Convince me not to run a dwarf civ

>>5157263
you will flake and be yet another disappointment in the ocean of failed civs

Bentus pls come back. I need my fix.

>>5114978
>Soon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9U_C_q6WcU

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Gnoll Quest update

>>5156441

>>5157263
Have you ever run a successful multi-thread quest before?

>>5157489
yes but I got ass blasted that people kept samefagging and ran out of steam

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What would you like to see in a fantasy quest?

>>5157608
More cultivation. More xianxia!

>>5157232
>QM question
So far I've had no prompts that I've regretted. I've made some that were bait but nobodies taken any yet. One thing I do regret is all the write in logic puzzles that I made in the first thread. Turns out a symbol and color matching puzzle doesn't work so good with just text. Also doesn't help that I thought it up literally right before I posted it lmao.

>Player question
I regret nothing.

>General question
Furious and detailed tentacle rape scenes.

>Bonus QM
Right now just Maximum Spiderman, I'm not much of a /co/fag but I'm really liking the direction it's going.

>>5157579
Are you me?

>>5157579
People will likely samefag in your quest, and it will require you to either set up countermeasures or to power through.

>>5157781
Or move to a website with voter registration

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>>5157232
>>Player question
None. None at all-- ha. Haha. Hahahahaha. HA.

>>QM question
Not one vote but a certain series of votes due to being a novice QM. Fixed it in a very unorthodox way... used to cringe rereading that part of my quest but now I can look back and laugh on it.

>>General question
Drawing out the mains... holding hands, of course!

>>Bonus Player question
Rewinds a quest.

>>Bonus QM question
Have only been able to keep up with 3 longrunning quests due to a busy outside life (Bones Quest, Drowned Quest Redux, and Gnoll Quest, respectively), but some other new ones look very promising like:
>Magic Militia School Quest
>Keeper Quest
>Maximum Spider Quest
>Forklift Operator Isekai

I'll also reread my own quest... and realize there are at least 2-4 paragraphs missing or some grammatical error that's too late to change.

>>5157232
>What is the worst vote you've ever cast? What would you do differently if you could go back?

The vote for a certain lord to enter a fey-infested woodland. It was the beginning of the end... Though subsequent quests suggest that perhaps the QM would have dropped it without finishing anyway.

That or some of the votes in Scumbag Antipaladin, but... Hey, they were in-character.

>What's an option you left in that you regretted? If that option won, how did its winning work out? Did you get used to it,

Maybe the mugging one in Reptilian Infiltrator, though it amused me. Low-key, the option to become a prostitute, but I still enjoy how it developed, even if it isn’t what I originally envisaged

>How are you going to commemorate this season of love in the quests you run/play?

I’m in the middle of a divorce, so I’m not really inclined to. And, hey, my quest’s MC got dumped, so samesies. However, it looks like the players are set on repairing her heart with goblin shortstacks and succubi. We’ll see how that goes, but I’m not going out of my way to sabotage it anymore than spy relationship drama and plans made pre-divorce would entail, just like with Edwin

>What's something your favorite QM does that other ones don't?

Neat art, a grand scope, and lots of accommodation for write-ins. Some QMs do some of these but, of the quests I am currently playing, only BananasQM does all!

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>>5157232
>>5157818

>Do you read other quests? If you do, which ones and why?

>Supreme Space Monke Ruler
It’s PURE GOLD. High-effort, reliable draw-quest with regular updates, AND a non-flaking civ? Hell yeah.

>Local Lord
ESL can make it tricky at times, but I really enjoy the premise and it’s made me laugh out loud a couple times.

>Kobolt Klan Adoption

A patrician quest for most noble paladins. I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of lewdness, the balance of grit with heart-warming character moments, and the quality of the writing.

>Kobold Swamp Survival CIV

If you want brutal and nasrt kobolds rather than gentle, sweet kobolts, KSSC delivers in spades with its weird swamp full of bizarre spellcasters, dark gods, hostile dunegons, roving monsters, and conniving, selfish bastard lizards. This is another civ that you can seemingly trust not to flake, which is always good!

>The Apprentice & The Dwarf

I hyped this up last thread, but if you like my quest (and its inspirations, Beastfolk Quest and Shopkeeper Quest), this quest is probably up your alley. It’s cozy, with good characters and an emphasis on the more mundane aspects of living in a hamlet in fantastical world being a tradesperson. I don’t even really like the waifu that much and I still enjoy it a ton.

>I'm a demon?

Has a lot of heart and craft, and while the writing and drawing style is a bit roughshod at times, it really lends it an auteur kind of feel. The passion shows, and the alien setting and code-like magic system are cool.

>High-Rise Fantasy

A really promising and well-executed start to an unusual isekai idea I’ve never seen before, from MC to setting. May it carry on for some time!
>What other boards do you use? Do you post there, or just lurk?

/tg/, though it’s really gone down in quality. /co/, when there’s something superheroic or the like that I’m excited for and wish to discuss. /fa/ sometimes, though it can get a bit monotonous and some of the posters really seem pompous or like they don’t have much in the way of originality.
/pol/ if I want to shitpost or get in an argument for its own sake

>shilling

If you want to watch or help guide the endgame of a year-long fantastical (and somewhat lewd) spy-thriller and urban crime drama, Reptilian Infiltrator Quest awaits!

>>5125865

>>5157232
I've been with my partner for over 2.5 years.

I was at her house for Christmas and then we both caught covid. I stayed there for isolation but then I just... didn't leave.

I am finally back home just now.

It was the longest we have spent together.

I could feel tension, how do newly cohabiting couples usually do it?

I work from home and she is unemployed so maybe we were spending more time together than is suggested.

I could go to a library for my "day job?"

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i essentially gave up on my quest because i was unable to access the board for two months due to a tornado in my area that knocked the power grids in some neighborhoods down for two months

Thread's gone so i can't explain
Not motivated to reboot
Can't make a second part because thread only had a few posts.

I hate flakers and feel like i abandoned my players completely. I still have art and abandoned concepts that were going to be used

I'm already working on a new quest and have like 90 percent of the art done but i don't want to leave that old quest behind

fellas what do

>>5157876
I really just enjoyed being together with my spouse, from the first time we spent multiple days together in a row to the first couple years we lived together.

But also... I mean, Covid Pandemic isolation and a lack of new stuff to do together probably didn't help with that whole divorce thing.

Make sure to do what you can to keep some excitement and adventure in there, and give both of you a space to go for "just you" time when you need it, be it in the home or elsewhere. My two cents.

>>5157896
If it's a cool premise/setting, recycle it into something just different enough to not feel like a retread.

>>5157896
I just have one question.

Was it wage hell? I just want to say that quest was based and I have no hard feelings.

>>5157896
What quest? You could at least give your players some closure through here.

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>>5157896
>feel like a flake after only two months
haha...

>>5157232
>>>QM question
>What's an option you left in that you regretted? If that option won, how did its winning work out? Did you get used to it?

Months, maybe years ago now (pandemic fucked my perception of time), I started a quest that splintered off of another quest where the bandit POV character died from getting mauled by wolves, and continued it by letting him come back as a ghost. I forget the name of it, but I remember that I went by the handle of COOM QM for it or something.

Before I abandoned it like a burnt-out bastard, there was a point where the players chose among women in a town to try and pursue and COOM inside of. The artificer chick was chosen, singled out instead of the 2-4 borderline batshit bitches I probably would've had more fun playing with as characters. I wanted to do wacky shit, and lost momentum because what I thought to be the "stale" option was chosen, one I mostly threw in offhandedly after brainstorming.

>>5157896

Two months? I'm gunning down for another several month hiatus after returning from another hiatus of similar length.

If you don't already have a QM twitter, just give your readers a heads-up here in the /qtg/ you want to start running again. Readers, in general, are quite merciful when it comes to outside factors affecting your ability to run-- you'll be fine.

>>5158011
Oh, the ghost bandido one? Saw that floating around.

Could have made the artificer secretly or gradually crazier than she seemed initially

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>>5157984
Right on, man.
I'll most likely give it another go at some point.

>>5158041
Thanks for the advice.

Alright back to lurking and working, thanks fellas

>>5158053
Hindsight 20/20

I've been playing in TTRPGs and passively absorbed improv skills from seeing DMs at work. There's a few ways I could have tilted it back into something I enjoyed.

>>5158011
That's a good lesson for any prospective or current QM: Never ever put in an option that you DON'T want to write. Nine times out of ten players will pick the option you don't want/expect, and then you just have to roll with it.

Rando quest recc with summary, go!


Broken Empire because it gave me the greatest roll driven high followed by roll driven despair in a year or two. Its great! Hope OP gives the players a breather chapter or something though.

>>5157818
>RQM plays Scumbag Antipaladin
This gives me hope for another not-good quest once Ismena is done whoring herself aroubd hawksong.
>Mugging
I regretted that also. So did Ismena's butthole.
>Originally envisaged
What did you originally envisage?
>Goblin
Don't worry, we already sabotaged it by risking her soul and bones getting eaten by a rabid demon dog! Sorry for your divorce, man.
>lots of accommodation for write-ins
There used to be a fuckton if this in RIQ, but I think I see it less frequently now?

>>5157896
If you're 90% done and planning to start a new quest tomewhere soon, then you can explain what happened with Wage Hell in that new quest's first thread.

>>5158011
Welcome back, COOM QM. Next time, don't offer choices that YOU don't like, because they will eventually be picked and you will hate it. And if that happens, you can just tell the players you want to change some things around so the quest isn't painful to write for you.

>>5158059
If you wanna run it again, go for it. I would definitely pick up the fucking thing again and the more crazy that artificer gets, the better (pretty sure I voted for her only because she was a shortstack and l love the themes of machinery/engineering). If you do come back, please simplify the magic, those weird %s were cancer.

dungeon masters, how "much" of the quest do you usually write out for your thread, aside from general setting building? do you nudge/railroad your posters into a certain plot direction, or do you let things flow and just keep things interesting as players essentially build their own story?

>>5158180
These are weirdly-phrased questions, which makes me think you're perhaps new to /qst/ (that and the "dungeon masters": we're QMs, quest masters). Is that true?

>dungeon masters, how "much" of the quest do you usually write out for your thread
Do you mean before the first thread, or any given thread? Before the first thread, I had the setting, several important characters, and several plot threads prepped: some of this was used as planned, some of it was incorporated in a different way later on, and some ended up being scrapped before ever seeing the light of day. Before any given thread, I make a list of things that are likely to happen based on what the players have done/are doing now/need to do, as well as a list of information the players should ideally learn.

Unless you're talking about prepping the literal written posts for any given thread, which I don't do at all outside the OP. You'd have to be kind of crazy to do that unless there was a scene that you're 100% positive will happen, and even then you'd have to do a lot of edits to make it flow.

>do you nudge/railroad your posters into a certain plot direction, or do you let things flow and just keep things interesting as players essentially build their own story?
Things began a lot more freeform, but as the plot solidified around their initial actions, it's settled into them pursuing things that have already been set up. I wouldn't say I nudge in a "plot direction," which sounds like making choices for them: I bring them the plot, they make the decisions about it.
I'll also state that sandbox quests don't work long-term unless you're extremely talented at improv (like Soma), and even then Banished died miserably. "Players building their own story" sounds great, but players are dumb, have short memories, and will spend 500 threads grinding +1 Magic unless you stop them. I say it with love.

Guys, can you format in other colors besides red blue and green? Or are those the only ones?

>>5158152
>accommodation for write-ins

I still leave it as an option, but people go for it less often... I think partly as a result of being more risk-averse in the end-game. I've also seen an uptick in people wanting to choose all available options from my pre-written choices, which is probably related.

Would you have a recommendation for how to make it feel more open-ended?

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>>5158209
I agree that the discord is utter garbage. shouldnt be advertised on the qtg anymore.

here is the archival process

>>5158201
I was more thinking about the fact that you put everyone's ideas into the update alongside the winning choice, whenever possible, as opposed to going solely with the winning vote. One of the things that made me really like RIQ, actually.
But recently, either because things got more serious and votes oppose each other or there's less player creativity, it seems to have disappeared somewhere. Correct me if I'm wrong, I could be biased and not gonna fact-check the whole thread.
But then again, I did try to summon Yemrep as an extra multiple times to no avail. Don't think it would go against the main votes, considering summoning him only requires some privacy, blood and 5-10 minutes of Ismena's time.

>>5158209
Based

>>5157232
>What is the worst vote you've ever cast? What would you do differently if you could go back?

Literally any vote in Smehs Planetary Governor Quests because... well I don't think I need to explain this part

GCT officially dead yet?

>>5158229
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, that's probably true. It's the combination of time-crunch (in-universe) and the general lack of write-ins lately. I will try to incorporate non-winning votes a bit more, provided they aren't mutually contradictory.

>>5158214
Thanks Anon.

>>5158272
You do because I wouldn't say most people know who Smeh is...
To be fair I only know because of his particular fondness for ellipses...
And putting them at the end of every paragraph...

Anyways the long story short for those not in the know is that the guy's a huge flake who keeps restarting the same quest over and over again without explanation or acknowledgement, at least, from what I've seen. People are willing to forgive a lot but poor communication is not on such a list. At least when a QM bitches at their audience it shows that they can hear you voicing concerns.

>>5157232
>Player question
Eh. I don't really feel ashamed by my votes. I'm usually more ashamed at not being able to vote, if anything.
>QM question
Mostly the option to have an interlude in my quest after already going through a somewhat long slow period with little main mechanical crunch. It at least let me flesh out one of the less shown characters.
>General question
The Admin would need to drink a whole bottle of wine and would absolutely try repressing what just happened. Not because he's afraid of physical contact but because he's just ashamed in himself a lot of the times in general.

So yeah, mostly a fade to black followed by the hopeless wreck regretting his choice and worrying about his performance.
>Bonus Player question
Well, besides the QM who inspired me to run my own quest, I do like what Pizzeria Quest is doing with having really good art with a pretty decent upload schedule. The only quest I follow that does that is the monke game.
>Bonus QM question
Monke Leader, Pizzeria Quest, Maximum Spider Quest, Starving Creature Quest, Magic Militia School Quest, and SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: DEVIL ERASER.
>Bonsu General questions
/vg/, /x/, and mild interest in /vst/. Used to go onto /tg/ too but I lost interest in it after a while.

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>What is the worst vote you've ever cast? What would you do differently if you could go back?
I was the one who submitted the attack vote and accompanying shit roll which made QM of that Disco Elysium-esque quest ragequit. Pretty happy with myself for that one desu.

I also cast a decisive vote at one junction in the recent Saber and Musket which turned out ...bad. And I blame QM for that one.

>How are you going to commemorate this season of love in the quests you run/play?
Fuck off.

>What's something your favorite QM does that other ones don't?
Oftentimes the QMs I like the most are also very prone to dropping their quests. And on the contrary, writing of the consistent ones ain't as good. It's a harsh truth but truth nevertheless.

>What other boards do you use? Do you post there, or just lurk?
Nowadays mostly tv, sometimes b. r9k, then biz then trv used to be my main board.

In any case, nowadays the best content can be found in chan discords. That's the place to be.

>pic unrelated

>>5157232
> QTG- Romantic Handholding Edition

but anon what if I am alone and a kissless virgin?

>>5157232
>What is the worst vote you've ever cast? What would you do differently if you could go back?
went for a meme seduce vote and it ended up getting the MC raped and completely shifted the tone of the quest, it was a dark shadow over the rest of the quest and to be honest fucked me up for a while, if I could go back I sure as fuck would not have voted for it, and keep a quest I had a lot of investment in happy light and really fun. It is a regret I still carry.

>>5158565
>went for a meme seduce vote and it ended up getting the MC raped and completely shifted the tone of the quest,
The fuck? The worst I've seen a meme seduce vote go for (at least in my quest) is a very awkward bath scene.

How the hell did yours go to rape?

>>5158563
Go out there and make all of us proud mate.
https://youtu.be/eF92-uSiVZQ

>>5158565
The pokemon fucker quest?

>>5158577
the one with time travel and Umbreon fucking, and Lopunny TF yup.

>>5158579
wait was this the one with the really weird, hypersexualized art or am I thinking of another coomer pokemon quest

>>5158581
yeah, I think you are thinking of a different one.

>>5158198
If there were other ones, they'd be in the OP.

>>5158581
I thought it was fucking hilarious that Dwain Johnson was the dad. If the QM had kept the sex to a minimum then things could had continued as there were just fine.

>>5158604
If we hadn't voted for the seduce meme and or the QM handn't decided to make the outcome rape, things would have been fine.

>>5158618
That sounds like a mess and a half.

>>5157232
>Player question
Oh I helped kill that Sakura quest awhile back by backing the loudest whiner. Eventually went so transhumanist that the qm quit. Never give an option you don't want to write and don't be afraid to put your foot down if you're quest is going on a direction you don't enjoy.

>>5158180
For Gaol, I started with only the idea of "you got sent to the surreal jail dimension, wat do", and slowly, gently, the story got built up word by word. Petunia was initially conceived as a disposable mook who happened to be female - well, I was also testing the idea that "the first female character will be waifued, no matter how ugly or horrific". Lo and behold, happy little accidents.

>>5158669
>ugly and horrific
Fuck you I'll kick you ass. Petunia is wife!

>>5158180
>How much of the quest do you usually write out for your thread?
If you're asking in the first thread, I just had the setting, important characters, and some basic plot points to go through. Nothing insanely set in stone and easily changeable if I deem it so.
>Do you nudge/railroad your posters into a certain plot direction?
No, that's cringe and debased. I only do that if people are trying to do something obviously self destructive. Usually I just clarify or give context if anything else.

>>5158644
Honestly, everything up to that point had been great fun, a light-hearted pokemon adventure with undertones of bone the sentient & sapient pokemon starter friend. but after that god it really was just all downhill, it literally dominated the rest of the quest and soured what would otherwise have been a great memory and quests. though I guess I have to hold on to the truth that it's not about the destination it is about the journey and for a while, that journey was one amazing ride.

>>5158669
>Thinking 4channers won't go for a girl who is Literally Them, but as a girl

you know I think I will check the archives and see if I can find that old pokemon quest, see if revisiting that old wound with a matured mind and the benefit of reflection makes that regret lessen with time.

>>5158272
Who's worse? Shmeh or the QM who used to make supervillain prison breakout quests that gets abandoned as it was getting good?

>>5158272
>>5158848
I wish I knew who Shmeh is so I can tell him what an absolute spineless cunt he is.

>>5158872
https://archived.moe/qst/search/username/Shmeh/type/op/

Read them and weep.

>>5158848
>Who's worse? Shmeh or the QM who used to make supervillain prison breakout quests that gets abandoned as it was getting good?
SOM.

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>>5158669
This is fucking gold. I still remember the faggots jumping to defend your artstyle after I said she looked like a tranny.

>>5157263
The fact that you are asking us to convince you against it is reason enough not to do it. Unless you are ironically asking then go ahead and make a good damn quest.

Any good examples of combat? Turn-based or narrative, single or party? Genre irrelevant.

>>5158932
Check the archive for Forgotten's quests. His system evolved over time but by the time he was doing the more recent sci-fi Black Company quest he had a pretty great system for Squad-Level engagements.

>>5158848
Sojourner.

>>5158932
Unironically no combat.

>>5159452

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more this seems the most viable option. That, or single roll resolutions.

>>5159480
>>5159452
Combat's fun though. If your quest is purely slice of life tier stuff the whole time with nothing to break it up, it can get boring fast. Too much combat has the same problem, forgive the food analogy but you need to pepper it into your quest just enough so that each encounter has weight and bite. I am curious though as to why you think that no combat is the way to go?

Anons whose favorite quests are not running: Tell me about them. Why do you love them? Why do you wait for them, cold and alone? Tell me what your favorite most recent moment in them was, and what your favorite overall moment in them was, and finally, tell me the QM name.

If it sounds interesting I will personally go find the QM and nag them to run again.

>>5159489
I love Valen Quest because it's a challenge. A puzzle. A quest you play, not just read. And its diceless, so any failure or success is wholly your own. I want to solve its mysteries. I want to discover its secrets. That's why I'm waiting for it to return, always.
My favorite recent moment would be sussing out a traitor and the MC finally getting to be cool and powerful ordering their arrest. And my overall favorite moment, hmm, probably when we carelessly let slip something suspicious, then, on the fly, pulled together enough bits of previously revealed information to compose a convincing lie that not only cleared us, but threw suspicion on our interlocutor's own organization. That was some panicked archive diving.
I want to do this again. Riz, please come back.

>>5159480
>>5159485
Single roll solutions is what I meant by no combat, yeah. Turn-based combat in quest can turn into a days-long shitshow unless you can run it real time like Herald QM used to.

My favorite "system" is using 1d20 to determine the outcome and adding an extra 1d20 for each point of weapon proficiency or advantageous situations.

>>5159489
Sworn To Valour makes me feel things, and I refuse to ever give up on anything stuck on a boat after Berserk even managed to get off of it.

Knight guided missile was the best dice driven moment of absolute bullshit in my memory. More recently seducing the resident scheming Femme Fatale by just being ridiculously earnest was great.

Forgotten still pops in here to remind us a dingo didn't eat him so no need to fly to Prison Island to bug him.

>>5159489
Hive Queen Quest and Death Among the Stars are both excellent and exemplary space opera civ quests. The struggles of starting from scratch, the various interesting aliens and factions, the underlying meta-physics of the setting itself - each one scratches this sci-fi itch. Both were left unfinished, but it would be nice to get an ending of sorts, a nicely packaged 'and their story goes on'...

Another quest is Lamplighter Quest, that one has a fantastic, original setting that I haven't seen before. The story, and the tribulations of the main characters, just keeps you wanting to read on.

>>5157313
I'LL COME BACK AS SOON AS I GET THIS MILK.

>>5159489
I'm still here waiting for Swamp Lord Quest, by Mr. Wong, because it was one of the first quests I got in at the ground floor, and his combination of interesting worldbuilding, characters, and ability to manipulate the magic system to have innovative planning results in lots of enjoyment.

Favorite moment most recently was winning the battle at the well against archers+undead after being repulsed on our first assault. Dice failed us initially, so we went back and planned the shit out of it and came up with a ton of interesting things that could take advantage of our force's magic.

Wong also did L5R Chanbara quest, which was just.....great. Samurai and murdering the crap out of bandits while having PTSD flashbacks to fighting goblins on the Wall. I wait for the continuation, if it ever arrives, but having a contained story brought it to a satisfying stopping point that I reread every once in a while.

Some of my other favorites already got mentioned above, Sworn, Lamplighter for some examples.

>>5158885
I do not know what to do with this information.

I plan to begin a quest soon. What is a good day of the week to start a quest?

>>5159817
Doesn't really matter, for the first few days you'll pop up at the top of the board whenever someone posts. I guess near or during the weekend would probably be primetime for most anons, though.

>>5159817
id say the time of the day is more important. personally i prefer to read quests at lunch time or on the afternoon/night

>>5159822

How does this work, exactly? What's the time-frame before things start dropping automatically? Rules post says 72 hours, but some of these are still getting bumped after that three days.

>>5159851
Nothing gets bumped after 72 hours, it’s simply that this board is slow enough that threads linger near the top after that time period before making their way down to page 10 over the course of ~ 45 days, currently.

>>5159874
The bump limit has been 5 days for quite a while.

Are there any other noteable places that do quest threads other than /qst/?

>>5159962
Yes. Though as far as anonymous imageboards go, the other places I know of are slow even compared to /qst/. As far as forums go, there's Sufficient Velocity, Spacebattles, Anonkun(fiction.live), and Questionable Questing. If you want a detailed write up on each place you'll have to ask somebody else.

>>5159968
To specify, Anonkun is not a forum, I accidentally forgot to give it its own category. It's not an imageboard either, it's like a collection of individual quests each with their own chat box. It's got neat options but it's also held together with toothpicks and cum, and the site owner is an utter imbecile.

>>5159817
I think around 5am EST would do it. on a friday or wensday.

>>5159962
Quest den is where a big portion spit off in protest years ago, but its been taken over by furries and smut. I recommend looking back through the archives instead of participating.

How much text per post do you guys push out? As much as you would like or something like about a paragraph or two?

>>5160030

Depends on the type of quest. A lot of people space their posts apart to make way for images, while others like long, wordy posts and make use of the full character limit (which I think is 3k on this board).

If you want an idea, just click on any random quest and take mental note of how each QM does it.

>>5160049
I see. It really depends, huh? 'Cause sometimes I fear writing too much to the inconvenience of the reader.

>>5160030

I write generally multiple posts, it is necessary to tell a story after all but when there is less events I can write less. I try to improve my english by writing here so writing big paragraphs is one of my goals.

To be honest you should write as much as you want and as much as you think will be useful and interesting.

>>5160030
I feel like you can average it out. Big posts for suitable reasons. Short for others.

Mostly depends on the crowd you attract, if they like your writing hopefully they'll stick around. No matter the size of post.

>>5160069
>>5160071
Thanks for the advise. There's a lot of things hatching in my head, but the worry to write exceedingly long stuff kinda of weakens it; as well as thinking to thoroughly and smoothly express it. Though, I guess now I know it isn't as much of a bigger deal than I thought.

>>5160055
The people who like to read will enjoy more words (assuming its not filler). The ones that don't (majority) will skim your entire post no matter how long or short you make it then vote with only like 10% retention.

>>5160082
>10% retention
Pfft, look at this guy. trying to make players out to be geniuses.

>>5160082
Player retention of information is poor all round, even if they do read and comprehend posts fully. I have trouble remembering things said from just a few episodes ago, let alone many threads ago.
This is why you should never rely on players to pick up on clues and put pieces together when they forget they even had them. Players attentive/autistic enough to do this are a very small minority.

>>5160055
As a reader, I don't think there's such thing as too much writing. Unless it's bad writing, but then I'm not reading your quest anyway.

>>5160104
I feel like it depends on the ratio of writing to player choice. I was interested in that 40k AI quest for example but each update was like 6 massive blocks of text minimum. That was too much so I dipped out

>>5160055
I gave your quest a read and it does not feel too long or too dull.

>>5160109
I disagree completely, and you've convinced me to start reading that quest. My usual complaint is qms putting five lines of dialogue and half a paragraph if description before the vote.

>>5160123
I mean if it works for you that's great. I hope you enjoy it, the DM certainly seems to be putting in the effort, it just wasn't for me personally

>>5160109
You should consider yourself lucky someone is willing to serve you blocks of text on /qst/.

>>5160030
It's less the length I worry about and moreso how much meaningful action there is. 3000 characters of interesting stuff is far better than 3000 characters of meaningless fluff.

>>5160126
I mean... sure... but I'm not here to read someones fanfic, I'm here to play a game and contribute to the story. Player agency is as important as the amount of text being dropped in per update

>>5160030
I usually go for the character limit or over on almost every post. I like to torture my players by forcing them to endure my word salad vomit.

>>5159851
>>5159874
>>5159879
Cool dudes view catalog by last post, anyway.

>>5160109
Depends on content, too, and agency as another anon said. I dropped Sayain Awakening because, while posts got longer, the amount of useful information did not grow commensurately. A lot of it was "as you already know" stuff, long segues, repetitious phrases, etc., and I didn't really feel like we were meaningfully shaping our main character or the world around him when (at the end of four solid blocks of text) we got asked questions like "beam, punch, or magic teleport and beam-punch?"

Might just be me, though. Just saying: walls of text can work if players find what's in them interesting, and feel that they can actually affect their contents.

>>5160126
Most QMs trying too hard will serve blocks of text as much as they are able. More is not necessarily better. Much can be achieved and communicated with any efficient style. Then, there's quests like Mystery Dungeon 3, which is a great counterexample of the same variety. It appears to lack the substance, more text is unlikely to change that.

It is however not something worth asking for. If someone can't write succinctly off the cuff they will not learn to via magic, or player/qtg encouragement. It's pure experience in cutting out waste words before they're used and using English deliberately, as the terrible tool it is.

Strangely, when this topic gets brought up it's usually on these two or so lines of thinking; substance and agency in relation to pure text amount, the pure effort and description the QM is putting forth.

But there are plenty more. A QM writing efficiently is more respecting players' time, a QM writing efficiently within their specific style or a specific style suited to the quest itself is generally a better writer overall, a QM more responsive to their audience tends to be better received, it is easier for players to respond to and build off of substance than description, efficient description and dialogue can be made to matter more, and so many other reasons.

I'll tend to feel that more text is better when the QM knows how to use it, and I think that feeling is fairly common. As for QMs that know how to use English, there's about two. Three. Arguably four.

>>5160142
Actually, reading everyone else's posts on the topic, if anyone here reads Starving Creature Quest, do you think my posts are too long or flowery, or not delivering important information succinctly enough? Personally I don't like it when quests devolve into slice of life melodrama, but ironically the latter half of the current thread has been full of it. I figured a bit of light hearted fun and character building would be necessary to even out the darker and heavier aspects of the quest, but I do wonder if other people share that sentiment. Anything you guys think I should work on in particular?

Why do civ quests get a bad rap? Are they hard to run interestingly? Too many of them? Why do they die so often?

>>5160158
>As for QMs that know how to use English, there's about two. Three. Arguably four.
Who?

>>5160245
They don't have an obvious end goal, or personal stakes to latch onto, traditionally, which can lead to low player investment and a lot of opportunity for a QM to burn out or lose interest before they get good. That seems to be the general feel, anyway.

Shame that. They're one of my favourite genres.

>>5160245
Until about a year ago there was a notorious poster known as the civ shitter. He would create a low effort civ thread using the lazy op picture and a simple "Pick race and location, first to three wins". None of his civ threads would last more than 50 posts before it was abandoned. The worst thing about them was that he would create a new civ quest every few days when he gets bored. The catalog would be clogged with a dozen dead civ threads. As a result no one would bother playing civs since they rightly feared that it would be dropped like a hot potato in a few posts.

>>5160247
Ask the curse.

>>5159600
WHERE'S THE MILK?

>>5160109
>mfw I worked through an 18-post update over an entire week
Anyone have any advice on increasing player agency and interactivity in a narrative quest? I don't want to go back on my word and come up with some half-assed system, but at the same time I've received some feedback along the lines of "write less." I just get so absorbed in telling the story and pushing it along...

>>5160365
Realize that you have to let the players write the story as well with you. I'm glad that you're passionate about your setting, but it's a quest not a book.

>>5160365
You don't necessarily need to write less, just break it up more and allow players to get involved more frequently. If you think an update is getting excessively long, have a look over it for any points where it looks like you are making a decision on behalf of the players and pause writing to present it as a vote and tweak the rest of what you're writing accordingly.

>>5160365
That sounds perfectly fine for a quest ending + epilogue maybe holy shit

>>5160370
>>5160375
+1

>>5160365
Remember that people who are satisfied do not speak up. If you are getting enough (you)s and your players are engaged there's no reason to rock the boat just to court the ADHD audience.

Saiyan Awakening was mentioned as a quest whose QM writes too much, but it's consistently getting about ten votes per update. How many quests can boast the same?

>>5160400
Reptilian Infiltrator is another successful quest with consistent large, multiple-post updates and a loyal fanbase. It doesn't really seem to be the huge obstacle to success that it's being presented as.

>>5160415
what makes a quest successful

>>5160437
Autism, more autism good

Personally, my soft cap for update length is 4 posts, and my hard cap is 6. Longer than that and you need to think really, really hard why there's no decision-making points in there.

>>5160365
>18 posts
That's about 9000 words, or half a novella. I enjoy reading and I would not read that.

>>5160245
Because so few people seem to actually understand what makes them fun, and insist on using a template image as the OP. I have been trying to say this for literally years, since the tg days, and still, people always insist on using templates, and then wonder why the quest dies.

Starting a civ quest with a template is like starting any other quest with character generation. You front-load the thread with flavorless crunch that divides your prospective players into factions before they can even get invested in the quest. Then they fight and bicker and argue until the civ options are selected, and at that point the result will be a poorly optimized mess that could have been made by a TwitchPlays chat bot that nobody will be happy with, and because none of the players got invested in the thread, they all leave.

If you want to make a good civ thread, start by pre-making the civ you play as. You can add in customization options later, but your first post desperately needs to be a flavorful introduction to the setting, the civ, and the world and its characters that you will be interacting with. It needs to be eye catching, unique, and interesting. Once you get players invested in the core idea, then you can introduce layers of customization, as now the players will be arguing from a position of mutual investment, instead of fighting over trying to make something they could potentially become invested in in the future.

>>5160330
Also yeah that fucker.

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>>5160481
Supreme Space Monke is a good example of a Civ Quest being done right. The first image wasn't some mediocre copy/paste, it was this - there was an immediate small rewind to make a choice about the details of our species, but the basics of the civ we'd be playing was decided by BananasQM before the quest began.

And the quest is currently on thread 4 and still ongoing.

>>5160360
I DON'T KNOW I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR MONTHS.

I hope that FO:NV civ quest anon comes back, but doesn't pull a Shmeh and restart the quest without finishing it.

>>5160499
I'M DYING HERE JACK

>>5160504
I'VE GOT THE EGGS, NOW I NEED A BITA CHEESE AND WE CAN GET STARTED ON THIS OMLETTE.

>>5160437
The Lifeblood and Death throes.
Waifus.

>>5160131
>>5160109
Literally same happened to me.
>>5160123
Partially agreed, low-effort short updates are a dead giveaway for shitty/inexperienced QMs.

The sweet spot (for me) is when QM's writing is 2-4 posts long with more substance than empty exposition and the quest has well-placed votes that make players feel in control of the character, without forcing them to autistically manage every bit of dialogue/move.

>>5160182
>light hearted fun necessary to even out the darker and heavier aspects of the quest
I never understood this thinking. If *you* want to write a dark quest focused on dark things only, then players who follow it clearly like the atmosphere you've created and want more of the same without 1/5 of the posts having a tone shift, because QM decided it's time for their weekly dose of escapist joy right now.
If they reeally feel too depressed to read your blackpill fantasy, they'll just find something else to do for a day and then return for more of their familiar fucked up quest.
I don't read your quest, just wanted this thought out of my head.

>>5160615
IT'S VALENTINE'S, DON'T YOU HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL PLANNED

>>5160738
>I never understood this thinking. If *you* want to write a dark quest focused on dark things only, then players who follow it clearly like the atmosphere you've created and want more of the same without 1/5 of the posts having a tone shift, because QM decided it's time for their weekly dose of escapist joy right now.

I've always been a proponent of the idea that a purely dark story with no fun or light moments to break it up becomes stale and boring very quick. If every character is a piece of shit, and anything you try to do results in bad things happening, readers will lose interest. Now whether or not my quest has a schizophrenic tone, I don't know.

>>5160755
Buddy, the protag has went from being stuck in a lab and experimented on to being truly free. Of course the tone is gonna be a bit lighter/less serious, until the new reveal of the Thing 2: Electric Boogaloo and realizing the bad guys are probably still following us.

It's fine. There were no major tone swerves.

>>5160755
I subscribe to the same thought. Some of my favorite quests make a point of using contrast for emphasis and disparity for for impetus.

>>5160755
Sounds like you want your quest to be this way, so it's whatever. My rant was only meant for the QMs who overthink the whole thing and add tone shifts and other shit just to make up for a non-issue they thought up in their heads, instead of writing what they really enjoy writing.
Also, if you want feedback from the players, wouldn't it be better to ask in your quest thread? It's not uncommon for QM communicating with players between the updates.

>>5160758
Alright anon, thanks for the reassurance. I'm just always looking to improve my quest so I figured here would be the place to ask about that.
>>5160759
Ya need a bit of the light and the dark to really make both sides stand out, imo. Balancing those opposing ideas in a fluid quest can be difficult, depending on just how light or dark your previous posts were.
>>5160762
>Also, if you want feedback from the players, wouldn't it be better to ask in your quest thread? It's not uncommon for QM communicating with players between the updates.
I would but I figured the /qtg/ would be a better place to ask about writing criticism than my own thread, but I'll keep that in mind next time. I do respond to any questions anons have but there usually isn't an organic opening to ask about the quality of my writing and whether they like the direction the quest is going in, they're usually too busy planning and talking about what to do in the future.

>>5160765
You can always do, like, ask at the end of a thread ("hey how was it", "was the tone a bit off", etc etc)

Since at Page 10 or 11, most people will probably expect you making a new thread by then.

>>5160766
Oh I'm a dumbass kek, I honestly never thought of that. I'll keep that in mind, we're nearing the end of the thread anyways.

>>5160762
I have heard QMs do some ask for feedback at the end of the thread. That's what I read in the links provided in the OP. But I feel that there's an appropriate time between asking QTG or within the thread, like at the end. Also, how much does archive tags matter?

>>5160765
>I would but I figured the /qtg/ would be a better place to ask about writing criticism than my own thread
Ahahahah. Why would you want the retards here to criticise your writing? Their feedback is nothing compared to that of your actual players, who actually read and enjoy your writing.

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>>5160481
I wish the average IQ on this fucking board was high enough to make a comfy autistic futuristic Civ possible. One where players would create story and lore through interactions with each other and world events from OP.

>>5160765
Just ask in a short, separate post under your next update. As a QM you more or less have the players' respect and there's no need to act like a socially disabled autist on a discord server.
t.player

>>5160785
>I have heard QMs do some ask for feedback at the end of the thread.
Yeah, end of the thread if you're satisfied with your quest and writing, but want to encourage the input from the players and improve further.
There might be some benefit to end-of-the-thread polls, but I think that the appropriate moment to ask is whenever you really have questions to ask or worries to address, like >>5160768.
Also, I think that players won't really give you feedback until you ask for it. Kinda makes sense since it'd be rude to nitpick at the QM, unless he's a helpless newfag and royally fucking several things up.
>how much do archive tags matter?
No idea, I only participate in active quests and use archive to fact-check.

>>5160785
I always ask for feedback, questions or comments at the end of the thread and try to remember to remind my players to ask if they have any questions mid thread. As a QM I might have forgotten something or the player has an idea that is worth using later. And even if there are no comments or real questions, I feel that it is important to keep the communication with the players up

>>5160753
I DID HAVE A DUMB IDEA OF TWO VALKANS CELEBRATING THEIR EQUIVALENT OF VALENTINES AT SOME POINT, BUT I HAVE DONE LITERALLY NOTHING TO PREPARE FOR THAT POSSIBILITY.

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>>>5160960
>>>5160960
>>>5160960

Glad to announce that I will be running a new Xianxia quest, Records of Honour! Unlike Kenshi Monogatari Quest, it'll be run as a series of one-shots set in the same universe rather than one long story.

>>5160360
I'M AT SOUP

A thought occurred to me, a question for you questers. If you wanted to make a quest that ended (not died, ended) as quickly as possible, without being an obvious troll quest, how would you go about it?

>>5161418
Just write a limited-scope one-shot.

>>5161418
Give the MC a waifu in the first post followed by a prompt between self-sacrifice and running away.

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Update to Romance of the Low Kingdom, now posted!

>>5161636
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Sheriff Hat
This item gives you another chance to evade detection by those hunting you, to a limited extent. It takes many different forms and appearances across worlds, but usually resembles headwear worn by authorities or law enforcement. It is believed to be inspired by a postmodern game which was utterly terrible receiving very poor reviews, but which featured a hidden third ending. This item however is used only to unlock the No Achievement ending, where a player in a different game fails to realise they have to die first in order to unlock their Afterlife abilities. In the No Achievement ending of the postmodern game, the protagonist persuades another to kill himself.
>Take the Sheriff Hat... but where and how to use it...?
https://www.guideoui.com/yiik-a-postmodern-rpg-achievements-walkthrough-with-all-endings/

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>a quest where the QM uses as many mental shortcuts in their writing, as possible
>the real challenge is figuring out what the fuck's even going on
>quest gets progressively harder with time
>even worse if players are slacking

>>5162025
Complaining is in your right and all, but if you're not going to name names then it's kinda pointless.

>>5162039
It was just a slightly amusing idea I got after I caught myself use a mental shortcut in my own post.
If you really want names, then fuck that faggot who run fate quest or whatever.

>>5162053
Fate QM dindu nuffin.
How the hell was he expected to handle the autism of my players?

>>5162025
I feel like half the time I'm writing nonsense and just praying my anons can understand what the fuck I'm trying to get across.

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>>5162064
>How the hell was he expected to handle the autism of my players?
Is it true that written erotica killed your quest, Fate QM?

>>5162085
Appealing to the coomer probably went a long way towards it, yes.
As did barely restricted haremfaggotry.
As did letting my players have too much freedom with their plans and with making the MC too strong on my part.
All those moments lost, like tears... in the rain.

>>5162078
Your quest is actually well written for the most part, even if it's anime as all hell.

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>>5162090
Fine, fine.
Fuck that fagger who's currently flaking his goddess catfuck tournament.

>>5162107
>inb4 switch to Digital Goddess Quest
Still has goddesses, and in a tournament.

>>5162078
I feel you; in the same boat there. Worse if I'm staying up too late in the evening.

>QM question
>What's an option you left in that you regretted? If that option won, how did its winning work out? Did you get used to it?
I can’t say that happened.

>General question
>How are you going to commemorate this season of love in the quests you run/play?
If all goes well and players pick all the right options the quest will end with this thread and it’ll end on a sweet note.

>Bonus QM question
>Do you read other quests? If you do, which ones and why?
Not as many as I wish I was reading. The one I am participating 100% is Gnoll Quest. It has adorable art.

>Bonus General question
>What other boards do you use? Do you post there, or just lurk?
I browse /tg/, /lit/, and /a/ to keep up with the new releases.

>>5157829
I am sad to hear you don't like the dwaifu!

>>5162704
Vera is where it's at.

>>5160158
>Mystery Dungeon mentioned
/qtg/ finally noticed us, hooray!

Any sane man worth his salt that wants to run a fallout quest needs to watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SKqhOE_fUI

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>>5162064
>>5162090
One problem was falling for the haremfaggotry idiocy that many people push without thinking
One problem was going "make autistic write-ins using metaknowledge (the wiki) or I will fuck you up the moment you miss something (though I will fuck you up anyway), and any default option I give you is meaningless"
One problem was enabling that bitch sakurafag autist, fuck him for reinforcing the stereotype of sakurafags being insane and obsessed and deceitful sabotaging cunts
There were other problems too, but those are the glaring ones I have had from following your quest ever since it began and unto its demise. I look forward to whatever quest you run regardless, and I hope you find happiness in your life no matter how you might self-deprecate and blind yourself to the positive things, or whatever you think/say/do/feel.

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>>5161657
I genuinely do not want to upset anyone even though my quests are filled with huge amounts of guns, swords, blowtorches, disfiguring weaponry etc as well as clowns, underpants and psychotic nurses.

It is really hard trying to give people what they want... in past quests some anons wanted to interrogate and intimidate people, even at awkward times. Now when I give them that option at no risk whatsoever, they do not use it and lose out on important information.

An anon wants lots of violence, nonstop battles and fighting, thinks it makes no sense that my story is about sometimes running away, talking and persuading, or abandoning violence throwing away guns, to get a better ending to heal the world (ok it is a bit stolen from Metal Gear Solid IV, V/Death Stranding). Now I try to give them what they want, I do everything I can to hint that they should go into this battle so that they can get all the cool items I have prepared. I outright explain that even if they die, they will suddenly unlock Afterlife powers that will summon even better weapons and items. It is literally in the main section lol, the very first paragraph, you cannot die. You only end the world when your actions make no sense lol. Then they choose to run away from the battle they wanted, and all the fighting and guns and weapons they wanted...?

The players do not seem to understand that some npcs also tell them lies. I outright warn them that some npcs lie to you, then in the very next section immediately an npc says some suspicious information. Later the anon complains, but why did this thing the npc say make no sense? Your story must be wrong!

The anons complain about having no information, but they execute all npcs without speaking to them. Of course the npcs are not friendly or helpful or adore you to begin with... They say they want fighting, but then run away from battles against enemies, whilst executing those allies sent to help them...

I wanted to create a slightly more masochistic challenge lol. I do not think anyone actually understood or cares about the message embedded in the setting (it is buried pretty deep lol). I understand that anons all have busy/stressful lives and maybe they want just a comfy easy quest and story where they can relax, feel super powerful and never lose. There are plenty of quests that provide that better than I can on this board. I just cannot bring myself to make it lol, it is not how I play or who I am...!

>>5163621
I think it is the wall of text format which leads to this problem, so I do apologise for that lol. Honestly at the table when I could still DM in the past I always always had the opposite problem. Everyone would immediately guess all my buried hints and clues in 5mins - look you just stole that from x film y videogame etc - and I would scramble desperately to make everything more convoluted.

I think reading all the text is just too much effort /concentration and leads to autismo moments of incomprehension lol.

>>5163130
>One problem was enabling that bitch sakurafag autist, fuck him for reinforcing the stereotype of sakurafags being insane and obsessed and deceitful sabotaging cunts
And how exactly did he do that?

>>5163621
I have tried to read golgotha several times and have no idea how it works or what the fuck is going on. Not an insult, my brain just can't process it.

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Maybe the fair way of doing it is to put it to some form of vote:

>1/ I want a comfy quest where I feel super powerful and never really lose. Life is already quite stressful, quests should help us escape and relax.

>2/ I want an intense difficult experience where I might die and lose any time. Sometimes the challenges the QM presents will seem completely unfair or make no sense, probably because the QM has embraced l'autisme lol. If you somehow make it through one of these quests even alive, let alone win, you should feel proud of yourself.

>3/ I must drink deeply from the Chalice Of Dungeonmaster Tears... (choose this if you just want to troll the QM. It is a valid option, you know you want it)

>>5163639
>2

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>>5163638
No worries, I include pictures on every post I write, you can still enjoy the art! It is not helped by the fact that the quest is spread on two threads lol. Usually I try to conserve threads a bit so a single thread contains multiple playthroughs. The setting is urban occult sort of like Tom Clancy Rainbow Six tactical guns with Tarot magic lol. The 1d78 roll means to draw a Tarot card with replacement from the initial 78 card Tarot table in the first paragraph.

The first and initial playthrough is more narrative driven. The feel of it is familiar to those who know Vampire: Masquerade, Mage Ascension and also films like Collateral, The Neon Demon by Nicolas Winding Refn and also Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis. It is deliberately meant to be disorientating at the start... maybe too much so, as some anons have mentioned.

The subsequent playthroughs are more dungeon crawl / OSR with some randomly generated NPCs or scenario elements as well. Because some of the anons played through my older quests (entirely diceless quests) there are some continuing factions from my other settings, but they are not too important to these playthroughs.
I recognise that my quests are difficult and I do kill / fail / bad ending the quests when I think the players have no idea what is going on. Perhaps this is a bit unfair (I am not infallible, I make mistakes lol). It is just that I cannot steer the quests towards a good happy ending given some of the players conflicting actions (maybe a better QM can do this...)

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>>5163639
Maybe you are not fond of democracy, and you know about how preference revelation through voting is mathematically flawed through the Condorcet Paradox / Arrow Theorem.

Maybe you know from unaided recall surveys in online advertising that surveys tell you nothing, only how people respond to surveys, and reveal very little as to what people actually do, say or want.

In which case
>Ignore the framing of the three choices in the original link above, write in what you think QMs should actually do.

>>5163639
>>2/ I want an intense difficult experience where I might die and lose any time. Sometimes the challenges the QM presents will seem completely unfair or make no sense, probably because the QM has embraced l'autisme lol. If you somehow make it through one of these quests even alive, let alone win, you should feel proud of yourself.

>>5163639
>2
The first ever quest that I've read and joined here was an autistic high-letality party one-shot where rolling 1 on d100 would result in character's death and perspective switch. One time we lost 2 MCs in a span of just a couple updates after one attempted to save the other, but failure resulted in the death of both.
Shit was unbalanced, gory and fun as hell.

>>5163639
>4/I don't need the QM to hold my hand and tell me I'm a special, invincible anon who can never lose, but I also don't want every single vote to be a case of "guess the right choice or die"

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>>5163715
Ah that is interesting. But did any of the playerbase complain? Or any seething lol. Because I do make mistakes (in my quest, I let players defeat and kill the dungeonmaster of the world... by pointing out any of my mistakes. See here)
>>5137779

The problem is sometimes the player complaints are valid and sometimes they may not be... it may depend on how turboautistic I become or feel lol. I hope I am not one of those dungeonmasters that tries to endlessly kill the players haha you opened a door, instant spike trap you are dead etc. (I played OSR, I know how it feels) In fact I make it a valid choice in my games to take no weapons at all... For every dangerous section I always strongly foreshadow or hint as to signs of threat etc. There is generally the choice to just talk or run or even do nothing, wait and observe.

When I am hinting or trying and failing to steer players towards an area I am doing so to avoid the amounts of gruesome death and psychological failure that is lying in wait... but you could ask why I put them there in the first place though.

Maybe the world should be comfy and filled with more flowers and sunshine?

Also, in response to
>>5163638
I added some attempts at thread summaries lol.
Basically the main story thread is this
>>5121867
end sequence here
>>5129341
The combat mode is this (a lot of dice rolling and rules reconfiguring here)
>>5131605
end sequence here
>>5139539
It eventually continues here on a separate thread
>>5152733

Not sure if the summary helps though, it is still too long and a bit of a mess.

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>>5163728
It is reasonable to want the best of both options, the risk of danger but not suffer the consequences of defeat, thought it shifts all the responsibility and the effort and pressure to the QM or DM. You need to decide for yourself the situation and which of the difficult choices you really want. Is the threat real, or is it all just a make-believe game? What danger are the quest encounters really warning about, etc.

>>5163715
Also could you link the quest or do you remember the name? I would like to read it lol. Thank you!

>>5163733
>Ah that is interesting. But did any of the playerbase complain? Or any seething lol.
Picrel.

If you have problem with players who don't understand hints, it's time to start making direct comments through narration or metacommentary. Not everyone on this board is capable of applying critical thinking to the quests and even the players who give it their all will have worse days and miss out on things you don't outright say. And you will never know what they missed.
>GGotha
I forgot to add that my only interaction with your quest was opening the thread, looking at the shotgun autism thinking it was cool, but then dropping it when I saw the talk about rolling for each pellet and solving multiple dice issue. It's nice and all, but seemed like too steep of a learning curve for my ADD.
Also could be true for others, considering what >>5163638 said.

>>5163744
https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2021/4614226/#p4638873

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>>5163745
>picrel
>forgot picrel

>>5163746
Somehow, this warms my cold dead heart.

>>5163756
Who are you, anon?

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>>5163745
Thank you very much for the link! You get this picture of a strange low bore axis pistol, the Laugo Alien, as a reward. In real life it costs like USD5000 or something ridiculous, and the recoil saving lowered bore axis fixed barrel causes the shell casings to maybe burn your thumb when they eject onto your hand, which is why I made the gun cursed in my game lol. If you play Call of Duty lol or Ghost Recon videogames you may know CZ where the designer who invented it I think came from (they acquired a certain manufacturer named Colt recently...)

>looking at the shotgun autism thinking it was cool, but then dropping it when I saw the talk about rolling for each pellet and solving multiple dice issue. It's nice and all, but seemed like too steep of a learning curve for my ADD.

I completely agree lol all my damage rules are made up though I statistically adjust them using anydice.com I am trying to reconcile 1d100, 1d20 and also the awkward Tarot 1d78 card draw so autism lol. The basic idea is that ordinary mortals have 1-10 Blood, some slightly more important NPCs 10-14, 22 for aware magic users, and those near immortal get the Afterlife / Trauma additional hp of +100 as well as the full Tarot 78 card hp. (Some have even more health than this...) The magic sorcery guns are explained away as loading overpressure or match grade ammunition (in real life +P ammo) etc. Some unnatural creatures need to be killed with weapons older than when they were created, ie low capacity antique revolvers, shotguns or maybe swords etc to balance out the full auto high capacity magazine assault rifles. Though generally the weapons can shift appearance and form to match the era they are from.

I actually do prefer to play diceless; all my previous quests were diceless story only. I introduced the dice because of some feedback saying my instadeath decisions were a bit brutal lol. So the dice actually restrain the QM, prevent just instadeath everytime I think the players have walked into a path of no hope or return.

If any anon knows or can recommend some good rules light narrative systems for tactical firearms combat (not GURPS, not Shadowrun, not Cyberpunk 2020 style simulation please) which can incorporate attachments etc please recommend and I will check it out.

>>5163759
Nobody.

>>5163761
The system used by FallGuy for Deniable Assets is fairly decent. Attachments, upgrades, and so on become either part modifiers to a specific action, unlocking an ability or tactic, or giving a specific overall bonus or sub bonus to actions. The "system" itself is generally as complex and time consuming as you want it, based on accessory factors you may want to add, rather than by simply being something made for a pnp game between grognards.

For its combat system,
https://pastebin.com/KypPFgFr

For context to see it in use,
https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Deniable%20Assets%20Quest

>>5163761
Why not make your own system with as little dice as possible?

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>>5163775
This is useful, thank you. I can see it is sort of a fast skill check resolution system, whereas I would like to incorporate some elements of the physics of the guns like rpm cyclic rate or kinetic energy Joules delivered etc, but not so much like GURPS level lol. But I will think about it a bit more.

>>5163776
>Why not make your own system with as little dice as possible?

So most of my playthroughs were diceless:

INVULTUA (actually 4 playthroughs in one thread. Vaguely baroque space 40k like stuff inspired by Dan Abnett Inquisitor)
https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2021/5054156/
The Consort - death / executed
The Eschatonomist - escaped / fled, but sort of lived on
The Beggar Knight - victory, but a dark ending killing innocents (became a Witch-Knight, marauder conqueror)
The Preceptor - defeat / capture. Maybe lived.

GALERNE (2.5 or 3 playthroughs, in one thread. Sort of an Age Of Sail island fantasy setting.)
https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2021/5094509/
The Sibyl - this was an outstanding victory. Anons played this one really well. They won, but at a cost.

The Corsair: Barbarian, Privateer (This had a complex intertwining structure. It was two characters simultaneously)
Barbarian - lived, and vanquished the Maggot Dragon, but did not achieve all that was needed
Privateer - It was a defeat. Probably had to flee in the end to avoid capture.

GOLGOTHA (3 and a bit playthroughs lol across 2 threads. Urban gothic, tactical guns and tarot lol)
https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5121867/
https://lws.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5131732/
The Magus: defeat / executed by Cartel. His Death and destruction of The Tower caused the world to unravel...
- 1st Afterlife mode / Motel, Riot, Dead Land
Apotheosis, but it is a pretty grim ending. God of a dead and empty world
- 2nd Afterlife mode / Haircut, Switchblade Salon, The Underworld
Perhaps broke the curse of the Magus...? But died unnecessarily doing so.
- 3rd Afterlife mode / The Fat Man, and ...?
I think the anon gave up and lost interest. It made me a bit sad lol

So of the 10 playthroughs across all these worlds, depending how you count it, only 1 outright win, 4 survived but got dark/grim mixed endings, rest all defeat / deaths. 10% chance of victory... is it too brutal?

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I'll do a Miles Morales Spider-Man quest soon. Gwen Stacy will be the main love interest but which one?
>Original Gwen
>Spider-Gwen

>>5163841
That's a real bad idea, chief. Remember the audience you'll get here, it isn't gonna turn out well at all

>>5163838
what the hell are you posting?

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>>5163857
Just trying to work out why I cannot steer players towards happy or more conventionally fulfilling endings lol.

>>5163639
>>5163728

>>5163728

Just on the theme of guess the right choice or die etc. So there is this famous philosophical thing called sprachspiel, I think it was Wittgenstein, you could call it a word context game.

Consider the example of the simple word: water. It could mean: Waiter get me some... water. Or it could mean: don't drink it, the poison is in the... water. But it is the same word, same meaning?!

The idea is that the meaning is inseparable from the world view, the context, the interpretation. Now when you play a videogame with Unreal Engine or Unity graphics and cool programming lighting shader effects and particle physics, it is so obvious. There is little room for interpretation, imperfect /asymmetric information or ambiguity. You have a sword. The goblins and orcs look pretty evil. You know what to do.

In real life, whether it is like military situation awareness or the stock market, you do not have this clarity. It is sometimes called the OODA loop (observe orient decide act), a really old concept. There is no one in real life who pops up with a warning DANGER sign, or like an exclamation mark on their head like in Metal Gear Solid when alerted etc.

If someone is trying to tell you this guy is good this other guy is evil etc, it is usually propaganda or at the very least a simplification of reality. What are their goals? What do they really want? You have to decide for yourself. Maybe what they tell you does in fact help you.

Of course, you can also just not bother deciding. Just let society and convention guide you, life will be much easier that way.

So I try to incorporate a lot of this ambiguity into my games. Sometimes a Fat Man is just a Fat Man. Maybe if you played Fallout or even know the real world history, you know what a Fat Man really means, what it really represents.

You have to recognise the objects, the framing, the goals and also anticipate what the future holds, the exact situational awareness structure.
If you think about it, all games have this structure. Observe the move. Work out what it means. Anticipate the next move. It applies from a turn based rpg to a first person shooter to macroeconomic and geopolitical manoeuvres and wars lol.

In all my games there is a hidden thing. You win if you discover the hidden secret and generally lose or get a mixed outcome otherwise. Maybe this is unfair?

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yes pls

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>no valen quest on VALENtines day
who wrote this shit...
plz riz at least tell us your alive answer an askfm or anything im begging u

>>5163838
>asked why won't he make his own system
>says most of my "plathroughs" were diceless:
>lists 4 quests
>refuses to elaborate further
>leaves
Anon I think you are actually autistic and there is nothing wrong with it, but you need to take it into account and cut the expectations you have of other prople knowing what's going inside your head.

>playthroughs
What's that even mean? From the limited context I have I can only assume it means individual anons controlling individual characters.
>So of the 10 playthroughs (...)
Why can't you make your own custom dice system to merge the gap between textless quest and overly autistic quest nobody gets?

>>5163842
Don't be so lame. There've been plenty of good cape quests.

>>5163841
Follow your dreams, anon.

>>5163738
>the risk of danger but not suffer the consequences of defeat

That isn't what i sad at all. I said that I prefer when a quest isn't an unrelenting gauntlet of dire choices, but uses those sparingly. Not every defeat or failure should be catastrophic. It doesn't need to be an "intense difficult experience where I might lose any time" to have challenge and danger.

> thought it shifts all the responsibility and the effort and pressure to the QM or DM

Welcome to running a game.

>>5163908
Do you really thing that's what I was warning against? Because it's a comic fan fic? And not that it'd be drowned in racism?

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>>5163897
So I have run 2 settings Invultua and Galerne that were diceless, and the current Golgotha urban setting is a mix of a more QM-ruling driven story mode and also a partially randomly generated OSR like combat modes and encounters.

Playthroughs in the original 2 settings consisted of one choice from an initial selection of characters. If the protagonist died, I restarted in a different area or location of the world with another character class etc.

This time I tried a new thing. The Magus is a sorceror who can become or disguise himself as anything and anyone simlly by wearing certain clothes or carrying certain items (it is inspired by Hitman videogames) Because the players managed to defeat the in-game dungeonmaster, I tried to let them set some of the rules and determination to some extent, eg whether they wanted to use dice or just accept rulings for certain difficult decisions.

I think anons have mentioned it before. I am used to playing in person and never breaking character, it is how I played back when people still got together and rolled dice on a table instead of doing a video conference call lol.

With the wall of text qst format it is hard to convey nuance whereas in real life if you see people puzzled or panicking you can easily compensate etc. Several times in the qsts I actually mistook anons for having maybe more information than they perhaps themselves knew or thought... so I ramped up the difficulty. It could be that they knew some of what was going on but not all or even enough of it.

>>5163926
Though it unfortunately seems to have died when QM got a job, High Rise Fantasy had a Muslim Iraqi as its main character and it was trucking along fine. /qst/ is one of the least /pol/-infested boards on this site. It'll probably be fine.

>>5163931
You spill a lot of seemingly-extraneous info at the drop of a hat here, my friend, but I believe B/50ZqgM was just asking:
>if you don't like dice, and your current dice system is too weird and unintelligible for most anons to get into, why don't you just simplify/abstract the dice system to something more basic?

The obvious pick seems to be a d100, with set situational DCs that you make up on the fly based on how tricky you feel it should be, perhaps further modified by the cleverness of your players' plans.

>>5163932
See, that'd work if the quest wasn't based around an existing character hated by fanbase that'd make up the majority of the quest's potential audience and that's before you account for edgy kids who think typing we wuz kangs is the height of humor

People, for some reason, don't like Miles.

>>5163936
From what I remember his original comics weren’t that good and first impressions are everything

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>>5163931
>doesn't answer the question
anon, I...

>>5163933
One could even say I that was just asking:
>Why can't you make your own custom dice system

>>5163940
I think its just because he isn't peter parker

>>5163838
>I would like to incorporate some elements of the physics of the guns like rpm cyclic rate or kinetic energy Joules delivered

I only know of a few commander styled quests that have incorporated details like these as contribution values in large unit formations, per developmental strength of the unit, but none as precise as what you're aiming for where it's applying for the player. The most detailed I've seen is guns having an aiming modifier and an innate action speed modifier with a differential between ammunition types and spell modifications, but it was never fully utilized in the magic centric quest. You're liable to need a unique creation that will allow you to stat things out wholly before you put it into the players' hands. I'd worry about complexity, but since you've got experience with systems that frontload these things for ease of use you only really have to "pick down" and morph things as you need to. After all,

>>5163874
>>5163931
The QMing style you appear to want relies on set primary meanings and player interpretation. In my opinion you don't need a system for anything as much as you would better benefit from selecting a foundational theme, or sets of themes, that you enjoy and keeping to them in a way your players agency can be rewarded. I'd only say your style is unfair in a pure game sense, it's not unfair for a heavily narrative driven quest where the players you attract already have these similar expectations.

The thing with ambiguity as a narrative tool is that it's a bad design choice for a game. No lie, it's the wrong tool for rewarding agency either positively or negatively. So if it's something you want, then in my opinion, it's better to be applied to the just a setting itself or the intentions of other characters.

Because so far of the quests you posted what I'm reading reads as if the quest aims to set up increasingly complex arrays of solutions that don't work with an aim of results oriented themes which themselves are narratively self sabotaging or they at best trend towards player agency mitigation.

If you're having fun running quests like these I'd say there's nothing you need to change. There's always players for trap option quests, and there's one anon that mentions feeling out trap options in at least every thread you've linked. If you've disliked how anons react to it, you only need to change the minimum. If you want more details in a system and for players to use them, just enable their usefulness. If you want assurance on how players receive information, be more direct and simplified. Although they can be complicated, these individual topics aren't overtly complex problems.

>>5163621
Listen Sovarine, maybe it´s because you are autistic and cannot imagine that someone could be upset with the way you run your game without rejecting your internal message and motivation for the game structure and concepts, but you are completely wrong as to why you have trouble retaining players.
First of all, your quests are very high-concept. I'm sure you've noticed in your time here that most people take one look at your quest and walk away utterly bewildered. I'm not a graduate student writing a thesis on philosophical works, and if I was I certainly wouldn't be analyzing a forum game on 4chan.
My issue was never the bleakness or difficulty, or any misconceptions about the nature of the setting or narrative, but the most basic qm shit.
You bemoan the treatment of your npcs, but they're near impossible to interact with. For about 80% of the time, anything I said was completely ignored which really does make them little better than videogame npcs. In much the same way, they would talk past me in paragraphs of meandering nonsense that only serve as an outlet for your cryptic metaplot. A bit of that is fine, but when npcs fail to be actual people and reach that level of noninteractivity they might as well just be skyrim characters to be slaughtered and ignored.
All of this was annoying but it wouldn't have been enough to make me quit, but what did is that situation at the end.
Now I know what you were going for, and maybe I could have done a better job paying attention and rolling with it, but what you did is the quickest method to getting someone to lose all interest in a game.
There´s nothing more frustrating in an rpg than losing control of your character, so when it felt like the choices stopped mattering, I checked out.
I know that wasn't your intention, but in the moment it felt just as bad as the dm saying “You walk forward and step onto the pressure plate, rocks fall.” when you’re explicitly avoiding it.

>>5163976
>when npcs fail to be actual people and reach that level of noninteractivity they might as well just be skyrim characters to be slaughtered and ignored.
>nothing more frustrating in an rpg than losing control of your character
Anda hard this. It's thoroughly obtuse, even reading it without playing it feels this way.

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>>5163976
Look I apologise for this. I do not want to upset people lol the world is stressful enough already. As you probably guessed, what I was trying to do with the fight is to show and help you unlock a lot of items and cool powers that I thought you might want - I think I said before that in the game and the world the magic and stuff only manifests near threat of death and in high powered situations, it is NOT dnd where you just cast magic missile cast fireball cast eldritch blast etc. I thought you said you wanted more fighting so I did not understand why you wanted to run away all of a sudden. As you probably guessed I do this all for free lol as I quite enjoy rpgs and imaginary worlds and exploring them. I do not mind so much what you do with the npcs but rather that you do stuff that makes sense lol. Like if you enjoy fighting why suddenly run away? If there is someone trying to help you why kill them? Of course under the pressure of the scenario it is not always clear who is a friend and ally etc. That is sort of the point of the game. You had a lot of success with some encounters early on, and I know if you like YIIK rpg (I have not played it) surely you are used to much more frustration lol as I read that game is deliberately engineered to be unwinnable and disappointing sometimes?

(not sure if you are the YIIK anon, but this is basically what I was trying to do, to help you get the fighting stuff. And if you think you get annoyed having character control taken away... think about the storylines and npcs you slaughtered hehe... the Dungeonmaster Tears... noooo)

I also take issue with the idea that I want the game to be simple power fantasy, you´re extrapolating that from good handling of unbalanced situations.
Literally the argument that if you play well you´re a minmaxer.

>>5164001
If you have problems catering to players, want things to ultimately go your way and have a backlog of weird lore to dump then why don't you just write a book instead of running a quest?

>>5164001
If you want my exact reasoning, there were riot police incoming and you started to describe the screaming woman as the Chained Maiden so I was sure that it was a magic enemy and I had already expended most of my magical ammo on a shitpost, so I thought is was prudent to avoid the obvious deadly encounters and change the area but the encounters teleported in front of me and my character left my control so he could blunder into them and I was so dismayed at the railroading that I checked out entirely.

>>5163976
>>5164006
>First of all, your quests are very high-concept

So to be honest lol I really did not think that, most of the ideas are from like well known games I stole or plagiarised lol like Max Payne Metal Gear Solid or Hitman or Bloodborne, I cited a list of these. A very small amount of the scenarios are based on things I did in real life like becoming a billionaire vampire sorceror or actually meeting the deputy supreme allied commander who was a knight. Maybe some of them are true? I just wanted to find out what anons who were in vaguely similar or analogous situations to me would say or do, if I could have made the world better.

>>5164016
>A very small amount of the scenarios are based on things I did in real life like becoming a billionaire vampire sorceror or actually meeting the deputy supreme allied commander who was a knight.
Uuuhhh... what?

>>5164001
There is a middle-ground between D&D-style superpower fantasy and esoteric, difficult-to-parse metanarratives with incredibly complex firearm mechanics and constant failure.

If you really want more players, and better player engagement, find that sweet spot.

>>5164020
Most people have jobs anon.

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>>5164016
> things I did in real life

Ah shit, don't tell me you're a Secret Space Program adherent?

>>5164024
sure sure, but uh, vampire sorceror?

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>>5164020
hehe its all in the credits and disclaimer of the main Golgotha game. But seriously most of it is just based on videogames I played in real life.

In case you were wondering why a lot of the assassins and magic users are female in the game, I thought it was funny because the former Warlord Of Lotan / L'OTAN / Nato deputy supreme allied commander... guess what he does now...

https://www.genderforce.com/?page_id=4088

About Genderforce

Advisory Board Member – Sir Richard Shirreff

(...)

As NATO’s 4 Star Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) he operated at the strategic level which required close engagement with allied, coalition and other governments, the European Union, non-Governmental and International organisations to plan and execute campaigns, generate the means required and build the necessary bridges, intellectually, culturally and practically, in order to support NATO campaigns and operations, together with the Alliance’s wider transformation. He has extensive experience of building unity of effort with different nations, governments, the humanitarian community and a wide variety of other stakeholders in order to resolve complex problems. He has a first hand understanding of the challenges of decision making under extreme political and media pressure, and a proven record of leading dynamic change management in establishing radical new structures to achieve integrated planning and execution with key stakeholders.

After a lifetime leading soldiers – much of it in combat, Sir Richard Shirreff is a passionate exponent of the importance of leadership at every level and in every sector. Having operated in a multinational context at the strategic level, his views and experience of strategy are relevant and applicable to business. He is a regular speaker on leadership from the front and beyond and his talks on strategy at the London Business School have resonated with both students and corporate customers alike.

>>5164031
It may be niche but contracting work has lots of upsides to its independence, anon.

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>>5164042
okay.

>>5164024
I don't

>>5164035
>it turns out the QM who speaks in semi-intelligible run-on sentences full of weird, high-concept esoterica is also an actual crazy person in a weird internet cult for sad narcissists

Ah. Shame, that.

>>5164035
i have no clue what you're talking about anon, can somebody translate?

For a little while I thought I might just be skimming the posts too hard or was way too tired, I'm glad to see that others are confused.

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>>5164035
>its all in the credits and disclaimer of the main Golgotha game
nobody's gonna go there to read it, post explanation here
>In case you were wondering why a lot of the assassins and magic users are female in the game
that anon didn't read your quest, he has no idea what you're on about
>schizo origins of your idea
nobody read that, but now everyone knows you're a schizo

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>>5164052
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYvnKc908Fw

>>5163874
so if i got this right you basically expect the players to know what you're thinking i:e guess the number in my brain, and if they can't/won't then you give them a bad ending? that is not a formula for a successful quest. also in my opinion you should not try to steer your players in any direction other than giving them a clear goal to work towards. how they work towards it should be their choice and you should roll with it no matter what.

reading the rest of your posts there seems to be a consistent disconnect between what you say, what people reply to that with, and what you reply back. like there's some kind of lag between the idea you're trying to convey and what other anons get out of your answers. this consistently happens with almost every one of your posts itt, and to be honest i also don't know what you're getting at. the only piece of advice i can really offer you as a QM is: never expect your players to read your mind, or even to understand the subtext/metanarrative of your quest, which also boils down to reading your mind. i think what you should do is basically, keep it simple stupid. that is if you want to have a "successful" quest with a lot of players and consistent player retention. i don't know if you're too smart for /qst/ or if you're too schizo, but either way i recommend you tone it down and try to keep the metanarrative from overtaking the actual narrative, which seems to be a problem.

or don't, personally i like weird high-concept/schizo things and i think every online community needs at least one person who is able to put that out there, so you do you my friend.

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Haven't been on this board since the Soma days, and I gotta ask... Is there literally anything good in here?

>>5164092
Yes, there is, but unless you tell us what kind of quests you like/are looking for it's not easy to recommend any.

>>5164082
> i don't know if you're too smart for /qst/
It's a funny occurrence to me that being clueless on how to communicate to your desired audience is often labeled as being too smart. Convoluted, self-serving rambling is not a sign of intelligence.

Half of having an idea is being able to explain it to another person. Whether that be a published essay, scientific article, or even erotica, the onus of writing to be understood is on the writer. Being too autistic to be adaptable is not a sign of intelligence.

>>5164092
Check out Maximum Spiderman Quest, it's in it's first thread and is really good, especially if you are at all a /co/fag. Second Primarch is also amazing and a long running 40k quest, which makes it pretty special imo. And if you don't mind some shameless self promotion, check out Starving Creature Quest, a loosely The Thing inspired quest where you play as the titular monster. We're currently on thread #3 with the next update happening at around 6 PM EST.

>>5164110
You have a point, but I just didn't want to insult the guy, and also he doesn't seem like an idiot to me, just somebody with a lot of big ideas who's poor at translating them to text.

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Thank you everyone for the feedback. I do like rpgs and exploring imaginary worlds and it is really useful to know what other people think as I definitely can go full autismo lol.

I am not that concerned with huge playerbases or self validation I am on 4chan qst lol that famous well-known internet destination with massive traffic, huge monetisation, audience reach and activity, or maybe not hehe.

There are some hidden messages and warnings buried across my games but I do not think this is the right place or audience for it lol, to be honest it is not that interesting and playing some videogames probably convey it much better.

If I managed to momentarily entertain or intrigue even just one anon and make them slightly satisfied or amused that is enough for me. I think if I ever run another game, I will try and challenge myself with a comfy setting... one that is a bit more hopeful.

>>5164098
I used to like original stuff mostly. I casually browse /tg/ and /co/. Big on fantasy stuff but I don't fag out over most franchises.

>>5164114
I'll definitely check out your quest and the spiderman one, thanks for the recs anon.

>>5164148
>original
Supreme Space Monke Leader is probably one of the better original quests on here. It's probably one of the better civ quests because it's mostly character focused instead of no-engagement number crunching.

>>5164148
You may like mine, Reptilian Infiltrator Quest. It's in its last couple months of running, but there's still plenty of time to read up and to join in on the endgame.

Local Lord is fun if you like medeival/historical stuff and satire, while I'm A Demon? has a really near out-there fantasy feel. Both of them are younger quests, but seem to have dedicated QMs.

>>5164151
SSML is absolutely fantastic.

>>5164145
When next schizo thread

Are quests in the public domain?

>>5164252
I mean, ignoring the capeshit quests and other setting fanfic quests, no one is going to sue you for stealing their quest setting

but on the other hand why would you? Most of the stuff on here is not worth stealing (my stuff including)

>>5164271
more I had the hair-brained idea to start a text to speak youtube channel to one ensure the old quests live for ever, and two I think it would be fun to have a few of the quests text to speak in videos like what neckberdia does for TG stuff

>>5164280
If you got any money at all to shell out instead of text to speech you should just pay some youtuber guy that's known for having a sexy voice to read out a one shot or something, it would have broader appeal and may even get some fresh newfags to come to the board. Or you could just read it yourself if you're any good at voice acting.

>>5164280
I mean, no legal entity is going to stop you. Go ahead. Do whatever you want.

>>5164280
I always thought that would be a good idea. But monetizing someone's work might upset them. Maybe getting permission or something like that. It would be interesting to see.

holy shit my idea got positive to neutral responses maybe I really should follow up on this idea.

>>5164280

That sounds hella based. It'd be quests like Ruby Quest and Black Company Quest then?

I don't know many of the oldies off the top of my head though, but I'd imagine a good voice narrating the quests would do wonders.

Anyone noticing the spike of board activity that consistently coincides with activity of fanfic quests.

First it was Berserk Quest, now it's Maximum Spider Quest-- I haven't read the Berserk one but the latter is pretty good.

>>5164295
yes, but not at first, I want to do those quests justice and I strongly doubt I could right off the bat you know what I mean

>>5164290
>Magical Girl Noir quest.
If I remember correctly someone did attempt to do a voice acted read along. Kind of what happened with a bunch of groups during the popularity of Homestuck.