it's a great setting, not so much as a story.
>>27443273
Careful now anon. Someone might take offense to you liking what they don't like.
>>27442237
Thanks, anon.
>>27442059
Whenever creating an important NPC, have a basic description of thamm ready with at least one distinguishing physical feature, one behavioural quirck, and one thing they will not want the player to know at first
The threshold for an NPC being important is giving it a non-stock name
>>27442059
Don't be afraid to let your players make wrong decisions and suffer the consequences of their actions. The worst that will happen is that they will be afraid to do the wrong choices and will discuss amongst each other the better decisions. They, and thus the main character, will grow together from their past actions.
>>27443424
>The worst that will happen is that they will ragequit and bitch about you in this general as the whiny bitches they are
ftfy
>>27443424
>The worst that will happen is that they will be afraid to do the wrong choices
>>27443440
Gar is worst princess.
>>27443451
Outshined by his brother yet again
>>27443451
>>27443463
princess of naps
>>27443273
>>27443302
nice try reddit
>>27443424
>The worst that will happen is that they will be afraid to do the wrong choices and will
refrain from being the first one to post a suggestion in a dicey situation, because they don't want to be "the one who fucked it up".
>>27443477
This is much more common, confirmed.
>>27443269
It wasn't a ruse, just a minor branching of Miracle and, to a minor degree, a small style test.
As I said in there I'll QM a serious, non-Miracle related CYOA when Miracle is over if people wants me to. Hell, if there is enough demand I may even do what Dox suggested me and use that graphic style in Miracle.
>>27443466
Best princess
>>27443471
>>27443477
>>27443484
>It wasn't a ruse
>>27442302
>SOOO I decided to use a completely different artistic style, ask Doxel to post updates for me (By the way, also huge fucking thanks for his advice on making isometric Rarara, it'd be shit without him), and and another writing style altogether to /trick people into thinking this was a proper quest/.
>>27443494
Part of it hinged in people not knowing it was related to Miracle. Stylistic choice. I didn't do it for the sake of being le ebin ruseman.
Should've had "MiniCYOA" in the tittle tho, I see that now.
>>27443507
Oh, and that said, if me doing this does come off as assholish as you make it sound (I won't deny that-- there is, as a mater of fact, a dickish element to this that no stylistic justification can remove. My failure may have been in miscalculating it's scale) I could, I dunno, pause Miracle for a day or two to QM this properly, if as I said before people wants me to. I'd have to make up a plot as I go but that's a skill that QMing taught me even when I was doing small irrelevant quests back in 2013 or so.
Here, have this test Rarara I made to test the style beforehand as a form of apology. And yes it IS supposed to be creepy. Rara is dead, afte all.
>>27443543
I thought it was a pretty neat idea.
>>27443543
Contain your cyoa in a thread, it's there for a reason.
Dammit guys, you gotta bump the thread.
I was all ready to do some morning updates.
I had basically all day to run too.
>>27443543
The main problem I had with it was how short and inconclusive it was. Like we barely did anything and accomplished nothing from it. It was a neat idea, but either make it longer or make something significant happen as soon as possible, cause right now it seems kinda pointless to us players.
I want to bully mothpone
>>27443667
Tube Sand pls
>>27443629
One of the main purposes I can talk about without giving spoilers was that I wanted to give a sneak peek into Rarity's through process. If I had mentioned this was related to Miracle, people would've expected her to be as grim as everything else. And there are a few small details that I don't think people has caught that could be useful (Albeit not vital) later on.
The most glaring fact was the armored sleeper, but a few others were hinted at.
>The main problem I had with it was how short and inconclusive it was.
Can't and won't try to deny this, it did have a notorious lack of closure. I had expected the players to act differently with something, so it's length got cut unexpectedly even for me, and I should have planed for the players not doing what I expected-- I broke one of the primary QMing rules in that.
Then again, test with styles and all. At least I think I did a good Rarity.
And again:Just ask and I can run a longer version of the quest (From the moment she climbs down the hole, for example) that actually has closure to it, I'd be charmed to in fact, and I'd detest to leave my players without any sort of closure.
>>27439913
There's a lack of RITS in that memepack.
>>27443673
You don't need to change the ending of it, just please in the future make it a bit clearer what it is you're doing.
>>27443507
>I didn't do it for the sake of being le ebin ruseman.
>Purposefully doing all you can to misdirect make it separate from the actual cyoa and make players believe they're playing an entirely different unrelated quest
I have to call bullshit.
>>27443738
But anon if it would have been clearer they would have acted ooc!!!!!!!
>>27443749
The difference is in intent. If I had wanted to be le ebin ruseman, I would've had the candle start a fire and burn her alive.
The problem here is that regardless of intent, the result was the same, which is why I am willing to do something as an apology.
>>27443749
It was more a propaganda
>Hey guys did you like this not real cyoa?
>Come here to play the real one!
I'm starting to think some of you guys take cyoa far too seriously.
>>27443787
>someone does stupid shit
>y-you are taking it too seriously!!
>p-pls no bully!
Fuck off, Doxel.
>>27443790
Maybe it wasn't a great idea or maybe it just wasn't done as well as it could've been, but people over reacting. A medium is made to be explored, that's how growth is created. This medium relies on player input, so it's only natural that someone would want to play around with different ways of using that.
Hell i've thought of doing stuff like this for my cyoa, ideas much more radical.
I just think the amount of bitching being done is not proportional at all to the "offense" committed. So a mini cyoa didn't work, so what, who gives a shit? Like seriously, I don't understand how anyone can think this is an appropriate reaction.
>>27443804
Fuck off, Doxel.
>>27443790
>>27443826
S'the first time i've been called Doxel not once, but twice in a row.
Shit's hilarious.
Doxel is a myth.
>>27443804
>Contesting people's sacred right to be angry about anything on 2*2chan
How new R U?
To Ponk or not to Ponk
>>27443887
Don't.
>>27443612
>making a thread takes literally 20 seconds
>oh, my thread died, guess I can't update
>>27443891
I'm waiting on new art for a new OP image. I'll update today, but it does slow me down.
It's a personal rule that I know isn't exactly normal, but I try to have a new OP image for each thread, and I wait for two responses before writing anything.
>>27443900
That's fine. Just don't act like you're entitled to bumps
>>27443891
QMs live on carebucks
A little piece of them dies with each unbumped thread
>>27443900
If your thread keeps dying then obviously it's unreasonable
>>27443900
What would you want the title card to be?
>>27443891
>>making a thread takes literally 20 seconds
It takes 2 hours plus if you create a new OP picture.
With all those talks of a new OP image every thread I feel lazy.
>>27443925
Which is why I don't bother. There's really no point to it, especially for a text quest.
>>27443925
New OP picture every thread is totally necessary. I wouldn't play an otherwise good quest if it doesn't have a new picture every single thread. No recylcing.
>>27444027
The Best Ship, the best ship, is sailing again!
>>27443985
That's retarded
>>27444069
That's cause he wasn't serious
>>27444069
>>27443985
To bad that you aren't in charge of this decision. Damn these draw quest QMs that want to challenge them, and try to actually put more than half an hour of work into their updates.
Reminder to not bully QMs, their feelings are more important than you.
>>27444179
QM>Shit>Players
>>27444194
QM > QM's shit > Players > Player's shit > Player's feelings
>>27444194
>>27444217
opinions > (you)r opinions
>>27444252
>buttmad player pleb detected
>>27444179
>>27444194
>>27444217
>>27444252
(You)r opinions are shit, kiddo
>>27444217
>when the opinion is just right
>>27444258
thanks for the (you) famalamadingdong
>>27444286
Calm down Inept
>>27444259
You are right, res, sorry.
Bard Quest: New Blord : returns !
>>27444397
>Your favorite pony
>Your favorite current quest
>>27444610
Pinkie.
Three way tie between Curse, Boat, and Miracle.
>>27444610
Luna
Dirty Work
>>27444626
Same, shiro
>>27444610
Cheerilee
BoatQuest
>>27444626
>>27444643
>>27444705
Fuck you Res, not everyone who likes Luna is Noctis
>>27444610
Appuljack
Bard Quest.
What are some player responses/descisions that surprised you the most?
>>27444924
Dying.
>>27444924
>Die a virgin
War in the North returns with a new thread. Will you eat your father's meat?
>>27444941
>>27444959
>Will you eat your father's meat?
I didn't expect Fins' realm to be so magical
>>27444959
Suck his dick?
>>27444724
No, but they might as well be
>>27444949
u still mad?
>>27444924
>ignore the shiny thing
Which quest are indisputable examples of pure kinography?
>>27445537
Fuck off res
I want to cum insideYou anon no homo
>>27445464
>implying this isn't top tier
>>27445837
Horse.
Penis.
Horse.
Shoe.
>>27446263
pls
>>27446281
It's over. The sub crashed and whatsherface died along with all the unicorns she hated
Let's create characters for no reason
Come up with a pony couple, with their own personalities and quirks and stuff, or even the story of how they got together if you'd like. Bonus points if their personalities are compatible, and more bonus points if their relationship is consensual.
>>27446345
>Let's create characters for no reason
>>27446345
He is a pegasus who is annoyed by the fact that everyone thinks that pegasi are just dumb air heads. But he is actually not the brightest and more of a dude bro. His girlfriend is an earth pony who works as receptionist in the hospital and thinks she is doing a really important job on par with the doctors and she really dislikes Nurse Redheart, even though Redheart is a very nice mare who doesn't even know she's being disliked by the receptionist. She (the earth pony) has a female unicorn friend who uses every excuse to drink and party, because she can't deal with the fact that she's not 20 anymore.
>>27446407
>He is a pegasus who is annoyed by the fact that everyone thinks that pegasi are just dumb air heads. But he is actually not the brightest and more of a dude bro
The kind of people who is always mildly frustrated at their own illiteracy?
I was going to run a game and looked at some other quests for inspiration. How important is it to you as a player to have pictures detailing every single action the mc performs? How about only the important plot related ones? What if it's all just text? I'd like some imput before I try to draw everything out.
>>27406361
Das it mane
Resuming Miracle: Unded unicorns boogaloo.
>>27446365
>>27446427
The number of pictures is not important. My top five favorite quests are text only.
>>27446425
Sure, I haven't fleshed out any of it, I just wrote down the first things that came to mind. We can go with this wherever we like from here.
>>27446427
Everything that's longer than one paragraph needs to be split into two posts or more with one picture for each paragraph. Otherwise you can just go full pleb (text only) mode.
>>27446427
>art quest
neat
Take Two!
>>27446848
QMs are for bully
>>27446407
The female unicorn has off white hair and a bright orange coat. Her name is sherbert, she tells stallions younger than her to call her creamsicle when she's drunk, but they never do.
Tara has a stupid face.
>>27447271
We're up
>>27447268
>>27447285
WAKE ME UP
Overwatch has taken all the QMs away
>>27447195
I want Creamsicle quest
>>27447195
This pleases me.
Who's your CYOA waifu, Anon?
>>27448248
Basil, from Curse.
2nd place Rivet, from Boat.
3rd place Feather, from Tiny.
Honorable mention for Mirria from Miracle.
>>27448281
>Rivet
That's a funny way to spell "Silver Sextant".
Also Scrolltuck from This Fucker.
>>27448248
Sharpie
>>27448248
Lithy from Curse
>>27448248
>>27448343
where did it go?
>>27448248
That one pretty stallion.
>>27448508
Where all good vagoob go, vagoober heaven.
>>27448508
we'll find out some day
>>27448505
This is best Silver
>>27448681
This is going to be a thing, right? Please make this a thing.
>>27448681
I would check Tara for any suspicious extra vagoos.
>>27448681
Need to find that vajeeber
>>27444179
!Bully inept & MangoAnon
!Bully Choosie
!Bully players
>>27448980
Soon™
Hey guys, been deployed overseas for a few years. Is ASNYIP still up?
>>27449000
It's dead. OP vanished and never came back.
>>27449000
I am now aware that there is no internet overseas
>>27449000
No.
ASNYIP as been dead for a long time now.
OP posted something about mental problems or something on his twitter about a year ago, and hasn't been heard from since.
>>27449029
There's no life outside USA.
>>27449038
>hasn't been heard from since
Quit out your asshole, faggot. Here's his Tumblr, http://rasec-wizzlbang.tumblr.com
Ask him about stuff on there.
>>27449038
He probably got his nervous system removed.
>>27449047
Except Australia
>>27449067
Fuck you faggot, I didn't even know he had a tumblr.
>>27449067
>tumblrtale
No surprises.
>>27449095
So you just talked out your ass because he doesn't tweet anymore? You're a fucking imbecile.
>>27449000
>ASNYIP
Wew lad
>>27449111
Oh, lay off, you cunt. It's clear he didn't know that there was a tumblr. Ignorance is not stupidity.
>>27449130
Yeah, it is when you take your ignorance and then lie about it, you fucking dunce. Making blanket statements about mental health and never being heard from again is the kind of gay ass thing rumormonger faggots do to get a quick thrillboner. So fuck him, and fuck you.
>>27449111
Why are you so hostile over a fucking blog?
>>27449111
I wasn't talking out my ass, retard. I told him what I knew about the situation using the sources I knew existed. I didn't know he had a fucking tumblr, so I didn't know he was still posting anywhere.
Get bent faggot.
>>27449153
>>27449111
Calm down faggot
>>27449153
>lie about it
Except he didn't. I'm sure he legitimately thought that the tumblr post about his mental health was his last word to the internet.
>>27449183
Twitter*
pls guys don't be mean to each other
>>27449227
Bully bully bully
>>27449227
Ok I'll try to be nicer to my fellow anons, starting with you.
Would you please navigate yourself to the roof of the tallest building in your town, and throw yourself off? Pretty please?
>>27449258
Why anun I don't wants to die
>>27449320
Why not? I said please.
>>27449320
But you can be with your waifu in Equestria.
>>27449419
I don't have a waifu.
>>27449582
Then who's your favorite pony?
>>27449258
>>27449587
>starts with telling someone to kill themselves
>turn into so who's your favorite pony
Another victory for doxelism.
>>27449632
Honestly, being infected was the best thing that's happened to me.
Mmmhmm
>>27449659
Since it's so close to the bump limit i'm gonna see if I can't run till it archives.
>>27449587
Fav pony?
Out of mane 6 or general?
Cause of main probably purple smart
And of background it's defo bonbon/Lyra.
>>27449692
Overall.
>>27449705
Then as I said above Lyra/bon are best
>>27448681
spicy no
>>27449854
Homeless huh,doesnt he like have a job or something
>>27449854
>>27449911
I was kidding about the second line, there's very little chance i'm going to be homeless.
>>27450031
Well now you've gone and jinxed it.
Surprise eviction in 3...
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