Nametag is a shit

I'll shill my quest first, come join the second part if you like cute and silly drawquests!
>>1280639

why do we get less and less posts each qtg
are we dying just a little every day?

>>1280712
There wasn't much shitposting to fill up last thread if that's any consolation.

But yes it seems that way.

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>>1280712
>Exalted Quest moving to Akun

>>1280473
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>>1280732
Huh I must have missed that due to random as fuck picture. But that looks like a bait thread anyways looking at the questions so we aren't losing much.

>>1280732
Nah, your thread is shit

>>1280712
oh no whatever will we do without pointless general threads
it's really over this time guys

>>1280903
but
what will we do?

play quests?
that would be ridiculous

Rolled 45, 3, 62, 70, 97, 5, 2, 85, 13, 82 = 464 (10d100)

>>1280903
Umm, why are you here then?!

>>1281531

>>1251679
>>1251679

Panzer Commander is live now, come and join us on Page 10 where I'll be running til the thread goes bust.

Would there be any interest in a Khornette Quest Redux? No limits this time on Slaaneshii showing up, and hopefully without the waifuing that led to the Nurgle bra getting bumped off.

CyberNinja Quest #3 is up:
>>1282122
>>1282122

Crusader quest 2 when?

>HEY, HERE IS A THREAD WITH AN INTERESTING PREMISE AND ILLUSTRATION

>wait, you're saying I have to PLAY A FEW TURNS until interest picks up?

>FUCK THAT, I'm outta here!

Every time

>>1280139
>>1280139
Death Among the Stars Quest #70 is up

>do my best to come up with engaging story, fun characters to interact with
>usually inputs are posted like players are at a voting booth and are choosing between three politicians they don't know or care about

Like shit I don't want people to fellate me and tell me how amazing and talented I am, I just want to know if people are even having fun or give a single shit what happens. I post shitty fiction on the internet I'm not fucking psychic.

Any martial arts quests yet?

>>1282939
martial arts or "martial arts"?

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Hey, I'm new to this quests thingy. I'll be reading the guide, but maybe I could ask two things that are foremost on my mind.

>Will any of my 3.5/Pathfinder knowledge be useful here
>Do I need to make a character or something
>Do I finally have to learn how to namefagifie myself

>>1283006
>two things
>names three things

God damn it. Nice start.

>>1283006
yes. Although there's a surprising number of people who aren't familiar with any kind of rpg terms, so some things get simplified to accommodate them.

no(unless builder/skirmish/other stuff that got lumped into qst)

no. Namefagging is the same here as anywhere else.

>>1283006
>Will any of my 3.5/Pathfinder knowledge be useful here
no

>Do I need to make a character or something
no

>Do I finally have to learn how to namefagifie myself
no

>>1282954
Both.

>>1283172
yes

couldn't tell you which ones are currently running, though.

What would you need to run a proper legend of zelda quest?

I'm thinking you'd have to be a decent artist to sketch dungeons and characters.

But is it possible to write the platforming? Puzzles would work in a quest format and combat would be okay too.

>>1283260
define proper

>>1283286
One that matches the tone of a zelda game rather than fanfiction with the characters.

>>1283382
I know it's hard to envision from your high horse there, but any Zelda quest you make is just going to fanfiction too.

>>1283382
so more focus on the mechanics and flow of a dungeon crawl/boss fight rather than the characters or lore? Tough cookie.

What I'm certain you'll need is a clear and concise list of Tools you can use, with explicit indication whether you can use them in funky unintended ways or not.

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I'm always jealous of the qsts that lure in drawfags. I've made peace that I will never run a quest so badass, but if I wanted to say, commission a drawfag with non-porn 4chan rates, how would I go about doing that?

>>1283486
Find their tumblrs or check out the various board drawthreads and ask about rates when they post.

>>1283486
Artstation

So, I got added the wiki last night.

What's the deal with it. Seems like it could use some love.

>>1283506
There's a questing wiki?

>>1283517

>>>>1280473
http://qst.wikia.com
This abortion of a wiki gives brief summations of quests and QMs as well as quest culture in general. Additions are encouraged.


In the OP boss.

>>1283506
If most people are like I am they don't have enough readers for somebody obsessive enough to write wiki articles about them yet aren't quite utterly pathetic enough to actually write articles about themselves.

>>1283525
>No Homeless Mutant Quest
>No Totemist Quest
>No Banished Quest
>No Dranule and his "Did I do that?" crossdressing nonsense
>Nothing and nobody important.
Shit wiki/10

>>1283541

It looks like it'd be a neat concept though. I just neatened up the entry on me by fixing some links. But for some reason the QM category isn't actually adding the page which is weird.

>>1283544
Well, it wouldn't take much to get the big boys added. Hive Queen etc. Would be pretty each to add if people were up for it.

>>1283544
>>No Dranule and his "Did I do that?" crossdressing nonsense
Por que

>>1283525
that wiki was made on a natural failure, by a natural failure.
it's more of a joke than any sort of useful reference.

>>1283622
Eh, a wiki I don't think would be the worst thing in the world. Could be neat, and an alternative for thumbing through suptg. Just needs a lot of cleaning up like any work.

>>1283635
that's why it's a failure
you say it needs cleaning up
and could be neat
but you have put forward no raw work for it

so you're wrong
pffhtttthhhhbhbthbtbthbthbthbthbthbthbttt
there's also no point in filling a wiki with soon to be dead quests

>>1283688
Well, will have to fix that, then.

>>1283972
Psion Academy Quest is back.

Starcaller Quest is live.
>>1284478
>>1284478
>>1284478

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Trawler Quest is running!
>>1260105

>>1282932
Have you tried running a good quest? ;3

Have you tried gitting gud? ;]

You try be not shit lol? ;^)

If all these fail maybe QMing isn't for you. Truly good QMs know when they need to be psychic to be in tune with their players. If you can't pretend to be psychic then you shouldn't QM phamahomo.

Best to assume that if people keep responding they somewhat care, or ask anons specific questions about their thoughts or their character since vague questions get nothing, and if all that fails and you can't get a sense that players are engaged you're probably the person who is actually least engaged in the quest and you're not having as much fun as you thought you were so go die now thanks you're just another weakling biting the dust. :)

Thank you for everything, I had a great time here and back on /tg/ when quests were allowed there.

For those of you who followed my quests, you guys made the whole thing fun and meaningful. I'm sorry I couldn't finish either of them.

Goodbye anons.

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>Reading a good quest
>Starts with 4-6 votes
>Goes down to like 2
>Then 1
>Then it dies
What's her name /qst/?

>>1285972
Bye faggot.

>>1285981
A Wizard and His Tower!

Except the votes never went down.
QM jus' gon.

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>1285981
Every quest I go to.

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>>1285981
What about the one that doesn't get the hint that it should die and keeps going despite what reason should dictate.

Ya know. I was thinking. When I first got on this board, I was like "wow, cool! A little core community of people that like the same stuff I like! And I can participate too, neat!"

Then after a while of playing some quests. Reading archives and watching countless quests die. Making threads of my own and watching them burn to ashes from my own ineptitude.

That I realized this board is shit, I love it, but if quests could just roam about anywhere and everywhere on this site, both the creators and the players would benifit from it.

This entire board is seemingly bipolar. Everyone follows their favorite qms on twitter and only comes to this board when they run. Everything else gets ignored or dumped.

Its a fucking shit hole, I feel like a 13 year old premadona on this fucking board.

>>1286221
Welcome to all the problems that were discussed a year ago when this board was created.

Enjoy your stay

>>1286221
Now you understand, not that far off from this board's birthday, exactly why it should've never been born.

Welcome to the club. The angst is on the house, but you have to pay for disappointment with your time.

>>1286221
/qst/ is shitty because we have countless shitty quests. blaming players for not playing your shitty quests or blaming the board itself is just juvenile

>>1286403
To be fair, some specific rpg like quests probably would've gotten more players on /tg/, while some anime trash would've flourished more on /a/.

But frankly if a QM can't deal with a low playercount what are they gonna do when they realize that half or more people are lurkers? Get discouraged?
Weak ass shits. Only people with BALLS should QM. This not satiric bait, it's the truth.

>>1286595
I'll assume the other guy would say something like

>"Maybe if your quest wasn't shitty and was actually well-written then lurkers would flock to it because of its quality. It's not about BALLS it's about NOT BEING SHIT."

>>1286628
>>1286595
>>1286403
>>1286255
>>1286245

You can run literally any of the shittty failed quest ideas on akun and probably get a sizable fanbase.

It's literally the board's fault.

>>1286628
That is true but I think balls are necessary. Even JokerOP has balls and, ...y'know. At least some behavior to keep them sticking through basic troubles.
It's known that long time lurkers will post if, suddenly, a highly specific vote (upgrade choices, shopping) has become important to them or they want to contribute or react to something special, or if there's a specific peril that has put a character they like or the MC in harms way, and that for most of the time they won't contribute unless they feel they can.

Even in large quests only an arrogant QM would expect universally consistent responses. People just aren't like that, that's ridiculous. The board sucks but awful expectations are where people sabotage themselves.

>>1286632
You Awaken in Westeros Akun Redux when?

>>1286632
or you could write a non-shitty quest
well maybe you personally can't but i'm speaking in general terms

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All in all, just don't run a quest. There's hardly any positive aspects about it, and the ones to be found can easily be found in more rewarding forms in other hobbies.

>>1286221
m8 this board is literally a concentration camp commissioned by whining faggots on /qa/
it was created with the sole purpose of killing quests to "save" /tg/

>>1286673
Yeah. This.

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>>1286673
>concentration camp
>gulag
>muh anti quest conspiracy

>>1286595
In my opinion, people who are QMing for the attention should go to /lit/. Remember that would-be QM who said he wanted to take decision-making out of player hands in a quest?

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>>1286690
>implying I'm wrong

I think another major reason that anons don't talk about is that there's generally a very defeatist attitude here. Everyone spends all there time complaining and not wanting to try to do anything because "Who gives a shit questing is dead". I mean just look at the wiki. Its something that not only can help newfags find a quest they like, but also something to try and get some board culture whatsoever and nobody wants to do anything at all to help.

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>>1286707
But, you are.

>>1286712
but it's more fun to roleplay as a persecuted minority being punished for the crime of liking quests by the evil mod overlords

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>>1286720
No, I'm not

>>1286722
They can do that any try to make this board into something worth having.

>>1286728
How about I say you are wrong, and you keep posting chill looking lizard bros.

>>1286659

When controlling for factors, your quest will succeed on akun that would fail on /qst/.

Ergo, the board itself is the only common factor.

Like this isn't a hard deduction, nigger.

>>1286744
so why are you here then? clearly anonkun is a much better fit for you

>>1286690
I mean nothing he said is a conspiracy, at all.
People did whine on /qa/ sporadically for months about quests on tg. That's no lie at all, you can look at /qa/'s pleb archives for threads with mentions of quest.
There were similar threads after the creation of /qst/ asking for all quests to be booted to /qst/, which ended up happening.
That's what the /qa/ mantra was, saving /tg/ from the flood of quests. Then when it happened anon's came into the first qtg's of this board for victory laps/easy trolling. Ain't no conspiracies there, people definitely had that mindset of "killing quests to save /tg/" for real.

As for the mod's vague statements and ineptitudes in the creation thread on /tg/ were 50/50 between raw idiocy and moronic malevolence so I wouldn't bother much since either one is the result we have now.

>>1286768
>so why are you here then?

Because I need to call idiots like you retarded when I blow you the fuck out.

You're a retarded idiot.

And I'm also recruiting for anonkun.

Hey, to all those QMs who think you don't have enough players to run, just take your shitty idea to anonkun and try to run it.

You'll probably get roughly as many players if not more.

>clearly anonkun is a much better fit for you

Its a much better fit for literally everyone except for QMs with large fanbases who would be inconvenienced by having to move to a different site.

And even then, that fucking Exalted Quest QM who just came back is apparently moving his large ass quest over to akun, again robbing /qst/ of one more actually decent sized quest with a sizable fanbase.

/qst/ is shit in terms of playerbase and it is, for some reason, tied directly to the board itself.

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>He honestly blames the board, not the players
Pathetic

>>1286785

>he blames the players not the QM

>he blames the QM not the board

Round and round we fucking go.

>>1286785
You know, you're right.
We can just blame everything and everyone.
We don't need any bulltshit arbitrary limits to our blame.
We don't live in times where such things are even needed.
Also trick is right too.

>>1286778
>Exalted Quest
oh shit the "fuck literally everyone" quest is going to anonkun? this is truly the final nail in the coffin

>>1286794

I mean it has more players than your quest so clearly its better.

>>1286794
Tbqphmfqt3.14, while exalted quest isn't that great I don't think you should be giving it the credence to have considered it to be a nail in the coffin.

It's like the goopy brown gunk of the corpse seeping into the ground, polluting the cemetery with its corpse shit. But hey, that coffin is still where we are.

>>1286800
well I'll keep participating in quests I enjoy and you can keep making up ovedramatic analogies all you want

>>1286838
"""""Enjoyment""""" and """""Participation""""" are just memes.

One day you will be as enlightened as I, and understand these fundamental truths.
But for now, you'll just have to play your shitty quests like a dork.
Go have fun now. I mean it.

Fuck, even if it was true that

quality quest + good QM = more players

The best way to become a better QM is to run quests and improve over time.

So if you're literally getting 1 player or, god forbid, 0 players on /qst/, well . . . you can't really improve then can you?

Now if you run on anonkun and get, lets say, 4 consistent voters every vote with your peak hours bringing you 6 voters, well at least then you can actually run, get experience, get better and fuck, if all that was preventing you from getting players on /qst/ was your shit ideas then you'll be able to come back and run your amazing quest here.

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>>1286221
I said it then I'll say it now. I hope the Hitler mod that made this scenario a reality is cursed for the rest of his life. I hope nothing in his life is ever gratifying regardless of his efforts and wants and that when he dreams, his own subconcious tortures him in whatever way a soulless piece of human scum can be.

I was a man who just wanted to enjoys quests on other boards, like /tg/, and everything was fine and dandy until some mod lost control of his life, and took it out on some unfortunate anons on the internet with an unholy zeal.

Speaking for all the exiles of the questers of /tg/ (which too has suffered greatly from this), I hope he spends his afterlife being fisted with a spiked gauntlet.

On a more constructive note, i think us questers should give more quests a chance in order to find out who really deserves our participation, and who doesn't. I've found myself judging quests before i read them and passing it up, only to later down the line find out it was interesting, or well written. There's tons of terrible quests on this board, but if we find some worthy new blood and give them a chance by supporting them, this board might be salvageable. Maybe though, I'm just simply naive, but i don't want questing as a whole to just slowly peter out into obscurity i want to make qst a strong community so that we can actually promote good questing here.

Tell me, am i delusional? Is there hope? Or will this board eventually be nothing but a miserable pile of shitposts?

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>>1286791
>Also trick is right too.
Name ONE thing he's right about.

>>1286870
Fanfiction QMs who post in the QTG are often abnormally annoying.

>>1286875

I honestly wish I wasn't right about that but its like every single fucking time.

>>1286879
>said the fanfic qm

>>1286882

So you're claiming then that I'm not abnormally annoying?

>>1286886
I'm just making sure you have some kind of self awareness, I don't think anyone would claim that you're not annoying

>>1286894

>making sure you have some kind of self awareness

I'm gonna ask you to read the name I'm currently rocking once more, champ.

I know you're kinda slow but I think you can figure it out. ;)

>>1286865
yeah players should give more quests a chance. another thing that would help participation is if QMs would make sure that each vote is for something that actually makes a visible impact on the course of the quest. some polls suggested that we have a huge amount of lurkers compared to active voters. but on the other hand some lurkers are worried that they'll vote "incorrectly" so they abstain. so the prompts need to be both easily understood and important, which can be tricky.

>>1286870
Most things. Just because he's an awful QM with no real durability and the writing capacity of a schizophrenic monkey doesn't mean his opinions are awful too. Just because he shitposts intentionally doesn't make him worse than the other failed QMs who don't even know that they're shitposting.

>>1286898
maybe I should become like you and make constant post-post-ironic shitposts and terrible quests, that'll make me look smarter

>>1286960
>caring about looking smart on an americanized knock-off of a jap weeb site on the board where people fail to roleplay ad-lib circlejerks
It won't make you look dumber than you look now partner.

>>1286960

But you already do the latter.


>>1286949

>an awful QM with no real durability and the writing capacity of a schizophrenic monkey

That's a rich claim coming from you, loser.

You're such a failed QM nobody knows or cares about your shitty quest you faggot.

Does it upset you that much that even I am infinitely more popular than you are?

I'm sure akun is great for QMs since you seem to get more players and you get to see lurkers as well which is great for QM ego (one of the most important things).

But man it sucks for being a player compared to /qst/. Instant chat is terrible for having an intelligent conversation or planning. I can look at all the information posted in a 4chan thread and reference it if I need to but in akun all of it gets lost in the chat.

>>1286875
Replace "Fanfiction" with "All"

>>1286965

I am not upset. Why would I be? The only thing about you that has ever managed to upset me is knowing that my love for you will forever be unrequited

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>>1286967
>get to see lurkers

The only thing better than getting to see lurkers is getting to yell at lurkers directly and know they can see what you're typing.

Yelling "vote you cunts" is one of my favorite things to do in session.

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>>1286865
Hope is the reason I am such an angry twat.
I hope prospective QMs put in good effort and players can have fun with them. This hope is challenged every time a promising quest dies out or the QM vanishes. (At a min. rate of once/week.)

I hope for new, interesting ideas to gain ground, build a base for themselves at their own pace, with either unique writing or unique mechanics, and this hope is regularly challenged when such quests fail or the QMs realize they put a lot of effort into something that isn't fun for them.

I hope for QMs to not die of shattered goddamn aortas or whatever the fuck, to not flake out when I reserved time for the quest, to not lead me on with dead plots and waste of space characters. This hope is the hardest to cope with.

I hope that this miserable pile of shitposts will produce one, just one, good massive quest that is balanced between both senses of awful. Because that's really most of what I've wanted from questing. A quest so big that only the best of best ideas and the worst of worst ideas get to the vote. A quest where shitposting and chaos is such a given that it's something the QM participates in. A quest that climbs the mountain of every dead /qst/ quest, reaches that white castle in the sky, and screams for all to hear; "phasing, niggas."

So yes, we should hope. We should hope for the sake of our hate and blinding rage for what we've yet to have.

In the meantime, Trawler Quest is pretty nice and I'm having fun with Evil Sorceress if you like various flavors of adventure quests.

>>1287001
>This hope is challenged every time a promising quest dies out or the QM vanishes. (At a min. rate of once/week.)

Gonna need a few examples here. If it's a minimum of once a week you could max out two posts at this point.

>>1287016
>implying I'm gonna do all that work just to remind myself what can't be had
>implying it would be less than six maxed out posts
You deserve a very special place in hell.

Y'know, gimmie until Friday. Maybe collating the dead will grant some peace of mind, but I doubt it.

>>1287033
>six maxed out posts

Either you have a peculiar definition of promising or you're set to give each thing its own plot synopsis and quality grade.

Intriguing either way.

>>1287042
Promising... doesn't mean anything was ever delivered. Potential might be a more accurate word. I'm sure one man's potential can just be another man's garbage, so it's not like there won't be quests that fail the basic bingo.

Most of them are vanished QMs. A Wizard and His Tower is one of 'em, doesn't need a synopsis for that. QM there, then not. Long posts, reactive world and characters, fairly big wait times between updates but it worked, that's about tit.

Also, fuck you, this is misery.

>>1287060
> Also, fuck you, this is misery.

If you don't get the tooth extracted all it does is fester.

Let's just smash all that shit out with an ice skate right now like we're Tom Hanks on an island.

>>1287001
>promising quest dies out
WHAT promising quests?

I can count the number of promising quests in the past MONTH on one hand.

>>1286865
Speaking as an exiled quester of /tg/, you don't speak for me.

I'm not the kind of asshole that says "everything was fine and dandy for ME so there can't have been a problem"

You know, we should see it differently. Quests aren't a cancer excised from /tg/ like antiquestfags like to parrot, they're more like a child cut out of a dead mother's womb. /tg/ is fucked, and nothing can save it anymore. Let's be glad we don't have to go near that heap of shit again.

>>1287433
I don't really agree. For me what is missing from /tg/ today is the optimistic creativity. The notion of "I can do something with this." Nowadays people are so concerned with the fear of trolls, whichever boogeyman they represent them with, that nobody ever looks for the hidden potential.

Unfortunately that same notion killed /qst/ in its infant stage when the board was spammed with so many barely-thought-through ideas with the least possible amount of effort put into presentation that left us with a board catalog that, even today, takes a greater exertion of will to look at than does the posting of said poorly-constructed quests.

>>1286778
To be honest, i'm moving because of my own issues, not because of /qst/. If I could, I'd prefer to stay, but i cannot dedicate entire days to running live quest threads anymore.

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>It's a "Y'all motherfuckers mad because /tg/ built a better wall than Trump" episode

>>1287001
>liking quests with big playerbases
Why do you want constant shit storms and having your single vote hardly matter at all? 4-7 active voters is the ideal size

think i'll be moving to anonkun goys

was nice knowing you but, as many people have said, you have to be pretty much dedicated to making a quest run whether you're the QM or a participant. when there are only 2-3 people then it rides on everyone to keep it moving and akun seems much more relaxed without the post limits and not having to start a new thread after each hiatus

just one question: which has more traffic now, /qst/ or anonkun? i think i know the answer but i'd like someone with the stats to tell me for sure

>>1287597
>akun seems much more relaxed
Take a look at the chat of any popular akun quest and it won't seem so relaxed. There's definitely more participation there but there are still quests that can barely get two voters.

>>1287603
There's a MUCH better chance of it happening, though. I've been strongly considering moving to Akun, myself. Smaller posts needed on the whole, faster response times, nice formatting options. And if you REALLY want to look at backchat, there's ways to do it. I just dunno how doing so mid-quest would work out.

>>1287606
The chatroom nature of akun makes it almost all off topic faggotry or shitstorms instead of any meaningful quest discussion though anyway

>>1287610
Depends on the tone the quest sets, I've found. There can be plenty of meaningful discussions happening, by my experience.

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>>1287597
>think i'll be moving to anonkun goys
>Better
lel Enjoy your more autistic waifu wars and angry players who go on a rampage for the littlest things.

>>1287612
i'd rather have shitposts than almost no posts

>>1287614
>You rather have rotten food than no food
Hmm...

>>1287256
Antimage.

That's all I got.

>>1287612
You say that like there haven't been some utterly epic shitstorms here. It's just a matter of knowing how to navigate the crowd. Not as hard as it sounds, actually.

>>1287617
wait, did that die?

>>1287620
I haven't seen it in a week. Then again I wasn't following the QM's twitter so for all I know it could be a on a short hiatus.

>>1287619
Those can be forgotten but on Akun, they're eternal.

>>1280473
>Posters looking for fun should look elsewhere.
Wew careful with that edge.

>>1287630
Huh I just copy and pasted the last OP. Didn't even notice that.

>>1286691
t. the dude whose quest included
>there are two doors. Pick exactly one.

>>1287636
I don't remember this option...

But if you're speaking metaphorically?

That's the point of a choice, isn't it? One has different results to the other. I can't cover every single possibility because there are still systems to adhere to, but I think I let guys do what they want within the confines of the set environment.

I just let them deal with the consequences of their actions and visit them later. If you think this is horrible methodology for questing, how do you manage free roaming players whose whims you have to cater to? You're not writing a book here, man - you're effectively making a game world for them to do whatever you're allowing them to do but not so much that you're wholly taking agency out of their choices. Me? I like exploring what happens when you choose to do something and give back to the guys who bothered to give me their time as much as I've given theirs.

If you didn't like whatever the choice was, I'm sorry for that, but I don't remember the door option. If you could jog my memory, that would be great.

>>1287597
I hope you're ready to deal with inability of players to deal with failure and by failure I mean even a failed roll.

>>1287705
had that here too

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>Player Question
What a does a promising quest look like?

Guy who posted about Not!Persia Quest here.
I think I'd call it something like "Chronicle of Anshan Quest" and rather than going for straight up Mesopotamia I'd go for a bit of an Islamic Invasion vibe. So the southern barbarians have unified beneath the banner of a warlord professing a new religion. I'd draw on elements of Islam, obviously, but considering in this setting the gods are real and can tangibly alter the world I'm not sure how I'd handle the fact that the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian gods would be one and the same. Maybe instead I'd take Yizidism as the primary inspiration, and so they worship a figure called Tawuse Melek, formerly a subordinate to the Abrahamic Yahweh who went rogue and seized the power of a Greater Deity.

So I think I should start the quest off a bit slow. Introduce the MC as a young noble attending court and introduce some of the major NPCs who will guide the plot later on. Then I'd get into the invasion from the south by the endless streams of barbarian nomads and the failure of the southern Satrap to properly defend his lands.

However, I've been wondering if it wouldn't be better to start off a bit later, after the war against the nomads has already been lost. The Empire has fallen, the Shahanshah has fled to Not!China, and the last holdouts of the old order have retreated to the mountainous, isolated north. The MC has fled the field of the climactic battle and now has to figure out what to do with hinself.

Opinions?

>>1287725
Isekai memefests with plenty of waifus who are just popular anime characters.

Friendly reminder that if you run a Fanfiction quest, neck yourself.

>>1287725

>Ruining perfectly good art by slapping the quest's title on top somehow makes the quest better
>Hating on Bulgarians
>Not commenting on the fact the QM is running anonymous

Other than that you seem to have nailed it.

Friendly reminder that don't let retards like him >>1287833 prevent you from running any quest you want.

>>1283486
Check out the tg Drawthread they can do it for free or cheap if you ask nicely and have actually interesting source material

>>1287878

/tg/ here, you bitch ass posters can fuck right off; No one likes you, you aren't traditional games and you will never fucking will be, so don't even try to get drawfags on your side. The only thing you can be allowed to lay claim to is jacking off to poorly written fanfiction and anime grills - Oh wait /a/ already does that, making this entire board's existence especially superfluous.

7/10 made me mad be glad you even have a containment board you fucking wastes of humanity.

>>1287936
Ignore all Charlotteposters

>>1287936
>writefaggotry isn't tg

Better tell all those writefaggotry and cyoa threads still sticking around by virtue of not having "quest" in the title.

>>1287936
Have you looked into smoking a blunt or two?

>>1287963

>>>/r9k/

>>1287945

Fuck yes it isn't! /tg/ is only for characte rart dumps, shit-posting about M:TG/40K/Exalted/Pathfinder/D&D and laughing at weeb shit.

>>1287943

>>>/trash/

>>1287936
>/tg/ here
What makes you think we care which board you came from?

>>1287978
And also generals because it wants to be vg

>>1283486

if you willing to pay. We can talk if you want. I'm a drawfag.

>>1288018

you're*

>>1287741
I'd play it either way but I'd prefer the later start

>tfw one of the qtgs had a drawfag pop up but didnt word it properly that he was going to draw requests and left when no one requested

>>1288018
Post art

>>1288260
I miss xim. ;+;

>>1287936
Anon please, You probably loved RUBY, Dorf Quest, Rudy Mann Quest, and Drew the Lich.

>>1288304

>thinking that guy isn't a giant newfag

>tfw Snakecatcher Quest had a incredibly good drawfag who kept himself anonymous and the album of his drawings were in a dead(?) image-hosting website

>>1288316
>Trick QM
>QM

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>He uses memes and waifus to keep the players engage
Just awful.

Does anyone remember a certain quest I think a few months back? I think it was the first time, I remember the mc killed a man with a spear, he rode an elephant, went to a town and I think did some blood magic / ritual on the wall to get a new knife or something. It was drawn in a really nice style but I lost track of it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

>>1288346
I'm sure Ouro has the copies saved, hit him up on his ask.fm if you really want them

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>>1288556
ah scratch that I found it
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/794487/

Anyone know this guy's info / site / anything?

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An update on the Paladin of Avalon is up!
http://anonkun.com/stories/the-paladin-of-avalon/-JRvxJl3loGBg9Bo64XE/29-the-age-of-a-new-moon/4mHiSfnEtCb8zAujx

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ylvhbmh10s5tepk/9.5.mp3?dl=0

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>>1288543

>He uses memes and waifus to keep the players he has

>>1288574
>tfw even if you do you will never know the artist and be able to commission him

>>1288676
Just wondering, how much would you be willing to pay for comissions?

>>1288676
I'm pretty sure the same guy had done art for Lamplighter Quest. Ask about it in the next thread if it ever happens

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>>1288582
I missed this so much

>1-2 posts a day quest speed

holy shit go fuck yourself if you do this

>>1289067
What'd I ever do to you.

>>1289067
Honestly, during the workweek. I'm not surprised.

>>1289083
Be more popular than him, that's all!

HEHE! . . . GOOOOOOOOOOOT EM!

High five, Voxxie!

*raises hand up enthusiastically*

>>1289083

Your erratic nonsense drives me up the wall.

Why do so few GMs bother to set up an actual quest session? Or at least communicate with their players when/if they'll be running?

>>1289101
Because life is hard?
It's actually really hard to juggle a 8-4/5/6,with friends, family, relaxation, and questing

>>1289116
>make twitter
>hey I'll be able to run x day

nah fuck that i'll just post here and there at a whim

unorganized faggots

>>1289116
>friends
>family
>relaxation

>questing
>juggling

I present to you two groupings.

PICK ONE NIGNOGGER.

>>1289116
>He wants to have it all
Organize, dummy

>>1289101
I post when I can because I can't certify when or if I'll be available on any given day. Between retail scheduling, non-work real life problems, and the bit where my dad had six inches of his leg bones replaced with metal, I can't really promise anything at any given time. My players know the score.

>>1289165
>Begging for sympathy in QTG of all places
Fuck off.

>>1289173
> Getting mad because I bothered to explain the motivations and circumstances of my actions

Get a cup of tea, buddy. It's soothing.

>>1289185
Drown yourself.

Test.

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>>1289195

>>1289116
>anno domini 2017
>having friends

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>>1289165
>>1289185
>>1289228

Preach it Vox. My uncle had some pretty serious problems with blood-clots recently, so I had to take a few days off of work and cancel my session to drive a thousand miles to be with him for moral support and/or the worst-case-scenario, then haul ass to make it to fucking work on time today.

Thank god for 5-Hour energy shots; No way in hell I would've made it through today without them.

Also confirming that The King of Fighters Quest: Reborn #16 will start on 3/24/17 at the usual time (10 AM PST/1 PM EST/5 PM GMT).

>>1289249
Shut the fuck up, no one cares.

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>>1289500
>Three posts from this ID
>All insults
Hmm

>>1289511
So? Fuck you.

>>1289511
It's the only appropriate response when tripfags try to use 4chan as their blog. It's a public service.

>>1288574
Do people still use ask.fm? I thought it became pointless after they changed it so you needed a login to just ask questions

>>1289534
>And he keeps on going
>>1289549
Throwing shit at shit isn't helping.

>>1289622
It's definitely less popular but it's still used

>>1289682
You gotta fight fire with fire, it's not complicated. QMs need to be frequently reminded of the proper way to conduct yourself while wearing a trip exactly because of how tempting it is to go that one step further. That's why the mere mention of ask.fm makes me want to get one too so someone would just ask me who my favorite meguca is already. Just for that sweet bit of extra attention.

You gotta shut that shit down before it starts out you'll suddenly find yourself fully and permanently transformed into a sparkly rainbow-haired tripfag. And when QMs start to slip, it's our duty to help them get back in line. For their own good.

>>1289067
I gotta respect a guy who can pump out 2 posts a day for a month straight.

>It's been a year since the last Homeless Mutant Quest

What the fuck even happened to Crusty?

>>1290032

It is not an impossibility that he LITERALLY died.

>>1289101
>>1289116

And this is why I'll probably move my quest to akun. I'm not in a position to run entire threads reliably anymore.

Besides, i think that, with how slow /qst/ is, the idea of HAVING to run a thread a day is pretty dumb. It was a thing in old /tg/, but here you could totally just post one/two/three times a day and it'd still work.

I fucking hope not

>>1290032
in a staggering example of irony he became homeless

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>>1290048
I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thank you

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Crusader quest when?

>>1289973
I respect someone who can brush his teeth morning and evening

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When's Scuttlebug Jamboree Quest

The Last of Us crossover with Steel Ball Run

How would two country-wide adventures mesh with each other?

>>1289067
I post a couple updates a week.
Although they're usually 1,5k-3k words long.

>>1290100
>JoJo reference

>>1290100
>the last of JUST

>>1290046
>but here you could totally just post one/two/three times a day and it'd still work.

>So I'm moving to akun so I can post one/two/three times a day

What?

>>1290046
Why can't you just run a post a day on /qst/? You know you actually DON'T have to have a day-long session?

Do you use drawthread to request art/characters for your quest?

Is there a quest drawthread?

>tfw QM dies in the middle of an important puzzle
Riz fucking where?!

>>1290244
Two drawthreads on /qst/ total that I'm aware of.
Together producing a grand total of one piece of art.
You tell me.

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>>1290316

Make that two pieces, because one of my players got Pic Related done.

>>1290365
>drawthread
Sorta the keyword here.

>>1290403

I know. >>1290365 was a request that was fulfilled in the first /qst/ drawthread.

>>1290406
That makes it a 1:1 deliveries to thread, which is probably still better than most drawthreads. :^)

>>1290412

/vr/'s drawthread usually has more deliveries than requests, but yeah you're probably right. ;^)

>>1290172
>>1290221

It technically works, but it pisses people off, or at least it gives me that impression.

>>1291026
>it pisses people off
Who? /qtg/? Certainly not your players.

You've been running for years. 3 to be exact. Your playerbase must be absurdly loyal at this point and will be completely understanding to a more passive questing experience due to IRL shit. Have you asked them?

>>1291026
>>1291064
Seriously, trust your players some. Try out that style of posting here and I garuantee you won't get a single complaint as opposed to moving to shitkun..

Is it better to drop a quest or make it so shit that all your players leave?

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>>1291259
It's better to say outright say you don't want to do the quest anymore. Making it shit or leaving without saying something is a dick move.

How big is the CoD/Titanfall audience around here?

>>1291352
>/k/ fanfiction
Big enough

>>1289067
What if you only get 2-4 posts a day?

>>1290244
>not doing your own art

>>1291443
Votes, that is.

>>1291352
Like super big

Test

>>1291268
>It's better to say outright say you don't want to do the quest anymore.

I have never once had this happen in a quest I was participating in.

Faggots act like women.

>>1291523
Soma?

Hey I wanna run a quest on here and wanted to know if it's better to stick with voting options or just free direction up to the player?

>>1291554
options

>>1291554
Options but you can add a Write in option as well.

>Option A
>Option B
>Option C
>Write in

Probably the best way to go about it. Let's most of the voters just pick a option if they don't want to think too hard and also lets your more creative players think of their own solutions or add something on top of an option you provided.

>>1291554
Options

>>1291566
Thanks!

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An update on the Paladin of Avalon is up!
http://anonkun.com/stories/the-paladin-of-avalon/-JRvxJl3loGBg9Bo64XE/29-the-age-of-a-new-moon/4mHiSfnEtCb8zAujx

How often are quests expected to update here?

>>1291703
It depends. Some QMs have active sessions where they run for a block of time updating as fast as their write speed allows.

Other QMs are passive where they write an update every now and then when they feel like it/have time.

>>1291566
Yes this, certainly. It gets the best of both worlds.

>>1280712

Excessive paranoia over shitposting drives down traffic and bantz, making it impossible to keep post counts up. I want the old Cutie G back.

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When picking a name for the quest, how do you make sure it's not already taken? Is searching sup/tg/ good enough?

>>1292313
There honestly are not really enough quests for that to happen.

Unless you're running the fifth iteration of Bleach or Naruto or have a remarkably uninspired title consisting of a single noun, in which case a mere pair of adjectives will clear you.

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>>1292376
Thank you.
I think single-noun names are more memorable, but I understand your point.

>>1291566
That's how I've always done it so I'd like to add one more point that I feel is important:

Be ready to acknowledge the minority to the extent it is possible. Because as a general rule, the majority of players don't want to put in a lot of effort meaning it's very rare for write-ins to win outright, but you can still take those write-ins and use them to tone the next update or sometimes even combine them with the winning option. The important part is that you give a nod to the players who put in the effort and creativity and make sure they feel that you noticed and acknowledged them. Otherwise you're just giving them a reason to stop caring.

>>1292435
If nobody comments on your chosen title between the time you announce your quest idea and exact start time at least three days ahead (you WERE planning to do that, right?) and the time you actually start your first thread, then it's probably okay.

>>1292376
I did have an incident where a new quest started with a name almost identical to my own and I honestly did get a little upset about that. It was a /qst/ original though so it disappeared on its own, many months ago now, but for a while I was wondering how I should respond to it. I mean obviously it's not like I own the name, and it was slightly different, but it still didn't feel right to me.

>>1292435
They're also too vague to be useful most of the time

>>1291026
If it pisses people of, wouldn't it piss people off on Akun as well? It would be the same people, after all. Or do you not expect your playerbase to follow you?

>>1292761
I honestly don't know.
I'm amazed that there are some players that have been following the crap I write with near-religious dedication, since thread one, and are still putting up with me.
Despite my insane posting schedule, constant and unjustified hiatuses, constant mistakes, and general bullshit.

How many threads do you allow for a quest to hook you and make you read the rest and follow it?

If the answer isn't "Hook me in the first thread, I don't have time for this bullshit" or "Hook me with the first paragraph, fuck you, you think you're worth shit well you're not," that is.

>>1292813
You mean what the quest equivalent to a three episode rule is?

>>1292813
the criteria I generally use is:

>hook me within the first 3 choices
>hook me within the first thread's story posts
>did they announce a second thread and stick to it?
>is it taking longer and longer between each story post while the actual content is decreasing?
I tried the three thread rule. It fucking sucked.

>>1292813
First paragraph and OP image needs to convince me to open the thread, otherwise I won't bother. It's a damn shame the majority of QMs have gotten the ridiculous idea that they should spend the first paragraph welcoming me instead of inviting me, but telling people why that's wrong hasn't made them stop so I guess it can't be helped.

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>>1292820
>Hi guys this is my first quest I may not be good at this lol but this is based on my lucid dreaming world and I can run today and tomorrow maybe at 9-5 or 5-9
>by the way should I start the character or wait for others my first time lol?

>>1292820
>>1292824
it hurts every time

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So I'm wanting to start a megaman battle network quest. Since we are talking about first impressions I'd like to get feedback on my opening post.

You are Ian Miller and today is an important day. Today is the day you make your first repair as owner of Ian's Repair Shop. Unfortunately this very important day has yet to start for one simple reason. Your coffee machine refuses to start. So with yourself as your first client you begin the daunting task of fixing your coffee machine with your partner. First order of business is a diagnostic so you whip out your pet and jack in. The first thing you notice is a group of programs marching in a circle. The next thing you notice is the signs they are holding followed by the chanting. You feel a pit in your stomach at the startling realization your coffee machine has unionized. Obviously this needs to be dealt with, but first

>Navi's name, appearance, affinity and any other details

>>1292829
Personally, I'd take the name out of it and let the players at least decide on what to call themselves or just put in [Player] or [Username]. However, that's just me and I have the NPCs in my Quest call the PC by their rank, anyway. Do you have any game mechanics in mind or are you going the full Visual Novel experience?

>>1292829
>>Navi's name, appearance, affinity and any other details
and expectations dropped 2 levels

>>1292833
I'm torn. I want mechanics but, battle network just seems so hard to translate. Is there any good way to run the chip system? For those who don't know when a battle starts five chips are selected at random from a folder and you can use multiples if they share the same name or letter designation. I'm thinking about making a folder myself and designating numbers for each chip and just rolling for them when battle starts. I just don't know how to incorporate that in with regular buster and charged attacks. Should they be limited to a certain number of actions per round or just do whatever their chips allow for?

>>1292838
So should I just pre gen a navi or three? Maybe I should somehow stagger out its creation across multiple post.

>>1292842
>mechanics
definitely put more of an influence of the anime mechanics, because otherwise noone would ever use buster. EVER. 3 storyposts of just plinking away is not cool. More on that later.


As for the navi, I got 2 suggestions:
>pre gen 3 navis of different elements, char select
don't explicitly allow "x character with y's element" kind of mix-matching, but if it gets a lot of backing go for it. ONLY if it gets a lot of backing, because it's more important to get the story rolling.

>Something major is set, but stagger the rest of the creation across the thread.
Something like a wrench motif, and then the next option is "which virus you're best at killing", determining melee/stun/etc typing.

>>1292783
That's because you're willing to write tons of lewds.

>>1292842
My suggestion is to use a folder system that's changed much less often and has no need for multiple copies of one chip.

For example: 15chip folder, 5chip "hand" size
7 virus chips
3 innate chips related to your navi(guts man making blocks, number man making time bombs, etc)
3 support chips(healing, etc)
2 navi chips(MC's friends. Yes, MC is a human being who already has some connections)

You don't actually spend much time switching chips out. Either you upgrade one aspect of the folder(elemental coverage for a swampy area, more raw damage, etc), or you switch out the folder entirely with another one like:

3 virus chips
5 innate chips
4 support chips
2 navi chips
1 Giga chip(Meteor, LOCKED)

which you premake beforehand. No swapping chips between folders. Lorewise, call these HDD folders or something, hardcoded and difficult to modify but quick on cooldowns.

then pick 3-4 chips at the start of the battle, and make these chips fixed: they don't change. The 1-2 you switch out with a fudged for drama/spectacle dice roll. Balance the rare cards with cooldowns or recovery times or something.

>>1292829
>>Navi's name,
dickbutt.exe
>appearance
dickbutt
>affinity and any other details
wields a dong xd

>>1292833
>>1292838
>>1292845
>>1292864
Thanks for the responses. I'm going to re-write and post it later. I've never seen the anime so it looks like I have some binge watching to do too.

>>1292879
I haven't watched it either

Reminder the most important part about your quest is your title image and title. No one clicks on anime girls with generic title quest #4362

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Ok lets try this again.

You are (Insert Name) and today is an important day. Today is the day you make your first repair as owner of (Insert Name)'s Repair Shop. Unfortunately this very important day has yet to start for one simple reason. Your coffee machine refuses to start. So with yourself as your first client you begin the daunting task of fixing your coffee machine with your partner. First order of business is a diagnostic so you whip out your pet and jack in. The first thing you notice is a group of programs marching in a circle. The next thing you notice is the signs they are holding followed by the chanting. You feel a pit in your stomach at the startling realization your coffee machine has unionized.

"My my boss for one day and you all ready have a reputation as a slave driver." quips your partner Codsworth

You respond with a bemused silence before telling him to go see their demands. Codsworth approaches what appears to be the leader of the group and begins listening to their demands. At first they sounds almost reasonable a fair pay for a fair wage and break times being among their chief concerns, but as time goes on so does their list of demands. They also want better wi fi, various exotic beans, a handwritten apology for forgetting to clean the filter so many time, expensive modifications and rare battle chips. Just as you are about to tell them where they can shove their demands you hear it. The tell tale sounds of pick axes meeting digital dirt. Excusing yourself you move past the mr progs and find yourself starring at a giant pit littered with six metools. Believing you've found the root of the problem you

>Hit the factory reset bypassing this whole problem, but loosing all your settings
>Lie to the mr progs saying you'll consider their demands if they make you some coffee
>Go virus busting

(Just kidding the tutorial is always mandatory)

Charging in to battle Codsworth
>Readies his sword
>Clutches his over sized fist
>Charges his buster
>Readies a bomb

>>1292915
>(Insert Name)
two steps forward, one step back

all ready->already
loosing->losing

the choice is a little unsubtle for my tastes, but you're the chief.

>>1292915
>First order of business is a diagnostic so you whip out your pet and jack in.
PET, not pet. I'm not whipping out my dog.
>The next thing you notice is the signs they are holding followed by the chanting. You feel a pit in your stomach at the startling realization your coffee machine has unionized.
The fuck is the purpose of this whole bit? Just have it be a virus, no """quip""" necessary, Whedon. Mr. Progs don't even have hands, anyway.
>Codsworth
Also Codsworth is a shit name. Why isn't he a -man?

Get your shit together in terms of spelling, too. "loosing", Jesus Christ.