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> QM topic
Are you constantly working on improving your writing ability? What is the latest book you've read or non-quest thing you've written?
> player topic
How do you show your appreciation to your favourite QM? A hearty thanks for running or something more?
>>44107922
>Player Question
Mainly just a thanks, as I cannot draw for shit.
>>44107960
Have you ever considered commissioning art?
>>44107922
>Player Question
I try to encourage discussions between anons in thread, ask questions after, and yeah usually a thanks for running when it ends.
>>44107922
I thank my QM whenever. I want to draw something, but the artwork used is already better than my meager scribblings.
>>44108010
Don't have much money to spend.
Do you think players are too focused on diplomacy and getting the best possible outcome out of a decision?
>>44108092
Yes.
>>44107922
>How do you show your appreciation to your favourite QM?
I write self-insert porn of me raping the MC while his/her waifus are forced to watch
>>44108092
Yes, I think that all the time. See, a Quest is only exciting when there isn't a clear best option for everything. When every outcome leads to more drama. I think it's especially important not to give players an incentive to train, turtle up, or otherwise do very downtime-intensive things, because you want them to be constantly dancing on the razor's edge as they reel from one crisis to the next.
It's like with diplomacy. Conversation should be a gambit, too. You can't reliably inspire someone; Fuck up, and you're worse off than if you didn't talk to him/her. Expending effort doesn't naturally mean you'll succeed.
>>44108092
A lot of times yes, though I've seen good players play their characters well and use intimidation or force before trying diplomacy cause that's how the character is.
Halp /wqdt/, I think I'm in love with /tg/'s collective unconscious.
A QMC is rapidly becoming my husbando.
>>44108187
Is it JJ? That butt mang.
>>44108060
Speaking as a QM, I'd say that if you want to draw something, you should go ahead. I love it when people make stuff related to my quest, regardless of quality. It's the thought that someone liked your work enough to make something for it that matters, could be hastily-made macaroni art and most QMs will still love it.
Hell, come to think of it, I'd find it funny as hell if my players actually made macaroni art related to my quest.
>>44108187
Which one?
The planets are aligning to grant me hours of free time multiple nights a week, so I've been strongly considering buckling down and making a serious attempt at another quest. I'm very interested in the rules systems that people are using for modern quests. What do you guys think are effective rules for a collaborative game like this? In the past I've gone extremely rules-light, calling for rolls occasionally and going off a general "high roll good low roll bad" system. Is that what people prefer? It allows for the most effort to be dedicated towards the plot of the quest, and I'm worried that introducing too many rules systems will cause everything to become bogged down by people trying to optimize whatever system they're presented with.
I've been considering doing something MtG-themed that utilizes a "hand" of card "spells" that the players/MC have access to. Have there been successful MtG quests in the past that I could refer to?
>>44108187
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
LET YOUR COUNTRY CONSUME YOUR SOUL
>>44108201
It is JJ.
>>44107960
>>44108060
>not making macaroni art for your favorite quest
>>44108210
Holy shit is it you? Do a BloodQuest continuation!
>>44107922
I want to write terrible fanfiction aboutJoker Quest,but I can feel the cancer overwhelming me whenever I think about it.
>>44108230
I know that feel senpai
I know exactly how it feels, especially before sleeping
>>44108223
BQ is some great memories, but I honestly don't think I could capture that lightning twice and I'm afraid I would tarnish what we already accomplished if I tried. It's possible that I could do something set in the same universe, or set in AlchemyQuest's universe, but it's been years at this point and it might be better to just start fresh.
I actually did run a brief little Bloodquest Gaiden thing that involved time travelling and fighting vampires in south Florida, with the MC working with Helen when she was still a car thief. It should be on the suptg archives under the Bloodquest tag. Something along those lines is the closest I would probably want to come to a Bloodquest sequel though.
>>44108230
Cglhannel it to something else.write your own qu3st, then it won't be fanfiction
If you had to write or play a quest where the MC is evil, what would you make it? What would the MC or the setting be like?
>>44108300
Rance.
>>44108300
Conquest and victory by any means necessary.
>>44108300
That's a tough one. /tg/ is notoriously anti-evil if not outright good, and often go for a paladin bard like character when they can. Getting them to play a villain and stick with it wouldn't be easy. Closest thing I can think of is Orc Warlord.
>>44108230
Didn't someone on SB already do that a while ago?
>>44108300
Corrupt and consume
Just like Overlord
or
Con everyone and everything
>>44108316
Rance is a pretty good guy when compared to the actually evil characters in the setting.
>>44108337
I wasn't told that the character had to be evil in comparison to other evil people.
>>44108337
Still a ruthless, blood thirsty rapist.
>literally none of my choices won last thread
What an irritating feeling
>>44108300
Kill and destroy as we please, simply because we enjoy it.
>>44108271
No, I mean I want to write stuff set in the same world.Like a sex scene for Alura, or a Natsumi solo adventure. Or just something for one of those NPCs that show up in crowd scenes. Or a yuri hyades adventure.
>>44108357
Maybe your choices werebad ones.
>>44108300
Give the MC a sympathetic, if very selfish motive.
Make stereotypical "good" choices less beneficial than selfish, "evil" ones.
A lost prince who seeks to regain his rightful kingdom at any cost, something like that.
>>44108300
Somebody who's evil, knows it, but has a code of some morals and does shit for his own personal gain.(Postal-style "Kill everyone for the lulz" characters aren't fun IMO)
>>44108300
Demon Prince Quest. Your father has given you, his Firstborn, to the Devil in return for power and prestige.
In return, you must now use your wealth and status to ensure Hell's domination of Earth. If you succeed, you will rule in Hell and Earth. Demon hunters, exorcists, and even mighty angels stand in your path.
Plus, /tg/ rarely gets to diplomance for evil purposes and this might be fun.
>>44108300
Rigid, stylized evil. The main character is a dark knight, an inquisitor, or some other servant of regimented and disciplined evil. It's a fascist fantasy come to life, complete with jackboots, hordes of men marching in tight rows, pitch-black armor with the odal rune, and all the other cool stuff.
Lots of pomp and circumstances and social backing. Sure you're a pretty awful person, but you do it with societal backing. Something like an executioner tasked with stamping out religious heresy, a infiltrator who worms his way into rebel cells to destroy them from inside out, or a nightmare that bestrides the battlefield bringing misery to everyone.
This would focus on power, authority, and how it feels amazing to be feared and respected.
>>44108387
It was a SoL thread so more like they were unpopular
>>44108123
Hey fellas, I'm giving quest writing a go. I've lurked casually for awhile and wanted to try my hand at it.
>>44108300
Gleeful evil. Sort of like Infernals, where you're someone who's squandered his chance at greatness...But now you have something almost as good. Now you get to be the bully, and by GOD you're going to be even worse. Everyone who ever wronged you is going to eat seven pounds of shit before they die.
It should feel very queasy, very greasy, but very attractive at the same time. You're doing really horrible, really shitty things to people who don't deserve it, but you're finally getting yours at last! It's time to be the asshole you could only dream of becoming, you big man you.
If that anon who's recording race and sexual orientation of quest characters is still around the QM just confirmed Living Weapon's MC's a homo. >>44108361
>>44108300
Something monstrous and vile, like a juggernaut vomited forth by an evil god to undo good or a freed demon seeking destruction for both it's masters and for itself.
>>44108323
>>44108477
This. Edge can be pretty fun.
>>44108477
>Imp Quest
Sure, you've been around Hell for millenia - you've been beaten, whipped and pushed around from one Circle to another for thousands of years.
But now you have something that will change everything...in the muck of Hell, you've found something that every Demon knows is a myth, a metaphor, just another one of Lucifer's red herrings.
Something that can't possibly be real.
Something that will change you forever.
In your small, grubby fist you clench a tiny glowing, crimson shard of Original Sin.
With it, you can finally climb the Ladder.
>>44108325
You can make them evil, but the characters inner voice has to be sufficiently charismatic.
What QMCs have been unrepentant bad people in a successful quest?
>>44108538
Sounds like impire
>>44108538
My idea is that you're one of the people picked to receive the blessings of god. You're supremely skilled, you're handsome, you have everything going for you. But the day you're supposed to ascend, everything goes wrong. The gods turn their face from you, because they know you're flawed.
Cast out into the wilderness, something old and terrible finds you instead.
>>44108538
You do know that the original sin wasn't merely disobedience to god, but literally seeking knowledge, right?
>>44108558
Orc Warlord off the top of my head.
>>44108300
How about becoming evil by freeing monsters and demons from the tyranny of human,elves and others?
Hm...where have i heard this plot before?
>>44108558
Red Joker has done some awful things, but they were usually careless or callous. He's only recently gotten really nasty and spiteful towards his enemies. Megumi's death is especially unpleasant.
>>44108592
The last bastion of /tg/ smut.
>>44108568
>>44108572
>>44108576
Sounds like Impire Quest should happen. Shame I can't run it.
>>44108263
Then just toke up and do what your heart and will desire. Bloodquest was my first quest ever.
>>44108615
Pretty sure at least a few other quests still get hot and heavy.
>>44108092
>best possible outcome out of a decision
not exactly. It's more along the lines of a choice that they can convince themselves:
a) does no harm(even if it possibly can)
or
b) can be retracted(even if it can't, or never will be due to the way quests are structured)
it's all about the perception of getting something for "free"
>>44108300
for as many responses this is getting, there've been quite a few evil and semi-evil MCs whose quests have flopped.
>>44109070
WQDT doesn't encompass most of the questing community. Lots of different opinions out there.
>>44108614
I wouldn't say that RJ is unrepentant. He's often sympathetic to his opponents and does agree that he's probably more fucked in the head that most of them. And he does genuinely feel guilty for some thing and is trying to right his wrongs in certain ways.
>He's only recently gotten really nasty and spiteful towards his enemies
Nah, he's always been spiteful towards people that have earned his ire.
>>44107922
>How do you show your appreciation to your favourite QM? A hearty thanks for running or something more?
Can't say I have a favourite QM, but I wish could speed doodle and just flood Quests minor art.
Alas, the printer is toast.
>>44109070
/tg/ hasn't seen a good evil quest in a couple years. If you post during primetime with a good hook and OP image you'll definitely get some takers.
If you have real stats, 3d10 rolling and an upgrade tree ala Shadow Quest you'll be guaranteed a following for at least a couple threads. /tg/ is a sucker for upgrade trees.
>>44109184
dude, Journal of the Occult finished a while back.
>>44109184
I use Wiggle and Hard Dice (i.e. Wild Talents) in my Quest, though. Makes things a lot easier. Anyone who claims that they just use 3d10 rolling and has the hero succeed consistently is likely lying. The dice are too crazy without some guaranteed successes.
>>44109204
I kind of assumed that was a thinly veiled smut quest but I've never read it.
>>44109184
Can confirm, players are suckers for even the suggestion of upgradeable abilities.
How do other QMs handle success rolls? I used to do a flat d100 which always seemed to result in just nonstop critical failures.
>>44109316
No....although in retrospect, I can understand why you thought that.
MC enslaved a baby shoggoth after beating it. Beat it up within the confines of her mind, then asked someone else if they wanted to beat it up to relieve stress. Also, you know, civvie death count in the thousands and not a shred of guilt.
>>44109349
As long as the crit window is only 3 or 5 rolls it should be fine with d100s. Even something like the first 20 is okay, as long as the last half have less impact than the first few rolls or something.
>>44109349
I always liked the 2 DC format for three rolls format.
So you set a DC of 65 for pass/fail - first roll over 65 is a success. Then you set a second DC thats hidden at 85 - any roll over 85 also provides a bonus on the next DC to reflect the success.
>>44109349
I'm tempted to go with a D20 system and have a talent they can pick up which improves the crit range from just 20s to 19 and maybe lower, because crits are hype and I can always balance around them.
Quest idea pitch:
Through a series of one-shot quests, Players get to play certain individuals in a Victorian-era styled city where a disease has been unleashed, mutating people and pushing them to the brink of insanity. They have to try and survive and get to safety. Their decisions might affect the outcome in another characters attempt to survive.
All these one-shot quests (Likely going to be around 3-5) will lead up to a long quest where you play a new Hunter who's part of a guild of Hunters that prey on monsters. You're sent into this crazed city filled with insane and mutated humans, and creatures of the Night (Witches, lycanthropes, vengeful ghosts etc). Your mission is to retrieve the young Queen. Alive. At the same time you have to deal with other Hunters who are also after the bounty for saving the Queen's hide, by either teaming up with them and trusting them to cover your back or killing them. Both decisions carry with them big risks and consequences.
There will be references to the previous one-shots along with items and people that will hint to how the disease and certain strong enemies came to be.
I'm also considering adding a system where players could upgrade their weapons or make new weapons from the creatures they kill.
>And yes, before you say it, I'm taking some inspiration from Bloodborne.
>>44109349
I kinda liked the system that YRQ used for combat:
Roll 3 d20's against primary and secondary DCs, with the secondary being lower than the primary by 2. Crits are 1 and 20, but only if the other rolls confirm them (so a 20 only counts as a Crit success if both the secondary and primary DCs are beaten and the reverse for a Crit failure on 1), otherwise you just get a regular success or failure.
You can also choose from three attributes that determine how you go about the actions you're taking, which determines the DC (as sometimes it's better to rely on brawn than brain and vice versa). Said attributes accumulate/lose successes as the fight goes, providing bonuses to primary/secondary DC rolls or lowering/ primary/secondary DCs after reaching milestones of 5 successes.
>>44108325
If anything Orc Warlord has taught me that it isn't that /tg/ hates playing evil.
/tg/ hates the idea of not being popular and loved by npcs, of being judged for their evil acts harshly.
Ur of Orc Warlord Quest is regularly praised by everyone around (also evil orcs, naturally) him for all the rape and pillage, so /tg/ is okay with it.
>>44109738
So all they really want is validation?
Give them a demon waifu to cohabit their head and cheer them on when they set people on fire and you're set.
>>44109802
Pretty much, it also helps if they have some area of the quest where they can feel like not such a bad guy, being nice to some specific friends, family members or loved ones or something. Helps them rationalize their actions more.
>>44109802
That and benefits. The thing about being blatantly evil is that it generally is neither easy or rewarding. In most Quests, being good is simply the best way to go about things, since it means that you can avoid needlessly making enemies, make more allies, etc.
If you want players to be evil, make it so that good actions are hard and can bring bad consequences while evil ones are rewarding if done right.
>>44108326
Wait what? I thought Joker Quest was antithetical to everything SB stands for?
>>44109981
It's a fanfic. Not exactly hard to cut out the unsavoury parts of the original and just leave cool stuff like the robot battles.
>>44107922
>Player Question
Heavy thanks are on order to my QM and I always give it at the end of the session. After all the work and turmoil that our QM has gone through in the quest I follow, they deserve at least that. Though >>44108010 is always an option.
>>44110019
I didn't think it was possible to despise SB more than I already did.
>Tfw everyone says they thank their QM, but all my players just leave after every thread without a single word.
How should I reply my characters after they say thanks? I usually say an appreciation word and they then thank me. Should I answer each of them with a small compliment? Social customs are so hard
>>44110276
Tanks for the thread, anon :3
>>44110276
I always say thank you in the same way at the end of threads, sometimes I wonder if the QM thinks I'm a bot
>>44110276
Whoever you are. Thank you. QM's are pretty much doing charity work. They give entertainment for free to anyone who is willing to read them. Some QM's literally pour part of their lives on those quests.
>>44110308
Quote them all and give a 'Thanks for participating!'
>>44110315
>>44110335
>>44110350
Thanks for making my day.
>>44110350
The only pouring I do is from my bottle into my glass as I contemplate running and then put it off.
>>44110368
But how do you know which is which so you don't quote someone twice?
>>44108135
>a Quest is only exciting when there isn't a clear best option for everything. When every outcome leads to more drama. I think it's especially important not to give players an incentive to train, turtle up, or otherwise do very downtime-intensive things, because you want them to be constantly dancing on the razor's edge as they reel from one crisis to the next
I really wish more people understood this.
>>44110399
Why would they say thanks for running twice? Doesn't matter just quote em all anyways, they won't care.
>>44110446
You sound pretty obnoxious if you actually do things like that.
>>44110482
He doesn't sound the least bit obnoxious; it was obviously meant as frivolity for humor's sake. You seem like you're spoiling for a fight.
>>44110482
I feel like I misinterpreting what you want. Whatever you're the one having issues with social customs on an anonymous image board.
>>44108325
Ryukusa is pretty awful
>>44110513
>>44110519
I don't think a post with literally several hundred backlinks is okay, especially from the QM.
>>44108060
Doesn't matter. We love fan art like a mom loves her son's shitty crayon doodles.
>>44110565
>several hundred backlinks
Nigga what? All I am saying is to thank those guys that say 'Thanks for running' for participating. That's literally it. And no you don't have literally hundreds of people saying that to you.
>>44110529
By that I mean the person, nor the quest
>>44110406
It really does lead to some great drama. Especially if the players fucked up by their decision/dice rolls.Like what happened yesterday with PhantyQuest.Then you get the joys of trying to play out of it/dealing with the consequences.
>>44110529
Not sure if she qualifies for evil, though.
Anyone want ato play an Undertale quest?
>>44110889
Not really. Not a good format and there's no stories to really tell that haven't been told.
Weekend. OH BOY! It's that time of the week where I'll either decide to run that epic space opera quest that I got AT LEAST 20 pages worth of information about lore/planets/factions/important individuals/weaponry/technology etc. or just go out and buy something to drink and get fucking wasted like always.
Rolled 1 (1d2)
>>44111070
1: Run
2: Get wasted.
>>44111070
...I can't place it but at the very least I don't think you're QD. He seems more excited about his stuff than that.
>>44111095
Haven't even started it, anon. I always pick the latter option, because if I get bored of it or fuck it up, my 20+ pages will be paper weight.
>>44111162
I believe in you! Just do it! Do the thing! Encouraging words!
>>44108300
A Fallen Hero who as has turned coats and joined the Dark Lord.And she loves him, and wouldn't mind a genocide or two if it furthers his goals.
>>44111354
To be honest, if there's ever been a straight up villainous quest with an equally willingly evil waifu like that, I've never seen it.
>>44111421
The QMC is the Fallen Hero. It's an evilhusbando.
>>44108300
>>44108323
I'd love to see a Genghis Khan-esque Quest.
You start out with nothing and you're a nobody. You have to fight with tooth and nail to prove your worth and become a leader and gain followers.
Through a combination of outstanding military tactics and merciless brutality, you must crush and unite the many clans and tribes that have been divided by greed, a need for vengeance, and thoughts of cultural or religious superiority for generations.
And as you sweep across the land, crushing anyone in your path, one of the larger tribes take notice of you and challenges your rule. You kill every single of them, and with fear and respect in their hearts, all the other major clans recognize your ferocity and name you their leader; their Khan.
From there on, the unknown world beyond is at your feet to explore and conquer.
>>44111673
>Through a combination of outstanding military tactics and merciless brutality
Don't make it playable by /tg/ at this moment, or you're going to use every last inch of QM fiat you'll ever have.
>>44109642
Go for it. It would certainly be a fresh breeze from all the other fantasy, smut, and science fiction shit running right now.
>>44111868
>all the other smut
How many smut quests are their own this board really? I'd hardly say they're common.
>>44108326
Sort of? It was one (literal) fag who'd namefagged in JQ threads for a while, who'd basically made a blander, worse written version of the quest on SB. I'mma see if I can't find it, I think his username was Tam Lin.
>>44108300
Palpatine Quest. The entire quest would consist of telling people to make really stupid decisions for the promise of unlimited power
I would call it DO IT Quest.
>>44111931
They might not be common, but they're all the alike, so it's pretty much just the same deal.
>>44111931
The jannies are pretty harsh. the last truly evil quest was Slavebreaker, which was banned for nonexistent smut.
The MC really was purely evil.
Smugglers or Bounty Hunters?
>>44111673
>>44111776
I'd play it. Hell, I'd run it if I wasn't already running Tide of Ages Quest... Of course, that could just as easily BECOME Khan Quest if the players fuck up enough.
>>44111868
>It would certainly be a fresh breeze from all the other fantasy
How is that not fantasy?
>>44112012
Bounty Hunter every time.
>>44112012
Bounty hunters, nig.
>>44112033
>From all the other fantasy
>other fantasy
>other
Learn 2 English, nignog.
>>44112059
I still don't see how it is a fresh breeze.
>witches
>lycanthropes
>ghosts
>retrieve the Princess/Queen and be her bodyguard
w o w s o f r e s h
>>44112029
I still want to run an American revolutionary war Quest where you're a Loyalist. Redcoats for the win. Fucking colonists.
All hail Britannia. Long Live the Queen!
>>44112073
>>44112085
>Revolutionary War
>Long live the Queen
Okay, firstly, it's "God save the queen." I am fine with teaboos so long as they actually get it right, god dammit.
Secondly, 'queen'? 'QUEEN'?! We've had exactly SIX female monarchs in England over the years (Seven if you count Empress Matilda, who doesn't really count) and exactly THREE worth a mention in the history books: Elizabeth I, Victoria and Elizabeth II. During the revolution, you would call "God save the KING." King George III in fact. If you're going to do HISTORY, then it'll be done RIGHT, dammit!
Now, I would be interested in running a quest like that, especially that doesn't paint the rebels and the loyalists in black and white terms, but again, already running. Plus I don't feel I could do complexity like that any kind of real justice.
But which would people rather play? Khan Quest, or Revolution Quest?
A quest about an expert crossbow-marksman turned bounty hunter in some GrimNoble fantasy setting.
It doesn't get more generic than this, but I'mma run it.
>>44112203
With this attitude, I'd rather not see you run any quest tbqh family.
>>44112203
Revolution Quest would better appeal to the /tg/ audience I feel. Khan Quest would require /tg/ to critically evaluate battle strategy which is borderline impossible.
>>44112203
Jesus, are you still here?
Most namefags have gotten the hint by this point.
>>44112203
also
>stealing someone's idea for a quest they want to run
Namefag confirmed cancer.
>>44112299
I mis-read it as wanting to play in a Revolution Quest. And aren't names usual for quest-runners?
>>44112257
Sorry if I came across as arrogant. It just brasses me off when people get things half-right. It's like, you care, but you don't care enough to actually do the briefest bit of research?
>>44112269
They could just play it Ork-style, breaking heads until others just fall in line. That'd be rather dull though.
Then again, how many quests do you know that actually had the balls to punish players for strings of bad decisions, so much so that they lead to a [Game Over]?
>>44112348
>And aren't names usual for quest-runners?
When they're actually running a quest, yes. Not when they're faffing about.
>>44112348
>And aren't names usual for quest-runners?
We trip in our own threads or here when it is relevant (or when you're planefag) so the players know it's a post for the quest master. Also, relevant for archive searches. Which is different from a name which are simply dumb. Like you.
> quests players begin to realize that pic related is a villain
> ebin shitposts of despair
>>44112603
What?
Could a quest where you can tame a beast to be your predator pet and travel around the vast world to hunt great and nightmarish creatures have the potential to be interesting?
Sorta like a worldbuilding-traveling-action fantasy quest?
>>44112624
It's SBfuck.
>>44112782
Who?
>>44112764
Maybe.
>>44112764
If it was good.
>>44108135
>>44110406
>>44110661
All noted for AT-TE Commander Quest. The droids, they never end. (Nah, that'd be too easy.)
Also, update concerning the quest: I am in the process of finishing finals, but unfortunately my computer is on the fritz and is not wanting to start. The fabled QM curse seems to have struck, and I though I was immune after my previous quest attempt..
Oh well.
Question: what ought I do to make the other members of the tank crew engaging in conversation?
Also, would this work as an OP image, or should I try for something else?
>>44112998
>>44113086
Should the creatures be generic fantasy ones or original ones?
>>44113091
My advice is to stop quizzing /wqdt/ for minor details and just run it already. Everyone thinks it's a cool idea and you're stalling brah
>>44113091
>Question: what ought I do to make the other members of the tank crew engaging in conversation?
Differences in opinion
>>44111673
That's pretty much Orc Warlord Quest.
>>44113185
Sorry, like I said my ability to run it at the moment is nil. Though you are right, I won't continue chatting about it here. Next time you hear from me will be when the thread is up, deal?
>>44113139
Monster Hunter has good examples of wacky wyverns and other kooky creatures it'd be nice to tame. Be aware that /tg/ will go straight for taming the dragon if you give them anything resembling one, and failing that, some avian or other flying creature.
Take inspiration from, but don't copy, anything you find cool. Doesn't matter if it's a real animal or not.
>>44113232
>Orc Warlord Quest
Silly anon. All smut quests are shit-tier.
>>44113405
It fits the criteria for everything Khan Quest should have.
And if Khan Quest doesn't have rape and harems then you're doing it wrong.
>>44113528
It's orcs and elves and is filled with horny players.
Nah, not even close, baby.
>>44109802
>>44109881
This is pretty much what's going on in Snakecatcher. Funny thing is, just now we're starting to realize how fucked up we're becoming.
>tfw I wanted to make the evil waifu become good but instead she dragged us to the dark side
>>44113638
That succubus from Dark Messiah of Might and Majesty is pretty much my evilfu. Then again, the good alternative was a shrill and annoying harpy who constantly demanded you risk your life without even asking nicely.
>>44113602
And none of that precludes the basic concept of Khan Quest.
Face it, Orc Warlord Quest has it in the bag.
>>44113232
>>44113528
>>44113667
>A quest that's about an orc fucking his bitches, doesn't once conquers a tribe in a khan-like way, and fighting unnatural shit
That's not a proper Khan quest, anon. Drop it. Stop trying so hard.
>>44113664
Succubus was great, she 100% had your back throughout the entire game and never put you through the shit the "good" waifu did. Hell, she even brought you back from the dead after boss necromancer impaled you on a big metal spike.
Didn't hesitate to pick succubus in a second when it came down to the choice.
>>44113718
>doesn't once conquers a tribe in a khan-like way
Confirmed for knowing nothing
>>44113769
>Still in denial
I'll just stop kicking the dead horse now.
>>44113718
You've got me curious now on what you consider Khan-like conquests to be, other than "spam more horse archers".
>>44113735
>they had a special line for players who killed the mama spider and left the witch behind to be eaten by her young
It was enough to keep me going through those endless hordes of bullshit unkillable ghouls and zombies.
Good path was full of cunts. It's really just a shame they balanced the final chapter around that anti-undead sword.
>>44113786
I had a feeling you were retarded.
>>44113735
Never played Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
Is it any good?
>>44113809
>Coming from the retard
This guy.
>>44113791
>anti-undead sword.
Honestly that sword is overkill. The firesword or master katana does the job just as well.
>>44113816
I replay it every year. One of my favorite games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS49Dazin3E
>>44113791
I rescued her, since I didn't know about the choice until I reached it.
Of course that was good in its own way since then she attacks you on your way into the final area when she realizes you didn't remove Best Succubus, and you get to kill her personally.
Besides, who needs anti-undead sword when you have the strongest weapon of them all: Boot.
>>44113816
Well worth playing, just don't make the mistake I did my first time and spec entirely for stealth, because they drop you into an unavoidable boss fight at around the game's halfway point and I was horribly underpowered for direct confrontation. That said, some stealth is a must.
>>44113846
Do I have to? It apparently lets me go full battlemage and I love me some BATTLEMAGE
>>44113826
>Le smug Anime girl
Well memed.
>>44112012
>>44113846
>Well worth playing, just don't make the mistake I did my first time and spec entirely for stealth, because they drop you into an unavoidable boss fight at around the game's halfway point and I was horribly underpowered for direct confrontation
Don't spec for magic either ;^)
That said, it's a great fighter/rogue game. All those ropes to climb, all those barrels to throw, all those stairs to kick people down...
>>44113664
>Dark Messiah of Might and Majesty
Quest when?
>>44111070
>Weekend. OH BOY! It's that time of the week where I'll either decide to run that epic space opera quest that I got AT LEAST 20 pages worth of information about lore/planets/factions/important individuals/weaponry/technology etc. or just go out and buy something to drink and get fucking wasted like always.
>Massive lore
>alcoholic
>no motivation
...Spacemaids?
>>44113866
You can go full battlemage complete with fucking up dudes with staff.
>>44113881
You have to be one or the other. It's like Cops and Robbers. Only instead of jail you're encased in carbonite.
>>44113866
Go for it, battlemage is great fun, just be warned that combat in that game is tough if you aren't smart about it, gotta take advantage of the terrain.
>>44113884
Magic's alright. I think it's a game which benefits from not specializing too heavily in one area.
Magic is worth it just for the ice spell anyway, sending charging orcs sliding off cliff edges never gets old.
>>44113786
Glad to see you concede.
>>44113880
Autist confirmed.
>can't even recognize different facial expressions
>>44113913
Good luck clearing Aratrog without casting spells on ultra hard mode.
>>44113918
>Thinking he won an internet argument
The autism is overwhelming.
Right, MC compilation Anon here. Guys mind filling me in on some of the Quest Protags?
>>44111673
You just described Orc Warlord Quest.
>>44113979
>You just described Orc Warlord Quest.
Please don't get them going again.
>>44113935
He's not that bad. Block and kick, use the momentum of the staff to knock him on his ass and the coup de grace him.
>>44113786
>>44113809
>>44113826
>>44113880
>>44113920
>>44113942
It says no shitposting right at the top. Shut up or fuck off.
>>44113979
Most quest protags are kinda meh. Doesn't mean the quest is bad, just that the characters aren't ver complex.
Two of the better ones are Maka from Exalted Quest and Riku from Shinigami Savant.
>>44113979
Are you going to post that standard format again?
>>44113979
Forgot the template:
>Quest:
>Name:
>Species:
>Gender:
>Physical Description:
>Background:
>Romance/Sexual Orientation:
>>44113906
I'm motivated, just lacking in reliable pockets of running time.I noticed the similarities too.
>>44113979
Do you only want currently active quests or also completed quests?
>>44114100
>Quest: Joker
>Name: Anon
>Species: Human, Robot (Part-time)
>Gender: Male
>Physical description: Don't think one was ever really given?
>Background: Suffered mental trauma that basically turned him into a psycho- and/or sociopath.
>Romance/Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual. Except maybe for Kazuya. Most likely has a gun fetish.
>>44114124
Let's start with Currently running.
>>44114186
Background is a bit too unspecific. Explain that he's a Player or something. I'd do it myself but I'm leaving.
>>44114100
>>Quest: Exalted
>>Name: Maka
>>Species: Human/Solar Exalted, Zenith Caste
>>Gender: Female
>>Physical Description: Very tall, dark skin with white hair. Very beautiful, stacked.
>>Background: Former queen of Gem exalted by the Unconquered Sun
>>Romance/Sexual Orientation: Everyone and everything
>>44114100
>>Quest:
Convict Cyborg Quest
>>Name:
Clark
>>Species:
Human
>>Gender:
American
>>Physical Description:
6 foot genius
>>Background:
Psycho scientist turned experimental battlecyborg fighting terrorist scum
>>Romance/Sexual Orientation
Battlewaifu
>>44114186
>Except maybe for Kazuya
Best husbando.
>>44114100
>Quest: Hellborn
>Name: Sierra (Sarkheris)
>Species: Demon (mixed) / Human (also mixed)
>Gender:Female
>Physical Description: Tall, lankyfit, black-haired, extremely pale of skin
>Background: Orphan, basketcase, Token One Girl In Black Gang
>Romance/Sexual Orientation: Snake-tongue (or straight)
>>44114373
>"I thought there were no Heroes left in man."
>"You were wrong. There's one standing in front of me."
>>44113979
>>44114022
To that end:
>Quest: Shinigami Savant
>Name: Kusajishi Riku
>Species: Soul (Shinigami)
>Gender: Female
>Physical Description: A bit tall for a Japanese woman, dark hair and eyes, athletic build, canonically half-Okinawan and part Westerner.
>Background: A shinigami Captain whose soul was cobbled together from a murdered lesser goddess and the fragmented and traumatized soul of a spiritually powerful human. Has a vendetta against the canon antagonist, and comes off as a well-meaning loose canon.
>Romance/Sexual Orientation: Her orientation is "Yoruichi".
>>44114531
>>44114510
Which one?
>>44113979
You going for /tg/ only or Akun+/tg/?
>>44114510
>>44114531
Well shit, we gonna rock paper scissors for it?
>>44114593
Could do with a combination.
Also her hair ornament is a gardenia.
>>44114638
Fuck, I'll just delete mine. I cant believe I forgot it was a gardenia when I have a gardenia bush outside my house.
>>44114100
>Quest: Heretek Quest
>Name: Heracor Nahive
>Species: Artificial Human
>Gender: Male
>Physical Description: Started like a scrawny and weak guy but now its a seven foot tall muscular behemoth of a man with lots of weapons, armor and strange bionics, he also has six wings.
>Background: Techpriests seeks to kill the two people that toyed with his life. He runs away to become stronger and kick ass
>Romance/Sexual Orientation: Apparently asexual, might be interested in Liwet.
Aliens are hellbent on exterminating the human race and the only thing that has stopped them from achieving this goal is a strike force of cutting edge mechs. However, these mechs have two unique functions: the stronger you are the better the mech performs and it can only be piloted by "syncing" with a young female pilot via the rectum.
Are you ready to join the Buff Loli Buttslut Battlemech Defense Force?
Oh and some of the buff lolis are probably brown catgirls too.
>>44114739
Hahaha, well memed.
>>44110406
Personally I prefer a false sense of security, where the players feel like they have everything in order before stumbling upon the BBEG's secret plan or an army of ancient evil or a village burned to ash by a dragon and thinking "shit, we are not ready for this!"
>>44114531
>>44114681
I went ahead and combined it anyway, because yours had a few points it might be nice to include.
>Quest: Shinigami Savant
>Name: Kusajishi Riku
>Species: Soul (Shinigami)
>Gender: Female
>Physical Description: 169cm, dark hair and eyes, athletic build, canonically half-Okinawan and part Westerner. Wears her uniform with a pale blue sash and a silver gardenia hair ornament.
>Background: Captain of Ninth Division and a well-meaning loose canon. Her soul is a combination of a murdered lesser goddess and the fragmented, traumatized soul of a spiritually powerful human, which found itself “born” into the slums of the Japanese afterlife.
>Romance/Sexual Orientation: "Yoruichi".
>>44114739
Dude...
I was a bit interested with the mech and setting until it says rectum
>>44114801
Looks great
>>44114810
>not loving buttstuffed lolis.
>>44114100
>Quest: Ryukuza Quest
>Name: Ryuu Ryukusa, a.k.a. Aoi-chan.
>Species: Dragon-girl/demigoddess.
>Gender: Female.
>Physical Description: 5'8, svelte, sapphire horns and claws on one hand, ruby claws on the right hand; blue dragon's eyes. Pale, really really long hair.
>Background: Apparently the daughter of the dragon god of the sea, she has been tasked by the Sun goddess to take up the mantle of the god of destruction and wreck part of Japan to help humans return to a more spiritual connection with the Japanese deities. Assisting her are a harem of dragon girls and oni-girls, half-breeds all. Her enemies include a witch possessing a goddess of snakes, the Japanese government, and a half-demon who has the power of two yakuza groups and a zaibatsu corproation.
>Romance/Sexual Orientation: Lesbian harem, with the added twist of being able to make other half-dragon girls pregnant.
>>44115134
It's actually a pretty good read. That description leaves a little to be desired.
>>44115159
I read it up until I was too creeped out. It was really cool until then though.
>>44111958
DO IT: Can't Cleave The Sheev Quest
>>44115099
>>44115177
What part creeped you out? For XS it's pretty tame
>>44115226
I can't say it was really a "part" in particular, more like a suffusing feeling in the quest.
>For XS it's pretty tame
I actually prefer when she is more upfront about that stuff. I don't know, really, I just found it creepy as fuck at some point, and I went "Well, that was fun, now time to never read it again."
>>44108842
HMQ, for one.Crusty is too good to us.
>>44115284
To be fair some of it is creepy, but the comfy outweighs it for the most part. Different strokes I guess
>>44108842
The smut writeup forHellborngot me going so much I still don't really believe it.
>dripping like some kind of broken faucet
Jesus, indeed.
>>44115226
It may have been the "and she can impregnate other girls" that broke the deal (as it did for me), though I can see some also being turned off at the patchwork of colors involved in her appearance or the mere mention of the word "harem".
>>44115293
>>44115313
The stuff Gobble writes forPokemon Questis pretty good.
>>44115320
I think it was the comfy that actually made the creepy stand out so much. As I said, I didn't dwell too much on it.
>>44115336
its pretty tame imo
>>44115333
I tolerate and respect that opinion. I just like that it's fairly well written and the action is good if sparse.
>>44115333
The patchwork is actually evidence of her growth spiritually/magically. It's not unique to her. One of the side characters literally grows physically whenever she gets a power up.
>>44115360
You're not wrong, been trying to get him to do some different stuff. But I'm only one anon.
>>44114100
Do you have a pastebin of all the ones you've collected yet?
>>44115293
There needs to be more of those scenes from Laura's POV. Her confused sex dream was the hottest shit ever before suddenly Kimura.
>>44115099
>svelte
I don't see this word used nearly as much as voluptuous or curvy and somehow it's almost as irritating.
>>44115528
Why?
>>44115560
Personal autism in this case. Like how Christmas Cake is irritating as fuck every time I see it written even though I like the concept itself more often than not.
Voluptuous and curvy, though, is more because they rival futa shitposters when it comes to making chargen painful.
>>44115528
How about lissome?
>>44115596
I get that, when people use "growled" to describe someone talking it pisses me off.
>>44115634
Groaned alright with you?
>>44114100
>Quest: Homeless Mutant Quest
>Name: Jonathan James Green
>Species: Homo Superior
>Gender: Male
>Physical Description: 6'1", lean and muscular, dirty blonde hair, boyish good looks. Bright greenish-blue eyes with black sclera, Scaled hands and feet, with retractable claws. Retractable horns.
>Background: An orphaned mutant with a past in organized crime and a childhood full of confused, disjointed memories.
>Romance/Sexual Orientation: Hetero.
>>44115704
Better, it's just people need to use "said" more. Not every sentence needs a fancy word.
>>44115715
you forgot the wings
>>44115727
I never said that though. I just asked a simple question, and you kinda got on a tangent, I think.
>>44115756
Uh, I thought we were just comparing things that trigger our autism.
>>44115738
No mention of the superb ass either.
>>44115781Anyone can reply to any post here m80. Just because something was said to you doesn't mean it's the same guy or that they're even having the same conversation you were previously having.
>>44115781
Sure, but I wasn't asking whether or not people should use it in every word. But a fancy word once in a while is alright. Or even all the time, in literature, rules exist to be broken.
>>44115884
True enough, literature is a great medium for that reason.
How is this for a quest hook:
An ent goes to town to buy some hobby specific items. Unfortunately, all the humans seem to have been hit by some kind of wasting parasite that makes them all bite-y and unconstructive.
Are -you- a persistent enough tree to track the path of your precious hobby goods to their place of manufacturing?
>>44116042
That'd be pretty great actually, sounds hilarious
>>44116042
Would play.
