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> QM question
How do you convince people that your quests are actually brilliant?
> Player question
Why do you have such bad taste?
>>45274638
>> QM question
They keep coming back, so I guess they must enjoy it
>>45274638
>QM Question
I don't. I'm actually terrible at describing or pitching my own quest.
>>45274677
>>45274724
The secret is that this is the same person!
>>45274861
No, but clearly one of us is OP
>>45274861
>>45274886
Those are some nice Photoshop skills.
>>45274876
>>45274886
>Less than 30 seconds apart
>Two separate timezones
... Plausible.
>>45274899
And in the end, that's all we can ask for
Review anon's reviews when?
>>45275801
First Post Quest
>>45275945
Watch as I do something with my life. Like make a quest
>>45275805
I guess you expected the lolrandumb stuff, heh.
95% of QMS are white males
Agree/ disagree?
>>45276020
More around 75%.
>>45276020
As a lily-white male, agree.
97% of us also have our assholes sewn up.
>>45276754
It's allright. The players shit on everything without help anyways.
>>45276020
Yes, I see the problem.
We must acquire more of asian ladyboys to run quests for us.
>>45276020
do we even have more than 20 QMs?
>>45276548
Quest attempt
>>45274638
>How do you convince people that your quests are actually brilliant?
Why would I? People look for the kind of quests they enjoy, so I just make it clear what kind of quest I intend to run. The people that enjoy it will find it, the others will ignore it. I think that's the main thing that causes some new quests to fail, the QM doesn't clearly indicate what's to be expected from the quest, so people will just ignore it and go read one that does fit their interests.
Comfy slice-of-life and worldbuilding wank in a low-fantasy setting with the usual races, y/n?What if there is a TWEEST on the races?
>>45277129
Including quests that fail and one off QMS we easily have over 50.
But how many good QMS do we have?
Repostin. What happened to Walzerweiss?
>>45277279
>But how many good QMS do we have?
Again, fuck off with this bait question.
>>45277286
was that the really slow one? nobody aside from me and one other anon voted, all within a short span of each other, so the thread kinda fell off.
>>45277279
>But how many good QMS do we have?
Only me.
>>45277354
His low player count was probably because he started a huge shitposting fight in a /wqdt/ right before starting his quest. No one was really willing to play.
>How do you convince people that your quests are actually brilliant?
I don't try to convince because it only make me look desperate. Sadly some QM are quit blinded and believed that their Quest is masterpiece while in reality it is shit.
If people stop following your quest, it could mean that you are running it too long or people get tired or go in direction that anons don't like. It happen me too and I realise that if I want to continue as QM I will need to improve my grammar and running shorter quests.
That is part of QM life, sometime the quests run very short while other run very long.
>>45276020
I disagree, I expect that 60-70% are white guys while other is other ethnic. For my case I'm 50% white and 50% asian.
>>45277063
I know that you can find pretty ladyboys in Thailand... But I'm unsure if some are willing to run quest....
>>45277372
Details?
>>45277372
But he really didnt do anything. It was spontaneous feces combustion.
Thats kind of bullshit
>>45277910
>>45277928
A combustion that he was the source of. I'm not blaming him or anything, but the whole at least 150+ posts Yuri-Female MC shitpost fest began from his post.
>>45277904
>If people stop following your quest, it could mean that you are running it too long
Or you're running it too short and don't get enough in there to satisfy the players.
>>45277948
I can't even say he was the source of it. It was the usual "It's monday, lets all find an excuse to shitpost marathon into auto-sage" event.
Granted, I think the reason his quest failed was because he just took too long to update and his premise was dull and didn't have enough of the numbers sufficiently filed off.
>QM question
It is not. but i try my best.
>>>45278105
>>>45278105
well, we are back after quite some time. for those who want more XCOM, do come here.
REVIEW ANON FUCKING WHERE
>>45276020disagree
>>45278120
>>45278207
>keeping your trip on /wqdt/
Reported, filtered, and downvoted on suptg. Fuck off.
>>45278188
What quest do you want reviewed so badly? He said he only reviews quests requested by their QMs
>>45278232
oh sorry anon.
there are other who do it though, i thought it was alright to do so.
>>45278248
others
>>45278232
>>45278248
Trips on /wqdt/ is fine if they're actually related to the quest. Someone vomiting out their trip randomly when it's not relevant is where it becomes a problem.
It's totally relevant if you're posting your thread, or if someone asks a question *specifically* about your quest. If it's just a general QM question, that's when you leave your trip off.
>>45278239
I just want to read more of them.
>>45278270
right. sorry anon.
>>45278270
So AMPM is confirmed attention whore for doing it AND arguing against it.
>>45278343
AMPM is just plain terrible at not making a twat of himself with his trip on period.
Has there ever been a quest in the mount & blade setting?
>>45278580
No, but the setting is totally pointless and nonsensical anyway.
Find a better way of having Vikings fighting Mongols fighting Arabs.
>>45274638
hive queen quest returns when?
>>45276020
A better question would be,
does it even matter?
>>45278888
Quads demands it!
>>45279041
Well its problematic
>>45277237
No. Never. slice-of-life a shit. Go write your own romantic Choose Your Own Adventure novel, and leave us alone.
>>45276020
That would require there to be 100 quest thread runners , because at least three QM's are female.
>>45279097
Your opinion a shit.
>>45279097
Since when does slice-of-life implies romance?
>>45279108
>because at least three QM's are female.
>>45279108
But XS hasn't come back yet
>>45279143
No, it's pretty well known that at least three of them are female, and of those at least two are dykes (oddly, only one writes yurishit).
>>45279108
Who cares?
In the end we're all anons, your resident QM can be a sentient one-legged half-drunk lemur and nobody'd bat an eyelid.
In the end it's the writing itself that matters anyways.
>>45279195
Stop feeding other bullshit.
>>45279230
Sentient one-legged half-drunk lemur quest when?
>>45279230
The only real stretch is that he'd be only half-drunk.
>Military Mage Quest
>QM says mages are valuable and are a force multiplier
>immediately treats them like Red Army conscripts in an operation
I don't fucking even.
Test
>>45277967
That too, but I can understand why they are running short. Either they get mental tired from running quest or lacking free time.
I'm pretty novice at running quests but I want to do one that features some combat. And the players can chose the MC to be a robot or a dinosaur, I want the two to be a little different mechanically.
Any tips on the combat side? Any suggestions on how I could do the MC?
So am I going insane or did I see rumors about GraveQM and QuestDrone doing crossovers between DASQ and HQQ?
>>45279519
Stop posting with your trip. Stop being an attention whore.
>>45276020
Disagree. Only 35% are white. The rest is all aliens.
>>45279461
I guess he wants the combat to feel gritty, but really he should make mages scarce and kill hundreds of regular joes instead.
Having to clear out a trench with a fire spell would better emphasize the horrors of combat. This is all speculation because I don't read it.
>>45279461
It could be worse
You could be riding around on your centaur husband with a permanent -6 to dex from pregnancy all the time
>>45279916
It's like Nanoha or some other magic shonen stuff , but with a lot of 'Nam in Space slathered on. A lot of 'Nam and PTSD suffering shit.
>>45279916
>They've hunkered themselves into their trenches with crossbows. I sent two squads down there, but they've been taken capture. What are your orders, Lieutenant?
>Call in a mage.
>S-sir is that really necessary? There are survivors down there from my platoon.
>Don't question me, Sergeant. A fire spell will clear out the trenches. I dislike it as much as you, but if we don't get past these trenches, HQ will see heads rolling. Say a prayer for your men and call for a mage.
>But sir, we cou--
>See it done.
Gritty and depressing a best.
>>45279748
If I was real attention whore, I would have used my trip all the time but mostly I go tripless with most of my posts.
>45279748
Stop being austic with your post. Stop being an annoying neckneard.
>>45280220
How do you fail this hard?
>>45279195
Do undead skeletons count as dykes?
>>45280303
vox is shit
So what happened to Jedi/Sith apprentice quest?
>>45280363
>>45280363
this desu senpai.
>>45280378
Brine is dead and Eail juggles like 4 quests and barely has time to run at all.
>>45280378
Eail rarely has time for it.
Sith Apprentice stopped running because Brine went MIA. Most people think he didn't know in what direction to take the quest next and/or life and work got the better of him
Honestly, I've been thinking about running a Sith quest where the players start as an Acolyte and work their way up, but people might just call me a copycat or some shit.
>>45280270
Becase I can and I love Blatant Fetish quest!
>>45280492
>Blatant Fetish Quest
Shit man... I remember that quest... too much smut for the blue board...
Mecha Mercs Skirmish Quest is running!
Come on down for some tacticool mechanised skirmish action.
>>>45279676
(Disclaimer, mech in the pic does not actually appear in the quest.)
>>45280432
It's not like he owns the concept of being a Sith or an apprentice.
I wanted to do one as well, but I really don't have the time.
Yes, I'm alive. Yes I'll be running.
>>45280363
I meant XS but okay.
>>45281048
he's shit too
>>45281103
She, but okay.
>>45281043
Are you really, though?
>>45281164
Mostly, yes.
>>45280378
While we're on the topic
What ever happened to Cyberpunk Courier quest?
I feel like those quest where everyone takes on the role of a character and they all interact are fertile ground for a fun quest, but the format needs work. For one I wouldn't use 1d20, and plus I feel there's probably a better method of conflict resolution.
I don't know, might experiment with it at some point.
>>45281043
I really actually thought you were incapable of running anymore. Good thing you're not.
>>45281312
>everyone takes on the role of a character
That's not a quest, that's a forum RP.
>>45281312
>>45281339
This. All the people who think this "format" is a quest are wrong tbqh.
>>45281339
That's kinda what I'm talking about, they're too rudimentary, they need to be optimized for imageboards.
>>45281321
What doesn't kill me only makes me more bitter and resentful towards death.
>>45281397
Is this because Kitty is starting a quest too?
>>45279683
What? Why would they do that?
>>45281387
You can't optimize a circlejerk where everyone posts as many times a minute as possible in order to get maximum attention.
>>45281387
>they need to be optimized for imageboards.
I definitely wouldn't call it "need".
/tg/'s had RPs before, but those devolve into the exact same faggotry we mock other RPs for without question.
For example, Mage's Guild. That shit got rightfully banned, and even now it's probably clogging up some poor archive.
>>45281413
Nope. I've been bedridden for well over a month, and haven't been gaming, writing, or anything other than bedridden and reading for the entire time. Considering I finish one book every 7-10 hours and can barely sleep anyways, I've been bored insane (no electronics in oxygen tents) and need to DO SOMETHING.
I've been relegated to making RPG characters I'll never use and reading and thinking about Ryukusa and friends and their enemies for weeks.And I don't know who Kitty is.
>>45281467
I'm not talking about that mages guild cancer, more like that line of valg thing up right now.
>>45281043
I swear you're becoming a lich
Artificial lung tech and stomach flora transplants can't come fast enough
>>45281510
Wait, what horrible diseas do you have?
>>45281467
You remember the Modern Fantasy threads we used to get? Funny joke turned pretty quickly into "LET ME DESCRIBE TO YOU MY CENTAUR BRIDE."
>>45281633
oh fuck, know when you're going to die? you gonna live?
>>45276020
According to /int/, since I am American I am non-white by definition. >.>
>>45277234
>the QM doesn't clearly indicate what's to be expected from the quest
I thought people here hated introductory descriptions to games...
>>45277904
>implying
>>45281596
They had to remove several ounces of my lower left lung due to scar tissue punching holes through it and causing partial lung collapse, followed by infection. If it had been any upper part I would have been fine.
:blog
You know how fat people will say "oh, I have asthma bad" when it's just the fat crushing their lungs? I have had asthma so bad since I was 3 that the X-ray of my lungs looks like the Death Star exploding due to the scar tissue in my bronchial tubes. The drugs keep me underweight and I take inhaled steroids so I can breathe without pain. This is the third time I've had a small part of my lung collapse, but this one had extra complications that couldn't be cured with "antibiotics and ignoring it until it healed." 5% of your lung collapsing is pain on the level of a heart attack, but it can self-heal eventually in a few weeks, as long as the injuries aren't self-complicating.
/blog
I'm a gamer because I can't have a real life.
>>45281717
>>45281633
That's later. I've dodged that bullet so far.
>>45281755
Now I feel outright bad for pretending to be you for shits and giggles. Well, hope you live a happy life anyhow, find love and all that jazz.
>>45281717
I uh, damn...
>>45281717
Post with trip, or disbelieve.
>>45281799
I'd give you some lung if that were possible and mine weren't such shit.
I'd ask if you want anything but I'm not sure what I could give.
>>45281510
>>45281633
>>45281717
>>45281799
Shit man that what not good at all...
>Mfw the sudden drop of mood in this thread
Yeah, I need some fresh air from all these feels.
>>45281896
>>45281901
I don't want anything. I write because I enjoy it and I will get to go back to TTRPG in another couple of weeks. I post on /tg/ because the diversity of opinion and new games and creative content are fun. I've had my good times and I'll keep having more until cancer really does get me. It's literally the only thing that has killed anyone in my family for the previous 3 generations, so I'm pretty sure that's my ticket out.
/tg/ has some pretty good people in it and I enjoy what it does. Sure, the mods are idiots at times, but they really could be worse.
If I were to run a Nasuverse quest, would anybody be interested in a quest revolving around a Sealing Enforcer?
>>45281510
Man, how's the musculature holding up after a month of lying in bed?
>>45282177
>Nasuverse
Pls no.
mods confirmed not worse than terminal cancer
earlier stages of cancer still have a chance
>>45282196
What musculature?
>>45282234
Dohoho.
Really though, I had to lie down a week and while it didn't really reduce my muscle mass, they were very cranky when I started moving around again. 4 weeks on an already spindly body sounds like it'd be torturous.
>>45282196
There wasn't all that much to begin with. Isometrics and tai chi are the best I can manage, and they got me this far. Pure hate for my body works pretty well in a crunch. You really get a feel for the Sith and Hate=Strength after a while.
>>45281996
I wish you good luck to live out your remaining life. As my mother used to say, "Den dagen, den sorgen." or in english "That day, that sorrow" .
>>45282177
Sure. Better than another Fate Quest, that's for sure.
>>45282347
>"Den dagen, den sorgen."
I get the feeling your mother is from Dalarna or Norrköping.
>>45282364
they seem to have a very large audience though
Thanks for the support. Dropping my trip.
Also, fuck the moonbunny attacks. I need my Chiaki fix.
>>45282539
Don't worry XS, you can just chill out with Mari- oh.
>>45282539
Before you leave, have you figured out what quest you'll run?
>>45282539
I wish you a longer and more prosperous life than you seem to be living.
>>45282561
Ryukuza Quest continues tomorrow.
>>45282557
I'll lay even odds Midori wakes up with no memories.
>>45282595
Prosperity is measured in friends. I have enough.
>>45282661
>Ryukuza Quest continues tomorrow.
I really need to finished catching up at some point. Got distracted after the first 10 threads or so and despite loving it the ordeal of catching up over a year's work is daunting enough to keep me from diving back in
>>45282376
Actually she is from Thailand and she possibly learn it from somebody.
>>45282692
It's at 760 pages of 12 point ariel font. Took me most of two days to reread it.
>>45282763
You counted anon? Or is there a PDF or something?
Is romance in SoL quests frowned upon? It's unrequited love between two side-characters that the MC can help or just observe.
>>45282763
>Took me most of two days to reread it.
Was that with out without the chatter from players?
And alas two solid days of reading would keep me busy for at least a couple of weeks thanks to the other stuff I have going on
>>45282801
>>45282807
There's a PDF without chatter from the players. Is there somewhere good for uploading it?
>>45282803
>unrequited love between two side-characters
are they both female?
>>45282844
mixtape.moe seems to be preferred pomf clone at the moment
>>45282803
Probably not really. Unless anons really wanted to romance one of them.
>>45279230
>>45279322
I'd play it.
>>45282845
No.
>>45282907
I see. Thanks.
>>45279656
I'm pretty novice at running quests but I want to do one that features some combat. And the players can chose the MC to be a robot or a dinosaur, I want the two to be a little different mechanically.
Any tips on the combat side? Any suggestions on how I could do the MC?
>>45282844
I should have added:
I tend to try to read the chatter as I go when catching up, feel it's rude to play if I haven't immersed myself in the plans and ploys of the current crowd
>>45282922
then as long as its not yurishit its all right
>>45281370
>>45281339
Then it belongs here even more than quests do, since quests are just choose your own adventure novels.
>>45282844
>>45282807
>>45282801
my dot mixtape dot moe/xplqxk dot rtf
Ryukuza Quest as spellchecked as possible with XS' fucked up Wapanese.
>>45282941
Kind of depends on the mechanics in general.
>>45281467
>>45281542
The Mage Guild was great until it got too silly.
>>45282982
>Anti-quest fag
Good evening.
>>45282941
They'll want to be both. I recommend you let them play as a cyborg dinosaur and offer abilities from both sides.
>>45282987
Thanks, anon.
>>45282177
Yeah.
>>45282807
>>45282844
Why would you want it without player commentary?
>>45283102
The PDF also has all the SUPTG archives listed if you want that.
It's bigger than some trilogies by now.
>>45283102
I was >>45282944
>>45282803
Everything is frowned down upon, just the same as everything is cherished.
>>45283340
You might say it's frownished.
>>45283385
Or cherowned upon. You'd be a faggot either way.
>>45283404
You say that like we aren't all already faggots here. Its 4chan after all.
>>45281758
Not at all what I suggested. What you're talking about is indeed poor form, and as far as I'm concerned is just creative bankruptcy. If you're going to write a quest, you also have at least enough sense of setting tone, through both images and words, to clearly show what a quest is going to be simply by writing the opening scene and choosing a fitting OP image. After all, you have all the time in the world to make a good start to your quest.
Muscle Wizard Quest when?
>>45283802
>to clearly show what a quest is going to be simply by writing the opening scene
This simply isn't possible unless you have a shit setting.
>>45284361
When you_____lift____.
>>45283802
>>45284441
While I don't think you can tell people everything about your setting in post one, it certainly helps to give people a solid feel for the tone.
Jarring tonal shifts are the number one cause of shitstorms when the QM suddenly turns their cutesy SoL grimdark or visa-versa.
>>45284361
>Muscle Wizard and Cardio Cleric locked in a magical duel
I could try it as a one-shot next weekend.
>>45284441
You can't explain the entire setting this way, no. But I never said you should. In fact that would be catastrophic! Nothing left to discover that way!
No, I'm talking about tone and feeling, a solid impression of how your MC behaves and thinks, and what your writing is like. These make a quest enjoyable, and these are what you need to convey!
If written well, can a Mystery Quest be done? A Sherlock Holmes-esque quest.
>Every Arc has a Mystery of its own, and an iconic villain behind it.
>Witty humour.
>A side-character that both enhances the MC's personality and growth, but also sets stop to shenanigans.
>>45284561
>>45284488
But given that all stories are infinite, tone is supposed to vary.
>>45284601
Can it be done? Yes.
Can it be done by you? Probably not.
>>45284635
Vary to a degree, but not turn on a dime to something completely unexpected, which is what some QMs have a bad habit of doing because they fail to set up tone and feeling and let people to know the sort of range to expect the quest to fall within.
Look at it this way, if Hermione had been violently raped and murdered in the second Harry Potter book, people would've been to say the least a little perturbed.
>>45284702
So? Bad shit happens. Don't coddle the players.
>>45284659
>Can it be done by you? Probably not.
>>45284770
I'm not sure that coddling is the same thing as QMs just doing whatever the fuck they want even if it's completely tonally fucked just because.
I know that there's no quality control on /tg/, but at least try to tell a coherent story rather than letting the tone sway schizophrenically all over the place. You know, like real authors do.
Most QMs only have sudden tonal shifts because they think it makes them look clever, or makes their quest DEEP, anyway.
>>45282941
>I want the two to be a little different mechanically.
The only thing a player gets is updates and explicit things in writing. Underlying mechanics and puzzles aren't as important player side if they aren't simple. In simple terms, people care about being cool.
>Any tips on the combat side? Any suggestions on how I could do the MC?
Think of how the MC solves issues, and what happens when his preferred MO fails. Build a small list and use it. The dinosaur scares people; mauls, crushes and throws things around; tanks damage or dodges by instinct. If he fails, goons remember they have guns, people slink into small spaces, someone makes a smart call, etc.
Works for social and knowledge stuff, too. Having that short list adds characterization, since the MC won't just do the perfect genius solution every time.
Be the dog
>>45284879
>>45284772
Wow, you have shit taste in movies and video games. You definitely can't write this quest.
>>45284510
Please do.
Join us for Junkie Quest, a one-shot where being an asshole scores you a cheap supernatural high.
>>45282710
For all you civilization lovers, be sure to check the weekend discussion:
>>45285064
>>45284975
Hipster pls
>>45284975
Who pissed in your cereals this morning?
>>45284975
>>45284975
Are you stabbing blindly for something that may offend, or do you genuinely believe that a common reaction image means THIS MY FAVORITE MOVIE AND GAME?
>>45274638
> QM question
I don't. I'd have to convince myself of that first. Instead, I think everything I do isn't good enough and I'm about to get spit upon by all of /tg/ for being an attention whoring waste of time.
>>45284770
I blinded my players after they ignored an in-character warning and fucked with too much magic.
That didn't go down well... I think a lot of us are worried about losing players if we hurt their character too badly.
Quest reviews when?
>>45285257
>>45285341
>>45285459
Take your plebeian taste to >>>/s4s/ , you meme-loving fucks.
>>45288101
Hopefully never, there's no tier of lifeform lower than critic, professional or hobbyist
>>45287145
Go the opposite direction. Brutalize them mercilessly. It will attract a lot of people.
>>45288126
You're still angry as fuck? Seek help.
>>45288126
>a meme is something I don't like
>>45288101
He already did Superhuman Legacy this weekend. He said he'll probably have the review for Crusade Quest and Republic commando quest by next weekend.
>>45288101
When you write one you massive fag. Now quit asking.
>>45288148
Well they're blind now. They're making smarter choices too and their dice are unreal. But some day... Some day I'll get to DESTROY them. The only real bad luck they've had is with their wife. One child stillborn and the two survivors had complications.
I live again!
Notice for my players, I'll be putting up a pastebin containing one of the three interludes what open our next thread in about half an hour or so as an apology for the lack of thread this weekend. Granted it may be one of the least relevant to the current plot, but think of it as a reward for again somehow stumbling onto my notes.
Also to all the other QMs who I read that may have run this weekend, I look forward on catching up on what I missed.
And to review anon, I look forward to your review and hope the archive binge has been/is a pleasant experience despite the litany of things I perceive as my quest's foibles, flaws, shortcomings, & etc
>>45290477
If you have to suck dick to get attention, you're not good enough to write in the first place.
>>45290773
Nah, I'm good.
You're the Dog now Man seemed to go well, I feel good enough to work on my own projects again
Myrmidon quest is starting:
>>45284803
>>45290818
That wasn't a request.
>>45290877
What is that?
>>45289531
Hey, it's the stone age! Death, pain and worse is all around, only waiting for you to slip up. We here in the modern world have no IDEA what our ancestors went through.
>>45291141
>We here in the modern world have no IDEA what our ancestors went through.
Wrong. Historians are pretty sure how life was in the stone age and what our ancestors went through on a daily basis etc.
>>45291415
This belongs in the smut discussions.
How important is a stable schedule?
I want to run a quest and I have ideas, however I have an odd shift work 'schedule' as its basically "You work X to Y tomorrow/You got the day off" and only learn this after I leave work for the day.
The only think I know for certain is that I have at least one day off per week, but otherwise my time is a complete and total crapshoot.
>>45292110
Your quest won't survive if you can't at least run your new quest every day for around 3-5 days. Otherwise, you'll find yourself without a player base at thread 2 or 3.
Once you've done it for a couple of days, you can inform them that the quest will become a weekly thing.
>>45292198
That sounds like too much effort.
>>45292224
Takes effort to QM for people with no promise of payment.
>>45292244
Which is why it isn't worth even trying. I'd rather play.
>>45292198
Fuck that's going to be really difficult with what I currently got.
Back to planning until I get a window then.
>>45292281
Oddly enough, I don't enjoy playing in quests. I only enjoy writing and seeing people discuss my quest, despite the lack of sleep and income that comes with it.
>>45291161
And you think that equates to real experience? Oh you sweet summer child...
>>45292321
And you think you know more than historians how life was in the stone age? Oh sweet summer child...
>>45292311
Nobody likes my quests any way.
>>45292346
It seems you have confused facts for experience. Unless they live in absolute squalor in the third world, they have no idea how it feels.
>>45292372
>Implying third world experience is the same as stone age experience
Holy shit, you're more naive than I thought. I'm sorry. Hopefully you'll graduate from high school, but don't get your hopes up, RWB.
>anon unwilling to recognize history is about 10% of the whole image
non-cute, anon
>>45292476
>RWB got assblasted and cries about it
Shit QM is shit.
>>45292414
Yes, because bones and notes on a paper truly capture the suffering of the prehistoric era...
How sheltered are you?
>>45292513
>Still implying you know more about the life of prehistoric era than people that dedicate their lives to study it
I rest my case. You're an idiot.
>>45292565
See >>45292513 and >>45292372
>>45292346
Never said any such thing. I just do my best with what I have an acknowledge it's not close to the full picture.
Still, I intend to take my duty to historical accuracy seriously. Tell me, how familiar are you with 'Living History'?
>>45292505
Assblasted? Since when?
>>45292513
>>45292565
Everyone? Please chill. My original point was simply that many of us, living in our comfy, heated houses, with more food than we can eat and transport to anywhere in the world within a matter of hours, just can't even begin to understand what it was like for Stone Age man.
I don't understand the experience any better, but I do my best to explore it, alongside my players. I grew up in the forest, learned to track deer at a young age, as well as what plants are good to eat and just how clear and quiet the night can be, far from the city lights. I've knapped flint, bound a shaft with a grip and practiced archery. I know just enough to start. The rest, it is up to me to convey through writing. The fact of the matter is, I never feel I do it well enough, so I know I just have to improve.
>>45292789
>Damage control to the max
Yeah, okay, buddy.
>>45292789
Why are you posting with your name? Stop being an attention whore unless you WANT people to shitpost your quest.
Not that this conversation isn't really interesting but let's talk about something else. Namely, me.
I have an idea for a quest in which the characters play an MMO. Now, I am ten million percent aware of all the dumb tropes like "die in the game die for real" and "stuck in the game, can't log out;" I want to focus more on the social aspect and personal lives of the type of people that get super invested into MMOs. That being said, What would be some ways I could go about making it very clear right away that this isn't going to turn into some .hack or Sword Art Online fanfiction, I'm concerned people won't even open the thread because they'll think "well I know where this is going"
>>45292593
Figuratively whom?
Who would be interested in a game of Nomic?
http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm
>>45292862
>have an idea for a quest in which the characters play an MMO.
This idea is a stupid trend. Don't hop on the bandwagon.
Instead, do something original.
>>45292862
>Namely, me.
I like your attitude. Confidence.
As for your quest idea, people usually only open a thread based on the OP image and the quest name. I bet people will open it if done right and from there on out it's the OP post that will determine if you get players or not.
I'd say go for it, because so many quests before has gone down the route of "VRMMO" so it would be refreshing to see a quest where you play the guy playing a character.
>>45292862
>>45292913
While this guy isn't wrong (nor is he right) and an OC quest will always be considered better than fanfiction quests, your idea is original in and off itself as long as you base it in an original "game world".
Just because it belongs to a highly popular trend/genre, doesn't mean it cannot be OC.
>>45292862
>>45292969
Make it about Second Life or something else instead, if you must use virtual reality.
I have run (well, more failed than run) two quests or one shots. Just recently in fact. One was Imperial Grunt, which I ran a few minutes ago with my sister, and the inappropriately named Failing Utopia. Here is what learned.
>Lore is not plot.
I was so excited about the setting I came up with that I forgot about the plot to be set in it. The plot, not the setting, should be the selling point of the quest.
>Definite directions.
Their should be clear goals to strive for, be it temporary or permanent. This should be obvious but I somehow forgot about it. I had no idea what the endgame was suppose to be or if there even was one.
>Meaningful Choices.
This is another basic. My mistake here was giving choices that wouldn't really affect the outcome all that much.
>Being a soldier is boring.
On a more specific note, running Imperial Grunt quest was really boring. There are not a lot of things a soldier can do, at least independently.
Feel free to correct or further criticize me as I have proven incapable of critical thinking and would like to know how to improve.
With all that said, I think I wont be QMing for a while. At least until I have better idea of what I'm doing.
WHERE IS HQQ
>>45292862
Give a short "not a death game" in the OP
intermix.....you know what, you don't need anything else.
There's been, like, 1 other quest that did the same thing, and at no point in time did anyone ever think it would go into Death Game.
Well, that's a lie: there was 1 other quest, but that gets a pass because it was blatantly based off Moonlight Sculptor.
>>45292996
He never said it was going to be virtual reality though.
>>45292996
Maybe even a transhuman setting where most people spend most of their time in cyberspace, because running your meatbody is expensive.
>>45293003
Also, sorry. I forgot to drop my trip.
My wacom pen broke and now I can't run my quest.
I envy you writefriends.
>>45293003
Plot is overrated. Your players were shit.
Goals are for people who can't enjoy the experience of the moment.
All choices are meaningful.
Well, yeah. M*A*S*H* taught us that.
>>45293055
>All choices are meaningful.
I respectfully disagree with your inexperienced opinion.
>>45293051
NO!!! We will never get a conclusion to the Nerv Quest!
>>45293051
Who's that demon semen?
>>45293084
I disrespectfully disagree with your uncreative opinion.
>>45293230
Then we're at an impasse, my good sir. Let's agree to disagree. Good day to you.
>>45292837
I've seen his quest. It's deserted most of the time.
If you started shitposting it, you'd honestly be doing him a favor. RWB can't keep a regular speed to save his life.
