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> QM question
What can be done to improve the questing scene?
> Player question
What is the most avant garde quest?
> Bonus question
Why aren't you running yet? Why do you keep putting it off?
>>44797752
>What is the most avant garde quest?
Azure Quest.
>>44797752
>What is the most avant garde quest?
Lost Island Quest.
I don't want to sound like a shill or anything. But there's a somewhat under the radar quest right now that's simply fucking amazing.
>>44797843
Name it.
>>44797843
Why not speak the name so anons could check it out?
>Why aren't you running yet? Why do you keep putting it off?
I lost my trip
>>44798145
Popularity can turn the playerbase toxic.
>>44797752
When will Questdrone return to us?
Are we forever bereft of Mothers guidance?
>>44798137
>>44798145Dungeon Life Quest
>>44798184
I had faith for a while, I think he's gone
>>44798171
Which is why I spoilered it in the vain hope people don't ruin it.
>>44798190I'm already on it.
>>44797752
> Bonus question
But I am running a quest: >>44796625
>>44797752
>Why aren't you running yet?
I've wanted to run a quest for a long time, but I don't have many 6-8 hour blocks of time to work with. I like the freedom of posting little bits here and there.
If you can put up with Anonkun (a stretch, I know), and you like science fiction involving space, xenos, and time travel, then drop on by. I'll be running in a couple hours.
http://anonkun.com/stories/human-epoch/bozMABXEkPsCh9yRk
>>44797752
So what the fuck happened to Naruto Sniper quest?
>>44798473
Cut itself on the edge
If you're doing a prologue establishing the MCs character and backstory through a number of incidents and timeskips, what's the best way to go about it?
I was considering doing two separate threads, both focusing on a single period of time (a single day) where everything in their life changed. There'd be about 7 or 8 years between them, then the third thread would be the main storyline starting up.
Do you think players would have the patience to play through 2 threads to get to the promised premise of the quest? For the purposes of my question assume the actual writing is moderately engaging, but not enormously gripping.
Would players be more invested in a character they've developed from experiences than one that came about through character generation?
>>44798171
It had only two threads. Wanted to improve the setting but lost my trip. It was a highjacked quest with one or more anons following. Sorry anon can't continue the adventures of Mila and Fang.
>>44798746
Make it like Amnesia the Dark Descent. MC tem Amnesia and by things he finds start to trigger a memorie making the anons play the MC in that timeskip.
PBQ
>>44798783
But going backwards reverses the narrative flow, when you really want to be moving forwards and building anticipation and tension for the future. Flashbacks are good for solving mysteries, but I wouldn't rate them as a means of improving reader investment.
>Why aren't you running yet? Why do you keep putting it off?
I've been running frequently and I can't stand it. My quality is dipping. I'm taking a break because everything is on the spot improv and complete asspulls. People still think they're fun, and they talk about them, but I feel blown the fuck out and in need of a break.
>>44798906
I know the feeling! A break really might be in order, but not for too long, only until you get an uplifting idea to work with, or else you'll get too used to it and won't want to run again.
>>44798473
See >>44798660 for part of it.
My guess is it couldn't really gain traction, because aside from the /ak/ sperg there was never much to it. And the /ak/ sperg was pretty heavy-handed at that.
Hey
Are encounter charts traditionally roll over or roll under?
Please respond.
>>44798906
Just make a thread and give yourself a break man. QM's are still semi-human.
So is sharing anon-kun stuff frowned upon here? I know most of AKun comes from /tg/ and/a/, but the site not being in the OPand Kas not being the best adminmakes me think I shouldn't bring it up...
>>44799161
anonkun is more /d/ than anything else lately
>>44799161
Nobody cares enough to hate on Akun
Checking for input on a possible quest.
Two brothers to an Apostate, a mage considered both a danger and a criminal to the crown, lives a secluded life in a cottage out in the woods with their Father. However, one day they return home to find their Father dead from a spell gone wrong. Heartbroken, the two boys use whatever magic they've learned through their father's teachings and his books to try and resurrect him. However, the spell goes awry and instead the Father's corpse comes back alive as a twisted creature that begs for them to kill it before it takes flight. The backlash of the failed spell costs one of the brothers life, but the other brother casts a soulbound spell with what little energy and mana he has left. When he wakes up a couple of hours later, he discovers that his brothers soul has attached itself to his own and he can hear his late brother's voice in his head.
So starts a quest for the MC to find a way to break the forbidden soulbound spell he cast so his brother can come back to life and hunt down the creature they set loose in the world to free their father's spirit from torment.
>>44799161
I don't even know who the fuck you are talking about.
>>44799232
This sound more like a full metal alchemist rip off
>>44799206
Yeah, a lot of more "out there" kinks which kinda bothers me. I'm at least going for vanilla stuff in the game I'm running over there, although there's a heavy bias towards MILFs.Which is great because it's Evangelion
>>44799300
If a concept works, use it.
>>44799300
Although not a complete ripoff, I can admit the initial idea is very influenced by Fullmetal Alchemist brotherhood.
In the end, it's more about how the story expands from there than the initial starting point.
Everyone donate a testicle to BQ QM to replace his cancer one so he can come back and keep writing Spitalian Quest.
>>44799415
Aight
>>44799415
Is he going to get one from both his readers?
>>44799431
I want my sides back.
>>44799533
Says the autistic namefag.
>>44799533
There's no reason to be so upset
>>44799533
>>44799651
>I don't know if the he has cancer or not but I'm not a fan of that shit. Took my dad this past year.
Except no one gives a shit about you, stop taking things personally
>>44799533
>>44799651
>>44799745
This just makes me and a lot of other people want to shitpost your favorite quest to the ground, you autistic fuck.
>>44799745
I'm surprised you had so much trouble, I mean you read Banished Quest.
>>44799415
I'm gonna try running tomorrow. Your balls aren't necessary.
>>44799533
>>44799651
You're really not helping my case, bro.
>>44799870
>>44799885
Even the QM is telling you to calm down your autism. Get shit on.
>>44799870
Rule #1 of /wqdt/ : Don't post with a name or tripcode unless you're announcing your quest is up. It only makes it easier for trolls to flame your ass and somebody's going to do it sooner or later.
>>44800060
Blood Moon's up!
Welcome to the madhouse.
>>44798387
>time travel
Had me til then. Good luck with your quest, though
Is XS non-convalescent yet?
What would be more interesting to play as?
>A sentient creature that feeds on humans and can take on the form of a human. Will need to hide in plain sight among humans. Will also often have to fight both other creatures for territories and human hunters to stay alive.
or
>A human who's part of an organization of hunters that hunt down these creatures. You will be assigned a single creature to hunt, investigate their hunting grounds, figure out their "human" identity and then figure out a time and place to kill them.
>>44800277
(XS is dead)
>>44800291
So basically, you're asking if we to be a vampire or a vampire hunter?
>>44800291
The latter. Predator quests are never interesting, they just turn into a powertrip or people play it too safe and nothing ever happens.
As a hunter with set missions, you have a set story progression, room for twists and incentives to get things done, as well as having friendly NPCs that aren't a pet waifu or portable snack.
TLDR: Garo quest would work better than Horror quest.
>>44800333
In its most basic form, yes.
>>44800342
Alright. Thanks.
Reminder to believe in yourself and never give up, QMs!
Your ideas aren't as bad as you think they are!
Your writing is decent and will only get better!
Your players appreciate the things you do, especially when you give it your best!
Keep running your quests and it will all work out! Keep trying and don't give up!
>>44800368
Thanks anon
>>44800368
This is painfully inspiring to me right now. Thank you.
>>44800368
What are you trying to pull, Satan?
>>44800372
Running an experimental kind of quest. You play as a "Dungeon Master" kind of God, and one of the heroes of your story has accidentally gotten her hands on a totally overpowered weapon, completely derailing the plot and story you've set out for her.
>>44800368
Except when all the players stop talking in-between updates.
Eclipsed Moon Quest tomorrow morning.
>>44800319
>not even spoiled
That would qualify as non-convalescent, though
>>44800534
I think he was referencing this
>>44800368
>Your players appreciate the things you do, especially when you give it your best!
Eh, I love my players, but they need to chill the fuck up about samefagging and stop being so schizophrenic about story pacing. Just shut up and let me run the damn quest already!
>>44799232
mitebcoolgoing by your choice of picture, this better not be bankai-spam: the Quest
>>44800451
>god blade
>blah blah I'm a god and a moral has a blade with a funny name that rivals my own power
>>44800589All I know about that picture is that it's SAO-related. No idea what bankai-spam means. Just looked for a picture that best represents my idea.
Thanks, mate. Might change the story a bit to not be a complete ripoff of Fullmetal Alchemist, but the main plot point will still be to break the Soulbound spell to get his brother back to life.
To any fellow Mortal Kombat Konquest players
Stop trying to waifu Mileena, guys
>>44800677
>spoiler
In the arc where that's from, 90% of the fights involve NO swordsmanship whatsoever, instead using the super seshul unique powers, half the time only ONCE. It....it gets pretty bad.5% of the time, swordsmanship was explicitly stated to be useless after trying it out.
> Soulbound spell to get his brother back to life.
....without a body? That's gonna be interesting.
guise how do I make a popular quest
>>44800827
Put bestiality in it. Guaranteed safe.
>>44800827
git gud
>>44800803
>In the arc where that's from, 90% of the fights involve NO swordsmanship whatsoever, instead using the super seshul unique powers, half the time only ONCE. It....it gets pretty bad.
Oh. Planning to have this quest more focused on weapons/medieval-styled combat with magic here and there, but it's considered dangerous and it has more flaws than pros so it's used sparingly. Thus, it's going to be hard to find someone who can reverse a spell, especially a forbidden one.
>....without a body? That's gonna be interesting.
Yeah, got a twist in store for that one. I plan on doing a bit of a time jump, so his original body has decomposed at that point.
>>44800827
Just add lolis
>>44801483
I bet that a clever QM can trick /tg/ into waifuing the ineffectual Peace Princess and they won't even realize the ruse.
Best new quest in the past week or so?
Worst new quest in the past week or so?
>>44801672
>implying you need to trick /tg/ into waifuing anything.
/tg/ would waifu a fucking rock if they had no other options
>>44801778
Gotham Quest
>>44801778
>Best new quest in the past week or so?
>Worst new quest in the past week or so?
Stop with the autistic bait posts.
Would you play a quest where you're a new superhero on a team of teen heroes in a not-Marvel/not-DC universe?
Even if it hadA lengthy character generation to start withand even if it hada varying degree of fetishes that can only happen in such a universe?
>>44801912
>teen
no
double no
I'm already beyond the point where I would consider picking it up, so the third bit doesn't change anything
>>44801912
So essentially your super-hero magical realm with character gen?
Get the fuck out.
>>44801912
hahahahahafaggot.jpg
>>44801912
I would
>>44802158
you're right.The lengthy chargen is the only part that I care about. I'd nope the fuck out based on that alone.
>>44800680
No.
>>44798184
I hope he's coming back- several QMs have shown back up out of the blue recently- but I dunno. He's not answering asks anymore. Has anyone tried tweeting him?
>>44802295
I saw that GraveQM tried but doesn't look like any response
>>44802158
>In denial
>>44802259
>>44802325
Ugh. That's worrisome.
>>44802295
Wait, what QMs have come back recently? Have I missed out on stuff?
This idea has circled around in my head for a while.
It's a journal-styled post-apocalyptic quest. You essentially read the journal entries of a survivor of the apocalypse and decide what he did during the day described in his journal and what his plans for tomorrow and beyond is. You're also constantly kept up to date on how much food/water he has left, what kind of clothes he has, weapons/ammo (if he has found any), if he has any companions etc.
Possibly just going for a one-shot at first, but if it's interesting and people enjoy it, I could expand on it, give the MC a "longer" goal etc.
Any thoughts?
Yo. I want to run a quest where you're a fitness instructor at a gym for monstergirls.
You'd help grills get swole and motivate them and guide them to fitness. Instead of "Attack with Sword" or "Attack with Magic", you'd have different ways to try to push them to the limit for the gainz, from full Kamina inspirational to Sargeant Hartmann cruel.
What do you guys think?
>>44802474
that's definitely a solid oneshot premise.
>>44802468
BurningSigil (RE: Harpy Quest) came back the other day. REQM proper came back relatively recently before him as well. A couple others I can't name off the top of my head but had been gone for a while.
>>44802474
>post-apocalyptic
For the love of G_d's bleeding womb, NO!
STOP WITH THIS MEME-GENRE!
>>44802557
>G_d
Stop.
>>44802557
Thanks for your opinion, even though I disagree with it.
>>44802522
That's what I figured. Thanks.
>>44802600
Respect the Highest, infidel.
>>44802625
God is not the name of god, just like your name isn't "faggot".
>>44801672
Nigga please, /tg/ would go for childhood friend cookloli or intelligence officer MILFmaid (even with het being probsbly a spy) way before they'd try to fuck the ineffectual whiner.
Though more likely they'd probably try to go threesome routejust like the anime seems to be leaning towards, especially after the QM showed off their fetish fueled, harem having DMPC
>>44802646
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/486809/jewish/Why-Gd-instead-of-G-o-d.htm
>>44802543
Ah, thanks for the heads up. Will check out the archives for what I missed.
>>44802543
Also SlowCM the Civ runner came back recently
>>44802701
That's retarded. That person is retarded. You are retarded.
>>44801634
It's not a crime to collect abandoned little girls and surround yourself with them, anon.
If you won't protect their smilesshortly before their grisly deaths, then who will?
>>44802860
Lolicons aren't humans. You may kill them like pigs sent to the slaughter.
>>44802908
>Lolis aren't humans. You may kill them like pigs sent to the slaughter.
FTFY.
They're known as creatures for a reason
>>44798660
Nothing so grandiose
>>44798473
I just had beginning of the year refresher training for my job, and I was doing stuff until 11pm for it. I don't have a QM twitter account yet (and I certainly won't use my regular one).
I'll just run it Sunday afternoon and then, in all likelihood Monday evening.
>>44799054
That remains to be seen. But I wouldn't call it a hatefic based on malice toward the series.
>>44802934
>FTFY.
You ruined it.
>burn bridges with a powerful allied NPC
>a little later you fight him/her
>the NPC can seize your dice rolls for him/herself and can use your pool of Fate points
What a way to make players regret their actions.
>>44802934
Unfortunately for you, pedophiles (read Lolicons) are sent to jail while lolis aren't. See the pattern here?
>>44803082
Spotted the lolicon
>>44803097
>the NPC can seize your dice rolls for him/herself and can use your pool of Fate points
Hahaha what?
Who thought that'd be a good idea?
>>44803112
That we need to illegalize lolis?
>>44803136
It's like that gimmick boss fight in Joker Quest except not as gimmicky, and this is fighting for your life.
>>44802488
nobody? ;A;
>>44803169
How do you make something every girl becomes at a certain age illegal?
I await your answer...
>>44803210
>lolis
>human
Funny joek
>>44802543
REQM and burningsigil had the usual excuse, they were in the hell phase of the college semester, with REQM taking the additional step of waiting for the new year.
From all accounts QuestDrone is not a college student and was employed, so that justification falls on its face.
I want to run a quest. Talk me out of it
DASQ seems to be hitting its stride again now that the holidays are over and disaster isn't hitting the QMs accident prone family
>>44803408
No. I demand you run a quest according to my highly specific desires.
>>44803318
As I thought. A bait.
>>44803408
>>44803440
/wqdt/ in a nutshell
I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was.
Dum dum dum duuuuum.
To railroad them, is my real test.
To fool them is my cauuuuuuuse!
I will write walls of texts, making 'em read it all!
It's QMing, to understand, your sadistic tendenciiiiiiiies!
QMing! Gotta waifu them aaaaaaaaall!
>>44803441
>a bait
Is what lolis are, yes.
Which is why those semen demons must be eliminated.
>>44797752
>QM question
Honestly, less saturation. A lot of quests are kinda redundant and scenarios overdone. I don't want to sound like a snob, but people spending more time coming up with more unique and original quest ideas rather than, say, using preexisting IPs for quests. Quality over quantity.
>>44803713
I love that style of drawing grills
>>44803723
Oh, oops, forgot to link.
>>44803503
Pandora Quest 22 is up. (You are the head researcher at a government facility. Your sole responsibility is to teach the world's first autonomous AI, nicknamed Pandora, about life, the world and her existence.)
Would anyone be interested in an apocalyptic quest? General premise is that a meteor hits the Earth, and everything gets fucking destroyed. Billions of people wiped off the face of the Earth, and survivors are forced to scavenge, kill, etc. to survive. Players would be a personunlucky enough to survive the cataclysm and would have to contend with the wasteland, other survivors, and the elements to not die.
>>44804150
RAGE Quest?
>>44804150
I refer you to >>44802557
>>44804150
Nah. No offense anon, but that sound s way too generic. Been done to death.
>>44798190What's it about?
>>44803334
Even CyclopsOP has returned.
They're working on their CYOA game but are going to run a new CivQuest
>tfw your favourite QM is kill
>tfw your quest will never get to where it was going
>>44804228
>>44803384
>>44804179
>>44804206
Figured as much. Thanks anyway
>>44804150
While post-apocalyptic quests can become solid oneshots, in the long run they rarely have the drive to do a long story. At best, you could ripoff the Last of Us, but eh.
>>44804247
>Tfw Chief will never have a drink with Joker
HF I SUMMON YE WITH THE POWER DAT KOBLENZ CHARISMA!
when are you coming back?
have you forsaken us?
Ascalon when?I love you
>>44804247
After one of my favorite quests just abruptly stopped, I wondered why any QM would ever just give up and drop their quest, especially if it has a ton of fans. Now that I have my own, I can kind of understand it. It can get pretty draining and a lot of times I kinda just wanna give up on it. But I'm still chugging away.
>>44804358
The reason I gave up on mine is because it didn't feel like my players was enjoying it anymore. The threads were dead between updates. No discussion, no questions, nothing. Just vote, write, vote, write.
It was disgustingly boring and I had around 15+ players.
Say I'm hopping on the band wagon or whatever, but I am thinking about running a Star Wars quest in the same vein as Star Wars Errant, where the QMC is a survivor of Order 66 and must survive in the galaxy, dealing with and being pursued by Inquisitors, Bounty Hunters, and various other scum of the galaxy.
The opening would most likely be just prior to the execution of Order 66, and the QMC must survive it.
Thoughts?
>>44804446
>15+
I don't think I've ever had that many. :C
>>44804472
Interesting, but what would the QMC's goal be? Gotta let the players have a goal to work towards and not aimlessly wander the galaxy.
>>44804358
QMing is a volunteer/charity job. If you don't keep a controlled pace your motivation can suffer. It's like tabletop night falling off and the disillusion it builds up.
>>44804446
>15+
I've got a similar situation, but my player count is about... three. Typically only one or two votes total, though. I may run another quest sometime after I wrap this one up, because I do love to write and I enjoy making things for people to enjoy.
I just seem kind of bad at it.
>>44804358
Don't give up, anon. It's a labor of love!
>>44804587
I find having to run back to back or "every other day" quest threads to be unusually stressful.
>>44804587
>>44804626
Probably just going to pick up the job of doing one-shots every day or so.
>>44804626
That would definitely drain you. I can see doing back-to-back threads occasionally, but not for any length of time.
Every other day seems a little extreme as well, but maybe not for people who run relatively shorter threads? Like smaller mini-threads, rather than the usual 6-14 hours.
>>44804587
Yeah, but you should see the suptg archive. It starts out with threads being purple, then sloooowly slipping to green, now white. I have a couple very loyal players, and I am thankful for them, but it sucks making a Quest that nobody really gives a damn about anymore. Each Quest day is becoming more of a chore than a fun diversion.
> Posters looking for advice on tabletop games should look elsewhere.
>/tg/
>>44804686
It feels like doing what QTG suggests as "run the first few threads back to back" or something is like this HUGE hump I have to get over, but I get exhausted somehow easily over it? So it becomes kind of preferable for me to just run for less threads than I think.
>>44804692
Not many people vote on suptg anymore, just like more people bookmark twitter links rather than follow you through twitter proper.
>>44803723
>>44803753
Ironic.
>>44804777
You don't run back to back, you just run longer or more often to get things going, cover time zones, and make sure you can have a semblance of an schedule.
>>44804692
Which quest?
And that's normal for most threads. You always get hype voters at first, and then it kinda dwindles down and stablizes around high-white/low-green. Take a look at some other decent quests that don't boast XBOXHUEG levels of followers.
Not to discredit you though, I understand how that kind of thing can be discouraging. On one hand, the votes don't really matter outside of personal good feels.
On the other, feeling good is one of the driving forces that keeps QMs happy and wanting to go on.
It's a delicate balance, to be sure.
>>44804777
Back to back may not be necessary, but maybe start your threads running every other day, or every two days. By no means KEEP this schedule, but maybe for the first week or so. The logic behind this is exposure-area. You want to cast a decently wide net for your players, because people tend to get lots of "curiosity nibbles" at the beginning. This crowd will die off rapidly, but the larger your initial net, the more chance you have of a decently sized dedicated following. Once your first,. lets say week is over (2-4 threads that week? Or whatever you can handle!), set a more lenient schedule for yourself.
>>44804692
Upboats don't mean all that much.
>>44804511
Lie low and not die. Maybe seek out or form a Rebellion, since this would take place at about 18 or 19 BBY.
Create a hidden Jedi Order? Find surviving Jedi?
There are plenty of end goals for the players to choose from.
>>44804955
Nah, doesn't sound very good. You need a definite goal the players can band together to aim for, otherwise you're just roaming around.
Create the QMC first and then think in his/her shoes. What would this QMC do after something like Order 66?
>>44804692
who gives a shit about suptg votes?
But I do feel there needs to be some sort of callsign that the QM would like more discussion, that they are totally fine with players taking their own liberties with some undefined parts of the setting/story.
>>44804803
This.
And this is a relatively new thing, too.
Anyone remember when supTG was considered the only place to index quests? Quests like PGQ and SQ were getting +40 +50 votes every thread?
Now it's rare to see a +15 thread. People are finding that it's easier to search twitter than it is to search the archive.
>>44804998
I was going to let the players build the QMC up from scratch. I might create several templates to choose from. This would most likely have some sort of impact on the QMC's goal. Perhaps instead of having a definite goal in the beginning I'll drop hints and point the players in a certain direction. Is this a good idea?
Pardon me, I've never run a quest before.
>>44805119
>Character gen
>Blank MC
>Freeform quest
Sigh. Why do you people never learn?
>>44805097
Yeah, people are a lot more conservative with votes in this day and age. Which makes the 20+ quests actually worth looking at, or they are just bandwagons.And fills me with pride how my only non-20+ is a new thread.
>>44804955
You don't have any plot hooks, anon, just a vague concept. You need to flesh it out more.
Did the MC have a padawan? Where are they/what happened to them? Were you separated from them before O66 for any reason? If so, how can you rendezvous with them?
Similarly, did you have any friends or rivals in the Jedi Order? Any friends or contacts outside the order, for that matter? Any way to touch base with them?
Conversely, did you make any enemies over the course of the war willing to take advantage of your current situation? Any shifty, morally dubious motherfuckers on the edge of the law willing to aid you...for a price?
A war veteran and genocide survivor is gonna have a hell of a lot of history, you need to take advantage of that fact instead of trying to make him a blank slate
>>44805119
no, just no. We have enough of that sort of "never run a quest before" crashing and burning before the third story post.
>>44805097
This. Between auto archives like desu and twitter, suptg is all but obsolete.
>my current favorite quest is back and seems to be going strong
yesss
I always knew necromancy was the answer!
>>44805019
There's no reward for writing nice updates. The hype and discussion mostly occur when things are HAPPENING or some striking element turns up.
QMs just won't get much hype from neatly and properly moving their story along, and giving prompts trains players to answer them.
>>44804886
I'll keep that on the down-low, I don't want to sound like I'm desperate for followers or anything. Plus if any of my followers did notice me say I was getting tired, I'd worry they'd lose faith in me.
>>44804922
>>44805019
The votes are a good judge of whether or not you're reaching an audience of people who enjoy it. Lots of votes means you're not just talking to a wall the whole time you're running. It's motivation. My quest doesn't get a whole lot of discussion or meta threads (though I'm glad there's no meta threads, that'd put it in a bad light) so that's about all I can really judge it by.
>>44805395
>show you like a quest by talking about it and engaging in interesting discussion
>show you like a quest by doing a boring vote process on a platform mainly used for archive binging
I know which one I'd prefer.
So I'd rather find ways to get discussion going than encourage votes.
>>44805395Historical Fiction?
How about a quest where the protagonist has only 7 sessions to save the world?
>>44805465
>player influence is clearly delimited in votes and prompts
>why don't people talk/writein/discuss more?
If people want a chatty thread, then I believe the Quest format needs a significant overhaul
>>44805144
>>44805202
Please, feel free to correct me. I am only posting here because I'd like to get some input, so the quest doesn't crash and burn.
>>44805187
I'll keep that in mind Anon. The input is appreciated.
>>44805119
>I was going to let the players build the QMC up from scratch. I might create several templates to choose from.
nope most of that shit leads down a stupid road
>This would most likely have some sort of impact on the QMC's goal. Perhaps instead of having a definite goal in the beginning I'll drop hints and point the players in a certain direction. Is this a good idea?
a good Idea usually is to take the meta talk and flavour the character with it, for example struggling to choose between two options when the playerbase is divided by two options
>>44805468
No, not historical fiction. Original setting.
>>44805465
That's the problem, if the playerbase isn't chatty, they aren't chatty. You can't control what your fans do, especially if you have a small fanbase like I do.
>>44805586
I've been thinking of running a quest on Akun in hopes of getting people to be more active, but I've heard you only run on Akun if your quest is NC-17 to avoid the banhammer here.
Military Mage Quest (previously Military Magical Girl) is up!
>>44804886
>"curiosity nibbles"
That sounds like typical of tabletop where the first few sessions is everyone faffing around feeling each other out and doing curiosity nibbles.
>>44804955
I'm not fond of sandbox quests. They feel meandering.
>>44803334
Which is unfortunate. I hope he didn't just burn out.
>>44803037
>I'm retarded and can't keep a schedule or social mediaIt's okay. This might b cool if stick true to the idea of fighting the mooks and trying to minimize power creep, as you said
>>44805682
Everyone who jumps in blind invariably does things the exact same way. Let that sink in. If you're going with the intention of "this is my first time", and you don't intend to break any formula, do the research.
I'm not saying QMing is supposed to be unfun work, I'm saying if you do it as you are it WILL be unfun work.
>>44805817
That's understandable. They're not everybody's cup of tea.
>>44805849
Got it. What specifically should I change about how I'm doing it, aside from it being free form?
>>44805771
>but I've heard you only run on Akun if your quest is NC-17 to avoid the banhammer here.
There's non-smut on Akun, and the chat can make things seem more alive (more post per minute rather than bursts). However, without genre and fetish peddling, your numbers won't be in close to the smut ones.
The timer, live show and integrated archive can make people more likely to catch up. That said, don't trust the counter much, don't let votes linger too much and get suspicious of a high voter turnout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRfP_TEQ-g
>>44805995
Not /tg/ related.
>>44805928
>aside from it being free form?
I don't recall suggesting freeform. I also need to go soon.
There's a newbie QM pic floating around, you have the pastebin up top, and there are tons of quests that you can look and judge for yourself if that's the kind of thing you want.
A certain way of doing things is never strictly better, the problem is only when it's either incompatible with what you're trying to do, or if you implement it really badly because you don't actually know how to do it.
>>44806059
Freedom Kids Quest when?
>>44806066
Thanks Anon. And I meant changing it from freeform to something else.
>>44806234
You just need to give them a goal. Or hell, give them multiple goals and let them choose which ones to pursue and which ones to abandon. Do you go on a rescue mission to save your padawan or help a friend of yours who's still loyal to the Jedi sneak off of Corusant and trust your padawan to get him/herself to safety?
Do you trust that bounty hunter that you've clashed with multiple times over the course of the war who is now offering you the only job a fugitive like you can find or do you instead try to dog in deep and go underground?
Bait some hooks for your players to chase and have a plot go organically around that. It's also a good idea to come up with some good neutrals, allies, and antagonists to bounce around the board and throw at your players before the quest even begins. Maybe a clone commando squad that did several covert ops with the MC and are now using their intimate knowledge of you to track you down or the tried and true old friend/rival who went Full Sith
>>44804211
Read the first few and find out.No but seriously, it's about a Necromancer thrown into a giant subterranean labyrinth called the dungeon. It's an original world and story and is incredibly well thought out and written.
to: QM Simmons and Heart of the cards
I told you last week I'd read your quests and get back to you on them. Currently I'm half way through Exterminator (just started today). Figured I'd get the shorter one out of the way first before tackling Card Priestess.
Just wanted to give you two an update, assuming you even see this, so you know it is happening! You've not been forgotten! I'll put together a proper review for the quests as I finish them.
Hopefully I can get Exterminator done this weekend.
>>44807149
I really appreciate it, thank you!
Please take your time with it. One-hundred plus threads is no laughing matter.
While we're pitching quest ideas, Gladiator Quest.
>Every fight is a question of life and death against dudes you may or may not know.
>If the MC dies, another gladiator who survived is picked up instead, new statblock pulled up, gear passed on
>'Off-weeks' are spent training, recovering or planning
>d4->d6->d8->d10->d12, light stat system, roll above four or compare depending on situation
>Ongoing injury, situational and equipment modifiers, certain characters have special mechanics.
>Tragedy, revenge, brotherhood, and hatred.
32 gladiators. 32 stories. Last man standing.
Its weird. I feel like my threads are more lively and have more players during the week than on the weekend.
>>44807828
You contracted a case of the Aussies. I'm afraid it's terminal
>>44807803
>'Off-weeks' are spent training, recovering or planning
>no pleasure slaves after match
>no being forced to please your masters daughter after a particularly bloody and brutal fight
>no choosing between a gambit at freedom or a short brutal life in the Arena?
>not a short bloody quest that ends in your death
shit quest/10
>>44807850
but they aren't even shitposting!
>>44807803
I'd play it
>>44807883
I'd play it btw
>>44807883
>no pleasure slaves after match
>recovering
>no being forced to please your masters daughter after a particularly bloody and brutal fight
>training
>no choosing between a gambit at freedom or a short brutal life in the Arena?
>planning
>not a short bloody quest that ends in your death
I like this idea, but it's probably not going to last very long given the situation granted.
Hell, I'll leave it up for a vote when it happens.
>>44807952
>I like this idea, but it's probably not going to last very long given the situation granted
Such is life in the Arena
>>44807803
>Tragedy, revenge, brotherhood, and hatred.
>Until your player dies, then all of it is for nothing and you swap to another character who will promptly die to a set of bad rolls one night
This is why it's a terrible idea, and this has been done before. It didn't get very far.
>>44808086
>>44808091
You've convinced me.
To the death, as Mars intended.
>>44797752
What is the best time to run a quest?
I've ran several quests which the participants seemed to like, but because I started running at ~1AM EST, I didn't get many posters.
>>44808156
Wondering this too. Is there an "ideal" time to run quests?
>>44808231
There has to be a timeslot where /tg/ gets the most amount of traffic and has a relatively low amount of regularly scheduled quests.
>>44808115
run it then!goddammit where is Historical fiction and my crusader quest?
>>44808304
It's 1:30 where I am, I'll start it up at a time where when it ends my eyes won't be bleeding out.
>>44808329
I'll be waiting anon
>>44797752
> QM question
More comments and feedback, though maybe that's just something I'd like instead of something that'd improve the scene overall. It can be really motivating even if it's just a single sentence written to explain a vote.
> Bonus question
Motivation is hard and procrastination is easy. I pre-write a lot of my stuff and end up thinking I should prepare a bit more before starting...Did finally run today, though.
Bonus QM question: how much do you prepare and pre-write for a thread? How many QMs just jump in and improv?
I think you can do post-apocalypse right. If you do post-post-apocalypse.>The Earth is dead, its oceans boiled and its crust molten for thousands of years
>251 years later, mankind is only alive by sheer grit and luck, splayed across habitats that are glorified Soyuz capsules, with only a few space stations capable of simulating gravity
>Live your daily life that you wish was boring
>space welding
>trying to find that fucking micrometeorite hole before you go blind and then dead
>avoid solar flares
>work like a horse for the sole continuation of the human race
>>44809192
I thought post post apocalypse was stuff like Pirates of Dark Waters or Thundarr the Barbarianor CATastrophewhere the apocalypse was so long ago that the pre-apocalypse society is little more than a creation myth at this point.
>>44809192
sounds like apoc to me.
Do you ever think that some enthusiastic anons who blindly sucks a QM's dick is actually trying to make him and his fans look like shit
And then wonder if it's more than a few anons, and that half the reason these anons were upset in the first place was because other anons were falseflagging unwarranted praise
Ok, so, how do I make a quest? Do I need a name and an idea to build a world?
>>44809083
I'm like 30 episodes in and all I do I improv.
>>44807803
Goddamn it Anon, if you won't do the quest, I will.
>>44810190
>you will never be a Barbarian from Gaul/Syria/Carthage/Germania/Greece/Thrace
>You will never be savagely ripped away from your village by slavers
>you will never be brutalized by said slavers
>you will never be sold at Auction for a few Denarii
>you will never just barely win your first match and bask in the glory of the Arena
>you will never face life and death every week/month just so plebeians can have there blood sports
>you will never become the Master's favorite slave
>you will never fight in private fights for your Patrician master
>you will never be forced to bed the Master's daughter while covered in blood after slaughtering slaves in the arena
>you will never be a gladiator in ancient rome
How would anyone feel about a Gritty Mech quest? An anon pitched their AC influence version last week, and it so far made me want to run one too.
You'd take on the role of one of the trainees from the first wave of an alien invasion, placed into cryo-sleep indefinitely due to Human error during the ending stages of said wave. You'd transition to an unspecified time in the future where you'd find Earth devastated, the last bastions of resistance either pathetically understaffed, people profiteering from the alien tech, or misguided guerrilla forces bumbling around aimlessly.
You must spearhead major offensive actions against a technologically and numerically superior foe, hoping that you can surviving pilots or inspire enough hope to unite what remains of humanity against the alien menace.Mech action galore too, because that's a given.
>>44810975
If you become succesful you will spend half your time advertising for whatever business that pays your master.
True Roman bread for true Romans and all that.
>>44810997
Shut up Pullo get back to shoveling dung
>>44810975
>You will never kill a legendary foe hailing from the very pits of the Colosseum itself and earn yourself a title in the Arena
>>44810978
I'm surprised it's not more about a human-scale conflict. Dog Life/Dog Style did that, and it's gritty as fuck.
>>44811137
So, you'd care more if it was Human vs. Human, rather than something on a global scale?
I have plenty of idea, but I just feel like running something.
>>44811163
Go for it. Be true to your vision.
I could use some advice, /wqdt/!
I feel like my quest doesn't have meaningful choices. My players aren't complaining, but I can tell that a lot of the votes feel like a waste of time, that the decisions they make don't really change much, and that really bothers me. The plot does have important divergence points, but those can sometimes end up far away from each other, and I need to somehow keep things engaging as I build up to the next major point, since I understand that I'm not just writing a novel here. My updates sometimes take a lot of time so I feel pressured to bump the thread with something, but I never know how to make that 'something' interesting.
How do you handle the decisions between the important, game-changing ones?
>>44811707
Languid, I'm on to you.
>>44811707
Make every decision seem game-changing, even though only a few of them are. Hype them up by making the characters and the QMC state how important this one decision will be.
Sup everybody! Novice Heretek Quest will start in about 3 hours!
>>44812076
Is there a more legible version of that image? I'd love to steal it.
Hey folks. I have emerged from my tequila-induced vision quest stronger than ever before, so Totemist Quest is starting up once more. Come join us.
>>44791647
Sure!
>>44812163
Thanks a lot! Hope you have a wondrous day.
>>44810978
would read
>>44811707
You fine tune. If they chose a divergent point, now you just have to remind them to take care of it, and ask them how and when.
>>44811707
>change POVs. switch to the characters who ARE about to make gamechangers(like losing their leg)
>character defining choices that decide how they act later on
>choose when/if the MC needs a break, or to take on new/extra responsibilities that ultimately change their preferred skillset
Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 117 is up and live.
Come on in.
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>>44812482
These sound oddly familiar.
>QM question
Better commitment and less waifu bait, i guess?
XCOM thread is up, Viglio confido
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>>44812764
maybe it's because I was using the most recent examples that came to mind?
In a post-apocalyptic setting including infected/zombies, what are some classic (read Cliché) scenarios/people?
So I just got finished binge watching all of GATE up until last week's episode.
What I'm curious about related to quests, is how you fellows think an AMERICAN version might be. If it'd be any fun or not to be a grunt on the ground providing FREEDOM to qtpie bunny girls and elves and such while eliminating the tyranny of an oppressive Empire?
I mean, I figure that if there's anything that would get the American people pumped up and ready to fill some fucking savages with lead, it would be an invasion force that slaughters innocents and takes American Civilians as sex slaves and physical labor, being worked to death in mines.
I think the potential here is pretty damn good.
If anyone needs a quick 'tldr' on what GATE is, I'd be happy to provide that as well. I'd just really like some feedback on this idea because damn if it doesn't make me excited.
>>44812918
No. Fan fiction quests are cancer and shoving your 'murican freedom shit down your players throats make it even worse.
>>44812918
Fuck off planefag.
