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>What is a quest?
An interactive story in which a Quest Master (QM) writes and provides the readers with options on how to proceed — similar to a choose-your-own-adventure book or an old text adventure

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>Old pastebin containing advice for QMs:
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Badly in need of renovation.

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>Formatting guide:
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Remove the spaces between the [] brackets and the letters:
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>Formatting guide for everyone:
Dice (type this in “options”): dice + [no. of dice]d[no. of sides on the dice] (optionally you can add modifiers: dice + [no. of dice]d[no. of sides on the dice]+[modifier]; for a negative modifier type: +-[modifier]

Examples: dice+1d100 = a 1d100 roll, dice+1d100+10 = a 1d100 roll with a +10 modifier.

Spoiler: [ spoiler ]spoiler[ /spoiler ] or by pressing alt+s in-thread (doesn't work in OP)

>QM question:
What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.

>Player question:
Pitch a quest, be it one you want to run or one you want to see run but don't have the time/confidence to run (if it's the latter then just run it, it can't hurt). If you don't have an idea for a full quest, then how would you change one you've read/are reading?

>General question:
What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?

>Lurker question:
Do you feel more or less confident to post now, after all the dirty laundry has been aired out and the timer decreased? You should still vote btw, unless you're posting from a mobile IP or something and have an excuse.

>Miscellaneous question:
What other boards do you frequent? What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic? If you could make a board, what would it be?

Been reading too much slop manga and now I'm thinking about a oneshot based on those "kicked from the Hero's party" stories where you need to claw your way out of a dungeon.

>>6243967 (OP)
QM question: 1632 and ILST. Along with crossovers in general

>>6243967 (OP)
>>QM question:
>What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.

I basically only run civ threads. I played master of magic as a kid.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM QUESTION
MANAGER HELP, TROUBLESHOOTER, and others -> Monster Facility + F.E.E.D + HELP WANTED! quests and SS13 primarily. Lots and lots of assorted references.
DISFORTUNA and BLOOD SOUP (don't feel like updating that) -> Fortuna webcomic (deeply homosexual) + SS13 "dark" servers (DEATHNET, Roguetown/Stonekeep, IS12) + BUGCHUD! TRPG (go read that) + fat robot thighs.
SUNROSE CALLING -> Pokemon (duh), TF2 + Gmod videos, my friends and family, Aneurism IV, and SS13.
BUG MEAT Discord Quest -> Fortuna webcomic + Fear & Hunger. This ancient quest would later inspire MANAGER HELP! and me coming to /qst/ in general.

>GENERAL QUESTION
Went to SB, SV as a test run. SB has shit taste, SV was more receptive, and then /qst/ came back and I was coming home!

Cheeseburger - Commin' Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_6g9qpSVLY

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question
Designated Survivor, the TV show and Democracy’s Martyrdom, the TNT mod.
>Player question
Still think a conclave or papal quest would be sick, but another would be a political isekai. Rando weeb spawns in another world and instead of gaining power by conventional means (magic, leveling up, etc.) they decide to climb the ranks of whatever nation they spawned in. I always thought that would be neat.

>>6243999
TCT*

>>6243999
Oh was just asking about you. Hope thread two comes soon!

>>6243999
That sound cool

I been thinking of one where you’re the last living person in the original line of succession in a zombie apocalypse. One part Civ- one part Rebuild- one part political.

>>6243990
I'll elaborate a little because I think there's important things to mention:
MH, SUNROSE -> BLAME! the City for its megastructural formats and its awesome descriptions of such places, as well as Project Moon obviously. I always enjoyed the urban/suburban setting; in a city, there's a hodgepodge of different people and perspectives, so crossovers tend to go very well in there.
The people are clearly based on interactions I've had in SS13 (ie. hilarious and/or subhuman at times) but also drawing upon the horror of the mind when exposed to such conditions (such as the casual approach to insane amounts of violence). It's mostly played for laughs up until it isn't. When the final frontier is in the human mind, you're gonna see some crazy shit.
Because of the SS13 stuff as well as a very influential /lit/ or /tg/ thread about losers, I started using a lot more losers and weirdos, literal whos, and other nobodies (ie. everyman archetypes) as the main characters in my latest writings. Being confused and frustrated with the everyday mundane conflicts of the world isn't just for those isekai fags!
(Also cool robots.)

DISFORTUNA and SUNROSE CALLING -> Amulet Quest for MSPaint, faces, and format. The QM said he liked my robots and we talked about roguelikes a lot. I get sad when I think about how he up and vanished in September, but nothing to be done.

FORTUNA -> This is where I got my use of [character traits] playing a vital role in affecting the narration and narrative. I also stole the metanarrative of being inside a video game with aware characters (who cheat maliciously) because it's fucking funny, as well as developed the idea of cute bug people wearing meat suits from here. This is also where the centipedes come from in HELP WANTED and CLEANER QUEST.
If you want to read it, read the MSPaint comic (SOVL) on MSFPA first then the one on the website. There's also RP and pet collecting nowadays, but that's way too deep for me. The reason I don't recommend reading it because of the extreme nihilism and angst, both in universe and as a result of the video game framing, as well as the gay shit (ex. pronouns, abusive lesbian couple, homosexuals and homosexual accessories).

That's all I can remember now.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question
I believe i've said this before, but my only real inspiration quest-wise was Saber and Musket. In general, however, I also had quite a bit of inspiration from the Sabres of Infinity series (that is to say, the idea of playing as a young nobleman conscripted into leading his regiment into an overseas war)

>Player question
I wish someone would run one of those "Multiplayer Civilization" quests without it ending, quite literally every time, in either the players flaking or the QM. It's usually a mix of both. I only didn't decide to run that because I wanted to do Fog of War instead.

>General question
I'm not a coomer nor a worm fan, so no, just /qst/

>Miscellaneous question:
/co/, /a/ and /vst/ mostly. I wish the last one had more traffic.

>Pitch a quest, be it one you want to run or one you want to see run but don't have the time/confidence to run (if it's the latter then just run it, it can't hurt). If you don't have an idea for a full quest, then how would you change one you've read/are reading?
It's either a Medabots quest, Kamen Rider or light-hearted superhero/shonen villainess quest.
>What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?
Searching for anons I share projects with and lurking alt chans.
>What other boards do you frequent?
/a/, /i/ and a bit of /e/ and /vrpg/ but I'm not playing videogames. I'll need go to /ic/ for a joke tournament in a month.
>What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic?
/i/? Just a bit, I like slow boards.
>If you could make a board, what would it be?
/aqst/- adult quests but you can't post explicit porn. It probably isn't a good idea but...

>>6243967 (OP)
>inspiration
I don't have to look far for inspiration, as the nature of an apocalypse is an inversion of the functional present, or in my case an exageration of what Houston is already like.
>buying and selling and living a grotesque life
That's life in a modern city already. You have to earn money to buy necessities no matter what, and if you run out of money you're dead. Everyone you meen is Basically a hazard, especially driving around, or in any shop, your chances of running afoul of a pack of mindless savages is increasingly high, the longer you stay in public. The rewards of course for going out and dealing with the public are also high, if you don't mind the risk of losing a finger.
I'm inspired by trivial events, or by driving by the lqndmarks and places described in the copy of the writing. I like to write for the sake of the writing as the engagement has never been too high, however it requires a great deal of focus, to write, and so I must make the time to QM out of my IRL activities, family and work, which themselves form the apparatus around which much of the game is built.

>downtime
Being online is a vampire from productive labor. I spent my time working, just as I do when I'm banned.

>>6244021
The apocalypse genre focuses too much on the post-apocalypse, the syn-apocalypse stage can be just as if not even more interesting and we seldom get to see it from the perspective of an organisation over everyday citizens on the ground or sometimes the military. A quest where you're trying to keep everything from falling apart without going full Redeker (though if most of the government is gone, it might be beyond that point) is a very rare and welcome take. Bonus points if it's not a major First World country.

Really, I just like the apocalypse stage. I have a plague zompocalypse worldbuilding project going for fun on the side and have created scenarios focusing on state quarantine response, emergency medical arrangements, how it affects the Third World, the role of the media, measures to try and save the electrical grid, ship stranded at sea, the refugee crisis and so on.

Saint Denis preserve us, writing a dissertation is tiresome, I can understand why only monks should do all this reading and writing business. Give me a good sword, a fast horse and a barrel of burgundian wine, and perhaps some fl*mish pigs to gut.

But all of this is coming to an end. Soon my friends, very soon, the Local Lord will be back, after all of these delays. If God wills it of course.

>>6243967 (OP)
>Player question:
I have an idea for a survival quest, i.e., shipwreck stranded, but I'm trying to figure out how to balance it. Currently, there's a lot more bad endings than good endings

>>6243971
Anything actually interesting? I Sold My Life for Ten Thousand Yen Per Year and Summer Time Rendering had interesting concepts.

>general question related
Is there anything beyond Random Superpower Quest on akun which is worth reading?

>>6244166
>I Sold My Life for Ten Thousand Yen Per Year
What a retard, damn. Even I could get a better deal than that.

>>6244166
Delights: Earthly And Desolate is one I quite enjoyed and which made me laugh and feel at times.
>>6244041
>Sabres of Infinity
Welles?

>>6244176
No, Betrothed.

>>6244041
>sabres of infinity

Based

>>6244182
Unforgivable. Forlorn Hope with no Caz

>>6244190
Enjoy getting to kiss her when you're in your 60s.

>>6244193
>>6244190
>not LARPing as a trauma-stricken veteran who hangs out with other veterans because he can’t readjust to civilian life
NGMI

>>6244193
True enough. How old of a dragoon did you choose?

>>6244203
If you choose anything other than 14 or 18 you're going to end the series an elder.

these days I struggle to write outside of a quest format and its killing me

New update for The Caretaker Quest is up!
after hanging around a bit with Merlin, your link increases a bit along with your relationship.
you finally delivered your alibi to the investigator.
and now you have to chose what to chase, a shadow or some mysterious steps?
vote now to decide which one!
>>6236973
>>6236973
>>6236973

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question:
HeadQM´s Disappearing Hogwarts quest.
Before finding his quest i was playing Hogwarts Mystery, but seeing the world and story that he was developping made me realize of all the untapped potential that the Wizarding World has and wanted to start my own (sure, its basically a side quest/story from his own, but after that is over and make another quest i have in mind, i might go back to the Wizarding World with something new)

>Player question:
an escape room based on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDh8GU-ljQo
not the series, but rather the setting of the first episode.

>General question:
it actually worked as a small vacation for me, i was getting a bit burnt out from writing, now im feeling refreshed, so far im /qst/ only and i plan to keep that way.

>Miscellaneous question:
mostly /vg/, i used to hang in /mlp/ but i i think im mostly done with that, i lurk there from time to time nowadays.

The next thread of Designated Survivor Quest will be published tomorrow, save something like a power outage occurring.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question:
Bananas qm is the only inspiration I need to write. He is my everything.

>Player question:
Some kind of space monkey fanfic, perhaps rat space empire.

>General question:
I reread space monkey quest from start to finish

>Lurker question:
Voting in a quest is pointless because samefags just decide every votetht maters. Better to just read and enjoy, never reading any of the player writing.

Unless it's bananas QM because he always just calls it out and has a 6th sense for samefags.

>Miscellaneous question:
Meaningless time wasting question. I spend most of my free time on the spaemonkey subreddit.

>>6244210
Are you me? I need to pick up a book and reread it to remember how it's supposed to go fuck.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question
Ace Combat, obviously! Along with plenty of mecha media with the most influential one being Macross. Yukikaze is a factor as well.

>Player question:
Anti-Kaiju Defense Force. Something like the defense teams from Ultraman and NERV from Evangelion. Don't ask me how it would work though. Picrel.

I miss The Little Dungeon That Could.

>>6244413
you better march right back into that samefag infested quest and vote mister

>>6244413
I literally just want to run quests dude

>>6244420
>Yukikaze
Why is it everytime I ask or post in /a/ people either shit on me or the thread dies without replies yet from time to time I randomly stumble upon anime which I'm actually interested in watching outside of /a/?

>>6244205
14 as starting age makes pic extra spicy

>>6243967 (OP)
>Player question:
Latest one I thought of was the players playing an assassin in a standard JRPG setting where after failing to kill the hero at a noble's behest thanks to a series of unlucky events, you get "volunteered" by the hero's party to fill their thief roaster and help the hero kill the demon lord (while keeping the hero from being killed for being too naive) or be executed for your crimes should you fail (saving the rest of the party is optional).
That's the rough draft anyway, I haven't even thought of personality or overall plot and frankly I can't run it because my schedule is too erratic and I get those days where I'm seriously unmotivated so I would flak on the players anyway.

>General question:
I was at moe, mainly to get my /a/ and /vg/ fix and when I got tired of it I caught up with some manga/anime I wanted to watch. I'm /qst/ only, because I don't know the other sites and the quest I'm already following is here

>Miscellaneous question:
I follow /v/, /vg/ and /a/ that's all really

>>6244531
It's not a much better board but /m/ is more appreciative of Yukikaze.

>>6243967 (OP)
>What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.
I like learning about unusual mythology and history, and weird cryptids and conspiracy theories, so I can incorporate some of them into my work. I don't read as many books or watch as many series as I used to, because I read so many quests and watch so many documentaries, but I draw on them a little when I do.

Many of the quests I am reading, or have read, provide inspiration in and of themselves, but some outside materials are necessary once in a while so we don't fall into a recursive self-referential vortex of creative incest, right?

>Pitch a quest, be it one you want to run or one you want to see run but don't have the time/confidence to run (if it's the latter then just run it, it can't hurt).
I quite enjoy business sims and low-stakes slice-of-life, but I'm not confident running them. I often give them a look when they pop up in the catalogue, though!

>What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?
During the downtime I really considered where else I might run, and the experience of being taken down because of 4chan drama unrelated to /qst/ still has eyeing other platforms... But I don't really super like the look of any of them. /qst/ is just cozy.

As for what I did, mostly hung out with friends, read A History of Ancient Britain, and watched all of Dragon Ball Daima.

>What other boards do you frequent? What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic? If you could make a board, what would it be?
Sometimes I peek in on /x/ or /tg/ for inspo, and /fa/ for fun.

>>6244413
Eesh.

>>6244106
Aww Yiss.

And speaking of returning quests, CAMBION QUEST is also back after a short hiatus:

>>6244669
>>6244669
>>6244669

RimQuest is up! I'll be updating today and tomorrow, so let's get colonizing.

>>6244719
>>6244719
>>6244719

Designated Survivor Quest - #2 is up and running!
>>6244720
>>6244720
>>6244720

Do you like horror movies? Do you like wanton slaughter? Have you ever wanted to direct a trashy bargain-bin horror flick? Assume the mantle of horror orchestrator in Slasherquest!

>>6244764
>>6244764

>>6242740
>>6242740
>>6242740

Silver Knight Quest -- new post needs a tiebreak!

Hello, I'm the Anon running the Monster OPM Quest.

What are some good places to grab images for monsters that aren't too fantasy or sci-fi looking? I've tried gelbooru, but no matter what I do I keep getting monster girls and monster sex, deviantart's quality is bad, and artstation trends too grim and dark for what I personally for the purposes of my quest think an average monster should look like.

>>6244783
Do you have an example of what sort of monster vibe your'e going for? it's hard for me to imagine what a monster is that is neither sci-fi nor fantasy. Just a large animal?

>>6244784
Should have been more clear- too much of stuff I'm looking at has very medieval looking armor, laser rifles, cyborg implants and general stuff like that in the frame. Like, I don't need pictures of a Gelatinous cube in particular, it's just an example, but like, I would avoid using a pic that has it eating a knight or a Xenomorph if it was attacking an astronaut.

The Tirepede from Look Outside is a good example of a weaker monster that I just used in terms of general monsterishness.

I'm not opposed to grosser monster designs or anything, it's just that if I go with the sources I have currently, everything's going to look overly fucked up on average. I just need some "cleaner" designs I guess?

Sorry if this is infuriatingly vauge.

>>6244788
Look Outside is such good inspiration for monster designs.

>>6244472

>>6244783
>I've tried gelbooru, but no matter what I do I keep getting monster girls and monster sex
Have you tried blacklisting those tags? Search for the option in "settings".

>>6244788
Is this too "fantasy" for you?

>>6244783
/tg/ (character) art threads
They're pretty on the spot when it comes to giving me art when I ask specifically

>>6244831
>>6244783
make sure to have 5 pictures to start your own thread with

>>6244788
Do you have a synopsis of your story? Horror monsters vs Pokemon/Digimon vs stranded on a alien planet vs Persona/Jojo have different styles.

Hey, Storyteller Luo, any chance you're still around?

>>6244783
>I've tried gelbooru, but no matter what I do I keep getting monster girls and monster sex
you can remove the sex tags or blacklist them

>>6244413
soj I miss your quests

>>6245104
>>6245104
>>6245104

New update! Willow is not having a fun time (deserved) and you have dices to roll...

In my restless dreams I see that Quest. The GOOD fantasy quest. You promised to run that for me someday. But (YOU) never did....

>>6243967 (OP)

What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.

A general curiosity I am currently investigating is the DDR (GDR for anglos). It's general aesthetic and state structure makes its history (and current state) really interesting.

Though we often heavily associate communism with Slavic/Eastern cultures (thanks, Cold War) people often forget that for 41 years there existed a culturally 'western' communist republic that, despite its best efforts, got subsumed into another country after almost half a century apart.

Pitch a quest, be it one you want to run or one you want to see run but don't have the time/confidence to run (if it's the latter then just run it, it can't hurt). If you don't have an idea for a full quest, then how would you change one you've read/are reading?

I don't have the time at all, but if I were to return to QM'ing again I would return to running a historical quest set during an important historical time period. My first thoughts are the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire (from the eyes of an Austrian, à la Radetsky March (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radetzky_March_(novel)) and the Seven Year's war in America (i.e. the French and Indian war).

What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?

I don't use this platform outside of /qst/ much, so I just stuck to the other platforms I use. Then again, I am not too much of an online person and I had already quit running my quest for quite a long time by the time the site conked out, so it did not impact me too harshly.

Do you feel more or less confident to post now, after all the dirty laundry has been aired out and the timer decreased? You should still vote btw, unless you're posting from a mobile IP or something and have an excuse.

No. I don't lurk. Either I am interested and into the quest when it begins, or I do not join at all because I am too late/not interested. I would have liked to see where Our Brave Boys was headed, but it requires a fuckton of preliminary lore reading + the characters have already been created and assigned partners. I would have loved to hop into Max Spider, but that has around 25 1000-post threads for me to comb through. Also there is apparently a fuckton of American capeshit comic lore in it that my eurofag brain raised on Astèrix and the Bluecoats cannot comprehend at all.

What other boards do you frequent? What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic? If you could make a board, what would it be?

I don't really use (or like) the rest of 4chan, but /n/, /o/, /k/ and /ck/ seem nice. The more devoted the board is to the topic (and the more I like said topic), the better it appears to be.

If its not too much bother, I could use another couple of votes to decide which path to take in my quest, could anyone do me that favor?
>>6236973
>>6236973
>>6236973

>>6244413
It's almost been 10 years. Kill yourself already

We're now voting on what kind of slasher villain the dreadful young rich kids will be facing, and what venue they'll meet their end within! Come vote in Slasherquest!
>>6245332
>>6245332

>>6243967 (OP)
>>6243967 (OP)
I've done an unreasonable (or reasonable) amount of reading about the french revolutionary wars/napoleonic wars the past two years and it has reached the point where I definitely want to run a quest. What I'm wondering is

1. Do you guys think it's more interesting playing as a General/Marshal during the historical era or more in a fantasy alternate setting take on those wars?

2. Anyone got suggestions on old quests or something else where I can look up mechanics where players lead armies that are suitable for the Quest format? The idea is to have a distinction between mass warfare/command actions and things you do on an individual basis, in and out of combat. It would be nice to start as something like a sous lieutenant or a Captain and then chart the rise (or have a prologue), but mechanics is something I'd need to look into more.

>>6245336
>Anyone got suggestions on old quests or something else where I can look up mechanics where players lead armies that are suitable for the Quest format
It just so happens that I'm running a war about that literal same concept, but set during the age of pike and shot.

See >>6231466

>>6245346
Running a quest*

>>6245346
Well go figure, don't I feel dumb. I'll definitely check it out in the morning and read up, might even ask a question. Though I see that the board already has the alternate fantasy version covered with this!

Still open to reading other stuff as well if anons know other old quests that are applicable, ofcourse.

>>6245363
Well, there's also the quest that inspired me, Saber and Musket. That one's closer to being napoleonic.

>>6245336
1. I'm a die-hard royalist, but people tend to see the revolutionaries as the unvarnished "good guys" of the revolutionary period, so I'd vote for a fantasy alternate setting in the hopes of having a more balanced view among players.
2. No idea.

>>6243967 (OP)
>What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.

I spent a lot of time reading old /tg/ quests in 2015-2016, right before the move to /qst/. I ripped my option formatting ([A1], [B1], [1A], [1B]...) from Ogre Civilization Quest, and I ripped my talking snake from Snakecatcher, sort of: I knew I wanted it to be a snake for other reasons, but I was aware of the similarity and actually ran it past Ouro himself years ago to make sure there was no bad blood. I was pissed about anons thinking with their dick back then, so I made my talking snake as unfuckable as possible, lol. I also attempted to rip Hellborn Quest's complex skill tree (which iirc was itself ripped from Shadow Quest), but ditched it 4 threads in after I realized the players weren't that engaged and I was too brainlet for it. 43 threads after that, I'm certain that was the right move.

For non-quests, the most obvious rip is Fallen London, which heavily influenced the setting and (in particular) the dry comedy-horror tone. Cultist Simulator is a less direct pull, but manses are named after the Mansus. I've also had my writing style compared to Douglas Adams, which is not deliberate, but I did read all the Hitchhiker books during a formative period. Ditto for watching a lot of Charlie Kaufman movies. I also have an overriding personal interest in dreams, self-perception, personality, altered states of consciousness, and so on, which I think is immediately apparent for anybody who reads the quest.


>General question
Other sites suck. /qst/ 5ever. I wasn't concerned about whether it'd come back, so I stayed put.


>Miscellaneous question:
I primarily lurk /adv/ to gawk at the wide variety of sadsacks who use this website, but I occasionally check out /an/ and /ck/ as well. I used to lurk /tg/, er, a decade ago, but we all know how that board has devolved.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question:
I read a decent amount of sci fi - I'm a huge fan of the revelation space series, so at least some of my plot points are probably ripped from there. I started solstice (which I WILL update soon) specifically because I read ancillary justice a few years ago and felt that they executed a neat concept absolutely horribly.

>Player question:
Darkest dungeon style quest maybe

>General question:
I ran a quest on akun very briefly, but I wasn't fond of the website.

>Miscellaneous question:
The only other board I browse is /ck/ on occasion. I used to browse /k/ and /tg/ rarely, but IMO both boards declined in quality quite precipitously since 202

>>6245249
Hey Souv, I am not your friend and I am not interested in what you have to say. I do not wish to communicate with you in any fashion. You have been told multiple times your behavior is unacceptable and you refuse to amend it. Do not reply to my posts. Thank you.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM
I think it all started when I found a bunch of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books at the library--tried making a few of my own as a kid along with a couple of other short stories. Aside from that, I tend to be inspired by video games such as Disco Elysium and Planescape (Moreso due to the narrative driving the game over action) and books, primarily the Discworld series.
In terms of quests, though, my #1 inspiration and what really got me psyched to run my own quest was one called BloodQuest--it was, in my opinion, the perfect blend: funny, serious, intricate, but easy to follow, and the story had me on the edge of my seat until the very end. Can't really recommend it enough!

>Player
Based this one off of a quest that never took off, but I'd like to run a multiplayer quest where each person is a crewmember of a 'Ghost Hunters/Believe it or Not'-type show and are thrust into horrors beyond their comprehension. Kinda like the Sewer Gators in RE7 or that Murder House game by Puppet Combo. It'd be my first swing at a multiplayer game, but I can see some potential in it!
>General
Went fishing, wrote other stuff, touched grass. Honestly helped until I got sick.
>Misc
I don't really frequent the others much anymore... if I had to make one though I'd do /fght/: a board where you set up real-life fights with other board members and post videos and stuff.

Anywho, I'd link Dark Quest here, but the current thread's gonna end soon, so I'll do it later.

Ah what the Hell, I'll shill it anyways!
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>>6245264
Fuck off you spamming retard

Welcome back SOUVARINE
By the by, is this you and the hobby of writing analyses on /qtg/?

>>6244798
Kek, okay, that's pretty good.

>>6244788
Ah, I get what you mean. Something that is sort of setting agnostic. That does seem like it might be weirdly tricky, though sprite art and concept art is very likely your friend there, since it's isolated. Another thing you could do is using game art and fiddling with AI art tools to just remove backgrounds, or doing so manually in Photoshop, Krita, or whatever you have access to.

>>6245208
Don't worry, Bananas: my next quest will have a white male human swordsman protagonist, I think. Well, he'll LOOK like one, anyway, kek...

>>6245264
> remember a clever mechanic from that game called Symbol / Solace / Safety where you use generated character relationship contacts to "heal" (ie similar to film drama scenes, you would return to a mentor or trusted colleague etc to psychologically recover from trauma) but there was also a possibility of being burned ie having your haven or safe house or colleague attacked as a consequence of a failed mission etc.
Legit an interesting mechanic. Thank you, Souvarine.

>a bunch of rambling about film history and then copy-pasted script excerpts
Oh Souv... No, Souv.

>>6245298
AntsCanada and Bogleech do occasionally inspire me to want to inject more weird arthropod biology into my quests... Maybe if I eventually run one starring Theral and Glowie's children from Dragonborn Antipaladin. I did borrow some peculiarities of hive insects such as haplodiploid reproduction for purposes of caste/sex differentiation, or communication through dance though I stole the latter from Fae Smelter's Civilization Quest Turbo oneshot desu

>>6245447
>Discworld and Planescape
Veyr much checks out.

>BloodQuest
Sometime, I may check that our. Thanks for the rec!

>>6245472
Oh, to dream the impossible dream.

>>6245336
Unless you are running skirmish or other kind of content where you need to resolve interaction between players fairly don't complicate mechanics. It's all about presenting interesting choice. Notice how all kinds of quests, including quests about leading or being a soldier in army just go with simple "pick a choice and roll 3d100" or similar.

>>6243967 (OP)
>Player Question
A character driven quest that changes protagonist after a resolved storyline. Be it generational from a parent to child, or maybe something like JoJo's bizarre adventure
I want to see the enviroment change alongside the characters, to see time pass

>>6245492
Last turn of the thread! Will we poke around in Caesar's big ol' noggin?

>>6245436
>fashion

>>6245501
>the story of the dress yadda yadda
Oh wow, some snobby upscale designer made a dress for a person of high social standing, gee wilikers what a fucking mystery. I fucking hate journalists.

Solarpunk will return next Wednesday. I had intended for this Wednesday, but I was reminded I've a family gathering to go to from Friday to Tuesday so it'd be irresponsible for me to quest from there all the time.

>>6243967 (OP)
>What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.
Obvious inspirations for Solarpunk would be Project Moon games, Made in Abyss, Mirror's Edge, Armored Core, and A Redtail's Dream and Stand Still Stay Silent. Other things that inspired me, less overt or on the nose, are Final Fantasy, EYE Divine Cybermancy, and of course dystopian works like Soilent Green and Demolition Man. But listing a bunch of modern media makes it feel superficial.
Iron, on the other hand, was mainly inspired mainly by music I liked. Apocalyptica cellos, stoner rock, sludge metal, Nirvana, the Tristram theme from Diablo, so on.
>General question
Unfortunately not a lot. Other sites feel very weird and ultra fandom-heavy and not interesting because of it. I still don't even know what a Worm is and I don't care to find out. I made a half-hearted attempt at running a fantasy quest on Discord but low visibility kept it out of my sight and hard to remember it was there. I'm a creature of habit and things being hard to keep up is a great way for me to kick them cold turkey.
>Misc
/v/ and /vg/, mainly, though I occasionally swing by /vrpg/ and /vst/. I used to go to /tg/ a lot, which is halfway where I got interested in quests before finding out Akun was a mechanically better site for QMs, but these days it just feels so full of grifters and people content farming instead of people doing fun things. I know everything gets stolen eventually, but I hadn't seen any interaction there last I went so I stopped going. I should go there to at least pad out my character art folders that have languished in recent years, but it just hurts to look at.

>>6245555
>Solarpunk will return next Wednesday.
Nice!

>>6245567
Imaginary?? But the AI I asked told me you weren't an AI!

>>6244531
I recommend you stick with the anime too. I had the displeasure of reading the English translation of Yukikaze.

The only story that stuck to my memory is the chapter where an unfortunate side character gets awarded a prestigious medal for his work in clearing snow from the runways for planes to land.

Because the AI in the book wanted to show appreciation for the incredibly important work being done by the snow clearing crew.

It went horribly for the awardee.

>>6245583
Please continue to live

>>6243967 (OP)

>What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.
Non quest would be the sheer number of magical girl animes and old style shoujo isekai genre I used to watch and read.
Naturally, I also read a lot on the side on all sorts of things. Reading deeply influenced my writing and inspiration.
Quest wise, I really enjoyed Magical Girl Noir, Valkyria Mercs Quest (there is no VMQ2), and other old archived quests.
Recent ones would be Silver Knight, Solarpunk, Isekai Inquisition, Ace Combat Peacekeeper.

>What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?
I was too busy working as a servant pretty much. I nipped in to read a few pages and when the site went down, I just went to Spacebattles to get my fix in small doses.

>What other boards do you frequent? What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic? If you could make a board, what would it be?
I visit /lit/ and /fit/ a lot more than I thought. When the site went down, I found myself missing them. I wish /lit/ would stop posting charts of recommended books. I don't think I would make a board, seems 4chan has enough to fill all interests.

>>6245392
>1. I'm a die-hard royalist, but people tend to see the revolutionaries as the unvarnished "good guys" of the revolutionary period
nigga, how the fuck can you see the guys who did the terror as good ? napoleon kicking their asses it's an even better reason to admire the guy

>>6245474
I got a white male swordsman protagonist for you right here, buddy.

>>6245616
We live in a world dominated by republics, and these states have a vested interest in educating the populace in such a way as to prop up their own power structures/ideologies. This includes glorification of any past society which can be perceived as a forerunner to the present state of affairs. The slant I've most commonly encountered is that the revolution was good, but some of the people involved just took the violence a little too far; a necessary evil, as the notion goes, because the ancien regime was something even worse. Even Napoleon, the ogre, is sometimes treated as a paragon of social upward mobility.
You see much the same thought applied to the similar atrocity of the Russian revolution.

>>6245733
There were exactly three haircuts in that webm you tool.

>>6245794
When will Souvarine address haircutgate?

>>6245702
That is pretty baller. A giant rat warlord does seem likenthe makings of a pretty darn good fantasy quest.

>>6245812
>When will Souvarine address haircutgate?
>"The Allegations Are False (Gone Sexual) [Warning: Gore] part 1/7 NOT CLICKBAIT Merch Announcement"

In a bizarre audience consensus, we're voting on the nature of our slasher killer, and whether they're a clown, a communist, both, or something a little more sensible...
Come restore sanity, or completely throw it out the window, in Slasherquest!!
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>>6245877
>a clown, a communist,
There's a difference?

>>6246061
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>>6246061

The Covenant's offense against Alpha Corvi II heats up, as Purple and Violet team both contend with enemy reinforcements & pressure

Leading to the first two part vote in Spartan-II war reports

>>6243967 (OP)
QM Question: The games and EU of Halo, as well as some fan works/ fanfiction , including of course Halo:Wolfpack and some really awesome fan songs like this one https://youtu.be/d4FZHP7iS7A

Player: A quest from a Covenant perspective/ point of view would be pretty cool. Not sure if we've ever had one of those

General: Fumed at the start since I was just about to update War Reports, then re-read fall of reach when I thought the site was dead

Misc: /v/, /vg/, /a/, and /ck/

Aspen has successfully managed to bring on some important players in the Middle East for his coalition. This also means Israel and Iran will be working together, but it should be fine.
In other news, the King of Jordan is being a real dickhead.
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>>6245436
>You have been told multiple times your behavior is socially unacceptable
Ah, yes, let's be normies

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question:
For that one skirmish I ran, both the offered subject, and me being a contrarian and wondering how many accepted conventions of the skirmish format I could put on their heads.
For the one quest I ran/adopted/picked up, it was 40k without the copyright for a lot of the setting and weapons, Vietnam era comms, and Sharpe for the titular rifles and some of the character archetypes.
For the quest I want to run, themes I find myself pondering often. I also want to try and ape both the flow and combat system from a small quest I'll probably never stop complimenting, EVQ, Elin Veteran Quest. Hope that TidesQM is okay somewhere.

I guess I should also mention The Testament of Bahamut for making me realize that in this age of Audible book readings and narrated HFY stories and manwhas, maybe quest readings have a niche somewhere out there. Seriously, that first post is just asking for a good grumbly male narrator of some skill to be a solid draw to this place. I can only hope I can produce some nuggets of that level of quest writing.

>Player question:
Time sensitive, and while I have several ideas, including picking up the quest I mentioned, the main one would be a test run for a system I've been thinking of for a while.
A choice of three characters, the Young Man, the Aging Man, and the Old Man. Each of them more or less accidentally kills someone, and see strange red gems fly up from the corpse and into them. The stones promise and deliver strength, health, and a way to acquire more. Kill those who have killed, and get what you desire.
Each archetype has their reasons, their goals, challenges, and pace. All are hungry for more.
A quest about the price one is willing to pay for power. About the anger of the hungry youth, the weary boredom and alienation of the middle aged, the bitter regrets and quiet recourseless rage of the old, and what a way out might lead them to do at the hands of the player.
I was thinking of having some low-level body cultivation stuff sprinkled in. Modern setting though.
Working title is Bloodstones.

As for running it, well if I find out I'm out of a job past the next two weeks tomorrow or next week, I guess I'll try running it since I talked about it here.

>General question:
I lurk on Spacebattles to read some fiction, but I stick to here for quest. Glad to see we're back up.

>Lurker question:
I don't phonepost to keep a steady ip, and I ate a ban on my phone once for using the same IP someone had shitposted too hard on another board with. So I'm not keen on getting permabanned for ban dodging and losing access to here.

>Miscellaneous question:
None, really. I just check in on here sometimes.

>type "4ch" on search browser to quickly access /qst/ catalog
>notice there's a recent reply on the /qtg/
>enter /qtg/, ctrl + F name of my quest
>no new results
>leave /qtg/
>repeat ad infinitum every 15 minutes for many years

>>6246432
Me except sometimes people actually do talk about it

>>6246432
Gary you retard we talk about you all the time. So fucking needy, goddamn.

>>6245062
Funny how the day I finally decide check /qst/ to look at QTG someone is asking about me.

Long story short, life took a big spill and I had to drop everything to get it sorted. Meant to only take the Christmas/New Years weeks off, then shit went south and well...now we're here.

Been 50/50 on wanting to continue Tai Lung Quest. I don't like leaving it unfinished but I'm not sure anyone really cares about it to vote anymore. At least not after a several month hiatus.

Still, if someone is still asking about me after this long I guess I did something right. Maybe I should take another crack at it.

>QM question:
Music mostly. I tend to listen to OSTs and stuff like that to kinda set me in the mood for how a scene should go. Sometimes I posted them along with the post.

>General question:
Watched a lot of tokusatsu and playthroughs of the Yakuza Games. Now I kinda want to run a Sentai quest with an underdog protagonist. That or a quest where you play as a Yakuza member or something.

>Miscellaneous question:
I only ever lurk on tg and it's archives. Love rereading shadowrun storytiem.

>>6246444
There was a guy a QTG or two ago who wrote a whole elegy for you. Search "Storyteller Luo" in archived.moe and you can probably find it.

>>6246488
Just looked it up and found it. Well damn...now I feel bad for how things turned out. If you're out there elegy-anon, I can only apologize for seemingly abrupt way things ended. The journey was damn fun indeed and I'm really glad you enjoyed the quest.

That being said, now I'm really on the fence. Things have settled down that I think I can start the quest back up, albeit slowly. I just don't want it fall flat on it's face. Sometimes it's best to leave things be, right?

I'll mull over it this weekend but I'll lurk around and look at the quests going on.

>>6243967 (OP)
>>6243967 (OP)
>What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.
Saw someone shitpost about being able to beat a gorilla. Since I didn't have anything better to do I decided to run a quest, and obviously I just went for the dumbest idea in my mind at the time.

>What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?
Wait what other sites?

What's the most active questing site these days? Been out of the scene for a while.

>>6246537

in here you can run a daily quest. the other chans are more for image based quests.

in akun you can pretty much run nonstop, though the site is more active in US midnights

SB and SV are meh on traffic, but the answers tend to be elaborate if you enjoy such thing. moderation there is horrible.

for ero quests you can't go wrong with QQ, but the pace is a bit slow too, you can run a daily quest, you can run a weekly quest, both will work. fast paced quests are uncommon there

I've ran in all of them, but here is just better. also you can just drop the quest here if you don't feel like running it anymore and it won't besmirch your reputation much

>>6246427
>Working title is Bloodstones.
Sounds interesting!

>>6246444
Tai Lung Quest seems to have some real diehards, man.

>>6246458
That quest also sounds legit pretty good, and you should do it.

>>6246519
>1 Man Versus 100 Gorillas
I was curious about checking it out once I realized it wasn't JUST a shitpost, but my days are already so packed... I never got around to it.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question
Halo, Death Stranding, Ace Combat, Homeworld, Endless Space and Armored Core. COADE in specific was inspired more by Homeworld than others, but also Dead Space and (I swear I'm being serious) Chibi-Robo and Lyrical Nanoha. False Woman is more inspired by 40k (duh), Metro 2033, Ancient Magus Bride and Ghost in the Shell. I can't tonally match any of these settings to save my life, not even 40k, but I'm content with the lighter mystery tone my quests take.

In terms of quests, I'm terrible at keeping up with quests when I'm running one as it sucks up all my energy.

>General question
Tried to relax for two days, then got antsy and started several projects I'm now regretting as they're sucking time away from the quest. I also wrote half a CYOA as a joke and bits of it are now bothering me. I briefly went back to SV where I used to play and found nothing of value, so I just waited it out.

>Miscellaneous question
I'm on here, /m/, /tg/ and occasionally /wsg/, though it's gone to hell over the past few years. Sometimes I go to /a/ so I can see how they're slaughtering something I care about THIS time.

>>6243967 (OP)
>Inspiration
Obviously Fallout Empire of One quest but I’ve been pretty open about that. I took most of my other inspiration not from other story-driven civ quests but rather from other very good quests like Contractor Quest, Dark Empire, My Father’s Country, Fortuna’s Caesar in China, and more that I should remember. It was always a question on if I could run something. School got in the way back in 2021 so now it’s a more level playing field

TK doesn’t run anymore but he ran a civ quest on discord that became a running joke and that probably gave me the itch to ultimately run again.

>Downtime
Tweaked some gameplay rules, created an entirely new map, planned out some future plot points and hung out in the qtg. For a discord, some alright people in there

>other boards
Don’t use this website nearly as much as I used to but /fit/, /lit/ from time to time, /pol/ when something big happens but that board is actually unusable now

what happened to that anon that was building a quest website?

>>6246771
>what happened to that anon that was building a quest website?
Would also like to know.

>>6243967 (OP)
I'm thinking of launching a quest that's a bit of a throwback. An Infinite Stratos quest but the player character's IS uses technology from Universal Century Gundam. I'm thinking the experimental IS-Minovsky Core is what allows another male pilot due to the interference that M particles cause.

I'm thinking of structuring it in a Persona style. Weekdays consist of school stuff with weekends being freed up to go outside the academy, train, work on the IS, etc. Ideally, the player character working with their IS's RnD support staff keep iterating and improving on this new Minovsky derived technology until the player character's IS is the new Gundam but in Infinite Stratos form.

Would there be any players interested in this? I know that the IS male character type of quest is a trend that has long passed by so I'm aware that this would very much be a throwback.

>>6246799
>the new Gundam
*Hi Nu Gundam

>>6246458
While it is an interesting direction to take, I didn't plan to have all three be the same person at different stages. All three would take place in the same world at roughly the same time, maybe even in the same semi fictional country. Though the differing time scales would make syncing complex. I want to make all three choices rather different in setup, though all trend towards a shared horizon. Still, similar archetypes might crop up later in the story. At the starts, either Bloostones have just started appearing, or they are about to enter public consciousness, including that of most governments.

I think I should mention the old man would not be some manner of greedy aging billionaire latching at another try at immortality. Mostly because that would make the game too easy, a bit like real life. If you think about it, organ transplants are similar enough to magical healing derived from the lifeforce of a healthier or younger person, at least formerly so, right?

Though I guess it gives me another character archetype of the "jacked up and somewhat insane cultivation grandpa" variety to throw in if I need to reality check the playerbase a little!

I'll post very brief summaries to try and gauge interest for each.

>>6246912
I'll post very brief summaries to try and gauge interest for each.

The Young Man is disillusioned, feeling adrift as he tries and fails to get started in life. His starter kill is a corrupt police officer. Intentional or not, I would likely leave up to the players. Guy was a real piece of crap, because you get two Bloodstones instead of the more common one. One to Scan for others, one for general body cultivation that gives a heal option, for the scrapes and when you likely get shot by somebody. And a taste of the stones keeping away the rot even the young Man can feel taking root in their own body. And a taste of power. Because who wouldn't want to have superpowers?
But now the whole police force is after you. And things are likely to keep escalating, even if you don't start a powerup murder spree. The country won't let a cop killer flaunt justice, especially given the current political climate and crisis they're going through. So you have to run until you're strong enough to stop. And then it's our choice. Keep running, or turn and start walking back and demonstrate why they ought to stop messing with you.
I'm thinking a very rapid rhythm, several posts per ingame day, especially at the start, and constant pressure, but plenty of opportunities for Bloodstones.

The Aging Man is stuck in a job he finds no meaning in. If you've seen Fight Club or Falling Down, you're there, with a side of midlife crisis. Gets jumped and accidentally pushes over and breaks the skulls of one of the crazier local hobos. No witnesses, and a single stone since they had probably shanked someone else at some point. Just the Scan skill. No need for a healing boost to start, the Aging Man doesn't need it to go look for more. He jsut wants something to fill the dreary void that he realizes his life has become. Slower, perhaps the slowest pace, as much of his day is taken up by work, and maybe even a family life. Become a vigilante, or try to ignore what feels like a call of destiny.

And then, the Old Man. At the end of the road. Left alone wasting away, nearly bedbound in a crummy retirement home with nothing but time to think, and rot. And then, an accident. The first kill probably isn't direct, just them getting what counted like an aggressive action in against another pensioneer who passes soon after. And who apparently was a serial killer or something, because you get three Bloodstones. The ever reliable Scan skill, a healing boost that rids you of your worst ailment, and a free one to use for another skill or trick to help you out. The Old Man has stared death in the face, and now has the option to postpone the judgement. To be young again. To not end up in that fucking bed again smelling of the sickly sweet odor of the dying.
Perhaps faster than the aging man because you have little to do, but a lot more attention and limits at first. Pick your targets well, and plot ahead of time.

>>6246565
The premise is "shitposty" but I swear I'm at least trying to make it interesting.
I'm just low energy, suck at writing and I don't edit my posts properly. Plus the last time I tried running a quest was 9 or 10 years ago (Dead space related I think).

>>6246935
I've started reading it, and so far, so good.

Lowborn Saiyan Quest is back with longer and meaningful updates. Don't let the murderous space potato die!
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>>6247003
It's time. Can the Courier kill a god?

>>6246913
Old Man is the most interesting to me, desu, but all sound compelling and Young Man probably has the broadest appeal.

>>6246913
Another possible idea is playing as a unwilling participant. Perhaps they're happy with their lot in life and due to circumstance have acquired one of the bloodstones. Rather than having to kill for power, they have to kill to protect not only their lives, but those of the people closest too him. They'd have to grapple with the morality of taking the life of not only those who would have no qualms over murdering them but taking the life of those who are in a similar position as him. Those that want/have to kill because it's their only way to change their own position in life. Perhaps someone with a terminal illness is simply staving it off with bloodstones or perhaps they kill for them because they need the power to save someone else.

Sorry, guess I'm rambling a bit but I think that makes your quest idea a good one. There's tons of characters and situations that can come up from the premise alone and that's not even thinking about how people who don't have any stones would react to all this either.

>>6246565
>Tai Lung Quest seems to have some real diehards, man.
Yeah, it's really giving me the itch to get back to it.

I made a really high effort quality shitpost but didn't get a single (you) for it

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>>6247169
Sometimes that happens anon. My post to judge interest in a quest got zero replies.

>>6246771
>>6246776
Nothing, I'm still working on it on the side.

I'm really losing hope that we'll finish Valen by the time we're all 50
I hope Riz is doing well

>>6247091
For the starter quest I would stick with what I know, Western European democracy, if a little more degraded than the current ones. The average person is completely unprepared for violence, guns in civilian hands are a rarity, and more often than not hunting rifles. I can write how Bloodstones might affect such a society, and I'll leave it to others to ponder what it might do to other places.

If this goes well, I have imagined people lifting part of the system to apply it to other places. Bloodstones are a path to individual power, sure, but their are also a motor of social upheaval. Like a pat of the world woke up tomorrow with a mana pool and weird squiggles in their heads. Seeing society struggle as it becomes aware of this new paradigm should be an important part of the plot. It also means you aren't the only one wielding the Bloodstones, or looking for them. I'm still undecided on looting rules.

To pull the veil a little, the seected character has no information on Bloodstoens beyond some vague understanding that some people who kill others crystalize one, so to speak. It's not a guarantee, and you're not even sure it needs to be a murder with intent. But those carriers will not feel any effect. It is only when they are killed by someone else, the Bloodstone attaches to the other killer, and becomes usable. No one knows why, and at the start Bloodstone users are so rare they don't meet much t share info. Think Quickening lore from the good parts of Highlander, and once again, you're there. The stones give vague impressions and gut feelings, ther's no System voice or windows to this.

The Old Man would be a lot of planning, yeah. I was thinking of starting him earlier than the others, so he has years to grow, or die, before Bloodstones breach public awareness. The Agin Man would have months, and the Young Man would have days.

The Old Man would work off both fear of death, and slight body horror of feeling your body die under you, everything becoming harder and more painful, and seeking any escape from that. There would be a lot of playing with people's perceptions and suspicions when trying to get more stones, or just avoid scrutiny from not dying as planned.

>>6247108
>>6247119
I'll answer both at once, the Young Man I never pictured as a rebel. Just a middle class dude with no violent history who gets caught in another"s power trip because he believes his society isn't as bad as it really is. At which point he either snaps or defends himself, with deadly consequences. And now he is truly isolated, because his sheltered upbringing means he has zero underworld or street connections. He'd have a hard time with homelessness, so that and a country-wide manhunt is going to be rough. The players should feel hunted, shaking off the pursuit by laying low and trying to be unpredictable, but still wanting stones to get powerful enough to, if not clear their name, make sure everyone else is too afraid to pipe up so they can go back to their cozy life, even knowing it will never happen.


Like I said, having someone with a support network, money, and influence would change the game a lot. I want to try and keep things simple for this potential first trial run, hence wanting to go light on the supporting NPCs. Keeping the MC in their head with the stones is a fun side effect!

But all of the ideas are great, either as encounters or strting player archetypes. Bloodstones is an open concept, if it scratches a brain itch, run it and see what happens, whether I end up doing so or not!

>>6247119
>Perhaps someone with a terminal illness is simply staving it off with bloodstones or perhaps they kill for them because they need the power to save someone else.
I do have something half-written up for that rules-wise, from a Halloween special idea of Bloodstones set during your averga zombie apocalypse. How the usual Walking Dead-esque stuff changes if some peopl have bite proof skin, the ability to shrug off the infection...and to gift Bloodstones to others. Everyone being against the dead and the end of the world to a certain ectent might mean more sharing, or more hoarding. What if this variant of the zombie virus awakens dormant Bloostones in infected ? What knd of new world order might emerge from bonafide cultivators mowing down hordes with inpunity in a world where guns, ammo, and even working cars and fuel are no longer a commodity?


Honestly I'm glad Souv and others answered, it's nice to have a reason to share my notes. Thanks, anons!

>>6247169
Don't worry you can always Trump post outside pol.
>>6247259
How much power do these stones give? Doesn't sound like you can get "magic" powers.

>>6245109
Silver Knight Quest - Update V

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>>6247298

New update. You investigate the harbour...

The Pale Inheritance is now live and kicking. Literally kicking, actually:
>>6215928

Aspen decides to spy on the King of Jordan. While the intelligence agencies are doing their job, he’s forced to retackle an old issue: money, rather the lack thereof.
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>>6246799
>>6246800
So is there no one interested in this?

>>6247432
Run it and see what happens. I'm betting you'll get some players!

>>6247285
I don't want to start throwing around exact numbers for now, but a single stone is pretty powerful on its own. The main problem is charge.
So, the barebones system for now differentiates between Skills and Enhancements, or really Mind and Body. Scan is Mind, so could throwing a fireball, though that requires working up to that point with generalist skills that build into bigger stuff.
Body is your typical body cultivation stuff. The most basic enhancement would be heal, and the players can go from there. I was thinking of letting them decide what the character's mental representation of this would be, from synapses to an actual tree to something as random as strings of bubblegum or fleshy growths.

I think a body enhancement Bloodstone should work in three parts. Starter buff when you absorb it, passive buff that's on by default, and an active buff that drains the Stone of energy. I think doing so ought to deactivate the passive buff, at least in most cases.

Health is the basicunlock. When a Bloodstne is slotted into health, it brings the boy closer to peak condition, somewhere in one's early twenties usually. Actual effects may vary depending one what part of what separates the current body from its peak form. It might cure a long term affliction, rebuild destroyed muscles from old injuries, regrow a part of a lost body part, that sort of thing. Passive buff would be slightly better regeneration and general blood efficiency, with lessened chances of inuries from exertion, a little bit of everything. Nothing that shows in dice rolls at first, but since reaching peak body condition is the gateway to the second phase/Second realm, it can't be underestimated. The active would be a heal, emptying the bloodstone and losin its enhancements, though not reversing whatever it healed, in exchange for rapid recovery and replenishing lost blood. More stones mean more heals, and the ability to keep some of the buff active.
Then players can shape how subsequent stones are applied.
"We need to be bulletproof": the stone enhances skin resistance passively, with a greater buff when active.
"We need to be faster": better leg muscles, and the option to give them a short boost to, say, jump between roofs.
"More stamina" will be pretty important, especially when engaging multiple opponents.


In contrasts, not all Skill would have a passive. Scan would have a small passive range, and an active ping, but most skills would just give you the know-how and then wait to be used.

So how to un-deplete a blood stone? That's easy, depending on your health and other factors, your body natually refills between one half and two (ot maybe four) stones a day by slimming off extra blood, though you might feel hungrier as a result. Want more? Well, you know what to do...

>>6247432
I'll check it out if you run it desu

>>6247432
Saw your post yesterday but didn't get the chance to reply. I'd be interested, been a long ass time since I've seen anything IS at all though. And having our male PC being handwaved in due to minovsky particles is an interesting take on it. Hopefully he won't go sterile due to the radiation.
And I hope you realize the level of waifu flame wars you'll be inviting from it.

>>6247432
Looks like you stirred up some interest!

Speaking of, /qst/...

What're you all playing?

>>6247522

I'm not really playing anything lately, I'm just running my civ thread.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question:
Choose your own adventure books is what started my interest in interactive storytelling.
Fantasy epics I've read when I was younger (LOTR and WoT) ingrained a love of Fantasy that kept me motivated, and then a general curiosity about history had me try to craft a fantastical magical setting and humanized monsters with the ethical problems something like that would inevitably create. Add a splice of Lovecraft obsession and you've got my quest.
Oh and lots and lots of anime, visual novels, and video games to permanently warp my sense of aesthetics and give me an obsession with characters instead of plots.
Music helps me the most with crafting scenes. When I listen to stuff, events pop into my head, lore places itself like puzzle pieces. Takes a long, long time though; I often have to dedicate 4+ hours to place my plots.

>>6247432
I'd check it out of nostalgia alone.

>>6247522
Waiting for notapaladin to get off his arse and make a new thread of Hero's Party Member Quest.

>>6247522
>What're you all playing?
>Disappearing Hogwarts
>Ilvermorny Quest
>Hatch That Egg

>>6247522
In no particular order (I'm tired as shit and just saw 'em by last reply in the catalog):
>High School Fight Club?
>Wasteland Quest
>Fallout: No Gods
>Hatch That Egg
>Halo: OPERATION Mere Fallow
>Nordwand Quest
>Monstergirl Facility
>Jail Quest
>Olympus Incarnation
>Portal Master
>Solstice
>Batman Quest
>Ghost Swordsman The Anime (RIP)
Always on the hunt for recc's, though! Surprise me!

>>6247595
ya know, it's always kinda jarring to see QMs playing quests that are very far in tone and topic from what they run themselves, even though there's nothing inherently odd about it

>>6247611
What can I say? I like to branch out. Some of the best quests I've read were ones I looked at and voted in on a whim. A lot of them didn't last, sure, but you never know.
Also it'd be remiss of me to not mention
>Drowned Quest Redux
Forgot that shit

>>6247522
>Space Marcher Lord Quest
>Monster Reincarnation 3
>Fog of War: Act I - Sonata in Nera
>RimQuest: Survive and Colnize!
>1 Man vs. 100 Gorillas - Isekai
>PEACEKEEPER: A Strangereal Quest 02
>The Last Flame Quest
>Slasherquest

>>6247595
Given your sense of humour and character writing, I think Disappearing Hogwarts, Magically Challenged, and Cutemon would all be very up your alley, and also quite possibly something like Sunrose Calling or 1 Man vs. 100 Gorillas.

>Disappearing Hogwarts
A lot of dark comedy, hype action, weird magic lore, horror-tier monsters, and heartstring-pulls with a cast of weirdos and oddballs coming of age. It doesn't really require a ton of familiarity with or fondness for the source material IMO, either.

>Magically Challenged
Much the same as DH in some ways, but with more focus on the actual school/learning element, and a unique setting full of unusual fantasy races, and with a very interesting and meticulous magic system which encourages player creativity.

>Cutemon
I think the writing style will be an acquired taste which some may not acquire, but it does such a great job of capturing the vibe of a Saturday morning cartoon anime dub (with just a bit of 4chan self-awareness and "maturity" in there). I really like it and think it's quite good at capturing a feel and executing well on it, and the MC and some of her supporting cast have become quite endearing.

>Sunrose Calling
Like a fever dream of a dystopian sci-fi Pokemon fanfic, It's just starting out, but it has two drug-addled and unemployed losers--a guy and his Pokemon--trying to make enough money to avoid being evicted in a space colony.

>1 Man vs. 100 Gorillas
A 4chan wastrel is isekaid into a jungle-world full of magical Planet of the Apes, but with monster-girls and comedic amounts of gory violence. So, like if Tim Burton's PotA was made as an anime, and Mark Wahlberg's character was instead Michael Cera or someone, and it was given a hard R.

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question
Literally everything, but often my mind goes to more obscure videogames picking out particular ideas/ characters/ set pieces/items that I tailor to better fit my overarching quest

>Player Question
Any quest that'd work better with a larger "game" in it, I have a lot of ideas I don't believe would work with my more narrative focus and more importantly I don't want to set aside so much time brainstorming and trialing tens of different systems just to figure out what would work at that level of the quest. More specifically a kaiju defense quest was something that was spitballed in a general not too long ago and I would like to see.

>>6247522
>Playing
High School Fight Club
Gender Vendor
Digimon: The Tower
Wasteland (I'm not that interested but anyways)
>Agonizing
Magical Girl Sugar Rush
Lowborn Saiyan
Slasherquest
>Dead
The owl one
Worm

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question:
What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.
While I like histories, especially when set in a narrative format like some books do, when it comes to fictional media I like to use games a lot, rpg and strategy stuff mostly, even if a lot of the time the stories of those are underdeveloped so there's not a whole lot I'd purposely take from. A lot of the time too I'll just see things summed up and while that's no way to experience something properly I'll just take the key notes and sort of flesh them out in my head for fun sometimes, or play out alternate scenarios for a passing thrill. RPGs have a lot of little interactions in particular that I think quests are good for like little other media since usually in a plot you don't really get to just sit around and chatter, but in quests you have nothing but time.

>Player question:
Pitch a quest, be it one you want to run or one you want to see run but don't have the time/confidence to run (if it's the latter then just run it, it can't hurt). If you don't have an idea for a full quest, then how would you change one you've read/are reading?
I've wanted to run something that's early final fantasy inspired (1-6, or 9 I guess) but it'd be a pretty big investment, especially when I have other things going on too. If I'm going to do it I'd probably have to do it on a two day update interval at best to not conflict with other projects, and I'd have to be really careful in cutting it down to a manageable long term scale.

>General question:
What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?
I drew a bunch of stuff.

>Miscellaneous question:
What other boards do you frequent? What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic? If you could make a board, what would it be?
I like to hit up the /v/ splits, /vrpg/ and /vst/ and /vr/. Wanting more traffic for them is a monkey's paw, I think, but if I were to push for a board with the goal of increasing traffic, I think /qst/ could be expanded into a less niche board if they're doing the thing now where /v/ activity threads get booted here.

Hey is there anyone still around from the Warlords of Chaos Quest?

The stuff at the start of my summer has cleared up, so if there's enough interest in a mini-sequel/spin off, then I should have enough free time to run it.


This also applies to newcomers as well; if any of you like strategy quests and you like Warhammer Fantasy, then this might be what you're looking for.

>>6247432
I only vaguely remembered this anime. I think it stirred my attention because the French girl was nicknamed 'Char' but she didn't act like a Char.

I was oddly disappointed.

The Pale Inheritance is now live:
>>6215928
>>6215928
So much for the dinner party, it's civil unrest time

What would want to see out of a GOOD Star Wars Quest?

>>6248042
fan service

>>6248042
evil women

>>6248204
Marci my beloved

>>6247522
>Fallout: No Gods, No Masters
>PEACEKEEPER
>Nordwand
>Worm
>DREADNOUGHTS
>RimQuest
>Gotham City Beat Cop

Just the ones I'm keeping on top of.

>>6248042
Just don't do what Kaz did and it'll be great.

>>6248204
>>6248230
Is there any GOOD elf quest? I knew there was one where anons choose to play a mage elf but things happened and I couldn't keep up with it
>>6248244
I'm a /qst/ newfag, what happened exactly?

>>6248247
Nothing really lol. It's just a personal hang up I had regarding his quest, it was actually really fun, just didn't go on for very long.

Basically the players got punished for doing something the QM insinuated would result in something bad happening and something bad happened. Players got really annoyed and Kaz lessened the punishment. At least that's how I remember it. After I read that bit I dropped the quest. I haven't seen it ran in ages so it might've finished/gotten dropped.

The quest was Star Wars Interregnum. I highly recommend it.

>>6248074
It was made by Disney. They even went to the originals and changed the name of Boba Fetts ship (Slave 1) and don't use slave Leia anymore.
>>6247542
>Music helps me the most with crafting scenes.
Post some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfFCG-dzSfU

How do people get over tragic events in their lives by writing about it? You just relive it and nothing is changed irl so what's the point?

>>6248284

You reinterpret the event. The brain can barely notice the difference between the event and you reliving it in your imagination. Reinterpret it enough times and the trauma starts to fade.

It never disappears fully though. Trauma is probably written in your DNA.

>>6248284
It depends entirely on what kind of person you are. Some people find simply expressing it to be a relief of the burden. Other people find it cathartic to make the people who view their expression feel the same misery. Some people like to use their expression to give their trauma a "body" for them to attack and destroy.

It's a bunch of psychology bullshit at the end of the day. I'm not a therapist.

Would anyone be interested in a "Warhammer nobody" isekai quest?

>>6248297
Yeah. We're talking reincarnation Isekai or drop-in?

>>6248297

nobody as in a random person

or nobody as in /x/'s The Nobody

>>6248300
Either or. Doesn't matter much how the player character gets there. But I was thinking drop in mainly because I don't want to meander with the "truck kun" meme.

>>6248302
A random nobody. But it would be a true nobody playthrough. You're not going to be a high Lord on Terra. You won't even be an Astartes. Not saying you won't be able to climb up in society, but you sure as shit wouldn't get handed the W. If that makes sense.

This is an idea I'd hoped that someone else would run since I can't write for shit and want a Warhammer quest that is different from the "be Astartes and kill aliens!" Hope all that makes sense.

>>6248310
It kinda sounds to me like it doesn't even need to be an isekai to begin with. Plenty of backwater worlds in the Imperium that a player can be born into and still fit the profile of "nobody". Really depends on the scale of what you want to do. Are they going to work their way up the Inquisitor or do you intend this to be more of a street gang kind of deal?

Usually isekai protagonists start with some OP ability or a scanning power just to justify how different they are from the rest of the setting and to help explain in-universe lore and the like. But there's only so much of "Wow what is this thing I don't understand?" or "I'm totally from this place guys! Gotta trust me!" one can do before it starts to hamper the pace of the story. Hence why I think most Isekai tend to focus on the power fantasy aspect which you mentioned you didn't want to do.

Premise itself seems solid and people like a good underdog story. It just needs a general goal to give players a push I think.

my civ thread is at a low point right now, but it could be the beginning of something cool, cast a vote maybe, I really only have one regular player

remind me to NEVER say that an update will be "ready tomorrow"...
anyways, there is a new update for The Caretakers Quest.
This time, you followed the mysterious steps and they took you to the forbidden forest, in there you find...something you dont see every day.
what will you do now? vote and find out!
>>6236973
>>6236973
>>6236973

>>6248401
>So get to it, what are you waiting for?
Art school application.

GOTHAM CITY BEAT COP RETURNS (from the weekend break):
>>6248418

I completed my part of the project I was working on and now I'm free to focus on my quest again.

>What are some inspirations for your quests? Both quests and non-quests.
Lamplighter Quest was the first one that convinced me to give running a try, I loved that shit back in the day. Outside of quests I wear my inspirations clearly on my sleeve, Serious House on Serious Earth being chief among them.

>Pitch a quest, be it one you want to run or one you want to see run but don't have the time/confidence to run (if it's the latter then just run it, it can't hurt). If you don't have an idea for a full quest, then how would you change one you've read/are reading?
I have two ideas for the next quest I want to run after GCBC. Mass Effect Mercenary Quest: Would take place in the time before Mass Effect 2 when Shepard is being lazarus'd and would include an option to be a Vorcha. OR I take another run at my Punisher quest that I did in like 2017/18 before abandoning it because I had no discipline. It would essentially be a "taking up the mantle" style quest of becoming the new Punisher after Frank's death. Feel free to tell me if either of these sound neat to you.

What did you do during 4chan's downtime? Did you go to another site to get your questing fix or just wait it out? Have you expanded your quest reading to other sites since, or are you /qst/ only?
I was lucky in the sense that I planned a hiatus anyways in order to spend time out of country, the dates just happened to line up and extend a few days past my return.

>What other boards do you frequent? What boards (besides /qst/) do you wish had more traffic? If you could make a board, what would it be?
I frequent /ck/ /tg/ and /x/ on rare occasions, otherwise I read and write quests. That's about it. If I could make a board I'd make Qst with blackjack and hookers.

>>6248434
Speaking of Lazarus makes me wish some old QMs would come back. If only we had the technology.

What're your guy's favorite quests from the past 10 or so years? I'm kind of picky and feel like I've read most the ones that interested me but still, some recommendations would be nice.

>>6247938
The cast art looks even better! I'm on here a lot less frequently but I could always relapse into Qst addiction with the right motivation kek
>>6248042
SW: Interregnum is a solid one to checkout like the one anon mentioned. Ultimately it depends on whether you want to go for a militaristic, individualistic, or epic good vs evil type of story. All three should include space western elements though, as rugged individualism is the core essence of the setting. Outlaws trying to survive, prosper, or even bring down the institutions that hold them back, whether that's the Republic, Empire, etc. What I would personally like to see is an emphasis on the mundane aspects of the universe, such as death-stick & spice smuggling, scraping together enough credits for fuel/ship repairs & to stave off withdrawals from your addiction, choosing carefully who to trust & rely upon from other scoundrels you unfortunately need in some capacity, avoiding detection from the authorities as much as possible through transponder spoofing/bribery/smuggling compartments/fake IDs/etc. Perhaps some mild hint of the Force being present when getting your fix. Navigating the underworld in which galaxy-spanning syndicates, rebel & separatist holdout cells, swoop bike & ecumenopolis gangs, as well as corrupt secret police all pose major risks. As for the ideal eras to set it, besides the more familiar ones, the New Sith Wars before the Brotherhood of Darkness & Ruusan Reformation has a lot of potential, as does the Legacy Era before & after Darth Krayt's Sith Empire took over.
There's another SW Qst that ran for awhile in multiple parts with different titles (so check the archives) centering on a far-future setting beyond any of the EU & the Jedi dealing with a Force-singularity cult in addition to ancient Sith spirits & a resurgent Hutt Empire.

>>6245618
Pls run this Qst, Souv
I would also love to see something from the QM of ENTOMBED QST and JOAN OF ARK QST. Really interesting style, but super flakey. Would love to see Entombed in particular revived due to just how intriguing of a setting it was.
Additionally, STOKER QST. I know it was migrated to a different site, but it stalled out over there it would seem.

On the topic of Napoleon, he was fucking based. The Old Nobility had been degraded from their martial imperatives due to the rise of Absolute Monarchs with Standing Armies (due to guns). Therefore they degenerated into parodies of true Nobility. The Royal Families overall were essentially a shadowy Kabal, just as we have now, albeit even more inbred in some cases & far more out in the open. The Revolutionaries sought to establish a Plutocracy, as all Republics inevitably are, & were the direct forerunners of the modern day Kabal of Merchant Caste bean-counters with no real inherent power as Men, only the illusionary structures they have built. This likely contributes to their Molochian rites.
Napoleon on the other hand, sought to balance personal Liberty with Traditionalism & Martial Nobility. He was based as fuck.

>>6248485
Trojan War Quest is my favorite. You can read it as completed quest sorta.
Scratched the right bit of my historical liking brain and the players made funny memes. The system used in that quest devised by the first QM was brutal, and I felt representative of how deadly that mythical era was.
Writing and character work felt more polished than the general quest fare, though I think it got even better when the second QM took over.

>>6248533
Oi, stop monopolizing thread posts you stockmarket vampire, people have stopped using qtg because of you ya daft git
At least have the decency to keep it within one post per three days or something

>>6248042
A rebel cell. A small bunch on one mostly insignificant planet who oppose the Empire for one reason or another, banding together to resist them locally. Doing their part, fighting their fight, not even knowing if there are others like them remaining in the Galaxy, let alone the idea of some 'alliance' that may not even be born yet or ever be born.

>>6248567
now he's gonna talk about the stock market and vampires you fool

>>6248567
Just hide his posts and stop rewarding him with replies.

>>6248567
> stop monopolizing thread
You're only ever posting to bash others. Change your name to "Indonesian Bully, the Bandwagon Jumper of Jakarta".

>>6248485
Gonna sound like a broken record here, but BloodQuest. It was by no means the most interesting quest, nor the quest with the best mechanics, but it felt like an actual story and was enjoyable the whole way through. It had ups, downs, twists, and the concept itself was just fun and refreshing!

Here I go posting a link to the archive again... in short, the QM was smoking a bowl and asked people to post pictures that would inspire him to run a quest. Ended up running one about a girl locked up in a cell with sentient blood that talked to her. To say it inspired a lot of what I wrote would be an understatement. Loved this damn quest.

Part 1- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9699385/
Part 2- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9718987/
Part 3- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9740662/
Part 4- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9746933/
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Bloodquest

>>6248615
First month-long turn is now out, plenty of fun to be had, maybe some poking around in long-abandoned government facilities?

>>6248619
If those are the Legion and NCR options, what does House and Yes-Man get?

>>6248485

Civilization threads.

Yeah, the one that says:

Pick race and location.

People think there's endless flaking involved, but it is one big quest spanning the multiverse.

Always was.

>>6248485
As far as quests which completed? Path of the Exorcist, PKMN: Red/Blue, My Goernment-Issued Big Titty Goth GF, Slice Quest, the Sira's Brothel trilogy, and the second Haremvania ae all up there. Ongoing? Supreme Space Monke Ruler, Pokemon: Fork & Spoon, The Pale Inheritance, Greenhorn, Forgotten Realms Adventures, Disappearing Hogwarts, Cutemon, Silver Knight, Solarpunk Cleanuo Agent, Seven Against Thebes, and Gotham City Beat Cop are among my faves and the ones I'd most readily recommend.

>>6248248
I play in Interregnum when it shows up, it’s pretty fun. Don’t play it, though, unless you have a high tolerance for only having one or two threads a year, because the wait for the next thread is like racing glaciers.

>>6248684
>because the wait for the next thread is like racing glaciers.
Let us normalize applying thermite to the Arctic shelf.

>>6248567
Everyone wants him gone but no one is reporting him. Curious

>>6248703
He's been banned with all posts deleted at least once.

And I am back
>>6248714
>>6248714
>>6248714

>>6247302
Silver Knight Quest - Update VI

The Stars are Styx Edition

you find a terrible truth. pray it doesn't find you.

>>6248733
>>6248733
>>6248733

After a brief hiatus, Olympus Incarnation Quest has entered its 12th thread!

>>6248531

>>6243967 (OP)
>Player wuestion
Antz crossover with The fast and the furious.

>>6248334
All fair points. I will point out that it doesn't have to be isekai. The overall design remains the same. Nobody trying to make it in the grim, dark future. Ya dig? Honestly, you seem like you know a thing or two. Is there a way to convince you to run it or try to get another accomplished QM to?

>>6248771
>Nobody trying to make it in the grim, dark future. Ya dig?
Yeah I get ya. Just some average joe trying to survive against all odds. I appreciate the offer but unfortunately I don't know the 40k universe well enough to do it justice. If I ran it then it'd probably just end up being a generic cyberpunk/dystopian quest and at that point I don't think I could advertise it as a 40k game nor would it be the kind of quest you were hoping for. Sorry about that.

Best I can offer is general advice and the like.

Leave Souv alone, his schizophrenia amuses me. He also spouts off some interesting insights & lore.

You really can't go wrong with Seven Against Thebes/Trojan War Qst, Sworn to Valour, or SW: Interregnum. All absolutely goated. There was a really interesting Qst idea that was flaked on pretty much immediately regarding the Stalker setting but in Afrika, with a Rhodesian protag going to the Victoria Lake Exclusion/Visitation Zone. Would love to see anything post-apoc or adjacent that focuses on meager resource management & desperation leading to moral dilemnas.

>>>6248811
>>>6248811
>>>6248811
Mere Fallow update : )

>>6248710
yes it worked once, but everyone got lazy and wont do it anymore

>>6248863
I can’t do it because I’m running a quest, so delaying an update 3 days just to fuck him up is annoying. VPN will kill my Op id.

Meta is to just report every post for breaking US law, because it’s the only way these faggot cocksucker Jannies will pay attention to anything going on. Fuck you Souvarine, I’d beat you to death if I could. I hope your mother gets cancer and your father ropes and you get anally raped by monkeys for all eternity in hell

>>6248976
>mentioning rope
>around souv
>the bdsm fiend
You just WANT him to pop off again, don't you? He's gonna tell you the MORAL PURPOSE of a suicide note now while jacking off to the idea of a chick being hit while tied up. Thanks. Dick.

>>6245836
>Jodorowsky (he acts in his own films) demonstrates how magic is actually done. With no explanation the film just begins with him stripping two women completely naked then shaving their heads entirely bald. This is magic and any cinematic arousal produced is completely coincidental to the intended effect
I know irl magic has people doing nonsense stuff, but what exactly is the magic and how do you differentiate it from random stuff ?

>>6248977
>mentioning rope
>around souv
>the bdsm fiend
new lore discovered

Damn Souv is so fucking unlikable I can't even muster up the desire to talk about magic system autism with him. That's crazy. I used to talk to bumpfaggot about that even though he killed /tg/.

>>6249036
>Damn Souv is so fucking unlikable
BananasQM the normie man engaging in "Mean Girls" type ostracism

>>6248666
Modded Securitron cyber-waifu

>>6248675
Ten years after the first thread, the final quest will be unveiled. An intricately build world taking each outcome and placing them individually about the vast surface, each civilisation as developed as they were when left off; a living, breathing, dynamic setting of unparalleled intricacy for the viewers to awe at and play in.

...and then, as always, two posts in it'll be abandoned.

>>6249077
True!

>>6243967 (OP)
Might as well do thread OPs while I got a minute.

>QM Question
As an individual with zero original ideas and a pure slopgolem; whatever I played or watched recently usually occupies my mind most strongly. Inspirations for specific "vibes" are on a Quest by quest basis. While established in their specific threads; some examples include 4x games and gnostic philosophy for Space Monke quest; Pirates of the Caribbean, Master & Commander, and Kenshi for Black Ocean Quest; Batman TAS is the strongest inspiration for Concrete Stratosphere; and finally Conan the Barbarian (film & books), Elder Scrolls, and various other slop fantasy sources as primary inspiration for Moonrise. This lists is wide reaching but non-exhaustive.

>Player Question
I don't have a really good suggestion for this, I think. Any quest I want to see I just run myself. I'll give my free pitch to the people wanting a GOOD Game of Thrones Quest, since I know they're starving for it. I suppose my biggest desire of quests to see then would be canon quests that are of a high quality and can please the fans of those franchises; as I don't feel comfortable running fanon works in almost any setting. No matter how much wiki delving and background knowledge I've absorbed, there always seems to be more or I have minor qualms I'd like to change. Running a Star Wars Quest or Elder Scrolls Quest myself feels suicidal.

>General Question
I started a D&D group among internet friends! I have not played any tabletop games since before covid in 2020, so I felt especially rusty; but everyone had a fun first session with demands to continue the game. Then 4chan came back the very next day lmao

>Lurker Question
I'm obviously not a lurker but holy shit it's been bliss. I can actually post from my phone for quest related posts or even just shitposting on other boards. It may be pure snake oil but I swear activity has been greatly boosted because of it.

>Misc Questions
Nowadays I only go on /v/ for video games and off topic shitposting, /tv/ for the best shitposting on the website. When I want to scare myself, I visit the zombie board (/tg/) to see its shambling corpse of what remain. I'm also quite a fan of /an/ and /lit/ since they tend to have much more intelligent users. I wouldn't create any new boards, but consolidating some shittier boards and maybe creating a repository board for AI shitspam with no archival features (to reduce bandwith site wide) would be a nice feature to clear up space.

>>6248771
I'd be interested by a 'slice of life starring a nobody' quest that just happens to be set somewhere inside the vast sprawling expanse of the 40K universe.

I would avoid an 'isekai' like Nurgle's own plagues.

>>6249105
>>6249106
>>6249110
>>6249118
Souvarine, I defend you sometimes, but this string of posts is indefensible. Please, loop back to twlking about quests or stop.

>>6249105
>>6249106
>>6249110
>>6249118

Souvarine, I am going to tell you that it is in your best interest to stop making posts like these as soon as possible. As soon as now, preferably.

Aspen tried to avoid it, but he can’t any more. He needs PAC money for his campaign, but that doesn’t mean he can’t do it on his terms.
>>6249139
>>6249139
>>6249139

>>6243967 (OP)
>QM question
I've always been really interested in Sci-Fi stuff since I was a kid. Got my hands on a copy of Rogue Squadron and I was doomed from them on. I generally take inspiration from literature like that, a few TV shows like Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse, and a few video games as well, notably Halo. I can't say I take too much inspiration from quests for my writing specifically, but 404s fantastic Spartan II quest definitely gave me the bug to start my own.

>Player question
I really really want to run a superhero quest. Just a long running sorta slice of life/opera deal. But I have a couple other quests planned after MF and the story I'm thinking of would probably be done justice over the course of years.

It wouldn't be pure Saturday morning cartoon or modern grim deconstruction slop, somewhere in the middle. Players wouldn't be able to choose their entire set of powers, maybe a few particulars and abilities gained over time. It'd definitely take place on a contemporary or maybe 80s era Earth, where super powered individuals just leap out of the woodwork of society like vermin. Could either establish the MC as an early paragon or some horrible villain, or something in between. But a big part of the quest would be the sudden arrival of these people and the consequences of their existence on the rest of the world...

Maybe not very original but it's what I want to run.

>General question
Just read a bunch, got ready for a certain move. Contemplated dropping my quest entirely, actually-it would've been a pretty good time so it. I browsed SUPTG for my questing fix, in the meantime.

>>6243967 (OP)

>QM question:
A lot of things, mostly media or history, I have read or watched. Mostly Lord of the Rings, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Paradox Games, that sort of thing.

>General question:
I continued my studies, very intellectually stimulating.

>Miscellaneous question:
I sometimes go to other boards out of curiosity, then I usually come back here

Oh yes, and the update
>>6249164
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>>6249161
Is that Absolute Wonder Woman, there?

This was several years back but I remember a quest that centered around a guy who was a pro FPS gamer that was forced into retirement due to a false cheating scandal. Dude got dragged back into the pro scene via a bit of blackmail and had to deal with reuniting with other pros he used to play with and how the fallout of your actions affected them. Can't remember the name for the life of me but I was wondering if anyone else remembers it and knows how it turned out. Last I recall, the MC was participating in a battle royale style tournament.

Kind of want to run a quest like that now. I guess it's just another idea for the bucket.

Other things of note that I could recall:
Games were full dive VR and the MC was experiencing a weird glitch with his machine or anti cheating device which might have led to the cheating allegations.

MC ran an arcade which he wanted to keep secret and live his life out of the public eye. One pro player smashed it up real bad once he found out where the MC was hiding. Players managed to bury the hatchet with him and there was hints the pro was not that bad of a dude, just had some anger issues he needed to deal with.

>>6249186
Mhm. It was the cover for Absolute Wonder Woman #11 if I'm not mistaken.

>>6249201
Recognised it in the first sentence, that's Gun x Glory (https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Gun%20x%20Glory ). I miss it, that it came back after a two year hiatus and then went on hiatus again just makes it even more so.

>>6249077
>BananasQM the normie man engaging in "Mean Girls" type ostracism
I mean, he's a fag so that expected, not that I care much for souv

>>6249201
A quest about playing as a gamer could be really cool! I've seen a few abortive attempts, but they all flaked.

>>6249202
Man, I need to catch up on that comic. Absolute Martian Manhunter is also off to a really cool start.

>>6249282
>>6249077
Say what you will about Bananas, but I wouldn't ever call him a filthy, degenerate normie

>>6249313
Yeah Bananas is way too into monkey porn to be a normie. No not that kind.

>>6249282
>>6249313
>>6249316

>>6249118
Shut up and fuck off already.

>>6249333
you just need to destroy souv in a manly way, man

>>6249347
I suggest turkish oil wrestling.

>>6249259
That's the one! Man I was kinda hoping it got an ending. I'll give it a reread then.

>>6249313
I think that's why Gun x Glory is stuck in my memory. It was pretty consistent when it was running. Not sure if there were many quests like that after.

>>6249333
It was a very gentle ribbing, I thought, but no offence meant.

>>6249417
Do you even play quests? All of this shit you talk about also belongs on /tg/ I might add. Have you considered going there and talking with them about this? Especially since this is categorically off topic.

He's replied to it four times now but totally not mad btw lol

>>6249419
>Have you considered going there and talking with them about this? Especially since this is categorically off topic.
What do you think.

Everyone on /tg/ is fucking braindead: "Let's talk about Elves for the 1 billionth fucking time. Oh you have an original idea? Why?"

Souv, are you familiar with the ytuber Warlockracy? I'm still waiting on him to review Eye: Divine Cybermancy. I think you should also checkout Stoker Qst for an original setting inspired by that Polish post-World War hellscape painter.

>>6246913
Welp, since I appear to have gotten reverse-QM-cursed, on account I'll be out of a job at the end of next week, let's get this show on the road.


So. Will you...

>Try not to spend the rest of your life in jail by becoming your country's most wanted fugitive after a wee bit of accidental police corruption removal?

>Stave off horrid mid-life depression and change your life with just a smidgeon of (perhas even justified) vigilante murder?

>Regain your youth and health by clawing them back from a world that has left you behind while pretending to still be a harmless old man?

>Listen to the promises of those strange stones you got from someone's organs?

CHOOSE.

Bloodstones.

Tonight, 8PM (somewhere). All net. Four channel(s).


See you in a few hours anons. I'm going in a bit unprepared, but we'll see who we end up following for this trial run!

>>6249420
https://youtu.be/AVxi1sbyVZ8?si=1LZjDM3nxmHWOsyL
>>6249437
Nice. Feels like cheating knowing what the options lead to.
>>6249422
https://youtu.be/si8DUlhiLlg?si=JbPewViXbvsKx_zK
CEASE UNEEDED OFF TOPIC TALK YOU HAVE 1 SECOND TO COMPLY. THIS IS A THERMONUCLEAR MESSAGE.

>>6249419
No, he doesn't run either. All his quests are ass despite his constant spam about quest theory. He's just an ideas guy.

>>6249491
You are a talentless hack with no capability to write or run, who's just playing the scholar to an audience who cannot move to discussion threads on the board free of your bullshit. Vampire is an apt description, because all you do is leech energy from the people who actually try and contribute to this hobby. You do absolutely nothing of value. Go kill yourself. You are a failure and always will be. I remember stock crash and 52 update image spam quest, both retarded ideas from your broken brain. Fucking pathetic.

>>6249443
Those are just some of the most likely paths from the starting parameters. The anons, and the dice gods, can decide what really will happen.

What is the name of that other quest site people here talk about? It has a name, but people commonly refer to it by another name.
I think it has an unusual URL that ends in .io or something similar.

>>6249585
fiction.live, aka the degen site ?

>>6249435
There's no point getting upset over content. Lots of it is just bait, always has been, and not only on this site. Best counter to it is ignoring, reporting if it's too off and moving on.

How long have you been on internets anyways? Ultimately you are the only person responsible for what you consume, noone else will do it for you. Be the change you want to see, stop complaining and start bringing content you want to engage in.

>>6249661
>you are the only person responsible for what you consume,
You don't understand, the computer stood up and shoved that ad for gas station dick pills into my eyes. I didn't want to see it or buy it on several different occasions. It was big media what done it.

>>6249671
Rhino Pill, no headache?

>>6249570
Souv, I found your Star Wartz posts earlier insightful, but clearly anons here don't enjoy the schizo walls of text. You're dropping Diogenes-level essays in the groupchat essentially. Personally I have enjoyed your ramblings for a long time now. Without too verbose of a reply, would you be interested in collaborating on a Qst in any of the following sorts of settings: Post-Apoc Slav-Jank (Metro, Stalker, etc.), Post-Apoc Retro-Futurism (Fallout, We Happy Few, etc.), Sci-Fi Western (Star War, Firefly, etc.), Historical-Fiction Western (Russian Civil War Cossack, Indochina Wars Hmong, etc.), Gangster Drama (GTA, The Godfather, etc.), or Fighting Tournaments (Mortal Kombat, Bloodsport, Tekken, etc.)? If any of those are up your alley let me know, or any other ideas that spring to mind. I'm a phone-poster that focuses on worldbuilding & choice-trees, but I'll gladly hammer out some narrative & dialogue if you're willing to bear the QM curse by posting as well as provide imagery.

I also occasionally find souv's posts interesting to read but the dude does need to tone it down a little

what do I do now that bananas quest is over? What reason do I have to come here

>>6249813
Wait for his next one.

>>6249437
Sorry to hear about your employment, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on your quest.

>>6249539
> I would like to see more actual discussion because what confuses me is people rarely promulgate their actual interests, they just post one sentence "play my quest" no explanation then spend all this time criticising and flinging insults over enforcing and conforming to what they think is the right on-topic discussion, to the detriment of actually discussing anything

Sometimes true, but usually not the case. When there's no feud going on between QMs or especially "passionate" players, we quite often share quest idea and help refine them, rate or review one another's quests, reminisce about old ones, share game design and writing ideas, discuss what sorts of quests we would like to see, banter about one another's quirks...

I sometimes suspect you just don't see how valuable that all is because you aren't running or playing many quests, so it all washes over and past you as many of your lengthier posts do me.

>you could use that effort to just write about cool scenes you saw in Star Wars or whatever, emotional character moments from films that gave you ideas for dramatic game encounters. And I would want to read about it!

The problem is that this is not what the board is about. The inspiration needs to move into actualization, into actual writing or art, at some point. If we just wanted to discuss inspiring scenes from OTHER media, and not what we've produced or played HERE< we'd be on /lit/, /tv/, /v/, /a/, etc.

>>6249822
Gonna take a stab at running another informative quest for our moral instruction and collective enrichment, Professor Souvarine? kek

More seriously though, it's been a while, and it might give you a chance to get some of these creative energy out in a productive way that genuinely adds colour to the community. A colab with someone like >>6249747 could be a cool experiment, too.

>What are some of your favourite game scenarios, encounters, situations? What themes and choice dilemmas do they involve? How do you adapt / customise them across different genres (fantasy, horror sci-fi etc)

One I'm a sucker for is the choice between loyalty/friendship/love/society and a more direct but alienating personal power. I only really run in one genre, so I don't know about transplanting them... But I guess I run various variations (dark fantasy espionage, dark fantasy politics/conquest, dark fantasy philosophy and exploration, dark fanatsy small-squad dungeon-crawl and resource management, and so on). A couple examples might be a disfigurged/monstrous form or "evil" power which marks you as an outsider, in exchange for greater offensive or defensive stats; or it could mean rebelling against one's masters and losing access to their network and resources in exchange for local domination.

>>6249825
>>6249825
>>6249825
Solarpunk Thread #10 is live! And the Stormwatch Director has decided to kick around an ancient evil because, comparatively, he's small time.

>>6248485
Bit late to the party, but if you want recommendations, I have them! I used to write quest reviews, and I thought it would be helpful if I compiled them in a single easy to access place so that people didn't have to trudge through archived.moe for them. Here's the link, if you're interested:

https://rentry.org/olympusqm-reviews

>>6249819
I doubt the next one will be any good.

>>6249856
>https://rentry.org/olympusqm-reviews
liked the CHAOS review.

>>6240426
>>6240426
>>6240426
Here to shill NORDWAND QUEST in the new QTG. If you like spider mechs and political instability, this is the quest for you.

>>6248543
>There's another SW Qst that ran for awhile in multiple parts with different titles (so check the archives) centering on a far-future setting beyond any of the EU & the Jedi dealing with a Force-singularity cult in addition to ancient Sith spirits & a resurgent Hutt Empire.
Cool you remember my shitty quest.

>>6250024
It was based bro, keep it going. Also, settle on a consistent title or QM handle at the very least.

>>6249849
>>6249902
Now that Souv is gone, the thread is just people spamming links to the catalog.

>>6250112
>Now that souv is gone, the qtg is just discussions about and advertisements for quests

Yes anon, that's what the qtg is for.

>>6250110
Glad you liked it, I only started writing because I wanted people to enjoy my work like I did for others. I have honestly thought about restarting it, but it was a smaller quest and /qst/ has continued to lose players, I think if I was to restart it it would likely die from the lack of (You)'s. The title changes was me trying to delineate different arcs.

>>6250112
An elephant in the room is not good for conversations about anything but the elephant in the room. He made it hard for me to read conversations, so I didn't want to have them. Just because his posts are gone now doesn't mean they've retroactively been removed from how we were talking when they were here.

>>6249874
Why?

>>6250112
Objectively untrue. We're discussed Bananas' quests (or are potentially starting to), Olympus' reviews, an old Star Wars quest, the purpose of the QTG, and Souvarine's legacy. And it's only been twenty hours.

>>6250112
After so much time of every single discussion being drowned out by the spamming, it takes a while for people to return to discussing.

>>6250163
Well if you can deal with the weebs/coomers take it to fiction live & start it up again there. Other than that, there aren't many solid options.

There were some other good Star Wartz Qsts that died out here running not too long ago as well. Remnant Captain, Against the Republic, the one about an Order 66 survivor with ties to Master Dooku, that outlaw one where the protag steals from an Imperial lockup while being chased by a cultish gang, etc. Of course none as popular as Interregnum, which I view as up there with Sworn to Valour at the pinnacle of this board on (You) draw alone. I would love to see any of those others return as well.

Not to mention ENCLAVE REMNANT QST, miss that one. Forget all the talk of a GOOD Fantasy Qst,™ we need another GOOD Post-Apoc Qst.

Oh, & Sunbelt Motherfuckin' Crusaders. I need a shot of that Qst in my veins.

>>6250239
I am still waiting for that rat bastard to pick Against The Republic back up. He said he might. I remember. It was like three or four /qtg/s ago. I know you're in here.

>>6250228
I don't want to talk about him like he is not here and reading my posts. I can give an opinion if he wants it .

>>6250270
Entirely fair, but you sort of already did give an unasked for (and somewhat skeptical) opinion when yous aid you doubted it would be good in >>6249874. I was just wondering why you decided that, when you apparently really like his stuff based on >>6249813.

Some of it is fun just as a bit of shitposting but after this >>6244413 I'm starting to get a bit of the ick not gonna lie.

>>6250279
thats what makes it funny

>>6250279
Oh shit, it is the same person.

>>6250285
Well, nevermind.

Requesting some rolls: >>6250374

Also would be cool if anons checked out the quest itself >>6249515
It is basically After the Fall in premise and mechanics but in an alternate (admittedly, hastily made) setting. The start is heavy on intro text but I'll do my best to make the quest itself entertaining!!

There is a new update for The Caretaker Quest!
this one is shorter than usual but oooh boy! is it a BIG one in every other sense!
what will happen now? roll to find out!
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>>6236973
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>>6248743


>>6250086
>>6250086
>>6250086

Silver Knight Quest - Update VII

Rosandra is quite certain you are not a worshipper of the Sister. Success. Also, you are late for your trial.

Uh oh.

With the help of a most wick parasite burrowed inside your very heart, create a vessel for your dead daughter through ab unholy ritual, save her before rot and decay would claim her fragile body.

>>6250555
>>6250555
>>6250555

>>6250571
GOOD elf quest when?

>>6250239
>Well if you can deal with the weebs/coomers take it to fiction live & start it up again there. Other than that, there aren't many solid options.
Dont love the place, but maybe i'll think about it. Seems easier to start something new at this point desu.

Speaking of the other questing sites; I don't know how to word it exactly but there's just something offputting about each of them, and their higher reply count doesn't make up for it. I did run content on some of them, and most replies either made me annoyed about the poster or anxious about whether I'm self-censoring the right way and won't be abandoned by my playerbase or outright banned for some kind of misstep. I guess that's just how it goes on these sites - considerable amount of your bandwidth is spent on not the actual content but on the social meta game.

>>6250731
Rather be a retard with ten than a normie with a hundred, yeah? Definitely feel that.

>>6250732
Ten voters is a fairly rare thing these days, alas.

>>6250772
Obviously we just need to glue people's nuts to the chair. That includes the two women that come here.

>>6250788
bitches leave

>>6250731
Yeah it feels a little exhausting. I'd rather run a quest here, despite the lack of formatting.

>>6250599
Do you like fantasy elves or sci fi space elfs

>>6250566
This game is neat and I hope people will play it

Rolls please
>>6250880

does anyone know of a superhero school quest where the main character (or his girl companion? Can't remember which) was some kind of "Thule"? I remember the MC being very timid. I think the quest also lasted at least two threads, but fizzled out afterwards?

Must have been 3-4 years ago that I saw it. I remember it being one of the very first quests that I read. For some reason it hooked me pretty quickly, maybe because I prescribed a 50s pulpy atmosphere to it because of how bubbly some of the dialogue was. It was comfy.

Anyways, it feels like a fever dream now. I can't find anything about it on suptg, and I can't for the life of me remember any names. Help, please.

The Pale Inheritance is now live, with an abridged session for today:
>>6215928
>>6215928

>>6250731
Well as a quest writer on live.fiction I usually tell new qm's on that site to lay down law right in the beginning. If you ignore it it'll fester and create what we call a salt mountain. Beat them, beat them hard. Punish them for making mistakes, but give them ways out. It allows for critical thinking. And they care about crafting the story. Which in turn is a better experience in my opinion carrot and stick approach.

After Aspen had finished picking and choosing his donors for the campaign, his attention is returned to the investigation of a foreign head of state…who might be in the hands of terrorists.
>>6251040
>>6251040
>>6251040

>>6251099
>>6251099
>>6251099
Update for Fog of War! With another town taken and a possible army on the lose, you must choose whether to stay or to go.

>>6250451

Silver Knight Quest - Thread 6 Update 8

Money.
Mayhem.
Mischief.

And you, as always, caught in the middle.


>>6251084
>>6251084
>>6251084

>>6251033
I would say this is a true statement for here as well. So many QMs don't want to lay down the hammer because they don't want to lose readers. So they instead hope to string them along. But it never ends well ultimately and always explodes into a salt mountain.

>>6251033
>>6251157
Agreed to both. Setting expectations, both for the story and for the tone of discourse you're willing to tolerate (or want to see) makes for a better environment all around.

>>6248248
>>6248684
>>6248685
...I should not have watched the K-2SO hallway scene before Interregnum went up. Now I'm just thinking about doing one for the MC, with no sight of Kaz on the horizon.

How much demand is there for Vampire: The Masquerade quest?

>>6251316
I'd play one, but don't have char gen

>>6251316
I've always been curious about that but it needs a pretty fem MC and a good QM.

>>6251316
Nah. Everyone would choose to play a Malk and we're too stupid collectively to make it work.

>>6251337
What about a multiplayer?

The Pale Inheritance is live again:
>>6215928
Some disturbing revelations, and planning our next move

I run a quest, The Adventures of Magical Girl SugarRush. It's about magical girls. Currently, it is on the second thread. We have just gotten to combat start. If anyone is interested, feel free to catch up and join in. Another player to help with tie breaking would be appreciated.

https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2025/6204450/ (link to the archived first thread)
>>6244031 (link to the current thread)

>>6251316
0 zero

Modern vtm is literally just cape shit. Actually it always was, it just got a really good rep because of 1 game in the 90s that didn't mention like 70% of the lore.

>>6251316
I'd read it as long as you don't flake and seem to enjoy writing it, but I say that about pretty much every would-be QM that asks about potential interest. Do you have a time period in mind, or were you thinking something along the lines of Bloodlines or something?

>>6250748
>>6250748
>>6250748
I would greatly appreciate a few votes.

>>6251316
The problem isn't the demand, the problem is that every single Vampire qm flake.

>>6251316
A WoD quest in general would be great.

If anyone would, i could use a roll of the dice or two, please. dont want to base an entire encoutner with a single roll.
>>6236973
>>6236973
>>6236973

>>6251652
What are some of the highest flake risk genres/series?
>Worm
>Homestuck

>>6251316
Could be fun, the problem is getting past the turbo nerds so you can do your own thing.

>>6251764
Civquests. Parody isekais, maybe?

>>6251791
Parody isekai at least got a few posts in. Flake is usually around time for a 2nd thread.
There's quite the flake among Exalted quests, too

>>6251790
Any Kenshi quest. Flake is a drug in there. Lucrative trade.

>>6251871
>>6251871
>>6251871

Can't keep a bad man down. Nemesis Quest returns. Murder, magic, mayhem, Disco.

So uhh
to kickstart a conversation, here's a couple questions for QMs (probably asked before but w/e):

How much time does writing an average post take for your quest? How much time do you dedicate to working on your quest every day: writing updates/posts, planning the plot, worldbuilding, doing research on topics that might come up, looking for images - among other things?

Essentially, how much EFFORT are you putting into your quest? Do you think it's enough for your quest to be a GOOD one?

>>6251948
>How much time does writing an average post take for your quest?
Solely depends on my focus. I can usually get an update out in one hour if it's only one post, 2-4 beyond that.
>How much time do you dedicate to working on your quest every day?
1-4 hours writing, plot/worldbuilding is something I idly do all day but I'm not sitting down and spending hours on hours just hyperfixating over lore, about 30~ minutes to find fitting images if I feel like a post warrants it.

>>6251948
>How much time does writing an average post take for your quest?
it depends, most of my updates are around 3 to 5 posts, that usually takes me between 3 to 5 hours, the rarer updates of 2 to 3 posts might take around 2 and a half hours.
>How much time do you dedicate to working on your quest every day
just those 3 to 5 hours.
>Essentially, how much EFFORT are you putting into your quest?
just enough, mostly because my quest its a sidequest/alternate universe for another quest, so mostof the world building and tone is already set, i just focus on the other stuff.
>Do you think it's enough for your quest to be a GOOD one?
hell no, mine started just as a place to wait for HeadQM to return when he took a break from his quest, it slowly evolved with time to be its own thing but its still just a skeleton, i TRY to make it the best i can, but its still a skeeton, and im grateful for the few players i still have and are willing to play my garbage

>>6251948
>how long
Bout thirty minutes to an hour. Depends on how many times it needs to hit the character limit, really. Most of it is spent trying to wrack the brain for synonyms and shit. Don't want to be too redundant.

>meta stuff
Most of that should be done before you run your quest, honestly. Except maybe the images. You never know when you'll need something specific. If you use images at all, they can be a time sink. Don't get too caught up in the research either. Most of the time you really do only need a surface level to be satisfactory. Altogether it'll probably take somewhere around 3 hours give or take, but you shouldn't need to do it every time you run. Maybe once a week or so.

>effort
>GOOD
Who cares. People pay millions for Pollock paintings and shit like them. Even when they aren't just using it for money laundering. Do as much as it takes as a writer to find it sufficient for your own principles.

>>6251948
My quest is in hybernation right now, but back when I was running actively I would take 2-4 hours to write an update, while planning, world etc was a constant background thing.
It still wasn't enough to be really good. Too improvised. I now think you should do at least 60% of your planning before you start.

quest is coming back 3rd/4th week of June, sorry for the extended delay but I'll need a very long rest after this

>QM question
Fucking hell, don't get me started. In terms of quests, mostly just Disappearing Hogwarts and the original Poképocalypse that got flaked on, but in terms of everything else... the franchise as a whole and its missed potential, a general lack of historical fiction that isn't inundated with modern-day sensibilities (or just really bad), a dumb love of sprinkling secrets everywhere and general schizo-chart shit like ARGs? I'm going to stop there or I'll go on forever.

>Player question:
All of my ideas are some kind of schlocky historical fiction, but here's one that might interest someone other than me:

Clean-cut average joe from the 50s starts seeing time-displaced shit all over his neighborhood that nobody else can see. It isn't too drastic a displacement, just stuff from that century inexplicably showing up too late or too early, but it's enough to be noticeable. Ends up freaking after a future version of himself shows up in his backyard, decrepit and unrecognizable, and that version of himself explicitly acknowledges his presence. Cue a long journey to find out wtf is happening and eventually realizing that glowies have to do with it. Involves the JFK assassination and Cuban missile crisis.

I don't have the time to run this and I won't for ages.

>General question:
Waited it out, did some worldbuilding. Enjoyed fixing up the pokepocalypse timeline and having some time off, I guess, but I really missed /qst/ a lot more than I expected to.

>>6251948
Plot-planning and worldbuilding is done passively, every single day, in the background. Same with planning updates. Research is done in sporadic bursts that often come from completely unrelated things, which is frustrating me because it's making it hard to focus on it long enough not to contradict past statements.

I gave up looking for images a while back because it sometimes added nearly an hour's worth of time to posting. I was extremely hyperspecific about my images: I don't think I used a single real-life shot that wasn't specifically in California, as example, and most were taken in the 1880s. Many were also at the exact locations i used in the quest. I was never satisfied with the vaguer stuff, so I just gave up images as a whole and I've been much happier since.

The actual posts themselves tend to take half an hour to four hours depending on the size and my energy level. The former is very rare-- I usually spend at least an hour or two on my writing. I tend to give them one read-over, sometimes with someone else's opinion, then post. If I let myself go beyond one proofread, I'll inevitably start thinking my work is shit and just discard it.

I never feel like I'm putting in enough effort, which is odd since I always give it 110% lol. Imposter syndrome kicking in again probably. Gotta get over that.

>>6251948
I must be lazy because it takes about two to three days at this point. Most of it is spent figuring out what direction to take my post, granted.

>>6251961
>more on the quest idea since the character limit was reached

MKUltra is also involved, as are the first superhero comics and WW2. Nazis aren't a factor, neither are fascists in general, and themes mostly have to do with individuality vs the love of a nation. Cold-war style collectivism vs individualism also plays a part, with occasional musings on the rose-tinted past vs the endless future, stuff like that. Lots of duality regarding stuff relating to loyalty, values, truth, and family.
There might be some light stats since combat would become more of a thing later on. The time-based shenanigans never go past the 20th century and focus more on the second half of it than the first. Aliens might be in there somewhere??

it's half-baked and probably doesn't make much sense but I still like it.

>>6251963
I'm the exact same way, plus I work a lot so I can only ever do weeklies.

>>6251948

> How much time does writing an average post take for your quest?
I'd say 40-ish min per post, and my updates can go for 5+ posts, so it takes a while. My last post, which was about 14.5k letters, 2.6k words, took me 4h-ish to write.

> planning the plot, worldbuilding, doing research on topics that might come up
All that happens either idly in the back of my head, or spread out throughout the day, so it is difficult to say. Research I do just enough to be ok with something being generally plausible or implausible, and rarely get too much into the nitty-gritty.

> Essentially, how much EFFORT are you putting into your quest?
Enough that I'm pleased with what comes out.

>>6251948
>Update Time
Usually about two hours or so for one or two posts, but like a few other QMs mentioned it really depends on how long said posts are and what time it is. I personally am wiped out after work and sometimes writing an update when I get home just takes... forever. That said, sometimes I have notes or drafted/thought up an update at work or somewhere else and that makes it loads easier to put together! Always keep a note-taking tool nearby! Saved my bacon more times than I can count!
>Every day
Not as much as I should. I tend to improvise a lot, but I don't really start a quest without putting together the world and other elements first. I tend to also draw all of my images myself, so that takes ages since I'm a fucking dunce when it comes to that sort of thing.
>Effort
Not as much as I should, but I like it that way. If I'm not having fun running the quest then I don't really see the point. That said, there are a few supplementary materials and future content I COULD be working on... without going into too much details, however, it's been a really rough couple of months so motivation is hard to come by. Dark Quest helps, though. Keeps me sane.

In a slightly-related note, Dark Quest's next thread might happen later this week or early next week--have a bunch of life stuff to keep up with and the break has helped quite a bit. Thanks for being patient if you read it!

Say, now's a swell time to catch up if you haven't already! Dark Quest is a comedic fantasy quest where our stalwart hero Anton tries to find his way home after being summoned (by accident, it would seem), to a land chock full of wild inhabitants, sinister plots, and, most importantly, an unyielding shroud of COMPLETE AND UTTER DARKNESS!

Will he survive? Will he adapt? How will his new friends and foes fare? The last thread's still up and has links to the archive, so if you enjoy rules-lite quests with drama, action, and something adjacent to humor, you really oughta' give it a try!

>>6214502
>>6214502
>>6214502

*Girl in attached picture may or may not show up/have already shown up in Dark Quest

>>6251973
Oh damn, Liz reveal

>>6251976
Hearsay. It could be anybody Even ANTON! OooOOooH!

>>6251978
Good try, but Anton doesn't wear sunglasses.

>>6251988
Well... he might. When it's bright out...

>>6251994
It's called "Dark" quest, not "Bright day outside" quest.

>>6251764
>ASOIAF
>Fallout
>Generic Fantasy

Another unholy soulless husk, we shall create, one step closer for a perfect vessel...

>>6251962
>>6251962
>>6251962

>>6251948
I tend to spend upwards to 4 hours on my posts. Since I used to post almost every 2 days, I guess I was writing about 2 hours per day.

Research and reading took up more time since I was challenging myself to read through a pile of books. So about one hour of reading various subjects.

Images are pretty much 30 minutes and I took a bunch years ago to stuff in a folder.

>>6251948
>Writing a post
Anywhere from one hour to twelve. If I focus, two or three hours max, even if it has fun gimmicks like Kalevala Meter because that exercise keeps me on the page. If I lose focus, it takes much longer, like six hours or even a complete stall, and generally becomes worse. My scatterbrain is easily distracted while I'm at home and I kind of hate it. I should get a laptop or just plain write at the library or somewhere devoid of distractions. Maybe physically write in a journal.
>planning, worldbuilding
This happens passively. These things occupy my mind. In the shower, in the car, anywhere it's silent I start thinking about stories. Different ways I can make a scene unfold, different ways I could have characters reveal things. I prepared and posted almost all of a major part of my last thread, pic related, in a couple of days, but this scene was in my head in some way shape or form since the start of the quest.
>images
If I am deadset on using found images, either I already have them or it will take up to 40 minutes trying to find one before settling on something. If I decide I have to draw it, it can take several hours depending on the scale of the image but I'm preparing it days in advance or relegate it to a weekend post.

>>6251104

Silver Knight Quest - Thread 6 Update 9

You try to reason with Rosandra.
Now time to work on the consequences.

>>6252015
>>6252015
>>6252015

>>6251948
>How much time does writing an average post take for your quest?
It can take a few hours. Probably 2 or 3. I try to get it out ASAP but between writing, correcting mistakes and the like, it adds up. Sometimes other things come up that pull me away from writing but at the very least I try to get it out before 24 hours.

How much time do you dedicate to working on your quest every day: writing updates/posts, planning the plot, worldbuilding, doing research on topics that might come up, looking for images - among other things?
All day, every day. Ok that's a bit of a lie but a lot of my free time is spent...daydreaming for lack of a better term. Stuff like cool plot points, ways to connect the current events in my quest to other plot points I want to put in or explanations for things that are going on. It's not all directly towards the quest I'm writing. Sometimes I just like to brainstorm ideas for other quests. It helps kill time or alleviates boredom at work. I don't tend to do a lot of research mostly because I like running fantasy quests so it doesn't need realism or things like that. So long as I can maintain consistent rules within the universe it's fine by me.

>Essentially, how much EFFORT are you putting into your quest? Do you think it's enough for your quest to be a GOOD one?
Reflecting on the above, I put alot of effort into my quest but not active effort? Brainstorming ideas for tabletop games or quests is kind of my past time so it doesn't feel like effort I guess. I wouldn't know if my quests are good or not. I just do my best I suppose.

My Hardrive decided to go MEPE mode and idle into melting, but now the Gundam SEED quest is back!

>>6252039
>>6252039
>>6252039

>>6251948
I average 3-5 hours for updates, depending on length and level of distraction, and my updates average 3-5 posts each. This puts me at around ~500 words/hour, which seems standard looking at everyone else's responses.

As for planning, I rarely do active note-taking or brainstorming, but I'm passively thinking about the quest 24/7. I've probably invested hundreds of hours over the years in drawing for the quest, writing side content, working on related projects, etcetera. I have a folder of pre-prepped images and briefly search for relevant ones if needed, but I don't spend any significant length of time on it.

With this talk of Star Wars quests I tempted to start one; either one where you are a junior Sith competing in cut-throat power structure, or where you player as an imperial officer just after the death of the emperor.

>>6251968
>I work a lot so I can only ever do weeklies.
How's that going for you? You feel like your making progress quick enough?

>>6252078
Do it pussy. No balls.

>>6252078
Actually, there's already been one like the latter. It was pretty fun, but inevitably dropped.

Only good if you can actually draw battlemaps, though.

>>6251948
>How much time does writing an average post take for your quest?
Around 1-2 hours on average to crank out somewhere between 600-900 words for a daily update. I'll miss a day or two every now and again. Sometimes it may take longer if I'm stuck. If I go over 3 hours I'm severely brain fucked.

>planning the plot, worldbuilding, doing research on topics that might come up, looking for images - among other things?
I find that to avoid burnout, these are best done either before the quest, or in-between threads. When I ran my first quest, I only gave myself about a week between threads. My current quest, I do about 2-3 weeks break now. Plenty of time to plan the outline, get necessary images, and to allow ideas to sort of play around in my head without feeling rushed to get something onto paper. During this planning phase, I don't really sit down and brainstorm. I just sort of think about my quest, the direction its going, and certain things I want to try to do, and then I keep it all in a general planning document that I can go back to whenever. As some other QMs said, this stuff tends to come naturally when you're already used to working with your quest daily.

I think an important thing to remember when it comes to planning is that quests are spontaneous by nature. You want your story to be prepared, but there's such a thing as too much planning. I've come up with storylines in the past that never saw the light of day because that wasn't the path my players chose to take. Having an outline or an idea helps, but don't get carried away.

>Essentially, how much EFFORT are you putting into your quest? Do you think it's enough for your quest to be a GOOD one?
I'm happy with the amount of effort I put in, and I think that's good enough. Any more and it becomes a job that consumes an already busy life. Any less and what's the point? I'm lucky to have an active and fun player base that keeps me motivated.

>>6252109
>but inevitably dropped
How does one deal with inevitable flaking of self? Do I just run a one-thread and hope for the best?

>>6251948
I usually do a bit of pre-planning before I start quest and between threads, or sometimes between updates if I have a big idea or anons throw me off-guard. Most of the planning takes place in and around the writing, which usually takes me 40-90 minutes per update, or a bit longer for really long/substantial updates or when I'm having some writer's block.

I used to look up images a lot more, but these days I don't bother as much. I commission character art, but I let the writing do the rest. I'm not sure if my players really miss the google images and amusing book covers and stuff I'd look up back in the day, but nobody's commented.

As for whether it's GOOD... Probably not? People seem to enjoy reading and playing it, though, and I enjoy writing it. That matters more to me than any more "serious" barometer of quality.

>>6252089
Nope. I'd like to update more often, ideally every few days or so, but I wage hard and come home exhausted most days, so I can only ever do RimQuest during my (non-standard) weekends. I still enjoy running so far, and even if my progress keeps being delayed I think I have several threads of story ideas and worldbuilding to roll through before I'm done.

>>6251964
>>6251961
This quest idea and vibe remind me a lot of the manga Billy Bat. Tha's a good thing, btw. I love that comic.

>>6251973
Get hype for the return!

>>6252119
That's how I like to approach new quests: with the expectation I'll get a month or two out of it, and see if I still want to keep going after that.

>>6251948
With this many responses, I think I'll tell how much effort and time I put into my quests as well since I'm the og poster of the question. Probably gonna be long as fuck since I am incapable of being concise and the topic is connected to some of my (bad) habits. So sorry for pulling a Souv I guess.

If we talk PURE WRITING time, I can write a standard 1500-4000 symbol update in an hour. Problem is, I've developed a bad habit of thinking about random bullshit back in high school and often slip into recursive thoughts all the time. So realistically it goes like

I sit down to write the update -> start thinking about what I want to write -> write for like 5 mins -> remember/get excited about plot I want to insert later -> 30 mins of thinking about future scenes, may repeat them in my head like 3-4 times without particular usefulness or novel ideas -> probably veer off into doing the same with some memories that surface as I'm thinking about the quest -> "fuck, I wanted to write the update" -> 5 mins of writing -> consciousness derails for another 30 mins -> repeat for a long time

Sometimes my brain will stop being retarded and I catch the FOCUS and write it all in one go. But generally I will waste my time 80% to 20% of actual working on the quest. I often collapse into the same thoughts when I'm watching something. I can usually watch 2 episodes of anime before I stop and my mind starts wandering.

Other times I'll just shitpost on discord or refresh the page for new votes for hours on end without doing anything useful. Worse, this makes me lose motivation to write, turning my brain into mush incapable not only of writing, but also doing anything useful irl like daily exercises for my body or eyes, or chores. So I basically spend my days literally rotting away in distractions and sloth.

There are some activities that make me gain focus, like helping around the house to be at least of some use in my NEETdom, or sometimes reading, but I generally waste A LOT of my time on random bullshit. idk what this, ADHD or whatever is chic now, or just a disturbed thinking process.

I've wrestled with this shit for a long time and recently I've had success using breathing exercises and meditation to counter it and gain focus. Not hardcore sitting still for an hour observing breathing and clearing my mind, but like 5-10 mins of not thinking at all going around the flat and doing box breathing.

Maybe when I find work I'll start doing better activities and making more use of the limited time I have. Or maybe I'll be so tired from it that I'll drop running quests at all and degenerate even further. Hopefully not, I'll be trying part-time to leave time for creative pursuits while I can still afford to do so. But who knows.
(cont.)

With worldbuilding, I see a lot of QMs say they're thinking about their quest in the background 24/7 while doing other stuff, with basically no dedicated brainstorming. Doesn't work like that for me. Usually I only think of the quest and immediate plot as I'm writing the update. Whenever I post it, I lose 100% motivation for thinking about it. Sometimes I'll think of it as I'm doing other stuff during the day, but it's rare and doesn't really amount to anything as my thought process drifts to other stuff, as I described above.

This usually results in me taking the "thesis the night before submission deadline" approach. I run around with my ass on fire doing the bare minimum of worldbuilding, writing the update, then doing nothing until the next one.

I have tried worldbuilding in advance, but all that's resulted in is a bunch of abandoned ideas that had *some* effort put into them but in which my interest fizzled out without the feeling of obligation to my players to deliver updates and the drug that is (You)'s. My biggest project that I thought about "ok, let's try this FOR REAL" I worked on through pain, and thus with big breaks, for half a year ended up being abandoned by all but one player. At that point I just closed the shop myself. Besides, even with that amount of effort put in, it still ended up as a mess of little-related and poorly thought out notes without a strong underlying structure or a vision of what my players will be doing in the near future, and I regressed to my usual "thesis the night before submission deadline" behaviour.

So it's damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation in my case. That's why I mostly run oneshots these times. But I guess I do learn over the years what to focus on in preparation and what can wait.

In the past year, I've started another quest with a basic outline of the main plot and how the world works in my mind. I sit down for an hour or two to think of the characters and how they'll develop once every week or so, as well as the mechanics of the world, the states, culture and history. Using the FOCUS from breathing/meditation I talked about, I can write up some questions and answer them efficiently.

So I guess my quest has been going well, and oftentimes I feel satisfied with what I've created.

Then I look at stuff like these quests >>6251758 >>6250098 that show more OC thought put into them in the span of 10 updates than the entirety of my lore and feel mentally deficient kek. So if you ever wonder about whether your quest is good, just remember that I'm out there running my retarded improvised ones. I've heard a take from an acquaintance of mine that "to run a good quest, you have to be thinking of it all the time", and I think it is true. This makes me a bad QM I guess.
(cont.)

All I've said may paint a grim picture of sorts, as if my quests to me are some kind of job that I want to be done with. But I enjoy this, it's just that my motivation doesn't last, and my habits fuck everything up in my life. I'll be damned if I don't get better though. I still want to run my magnum opus of high-school anime romance with the perfect blend of drama and comedy. I trust I will get to it one day.

Also as I was running my main quest, I gradually stopped feeling apprehensive to the idea of working on it outside the "update window". It's kinda fun now, actually, to think of how the world works and what fills it. Guess this is the power of habit (a good one for a difference).

So that's about it I guess.

tl;dr 1 hour of pure writing for a standard update + sessions of worldbuilding sometimes. Not enough effort to be GOOD. It's hard running quests when you're a schizo with mental and time management problems.

>>6252305
>So sorry for pulling a Souv I guess.
I forgive you my chil-
>>6252307
>I still want to run my magnum opus of high-school anime romance with the perfect blend of drama and comedy
nevermind I take it back

Test

>>6252314
>judging someone for their quest genre
>when your quest is called "Supreme Space Monke Ruler Sidequest- I need to FUCK a Monke"
Glass houses, lmao

>ChatGPT looking for tentacles on suptg
Perverted user or beginning of the rogue lewd AI epoch?

>>6243967 (OP)
>Player question:
I've been watching a lot of crime/thriller related stuff. Finally got around to watching the Sopranos and it is Great. Re-watched Breaking Bad, The Wire. And I am feeling an itch for a crime related quest.

>General question:
I lamented the boards closure. There were some good quest I thought I was never get to see the end of. I also thought the archives had gone kaboom as well. I frequent all the major boards, mostly as a lurker nowadays. (SV, SB, QQ, Akun.) Most of my spare time is in the evenings so I definitely read way more than I participate nowadays.

>Lurker question:
As a sort of lurker, I vote on a couple of quest, but say out out 10 I read I will only vote on 3 or 4. Probably because I check in every couple of days, and by then the quest are updated with various posts, and I'd have to catch up on a couple of quest to be informed to vote cause I hate uninformed voting etc etc.

>Miscellaneous question:
Pretty much only /qst/. Its pretty much my only interaction with 4chan in general.

>>6252305
>>6252306
>>6252307
My attention span and motivation to plan, and even enthusiasm to run, have been waning for a while now. I know that feel, bro. It's tricky, in a world full of stressos rand distractions, and with a busy brain.

I wish you best of luck.

>>6252314
I think there's room for mellow, low-stake slice of life and romance quests. I'm garbage at writing them, but I sometimes enjoy playing them.

>>6252347
*stressors and

Aspen decides to begin another manhunt; this time for a boy. In other news, something bad is going down at the White House and Camp David.
>>6252350
>>6252350
>>6252350

>>6252119
Crank up the risk of failure, whether that's lethality, legal consequences, going broke, limited time before a fail state is reached, etc. Don't force an ending to happen, but make it more rogue-like if you will.
As for Star Wartz, I wouldn't be opposed to either idea. A Sith Qst especially cranks up the risk from rivals, Jet-Eyes, overconfidence, etc.

a new update for The Caretaker Quest is up!
Salazar is back! but this time something is wrong with him! can you take advantage of the situation and come on top from this battle? vote and roll to find out!
>>6236973
>>6236973
>>6236973

has anybody seen anything from EggOP?
im starting to miss the egg quest

>>6251948
interesting questions anon

>how much time does an average post take

usually between 90 and 120 minutes, but keep in mind I write fast. the occasional long or lore-filled post can require up to 3 hours between writing, editing, checking for images and uploading

>How much time do you dedicate to working on your quest every day

the truth is that it's never enough. I'd like to be able to add maps, images, doodles and other stuff but between full-time job and other writing projects I really don't have a chance, especially this year as opposed to the previous

>writing updates/posts

between 90 and 120 minutes when I upload, so once every 48 hours on average. last year I could dedicate more time and it was between 120 and 180 minutes each day

>planning the plot

I plan almost nothing. I have some ideas of where things may go (and how NPCs may react), but I try to leave full control to the players. One of the things I learned by questing over the past year is to scrape the unnecessary stuff from stories to find their core

that said, there is certainly planning involving the NPCs

I might make an AMA about it at the end of the Quest, it's been a fascinating process

>worldbuilding

mostly making sure everything fits. the Quest's world has been an ongoing project for years so I'm quite lucky I had a ready-made canvas.

that said, certain updates take more effort than others: almost the entirety of Thread IV I was sweating bullets every update because I had to set up stuff that's going to happen during current thread and in the future, so weighing every word

>doing research on topics that might come up

sometimes. I spent a few hours researching Reinassance-era skirmish techniques in the past to write a believable update that required Argia sparring with her Master and friends. It was a lot of work but I was quite happy with it

>looking for images

that used to take me almost as much as writing an update back in the day. Now I don't have that much time, so I cut down on that. I think AIslop might be a solution to this, if I were not a bit squeamish about using it - maybe I'll do it for another Quest as soon as I find a way to combine a few models and loras that don't look like Korean goop

another thing I'd love would be to make my own images, but again: time.

>Essentially, how much EFFORT are you putting into your quest?

never enough. sometimes I feel like I'm coasting and I'm grateful for anons' support.

>Do you think it's enough for your quest to be a GOOD one?

heh, that's a tough question. ultimately I started writing this to go back to HAVING FUN with writing. It has worked, and the fact people enjoyed it so much really made me feel warm and fuzzy feelings in my black withered heart.

>yes but is it GOOD, is it GOOD ANO-

There's at least two more threads before reaching an answer. let's not fret and have faith in our silver-haired doofus.

>>6248676
>Silver Knight I'd recommend

thanks anon! I feel like the belle of the ball

Has Souv ever really run a quest, I’ve seen him post rambling schizo text walls on theory and games for years but what’s the point if he doesn’t read or make anything. Golgotha was dogshit, I knew he was a hack when I asked him two years ago what his quest philosophy was and it was “guess what’s in my head”, punishing your players because they don’t have batshit schizophrenia and absurd pattern recognition and can’t realize that you putting two periods at the end of your sentence is actually a reference to facebook or whatever the fuck is a garbage thought process

Glad he’s finally out of the general for a while it’s just useless spam, it would be worthwhile if he actually ran a good quest

>>6252858
Is this the crazy/hot scale of /qst/?
>"You can be schizo as fuck as long as you write good."

>>6252347
>I wish you best of luck.
Thanks, wishing you the same.
>>6252858
I have enjoyed his latest quests: Odalisque, Cosmogony and Upyr. It's an acquired taste though. There IS a narrative and the puzzles are solvable, if hard. The clues are all either contained in the thread or easily looked up if you just input whatever object / word / event he posts into google. I wouldn't take them too seriously though and just enjoy the ride. After all, quests are just an excuse for him to dump his inspiration image folder and do something fun and ridiculous in the atmosphere of whatever he's obsessed with at the time of running them (Odalisque: dawn of cinema + endless, horrifying battlefields of WWI era, Cosmogony: sci-fi in the container of a multiplayer quest, Upyr: beach goth and Hollywood). Don't think I'll be playing any more of Souv's stuff myself, at least in the foreseeable future. I'm kinda sated with his style of storytelling lmao.

>>6252859
Yes.

>>6252864
I enjoyed the one with the troll king and the adventuring party. The Lightning Sea, I think?

>>6252867
What do we call it? The Souv/??? scale. I don't actually memorize QM handles to know how to perform this shitpost of vital importance.

The Sov/Soj quotient

Sov is the schizophrenic hyper detail oriented nerd autism and gameplay crunch, more strict. You beat your community

Soj is goofy art focused questing with loose plot and horny bait, more laid back. Your players can beat you. But there’s humor and visuals


Too much Souv and you’re torturing your players by over committing and smothering them-no one really enjoys it but you because you’re a demented schizophrenic sadist

Too much Soj and you’re crying over the playerbase calling you a faggot because you tried to reign in a vote argument so you troon out and leave the website to draw art on twitter.

I’d say space monkey quest is something relatively in the middle, puzzles you have to think on or search drawings through and solid writing, then visuals and the occasional flip out out when people call his sex panels gay and unnecessary

>>6252913
Alright. Time to put it in the opener kek

>>6252913
What if you prioritize narrative over art and have zero crunch? Is quest-as-interactive-fiction a third axis distinct from the quest-as-TRPG or quest-as-illustration-fodder metrics, or do you place it somewhere on your crunch<->art scale? Do you treat narrative and art as interchangeable in that they play the same role of QM expression?

>>6252929
I'd say that the REAL axes are actually about the focus of the qm when they write. The Souvarines of the world are SELF ORIENTED: they have hyperfixations that they want to write about and they don't really care that much about whether or not other people care to listen. They'll write for an audience of one or a hundred, and they'll keep chugging along until they get bored. Soj, meanwhile, is ATTENTION ORIENTED. He and people like him care less about the quest itself and more about the engagement and adulation that comes with writing it. That's why people with this as their most prominent axis throw fits about not being appreciated enough instead of just fucking off. Finally, the artsier QMs of stuff like Trojan War Quest (or currently Seven Against Thebes) tend to be NARRATIVE ORIENTED: they care as much if not more about whether the story is good and maintains internal consistency than if the audience or even the qm themselves like the direction it's headed in. This produces kino, but also is pretty likely to burn the qm out. All QMs must have some sufficient combination of these three traits or they'll totally flake, but everyone's got a different ratio.

>>6252937
I miss Lesches.

>>6252976
Same here.

>>6252976
Aim better then. DC's higher than that bucko.

>>6252976
>>6252723
+1 to both. I'm very eager for Hatch That Egg and Seven Against Thebes to come back.

>>6252735
I'm also very glad for this quest. Between this, Pokepocalyspe, and those other two Rowling quests, Disappearing Hogwarts has really been a boon to the board, eh? I haven't played Caretaker or Ilvermorny, but both seem to be going strong, so HeadQM has singlehandedly inspired at least four upstanding QMs to take up the torch!

>>6252913
>>6252937
At the risk of Souvposting, I think that I'd probably divvy it up into a few gradients when "statting" QMs.

>Motivation
Self vs Audience makes sense, and has a lot to do with how the QM conducts themselves and runs their quest, but to a degree can only be inferred. I think it matters, but it manifests in:

>Freedom
On one extreme, you've got established characters, goals, morals, methods, and progression with little room for deviation; on the other, a sandbox and a blank slate, with a preference for out-there write-ins or even collaboration on the setting.

>Mechanics
"Crunchy" with tons of dice, stats, resource-tracking, puzzles, etcetera. On the other, vibes-based freeform writing without so much as a roll.

>Communication
Some QMs are pretty much silent between updates and don't even answer questions; some are chatty, like to banter and shitpost, and engage with every audience inquiry or comment

>MORAL PURPOSE
I do think Souvarine was onto something there, in the sense that some QMs very clearly want to communicate a "right" and "wrong" way to behave and act with NPCs and enforce consequences that align with their ethical stances or the intended "meaning" or "vibe" of the quest, while others are more loosy-goosey, goofy or scattershot. Almost a sliding scale of seriousness to silliness, or gritty realism to power-fantasy, thoguh I think some grim-n-gritty quests can be pretty slapdash and unrealistic in how people and the world react, and some "soft" quests can have very impactful emotional stakes rooted in good theming and compelling characters who behave in believable and consistent ways

There's probably some others one could plausibly add, too,

>>6252997
Kek

>>6252913
>Soj is goofy art focused questing with loose plot and horny bait, more laid back
I have written plenty of focused quests with a serious plot this doesn't describe me at all. I have even wrote quests with no art. I only write meme low effort femboy quests nowadays (last 2 years), because people become TOO invested otherwise and start same fagging like crazy. Literally the only way to stop samefagging is to make the stakes so low that no one actually cares what happens.

>>6253023
There are plenty of serious quests that don't have samefags. Do you think that serious means a waifu war? Just don't do a stupid waifu war if you don't want samefags.

>>6253024
>There are plenty of serious quests that don't have samefags.
I don't agree. Unless you have like 3 readers then I suppose by virtue of probability it could happen. Or honestly? You aint giving your players enough freedom to actually impact anything.

>>6253028
Real shit I think you just got unlucky. And then some retard(s) latched onto you. So your gameplan should be total thermonuclear destruction of all internet infrastructure to get a clean slate before doing your thing again.

>>6253028
Or...just don't make a quest with waifu wars or extremely controversial stuff like monke's politics? That's usually what brings out the dedicated samefags

>tfw randoms on qtg would never discuss you as a QM unprompted
Forever doomed to obscurity

>>6253077
You don't beg for attention enough, clearly.
Being a celebrity isn't necessarily a good thing considering what it's often for around here.

>>6253077
Maybe a really endearing character and have them be gangraped and killed in front of the MC. Yes even if you run a SoL happy-go-lucky comedy quest. Do something really fucked up. Simple as.

>>6253023
My quests have had relatively little problems with rigging of votes, and as >>6253049 said, those votes tended to be around politics (not necessarily /pol/itics, jut things involving in-setting political upheavals) or sex/waifus.

>>6253080
It is the most surefire way, thoguh I think our number of dedicated crazy-obsessive quest-sabotaging haters has dipped lately.

>>6252929
Think of the quotient as a single long road, the further you get away from Souv’s autism the more legible you become to a point. You can write well and have fun without the need of art or crunch, I would put that as the gate once you leave Souv territory. it’s the apex potential of what he could do with his talent if he wasn’t a schizoactive piece of shit.

Once you leave Souv land and start heading towards Soj-ville at some point (probably after passing bananas at a hill’s peak) you get more whimsical and stop caring about the stakes, whether because its fun or you’re a mopey faggot who canceled their Halloween themed frot sesh or whatever Soj was mad about that one October.

walking down the hill back down into lower quality land. This can all be achieved without the ability to draw of course, but I see the ability to draw as like a hall monitor’s pass. It’s giving you the ability to facilitate high effort work, usually guys that run dedicated draw quests here are a cut above the average until they either fag out and go insane, keep running until they give up or go into obscurity, or just leave on their own terms.

I’m partial to Indonesian gentleman and the western questern guy myself. Also that one Pokémon draw quest about getting bitches from a couple years back

>>6252937
You put it in words in a way I couldn’t, retard. I tip my hat to you. Souv exists entirely for self fulfillment, others basically don’t exist in his questing context. Soj is extremely desperate for approval and attention, negative feedback turned him into a shell of a man because he couldn’t cope with it. Killing a prominent quest or two. Souv could have been the next bananas if he didn’t cut his penis off. Many such cases

>>6253023

“Hnggg it doesn’t describe me at aaaaalll”

It describes you now, as you said, royal rumble killer panty man.

Stop making excuses for your lack of coping skills and run something with soul instead of horny bait slop.

There’s your (you), Coomer.

>>6253077
You have to be some level of demented annoying or retarded, like any true artist. Also post nonstop under a name, Souv forced himself into public consciousness by never shutting the fuck up.

>>6253094
Typo correction: SOJ could have been the next bananas had he not put his penis into a meat grinder and hit the ON button. A simple mistake.

Yes I DO find it extremely vindicating, thank you. Mostly it's just a lot nicer to lurk the qtg without the spam walls.

>>6253100
On the other hand, it turned out it was in fact Sojourner hounding you for no real reason, which is sad to have confirmed.

>>6253106
there is a reason, its really funny

>>6253094
>usually guys that run dedicated draw quests here are a cut above the average
Aren't drawquests all meme shitposts? The OH SHIT NIGGA quest, skeleton pirate, coomer bait (DYB), space monkeys, and so on. I never thought QMs running those did actual writing.

>one post by this ID
>souv shitspams 5 posts in a row
Looks like it's time to vacate the QTG again!

>>6253135
Bro get the fuck out of here it hasn’t even been that long. everyone’s sick of you. Run a fucking quest for once you hack piece of shit. You spamming waste of life schizophrenic retard

If you were truly on topic for once who’d give a fuck but you’re not, it’s just self indulgent schizo ramble and the gag is on all of us.stop hypothesizing about shit you’re never going to run and do it you fucking pussy, just write a fucking quest and talk about THAT and not link websites no one gives a fuck about

>>6253162
quests without pictures are WORTHLESS

Solarpunk has updated!
>>6253175
>>6253175
>>6253175
Fiona has found herself hunting a strange machine let loose in a massive underground habitat! But she's not going to tear it to pieces with her axe; no, her boss has a question about the nature of its programming. It's supposedly controlled by a brainscan of an ancient old-world oligarch, but the Director wants Fiona's thoughts on the matter. Is it just a machine copy, or could there be a ghost in this machine?

>>6253179
Shut the fuck up retard, who asked?

>>6253179
SOUV
YOU GOTTA SHUT UP AND LET OTHERS HAVE THEIR SAY IN THIS PUBLIC THREAD

YOU GOTTA UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN ROUGHLY 50% OF THE ENTIRE THREAD'S TEXT IS YOUR MOSTLY OFF-TOPIC RAMBLING

AND THIS BEHAVIOR IS TICKING OFF NOT JUST ME, BUT SEVERAL OTHER QMS AND PLAYERS

STOP FLOODING THE MARKET WITH THESE LOW-QUALITY GOODS, YOU'RE CRASHING /QTG/'S ECOSYSTEM

Ignore Souv.

Tell me what you want out of a GOOD fantasy quest instead.

>>6253189

There is one (1) good fantasy quest and it's Prequel. I will die on that hill.

>>6253196
I wonder if anyone has ever beaten you over the head in real life you spamming faggot, fuck off. Run a quest already.

>>6253030
New turn, unsurprising NCR political maneuvering

>>6253189
The setting's got to have a style. It can't just be Terra Fantasicus Genericus.

Like, for example...Dragon Age Origins? It had a style. Arcanum Obscura? That's a style, too.

based fucking mods I kneel

Question is : how much posts did /qtg/ lost ?
Also, remember that Souvarine is a natural predator of many trolls. Let's see how fast the thread becomes unusable again with that glaring hole in the ecosystem

>>6253238
61 fucking posts in this thread alone. Doesn't matter, his nonsense has driven away actual users, myself included a while back. It'll recover in the other direction if he isn't making the qtg unusable with his crap.

>>6253189
I want a world that has history. Everywhere the main character goes, every special place he visits has to have a story to tell, and it better be good. And there have to be plenty of such places along the way.

I want a hero with a backstory. It doesn't need to be a long or deep one, but I want it to influence how he plays, speaks, behaves. I want him to already have a distinct personality at the start.

I want a good plot. Be it saving the world or just doing local tasks to earn his living, I want the main character to experience a lot, learn a lot, change a lot - both himself and those around him. To show us through his eyes how the world works and what fills it.

I want the other characters to have their own stories to tell. I want them to be unique, each with their own worldview that is based on their backstory. I want them to be charming and likeable, or curious to watch. I want to see them evolve as they spend time with the main character and other NPCs, both influencing others and being impressed by something themselves.

I want antagonists to be interesting as well. They need to have a reason to oppose the main character. I want to see a good conflict, be it a tragic misunderstanding, a matter of circumstance, a stark difference in worldviews or simply the core nature of the opposing sides.

I want there to be beauty in the world. As rare as precious water in a desert or as plentiful as trees in a forest, I want there to be moments of reflection and appreciation. I want to be inspired by what the QM writes.

I want the mechanics to be efficient and fun. Be it a fully narrative quest with right and wrong ways to approach a problem that must be deduced, or a system of rolls, I want it to be exciting to understand and play with.

I want there to be a lot of tricks in the arsenal of the main character and his companions. A lot of approaches to face a particular enemy or challenge.

I want there to be stakes. To deservedly lose something or someone precious should we fail, and to be rewarded appropriately for our successes.

I want a QM that is as wise as a Dalai Lama and as fun to banter with as that friend that you suddenly stopped communicating with one day and never saw again.

I want the playerbase to be sufficiently big, smart and as fun as the QM. I want to desire spending time in the thread figuring out a strategy and discussing which way to take us regarding the plot. I want to see memes made and camaraderie forged among us. I don't want trolls, schizos or retards to infest the thread.

Most of all, I want to have fun playing it. All of the above is really optional so long as it's a good ride.

>>6253224
>>6253238
lmao. Like 60 I think.
Haters rejoice, you've been freed of the vampire sorcerer's spamwalls for now?..
It sure was fun to see people get assblasted this much over him, but I guess we have to have actual, intelligent quest-related discussion now. Alas, and at last. I'll post some questions later if I think of something interesting.

>>6253247
What's your thought about Normal Cultivator Quest?

Come to think of it, how come nobody has ever done a quest in Middle-Earth?

>>6253281
Tolkien is sacred. And the shoes are so big you can fucking swim in them. Obviously. I think someone did, actually. Think it had to do with one of the dragons.

>>6253189
A group of friends go on an unexpected journey

No character gen

No meme races

>>6253268
idk, didn't read your quest. Cultivation is not my cup of tea.
>>6253281
>>6253305
Dragon of Middle-Earth. It's in the archives, abandoned during its second thread.

>>6253247
Honestly I'm reading all of this, and I say that silver knight checks all those boxes, especially during moments where the qm will drop a situation where we anons gotta bang our heads together to figure out a plan of action that can work to address a problem, the hero(ine) got her own personality built by her own upbringing, but it's not static and changes do occur (courtesy of anons voting) we also rolled for her cup size, fun times and qm's hopes for a pettanko princess were dashed kek

>>6253360
>yuri

>>6253361
it's not the focus of the quest, but if that's a hard sell then fair enough I guess.

>>6253023
I think your quests are good, but shame that you flake before we ever get to the good parts :/

>>6253195
Prequel IS wonderful. Was it actually run as a true quest, originally?

>>6253162
Space Monke is a lot of things, but it isn't a meme-fileld shitpost. It has very high-quality writing,e specially on the scaled-out, generation timeframes and n terms of worldbuilding.

Some of the others are a bit more comedic or memey, but Greenhorn, Haremvania (after the first one), DemBones' stuff (Bones Quest, Slice Quest, Dark Quest), Indonesian gentleman's (Gaol & Jail, Fall of the Regime) and even the Government-Issued GF series mixed a fair amount of quality writing, interesting lore, and good character-work into them.

And Royal Rumble was spectacular, which is what makes this turn (>>6253137, >>6253023) so sad to see.

>>6253189
I have pretty eclectic tastes in quests, but the first thing that will usually get my attention is a world that has obvious thought put into it with some unique elements or (better yet) an unconventional and interesting main character. Plucky orphaned farmboys who need to fight an evil king and rescue a princess from a dragon and some orcs? That's all fine, but I've read and payed a LOT of fantasy, and follow 10-20 quests at a time, so the easiest way to grab me is to immediately stand out as a product of passion on a scan of the first couple posts.

>>6253238
>Souvarine is a natural predator of many trolls. Let's see how fast the thread becomes unusable again with that glaring hole in the ecosystem
He created trolls, see >>6253184

>>6252021

>>6253431
>>6253431
>>6253431

Silver Knight Quest - Thread 6 Update 10

Rosandra gets a glimpse of how deep the hole goes, and how even a veteran of the Foundation Wars might slip out of her depths, some times.

Meanwhile, in the Night Lands, two sisters recount their lost love, and hope for an end to their last cold summer.


>>6253360
thanks for the kind words anon

>>6253361
hey give it a try, the protag is cute

>>6253444
The protag in a yuri quest is always cute. Nobody is running "Ugly Dumpy Sad Lesbian Quest", kek.

But Silver Knight is among the best-written and most well-realized fantasy quests I've seen, lesbians or no lesbians.

>>6253453
>no one wants to play lescel quest
It's outrageous. It's unfair.

>>6253444
What's the point of a protag being cute if she's a dyke? That's like making a about a great chef and then making him a vegan.

>>6253454
I mean, I would, but I don't know that it has broad appeal.

>>6253459
Not everyone plays a quest to imagine having sex with all the characters.

>>6253247
I would recommend Trojan War/Seven Against Thebes & Sworn to Valour based on those lofty metrics. Very well said, describing what we all want for the most part.

>>6253360
>>6253444
Are Silver Knight Qst & Lady Knight Qst the same thing?

STAR WART QMS:
I would love to see some inspiration taken from the Jedi Knight/Academy series from the early 2000s. The adventure inherent in exploring alien worlds with ruins left from advanced civilizations & fallen empires, the Western (& Yojimbo) inspired narratives of individualism as your protag rescues the helpless from xenos prone to banditry & petty tyrants leftover from the Imperial apparatus.

As for my own Qst inclinations, whomst'dve would be interested in a post-apoc Qst along the lines of Fallout? Retro-futuristic, full of mutants & brutal outcomes, but with a greater focus on ethnic & religious conflicts as well as resource scarcity. Thinking about setting it in the South. Taking a lot of inspiration from Fallout fanon sources, Ashes 2063 & sequels (which I cannot recommend enough, they're free afterall), RAGE, Waterworld, A Boy & his Dog, Afterbomb Madness (I could really use an accurate translator for it since I can't read Polish), Stalker, Metro, Wasteland, Fallen Earth (RIP), Degenesis, Darwin's World, Exodus, Mutant: Road to Eden, The 100, Neo-Scavenger, Death Trash, Bulletstorm, etc.

>>6253473
Nope, both quests are unrelated to one another

>>6253481
lady knight started good but got too siilly with the sexy

>>6253463
You're reading the analogy wrong.

If there was a great chef, then he turned out to be vegan, it wouldn't matter that the chef was great because being vegan ruined it. Similarly, if a girl is cute, but is revealed to be gay, all that cuteness is void and useless. It's going in the trash.

>>6253535
>he doesn't watch girl on girl action
What are you, gay?

>>6253535
Your analogy is nonsense from start to finish.

>>6253534
Silver Knight is substantially less porn-coded. There's some persistent lewdness, but nobody is having conversations while getting their cheeks audibly clapped, or getting dosed with lust-juice and fighting tentacles while sopping wet, or fighting breeder-orcs who give you mind controlling womb tattoos.

Lady Knight's Quest was very good for what it was, and I do miss it, but it was goofy. If you read it, you needed to have a high tolerance for porn-with-plot at times.

Silver Knight is far from humourless or sexless, but it's plot-forward, character-forward, and its setting much richer-feeling for its less hentai-adjacent approach to lore. It's not innocent or chaste, but it's got more struggle, more tension, and more heart IMO.

>>6253544
It's a perfectly cromulent analogy.

>>6253551
>getting their cheeks audibly clapped, or getting dosed with lust-juice and fighting tentacles while sopping wet, or fighting breeder-orcs who give you mind controlling womb tattoos.

>>6253535
Very well-put. Never give yurifags an inch, they'll ruin everything they get their hands on.

>>6253551
Get back satan, i will not be drawn into a yuri plot by the likes of you. Begone from this place! Christ is king

>>6253535
>If there was a great chef, then he turned out to be vegan, it wouldn't matter that the chef was great because being vegan ruined it.
What?

>>6253612
I SAID IM A SPACE MONKEY YOU FUCKING RAPIST

But yeah idk anon I guess he’s just a crazaay guy with bad opinions haha

>>6253643
Me on the right honestly

>>6253535
>comparing being vegan with enjoying two hot babes kissing.

Shoutout to "Father, do you love me?" Qst, highly interesting concepts. Definitely worth a read.

>>6253247
Kino... Pure Kino...

>>6253683
Slut lesbians != Yuri

>>6253238
Oddly enough, I can't recall trolls in qtg.

One bomb in Camp David, two in the White House, three people dead, 27 injured. The MFSA has gotten bold again, it seems.
>>6253756
>>6253756
>>6253756

>>6243967 (OP)
>General question
Hit the vidya backlog just to get technical difficulties on my computer over that time and spend some extra time addressing those.

>>6247938
Oh wow I'm surprised Vaalea got in the pic after I dropped out. Very nice art! I hate I had to dip but I should be available, if that's something you'd want to do, Rue.

Also how did the warlords fare against the Ivory hordes?

>>6253805
I crippled the Ceramic Titan/Kaiju Final Boss, Mulrog finished it off. Most of us died a glorious death

>>6247938
Still around for the moment, though I've got a week away pending soon where I won't be on. Good to see the group shot art!

I haven't been on qst for a bit and 4chan keeps stopping me posting because it thinks its spam

what do

>>6253839
Are you trying to reply to a large number of posts at once? 4chan does not like that.

>>6253844
Thank you for treating my autism. I guess you can't quote all the voters

I forgot how much effort it was to write, I'll start tomorrow.

GEARS OF WAR QST but Post-Apocalyptic, set after Gears 3 but the MacGuffin didn't kill them all or turn them into crystals & other such stupid shit, just killed the Immulsion/Lambent Hivemind. Dog eat Dog, or in this case Human eat Locust eat Human world. Whomst would be interested?

>>6253555
Boy howdy, have I got a quest for you, anon.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=The+Lady+Knight

>>6253745
...???

>>6253750
We've had a few, and arguably still do, but they haven't been as active since at least the Basedjak Party takedown.

>>6253851
Sometime you can, soemtiems you can't. It's very inconsistent. Sometimes tagging four posts flags the spam-detector, and sometimes I can tag 6+.

I have been thinking about doing a quest set in 14th century technology level + bamboo/hemp gliders are a thing. It would be mostly about going on missions and also some base building. Would this work? If yes, would early guns fit in this setting, or should I just go with generic dnd tech level? Should I introduce low-level magic too or keep it completely magic free?

>>6253981
A lot of this boils down to what fits YOUR vision best, but I'm fond of guns in my D&D, at least.

Magic changes the character of a story a lot, so I'd consider the tone you want to set as far as that goes, and also decide what "low level magic" means. Ubiquitous D&D-style elemental magic, but it's relatively weak? Or something more subtle and folkloric, and perhaps even a matter of superstition rather than certainty? Are there non-human intelligent races? All that will greatly affect the tone, more than just a simple "magic: yes or no?"

>>6253981
I would recommend adding guns only if you keep them period appropriate & balanced against other projectiles:
Arquebus = High Damage, Slow Reload, Poor Accuracy
Crossbow = Mid Damage, Mid Reload, Mid Accuracy
Shortbow = Low Damage, Fast Reload, Good Accuracy

Something along those lines that you can then tweak with further variations of each.

Matchlock Guns/Handgonnes:
Super Heavy = Cannon
Extra Heavy/Long = Jezzail
Heavy/Long = Musket
Short/Scatter = Blunderbus
Light/Hand = Harquebus

Crossbows:
Super Heavy = Ballista
Heavy = Arbalest
Multi = Double Crossbow or Boxbow
Light = Hand Crossbow

Bows:
Super Heavy = Greatbow/Warbow
Heavy = Longbow
Light = Recurve/Horn Bow

>>6247938
I'd be interested in checking it out :), though I was never a player previously

>>6253003
>I'm also very glad for this quest. Between this, Pokepocalyspe, and those other two Rowling quests, Disappearing Hogwarts has really been a boon to the board, eh? I haven't played Caretaker or Ilvermorny, but both seem to be going strong, so HeadQM has singlehandedly inspired at least four upstanding QMs to take up the torch!
Hhhhhng my heart. It is still insane to me that it influenced even one person to write a few porn fics of it, and that other quests spawned off it still floors me and humbles me. I have loads of fun writing it, and it certainly helped me clear my head during some shittier parts of life last year, so I'm glad people enjoy it. It most certainly went far better than I ever hoped.

And speaking of DH, after a brief unplanned hiatus, we're back with an incredibly important decision that will certainly alter the path of the story completely!

>>6254026
>>6254026
>>6254026

>>6247938
>>6253805
>>6253828
I still wonder if the other warlords are around & what kind of epilogue they would get from Lanu.

>>6253981
I agree with >>6253981. It's a matter of vision. Think of how the elements you mentioned may affect the story and atmosphere. What would be the consequences of introducing them, how do they fit in the setting? In the end, you're the boss - just make a setting you'll have fun writing in, even if it requires handwaving a bit.

If you're looking for a personal opinion, I like the glider idea. Maybe it could be expanded to include other flying machines? Da Vinci's helicopter comes to mind. The core idea of missions + base buildings is fine as well.

If guns are included, I'd imagine cannons would be used with shrapnel to intercept the air force should they be used by the military. How would the gliders deal with it if they can't fly too high due to the nature of their machines? They may still be too fast or far to properly aim at them, hm.

What would the purpose of the gliders be? Are there untraversable grounds for which flying machines must be used to get from one point to another? Reconnaissance? Bombing runs? Quicker, lighter transport - delivering messages and small amounts of goods?

idk there are many questions. What do you have in mind?

>>6253981
Have you ever seen Slipstream (1989)?

How often do QMs post links to their quests here? Once per week? Per thread?

Never did it personally so I'm curious.

>>6254129
Sporadically, pretty much whenever I feel like it, but usually once or twice per thread.

>>6254129
every time i update mine, which is around twice per week

>>6254129
hot take, they shouldn't unless you are returning from a longer then normal absence. people can see and pin your quest just fine in the catalogue.

Give it a go and you will see it makes no difference in votes.

Thread 2 up. I think I vastly underestimated the time I would take to tell a story I was happy with, so it's definitely not gonna be a one-shot like thread 1 claimed lmao. But making great progress so far.

>>6254189

>>6224027

...I feel kind of awkward doing this after that discussion, but just figured I'd let people know that Pokemon Trainer Quest is still alive.

Going to be starting a new thread soon, just need another vote or two before I get the ball rolling.

>>6254016
Actually, to be pedantic, the Matchlock didn't exist until the 15th century, and even then, in the earlier iterations, it was more like a hand-cannon than a proper matchlock with.

I mean, hell, back then, guns didn't even have shoulder arms. That was only added near the 1500s.

The Pale Inheritance is back after the usual wagecuck delays:
>>6215928

>Wrote a shit opening but unsure if I want to start a quest

>>6254361
My best intros are always written on the fly.

>>6254361
The most important thing in an opening post are interesting choices.

>>6253444
>>6253453

hey anon, now that makes my eyes go all misty and shit...

>>6254041
thanks a lot for your work, HeadQM

Silver Knight Quest Thread 6 - Update 11

You share a good meal with your friends.
Hopefully it won't be one of your last ones.
Time to decide what to do with the time you have left as a free woman, anon...

>>6254414
>>6254414
>>6254414

What defines a GOOD fantasy quest?
I see a lot of fantasy quests on the board but how does one make a fantasy quest that is the absolute epitome of perfection?

>>6254431
You post about it endlessly and never actually run it so that everybody imagines it however they want to.

>>6254431
Any quest that is fantasy and does not have an intelligence or charisma stat.

>>6254431
Complex social politicking between interesting factions, cool and unique magic and monsters, hidden lore you can uncover, and waifus with fat asses.

>>6254361
Give it a go. Nobody's going to force you to continue if you decide to abandon it. Just let your players know, eh?

>>6254454
explain forgotten realms ques tthen

>>6254458
I have given it a shot >>6254402

>>6254484
haha, you got tricked into running a quest.

>>6254484
Legend

>>6254041
>one person to write a few porn fics of it

It was a fun distraction while I wasn't working very much I am resolved to write one last one before the end.

I likely would have never tried my hand at an actual game if I didn't love yours so much.

>>6254425

I am still working on catching up b/c IRL shit. Still think it is good and I read some of the fiction you posted links for. I think you have become better since then, but I can't say exactly how.


In other news?

After a life induced break, we choose if we want to involve more people who have good boons in the search for an ancient wand! Going to show a magic racsist tree what is what!

>>6254350
>>6254350
>>6254350

>>6254431
Stop ruining my bit.

>>6254582
It's not even yours you slightly hairier than average twink. You stole it.

>>6254587
>>6254587
>>6254587

Mere Fallow is back! Faolan and Maris are back to their wacky shenanigans, horribly torturing and menacing unarmed terrorists!

>>6254484
Nice! I checked it out.

>>6254437
NO! There's an objective standard out there somewhere for GOOD fantasy quests, and I just know it. I KNOW IT!

>tfw the GOOD fantasy quest is being gatekept

>>6254582
shut the fuck up you self-insistent faggot I've never seen you write fantasy in your life that isn't furfaggotry.

>>6254654
Here's an idea for a GOOD fantasy quest: In another reality, your mom made your dad use a condom AND spermicidal cream before sticking it in.

>>6254661
Sorry buddy, but my nickname actually is, "Broken rubber." I was simply too powerful for the likes of preventative measures :))))))

I bet you are circumcised.

>>6254661
>didn't have them also both wear the contraceptive shoulder patch things
In your AU he still is born, just even uglier and more tardy. Now instead of GOOD fantasy he asks for GOOD sci-fi.

>>6254665
Everyone knows GOOD sci-fi is Fox only, no items, Final Destination.

I actually despise any fantasy outside of Tolkien with a passion, and this was a litmus test of sorts.

>tfw when i can drop the most fire GOOD fantesy quest of all time any time I want but I wont

>>6254666
Damn, Satan has spoken, the truth is heard.

>>6252120
The book covers were a staple of seekers and dragonborn. It was an alright gimmick, looking back.

Fuck it has there been any DeltaRune Quests? After chapter 3 and 4 My Mind is racing and I’ve got lots of cool ideas for bosses and areas. As well as jokes and japes. Thinking of the MC being the Son of Muffet or something since she ain’t in this game. Or maybe another weird human. Not sure which cause I could let them choose their race but not sure if I wanna waste time with that compared to just starting the quest quick with a pre made MC and getting to the fun stuff, roll’s and interactions quick. You know let them be a jerk, kill stuff, befriend stuff. Scam people. Sans Undertale. The good shit ya know? Any fan rolls systems I could check out? I may just do 1d100 rolls even if it gets boted. Like a crit ain’t always good. You crit an attack you could kill them by accident or when sparing make a monster so flustered it cheats on its wife or something. Think that would the quest more fun knowing crit’s can have consequences, but not dire ones. You ain’t gonna die or anything it’s not gonna be hardcore. This cool or a bad idea? Haven’t seen any since I discovered this place.

>>6254860
Nah, deltarune's good qualities don't translate well to the quest format.

>>6254860
Yeah, everything works on quest format.

>>6254689
While I can't say I feel the same way, there is a massive issue with Tolkien and fantasy, namely being the "did it so good he ruined it for everyone else" thing. Tolkien codified so many fantasy elements they have become synonymous with "generic fantasy" despite it actually being quite different and unusual, especially in regards to important nonhuman characters not just being monsters or side characters, folkloric elements being quantified and presented as mundane and normalized, etc. It's quite interesting to see Tolkien's influence and its shift to the rest of the genre; reading fantasy writers from before or around the same time and it becomes totally different. I think the TRUE slopification of fantasy is actually much stronger traced from Dungeons & Dragons, so influential that even non-game pieces of media absorbed it wholesale.

The trouble then becomes; what makes fantasy you like? or GOOD? if it's authenticity and fullness to its cultural milieu, well then, it has to be explored similarly to its home culture. Not from the lens of modern story cause-effect, but more like a viking saga or aseop's fable, which lowers its ability to be presented to players as a piece of immersive media. The setting itself is alien and not akin to the "I could actually go there" without a heavy dose of making that world "real" in context of its original culture, time period, and religious/spiritual understanding of the world at the time. This is impossible to rectify for most writers and consumers, who care more about things like concrete narratives and verisimilitude in a setting that doesn't really need it to exist. Nicely, we CAN actually get fantasy settings that feel this authentic way by stepping away from medieval European folklore; I think a big cause of the popularity of Cultivation/Xianxia/Wuxia stories is because it essentially is the mythological background of the far east in fantasy fiction, without the hangups of trying to do Tolkien again. You can see this in its human primacy (beasts can eventual cultivate into having a human form, ie, the human form if special and "greater" then other life forms), worldbuilding focused on its spiritual/fictional elements over practical ones (why aren't cultivators controlling the entire world if they're so powerful? Not important, it's a different world.) and so on. Difficult to parse to the modern day "fantasy simulation" writing types (See "Break out of scientific magic systems" under "Antiscience")

The codifying difference is in how the fantastical elements are shown and put around in the world. A good example would be something like a Tiefling (or Cambion). In a fantasy world where everyone is a human, but a guy fucked a demon and the baby ended up with horns, this feels authentic, perhaps tragic, and interesting fantasy milieu on the nature of what it means to be a human and the morality of ones birth and parents; I think if you ran a "Magical Realism" style Quest with just one of these half demon people, it would be an interesting hook able to justify all of its fantastical elements and story all at once. But the moment you call them "Tieflings" and introduce them as a racial choice in the core rulebook, they become part of the "freakshit" epidemic in fantasy, a representation of everything wrong with the genre. Premodern humans didn't think there were supernatural crystals that had XY and Z mana charges in them, they thought crystals were magic because when they dug them up they looked extremely cool and made light do weird things when focused through them. Magic effects and creatures are hidden from sight (because "magic" in real life doesn't do shit and fairies aren't real), and as such people in the past believed in them only so far as their lack of understanding of the natural world allowed (and maybe a little more, if they're trying to discipline naughty children). Making these things "real" and "apparent" feels less authentic.

So the answer is obvious; don't use generic fantasy tropes. Create a fantasy milieu based on a real (or made up) culture focusing on immersion and realism; the "real" elements of the world blending with the supernatural. Diseases are actually caused by spiritual maladies, maggot appear via autogenesis onto rotten meat, things occur because of the will of spirits; and HUMAN ONLY!!!! Or at least, the main focus (naturally). Look at other fantasy authors less influenced by Tolkien; human mythology and folklore, the Bible, Howard, Moorcock, Vance, etc.

But the trouble? I like generic fantasy.

It's become so codified and common it is its own genre, separate from the greater genre of "fiction", in which ahistorical and magical elements mixed with science fiction and the supernatural. The nuFantasy is just fun. People want to have their own version of it; worldbuilding setting with fantastical characters and magic and supernatural environments. People want to play in worlds like this, and they clearly have some kind of draw. So how do you make fantasySLOP good? That's the real question; and the one I'm also interested in solving.

>>6254923
>>6254927
Souv-curse possessing a new host

>>6254930
kek

hope it wasn't too autistic, I'm just passionate about this topic. I think it's because I'm really jealous of the people with the other type of DM / D&D Autism (worldbuilders) since i've never created much of a fantasy setting I can feel proud of and feels like "mine". I guess except Monke.

>>6254860
I remember there was one, actually. You played as some lil' dude that larped as a Cowboy and decided he was Kris's brother.

>>6253479
I'd always love another Post-Apocalyptic quest, they don't seem like they're done enough in spite of being a theme that's pretty flexible

>>6254860
Someone tried but flaked out. And TBVQDESU there really isn't much use in doing anything Deltarune related when the game is still incomplete and therefore it's impossible to get a solid baseline. I've been having the same sort of hankering for a quest adjacent to it in spirit if not by name, but it's just gonna have to be accepted that while quests are like 70% fanfiction when using an existing franchise a Deltarune quest at this point would be like 90% fanfiction.

>>6254923

fun rambling, and overall agreeable.

>Tolkien was too good

this is generally true, but a the same time I'd rather for people to go back to the roots that inspired him - languages, myth, traditions, etc, and maybe filling the spots where he was admittedly lacking (a certain tendency to allow things to stay in a static equilibrium notwithstanding the forces at play. I often cite the war between Angmar and Arnor, which was mostly fought on a flat plain and somehow lasted centuries instead of a few years of campaigning, or Arnor's population loss etc), without falling to the retarded extremes someone like Martin is infamous for.

>I think a big cause of the popularity of Cultivation/Xianxia/Wuxia stories is because it essentially is the mythological background of the far east in fantasy fiction, without the hangups of trying to do Tolkien again.

I agree. though orientalism seldom produces good works. I tend to stay away from Cultivation stuff because I find it retarded. then again so am I so make of that what you wish

>So how do you make fantasySLOP good?

read pre-Tolkien or not-Tolkien authors

(Howard, Ashton Smith, Vance are the first three that come to mind in the English tradition; De Maupassant in French, for example)

personally I add the three 'A's:

>Action
>Adventure
>Atits

it has worked so far.

>>6254553
>I think you have become better since then but can't say how

the voices in my head think so as well. thanks for reading!

hope you'll be back soon, there's going to be a break after this thread due to work-related issues, so a lot of time to catch up.

cute pic!

>>6255032
What about Ass

>>6255035
Thank you! Some anon pixilized one of my AI slop pics.

Ive been catching up some but just had life and some depression sap some of my energy for a while + new job and I don't want to just randomly vote w/o knowing what is up. I do still think your writing is good, better than mine atleast, so don't think I haven't been playing b/c of that.

>>6254860
If you run it, I'll play. Do include sprites, however.

>>6255036
I think ideally you don't want your writing to be ass.

For all the talk about how /qst/ is dead, 3 new quests here in the past 2 days got 10+ voters immediately.

>>6254927
>>6254923
>Cultivation/Wuxia/Xianxia LE GOOD
opinion discarded

>>6255067
/qst/ is dead