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> QM question
How have the holidays impacted your quest?
> Player question
What would you get the QMC of the last quest you played for Christmas?
>>44368822
Player Question: Some Vinyls of the bands she likes and a package of 100 clothes pins.
Why are most QMs social rejects and autists?
>>44369336
>How have the holidays impacted your quest?
It's given me more time to work on the new quest I've been putting together, so it's been good for me.
>What would you get the QMC of the last quest you played for Christmas?A special symbol on his armor from Sergeant Crusader.
>>44368822
>QM
Given me time to actually plan out the rest of the plot hooks/general storyline
Also, I need bodies for Imperial Ambitions tonight, thanks.
>>44366267
>>44368822
>Player Question
Sets of magic armor for her whole crew and a app upgrade.
>>44369715
1) Are there waifus/will you let/do you plan on making waifus a big thing in your quest?
2) Why should I betray AT-TE quest for you?
3) Am I pretty?
>>44369747
1.) Always a possibility!
2.) Why not both?
3.) Eh
>>44369782
>Always a possibility!
I'm out.
>>44369789
>>44369782
>>44369747
Waifus are created by players, not by QMs.
>>44369811
The infinite monster girl quests say otherwise.
>>44369782
>Tries making harmless joke about waifus (I think)
>Quest dies as a result
Sorry
>>44369715
Probably shouldn't have tried to revive your quest on Christmas Eve.
>>44368822
>Player
food. Healthy food. I can't convince him to exercise, but I can damn well give a tasty, nutritious meal to stave off malnutrition and addiction
>>44369902
Yeah, that's fair. Was assuming people would be on with this being the less important day out of today and tomorrow, but hell, nothing wrong with letting this thread flat-line and continuing tomorrow night when everyone's done with christmas.
>>44369902
>>44369938
People will be dead tired the whole of Christmas and Boxing Day. Consider your time slot carefully.
>>44369964
Also true
Ahh well, we'll see when I end up posting. Good thing is that the quest is in its infancy so I don't have to worry about pissing off a player base with bad timing yet.
>>44369647
There's at least 1 QM who's a lawyer.
>>44370079
>lawyers
>not autistic
>not rejected by society
Every lawyer I know rips on lawyers all the time.
Have there been *any* road trip-style quests? I'm in the neighborhood to see what works and what doesn't work for the road trip/long journey format.
>>44370230
Hellborn had a road trip arc that was pretty good.
Dunno about a whole quest dedicated to it though.
>>44370079
>>44370098
The lawyer you refer to is probably a vigilante.
Can't get any less of an autistic social reject than that.
>>44370230
Banished is about wandering around the world.
>>44370230
there was one. Apparently it got really trippy. Dunno the name.
I was thinking of doing a quest where a High school student or a young adult (think 21 years old or so) gains the power of telekinesis similar to the one in the Chronicle movie, where it acts like a muscle inside your brain that you train and if you strain yourself, you get nosebleeds and can black out.
Essentially the quest is about training this ability, possibly having fun with it, exploring the limits of it, and with some NPC input (Like someone catching the MC red handed when he uses his powers) the players can chose to go down the path of a Hero or a Villain or something in-between.
>>44370758
>the power of telekinesis similar to the one in the Chronicle movie, where it acts like a muscle inside your brain that you train and if you strain yourself, you get nosebleeds and can black out.
Or like the novel "Carrie".
>>44370808
Call me an uncultured swine, but I've never read it.
>>44371017
How can I not after hanging out with my gf's hot cousin? She was wearing booty short overalls damn it.
>>44368822
A computer with all their quests info in it so HQq can start up again already
>>44371017
too late.
>>44368822
>player question
If just lurking counts then whiskey pancakes
>>44368822
>QM question.
Not that much really.
>>44369647
probably as way for escapism and/or to gain some attention. As long as both parties are satisfied, I see nothing harm with it.
>>44371017
I wasn't going to but being told not to masturbate really turns me on.
>>44371017
But I'm halfway through writing smut for my players as a christmas gift. I'd be very disappointed if they didn't masturbate.
and we are up
>>>44372027
come and say hi.
>>44370380
Is that 'vigilante' or 'serial killer'? It's a thin line, is all I'm saying.
>>44371017
But it's not his birthday and last I checked masturbation was only a sin if you lusted after someone else's girl while doing it. Only get off to text, I'm in the clear.
Guys I want to start a quest but the holidays are a terrible time. When should I start it up?
>>44371890
>probably as way for escapism and/or to gain some attention. As long as both parties are satisfied, I see nothing harm with it.
Are you talking about quests or BDSM?Which QM do you suspect of being into that?
>>44372122
Quests.I meant by both parties the QM and his/her players. none actually, I rarely follow quests here. i am simply expressing my thoughts, they could be wrong though.
>>44372121
Late winter break when students have run out of fun to be had.
Anyone follow Mortal Kombat Quest?
>>44372216
Australian here; no idea when that is. Everything is summer here.
>>44368822
>QM Question
Sort of inconvenient. I was planning on ending my Christmas quest-break and thread up on Boxing Day but then I remembered I'm australian and that my regulars will still be in Christmas Day. Fuck.
>>44372576
Boxing Day public holiday on Monday though.
>>44368822
>How have the holidays impacted your quest?
I can actually run now for a bit because I got some free time.
>>44372122XS is.
>>44369647
http://bash.org/?16409
>>44373099
>>44373099
Uhhhh.....wrong thread for your copypasta, dude.
>>43346916
>>44373146
I don't think they're being discriminating.
>>44368822
>What would you get the QMC of the last quest you played for Christmas?
Ointment for all the bite marks she gonna get when she gets claimed by her ojou-sama.
And a big ol floppy witch hat
>>44372773
>XS is a dying skeleton
There, finished your sentence for you
>>44371180
>giving the Queen the QM's notes of omniscience on the entire universe
>>44373317
This may also be true.
>>44372773
I'm not sure her constitution would allow her to be either D or s desu.
>>44373462
What, you don't want to be dommed by a sickly, wheezing skeleton in leather domme gear?
>>44373598
I like it better when the appearance matches the role.
>>44373615
Well, if you're into liches...
>>44373283
Girl needs some fucking therapy and human friends.
>>44373615
Her grim visage is reminiscent of the bed death all lesbians face in their lives that they seek to avoid through bizarre ritualization of the act via bizarre loveless plays like BDSM
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
>>44373805
>human friends
But she's a witch now. Corpses like her should stick to their own kind
>>44369647
Father is an architect...if i am not mistaken
>>44374022
>Bizarre loveless plays like BDSM
You need to be above 18 to post on this site.
>>44374123
Says the bondage babby
>>44374022
....that's different.
>>44372032
Gobble?
Yule's Blessings on anyone who wants them, and May your next year be better than the last.
>>44374046
>Father
Who.
That's an ominous name.
>>44374353
Nope.
Eclipsed Moon Quest episode 115 is up and live.
>>44374832
Come on in.
NCR Veteran Ranger Quest?
You're part of the NCR and work your way up from a recruit to a Veteran Ranger and then through plot, you find yourself alone (or with a selective few individuals) in the wasteland while you're being pursued by an indomitable force.
I thought there would be a lot more Star Wars Quest after the movie came out
>>44375059
I had an idea about a SW quest, but I was reminded by someone that another QM already had that idea.
>>44375059
I thought there would be a lot more Xenoblade Chronicles X Quest after the game came out
>>44374972
I, for one, would like a quest set in the New Arroyo area after the happenings of the Fallout 2.
>>44375103
>Xenoblade Chronicles X Quest
>You are on a big fucking planet.
>Walk in a direction?
>Continue walking?
>Continue walking?
>Continue walking?
>Jesus fucking christ look at that thing.
>Walk more carefully in the other-
>PARTY MEMBERS, NO.
>>44375108
That'd be neat. You travel to a new area of what's left of the U.S and find New Arroyo, a buzzing wasteland city.
>>44375059
>>44375094
Speaking of Star Wars Quests, I'm doing the rise of Darth Darth Binks over here because why the fuck not. It's Christmas and I feel like dicking around.
>>44368452
One-shot only because I have a life and some degree of self-respect.
>>44368822
> Player question
What would you get the QMC of the last quest you played for Christmas?The D.Seriously, a lot of her problems could've been solved by getting laid at some point IMO, but nope! The QM quit before that could happen.
>>44368822
>What would you get the QMC of the last quest you played for Christmas?
Swedish Fish
>>44375242
What quest?
>>44368822
>QM
Absolutely ruined my schedule. On a more positive note: New vinyls, new phone, and an amp for my turntable.
>>44375518
What a disgusting hipster.
Rōnin quest?
The MC is a rōnin (A Lordless Samurai) during the Feudal or Edo Period and through a series of events, he finds himself forced to help a girl and her little brother to find their parents after they were separated, all the while they're being chased by former members of the Kabukimono (A more violent and rude version of Yakuza/Mafia).
Alternatively, I could also run this Rōnin Quest in a Sci-fi setting.
>>44375676
>Ronin quest in a sci-fi setting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e51hgWIsY4M
>>44375759
Exactly.
>>44375676
Anon, any excitement for this was ruined by your baka gaijin attitude.
>>44375518
REMOVE RAILROADER remove railroader
you are worst qm. you are the qm idiot you are the qm smell. return to spacebattles. to our spacebattle cousins you may come our board. you may post in the wqdt….ahahahaha ,mods we will never forgeve you. cetnik rascal FUck but fuck asshole qm stink mods sqhipere shqipare..qm shitpost best day of my life. take a bath of qm tears..ahahahahahMODS WE WILL GET YOU!! do not forget psion quest.hiroshimoot we kill the 4chan, hiroshimoot return to your precious mongolia….hahahahaha idiot qm and mods smell so bad..wow i can smell it. REMOVE RAILROADER FROM THE PREMISES. you will get caught. reddit+4chan+spacebattles+sufficient velocity=kill mods…you will psion quest/ diarca alive in /tg/, diarca writing quest of /tg/. slow write diarca /tg/. we are good and have quality now hahahaha ha because of diarca… you are ppoor stink qm… you live in a hovel hahahaha, you live in a yurt
diarca alive numbr one #1 in /tg/ ….fuck the mods,..FUCKk ashol qms no good i spit in the mouth eye of ur post and quest. diarca aliv and real strong wizard kill all the qm farm aminal with quest magic now we the /tg/ rule .ape of the wqdt soma fukc the great satan and lay egg this egg hatch and banished wa;s born. stupid baby form the eggn give bak our board we will crush u lik a skull of pig. /tg/ greattst board
>>44375872
Go home, anon. You're drunk.
Just letting the people here know, I may be dropping the Degenesis quest either today or tomorrow.
>>44375103
XCX, like Xenoblade Chronicles before it, isn't really a setting that lends itself to quests well. Sure, you could do BLADE Quest, but that's just playing the game.
I guess you could do something like Nopon Merchant quest that plays out like Spice and Wolf minus the Holo (I guess you could give them a Prone hired bodyguard waifu instead) but I imagine people would get bored fast of playing the bottom of the food chain.
Fucking Christmas stopping all my favourite QMs from running.
We should just ban Christmas.
>>44377209
*tips menorah*
Happy Kwanzaa!
>>44368822
>Player question
maybe a thicker netcable, or a speedtyping book. LOOKING AT YOU SKARGAN.
>>44377209
Don't let the atheists win, anon
>>44377249
This has nothing to do with religion, Christmas is bothersome to us all (me), therefore it should be prohibited.
>>44375803
Well, there goes the little remaining interest I had.
>>44368822
>Player question
>What would you get the QMC of the last quest you played for Christmas?
What would you get for a millenia old space-lich anyways?
>>44377361
Didn't want a shitposter in my quest anyhow, my friend. Merry Christmas.
>>44377369
Socks, dude. Same thing you get everyone else.
>>44377589
I actually got socks this year and I was like "Alright, nice, I needed new socks"
I'm getting old and boring wtf
>>44373283
>>44374029
Is this quest as XS tier snowflake as you make it sound?
Female QMC dressing very provocatively with a ludicrous explanation for it, y/n?
>>44377629
It's AToW.
>>44377609
Gotta put something on your feet. Can't walk around naked, after all.
>>44377629
Pretty close. Witches aren't human. Clergy literally have a section of their soul replaced by a piece of their god. Dragon blooded nobility collect servants and allies like treasures and view them as precious.
>>44377634
as long as she hates it, I'm game
>>44374268
So are lesbians
>>44377629
Not really. Imagine Star Wars if there were multiple religions and being force sensitive meant you also take on physiologically different mannerisms and a hell of a lot more superstition directed at your Jedi Order and you've got the gist of it.
It does a pretty damn good job of making magic seem weird, mystical, and dangerous
>>44377699
What if she doesn't?
>>44377823
>It does a pretty damn good job of making magic seem weird, mystical, and dangerous
Altough Nobody minds, maria's level uno shield is cutulu magic.
>>44377699
What if she pretends to hate it, but secretly loves it?
Daily reminder that vox is a madman who subsists off of nothing but caffine, drugs, and human souls.
>>44375676
>>Alternatively, I could also run this Rōnin Quest in a Sci-fi setting
You'd draw more players
>>44378040
Exactly my thoughts.
>>44378038
So he's a QM?
>>44375205
Darth Jar Jar Quest would be cool.Then you advertise it on reddit's /r/darthjarjar
>>44375676
What a coincidence, I actually was thinking about running a ronin quest too, except mine was intended as a sort of introduction to L5R and it's system.I'll probably never run it though. I'm already running two quests, and having trouble finding time to run them as is.
>>44378355
Yes. Of dungeon Life quest, now running for multiple fucking weeks in a row.
>>44368822
If I try to make a straight up, serious adventure quest, no smut, no weebery, just actual exploration, combat, and NPC interaction, would I stand a chance?
>>44379411
Depends on your writing and how good you can write characters and environment.
>>44379411
Yes. Stop being so damn cynical and run it. Link it to a WQTD, have a good OP and eye catching image and see who you get.
>>44379411
Only if you're a decent QM.
Seriously, all the things people usually complain about in WQDT like "waifus", "smut", or "weebery" get you initial interest: nothing else. Good writing and character/player management are what you need to KEEP players.
>>44379411
>>44379441
>>44379445
What these guys said. I'm finishing up details on a quest inspired by the Wars of Roses and the parts of Berserk that isn't about apostles and mythical creatures.
Just mercenaries, war, some politics, and medieval shiet. Run what you like and if it catches on, sweet. Don't cater to others.
>>44379411
Get the fuck out of here. It's been possible to run a standard RPG style adventure for as long as the board has existed.
The reason you don't see more is that most are shitty sandboxes with zero hooks to keep players around.
>>44379476
>Berserk
>not weebshit
Kek
>>44369647
QMing can require an absurd amount of time. People who lead active social lives don't have as much free time to run a quest.
>>44379662
>Implying Berserk is weebshit
>>44379476
How much oni rape is in it?
>>44379009
I think you missed the joke, senpai
>>44379731
>magical naked shotas
>angsty bishies
>yaoi shipping
>powerlevel wankery
It's weebshit through and through
>>44380140
Question: are the onis doing the rape or can we rape qt onigrils?
>>44380202
>Didn't read anything past "Berserk"
Confirmed ignorant hater.
>>44380140
>no mythical creatures
>Asks about oni rape
There'll be as much rape as medieval times permit, but no oni rape.
>inb4 "dropped" meme
>>44380481
>There'll be as much rape as medieval times permit
So a lot if we're a mercenary during wartime then.
>>44380504
It's a proxy war between three kingdoms using barbarian warlords and mercenary bands against each other. So it's technically peace times, but a war is still raging on.
In short, yes.
>>44380557
Sure, I'll give your rape quest a shot.
Why are all 40k quests so shit?
>>44380599
Wasn't aware there were many of those around these days. Which ones are you referring to?
>>44380588
Clever, but not a rape quest. Good try though, my friend.
>>44380599
The inescapable truth of the setting
>>44380622
What? Well, then I'm leaving.
>>44380646
Yeah, we can't have a rape quest here with these mods, pal.
>>44380663
Orc Warlord Quest is overflowing with rape and that's been running for over a year.
>>44380663
Not true. Orc Warlord Quest has a strong following.
>>44380681
>>44380690
Not a rape quest though. Look at Modern Satyr for a good example of what happens if you go too far according to the mods.
>>44380703
That's just because MSQ had nothing besides sex in it. OWQ has plenty of rape, but has enough other stuff going on to get a pass.
So you could absolutely run a quest about a mercenary band who rape a lot, just make sure to have battle scenes and character interaction in-between the rapeathon.
>>44380718
>So you could absolutely run a quest about a mercenary band who rape a lot, just make sure to have battle scenes and character interaction in-between the rapeathon.
I'd rather not attract the kind of players Warlord quest has tbqh f a m.
>>44380703
OWQ is a rape quest. You just gotta work for it unlike MSQ.
>>44380790
I don't blame you. Alot of them seem insecure. Kill anything male/have a snowball's chance of messing with their harem.
Hate to be a memer, but its a cucking quest for people afraid of being sucked.
>ITT: anons try to convince a possibly new QM to run a rape quest for their fetish needs
WQDT pls stahp.
>>44380969
>sucked
cucked*
Fucking autocorrect.
>>44380970
It's his own fault for actually discussing his quest idea on WQDT instead of just running it.
Honestly 99% of people who post their ideas here are too insecure to actually run, and are only doing it in the hope of receiving overwhelming praise.
>>44380991
I don't think they're really afraid of being sucked.
>>44380790
Just make the MC a straight female and no one will want to get into the raping business between fights.
What goes into making a good OP for the first thread?
>>44380614
Not him but there's two quests going atm. Novice Heretek and Navigator
>>44381111
Throwing the players into a scenario to quickly catch the attention of the lurkers/players and then post your info (Twitter and any pastebins you have) in the next post.
>>44381142
>asking people to read pastebins in the first thread
nigga don't you dare, pastebins are for people who are already invested.
>>44381129
None of that 'Hey guys its my first quest so be nice' crap or any meta thing. Jump immediately into the story.
>>44381153
Was thinking more regarding the rolling rules or some shit, but I guess that could be explained when rolling becomes a thing in it.
>>44381170
Yeah, doing that just tells people that you're weak and uncertain.
>>44381111
In media res. Start them off in some sort of action, seed all the background stuff you want people to know into the first thread as you go along. Do not, I repeat, do not, plotdump in the OP post unless you want people to glaze over and click out of the tab.
>>44381231
This. Put in backstory and worldbuilding shit in as it would naturally be introduced, don't infodump anywhere. Save that for pastebins several threads later or not at all.
Similarly, only introduce your mechanics when they come up. You have a really cool and intuitive combat system? That's neat bro but don't stick it in the OP of your first thread, instead you should walk us through and then when we reach a combat THEN pop in and tell us how it works.
>>44381111
Read "The Last Companion" from the Archives. You'll thank me.
>>44380599
Time to play through Warhammer 40K Space Marine again to prepare myself to run a 40k Quest!
Is this a good hook to more shenanigans?
Your favorite place to eat is a local dive, but it is actually a front for sinister criminal operations and they don't appreciate you actually buying the food there. Especially since it is of such low quality.
>>44381655
I don't see what the PC would be doing in this scenario.
Which are the best Empire builder 4X quests? I read the planetary governor quests but neither of them lasted very long. I want to read more of them before trying my hand at running one.
>>44381761
it's a jumping off point for seeing shit they shouldn't, and generally a cause of conflict that is sustainable.
>>44381807
You're probably better off starting a lot later in this scenario at the point where decisions matter and the entire thing can't be derailed by players voting to just eat somewhere less shitty.
First person or second person?
>>44381942
Generally second unless you can do a good stream of consciousness
>>44381942
Second person makes transition easier because it feels like the QM is talking to you directly. Not only that be it make transitions to the point of view of other characters easier.
>>44381129
WhT are those about? Arr they good? Are they grimm ans true to ghe setting?
>>44381807
>but it is actually a front for sinister criminal operations
Restaurants are already shady as fuck. Buy half-spoiled stock, clean and reheat old food, stupid markup prices, false salaries and sweatshop conditions, health violations until the nightly cleaning, etc.
>>44382127
Depends what kind of standards you hold yourself to.
Tax evasion is a given though. Markups are debatable, usually you're using them to cover all your other sunk costs (e.g. rent), or to compensate for not charging more for dishes with a high unit cost, or you're just charging the same as everywhere else.
>>44382127
And they serve stuff so unhealthy it might be illegal.
You love the place.
Can character go well?
>>44381601
Oh fuck you. Just run a semi-decent Space Marine Quest and you'll have a huge following
>>44382201
Oops.
Can character generation in the first thred go well?
>>44382308
If you have to ask then you probably can't do it.
>>44382209
The problem for most of us is that we have no knowledge about the 40k Warhammer universe and lore.
>>44382308
Anything "can" go well, if you're good enough at handling it.
Generally if you need to ask, you aren't.
>>44382308
I didn't want to risk it so the opening post was literally the players deciding between three premade characters to play
>>44382308
Sure, if you don't mind having a futa loli catgirl as the MC.
>>44382080
I haven't read Heretek but supposedly it's at least semi-true to the setting. You're a tech priest heretic doing heretical things.
Navigator is kinda grim. If the last warp jump was any indication things can go very bad very fast. It's in line with the setting afaik.
What's better - starting in media res, or starting with a chargen of some sorts?
>>44382674
What?
>>44382674
media res with selections deciding the character's stats, background,traits etc
like voting on how to kill an orc scout
>Shoot it with your bow and arrow
>Slash it with your sword
>Blast it with a magic fire ball
>>44382674
I prefer chargen.
>>44382308
Yes.
But it probably won't go well for you.
Let's talk about something we can pretend is productive.
Best quest hook ever?
>>44382850
> The commissar is on fire and it isn't my fault
>>44382850
Those fuckers stole your shit!
what are you going to do about it?
>>44382891
Sit at home and cry.
Alternatively wait a week or two before going back to the store to buy that shit again so it's not too obvious someone stole it from you or you misplaced it.
>>44382850
The undead demon-dragon took your waifu. What do?
>>44382995
> Implying the demon-dragon isn't my waifu
>>44382995
Take it's waifu in return.
Justice is served.
What times are good for starting quests? What kinds of quests are popular nowadays anyway? How much crunch is okay to have in a quest?
>>44383249
>How much crunch is okay to have in a quest?
Just enough to ensure that the QM isn't playing favorites/intentionally fucking you over.
>>44383249
>What times are good for starting quests?
5 PM EST and onwards. That's when most people are off from work and school. More population on weekends, but during the holidays the population of players are scarce.
>What kinds of quests are popular nowadays anyway?
If you need to ask and don't have a quest idea that you REALLY want to run, then you shouldn't be a QM.
That being said, anything that has good writing coupled with good QMing and has an interesting setting tends to pull in players.
>>44377209
The solution is simple:Sue the pants offa Santa!
>>44383325
I've had a few ideas in the past, but I've never been successful in keeping a quest going for more than one thread. My experiences on other questing platforms have told me that having an appealing setting that's fairly popular and then putting your own desired twist tends to do well.
>>44383369
>an appealing setting that's fairly popular and then putting your own desired twist tends to do well.
Fanfiction.
The word you're looking for is Fanfiction.
>>44383369
Well, if you don't want to go for the original, do a Fan fiction quest (Guaranteed following depending on the game/movie/book/anime picked) or do a Sci-fi quest. We got tons of Fantasy ones already. Be sure to include some form of underlying smut too if you want to add 4-6 players to your following.
>>44383398
I don't mean an existing setting in that manner. For example, /tg/ seems to have a boner for ye old lich things. Or the time when magical girl quests were extremely popular.
I'm afraid that the one quest I'd really like to run would be quickly dismissed as being waifubait.
>>44383487
Then erase more of the waifu bits until you don't think it'll be looked at as a waifubait.
>>44383527
You don't understand. Any quest where the main characters happen to be women are regarded as waifubait.I wanted to write a quest about being an idol handler/producer, but reflecting more realistically on the issues in the industry rather than focusing on dicking the often underage girls.
Maybe I should scrap the idea and just do an Evangelion fanfiction quest or something.
>>44383588
Can't go wrong with Mecha quest!
>>44383588
>but reflecting more realistically on the issues in the industry rather than focusing on dicking the often underage girls.
You mean those aren't the same thing?
>>44383588
I suggest looking at quests that have had long, successful, and most importantly -completed- quests such as shadow quest, zeon quest, exabytes many pre-anonkun quests, and zerg quest to see what it takes to meet with success - mainly, keep things interesting and march on despite shitposts.
>>44383832
*looking at those that are
Thought I'd changed that bit
>>44383832
The original Dragon quest and Commander quest were pretty long and successful. Unfortunately either had a proper conclusion.
>>44380557
>>44380557
If you are going to do this, look up how Crusader quest did it, it's pretty fucking realistic and brutal to boot
>>44369647
I think Announcer is an Engineer.
please don't do this on Twitter, Cardheart.
I know you read these threads.
>>44384299
Yeah I don't follow their Quest but they should probably air such things in their threads rather than just announcing it to everyone who reads the QM list.
>>44384352
is it really a bad thing, though?
I had a pitch for a quest based on a fanfiction thing someone on /a/ did at one time.
Is this a bad idea already?
>>44384699
It can't possibly be worse than some of the dross currently running.
Hit us.
>>44384352
Oh c'mon, QM admitting they fucked up is such a rare thing, might as well let the others see.
Post your quest ideas that you want to play or run.
>>44384729
A reverse harem quest disguised with a fantasy setting. The QMC is a girl crossdressing as a boy and the cast is pretty much all sexy men otherwise.
>>44384729
A stand quest.
I know what you're thinking.
>Another Jojo quest? Is that truly necessary?
Well, in this quest, you play as an intelligent stand, like Whitesnake or Spice Girl.
Is the /tg/ questing community still salty about yuri?
>>44384699
What's the quest?
>>44384729
World of Darkness, MC is mortal with no special powers.
Team paranoia is a go.
Don't drop by often but to check on the archives to see Mr Bones was here a couple of months ago in June and I missed it.
Wished he would have resumed TAQ.
Hope he's doing well wherever he is.
>>44384769
Some people care, most don't. Do whatever the fuck you want man.
>>44384794
>World of Darkness
Oka-
>MC is mortal with no special powers
Why even bother?
>>44384729
>>44384699
Imperial officer quest set in the final days of the empire and the ensuing chaos as everything falls apart with the emperor and Vader dead, the grand moffs at each other's rebels/factions rising up almost over night and renegade Imperial warlords vying for power.
When will the the Red Queen return to us
>>44384729
I want to run a quest where the mc is leaving his tribe and is given knowledge about Totem Tattoos or the Life and death domain
>>44384729
A magical girl quest where you play as a mascot and get to fuck magical girls.
>>44384712
>>44384729
>>44384792
Okay.Magical Girl
Now that that's out of the way.There's a Cross-dimensional Magical Girl convention, every year. You play as someone who accidentally stumbles upon it, but now you have to keep it a secret.
Tone: SoL
>>44384926
>Magical Girl
Stopped reading there.
>>44384931
>>
Stopped reading there.
Baby Jesus Christ /wqdt/, is this what quest pitches are these days?
>>44384931
Great.
I told you it was a pitch from /a/ a long time ago.
>>44384926
>Magical girl
>>44384729
Alien Invasion similar to Animorphs, Parasyte, or Invasions of the Body Snatchers, with bits of Guyver thrown in
Small group of resistance fighters know about a secret plot to infiltrate and take over human society by an alien race of mind-controllers/shapeshifters.
MC and party might have somehow gained superhuman abilities in order to fight effectively against the invaders.
>>44384958
I kind of like that Stormtrooper design.Kylo Ren is the worst villain of the franchise, though
>>44384953
Are you implying this hasn't been every pitch since the dawn of Questing?
>Fantasy
>Warlord
>Magical Girl
>Civ
I just summed up 90% of all the pitches in every quest discussion thread!
>>44384951
>Anonymous
Hid the post at this point.
>>44385012
>A post.
I don't even know how to read.
>>44384729
You're an exorcist. You get paid to go into abandoned buildings, dark alleyways and eerie locales to deal with ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the night.
Really simple and straightforward. Downtime in between jobs would be learning more skills to use, building up social links and investigating mysteries.
Probably will have some overarching plot like a group trying to resurrect something incredibly evil, the MC seeking revenge on a monster, or trying to track down somebody important from their past.
>>44384953
Last year 90% of the pitches were smut and haremshit so I think we've improved
>>44385002
the last three I can't really comment on, but...
Fantasy is a pretty huge genre, rivaled pretty much only by sci-fi in how ridiculously huge and vague it is. Is it really so surprising that people pitch quests in a strike range that large?
You may as well just narrow it down to
>Fantasy
>Sci-fi
and now you've covered everything outside of, like, historical fiction. Which is technically fantasy.
>>44385025
Sounds very Constantine or Dresden inspired
>>44384729
I'm still thinking of running that Crysis quest. No one gave any feedback last time and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
You play as Nomad, part of Raptor Team; a team of soldiers who all wear an augmented suit known as a 'nanosuit'. Your job is to infiltrate an island in the grips of North Korean control and investigate strange satellite emissions occurring in the heart of one of the Island's mountain ranges.
How you do this is entirely up to you.
Players could go to the only developed town left standing on the Island and gather info, they could run jobs for the NK soldiers; since their affiliation is strictly a secret, They could perform anything from menial tasks to complicated super-science in order to get the information needed to infiltrate to the heart of the Island.
Or they could blow absolutely everything up.
Their team consists of eight members of Raptor unit plus a support team over radio. All of them have quirky personalities and can be called at any time.
>That feel when want to do Sci and magic settingalong with some age gap yuri
>>44385045
If that's the way you want to be about it, I should have said
>Medieval Fantasy
>>44385025
>Image
Reminds me of the Raidou SMT games. If your quest is anything like that I'll definitely read it.
>>44385032
I notice a lot less smut around these days. Guess the mods won after the Modern Satyr ban.
>>44385065
That last one would probably get a ton of players.
>>44385073
Lambie called it quits after his dad died of lung cancer.
>>44384729
Young adults pilot giant robots against terrible monsters, using rules modified from AdEva, in a slightly futuristic world where what seems like an alien species appears to be invading. Such attacks are commonplace, and pretty much every internationally major city has a few massive mecha as their disposal. You play as a newly promoted Operations Director of a city with three mecha at your disposal, and you investigate the truth of the goings-on, advise your soldiers, and do a little bit of base management. The game would have roughly equal focus on combat, interpersonal relationships, and INTRIGUE.
>>44385025
This sounds really neat. I had an idea for something similar, involving the fact that supernatural beasties could only be hurt by a member of the particular faith; for example, an unruly domovoi would have to be attended to by a Slav who still practises the old ways, a vampire by a Catholic, a Jewish devil by a Jew, and so on. Regardless of my own ideas, I'd read the hell out of your quest, anon.
>>44385045
I've always liked how Horror as a genre can touch all others.
Cyberpunk horror, gothic horror, fantasy horror, eldritch horror, etc.
>>44385065
What kind of age-gap are we talking about here? This is very important.
>>44385073
With thatI'm actually kind of glad. The smut questing was getting cancerous and the threads used to devolve into what fetish one particular player wanted to cater to and if they didn't get their way they would shitpost.I'm not a prude, I don't mind smut quests as long as they stay in their own threads, but people would try to bring fetish shit in where it didn't belong.
>>44385112
No loli, probably teen x adult at least 10 years of an age gap.
It'll be the slow burn kind too.
>>44385099
I love horror as a genre. It's a shame that the questing format is so terrible at establishing and maintaining that kind of atmosphere.
>>44384729
I've pitched this one a time or two:
You're a Fortune Teller who recently fled from the Gypsies who raised you. The player character would get a small degree of precognition to identify threats and problems that could arise in the near future, but not the solution on how to deal with those problems. They are only told if a given solution is a workable one.
You play akin to an Adventure Game hero, never getting into combat, but trying to solve problems via cobbling together items and objects which seem useless to anyone who can't see the future like you can.
I almost ran this at one time, but declined as I didn't have enough time. What do you think?
>>44384926
>Tone: SoL
Just threw up in my mouth a little right there
>>44385136
sounds okay
Psychonauts quest
Why hasn't this been done before?
>>44385183
Because some things work better as one form of media than another, and if people like something because of the writing then your own writing will look poor in comparison if it isn't up to par.
>>44384995
That's not just a Stormtrooper, it's Captain Phasma.
She literally gets thrown in the trash in the movie.
>>44384729
You are an ordinary (or abnormal) guy (or girl) living in a modern city inhabited by monsters, spirits and gods (kind of like a modern day Gensokyo). An unspecified amount of time ago, your old home burned down in a mysterious fire. A random woman was kind enough to use her magic to save you from the worst of it. She even gave you a new apartment in the inner city to live in! However, as payment, she inflicted you with a curse that not only causes more misfortune to enter your life, but also forces you to pay money to her in specific instalments, lest you suffer a horrible fate. You weren't exactly the richest guy to begin with, so this sudden new twist in your average joe life makes you want to hurl yourself off a bridge. If only you weren't so attached to your existence and everything.
Are you bad enough dude to deal with all the bullshit in your new life (haunted fast food restaurants, demons in the sewers, construction corporate sabotage, sentient and angry goth dolls) and pay the rent on time? Fantasy kitchen-sink, light-hearted, comedic and possibly a bit of action here and there.
>>44385183
You play as Tim Schafer, and you have to make everyone give you money after you pissed it away a third time.
>>44385183
because it might require a higher standard of understanding the human mind than what can be expected of the QM AND anons?
>>44385211
[X] Find a new crowdfunding platform to use since we're no longer allowed to use the last one either
>>44385209
That's a shame because I feel that design should have been kept and Kylo Ren should have been thrown in the trash before the movie started.
>>44384763
I don't think reverse harem can work.
Not here at least.
>>44384729
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Quest!
You play as an Ultramarine and every mission is long and important and they each serve as an Arc in the plot with chapters within it.
For an example:
First Arc is to eliminate an Ork Warboss that has grown too big and too powerful and has amassed an armada of Orks at his command.
Second Arc could be to liberate the planet that the Ork Warboss almost conquered. As you do so, you'll face separated factions within the former Ork army that new Ork Warbosses has claimed command off upon the death of their original boss. You have to liberate a planet while a massive army of Orks are fighting a war among themselves on it while any surviving Imperial Guards are holding what positions they can.
Third Arc could be about defending the planet and taking out the locust swarm that is the Tyranid Hive Fleet that just arrived to the system, ready to tear and feast upon this world.
And on it goes. These are of course only examples and not set it stone, but my point is that the missions would/could be Arcs that are connected somehow. Either missions that are close to the last one or far off.
>>44385250
Someone TRIED, and it ended poorly.BPQ RIP
>>44385263
That had everything to do with the QM being EGO, though. The reverse harem aspect of it was actually rather well received.
>>44384729
After the Great Wizard War, 500 years ago, that left most of the world in ruins, complete with large swathes of land filled with such radioactive Wild Magic that most humans can't survive there for long, the Seven Kingdoms have developed a new, and more importantly, safe, method of waging war.
Whenever there is a disagreement between the kingdoms, all seven kingdoms delve into their ancient warded libraries, dredge out their oldest, most sacred spell- one that funnels all of the Wild Magic still lingering in their lands, and summon humans from another world to serve as their Champions.
The inherent Wild Magic in a land will manifest within the Champion as a unique power or talent. From great strength to the ability to lash out with raw arcane might, or the ability to transform your body and heal quickly.
From there, the Champions go to war. Each kingdom has an artifact, and the Champion is the only resource allowed to enter the kingdoms of another. The artifacts have powers of their own, or they're historically important- and ceremonially, the Champion is the one whose responsibility is to protect it. Most give the artifacts back to the kingdom, but others, like the blade Verindul, are used in combat.
After a year and a day, each artifact is counted, and the one who has the majority of them has claim to whatever was being disagreed over, or otherwise have the rights to earn ransom from other kingdoms for returning the artifacts.
You have been summoned from the plane(t) of Earth.
The kingdom that summoned you did it wrong. They're small, without much martial or magical might. They haven't summoned a Champion in 350 years. They have no Wild Magic in their lands. Which means you have no Wild Magic, no supernatural inherent talent. At first, it seems hopeless.
But the artifact entrusted to you is the key to open a vault. A vault filled with ancient knowledge, the knowledge that the archmages used to destroy the world...
>>44385082
Age gap in general probably would.
>>44385320
>>44385260
>Warhammer
>D&D Fantasy
This gets about the same reaction out of me as 'Magical Girl'.
>>44385341
>D&D
C'mon, it's got magic radiation and 'hero from a modern world summoned to Save The Kingdom'. D&D doesn't have any of that.
>>44385263
That was just EGO being EGO.
Reverse harem doesn't work on /tg/ because there are neither enough girls here who enjoy that stuff or guys who are willing to play it straight instead of just immediately breaking everything.
There's also the whole aspect where most QMs kind of suck ass at writing male characters, or romance in general really.
>>44385341
Since the norm is that everyone in the questing community loves magical girls, I'll take your reaction as a good one.
>>44384729
A quest based off Gloryhammer's setting.
>>44385219
This is probably the major issue. Even if the QM had a legitimate understanding of psychology, I'm sure armchair psychologist and hollywood psychologist players would tell him all the reasons that he's wrong.
>>44384729
Smuggler Quest
>>44385359
Am I to believe that QMs write women better than men?
>>44385359
As long as it's done right reverse harem will work. The problem with BPQ was that EGO tried so hard to make the MC bisexual when the players decided in the very beginning to make her completely straight. And then he got rid of every possible candidate besides the prince.
I'm saying this as a person that likes yuri and votes for it all the time. If you give your players the option to choose sexuality, fucking honor their choices. Don't be a pissant and shove titties in your straight female MC's face. If you wanted the players to take advantage of both genders then fucking announce that in the beginning, don't give an illusion of choice. You just piss on their decision to characterize her that way and it's wrong.
>>44385365
Magical girls and related themes are a quite controversial thing to quest about. There's literally no room for error.
>>44385431
With no fear of failure or error, it's a sure way to success.
>>44385430
>when the players decided in the very beginning to make her completely straight
Shit, that was just them playing the character he wrote. EGO explicitly stated that Annelin was straight as they come and it would take nothing short of severe demonic interference to get her even remotely interested in chicks.
And then he threw chicks at the character all the goddamn time.
>>44385429
Not really, the questing community just finds women more appealing as characters to potentially romance. People here tend to fuck up their male characters though.
>>44385429
It's hard for a man to write about attractive men, the same way it's hard for a woman to write about attractive women.
>>44385449
According to EGO he meant her to be bisexual but then retconned her to be completely straight after the quest ended.
>>44384729
Okay
So
Get this:
Kamen Riders
>>44385496
Make them cute girls and you have a great idea.
>>44385467
I'm referring to what he said at the outright start of the quest since people were asking. Most likely he was high on the idea of writing the anti-PGQ so he made grand statements that he later wanted to renege on since he didn't actually want to do that and was just pandering to the masses but by that time he had already attracted a crowd that wanted the quest he advertised instead of the quest he actually wanted to write.
Which is why BPQ slowly transitioned into The Adventures of Prince Whogivesafuck and His Birdshota Sidekick while the original protagonist fucked about in the distant land of Irrelevantistan.
>>44385502
but then they're not Kamen Riders
You can have cute girls who are ALSO riders.
>>44385509
Holy shit really? That's even worse. Because in his apology thread a few months afterward he said he meant for her to be bisexual and that's why he threw all those women at her and that if he ran a redux she would be canon straight.
No wonder people don't trust this nigga
>>44385502
>female Kamen Riders
That already exists. They call them "Precures"
any mindfuck quests going on?
>>44385538
Nah, cures are cures and riders are riders. Cures don't ride anything outside of doujins, so how could they be riders?
I want more one-shots and short quests. I don't have the attention span to follow quests.
>>44385573
I kind of agree that I don't want to runanother100+ long quest.
I think 30-40 threads is about the safe zone.
>>44385573
Never ran my one-shots that has an overarching story and they all happen in different time periods, but the choices made in one quest could affect what happens in the next quest at a different time period etc.
>>44385534
Yeah, he was saying he meant for her to be bisexual despite stating she was so straight that she's able to turn down the goddess of lesbians and be her acolyte while still craving nothing but cock and if he had a redo he'd actually be upfront and honest about things.
Spoilers:He wouldn't. He never is. We do this fucking game at least once a year and it never fucking changes. Dealing with him is like getting stuck in a bad shonen anime where everyone's character development resets every few episodes so they can rehash the same fucking arc over and over again in order to pad the plot out. It's goddamn tiring.
>>44385072
I have an entire faction in mind that's basically all just Raidou Kuzunohas.
I'm still not really sure where I want to take with it. I've gone through two revisions and five different main characters.
I suddenly want a reverse-harem quest.
I ran a quest with third-person and past tense perspective.
How retarded am I?
>>44385183
>Psychonauts quest
I'll run it, I just need you guys to give me 3.3 million dollars.
As bad as the quest you hate may be,at least it doesn't have a TVTropes page
>>44385737
Was it that Wolf and Lamb one? Because you're more retarded for your shitty names than anything else.
>>44385757
>Shadow Quest
>MGNQ
>That whole Editors/TG Meta Quest thing
Yer wrong, boy.
>>>44385689
And Livendagen quest is back, come and say hello.
>>44385737
i have the same-ish problem but in my main quest, It is in first person though.
>>44385699
>I've gone through two revisions and five different main characters.
I've done the same with my concept.
After a point you just need to force yourself to run, else you'll keep planning out the quest until you get sick of it and find something else.
>>44385568
>>44385496
Compromise:
Kamen Rider Wizard
Except it doesn't suck.
>>44385759But I like Lamb and Wolf.
>>44385838
Which is fine, I just found the giant talking wolf cleverly named Wolf and the Not!Little Red Riding Hood bint named Lamb to be incredibly disengaging.
>>44385872
You're the kind of guy who hated Tits and Potatoes too, aren't you?
>>44385872
Huh. It wasn't actually given much thought, Maybe it needed a bit more, haha.
>>44385893What the hell is that. It's not MMY, is it?
>>44385699
Curious, what were your MC concepts?
>>44385942It is literally Maou Yuusha, yes.
>>44385893
You seem to be confusing some random quest with Spice and Wolf. Or comparing your random quest to Spice and Wolf.
Either way, you're a moron.
>>44384729
You play as a girl who killed their boyfriend and is escaping capture through the use of disguises. You are currently going to an under the table paying job as a man, though you have a dozen wigs, a binder, bronzer, shoe polish, a degree in cosmotology, and the shapeshifting ability of Christian Bale. You want to keep living life, though that's been difficult for a while now. You have to try, though, right?
>>44384729
I will be completely honest. I want to run/play something Re:Monster related despite the source material being shit and EX just dragging on and on and becoming some crap SoL monstergirl collect'em all and all the spinoffs either sucking or dying except Lizard, which is dying from Lamb's job. And I guess Kobold is back or something, and Harpy's QM made some noises. Whatever.
The thing that really strikes me about all the Re:Whatever quests, though, is just how GOOD the MCs all have it. I want to write a Re:Whatever-like quest where the MC straight up doesn't have the huge safety nets Lyra and Sunni and all the others did. I'm not even attached to the rebirth part of the concept — I just want to watch a legendary monster grow up. Like that spider light novel.accurate weebshit accusations awayyyy~
The main thing keeping me from doing it is the usual crippling insecurities and lack of confidence that keeps we societal rejects trapped on 4chan. I feel like it wouldn't be worth running without at least 4 consistent players, and I'm not sure the idea will catch and hold enough after so much time and after /tg/ may or may not have soured on the concept entirely.
>>44385136
Sounds pretty cool, honestly, but hard to run. Might want to look at Valen Quest. Irue doesn't have any information gathering power, but she absolutely plays like that. Riz gives us very little to work with and no leeway whatsoever, though — makes me want to scream myself to sleep every thread, even as it makes me love the Quest. ;_;
>>44386063
Why not just do Monster and cut the RE part.
>>44386063
I see that valen thing mentioned from time to time, but can't be arsed to read a backlog right now.
Got any examples regarding what you're talking about?
>>44384729
Cyborg-Zombie Space Bounty Hunter
>>44386105
I don't really know how to frame it. As I have it currently ideated, there's a bit of a metaplot related to the rebirth, and I have extremely fond memories of Lizard and parts of Spider. Since they're the inspiration, it feels like they deserve the recognition in more than just a one-off mention.And in the spirit of full disclosure, I must admit that in my insecurity, I hope the association will draw players who enjoyed that run of quests.
I dunno. I might make the association with Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka instead. But that influence on how I've thought of this idea came much later.
>>44386121
Irue just finished wandering around a dangerous underground "dungeon," and was rewarded for piecing together the history and purpose of that dungeon, both with an item instrumental to her current activities (and some incidental magical abilities she's only used to nearly kill herself so far), and with not dying horribly.
There have been 15 or 16 times where Riz asks us "Are you Forgetting anything?" and rewarded us the two or three times we've remembered/pieced together information with events instrumental to Irue's success. In general the player-base is too shallow for the four of us who show up to actually stumble across the solutions, but in general, if we were extremely on top of things and capable of properly using the scraps of information he slips through the bars of our cage, Irue would be much better off than she is.
>>44384729
Predator Quest. Though, it's best that no one tries. The original is not likely to be matched.
>>44385054
Could be good.
>>44385260
Could be good. There's a good 40k quest run here. Chapter Quest.
>>44385423
Could be good.
A quest with great potential currently running is Basement Delve Quest, though I'd prefer a male MC. Luckily, death seems likely, and it seems the sort of quest where we can cycle through MCs, given how its sort of a dungeon crawl.
I'd like something with good writing, a sober tone, a threatening environment, and focused on the accomplishment of practical objectives, rather than conversation or romance with NPCs. Imagine Blade Runner Quest or System Shock Quest. I like them to be violent.
I'd love to see someone skilled and educated try Marathon Quest. What sort of data logs could they whip up?
>>44386340
>Posted Crysis Quest here
You are literally the only person who has ever commented one way or the other on my quest. I've posted it at least five times before in various WQD threads.
Thank you
>>44371180
>>44384874
When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
The HQQ will return, and not before.
>>44386368
I think it'd lose a lot in the transition to text from FPS. You'd have to be pretty good at writing fast and tight combat or other action sequences no matter how the players do the things.
>>44386444
I see. Unfortunately, I don't know how to test to find out if I am good enough to do that.
>>44386257
>Rewarded with not dying horribly
That... That's a reward? What do you consider a punishment?
That aside, I'm not sure whether to say that sounds cool, or worry that you seem to have developed some manner of stress-induced stockholm syndrome. The quest sounds kind of weird though, like you seemed to put a lot of emphasis on the players figuring things out and solving mysteries. Don't you just get that stuff explained to you as you go along?
Is the "figure stuff out" like a fall-back emergency option for if you roll like shit on something?
>>44385323
I find this assertion dubious.
With three ages to pick from of child/teen/adult there are like 12 combos of genders and ages. All of them would have the appeal? Which are underserved so far?
There's
shota/MILF
shota/teenage girl
loli/MILF
loli/teenage girl
shota/DILF
shota/teenage boy
loli/DILF
loli/teenage boy
teenage boy/MILF
teenage boy/DILF
teenage girl/MILF
teenage girl/DILF
And then double that for the variants of which one is the player character.
>>44386476
Welcome to Valen Quest. I have been trained to expect horrible failure and be pleasantly surprised every thread we don't kill someone close to Irue or make horrible horrible mistakes.
>>44386257
>>44386063
I probably won't end up catching up on Valen quest just for this little quest idea I had. But thank you for the suggestion!
I probably wouldn't be that brutal to players. Hopefully, by design, precognition would help with keeping players in that constant "Oh god someone is gonna fuck everything up" state of mind all the time.
Plus, I don't think I would force the players through dungeons or extremely dangerous places to begin with unless they went there. The Fortune Teller isn't exactly an adventurer.
>>44385602
How many of those are there?
shadow quest, joker quest, MGNQ, HMQ...
>>44386496
>Pleasantly surprised every time you don't kill an important member of the supporting cast
I... What. What the hell is your death count? Don't tell me it's one of those quests where the QM just arbitrarily kills people for the slightest mistake/drops bombs on you when you had no way of knowing any better.
Is there anything more foolish than to want to run a quest?
>>44386529
Quite a few.
MSQ, Saiyan Story, CPM, Eclipsed Moon, MGQ, GuP LGA, HQR, SWQ, EPQ, Banished, DBZ Human, Hellborn, RE: Monster Ex, Pokemon, False Dendrite, PGQ, Exalted
That's just from a scan of the archive.
>>44386562
Running it until a proper ending.
>>44386496
Sounds like the harshest QM out there.
>>44386562
Actually running one.
>>44386562
I've been doing it for about two years now.
It's not so bad. It's just something on the schedule I have to pay attention to.
>>44386476
>>44386496
whoops didn't mean to send that out so short
Early on in the quest, long before I joined up, Irue picked the hardest option. The quest was meant to be played with one of three subplots plus Irue's own actual life. We are currently running through all three at once, have superboosted some kind of supernatural plague of D&D-shadow like creatures, are part of some prophecy that's apparently gone completely off the rails, and only have the information we've figured out and had confirmed by Irue/Riz and the information we've been told by other characters. The latter is notoriously unreliable, because Irue has close to no resources outside her own abilities. It was a bit of a plot point that someone she trusted lied to her (with good intentions), and Irue takes it badly.
There aren't really rolls — Riz has a lot of work set up in the background and I have the impression he calculates exactly how the butterfly back at our house flapping its wing will fuck us up — and Irue has been lied to about the world all her life and has as much idea of what's going on as we do. It's a really fantastically written and executed quest, honest. Despite the hatred I hold for the idiocy we commit every other thread, it's our own fault. It's not popular because the absurd difficulty and huge amount of stuff between the lines can easily turn people off, and 30 threads in it's hard to pick up new players.
The Forgettings are basically Riz saying "there's some tidbit I mentioned, like, three threads ago that, if you remember, will solve this problem nicely." And then we throw things at the wall for half an hour and if one post gets it right Irue does something right for once. The solve rate is something like 1 out of 7.
>>44386608
That's insane though.
That's barely any better than random guessing.
>>44386476
>you seemed to put a lot of emphasis on the players figuring things out and solving mysteries. Don't you just get that stuff explained to you as you go along?
Are you trolling?
What is the point of a mystery that is explained to you? That's like those shitty amusement park "rides" where you get in a car that is on rails with a steering wheel that seems to let you turn the fake car to the left or right, except that it stops immediately as soon as you move too far off center.
>>44386621
What?
It sounds like it just requires basic reading comprehension.
Granted, going by the reactions by anons in not-so-recent HQQ threads that treated the application of 9th-grade reading comprehension as some kind of incomprehensible wizardry, leaving them in awe of the few players that used it, maybe that's asking too much of /tg/.
>>44386512
Irue apparently wasn't supposed to end up down there for a long while and is almost totally useless in any serious combat, but we blew up a mineshaft and are totally off every rail. It's amazing how Riz handles our colossal ability to jump the tracks.
>>44386534
>>44386592
I'm apparently not advertising Valen Quest the best. It's my opinion that it's the best quest running, but apparently I have Stockholm Syndrome for Riz-senpai after being tied up in the basement and beaten about the face. We actually haven't even killed anyone with a name yet. Or at least, off-hand, no one comes to mind, anyway. Every bad thing that happens to us makes a huge amount of sense, or happened because we have no idea what is going on and were meddling with something we shouldn't have been or because Irue lives in a world where she is definitely not the only "player" and has been deprived of the skills someone with her responsibilities is supposed to have.
Fuck quest pitches. Let us discuss the finer points of questing.
Rolls and crunch. How do you do them?
Riddle me this.
Shadow Quest. Wolf Quest. Darth Darth Quest.
The former two had basically successful use of riddles. The players solved some, and even proposed their own in a riddle contest. The latter was an abysmal failure. As expected in a oneshot.
Any other quests involve riddle games? How will you incorporate them, as a bypass for a particular challenge?
>>44386702
It's all just bullshit to mask da rails.
>>44386689
I'm the guy talking Valen Quest up and I have to note: basic reading comprehension alone is not enough. Forgettings in the past have required a certain level of reasoning and memory significantly higher than any other /tg/ quest I've seen. "Minor" tidbits about characters and the world have major consequences for the Forgettings, which in and of themselves have huge consequences for Irue.
One of the forgotten Forgettings early on was for buying a stuffed doll for an abused girl in Irue's care. At this point, Valen Quest had a much larger playerbase than it does today, and even though lots of anons had wanted to do it in the past, when Irue actually got to town, no one brought it up and since then Irue's relationship with that abused girl has been...changed. In Riz's words, "certain flags were not tripped." That and other things have led to a somewhat antagonistic existence with that girl.
I can point to things like this and say pretty definitively that they're why the playerbase has dropped off. Riz is the hardest QM bar none and his quest is the hardest quest bar none. Despite that, I have a deep affection for the quest and will play it till Irue dies. Maybe I'll keep playing after that, since Riz has said that that wouldn't be the end of the quest and I know that I enjoy his writing. He is part of why I have a boner for my monster-growing-up quest with actual difficulty, and also a huge part of why I keep coming around to the board.
>>41990533
>ending the thread because not everyone has shown up
Is being considerate of theoretical players who aren't there at the expense of players who are the worst QM mistake?
>>44386781
It definitely sounds appealing, and judging by previous experience I've been able to solve obtuse plotberg puzzles pretty well so I'm tempted to try it, but valen quest doesn't have a male MC, so: good luck with that.
>>44386781
>Dying not the end of the quest.
>Hardest QM
Besides that w/e f.a.m. You like the quest and the Qm, who cares what other people think? Basically, calm down.
>>44386796
It's a pretty shitty thing to do.
>>44386819
I am screaming in my seat now. Of all things to take object to in Irue's existence, it's the fact of what's in between her thighs that turns off a potential player.To each their own. ;_;
>>44386841
>B-b-but muh plotberg muh difficulty
I probably should clam up. I care way too much about this quest for it to be healthy. You hear that, Riz? This is what you've done to me! I'm screaming in /wqtg/ about your quest as a filthy shill! A disgusting filthy quest shill!
>>44386867
Your first comment now makes me think.
What if a waifu was a trap and this wasn't revealed until the crucial moment?
>>44386879
What if the MC was the trap all along?
>>44386879
Of all the things to latch on to, that's what makes you think? ;_;
Oh /wqtg/ why do I trawl your depths
>>44384729
A brainer quest based on apocalypse world.
A buddybot quest set after. A pseudo-50s Jetsons future apocalypse. Which I guess is Fallout-esque now that I type it up.
Zany silver age lois lane quest.
How do you go about creating waifu wars?
>>44386944
make two or more waifus
>>44385704
Best I could manage is a gay harem quest.
>>44386879
As someone who personally hates traps, I have felt tempted to do this just to put into perspective as to why I hate traps.
>>44386964
>You get the playerbase attached to their waifu
>Their intimacy reaches an all time high
>Everyone is excited when it's about to be taken to the next level
>You reveal that the waifu was a trap
>A smile stretches across your face as you know that your players now realize why you hate traps
>Your smile halts
>They're still going for it.
>It's a fucking trap and they're still going for it.
>Your players take up the mantra 'Cute is Justice!' as they press forward valiantly
>You are forced to decide whether to drop the quest, or continue writing gay trap romance, your own personal hell.
>>44386988
>implying I wouldn't have the trap keep them at arm's length
>implying the trap wouldn't be extremely guilty about their true self and the closer they get to the player the more shameful they get
>implying I wouldn't have them dress as a man at one point in the quest and introduce themselves as a new character, just to see if the player still likes them no matter who they are
>implying I wouldn't lock their route if they react poorly to the trap's true form, the trap becoming callous toward the player for no discernible reason
>implying he wouldn't be found dangling from a noose in his bedroom while the trap mysteriously disappears completely
>implying that even the smut I write is anything other than blues
>>44387069
>Implying that...
Okay no, all of this is my fetish. Whether the trap romance succeeds or fails, I'm getting off on this.
>>44387069
RAILROADING. QUEST DROPPED. SHIT QM. EGOOOOOOOO!
What do you all think of a quest set in a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon style world?
>>44387234
Will it be good?
>>44387100
Is trap a genre now?
I still wonder what the deal was with Captain Smith and the wires in Happening Skyline Quest.
>>44385741
Then you can drop it halfway through and demand another three million to finish.
>>44385065
>>44385124
I'm very interested.Age gap het works too.
>>44386735
Simple. SM and fronk are stubborn and railroady, but despite a certain lack of common sense they're not, per se, stupid.
>>44386735
Fucking rainbows.
>>44384919
10/10 would play
I had a dream my favorite quest ended prematurely, it was sadder than I thought it would be
