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This is a thread created for the discussion of Quest threads, as well as sharing of advice and guidance for aspiring or current QM's. Posters looking for advice on tabletop games should look elsewhere.

Please do not shitpost, and please report any shit posters attempting to derail discussion or cause strife. This means avoiding tripfag drama or discussion about subjects such as getting rid of /qst/.

Useful links: http://pastebin.com/u5xPbk6w (embed)
This link contains numerous writing guides, general advice, and various quest tools and communities.

https://twitter.com/Eisenstern/lists/quest-runner-directory/
https://twitter.com/tgquestlist/lists/quest-master-directory (UPDATED LIST)
These are two directories containing the tweets of many current QM's. While a twitter is by no means mandatory, it is a useful tool for both you and your players. To get added to the second list, tweet @tgQuestList. Spamming tweets unrelated to your quest may result in its removal.

IRC Channels:
[The Cabal] #QMC @ Rizon.net (slightly related to quests; enjoys worldbuilding, mechanics and politics)
[Hugbox] #ques/tg/enerals @ Rizon.net (barely related to quests; enjoys Larro quests and anime)

Discord server (Can provide feedback to new QM's, but shitposting is a bannable offense):
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Archive of quest reviews (if you find a review that is not on the list, please link it in the thread):
http://pastebin.com/u/QuestReviewsArchive


QM Question:
What's the hardest part about writing for you?

Player Question:
Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?

Bonus Question:
What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
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>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
Trying to chain together the different ideas I want to put in a scene.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Yes, but only if there's something that can be done not listed in the prompts.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
Procrastinating. (Sorry guys, getting distracted is too easy)
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>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?

Hardest part is definitely how much window dressing to include for this format. Like, how much detail to give the room, the location, the person, the beast, the this the that. Dialogue is easy as shit and so is writing the flow of things to keep the plot moving. Or even emotional responses and stuff. But straight up "how much time do I devote to describing this desk" fucks me up senpai.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?

I think this is dependent on the QM and the style of quest. I definitely think write-ins should only be employed when appropriate. People that do write-ins for EVERY SINGLE CHOICE especially with the new problem of IDs quickly starts to develop this thing where I know someone has a reputation for write-ins and for every shitty write-in they offer up the less and less i give their next write-in even an attempt at getting my support for fear it will be stupid as fuck.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?

Masturbat furiously.
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>>606293
Qm question: Finding the right music

Bonus: Watch videos or look at weird shit
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Hey, qtg, what are some hidden gems you know? Those quest you think didn't get the attention they deserved, even though they were actually pretty good.

Hard mode: It can't be one of your own quests
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>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
I worry often that I'm not living up to my player's expectations, and that the updates I find myself disappointed with are just as disappointing to the people who waited to read it.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Depends on the quest. Sometimes the options are more than enough, and I'm just along for the ride. Other times, I see something coming fairly early and submit write-ins to try and take advantage of it, or mitigate damage.

Typically those write-ins are met with people laughing or brushing it off for about 3 updates, before I get vindication when it bites everyone in the ass. Unfortunately I'm also a player, which means it bit me in the ass because of them.
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>>606293
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
i'm not keen on offering outside-the-box writeins, but i like to take a couple of lines to explain the thoughts behind my vote, because i'm a douchebag narcissist.
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>>606293
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Yes because sometimes there's a possibility that I would really take advantage of not being put to full use and I just HAVE to reach for it. Also the rails sometimes need to fuck themselves.
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>>606325
The Laughing Dog, Senate Quest, Dark Spirit, Biopunk, Beacon hunter, Tank Princess.

Those would be the recent ones for /qst/. I could go back years and list all the Twen/IR quests but I want to pretend to be happy for the remainder of my evening.
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>>606293
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
It's less write-ins and more additional tweaks to the primary option I voted for, since pure write-ins hardly garner any support most of the time.

If it does get support and a QM pulls it off, it's really satisfying especially if it contributes to fleshing out the story or the character interactions. If not, that's cool too since I got a primary vote put in anyway.

Most of the time, explaining the reasons or the intent behind the action would suffice. And I'd be happy enough with what the QM cooks up taking said explanation into consideration.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
Mess around with tegaki even though it's really shit.
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>>606325
Valen Quest
Why the hell isn't it more known I don't comprehend.
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>>606471
What's a "Valen"?
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>>606471
Tell us about it anon.
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>>606514
Valen is a very important noble family in the setting, of which the MC is a heir.

>>606521
Let me copy-paste a brief summary from the last thread:

>We are currently trying to save our daughter figure captured by a yandere supernatural phenomenon we have no chance against in open combat and have no idea how to parley with.

>We are also saddled with a yandere killer golem, bunch of superstrong sociopaths led by a retard, forbidden knowledge that might get us in trouble with another supernatural phenomenon, a ruined city we have no money to restore, and several artifacts we don't know how to use without tactical nuke-level collateral damage and/or ripping our own soul to pieces.

>And to round it up our country is a target of at least three different plots and is looking forward to a civil war and an invasion.

To this I'll add that playing it, at least for me, is an excellent intellectual excersise. There are mysteries to solve, clues to notice, people to persuade and manipulate, plots to unravel and more.
Also, the writing is great.

Look up the archives here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Valen+Quest
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>>606532
It's also ongoing.
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>>606532
I've said my piece before, but I'll say it again:

it's too anime in the ways I don't prefer, and too LITTLE anime in the ways that grab other people.

It's like Valen and Beleaguered are foils or something.
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>>606554
>too anime
Literally what
The only anime thing there is the end-of-thread picture
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>>606560
you just used yandere to describe it.

And the first thing I remember seeing when I checked it out is playing nanny to a damn monstergirl.
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>>606532
>Valen is a very important noble family in the setting, of which the MC is a heir.
And there lies my explanation for why it's not more widely read. If I'm looking at picking up a new quest I look at four things:
>Is it a QM I know?
>Does the image catch my interest?
>Does the title describe the quest in a way I understand?
>Does the first paragraph give me enough information to orient myself?

The fewer of those you have the less likely you are to attract a new player or generate any real interest outside the following you already have.
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>>606564
Demihumans are as far from a monstergirl as you can imagine. Give it a second chance.

>>606568
Sounds like it's true. Let's see if Riz changes something.
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>>606568
>Does the title describe the quest in a way I understand?
This has always been a funny one with me.

I like small titles that either say what the character is or a simple adjective for describing the character's immediate situation, as most of the time if it's an OC setting the title doesn't clear anything up until the second opening paragraph or at worst the full situation is only known 2-3 threads in. If it's a made up word that doesn't really help me get invested.

For /tg/, Gargoyle Quest, Shadow Quest, and Ruby Quest I think are good examples of 'what you are' names, and things like Banished Quest, Bladebound Retainer, and Dungeon Life are alright 'situation' quest titles, while things like Homeless Mutant Quest, Crusader Quest, Urban Warlock, Hive Queen Quest, and Mecha Space Pirate Quest are titles that imply both what kind of game and what kind of character up front.

The various fanfiction quests seem to have the right idea of simple, efficient, and communicative titles as well, at least as far as "I know whether I'm interested or not by reading that title" goes. If only because outliers tend to get ignored, and there's no reason not to use the established setting's language to draw attention in the first place.
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Which quest is the sexiest?
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>>606648
BFQ.

what I wanna know is
What QM is the sexiest?
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>>606652
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>>606293
Two equally sized problems: 1 is making sure that writing doesn't suck in my entire life and I begin to miss homework for questing (i've done this many times, sadly). 2 is not going whole hog, 24/7 questing and getting burnt out on something (see: practically all my other quests on Akun)

Bonus Question: Play video games or attempt to study.
>>606652
Me, obviously 8^y
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QM Question:
What's the hardest part about writing for you?
> I've got a sandbox, so making sure that every character is as engaging as they could be.
Player Question:
Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
> Yeah, I think it helps keep quests organic and unpredicatable. I awarded a level up for a good write-in on my quest.
Bonus Question:
What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
> Read other quests, play football manager, eat or errands.
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>>606325

Excellent question fellow quest player, I have heard great things about “Not so Glorious Quest”, who I am totally not the QM and I’m not trying to shill myself for no good reason. (I’m sorry)

>What's the hardest part about writing for you?

If I was a QM (and I’m not) I would say everything. English makes no sense. But if I have to be serious for a moment, it’s really difficult for me to make likeable characters or coherent sentences.

>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?

No, I do not. I don’t feel confident that my contributions are good. So I just vote. But I love write-ins in my quest.

>What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?

Relax in my chair.
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>>606521
You are Irue Valen, heir to the house of Valen, the most influential family in the country of La'fiel and its neighbours and has existed since before the country was even founded.

Her family dead, she was taken in by her aunt and placed in what was more or less solitary confinement for 10 years. Irue mistakenly thought they were simply her guardians until she came of age they planned to use her status as their ward to force her into a political marriage and take her inheritance. The quest begins when Irue has forcibly invoked her right to a Rite of Passage in an attempt to avoid it.

And the players immediately fuck it up. Without even trying to find out what the Rite is, we throw ourselves into it. Irue's aunt provided her with three slaves and was told to pick one as her Testament, and players being smug assholes we picked all three. This put 3 separate storylines in motion and Irue and her Testament's suffering only gets worse for each passing day. But things have been looking up these past 2 months though!

The setting is very interesting but my favorite part of the quest aside from the stellar writing are the Forgettings- sometimes after an update there is an option that says "Am I forgetting something... ?". Pretty self explanatory, players have a chance to remember something from earlier in the quest by looking for clues in the latest update and nailing them is a great success and are complete game changers.

I don't think I can do it justice by describing it, take 20 minutes and look at the first thread. If you don't care for it after that you can safely ignore it.

>>606564
>And the first thing I remember seeing when I checked it out is playing nanny to a damn monstergirl.
Demihumans are natural born sociopaths. It's in their nature, the only way they function is by manipulating and using others. They're like 5% furry using that handy old chart. The demihuman you read about is Kara and she was dropped on the head or something, her major malfunction is that she's an honestly good girl. I think I know the part you are talking about and it only came about because got mad that she decided to sleep through the day instead of coming with us.
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>>606855
Ah, the forgettings.
It's like half the joy of this quest for me.
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>>606293

>QM Question:
All of it is hard work for me (Thanks Dyslexia!), but the most nerve-wracking part is fact-checking/editing/spell-checking each post.

>Bonus Question:
Double-checking my lore in case I flip-flopped on something I has established earlier, checking my E-Mails, reading up on news, fapping sometimes if one of my Anons starts posting lewd write-in and/or images , making something to eat etc. etc.
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Sorry to be a bother, but I don't really understand
how dice rolling and voting works. I'm new to this board and want to start a quest so any help is appreciated.
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>>606803

Not So Glorious is my favorite new quest by far.

>>606937

You put down "dice+" in the E-mail field then type "XdY" after that, "X" being how many dice are being rolled and "Y" being how large the dice is.

So for example, when you roll dice in a quest, it should read "dice+1d20" (Or whatever the QM wanted).

Quests in general are set up like "Choose your own adventure books": You read a little bit, then decide where the story wants to go from a prompt of different options. The big thing, of course, is that there aren't any ways to really go back and redo an option if it blows up in the players faces or whatever...
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>>606964
Also write ins are usually accepted as alternative options for a vote, provided the Quest master approves.
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>>606937
Read some quests, play in at least one while it's live. Gotta watch how others do it, take notes on what you think they do well and what you'd do different from then.
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>>606937
You also might want to adhere to some general ground rules like: Dont do character gen (or at least not unless you trust your userbase).
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>>606937
>dice rolling
you roll some dice, if the result is above a certain value, you succeed at the task

>voting
you vote for an option. Judging from the votes, the QM decides what the MC will do.
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>>606937
dice rolling is done by the board software, when you use the dice command (read the sticky!) in the options field and make a post, the board will insert the result of the dice roll in bolt text as the first line your post.
you don't get to preview the outcome of a dice roll.

vote prompts and vote counting aren't automated. you ask players to respond, and then count their responses manually.
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>>606293
>Player Question:
>Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
I do, but I try to only do it when it feels like the options given don't quite match my understanding of the MC, and I'll sometimes include some thoughts with a pre-defined vote if I'm worried QM and I interpret the goal of that vote different

.Bonus Question:
What do you do while waiting for an update?
I'm trying to build my own quest, which brings me to...

>QM Question:
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
So far anything related to the MC is really hard. World building and a creating a couple characters has mostly been pretty simple and I have a general idea of how I'd like the quest to go (is that a bad thing btw?), but I'm really struggling to include the MC in the story in a way that doesn't feel forced.
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>>607031
>is that a bad thing btw
No, not really. Not every quest needs to be a sandbox.
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>>607031
Generall if the MC is important, the story happens to them, if he isent, the MC happens to the story.

Dont worry if some things dont come about as you envisioned, one of the main reasons it takes so long between threads for some QM's is that their figuring out wtf to do now.

It might help to try look at it from the point of the world youve created, instead of from the point of a story.
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>>607120
I like that advice, I even added it to my short list of things I've noticed successful QMs doing. Could I ask you to elaborate though? There are plenty of examples of the story happening to the MC but I can't think of one off the top of my head where the MC happens to the story. Would that be like you apply for a security guard job that just so happens to be at the the drug lord's mansion?
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>>607191
MC happening to the story is when the world is spinning like it should and the MC is not a factor or even known to neither the Bad Guys or the Good Guys. It's when he takes initiative to fuck shit up because he bloody well can or because he wants to, not because someone tells him to.
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>>607191
Generally a story happening to a character would be like the current running avatar quest:
Normal joe earth bender going about his life when suddenly, avatar and invading army.

In Re: Monster the MC was born in the woods and chose to go dungeon delving and came out of said woods.

In essence Shit is happening: a war, famine, celestial event, magicall accident.

The MC is either a witness to it or dealing with the after effects. But he does not cause it. His choices in the begining have no effect. Now he has to deal with it and inflict his will upon his destiny.

Said quest can have multiple "Setting happens to MC" events, depending. The MC can get involved, or just deal with it on the sidelines while doing their own shit.

E.g. Zombie apocalypse survival would be a good example of Story happens to MC.
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>>606585
So I should be good with Escape from Earth Quest , Retiring Detective Quest and Revenging Survivor Quest as quest titles?
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>>607224
Sorry got those mixed the wrong way round.

What it means from a QM's perspective is how much work your willing to put in, and how intrinsically important the MC is to the plot.

Island survive would be MC happening to story, since, being the only one (?) on an island makes them important for the story to continue.
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>>607228
>Revenging Survivor
Sounds like a terrible 70s wuxia or martial arts movie
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>>607270
Good point, might steal it for a one-shot to set upon my normal group.
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>>607270
My first idea was aping the chapter naming formula off Akame ga Kill.
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>>607207
>>607224
>>607232
So, just to make sure I have this right, if there is a conflict in the setting that would progress without the players, I should worry less about how and why they involve themselves, and more about how it impacts whatever direction they choose to go?
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>>607302
how and why and if, rather
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>>607302
>>607303
Pretty much.

Everything varies mind, but thats the nature of running quests. Players will fuck with your plans regardless, which is kind of the point for their enjoyment.
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>>607302
Yeah. How, Why and If is up to the players. Don't plan these things, you'll just go crazy. No plans survive contact with players.
And that is why you plan for /everyone else/. Make sure your bad guys have a plan that they stick to. They have a Goal and a road map of how to achieve this Goal. The players get involved and throw monkey wrenches in every goddamn gear there is and you work out how the world reacts to their actions.
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>>607311
>>607314
Cool, thanks again anons, this was super helpful.
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>>606325
>Hidden Gems

Check out BioArmor Quest! The only quest with actually monstrous monster girls!

I am in no way its QM!
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>>606325
Your quest.
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is it a shitty move to make a quest in the same vein to another quest currently running? It's not an original concept and their been previous iterations with the same formula.
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>>607534
The answer really depends on the context. Are you talking about a quest you want to create or are you talking about quests currently going on?
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>>607534
When in doubt, talk to the QM in the quest your running like.

And please dont be another naruto quest.
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>>607534
Try to be original where you can.
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How do you guys think a prologue quest would be received before i actually start the main quest?

I want to do the big bads backstory in a manner that makes you sympathize
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>>607601
Don't tell anyone it's a prologue, stupid. Just do the thing and make it interesting on its own merit. What you plan to do with it in the future is exactly nobody's business and has no effect on its goodness.
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>>607534
starting the seventh shipfucker quest, or the eleventy billionth magical girl quest isn't really gonna bother anyone, you're one shaken drip in the ocean of piss.
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When would you say would be the most optimal times to run quests?

1. Morning, Noon, Evening
2. Weekdays, or Weekends
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>>607676
Depends on your audiance timezone and how fast you want the quest to run.
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>>607676
Evening on weekends tends to have decent traffic.
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>>607676
The answer to this question has been in literally every single qtg OP for years by now. You should check it out. We made that exactly for people like you. It's at the top of the thread.
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Magical Girl Bomber is alive and well.

>>607815
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So I have an idea for a quest about bootlegging:

The MC starts out as a WWI veteran who ended up in New Orleans instead of New York because of a paperwork fuck-up. That was in 1918. It is now 1920 and he's homeless, and Prohibition has just been enacted. With the newfound market for illicit booze, combined with the emerging jazz culture and hard financial times in the Deep South, the MC has the opportunity of a lifetime.

So how bad is the idea?
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>>607830
I'd read it.
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>>607830
...are there cats involved?
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>>607840
No... But there will be pigs.
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>>607840
I haven't checked the webcomic in awhile. Is it still good?
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>>607843
You'll have another reader in me, anon.

>>607848
Eh, it stalled for a bit. Not sure I like how the characters are developing, but it's mostly interesting.
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>>607659
>>607578
>>607544
>>607537

Its planetary governor quest, I guess I could wait a little longer and keep working on my system and story before running.
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>>607879
So you want to run a sci-fi quest about ruling a planet? There's a lot of way to structure it to make it distinct from the other quest.

Tell us about it. Is it going to be like Dune with a lot of political intrigue and double crosses? Is it going to be very pulpy with blue skinned girls and ray guns?

How is the game world?
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After the week from hell the third part in my A Song of Ice and Fire Quest continues. Hope to get out of King's Landing by the next thread or so and onto house management. >>604018
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I want to run a Re:Zero quest.
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>>607927
Do it
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>>607927
Do it then. Not like anybody's gonna stop you.
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>>607927
Aww yeeaah.
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>>607927
>Re:Zero

If you're talking about Re: as in the quests in the Re:Monster family, what do you mean by 'zero'? Would we be playing as a sapient Japanese airplane?
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>>607947
Re:Zero is an anime about a darker take on the isekai genre with a Groundhog Day twist
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>>607947
it's a recent anime, Re:Zero, Starting Life in Another World
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>>607893

It's a world recently reintegrated to the Imperium after the whole sector was cut off and most imperial institutions have long collapse into vage memory. Religious tensions are building up as different cults of the emperor are clashing and competing for official recognition, the nobility (already old and well established before contact was lost) is resentful at being impose an outsider and the imperium is struggling to re-establish his control over the sector with many world in open rebellion or in control of xenos and chaos. The world itself is a borderline death world with very dangerous beasts and plentiful unexploited resources. That's the basic run down without any spoilers, I am also working an a extensive list of planetary upgrades, I might post it after I get home.
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>>607964
do it, i'm interested
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>>607964
Dangerous beast training and breeding better be one of em

>>606325
You should totally come check out Symbiote Quest (™) by Maleficar

http://anonkun.com/stories/symbiote-quest/T6xYtac9nx29Tsec6
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>>607972

I considered it, now I will be sure to implement it.
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What's the best way to have a battle system in a quest?
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>>608003
Something light and easy to understand. Get bogged down in mechanics and it won't be fun.
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>>608003
Streamline whatever system you have in mind as much as possible on your (the QM's) end. The last thing you want to have to do in the middle of a fight scene is keep track of a lot of little but important things such as resources. It's very easy to underestimate how much that can slow down your writing until you're already too deep to change it.
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>>607972
Live now
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>>608003
keep the player-facing game mechanics somewhere between coin flip and tic-tac-toe

if you want to gather an audience of military sim autists and collective-play a massive scrimmage, consider a twitch stream rather than an imageboard
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Does a QM shitposting in /qtg/ and developing a known personality increase the number of viewers their quest gets?
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>>608074
At the very least it makes you acutely aware of the vast number of lurkers you possess.

I highly recommend be a caustic tripfagging cunt. I see why planefag does it.
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>>607228
>Revenging Survivor Quest

I need a better descriptive title than this, that doesn't sound EngRISH.
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>>607927
>Isekai genre quest

How about doing Masoukishin? It's less cheat-y in ways that the Re: series don't.
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>>608163
I doubt he wants to run Re:Zero just because it's isekai.
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If anyone wants to look away from MGNQ for a bit, Dog Days Quest is up!

>>608156
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Gonna pimp out the quest once again.

I run a Gundam quest set during the One Year War in a setting much like 8th MS Team. As a matter of face, you are the leader of the 16th MS team.

We are in the 'Nam and doing grunt MS things. Eating army noodles and pulling rank in the rain.

I will be putting it up for the second thread tomorrow afternoon. Hope to see some of you there.
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Finishing off the second session of Alchemical Blade Quest today!

>>599108
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Hey, so is it just me or are QMs putting people named Dan or Daniel in their quests? I keep seeing that name.
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>>608270
Pffhaha, it's an inside joke
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I created a quest earlier and I don't know how to delete it. Please help. I feel terrible for starting something and not having the ability to Finnish it.
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>>608276
Have you tried to Danish it instead?
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>>608276
What is it? Someone might be able to take it over f you. Or tell you how you can save it.

>>608274
It is? And here I thought my finger was on the pulse of /qst/ culture...
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>>608276

>not having the ability to Finnish it.
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>>608280
>>607363
This thing here. Sorry for leaving a mess.
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>>608270
>>608274
>>608280
Can confirm, it's a Discord thing.

Originally the plan was for /qst/-tan to show up but only Melancholic Quest did that. It seems making cameos of known discord peeps seems much easier than the fucking board-tan.
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Looking for a good quest to read, having just finished catching up on hive quest and re:monster. Know of any ones, past or present? Or any other site that has some decent ones on it?
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>>606293
>What's the hardest part about writing for you?
The writing, dyslexia and fine motor skills mean my hand writing is so bad the exam board let me have a scribe for English and just assigned zero points for spelling and handwriting. My typing is slow too.
Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
Often, even if it's just rewording what the QM wrote because I think it flows better.
What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?
I have other tabs.
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>>607445
What is this? A .jpeg for ants!?
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>What's the hardest part about writing for you

Seeing how I was infamous among my audience for misspellings or writing the wrong form of a word, I'd probably say that. Many a dramatic moment lost to silly spelling mistakes.

So on the off chance any of my old readers are still kicking around who haven't seen via Twitter, Sith Apprentice Quest will probably making its dramatic return soon.
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>>608398
Go away skeleton
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>>608407
U wot mate
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>>608416
Brine died years ago

Prove your him
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>>608381
What do you like? Have you read Death among the Stars? Do you want finished or on-going, long or short, ect?
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>>608381

>>607972
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>>607971
>>607972
>>607893

Here's what I have been working on, its not finish yet. It needs some corrections, price re-balancing. Some Mechanicus and Adeptus Ministorum stuff will only be obtainable through diplomacy or will get done without the players' input. Any input or ideas are appreciated like the great beasts training and breeding.

It should go without saying that I am using TheGameroom's work and quest as a base to build on.

http://pastebin.com/DpStBNgY
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>>608425

Cross reference that trip comrade, I return from the grave more powerful then ever before
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>>608443
I have read death amoung the stars and eagerly await its return.
If you know of an finished one that is good, and that I haven't read, that would be awesome. As for current quests, I would like one that is original, or deviates heavily from the sorce material. Something where I don't have to know the source material to know what is going on.

I will be honest, I have spent the last 6 months off and on going through the archives and reading what is finished and looks interesting. I want to know if what I skipped is interesting or not.
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>>608450
Is it as good as exulted? I have just caught up with it, so I am willing to check it out.
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>>608512
Well somebody asked me if I'm the new crusty

Don't know if that means I'm a knock off crusty or near to his level

Ima go with the first one

Its alright/10 in my opinion family
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>>608493
Ryukuza Quest is excellent, but if you don't like yuri you probably won't have a good time.
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>>608493
Wait.... Mr.Smiles, is that you?
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>>608526
Ryukuza is great for drama.

XS writes the best drama on the board.

Even if you just skip past the lesbian sex, it's great just from a shoujo-manga perspective on interpersonal relationships.
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>>608537
Sorry, but no. That is not an alias of mine. I am mearly a lurker who spends more time on suptg then on 4chan.
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Why did my id change?
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>>608526
There are still porn quests?
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>>608526
I will check this out, thanks! Also, my wifi keeps dropping on my phone, so I think that is why my id changed.
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>>608578
Ah, sorry. Thought you were someone else who just catching up on HQQ.

Well, I guess you could always try the other quests by the same QMs. Ghouls Civ is good but still on hiatus, and I hate to shill my own stuff but Cyberpunk Detective is both finished and quite short. Probably an afternoon's worth of reading.
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>>608596
Ryukusa is very, very careful to not put porn anywhere except pastebins

So until mods decide that kissing and nipple-teasing is verboten, then it's fine.
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>>608381
Go read Pallys back catalog, also Headmaster, GermanSchteel and audit quest (audit quest is only 4 threads and only included because I like it but the others will kill your free time).
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>>608493
>If you know of an finished one that is good
Try Robot Decommissioner Quest.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Robot%20Decommissioner%20Quest
Miniseries are good.
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>>608676
Hey, i have seen your name in a bunch of quest. Seemed like you were in a lot of the older ones.
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That feel when you have two quests on hiatus and want to run both but both need overhauling with resources and tech trees

>suffering
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>>608493
Go read Banished quest, it's pretty damn long and has tonnes of detail and lore and is totally OC
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Are there different schools of thought on dice? How would you categorize the?

How do you use them in your quest?

What's the worst use of dice you've seen?

Bonus question: What was the most bullshit you've ever seen from RNG?
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>>608770
>>608672
How the hell did I skip over these?!?!
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>>608276
>>608286
Never mind, false alarm.
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>>608758
I feel ya.
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>>608746
I'm an old lurker, sometimes poster, sometimes QM, although most of my quests got terminated by real life dropping in.
Started and moderated a long-running evo game turned civ game, though the real credits go to the players of Primordial.
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How bad would it be if instead of a quest finale thread to resolve a cliffhanger, a QM ran a joke one-shot instead?
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>>608909
beautiful for anyone not involved. Irredeemably frustrating for players.

Do it.
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>>607534
No way. If you're worried about doing another fanfic quest, just go for it.

There are so many tones and flavors and ways to run something, that it's easy to be unique. Plus one tends to promote the other so you both benefit.
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I'm thinking about running either a Warhammer Fantasy Chaos Warband Quest or a Marvel Superhero Quest. Which do you think would be more interesting?
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>it's another magical girl/fan fiction quest

Fuck, where's the originality? I didn't expect all these stupid Naruto and SAO ones to clutter the board.
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>>609133
See that's the biggest problem with the split. People ran the popular naruto/dbz/anime fanfic garbage on /tg/ for the ratings because that's what people who pander to large autistic fanbases always do - they find the best place to get maximum attention.

/qst/, as a small board, was destined to get the authors willing to write stories that weren't going to get them large fanbases filled with autists and losers. People who write alternative, harder to parse, greater than "entry level" type quests. Because if you're willing to sacrifice big crowds of drooling retards you care less for exposure.

Now with the merger, we're stuck with all these quests absolutely wrenched of any artistic talent.

>I want fanfic quests gone.
>I want /a/ garbage gone

/qst/ is much like the white race - perfect, destined to wither away to nothingness due to savages and now horribly infested with the "niggers" of the questing world.
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>>609143
Huh, you actually went back to your old self. Almost had me thinking the change was an actual thing.
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>>609144
You don't understand. I've evolved again - much like a three-generational stage pokemon.
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>>609146
So what would your final form be like?
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>>609143

I actually didn't mind the Naruto/DBZ/anime fanfic quests. If the people who make them enjoy it and the people who read it enjoy, why is it a problem that they exist in the first place? Yea I wonder how they're so popular (I mean before the Exodus we had like 3 DBZ and Naruto quests each?) but at the same time who are we to complain if such a thing is someone's guilty pleasure?
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>>609147
So at first I would be like, a ticonderoga pencil.

Then i would be a pencil with a dulled tip.

Then the third form would be a sharpened pencil, like razor deadly sharp.

And then my mega evolution would be a pen.
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Mfw Trick's entire presence on /qst/ has been one big shitpost.
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>>609152
That's about the size of it, yeah
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>>609151
>And then my mega evolution would be a pen.
You'll break and blow your ink everywhere?
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>>609144
>you actually went back to your old self

I'm . . . sorry. I had a relapse. Alright. I'm trying to improve but the temptation . . . ugh, I'll get back on the wagon tomorrow. I promise you I hate myself for being too weak to resist much more than you're disappointed than me.
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>>609198
Uh huh, yeah, sure
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what do you think of deeper ideas in quests? most quests seem to stay in sort of the comedic zone for the most part, but what if a quest where to delve deeper into something like philosophy or psychology? would it lose your attention or gain it?
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>>609223
You'd risk going into faux-philosophical navel gazing that'd make even /lit/ wonder what the hell you're talking about
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>>607947
Im trying to decide if that would be fantastic or if it would burn out and crash without accomplishing anything
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>>609223
Why do you think they don't? Thing about such ideas is you keep them under the surface because nobody came here to read about your views on existentialism, they came to read the story you promised them.
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>>609223
Plenty of people try it, few pull it off with anything resembling competence, mostly because anon doesn't give a fuck
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>>609223
Just avoid Dadaism. Never works
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What happened to nanoha quest anon?
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>>609223
I'd probably avoid the quest. However I've seen QMs take really deep ideas and have one side character constantly tackling them, for both reasons of humor and insanity. I think that works well.
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>>609198
so what's next? Trick depowered? Trick relinquished?
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>>609368

Let's go with this.
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>>609371
>PUNISHED TRICK
So you're some guy brainwashed into thinking you're Trick?

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
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>>606293
Which QM do you want a daki of?

Which QM do you want to be your imouto?
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Hoping this is the right place for it, does anyone happen to know if Some_pervert is still around?
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>>609469
Everyone wants a Hexmouto.

A daki of me would be a long thin silk bag filled with broken bones and ashes.
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>>606855
>her

Did Irue get sex-change or something?
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Did /qst/ produce any good quests yet?
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>>609518
I like lamplighter quest.
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>>609518
Lamplighter is bretty gud.
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>>609518
Lamplighter quest and northern beasts quest are the only ones I've read that I consider good. Surely there are others though.
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>>609518
Lamplighter is shit
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>>609540
t. sword art online fanfic quest player
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>>609223

I've been trying to slip these in more and more and haven't had any complaints yet. It's also why my players want to fuck the BBEG. Speaking of which, how do I stop them /qst/?
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>>609557
....why do you want to?
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A question for you, /qst/: Power armor or nanosuits?

>>609557
Can't stop the dick, anon.
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>>609223
There was a Scooby Doo quest which apparently had some really deep shit going on in it
I'm totally serious

As for me I found it best to include any deep, philosophycal stuff in a subtle manner.
Those intelligent enough will get and apreciate it and those who don't give a rats ass about them won't notice that it's there.

Also, it's fun to mess around with it but you have to be careful you don't trip over your own inflated ego and show the world what a huge fag you actually are
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>>609557
Why contain it?
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>>609557
>how do I stop them /qst/?
>pic related

It's already too late. Take a page from Exabutt's book and use their love against them to the point of their self-annihilation.
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>>609582
This, let them do it and royally fuck them for stupid choices
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>>609557
You don't.

You screwed up.
No matter what you do it won't change their mind.
And if you resist they'll instead vote to rape her.

There's only 1 thing that can save you from this fate, give them something better they can put their pee pees in
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>>609582
>Take a page from Exabutt's book and use their love against them to the point of their self-annihilation.

explain
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>>609571
POWER
ARMOR
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Ryukuza Quest Begins: >>609605
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>>608381
>Re:monster
Lamia daughter quest and scorpion girl quest are my nearest match suggestions
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>>606325
Start Over Quest is comfy as fuck and very nice, the QM is good and chill, and the characters are likeable.
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>>609600
Situation: MC is in the in-loves with the villain.
Response: Villain uses this to their advantage.
Result: MC makes bad to badder choices for the sake of love at behest of their special friend.
Conclusion: Read Psion Quest.

Custom Conclusion Taken from assorted other quests: The MC is made into a lapdog doing almost-evil shit that always results in bad things for other lots of innocent people, and then at the ultimate moment of reveal the waifu drops them because now they're useless to their grand plans. Throw in some sideplot where the MC tries to "redeem" them and "succeeds," then getting invited to have a good romp. Except, they go to the bedroom and are spell thrown into an extra dimensional hellscape until their soul withers into nothing, cue 10/10 villain waifu laughing in the background.
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Probably going to be shot down for this, but I decided to take the chance.

For the past couple of years (on /tg/ prior to /qst/) I've been following and playing a vast array of quests, I love this format for a form of RP/Storytelling is essentially what it boils down to, and throughout that time of playing I've tried writing, and have written, probably a dozen different worlds and plots for quests.

To preface this, no, I don't have any mental health issues.

The only issue is: I get some weird crippling anxiety when I actually get close to posting the quest, and the few times I went through with it I panicked and dumped the quest before any had a chance to get a following.

Had anyone gone through this themselves? Any advice on how to get over being a complete pussy on a damn quest board? I really want to see my ideas come to life, and I know I have the competency to do it somewhat well, it's just this weird block I can't seem to move past.
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>>609643
I dunno man, ive been a pussy about all my quest ideas and gave them to qtg instead.

I still have the drawfagging of a harpy pizza deliverygirl for the pizza racers i never ran.
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>>609643
It's pretty normal. I'm in the same situation you are in, in fact I made 25 different quest concepts before running one.

At the start of this week, I actually started writing one. You just have to dive in, and hopefully you'll be so happy that you're actually moving your planned storyline along that you'll be able to stick with it.
I'm three sessions in and it's going well, I'm gaining players.

The biggest thing holding you back is the fear of failure. You're emotionally invested in your quest pitches and you want them to be successful. But they can't possibly be if you don't run them.

Once you're running, the only thing you risk is QM burnout. Past that you should be fine, so long as you keep spicing the material up to avoid player attrition.

So my advice for you is. Write an opening post. Force yourself to post that opening post, then write a second post. When players show up, you'll know what to do.
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>>609643
Force it.

I promised I would run the quest and had no choice but to do it. And trust, after you've done it once, you'll never be nervous again.
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>>608455
Do it mate. I love quests like that.
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>>609643
Absolutely. Starting a quest can be terrifying. Do what the other Anons said and just jump in though. If it works, great for you. If not, hey, you tried and you can come back stronger next time.
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>>609518
Starship Idols but I'm biased towards people who know one of my favorite series
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>>609643
I had a very long response to this but the above anons have the good points.

But,
>Probably going to be shot down for this
Try to avoid prefacing your desires with your doubts. A lot easier said than done, of course, but it's worth trying.
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>>609143
>People who write alternative, harder to parse, greater than "entry level" type quests. But if you're willing to sacrifice to big crowds of drooling retards you care less for exposure.

You sound like a quest you like isn't getting a lot of attention. What's it's name Trick?

You got a point though. My BioArmor Quest takes influences from 90's anime (and even more from 1920's science fiction, but don't tell anybody!) but its 100 percent original and it gets like a third of the players a Sword Arts Quest gets.

>>609152
Westeros broke him. He is a broken man. Think of him as the old bitter guy in the corner of the bar whose rants are projections of his broken dreams.

>>609207
Toshiro Mifune?

>>609223
I'm trying to do some serious stuff with BioArmor about war and honor. And in Sibella Quest about trust and family

>>609236
It worked in Doom Patrol. It was amazing.

>>609573
That's mine. It's still going on.
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>>609730
>trick is one big shit post
What do you think happens when your most succesful quest was stolen from another, shittier person's best quest?
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Magical Girl For Hire Quest will be resuming in about an hour!
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>>609735
This brings me too much joy
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>>609760
Anon we all have his tripcode, let it die
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>>609766
He actually gave his tripcode away? Why?
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>>609821
Good question, if his goal was to make everyone stop talking about him, it worked, made a shit-post about "killing the trip" and then Trick imploded shortly after
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>>609832
...When I finally get around to doing that Cape World Quest where everyone in the thread plays a super powered rat belonging to a hive mind the bad guy is going to be a swarm of robotic insects.

Would it be in bad form if I named the swarm VE-L 0? Virulently Emergent Lifeform Zero?
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>>609874
Better to have done it first and then tell us.
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>>609874
>>609885
Yeah, what the second anon said, now it isn't funny, it's just a meme you wanted approval for
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>my quest is being considered the lowest common denominator

That kinda stings, I get it, but still, ouch.
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>>610021
What's your quest anon? Haven't been keeping up with qtg gossip the last couple of weeks
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>>610023
He runs SAO Quest, Based off the abridge and its gone wayyy the fuck off track. All and all if you don't plan on being serious its a good time. Hopefully soon we get back to fisting.
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>>610059
>SAO
Pandering confirmed, sorry anon
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>>610104
I'm having a blast in it, Its a total cluster-fuck and I can only hope it keeps happening.
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>>609885
>>609895
Your right, I fucked up.

>>610059
>>610104
>>610021
Sword Arts Online? Is that the anime where everyone is trapped in an MMORPG and the main character is a teenage twink hacker?

...So what's your quest like? What's the plot?

Can I review it? I haven't doe one in a while.
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>>608032

Are you Crusty Jones under a new name?
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>>610160
No, he's a teenage twink who was "destined to be the best player ever" and for some reason got special abilities in the video game along with becoming an utter emo
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>>610160
The original is pure garbage, which is why I run the quest in the abridged version. Feel free to scour suptg for it and review it.
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>>610021
To be fair it's an isekai trapped in an MMO harem anime fanfic quest filled with memes. The mc even has meta knowledge. That said, it seems like your players have fun and you seem like a nice guy so don't let us rain on your parade.
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>>610194
>For some reason got special abilities in the video game

Why don't other people hack the game and get special abilities?
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>>610245
>Which is why I run the quest in the abridged version

What does that mean?
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>>610258
People dubbed over the original audio to make it comedic.
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>>610258
I think he means the abridged series version of SAO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kJKxvbgZ0
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>>610160

I got a quest you can review if you want.

The QM said it was okay on Twitter.
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>>610361
What is it?
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>>610258
The vastly superior comedic take on the show: SAO Abridged.
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>>610160
>Can I review it?
This is a meme at this point huh?

You haven't done one in months, don't pretend you are going to do this one.
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>>610436
Is this your quest? There's quite a few SAO quests.

Why is it so damn popular anyways?

>>610469
The chances of anything coming from QG are a million to one they say.

The chances of anything coming from QG are a million to one-

But still

It comes
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>>610495
And of course I forget the link.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/555691/
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>>610495
Yes, that's mine.

Speaking of which, next update SOON™
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>>609643
Short, small things first. It has been proven that trying to adhere to an ideal plot is hard for QMs.
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>>610411

Shinobi Quest, by Wargle
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>>608455
Someone actually read the links I posted!
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Huh, Hiro tweeted sorry through the 4chan update twitter. Can't imagine what for.
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>>610188
Trust me, he is definitely not Crusty Jones.

Man, this board is depressing as fuck.
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>>610653
I think we know what for.
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>>610665

He's pretty good, though.
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>>608155
Try Avenging Survivor, anon.
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>>610740
>>610665

Just read that he's from Brooklyn. So unless Crusty made a big moving decision at some point, yeah it's not him.
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That's good, senpai.
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How do you guys think a person with heightened but still slow regeneration that could basically pull them back from death would deal with WW1 trench-warfare? I imagine several suicidal charges where all your comrades get gunned down by entrenched machinegunners or getting killed by chlorine gas several times over would be extremely not fun.
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>>610740
Not really.
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>>610160
>Sword Arts Online? Is that the anime where everyone is trapped in an MMORPG and the main character is a teenage twink hacker?
Not a twink, twinks have actual muscles.
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>>610682
I don't. What's he apologizing for? Giving people false hope for better moderation?
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>>610817

Except he is.
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>>610825
He doesn't become a trap until season 2 though
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>>610842
He's alright.
He needs to run more halo tho.
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>>610021
this >>610249

but I don't want to judge your system as well since I don't know if you've changed anything in the last how many threads/posts
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SAO QUEST REVIEW

THREAD 1

WRITTEN AS IT IS READ

DISCLAIMER:

I know very little about Sword Arts Online or the Abridged Sword Arts Online. All I know is that its supposed to be a really terrible anime about kids that get stuck in an MMORPG for poorly defined reasons and the main character has super powers because he was a beta tester called a "beater".

I watched like three episodes and had to stop is what I'm saying.

Fortunately the QM seems to feel the way I do. He calls it a "shitty anime" in the OP, which of course begs the question:

WHY?:

If you don't like SOA why run a quest based on it? Its premise is hardly original. You had stories about people trapped in computers sense the sixties. Why doesn't OP just make his own original trapped in a computer story?

I'm sort of leery about this quest already to be honest.

QM PLAYER FRICTION:

Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but warning lights went off when anons voted our name to be "xxXsauskatheuchihaXxx". It's clear the ones that voted on the name don't want to take the plot seriously, but the QM seems to want at least a semi-serious plot. He writes that we enter it as our name ironically.

I predict bad things down the road. We shall see if I'm right to worry this soon.

POOR START:

We walk around a poorly described world as a poorly described avatar killing animals for quests.

I am having bad flashbacks to The Island Quest.

I find it rather disturbing that with cutting edge VR technology the best the humanity of the future can come up with is a wolf punching simulator.

Is this secretly Idiocracy Quest?

ABRIDGED:

The QM informs us that we aren't just trapped in SAO, we're trapped in the Abridged SAO. And we aren't a character in the world. We're a person from the "real" world trapped in the Abridged SAO. Which means when we see the main character he's arguing about a magic pebble or something and there are funny pop up ads and really it amounts to nothing. This is more Wolf Puncher Quest so far than anything.

Also for a normal guy that's just been trapped in a youtube parody series of an anime we sure are taking things in stride...And now I'm having bad flashbacks to Velo Quest and that Trapped in an MMORPG Quest I reviewed...

I just want to remind you /qst/ that you said this was good. I just want to remind you of that.

WE LEVEL UP

We brutally murder wolves with our bare hands and level up, caked in their innards.

>You grin, and go into the menu to use those Attribute points on your... two fucking stats, because SAO is a shit MMO.
Current STR: 1
Current AGI: 1

Seriously? Two stats? That really is shitty...but then again if its so shitty why don't you change it?

If this is supposed to be a satire of SAO I'm not getting the humor. Like at all.

We get a wolf mask that lets us steal life with our punches and that seems oddly powerful for a drop form a pack of wolves...And now I'm getting flashbacks to Joker Quest power wank...

-cont
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>>610880
oh no he's actually doing it
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>>610880
God damn it mate.
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>>610880
what's on the plate now gene?
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>>610880
Hey, what about the other quests in your list?

Still waiting for my private review.
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>>609515
Irue is vaguely and ambiguously gendered, but wears female clothes and was going to be married off to 'disinherit' her in a way reminiscent of women, so...I usually just assume Irue is a she, even if Irue's humanity is vague. Riz's other quest, Foxfire, also had an androgynous MC. Take that how you will.
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>>610956
And to think I was actually considering reading this quest
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>>610995
More interested in Gene's HARD NO RECOMMENDATION to be perfectly honest.
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Where do I need to improve?
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>>610989
I read it and didn't realize that Irue wasn't definitely 100% female until a character got confused about it around thread 40. It's not a big deal.
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>>610880
We punch more boar asses. In fact we spend three in game hours doing so while the QM desperately tries to get the players to talk to Kirito and begin the plot. But the anons aren't having it. We need more power. They're already talking about going Kenshiro on everybody and soloing group bosses...And now I'm having flashbacks to Velo Quest plan wank.

These quests hurt me /qst/. I just want you to know that.

PLOT HAPPENS

The mysterious wizrobe reject running the game shows up and explains everything.

Offscreen.

Our only interaction in the event is when we yell to the bad guy as he vanishes that he's a faggot and should give us our money back.

He spams a youtube video of Team Rocket laughing in response. And I'm sure its all funny to someone. Then we say "I'M GOING TO SHOVE MY FIST UP YOUR ASS INTO YOUR STOMACH AND BREAK YOUR GOD DAMN SPINE! I WILL FIND YOUR IN GAME AVATAR AND RAPE IT WITH MY FISTS I SWEAR ON MY GOD DAMN SOUL"

Again. I'm sure this is funny to someone.

Unless you've seen SOA you know jack shit what's going on. And any role playing or emotional content to be gained by being involved in this critical plot changing scene is gone as everything meaty happens off screen.

The big evil guy shows up and explains the plot to all the innocent players and this has less description than us punching animals to death. Even if you're playing it for comedy you can't use what you don't describe.

What I'm trying to say is the scene was actually handled better in SAO. And that's saying a whole lot.

WAIFU ALERT WAIFU ALERT WAIFU ALERT:

Things are very stable. You'd think they'd be some sort of panic we'd have to RP through sense everyone just found out their lives are effectively over and they're stuck inside a shitty MMORPG where losing means death. Sure, its a grim subject but you could mine some gallows humor out of it. You could do something with everyone's avatars being forced to be what they look like in real life. You could have Otakus be humorously fine with everything as they had no life to begin with.

You could do SOMETHING.

Instead our options are: Kill people. Kill animals. Go on Quests.

We pick go on quests.

I pick shake my head.

We run into a blonde catgirl named IncogNegro How was that graphic novel anyway. I've been meaning to check it out for awhile .

Half of the anons freak out and want to skin her for crafting material. They scream NO WAIFU. ONLY MURDER. Others scream to find and touch fluffy tail.

I want to take a moment to thank my player base for not being the kinds of people that lose their shit when an attractive female NPC shows up. Sincerely, honestly, thank you.

IncogNegro is incredibly calm even though she just found out she's trapped in a virtual deathtrap, but I'm sure her character is charming enough so that we can jump over the plot holes and get right to adventuring with her.

-cont
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What did he mean by these?

>>610188
I'm nowhere near the crustiest jone

More like the excessively cheap Chinese knock off
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>>611014
Start by not running on anonkun.

I don't have a problem with your quest other than not personally enjoying it. But from what I've seen of it, you're not as good as Crusty. Which is fine, Crusty was literally the best writefag I've seen.
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>>611028
Honestly, the only reason I went to AKun and didn't start on /tg/ when it was still viable was because I fucking hate paste bins with a passion
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>>611021
>Half of the anons freak out and want to skin her for crafting material.
Actually on second thought that's pretty metal.
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>>611040
Where the FUCK was that? That fucking gook bastard.
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>>610741
>Avenging Survivor

Damn, I don't know if it works with the tone I want to work with.
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>>611040
Oh shiz.
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>That image
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>>611040
Christ fucking apple shit face! Hand it to a mod? Which goddamn mod!? Is there even a trustworthy mod currently available?
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>>611040
And in what timezone would it be if it was made on September 21st 2016 and a Thursday?
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>>611040
This is an edit though, right?
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>>611040
>posts 6567 and 6569 replying to post 6573

Yes. That is, in fact, fake as balls.

Gullible fucking retards, the lot of you.
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>>611021
But then she says this when we ask her about her cat ears:""Oh my gosh I forgot to take the headband off! I was at a party last night and when I woke up I must have left them on and then the NerveGear thought they were real! Holy shit I'm the only person in the game who has animal ears!...unless that head of yours isn't a mask like I thought?"

There is no charm here.

Also, is this a character from the show? Is that really the reason why she has cat ears? Because its dumb. Like really, really dumb.

She has no idea why she's called IncogNegro or why her name is filtered.

Do MMORPGs seriously filer Negro? Like for real?

She also doesn't know anything about the game. Like anything at all. Which instantly gives us the chance to be the protective boyfriend.

And we're still arguing about her. Some want her to be bait for boss enemies. Some want to fuck her. Some are now yelling at other anons and calling them horny bastards that think only with their dick.

This waifu is a shit. But there's no reason to be a shit about it. Instead focus on making the PC charming to compensate for their boring partner.

Have I mentioned already that I am really, really, really thankful my playerbase never acts like this? Because I really am.

QM seems to be having fun though. He writes "seriously, I'm just going to sit on my ass and laugh at you guys for a bit".

I have to wonder how long the laughter will last....

AND THEN THERE'S DRAMA

Well...I'm still not sure exactly what the tone of all this quest is. You'd think after everything that's happened it would be a satire right? But then we get to this scene where we look at a registry of living and dead players:

>"They're already dead" You say with as somber a voice as you can muster.
"Wha-how? Is it seriously that dangerous out there?"
"No"
"Then how the flippity FUCK DID SHE DIE!?" She points at one name in particular, tears forming in the corner of her eyes.
You read the name.
Anonimiss.
"Who was she?"
"M-my sister, she said she was gonna show me how to play an MMO, I was supposed to m-meet her a-and then everyone was in the plaza so I was waiting and then..."
She breaks down in your arms.

...I mean she's named Anonimiss and we quoted Fist of the North Star so it's...funny?

IN CONCLUSION:

HARD NO RECOMMEND. Oh dear lord HARD NO RECOMMEND.

Where do I even start? Most of the time we're running around doing boring MMORPG tasks and punching animals, the tone is widely inconsistent, the setting is poorly fleshed out, the drama is beyond forced, the waifu is forced, the waifu wars discussion is obnoxious...I can't really say much about the writing because there just isn't a lot of it. There's just so very little substance. Most of it is surface level descriptions.

My advice is to start over. Make it your own setting with your own characters and doing it this way will force you to create characters and setting and story instead of getting by through referencing the show.

-cont
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>>606964

Thanks!

>>611021

Could you do mine next? I would love to know what you think about mine.
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GENESMITH'S REVIEWS REVIEW

REVIEW #TOOFUCKINGMANY

WRITTEN AS IT IS READ

DISCLAIMER:

I don't read any of GeneSmith's quests but I assume they are roughly on par with all the shitty quests he reviews.

So it starts and, oh god, here we go. GeneSmith is reviewing another quest again. No one really wanted it. the QM sorta barely gave consent but whatever, I guess this is happening now.

He also knows nothing of the series or the abridged parody. Hmmm, maybe the quest isn't for you then bucko? Why does everything need to be accessible to everyone? Read Dragonball before you play dragonball quests, etc etc

>I'm sort of leery of this quest already to be honest

I'm sort of leery of this review. So far of all the quests he's read I think his most positive review was my take on You Awake in Westeros which is just a giant memey clusterfuck parody of a stupid concept. If this doesn't tell you not to take GeneSmith's opinions for the trash they are, I don't know what will.

>IS this secretly Idiocracy Quest?
Is this secretly trying to be a joke? GeneSmith is less funny than any of the humor in any of the quests he reviews. No it's not Idiocracy Quest. Idiocracy has nothing to do with this but ok I guess you're mentioning it.

>having flashbacks to

This is going to be the very shitty catchphrase of this review. Where he calls back to all his other reviews shitting on quests he doesn't like rather than just review all those quests on his "list" that are actually halfway decent that he just doesn't want to talk about because it's less funny than shitting on some subpar quest.

Even though it isn't funny.

Because I think GeneSmith might actually be autistic.

>I just want to remind you /qst/ that you said this was good.

Who? Who said this? I don't even care. We also said that Northern Beasts Quest was good and told you to review that and instead you decided to . . . just not? I guess quests need to demonstrate our "woefully horrible taste" for you to ass yourself to write a few shit posts about it.

>Why don't you change it

Fixfics are shit fuck off.

>Oddly powerful for a drop from a pack of wolves

Fuck off, the wolf mask was the best part about the quest IMHO. It was something fun with a neat mechanic. No, KayabaQM! If yo don't simulate the boring realities of early level MMO drops you have failed in your duties!

>>610948
Here we see a competent QM who wants a review getting passive aggressive towards GeneSmith for just randomly reviewing this quest out of the blue. You're right GT, Genesmith is a cunt.


>And now I'm having flashbacks

I'm having flashbacks to your shitty reviews you dumb cunt.

>I think this is funny to someone

Your reviews as of late are funny to no one.

>Unless you've seen SAO you know jack shit what's going on.

Who reads a SAO quest and DOESN'T know what SAO is? Here's my first recommendation: Don't play SAO quest if you haven't watched/read SAO.


-cont (maybe)
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Man, things seem a little chaotic in here.
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>>611122

My question is does it get better? Should I bother reading the next thread?

>>611125
Sure. What's your quest?
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>HARD NO RECOMMEND.
There's the fix I was looking for.
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>>611132
jaysus kee rist

>>611137
Hello Schteel, happy for you to join us.
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>>611142

Not so Glorious Quest!

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=Not+so+glorious+quest

Thanks in advance!
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>>611153
Quick review of Not so Glorious Quest:

It's fucking great. Calm down and keep going.
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Is genesmith the same reviewer as Reviewanon that was in the /tg/ wqtg?
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>>611132
PUNISHEDTRICK'S GENESMITH'S REVIEWS REVIEW REVIEW

REVIEW #1

WRITTEN AS IT IS READ

You both write shitty quests. Genesmiths reviews are at least somewhat entertaining though. You're just an annoying cunt.
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>>611160
No
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>>611157

Thanks, but I'm curious about what he thinks about it. : |
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>>611142
Doesn't seem like it's your thing, but people seem to like it for some reason.
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>>610880
>>611021
>>611122
"WHO WANTS TO READ FOREVER?"
t. GeneSmith, the guy that writes "reviews" that go on forever.
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>>611142
Trick does have one point though.
Didn't you say you were gonna review Northern Beasts Quest? And a couple others too. In fact, you promised reviews to quests that've died since you last reviewed.
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>>611170
He'll think it's shit.
See: every review he's written.
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So, we're worried about our player draught, right? So, there was a suggestion by an enlightened anon here: >>>/qa/689136

I think it's a good idea!
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>>611165
>GeneSmith
>entertaining
Pick one. Dude's a cunt and had it coming
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>>611210
A small part of me wants to see the world that choice creates.
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>>611213
But the reviews are genuinely funny to me tbqh famalam

Maybe you should stop trying to be an edgy shit
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>>611241
Thanks for your opinion, frogposter.
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>>611241
>edgy
What did I say that was edgy?
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>>611132

>I want to take a moment to thank my player base

Great, just what a review needs. Virtue signalling. Is this why you don't review quests infinitely better than your own piece of shit writing? Because then you can't feel smug and superior you're better than some rando or your players are better than some rando?

>There is no charm here

Is GeneSmith secretly reviewing himself?

>Its dumb

I don't like THING! THING BAD BECAUSE ME NO LIKE! Why? Why can't she have cat ears? The explanation is halfway decent considering the lore. It's interesting to think the nervgear accidentally confused her cat ear headband for real ears and incorporated it. It's interesting enough.

>really, really thankful my playerbase never acts like this

Again more weird virtue signalling.

GeneSmith continues his 'review' and to be fair, he has a point.

The effort into the quest isn't the best, there are glaring tonal changes and at the end of the day this quest is not "high art". No quests on this site are but this is definitely indicative of someone new to QMing.

But let's look at GeneSmith's recommendations.

>Make it your own setting with your own characters and doing it this way will force you to create characters and setting and story instead of getting by through referencing the show.

So his recommendation is don't make a fanfic quest. Look, I understand >fanfic is absolutely disgusting but you can do a SAO quest and do it well. GeneSmith doesn't like SAO and that's fine, but your recommendation can't be 'don't tackle this source material'. Especially since . . THIS GUY RUNS A FUCKING SCOOBY DOO FANFIC QUEST!

Like, shit nigger. Why don't you make a setting with your own characters and doing that will force you to create characters and setting and story instead of getting by through referencing a cartoon dog.

At the end of the day, I feel like GeneSmith is an unhelpful reviewer. He is more likely to make nu-QMs and QMs who need improvement to do the wrong things/stop QMing.

His opinions are shit and I felt this one in particular was the most egregious.

GS fucking BEGGED to review this quest, despite admitting multiple times in this review he has no experience with or depth in the subject matter. Which begs the question of WHY he wanted to review it. I sure as shit don't know. And when the QM, as a good sport, gave GS tentative consent, GS immediately decided to tear into the guy and act like this motherfucker had it coming for daring to write something so abysmal.

I don't like this shit and I can't support it.

KayabaQM, you definitely have room to improve BUT PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING GS SAYS TO HEART!
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>>611226
I know, right!? I'm still giggling.

Also, I meant drought. Oops.
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>>611132
>No one really wanted it

I have a huge backlog of requests. I got a request just after this review. If there wasn't a demand I wouldn't be doing this Trick.

>Maybe the quest isn't for you then bucko?

I don't know the series or the abridged parody but I believe that when you're watching a movie or whatever you shouldn't have to refer to paragraph B subsection D or the official lore guide to "get" it.

>So far of all the quest he's ead I think his most positive review was my take on You Awak in Westeros which is just a giant memey clusterfuck parody of a stupid concept. If this doesn't tell you no to take GeneSmith's opinion for the trash they are I don't know what will

I think we're broaching on the true reason for your post.

Westeros hurt you, didn't it Trick? It's the best thing you've written and the fact hurts you.

It wasn't bad Trick. You are not a bad writer.

>Idiocracy has nothing to do with this but ok I guess you're mentioning it.

The idea is that people use advance VR technology that can make any kind of world and waste it making wolf punching simulators. It just feels like a concept that would show up in Idiocracy.

>This is going to the very shitty catchphrase of this review

The idea was to draw comparisons between problems in this quests an problems I've seen in other quests. I might have to do a "common QM problems" write up one day.

>I guess quests need to demonstrate our "woefully horrible taste" for you to ass yourself to write a few shit posts about it.

Must I review a good quest? How many good quests do I have to review before I pass your test and get my gold star?

>Fixfics are shit fuck off

But why exactly?

>The wolf mask was the best part of the quest IMHO

Think about what you just wrote. Think about it hard. That's like saying the lightsaber was the best part of Star Wars.

>If you don't simulate the boring realities of early level MMO drops you have failed in your duties!

Oh he simulated early level MMO grinding alright. That's not why its a problem. Its a problem because it raises the question of why other players aren't decked in super gear when you get THAT from a pack of wolves.

>Here we see a competent QM who wants review getting passive aggressive towards GeneSmith

Somehow I doubt he thinks I'm a cunt Trick. It rather says a lot about you that a reminder for a private review is taken as calling me a cunt.

I think you're hyper sensitive Trick. You've even said as much in the past. You need to calm down.

>>611153
Reading it right now.

>>611165
>Both write shitty quests

Can you tell me what's wrong with BioArmor? I've been dying to get my work critique. You can't fix a problem you don't know about.

>>611181
Not my thing at all. But if you guys like it there's no harm in having fun.

>>611182
The summations were written for you.

>>611183
I wasn't aware I would get shit if I skipped stuff from the list. Sometimes you just don't want to force yourself to read something even if its good.
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>>611248
I aim to please

>>611255
> what did I say that was edgy
Literally everything
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>>611283
>I wasn't aware I would get shit if I skipped stuff from the list.

What do you think lists are for?
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>>611283
Nigger I have a giant ass quest to ignore and procrastinate about so let's square the fuck up, bitch.

>If there wasn't a demand I wouldn't be doing this Trick.

First of all, yeah you would you autistic fuckwit. Second of all, we haven't had a review from you in a long time and no one was moaning about a lack of content from your sorry asss. Fuck you.

>when you're watching a movie or whatever you shouldn't have to refer to paragraph B subsection D

What about tv shows where you're expected to watch previous seasons? Or the second LOTR movie where you need to watch the first one first? Or Mass Effect 3 where you need to have played the first Mass Effect . . . oh wait, I guess you should work at Bioware GS!

>That's like saying the lightsaber was the best part of Star Wars.

Nigger are you implying the visual imagery of a blade made entirely of colorful light is NOT one of the biggest thing STAR WARS has going for it? Like, shit dude, stop having bad taste. Powerful imagery is a valid reason to like a thing.

>decked in super gear when you get THAT from a pack of wolves.

There are probably a variety of drops from various creaturs of various rarities. Also I think SAO has some sort of "limit" on certain things, which you obviously wouldn't know since you haven't watched the anime, but sure keep spouting ignorant opinions.

>I think you're hyper sensitive Trick

I think you're a fucking faggot. You've implied as much in the past. You need to stop being autistic.
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So does anyone actually do genuine reviews anymore, or is it all just shitposting and first impression stuff? We used to have really useful ones back on /tg/.
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>>611283
>I got a request just after this review
What the Shinobi Quest?

The dude requested that months ago.

And it's Graham.
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>>611331
Well this isn't /tg/, is it? Rest in peace, reviewanon.
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>>611331
I remember ReviewAnon and him actually taking the time to read stuff and give useful criticism on it. It seems like people now kind of review to get popular instead of actually trying to critique things in a useful manner.
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>>611331
There was this one anon who did genuine reviews. He reviewed mine and a handful of others but he vanished when the world needed him most.

I still have my screencap, I cherish it so.
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>>611331
genuine reviews take a lot of effort mang. We didn't exactly have a lot of them on tg, either.

>>611283
>I wasn't aware I would get shit if I skipped stuff from the list.
it's a thing, yes.
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>>611331
I still miss GBUAnon
Good/Bad/Ugly is definitely the best way to review things like quests.

It helped that he actually read the shit he reviewed and didn't decide to spend a half dozen posts picking apart the first few threads of a quest because they didn't fit his delicate view of how things should be written.
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>>611283

thanks, bro.
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>>611283
Your prose reads awkwardly. Almost every sentence starts with "You" or "You're". Also amnesia is a terrible plot device. It's basically just poor man's joker quest with probable yuri.
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>>611343
I still feel guilty for nearly killing him with my quest
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>>611399
What quest?
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>>611283
Hey, remember that time I requested you review Tuffle Quest? After reading what you wrote here and witnessing your general demeanor towards people, feel free to shove Tuffle way down in your list or preferably off of it.
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>>611406
Death Among the Stars.

He said he was going to review it next and then nothing. He disappeared for a few weeks I think then came back saying I had tricked him into reading a civ in disguise and that the number crunch nearly killed him.

Was a good review though, was very helpful.
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>>611283
Gene sir, do you believe your reviews to be of any good?
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>tfw I do this all the time

How do I stop
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>>611462
As a quest, starting most sentences with "you're" is a given, since most quests are second person or whatever.

Try staring a sentence with a verb. "Walking to the store, you blah blah blah"

You can also try declaratives like "That's not supposed to happen!" or other such things
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>>611462
Basically: >>611478
What that guy says. Sometimes you can spend a paragraph or two describing the scene as well or going into the MC's thoughts.
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>>611478
https://youtu.be/iRZ2Sh5-XuM
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>>611462
Avoiding second person? Just use verbs or misuse adverbs, spin in some internalization/MC commentary. Basically what Punished Trick said.
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>>611462
Practice. Write shit, then catch yourself writing awkward sentences and paragraphs. No, there are no magical pills that make you write better. You have to do the actual goddamn work.
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>>611185
Except that's demonstrably false. I have given positive reviews before.

>>611255
>Dude's a cunt and had it coming

That's not exactly the polite way to disagree with someone. It doesn't make you sound cool.

>>611292
I will no longer keep a list. I apologize. I meant it to be more of a "what has my attention" list. I meant it to be a list of potential reviews.

>>611260
>Virtue Signalling

So that's another phrase that /pol/ has drained of all meaning huh?

>Is that why you don't review quests infinitely better than your own piece of shit writing?

Am I not allowed to be thankful that my playerbase don't throw fits over waifus and communicate with one another like adults just because you need to feel like you're standing up for someone who's never asked you to be their white knight?

>Its interesting to think the nervgear accidentally confused her cat ear headband for real ears

Please explain how the computer confused felt tid bits on a headband for functioning cat ears that belong on a human's head.

>Like shit nigger., Why don't you make a setting with your own characters

The problem here Trick is that you're misunderstanding what I've written. I never said it was bad because it was a fanfic quest. I said it would help the QM if he could make his own setting because it would improve things like the scene with Kayaba.

In the Quest the scene with Kayaba would have been a lot better if the QM didn't treat it as something we already "know". He treats it more like a milestone to be passed and gotten out of the way than something for the character to interact with.

That is what I meant with "doing it this way will force you to create characters and setting and story instead of getting by through referencing the show"

Also, if you'd read any of my Ghoul Quest stuff you'd know they have extremely little to do with Scooby-Doo besides character names.

>Which begs the question of WHY he wanted to review it

Because I thought it would be an interesting read. I like the premise of being trapped in a video game if nothing else.

>GS immediately decided to tear into the guy and act like this motherfucker had it coming

Unlike you I have no problem with the person. I'm sure Kayaba is a good guy. It's the work I review, not the person. That's a difference you need to understand Trick.

>Kayaba QM, you definitely have room to improve BUT PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING GS SAYS TO HEART!

I'm sure he's appreciative of the Trick Defense Force coming to save him from the scourge of criticism.

>>611434
I've gotten thanks from people before, both QMs and readers. I'm not the only one that thinks I do good.
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>>611516
>I have given positive reviews before.
You have?
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>>611516
You don't suck at reviewing necessarily. The problem is that you're being an attention whore and a drama queen. Cut that shit out. Seriously, scrolling past your inane ramblings about shit nobody cares about is a almost a hassle for me now.
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>>611516
>scourge of criticism.
There's constructive criticism and then there's being a cunt, trying to be 'funny' by ripping into someone else's work to make jokes at its expense.
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I hid the whole conversation after it became pointless drama, and I encourage anyone who wants actual discussion rather than shitposting to do the same.

I asked for the review because I wanted to know what he thought, I got that, didn't need anything else, thanks and goodbye, I'm gonna get back to actually running my fucking quest.
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So Hiro's throwing in the towel and 4chan on its deathbed... RIP in peace /qtg/.
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Gods above, this is some premium shitposting

I love it
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>>611571
For real? got a source on that?
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>>611571
Still waiting on the link.
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>>611568
>I've gotten thanks from people before, both QMs and readers. I'm not the only one that thinks I do good.
There were those reviews requested by QMs on that list, maybe you should do those? Like Kayaba said, maybe they wanted to know your thoughts. Maybe some still do.
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>>611589
Dammit. Meant here: >>611516
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>>611496
>>611367
>>611462
>>611478
>>611487

I'm a little leary of just changing "You found a penny walking to the diner" to "Walking to the diner you found a penny". Does it really sound better that way or is it that the variety of sentence structure sounds better?

>Amnesia a bad plot device

I've been worried about how I've been using it sense the start of the quest. We're at the third episode and most of her memory is back already. The amnesia was really so that she could start the game from a position of neutrality with respect to the factions. Can you tell more about what you think about my use of amnesia?

>>611487
I've been trying to be better about describing scenes leading into dialog. I try to combine internal observation with it. Like recently the MC walks on a country road and I spend a few sentences writing how nice it feels to be out in the country and able to feel things without a giant beetle shell getting in the way.
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>>611571
>>>/a/147587300
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>>611516

>So that's another phrase that /pol/ has drained of all meaning huh?

Not an argument.

Am I not allowed to be thankful that my playerbase don't throw fits over waifus and communicate with one another like adults just because you need to feel like you're standing up for someone who's never asked you to be their white knight?

See this is where the sour grapes is becoming apparent. "M-m-my fanbase is s-s-s-so much bettter!

Personally I think you're just sour grapes that Kayaba is more popular than you.

You bitched earlier up in the thread that "Sword Art Online" quests get three times the viewership you do and then you proceeded to unleash one of your most vitriolic reviews on the guy.

I think it was not up to reviewing standards and I think you're trying to justify your salty envy by channeling it into a scathing critique of his quest.

I really think you should fuck off.

I have a problem with the attitude you have and your review style.

Your advice is shit because your advice attacks the premise of the quest and not how to just write slightly better. You are the worst person to review this quest for multiple reasons.

I think I'm done unless your next guaranteed response says something that I think is worthy enough of being mocked.
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>>611597
Interesting.
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Wrote that little update out. Voting for anything won't show unless I get the urge to write while on my break or in the next two days.

Also Spartan Quest either tomorrow or Saturday. I definitely hope to run it before the break. If you got my twatter watch that for an announcement regarding either of those.
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The thing with GeneSmith and his reviews is the more biased he knows a review might be, the more eager he is to do it. Most reviewers would take the opposite approach, knowing they shouldn't try to harp on something they already know they're going to hate going in, but for Cosmic it's more motivation. In this case, he's biased because it's a quest based on modern anime which he hates, and it's a quest he's already shown to be bitter about the popularity of.

That's what the main problem of GeneSmith's reviews is really, the fact that he's motivated out of bias. It's why he's never given a positive review ever. It's never "Huh, I'll check this out and write down my thoughts and analysis of this," it's always "Now here's an opportunity to take this QM down a peg." It's why he never bothers to review a full quest, or even a significant portion of one, instead opting to just shit on the first thread or two before dropping it. I'm sure Roger Ebert walked out on his fair share of movies in his life, but would he be the respected film critic he was if he walked out of EVERY movie he went to see, then wrote a scathing review on the first ten minutes?

GeneSmith never comes across as a guy who knows his stuff about quests (because he doesn't.) He just comes across as a guy who wants to big himself up over other QMs.
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>>611611
>Spartan Quest either tomorrow or Saturday
exite
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>>611516
>>Dude's a cunt and had it coming
>That's not exactly the polite way to disagree with someone. It doesn't make you sound cool.
I wasn't expecting to sound polite, I was calling you a cunt.
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>>611537
They're right there in the pastebin.

>>611568
>>611589
>>611593
Well unless I'm reading it wrong he was fine with the review but hated the drama fallout
>I got that, didn't need anything else

>>611603
>Muh fanbase

I never said better. I said I'm thankful they don't throw fits over waifus and communicate with one another like adults.

>Most vitriolic reviews on the guy

I'm so mad I can't find that Harlan Ellison Watching video about criticism

>>611618
I have given positive reviews. One to Trick, one to a WW2 Magical Girl Quest, one to a Hikomori Dungeon Quest.

When will this meme die?

>He's motivated out of bias

I'm sure I couldn't have gone into this quest hoping for a good take on SAO and the trapped in a computer genre.

>Never bothers to review a whole quest
Velo Quest

>Or even a significant portion of one

First 12 threads of Joker Quest isn't significant?

>It's always "Now here's an opportunity to take this QM down a peg"

Except when I've given positive reviews.

Interesting you would say that. Can you point to anything I said in my review that attacks the person instead of the work?

>>611632
And that's an edgy attitude. You've just explained it to yourself.
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>>611618
>>611603
Pretty much these.

The sour grapes are immense.
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>>611681
If its sour grapes than please point out any criticism you felt was unfounded and motivated purely by jealousy?
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>>611676
>And that's an edgy attitude. You've just explained it to yourself.
How does not liking you and not trying to sound polite to a dick over the internet make me edgy?
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>>611676
>First 12 threads of Joker Quest isn't significant?
Not trying to nitpick but no, twelve threads of any 3+ year running quest is unfortunately quite insignificant.
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>all these QMs using their trips when they're not even talking about their quest
baka desu senpai
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>>611487
Hey Schteel, should I read the entirety of Magical Girl Liberty?
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>>611793
Sure, if you're into Magical Girls and mindless pulp action adventure and heavily implied yuri.
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>>611676
Finally found that video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQOslFoecg&list=PLn5mSh00tKGGwiZ0CsZvWAzA0M2xQn8jA&index=27

It helps if you watch the entire thing. But the main part I want you both to see starts at 2:40.
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>>611688
Alright, I'll play detective.

Clue #1: Someone asks for hidden gems, stipulates you probably shouldn't recommend your own quest.

>>607445
You do anyway. Demonstrates a sort of animalistic . . . desperation.

Clue #2: >>609730

>My BioArmor Quest takes influences from 90's anime (and even more from 1920's science fiction, but don't tell anybody!) but its 100 percent original and it gets like a third of the players a Sword Arts Quest gets.

Here is where you first specifically mention Sword Art Online and how much more popular it is than your own original quest. Combined with the desperation for exposure in Clue #1 and we see the beginning . . . indicators of sour grapes. Nothing conclusive yet though.

CLue #3: >>610160

See what's interesting is you specifically say

>Sword Arts Online? Is that the anime where everyone is trapped in an MMORPG and the main character is a teenage twink hacker?

Which is odd, since previously you had mentioned 'Sword Arts Quests' in Clue #2. Which is odd, seeing as you seem to know nothing about it. The only conclusion I can draw is that you've seen the quest in the catalog previously and noticed it was popular, having a playerbase three times the size of your own as you admit.

I find it odd that the name of the quest stuck in your brain despite you knowing nothing about the subject material. A real case of envy would explain why you remembered it, but so could any other anon in the thread mentioning it. Still nothing conclusive.

Clue #4:

>>610021

The QM himself mentions that he is slightly upset

>That kinda stings, I get it, but still, ouch.

He has legitimately been hurt by hearing scathing critique of his quest in this thread. He's handling it well and isn't blaming anyone, acting mature. But still, its obvious to anyone reading this post he's not the happiest with getting shit on.

AND YOU HAVE MOST DEFINITELY READ THIS POST!

>>610160

Not only have you read it and seen his reaction, but you then proceed to pester him about his quest.

>...So what's your quest like? What's the plot?

>Can I review it? I haven't doe one in a while.

You ask to review this quest you know nothing about EXCEPT the fact that it is three times more popular than your own quest.

>>610245

The QM responds with

>Feel free to scour suptg for it and review it.

Not exactly the most glowing support for your request. I mean, you're exploiting the social pressure on him to say yes. If he said no to your request, it makes him look resistant to criticism, yes? He gives you a half-hearted yes that you take as your go ahead to absolutely tear into him.

DESPITE KNOWING THAT PLENTY OF OTHER QMS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR FAR LONGER HAVE DESIRE THEIR QUESTS TO BE REVIEWED

So for some reason, despite lack of any enthusiastic consent, you choose to review this Sword Art Online quest instead of the various other quests you put in your infamous 'list'.
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>>611840

Clue #5:

>>610495

>Is this your quest? There's quite a few SAO quests.

>Why is it so damn popular anyways?

Why is it so damn popular anyways? This is like, the most forefront obsession of yours. Why is it popular? Why does it have three times as big a fanbase as yours? You are incredulous from the get-go that some other anime-related quest that is not your own has a huge following. Again, nothing conclusive, but it has been a trend for you to be concerned with SAO quest's popularity.

Also as >>610469 points out you haven't reviewed a quest in months.

Which begs the question, what has stirred your interest in reviewing this quest that so far your biggest talking point concerning it is in fact that it is 'so damn popular'.

I would like the /qtg/ court to log all this evidence as this is the precursor to the infamous "GeneSmith review of Sword Art Online Quest"
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>>611845
Can you both just fuck off? Nobody gives a shit about your internet fight.
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>>611874
I dunno, I kinda want to see how this plays out.
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gene quit being a dramafag and give me my review
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>>611874
This. Trick's a legit shitposter and who in the actual fuck cares what some namefag thinks about specific quests? Both are basically just jerking themselves off at this point.
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>>611886

I'm first on the line now, buddy.
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>>611886
>>611900
Hey, I got here when he started setting up shop..
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>>611903

He ditched his list, now I'm first. Forever and ever. Deal with it or I'll call your parents.
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>>610880

Alright, I'm dropping the clue numbers at this point since we're in the review proper.

Alright, I'm just going to point out a list of shitty things YOU DO NOT DO when reviewing something as they either have no bearing on the quest's quality itself/ the writing's quality.

>If you don't like SOA why run a quest based on it? Its premise is hardly original. You had stories about people trapped in computers sense the sixties. Why doesn't OP just make his own original trapped in a computer story? I'm sort of leery about this quest already to be honest.

Unrelated to quest quality. You're reviewing a fanfic, you don't get to attack the premise. And attacking the motivation for writing again has nothing to do with quality. Especially since the QM seems to like SAO abridged, which is what the quest is based on.

>Is this secretly Idiocracy Quest?

This is my first . . . what? moment reading the review and its some weird attempt at humor or just some weird off base speculation. Seems rather unrelated to reviewing the quality of the quest.

>I just want to remind you /qst/ that you said this was good. I just want to remind you of that.

Who fucking said this? Who told GS this? I think no one did and he is just responding to the random delusions in his mind because of sour grapes. He attacks the tastes of all of /qst/ based on . . . something? Because this quest is popular? No one said it was good. I think he's just upset less people reading his quest means his quest is even worse.

>These quests hurt me /qst/. I just want you to know that.

And yet this is the one you seem drawn too. I mean you haven't reviewed a quest in months AND you came into this disliking the source material it's based on and with a closed mind. And you were so eager that you asked the QM who gave no indication he wanted a review previously if you could do this review?

So yes, why do you purt yourself through things that hurt you, GS? I believe it's because you are sour grapes.

>I want to take a moment to thank my player base for not being the kinds of people that lose their shit when an attractive female NPC shows up. Sincerely, honestly, thank you.

Again, over and over again we see GS comparing his quest, his popularity, his players to this SAO quest. Why? The quality of this quest has nothing to do with the quality of HIS quest. And it's not even like Kayaba can improve his players. He can't write better players into participating.

It seems like he's just trying to expose how Kayaba's players, despite being much more numerous to his own, are much 'worse' because they don't act like GeneSmith's players.

Which doesn't matter in the scope of a review at all. It's just randomly thrown in there because, once again, sour grapes.

>Have I mentioned already that I am really, really, really thankful my playerbase never acts like this? Because I really am.

And he does it again. The salt is real, folks.
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>My advice is to start over. Make it your own setting with your own characters and doing it this way will force you to create characters and setting and story instead of getting by through referencing the show.

Again, even if i"m wrong and GeneSmith has no sour grapes at all this advice is terribly shit.

>Make your own setting

Then it's not an SAO quest. He can improve on all these writing problems and still run an SAO quest.

It really seems like GeneSmith just wants Kayaba to do something that will make him much less popular and get him less readers so GeneSmith feels better about himself.

Even if I'm wrong, this review is still garbage.

And that's pretty much it friendos.
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>>611886
>>611900
>>611903
>>611923

>Quit being a dramafag

I just want it to be clear that in spite of Trick's though-crime investigation I wanted to review this quest because

1. I like trapped in a computer stories. I've written about this before. It got me to skip a lot of stuff on my list to review "Trapped in an MMORPG Quest" awhile back.

2. I wanted to see if a SAO fanfic quest could be good sense as Trick himself pointed out earlier in the thread pure fanfic quests tend to not be so good.

3. As I stated when I first started doing these reviews I stated that I wanted to focus on helping QMs concerned about the quality of their ongoing quests (as this one voiced in this thread).

>Fighting over whose in line

I'm almost through the first thread of Not so Glorious. Really quirky. I sort of admire that he's not joking about taking every write in seriously. Drawings are also really cute.
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>>611973
It's part of cosmic's style in his reviews. He picks something more popular than himself and the whole time he just goes "This is so terrible, I'm so thankful MY quest and MY players aren't like this!"

It betrays the fact that he isn't setting out to give constructive criticism, he's setting out to try and stop people from reading the popular QM's work and start reading his.
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>>611979
>Thankful MY quest

Except I've never done that. Find where I have. Use direct quotes.

>And MY players aren't like that

They aren't. They don't spend twenty posts talking about skinning the waifu and touching her tail and yelling at each other.

>Isn't setting out to give constructive criticism
Except I am.

>Setting out to try and stop people from reading the popular QM's work and start reading his

1. When have I ever written anything like "this is garbage compared to my quest. Read mine instead"? Again, use direct quotes.

2. Yes. I'm telling people how to improve their quests as part of a grand conspiracy to drive people away from quests they love. You sure caught me you clever detective you.

>>611967
>He's actually going back and talking about stuff I've already answered while pretending I haven't

Trick you're starting to go full Cenk Uygur.
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>>612032
>I'm telling people how to improve their quests
No you aren't. You are telling them to abandon them. You're kind of a asshole.
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>>612032
Hey, I like your reviews. Can you review fantasy civ quest? It's on of the better civs out there and is WAY better then some of the shitty quests here. Let me know and I'll send you a link
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>>612047

But it's a quest based off of SAO and it's not trying to improve on SAO.

So, he's kinda right.

An asshole, yes. But still correct.
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>>612032
>except I've never done that
You literally did in the SAO review.

>They Aren't
But you said they are, gene? "Have I mentioned already that I am really, really, really thankful my playerbase never acts like this? Because I really am."

>Except I Am

You pretty much just bashed the quest and didn't give any tips on how to improve.

He's suffering PTSD from all the quests that are more popular than his, don't make fun of his plight!
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>>612047
https://youtu.be/xDAsABdkWSc
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>>612050
>>612032
Oh my god yes. Do this.
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>>612053
But trying to improve on SAO would be taking it seriously, and therein lies the trap.
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>>612050
>>612079
>>612032
Do it faggot
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>>612088

You can take it seriously and also have jokes, too.
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>>611840
>>611845

Trick, you may be a living shitpost who attention whore like no other 90% of the time, but when it comes to GeneSmith, you are 100% spot on.

GeneSmith's reviews fly in the face of actual criticism, because his heart is rarely ever in the right place. The purpose of reviews is to give constructive advice to the creator, so that they can improve off of it, and learn from their mistakes. But so often GeneSmith tears down a quest simply on it's premise. Look at the case of SAO Quest. Here's a quest based on a modern anime, which GS has many times proved to have a bias against, and a quest that GS is already salty over being more popular than his, as he pointed out earlier in the thread. So we know GS is going to go into this quest hating based off that alone, so why did he bother to read it? Why did he bother to review it so quickly, when countless other QMs have been waiting patiently for his take on their own works, some waiting months by this point?

To any QMs still waiting for a review from GS, stop waiting. Firstly, his reviews are trash and won't help you at all. And secondly, if he hasn't reviewed you yet, he's never going to. You know why? Because GeneSmith has nothing against you. GeneSmith doesn't get interested or excited with reviews of quest that are inoffensive to him. No, he's much more interested in quests ran by QMs that he has a vendetta against.

GeneSmith doesn't review quests in the hopes that whoever's running them will improve, especially when oftentimes the main critique GeneSmith gives to these new, unsure QMs is "Don't run this quest" or "Don't run this type of quest." Instead, GS reviews quests in order to bring a spotlight on himself at the expense of people he's jealous of for a very petty reason. It's why he offers to review every single quest that gets mentioned, despite the fact that he doesn't bother to actually review 95% of them. He just knows that the more he SAYS he'll review something, the more of a reputation he earns as the resident Reviewanon, regardless of how many of the reviews he actually gets around to doing.

Even when he does review something, it's all done with the intent of putting someone else down in order to build himself up. His criticism is flimsy at best as already mentioned, but his true intentions are really shown with how often he compliments his own stuff during the reviews. "This is terrible. I sure am thankful MY players and MY quest aren't this bad!"

GeneSmith doesn't want to give Kayaba some solid advice. He doesn't want Kayaba to improve his craft. GeneSmith just thinks that by slamming Kayaba's quest (or rather, the first thread of Kayaba's quest, because READING IS HARD!) he can get people to stop reading it, while also bringing more eyes to his stuff... which is salty and petty and sad. And holy crap, this is the most anyone should ever have to write about fucking GeneSmith. This was not worth my time. I'll just go back to ignoring him now.
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I mean, can't we just have fun with Quests anymore? Why do we even have this business of reviewing stuff if its just being used to slam people.
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Personally I think GS is making reviews for the entertainment value instead of actual help, but missed a few memos here and there.
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>>612130
>can't we just have fun with Quests anymore?
You remember where we are man?
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>>612130
Because we clueless rookies want to LEARN while having fun.
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>>612130
Hopefully ANIME/10 guy will come back sometime. That was both entertaining and insightful.
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>>612109
>or rather, the first thread of Kayaba's quest, because READING IS HARD!
I would just like to once again point out that "WHO WANTS TO READ FOREVER?" is a line he has used in a review in the past. It really sums up his whole mindset in a single sentence.
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>>612130
Sow further confusion by making your own reviews too, Schteel. Then no one would be able to tell which GS is which.
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>>612053
Actually, it's a quest based on SAO: Abridged, which is a parody of SAO. Therein lies the key difference.

It's a parody, not a fixfic. Airplane didn't set out to "Fix" or "Improve" cheesy disaster movies, just to make fun of them. Same thing here.
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>>612150
I don't think I want that. But it does sound funny.
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>>612161
start doing Tank reviews
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>>612170
inb4 T-34 or Abrams #1
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>>612170
>>612161
THIS
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>>612170
>>612174
>>612175
Maybe another time. I'm content to sit and comment right now.
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>>612161
I kid. It was only a halfhearted attempt to egg you.

Get back to juggling your multitudes of quests.
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>>612183
comment on tanks you fuck
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>>612130
>>612138

GT's got it right. Many QMs seek constructive criticism on their work, because that's the shit that creator's crave. We all want to improve in our own ways, and we want people to tell us how. It's a shame that the one person actually writing reviews on a regular basis is doing it not with the intention of helping QMs in their quest for improvement, but to undermine them and to tell people to avoid them.

>>612140
That review was awesome, a ton of help and I still wear that rating proudly.
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>>612192
The M4 Sherman is the most misrepresented tank I have ever known. It was a reliable medium that served well in its function, could effectively take on the German heavies when it was upgraded to its fullest potential, and served well in all theatres of war in the Lend-lease program with the British and the Russians.
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>>612207
Thoughts on Crusaders?
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>>612047
>Abandon them

I want him to start over, not abandon the quest. I feel that without slaving himself to the continuity of SAO (especially when he says himself in the OP that its shit) he'll have a lot more room to flex his creativity and avoid turning stuff like the episode 1 reveal and running into Kirito into inorganic milestones.

>>612050
Link me. But Not So Glorious comes first and I'm totally serious about that.

>>612053
>An asshole

If that's the worse they can say about me my response is that I'm still waiting to hear an argument.

>>612058
>You literally did in the SAO review

Where? Again, direct quotes. When did I ever say my quest was superior?

>But you said they are Gene?

Read it again. I said they aren't like that playerbase. They don't spend thirty posts calling each other horny idiots and being uncivil. They don't hate each other for preferring one girl to another. This is fact.

>Didn't give any tips on how to improve

Start over, make it his own, keep the elements he liked. That's my advice.

>He's suffering PTSD from all the quests that are more popular than his, don't make fun of his plight

I'm waiting for you to back up anything you said.

>>612109
>Because his heart is rarely ever in the right place.

Glad to see thought police chief Trick has a deputy now.

>Tears down a quest simply on its premise
And its characters, setting, tone, everything else you blocked from your memory as you scanned my review through tear stained eyes.

>When countless other QMs have been waiting patiently for his take on their own works

The list was never set in stone. I said that when I started it. Now I'm not going to keep one.

>Why did he bother to review it so quickly?
Because it looked interesting and the QM looked like he wanted some help. But no. It's because I have a conspiracy to make my own quests look better even thought I have never said my quest is superior to any other quest.

>Firstly his reviews are trash and won't help you at all

Except for the QMs who have told me that I've helped them.

>GeneSmith doesn't get interested or excite with reviews of quests that are inoffensive to him

Oh look, its the "he's never given a positive review" meme again.

>GeneSmith doesn't review quests in the hopes that whoever's running them will improve

What is Hitmaid?

>Don't run this quest
Are you saying all quests deserve to be ran on the virtue of just existing?

>Don't run this type of quest
When have I ever said this? Use. Direct. Quotes.

>Its why he offers to review every single quest
Or maybe its because I want to make sure there's

1. Interest

2. A need

3. Permission from the QM

Before I put a pin in a quest.

>His criticism is flimsy at best
How about you talk about complaints I had about SAO Quest then? How about you talk about the review and not this mythic thought crime conspiracy you buy into?

>Compliments his own stuff

The only thing I've ever complimented is my player base for not being waifu warriors.
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>shame that the one person actually writing reviews on a regular basis is doing it not with the intention of helping QMs in their quest
We need ReviewAnon back. It feels like every one who stepped up to the job after they left were just trying to tripfag their way to fame and reputation.
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>>612207
Do you feel the German "Tiger" Tank is properly represented in games?
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>>612223
The Crusader tank, despite its reliability problems coping with the desert sands (and its admittedly actually somewhat slow speed) did well in the face of adversity. I'm surprised nobody talks about it more considering it was the primary cruiser for the British before the Cromwell arrived.

>>612252
Not really. In fact I believe as whole the Tiger I tank is overrepresented. It was never too common of a tank on the western front and even then and the only reason we really see it as iconic is because a few people were extremely skilled and got extremely lucky with them.

Of course I am a fan of the Tiger II so there's that.
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>>612242
>Oh look, its the "he's never given a positive review" meme again.
I honestly can't remember you ever recommending anything.
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BioArmor Quest Review - written as read.

I haven't watched many 80s OVAs - just MD Geist, as well as a couple of other things I can't think of right now. I have, however, read Joker Quest. The whole thing, unlike Cosmic. And since he ran this quest in an attempt to prove he could do what he saw as the concept of Joker better, I'm more qualified to review this than Cosmic has been to review anything else.
We open with "Inspired by all those trashy 80's OVAs like Genocyber, Guyver, Boah, Iczer, Megazone 23, etc."
Can't say I like meta opening statements like that, but I suppose this sets the tone for the quest. Although ideally the QM would be able to do that through their writing.
The actual meat of the OP, excluding the Twitter link, the opening statement, stats and chargen comes in at 130 words. Quite slim, especially for the very first post of a quest. Still, it sets the scene fairly well. The MC has amnesia, they're on a riverbank in a forest somewhere.

There's a call for rolls, bo3 3d20. If this is chargen related, that's a mistake. Don't involve RNG in your chargen unless it's to break a tie. People are going to get annoyed, and they're going to drop your quest.
Cosmic sets out a number of stats - hunger, apart from the others. Then mind, senses, physical, life and energy. All at zero, for the moment.

Chargen is three questions - gender, profession and what the MC is scared of. I know from my vague memories of the rest of this thread that the last choice decides the appearance of the MC's armour.
Gender votes are a mistake. This is a mark against the quest. If you're a new QM, don't do this. Ever.
The other two options are fine. The last vote being obscure is a slight problem, but you can easily get away with this sort of thing.

Girl wins the gender vote. Shitposters or not, people drop the quest. This is why you don't do gender votes. You instantly halve your audience.
The writing of the next post is fine enough. It's mostly dialogue with enough description to set the scene. The MC struggles to remember who they are and is contacted by a man who is somehow able to talk directly to them via their brain.
The post ends here, with a vote on what to say and how to react.
There are no options. Write-in only. This is only for the big boys.
This is the second fucking post, it's not a draw quest, nor is it a comedy. The players can't write in the first thing that comes to mind. They have to put in some amount of effort to come up with dialogue.
Two posts into an OC quest. Not many people are going to be that invested. This sort of thing will cost you players.
Cosmic receives a whole two write-ins. Both are one sentence long. Oh, and one post that amounts to "this".
Don't do write-ins, kids.
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>>612265
>There are no options. Write-in only. This is only for the big boys.
>This is the second fucking post, it's not a draw quest, nor is it a comedy. The players can't write in the first thing that comes to mind. They have to put in some amount of effort to come up with dialogue.
>Two posts into an OC quest. Not many people are going to be that invested. This sort of thing will cost you players.
>Cosmic receives a whole two write-ins. Both are one sentence long. Oh, and one post that amounts to "this".
>Don't do write-ins, kids.
To be fair, that worked out for Mecha Space Pirate Quest. Then again, that originally ran on /tg/ so it may not apply
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>>612283
It can work definitely. But there is a bigger risk of hemorrhaging prospective players with chargen and write in only.
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>>612283
It can work.

It doesn't more times than it does, and when it does it costs you players.
Unless you know what you're doing (and I'm not sure Cosmic does) don't do it.
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>>612242
>Use. Direct. Quotes.

Why?

Why would we need direct quotes? It's not like you would write any of this shit out.

We're calling your character into question.

We're doubting your sincerity, your ulterior motives, you competence and your bias.

We are skeptical of your helpfulness and your skill.

This isn't a court of law, you aren't up for any fines and as much as you hate to admit it, circumstantial evidence is enough to make the decision "yeah, no, i think this guy is sour grapes as fuck"

Look, my biggest recommendation is don't go "looking" to review shit.

Asking someone who has not asked for criticism ever if you have permission to review their quest is just a shitty thing to do.

Even when you receive a yes, it indicates the desire to criticize originates with you and not the writer.

Unasked for criticism is always going to reflect poorly on the reviewer.

he didn't ask, he consented to your desire to shit on his quest and as such it makes you look like a person who doesn't have their priorities in order.

Remember the ReviewAnon of old would only review a quest that straight up had the QM himself ask for the review. He never went "oooh, i really want to vent my personal opinions on this thing, I'll ask around to see if I can do that"
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>>612153
And you will notice I mention how the humor falls flat and the tone is inconsistent. It fails as a satire.

>>612109
>GeneSmtih doesn't want to give Kayaba solid advice.

Thank you for the laser focused mind probe into my motivations and intent.

>Or rather the first thread of Kayaba's Quest BECAUSE READING IS HARD

When its this bad yes, yes it is hard. I asked if it got better. No one told me, so I'm assuming it doesn't.

>This was not worth my time

Oh come on. We both know the next time I hurt your feelings you're going to rise up on Trick's shoulder like Jaffar's parrot to get your two cents and five paragraphs worth in.

>>612130
>Slam people

Show me where I attacked the QM in this review. Show me. That's all I'm asking.

>>612259
That WW2 Magical Girl Quest
Hikomori Dungeon Quest
Not reviewed, but Northern Beasts and Undead Quest.
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>>612265
>And sense he ran this quest in an attempt to prove he could do what he saw as the concept of Joker better

Did I ever say anything like that?
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>>612242
>direct quotes or didn't happen
>provides direct quotes on the "glad my players don't do this"
>"lol read it again didn't happen"

I can't take this "argument" seriously, man.

>Start over, make it his own, keep the elements he liked. That's my advice.

THATS WHAT HE DID, AND YOU STILL BASHED HIM FOR IT

Also, here's the direct quote of you basically subliminally shilling your quest

>My BioArmor Quest takes influences from 90's anime (and even more from 1920's science fiction, but don't tell anybody!) but its 100 percent original and it gets like a third of the players a Sword Arts Quest gets.

The amnesia track isn't working out for you.
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>>612320
Yes, you thought Joker was trying to be an 80s OVA and wanted to run your own 80s OVA quest because you could do better.
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>>612310
Review this
>>601894
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>>612207
The Sherman definitely is underappreciated, especially in its service in North Africa where it was a huge upgrade for British Tankers and they loved the thing. It was also simply an efficient tank, it was easy to produce, easy to drive and performed to a satisfactory degree in almost all roles required of it. It was definitely showing its age by Summer of '44 but only really in the Tank vs Tank role when fighting stuff like Panthers and Royal/King Tigers, something that the yanks especially very rarely had to do after the majority of German Armour on the Western Front was lost or destroyed in the Normandy Campaigns where it spent most of its time fighting the Brits anyway (and the British had stuff like the Firefly and Challenger to deal with that). Speaking of reliability, it was without doubt in my mind the most dependable medium tank of the war, Shermans did not break down, and when they did they could often be fixed in a pinch by the Battalion's techs. They were also comfortable, with hatches a normal person could be expected to fit through and enough room in the 75mm versions for everyone to do their job in a degree of comfort (in the 76mm versions the Loader got screwed a little bit and the Firefly was a nightmare for the whole turret crew because 17 pounder stronk-big).

>>612256
Much of the Crusader's perceived low top speed actually comes from the governors placed upon the engine to stop it from cacking itself (the Nuffield Liberty was a piece of shit) but without those governors you could actually hit speeds up past 60kph in the Mk III, provided you didn't throw a track or kill the engine. That was the Crusader's real issue and one that plagued all British tanks of WWII up until Cromwell and Churchill, they broke down a lot, either due to poor design, poor engines or poor manufacturing standards. It is still a good tank and it did sterling service especially in Tunisia and the later stages of North Africa in general, where the British units would often issue them to a Battalion/Regiments A Squadron and use their speed and low profile to flank around fleeing German columns and ambush them, holding them in place long enough for the Shermans or Grants of B and C to catch up. But it only saw service in North Africa, which doesn't get a whole lot of attention as a theatre these days. That relatively limited service in an oft-neglected theatre is probably why you don't see many people talk about it.
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>>612347
Did the Italians deploy any "original" armour to the African Front?
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>>612362
Plenty, from the L3/33 and 35 Tankettes to the M11, 13 and 14 mediums they were actually the most numerous Axis armoured force in the desert for most of the campaign. Unfortunately they were mostly crap and also crewed by the Italian army which was of 'highly variable quality' to put it kindly. They probably saw best service in the case of the Mediums in 6 RTR and the Australian Divisional Cavalry units which used captured ones to make up for the massive tank shortage the British were suffering at the time.
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quest reviews was a mistake
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>>612341
>>612310
what this anon said, the link to the previous threads is in this, the most current one
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>>612347
>>612362
>>612407
It's nice to talk about tanks.

I will say though, my guilty pleasure tank is the SU-152. There's something so magnificently slavic about sticking a giant gun howitzer into a casemate and it somehow managing to function extremely well as a tank destroyer. It's not as derpy as a KV-2 but goddamn it's great. It's big brother ISU-152 gets the same love from me as well.
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>>612335
I noted in my review of Joker that the sex and violence and breezy plot made it like an 80's OVA. I don't run BioArmor to run up Joker. I run it because I had a crazy idea to combine elements of Guyver, Megazone 23, Slan, and Scanners.

>>612331
>Lol read it again didn't happen

You're conflating "my quest is superior" with "I'm happy my players don't have waifu wars at the drop of the hat."

I said one and only one. I think you can find out which.

>THAT'S WHAT HE DID AND YOU STILL BASHED HIM FOR IT

When did he start over? When did he drop the SAO continuity albatross?

>Subliminally shilling

Thank you laser guided brain probe, uncovering my true motives and intent for the greater good

If you bothered to check the context of that post you'd know I was replying to a post by Trick in which he complained that fanfic quests got way more attention than original quests. I'm agreeing with him.

>>612305
>Why would you need direct quotes?

Because that's what the big boys call "arguing a point using evidence".

At this point you need a new name change. We should call you Trenk Uygur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsVONO75utI
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Third post is sort of inconsequential. MC gets mad at Rook - the voice - and screams at him. Rook attempts to placate her, apologising for what's happened.
The dialogue here isn't especially well-written. I'm sure it sounded fine in Cosmic's head, but the lack of punctuation for a couple of the longer sentences makes them read in a monotone. Cosmic was fine about this in the previous post, so perhaps he had less time for this one, or thought the lack of punctuation made it more dramatic. If that's the case, it didn't work.

The post ends with a vote on whether or not to sever the connection with him.
Frankly, this is another mistake. It's quite clearly meant to be a major decision, but with only three posts in the quest so far the players don't have enough context, so it ends up being sort of inconsequential.

The players vote to maintain the connection. Only two votes. I can't blame any other players for fucking off at this point because very little has happened so far.

Next post is entirely dialogue. A lot of ellipses, of course, because this is a dramatic scene!
Rook tells the MC she's at a military base near Mt. Fuji then introduces her to the fact that she now has a hunger for any biological matter - including human flesh.
Not much to say about this. It's exposition, handled somewhat clumsily. The last two or three posts could honestly have been one.
The post ends on a vote to eat or continue talking.

The players vote to eat, Cosmic has now picked up a third.

Next post is honestly pretty good - 470 words, about double the size of the any other post so far - something actually happens, though there's still plenty of dialogue, and Cosmic remembers that commas exist.
So, having decided to eat, the MC draws in matter from everything biological around her, and the stats pop up again. Hunger is now satiated, and mind, senses and physical have all increased to 1. Then she angsts about having killed things and goes back to talking to Rook for more exposition. Cosmic exposits that the MC is a Manu, something designed to pass through the gravity gate, and that she lost her memory passing through whatever the gravity gate is, due to automatic trauma screening - something in her mind designed to protect her from traumatic experiences. Eventually, the ATS will allow her to remember what she's forgotten.
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>>612456
>only direct quotes are evidence

Well you're wrong and you're also double wrong but enjoy being wrong.
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>>612456
>I noted that this quest I hate is like 80s OVAs
>Then I just so happened to, at the exact same time, come up with an idea to run a quest based on 80s OVAs!
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>>612472
I do believe that you aught not to misquote your opponent if you want to be taken seriously.
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>>612508
>taken seriously on fucking 4chan
KEK
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>>612508
ND go home
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>>612506
This is a quite common source of inspiration. You see one artist, in your opinion at least, fail in a task, and you decide you would like to see if you could do better.
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>>612508
Pretty sure I correctly identified his implication.

He's conflating direct quotes with evidence.
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>>612453
The Soviet assault guns are certainly fun, though funnily enough the ISU and SU-152s are actually more practical in a lot of ways at least in my opinion than their little sister SU-100, which cannot into going downhill because of its stupid low gun mount. I think I might add a note to the specs for it saying so at some point. They also lucked out with the AT effectiveness because of the hardness of German armour, and not just Face Hardened but also RHA used by the Germans (and Soviets for that matter) in WW2 was harder than say Western allied armour steel and so it was more brittle and spalled much more easily from HE hits.

This does explain why Kursk does so well though.
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>>612525
Great.

That means I'm qualified to talk shit.
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>>612525
That's fucking autism. Sure, include it in a LEGITIMATE CRITICISM, but don't just take the themes and ideas around a story, tell a QM they're fucking shit, and take those ideas and make your own quest which you then proceed to tell everyone "it's better than yours."
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>>612529
I write Kursk as experimenting with medium armor as well trying to bring in Cold War stuff to bolster their already stacked roster of elite crews. They're perfectly capable of fighting with just the casemates however.
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>>612528
He is saying that a direct quote would serve as evidence, while a reader's interpretation does not. Seems reasonable to me.
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>>612506
>>612525
I'd actually been running the idea in my head for awhile. Originally it was going to be telekinetic bikers.

Good to see Thought Crime is still in full swing on /qst/ though. Continue on with your totally impartial and in no way a slam piece review!


>>612536
It's like comparing Captain Marvel to Hellboy. The're connected by the most tenuous of connections.

Please tell me what themes and ideas I stole from Joker. Go on. I'll wait.

>>612539
Trenk wants a REASONABLE DISCUSSION!
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>>612539
See now you're misquoting him, but I guess you could infer that is his overall point past that individual post is that reader interpretation isn't evidence.

It is evidence. Perhaps not credible evidence, but I realize that's just arguing semantics.
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>>612536
Perhaps the part with the less than constructive criticism and the self inflation is wrong, but everything else about it, being the parts I meant to reference, is perfectly reasonable.
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>>612538
Yeah, I remember they had some turreted stuff in our early match against them. pls not too much Cold War stuff, it's just such a slippery slope and much harder to judge how things should perform because they often didn't see much or any real combat.
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>>612538
Were 1950s tanks like the M48 good?
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>>612547
>Continue on with your totally impartial and in no way a slam piece review!
Mate, you haven't even addressed the review beyond the first sentence.
Have you read any more of it?

Do so and comment on it. Show me what makes it a slam piece.
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>>612552
He only asks to review quests he thinks are shit, and then proceeds to shit on them. He uses the three quests that aren't shit (that he reviewed so he didn't look biased towards shit quests) as an example of how "I'm not shitting on their quests"
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>>612547
My apologies, I was referring only to the narrative in the post I linked to.
>>612551
Your right, I shouldn't deem to correct what I read as a misinterpretation. Especially when in doing so I raise the question of the legitimacy of perception.
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>>612547
>Continue on with your totally impartial and in no way a slam piece review!
Did you even read it? What part of that was wrong?
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>>612547
>Continue on with your totally impartial and in no way a slam piece review!
Why are we talking about your reviews again? I thought this topic was about you wanting to do Joker Quest but better.
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>>612555
>>612560
The reason I want to include Cold War tanks to a certain extent is because they had an indomitable influence on armored history, an evolution of sorts from the Golden Age that we had in World War II where we got tanks of all sorts. With the 1950s, that all evolves into the main battle tank concepts and what not. It goes in with LGA2's theme of evolution and change as well, with Tankery itself going through a bit of a "moneyball" phase where the big players and little players start to discover new ways to win in places they'd never think to look.

The T-54 especially I want to find a place for specifically because it's the most mass-produced tank in anywhere.

As for whether they were good, I'd need to do research. I'm honestly not too educated on Cold War tanks.

Anyway, I must sleep now. Good bye anons.
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>>612576
Again, I was referring only to the narrative provided in the one post, something along the lines of "see thread I hate, thread does this, I will go do this my own way"
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>>612265
>Just MD Geist

So you've read absolutely NONE of the influences the quest takes from?

By your own standard of judging WHY are you qualified again?

>The whole thing unlike Cosmic

Now I don't know what would be more damning. You liking my quest or disliking it.

>Chargen related

It's not

>You instantly half your audience

If they're autistic enough to leave because they didn't get the gender they wanted good. I don't want players that hyper sensitive.

>>612576
How many good reviews do I have to make before I get the gold star and a check mark in your book boss?

>>612567
>>612581
>>612585

This thread is locked in sup tg as BioArmor Quet 3. "In which we become the BioArmor". Don't act cute. I can see what you're planning.
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>>612600
>This thread is locked in sup tg as BioArmor Quet 3. "In which we become the BioArmor".
Shit. Look I'm sorry some asshat misarchived you. That isn't cool.

But...
>I can see what you're planning.
What? The review up top is a legit review of the first thread of your quest. With legit criticism.
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>>612600
>How many good reviews do I have to make before I get the gold star and a check mark in your book boss?

I am not saying there has to be a quota, I just think you """review""" quests specifically to shit on them.
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>>612600
>So you've read absolutely NONE of the influences the quest takes from?
>By your own standard of judging WHY are you qualified again?

Oh shit friends, this is some irony. Let's go back and read your review!

>I know very little about Sword Arts Online or the Abridged Sword Arts Online
>I watched like three episodes and had to stop is what I'm saying.


I think I'll mirror you again and disregard the rest of your post.
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>>612600
>How many good reviews do I have to make before I get the gold star and a check mark in your book boss?
I don't know about that other guy, but I just want a "this is what this quest is" rather than being told by someone else whether I would like it or not.
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>>612617
Re-read what I wrote. By your own standard. You wrote that because you know Joker Quest you're more than qualified to review BioArmor Quest. But you haven't reviewed any of the things I'm actually taking theme and inspiration from.

So again BY YOUR OWN STANDARD, why are you qualified? I'm not using MINE. I'm judging you BY YOUR OWN STANDARD.
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>>612560
50s tanks, sure. The M48, eh, it really suffered from its 90mm armament, a deficiency not fixed until the 70s iirc with the A5. But you some great designs like the Centurion and T-54/55.

>>612586
Thematically yes it makes sense but I'm a bit concerned by the risk that lies in the quantum leaps of capability between even early Cold War designs as compared WW2 tanks. You'd have to be careful to not open the floodgates as it were, Cold War stuff could be a cool accent to a match but if it were to become common in NATO leagues players would get so bogged down in trying to hoard as much as possible for the team that it could detract fromt the rest of the quest. It's also just harder to find details on Cold War tanks than WW2 ones, though the late 40s-50s stuff is generally doable. Anyway catchya later Schteel.
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>>612600
>How many good reviews do I have to make before I get the gold star and a check mark in your book boss?

One. One would be a good start.
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>>612608
>With legit criticism

So far. But for how long?

Suddenly he starts reviewing, and then suddenly I get misarchived. I can see where this is going.
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>>612633
Ideally all reviews would be like that, but that's a bit greedy, don't you think?
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>>612650
Honestly, with your level of autism, I wouldn't be surprised if you misarchived yourself so you can play the victim.
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>>612650
>I can see where this is going.

Where?
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>>612643
>This meme

I am so tired of this. I have given positive reviews.
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>>612661
Link me faggot, you can't make an argument without providing evidence :^)
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>>612661
The memr is, half of your quests are unfairly critical.
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>>612630
>BY YOUR OWN STANDARD
Okay!

By my own standard, I don't need to be qualified to review your quest! It was something mildly amusing I threw in at the last minute to talk shit about you. Qualified or not, I'm reviewing it as a quest, and focusing on your writing in general and your QMing, not the story or characters themselves.
In fact, I'm not even reviewing it in a way that would require in-depth review of 80s OVAs.

I haven't, as you have, complained about elements that require some knowledge of the source material.

You aren't running fanfic.
You're running original material inspired by 80s OVAs.
Meaning I shouldn't even need to know anything about these OVAs to be able to follow or critique your quest.
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>>612661
You didn't say 'positive reviews'

>How many good reviews do I have to make before I get the gold star and a check mark in your book boss?
>good
As in worthwhile.

So yeah. I'll repeat myself. One good review would be a good start to be known as a decent reviewer.
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>>612674
Reviews of quests, not quests
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Yo draw fags how did you learn how to draw gud? Like did you take classes, study a form, or just start scribbling on paper for years until you got gud?
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>>612661
The same goes for positive reviews. I want more than "I enjoyed it" nigh unreadable is the only thing, in my opinion, that deserves any form of value placed on the review, and then only if it is legitimately difficult to understand what is happening.
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>>612678
>In fact, I'm not even reviewing it in a way that would require in-depth review of 80s OVAs.
Ah, I forgot to remove that line.
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>>612650
>Suddenly he starts reviewing, and then suddenly I get misarchived. I can see where this is going.

You need some direct quotes confirming this correlation sir.

BY YOUR OWN STANDARD, that's the only evidence that matters
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>>612674
>Unfairly critical

Meaning they hurt your fee fees and you can't stand it.

>>612671
http://pastebin.com/XBiQQxcq

http://pastebin.com/pCbgwShb

They were in the pastebin in the OP you stupid jackass.
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>>612650
Oh, I missed this.

Can you provide direct quotes on this?
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>>612706
>Meaning they hurt your fee fees and you can't stand it.

Prove it with some direct quotes.
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>>612706
>hurt my fee fees
You never really reviewed my stuff, so I didn't really get hurt. What I can't stand is your impossibly high standards in your reviews.
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>>612706
Thats you GOOD review? What is the highest score you have ever given?
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>>612706
>fee fees
Could you try arguing without using memes, please?

This is supposed to be a proper debate, and you're lowering the overall level of discourse


Further:
>LIGHT RECCOMENDATION
>LIGHT RECOMMENDATION

Could you please explain how these are positive reviews?
A positive review would be an unmodified recommendation, or a strong recommendation.
Please provide a review where you do actually say that people should go out and read the quest.
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>>612706
Objectively unfair is simply not true
Subjectively unfair is an oxymoron.
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>>612706
>http://pastebin.com/XBiQQxcq
>http://pastebin.com/pCbgwShb


Tentative recommendations of very young quests.

Hmmmmm, I mean I don't think I've even been one of the people implying you ONLY give negative reviews.

But still, if you think that's a "positive" review ummm, I got bad news for you GeneSmith.
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>>612706
>Positive Reviews

>but I'll risk a veryyyyy tentative LIGHT RECCOMENDATION.

No wonder I didn't remember any positive reviews from you. Cause you really don't have any.
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>>612683
Monty Oum's school of cutting corners: Optimize production speed. Also, imitating a rather simplistic art style helps.

Doesn't do much help alleviating update delays when most of the time is spent on planning and/or writing.
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>>612727
To be fair to Cosmic, no quests are worth reading because the medium is simply garbage.
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This is the worst /qtg/ I've seen in a while. I feel like we've finally returned to our former glory.
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>>612753
The medium is garbage, but I will continue to attempt to extract fun from the garbage until a better solution presents itself, possibly death.
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>>612767
Not as likely as some of you may hope, but possible.
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>2016
>Not reviewing my quests
Wow
What a faggot
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>>612762
Yeah, it really makes me remember the good ol' days of /qtg/ proper, where people would spend multiple days shitposting about a single topic, be it planefag, EGO, or princess guard quest.

Maybe this place can be home.
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>>612720
>>612727

>Review is positive, just not positive enough

Keep moving those goal posts.

A recommendation means I recommend it. it means people should go out and read the quest.

>>612678
>It was something mildly amusing I threw in at the last minute to talk shit about you.

This is how I know you're making this a hit piece. You set up a "he stole from Joker Quest so much that I become more qualified to review his Quest than he's ever been to review anything else" narrative and now you act the angel. And now you say it was just something "mildly amusing" I threw in at the last minute to talk shit about you.

>Not the story or characters themselves

So you're selectively editing out those elements of the quest from your review. Uh huh. Why?

>Meaning I shouldn't even need to know anything about these OVAs to be able to follow or critique your quest.

I'm glad you finally agree with me.


>>612691
He starts a review "as it is read", meaning he would have hit the archive to pull it up.

Suddenly I'm misarchived.

The timing is awfully close don't you think so?

>>612709
It's in the archive.

>>612713
>Unfairly Critical

What else can that possibly mean but that your subjective opinion hurt my feelings?

>>612719
>Impossibly high standards

Then don't read them.

>>612731
>A positive review isn't a positive review

So it doesn't count unless its five stars all in I'm a fan and bought the T-shirt level positive?

>>612753
>>612762
>>612767
>>612802
I just wanted to talk about writing Quests and how to make their writing better.

Anyone want to talk about what I wrote about character and tone in SAO Quest? Or is it more about how I'm a jealous dick who TOTALLY RIPPED OFF JOKER QUEST because I said parts of Joker were like a bad 80's OVA.
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>>612816
I still hold that review against you, bastard
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>>612816
>wasting all this time to write shit and argue
>when you could be reading my short lived and ongoing excrement
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>>612820
Et tu Medio?
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>>612830
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>>612830
I take offense towards your slander and misuse of my chosen title. Despite being an individual full of hatred, I raise you one maid image and end my turn/
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>>612816
>This is how I know you're making this a hit piece
I think you are jumping at shadows. Did your ego get hit too hard or something?
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>>612816
>it means people should go out and read the quest
Oh, come off it. Don't fuck with me.
You said it was a light recommendation. That doesn't mean anyone should go out and read it. You said they should maybe do it. Maybe.

>angel
Again. Come off it. I admitted it was shit talking. There's nothing positive about it. I was being a cunt to make you angry.

>So you're selectively editing out those elements of the quest from your review. Uh huh. Why?
What the fuck?
That's just how I'm reviewing it. I'm not selectively editing anything out. That's simply what I'm focusing on, much as you focus mainly on the story of a quest.

>It's in the archive.
Provide facts that prove misarchived it, or fuck off. Otherwise you simply come across as bitter someone is critiquing it.
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>>612816

>What else can that possibly mean but that your subjective opinion hurt my feelings?

Maybe it means you're unfairly critical?

Maybe its a subjective opinion that your subjective opinion is wildly inaccurate?

This proof isn't good enough.

>He starts a review "as it is read", meaning he would have hit the archive to pull it up.

>Suddenly I'm misarchived.

>The timing is awfully close don't you think so?

That's not fucking proof.

Just because he read your archives doesn't mean he misarchived your quest. It's completely different.

You have no direct quotes.

You have no evidence.

>Then don't read them.

I think we've confirmed today that nobody should read them.
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>>612840
Huyaga Quest
>that one quest with boats and shit
Bretty gud
9.5/10
3 Stars; will give you a 4th when there are maid outfits
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>>612846
Will try to draw maid outfit eventually
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You can review mine, I guess. It's not that great, though.
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>>612816
Still waiting.

At this rate you'll get outstaged by that one reviewanon who showed up for one bit.
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>>612802
Yup. Some things never change, especially the fact that most QMs are annoying, terrible people.
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>>612844
>You said they should maybe do it. Maybe

>I give it three out of five stars
>That' doesn't mean you like it! You don't like anything!

>I admitted I was shit talking. I was being a cunt to make you angry.

The first thing you write in the review is to be a cunt and make me angry. Can you see why I think you have less than noble motives behind reviewing my quest?

>That's just how I'm reviewing it.

So you're reviewing a book or movie except you don't want to talk about the plot, characters, tones, or themes. Gotcha. You do what you want to do.

>Fact that prove misarchived.

You click on it and it goes to this general. That's not enough for you?

>>612868
>Implying they're going to want to do it anymore after this thread

The only people currently doing reviews are myself and a guy that hates me.

You act like this is something we're obligated to do. It isn't.
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>>612923
So stop? You won't be missed
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>>612923
How hard is it to understand.

You aren't obligated to review.

We don't want your fucking reviews.

So you can stop.
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>>612923
>Can you see why I think you have less than noble motives behind reviewing my quest?
It's 4chan, my man. People talk shit. Get over it.

>So you're reviewing a book or movie except you don't want to talk about the plot, characters, tones, or themes. Gotcha. You do what you want to do.
I'm talking about a quest. So I talk about the QMing and the writing.
I've given brief overviews of the plot and, where necessary. If necessary, I'd comment on them further.

>You click on it and it goes to this general. That's not enough for you?
I. Left out a word there. Prove that I misarchived it, or fuck off.
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Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>612923
Then stop
Rolling to ban ;^)
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>>612923
>currently doing reviews
If you can even count that shit you wrote as an actual review.
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>>612923
So out of curiousity, have you even given a look at the rest of the "slam review" or are you just completely ignoring it because you clearly know what it's going to be like because of one line?
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>>612923

>I don't feel comfortable weighing in on a quest when it's one thread old but I'll risk a veryyyyy tentative LIGHT RECCOMENDATION. The interactions between the taking magic tech dagger and the Hiki is charming and we have a clear goal. There also hasn't been a good old fashioned dumgeon crawl.

This is like, bare minimum anything good. This is positive like responding with "eh" is positive.

>There's only 2 threads in the archive so this is a young quest. It could get better or worse. But as it stands now I give it a LIGHT RECOMMENDATION. The characters and setting aren't particularly interesting but I feel that they could develop into something interesting as the quest continues. And there's nothing I find annoying or eye rolling. The tone is for the most part consitant. The characters are shallow but clear. The overall threat is clear and is slowly being developed and uncovered.

And then this, which I thiiiiiiiiink I'd call positive. I mean "could get better or worse" is barely fucking positive, but sure.

But even if I was to go, y'know what Cosmic, you did it. You gave something positive reviews.

What's with this shit?

>Not reviewed, but Northern Beasts and Undead Quest.

You think these two quests are good but you didn't review them.

So I mean, it kinda makes me want to go, well why? Why does all the quests that GeneSmith gives a hard no or a BARELY passing grade get made into reviews but the ones he admits are good, don't for some reason?

Why have you not spent time giving thread space to good quests you want people to read?

Northern Beasts could really use a few more players, despite being good and yet you've spent all your time giving /qtg/ space to either shitting on quests that you recommend people not to read or giving very fresh new quest barely passing grades which lets be honest, from an objective viewpoint, I would not read either of those quests considering your reluctantly "positive" final words.

This evidence of what you've reviewed and what you haven't just sort of corroborates and strengthens the case that you don't review shit to give other quests more exposure.

I think I've heard more about your quest and how it has "players that are agreeable" and other such kind words than any other quest you've talked about.
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>>612923
You're only worthwhile and interesting trait was your reviewing. Your quest was forgettable and the characters were so autistic it made my worst character seem charismatic. Congrats, comrade! You've officially reached Velo-levels of infamy, and for none of the good reasons!
>tl;dr
Have another maid, because I'm a kind QM and was your comrade in the past
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>You're
Meant 'your'. Now excuse me while I go hang myself in shame
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>>612880
Now that's not fair. There are quite a few low-key, no-drama QMs out there who show no signs of being annoying, terrible people. Which isn't to say they aren't, they just make a point not to show it.

>>612923
>You act like this is something we're obligated to do.
Honestly I don't even see the point in doing it. If a QM communicates clearly, makes as few technical mistakes as possible given the time limitations, and tells a story that draws people in, that's all that really matters. People will give the quests they find interesting at first glance a shot, and stick around if they like what they see.

I honestly don't understand why someone would feel the need to review quests.
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>>612944
>and, where necessary
More editing errors desu. Ignore this bit.
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HAI GUYS I CAN DO REVIEWS
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>You act like this is something we're obligated to do.
I wouldn't, but then I remember you promised to me that you'll get around to the private review. Honestly until now I thought you just got abducted by IRL matters. Y'know, you could've just PM'd me saying:

>"I change my mind due to <reasons>, I'm sorry. But at least you got a review by someone else, right?"

Pardon my naivety for not knowing what's going on behind the scenes. Sure, promises could be broken but at least tell me beforehand. I shouldn't be riled up by things outside of my control, but you had your word.
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>>612982
>actually responding with a maid image
You're my new comrade, anon. Let's make Maids the new standard for Questing.
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>>613002
>ship commander quest
>not a quest about commanding an actual ship
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>>613002

Oooh that is some direct fucking quotes If I may say so myself.

That is evidence.
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>>613007
you need to kill yourself, damned maidposters
post rare fat albert's
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>>612923

I still want my review, btw. I hope you don't get discouraged. But it's fine if you don't want to do it.
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>>613026
Damn that is pretty rare I must admit
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MAID FOR THE MAID GOD
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>>612923
Hey, I know these other people are shitheads but I really like your quest. Can't wait for that review of the civ. Anyway, how do you deal with all these haters. You should just ignore them and talk to your fans.
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>>612948
I already said it looked good so far. A little criticism about my use of ellipses, a lot of criticism about selecting gender and things like that.

>>612932
>>612939
>>612945
>>612946
Except I would be missed by people that want my opinion.

I think I'm going to start emailing and PM'ing reviews to QMs from now on. I don't think /qst/ general is a good place to post them.

>>612967
>>612880
Yeah. Its so easy to sit on the sidelines and poo-poo people trapped in a shit storm.

>I don't understand why someone would feel the need to review quests

Because surprise surprise, for most of my reviews I was asked to by the QM. Here I thought I could help a QM and so I asked if I could review his quest.

>>613002
It's not like I gave you a date is it? I'll get you your review. You can call off the leg breakers.

>>612955
>It made my worst character seem charismatic
You're going to have to be more specific there Medio. They were all your worst character.


>Why have you not spent time giving thread space to good quests you want people to read?

Because I liked the first bit of Undead Quest until it started to look like it was turning into standard RPG slock and went "oh geeze, better hold off on reviewing it. Don't want to break my heart". I looked at Northern Beasts and saw we're hunting boring Lovecraft shit in the arctic and I hate that shit although its well written for a quest I don't want to spend time reading it. It's like passing over a mediocre paperback. Maybe I'll get around to it maybe not but the story just turns me off even though objectively the writing is good.

Just because something is decent doesn't mean you want to keep forcing yourself to read it.

>I think I've heard more about your quest

Yes. Keep harping on how I paid my player a compliment instead of shit talk them like you do with yours. Not everyone thinks the people they write for are scum Trenk.
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Hey /qtg/, I'm running Nazi Experimental Quest tomorrow, in case any fellow autists are interested.
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>>613028
Give me an email address and I'll send it to you.

>>613058
Are you the game's QM?
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>>613078
HES WENT ALL OUT, HES COMING AT EVERYONES NECK
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>before long
>one month has passed
You know what? I think...
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>>613102
...that's understandable. Just at least keep in touch with me on Discord so I don't lose track on your activities or inform me of any IRL matters. Perhaps we could have near-daily chatter about Waterworks or somesuch.
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>>613078
>It's like passing over a mediocre paperback
Damn, we're talking some serious shit now.

Though that does bring to mind a decent comparison for your quest.

In that you've totally succeeded in making a shallow, vapid 80s OVA where the story and characters are second to the action - only, you're unable to deliver that, instead miring it under hundreds of words worth of boring, contextless exposition.
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>>613096

101091m10@gmail(dot)com
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>>613078
>I don't think /qst/ general is a good place to post them.

I'm glad we could come to an agreement.


>I paid my player a compliment

Contrast this assertion with

>I never said my fanbase was better

So are compliments of qualities your fanbase possesses that others don't not an assertion that they are in fact "better" or are they not?

Why not review the first thread of northern beasts as you were reading it like usual? Or post a review of the first thread like you did to Kayaba's quest?

You outright said that no one should continue reading Sword Art Online quest based on one fucking thread, why couldn't you outright say that people should continue reading Northern Beast Quests based on one fucking thread.

Same goes for Undead Quest too.

>Here I thought I could help a QM and so I asked if I could review his quest

>HARD NO RECOMMEND

So trying to turn off any players looking into his quest from reading it because of your opinion is "helping"? Please stop helping.

I recommend no QM ask for your reviews and any QM who ends up getting your review to take what you say with a giant grain of salt.
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>>613096
No, just a follower
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Is it strange to feel happy that your quest isn't big enough to get the kind of attention GeneSmith & Trick are receiving? That just getting the same 2-3 players each session and nobody else will ever read or try to review your Quest is worth it in the end?
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>>613207
I maintain the stance that if you get one post that is either a good write in or shows a player's personal reaction every choice, you done good.

.....king?
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>>613207
The key is to not make an ass of yourself. If you can do that, you can have the best of both worlds.
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>>613207
Erwin?
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>>613215

Nope.
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>>613108
Sure. I haven't been on in awhile. I'll keep more in touch with you.

>>613116
>Mediocre paperback is serious shit

Are we really that thin skinned that comparing writing done for free on an image board to mediocre paperbacks is "serious shit"?

>Boring contextless exposition

That's nice. I'm sure your review will stick closer to my heart than the other positive review BioArmor received.

>>613123
Thank you. I'll get it to you ASAP.

>>613166
I'm only writing reviews for QMs now. If you can get me his permission and email I'll send him a review.

>>613135
>I never said my fanbase was better

You control f and it pulls up only you. You are literally putting words in my mouth now Trenk.

I said I'm glad my fanbase doesn't have waifu wars shit. That is what I said. You can continue to misconstrue it however you like.

>Why not review the first thread of Northern Beasts

Because I don't want to read about antarctic Lovecraft hunting Trenk. It turns me off so hard. I just don't like it. And believe it or not I try to check my biases when I review something.

>Based on one fucking thread

Because I asked if it got better and NO ONE told me that it did. Even you didn't say it got better.

Even you Trenk.

>Trying to turn off any player

So that's what it come down to yeah? Not whether or not I have a point in my criticism but whether or not they turned people away.

Trenk, you and I both know the IP count is not going to drop because I don't recommend the quest.

>>613207
I know how you feel. I've felt that way about a lot of my quests.

Hold on to that feeling. Don't lose it Anon. That intimacy with your players is the best thing in the world about questing.
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>>613207
No it's not, it's perfectly fine to cherish your small playerbase. Makes the bond much closer. It's like...you learn in class better if there were just 7-10 students instead of 30+ other classmates.

>coming from a guy with only 3-5 different players each thread
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>>613224
Hey, I run the civ quest and would like the review, I just didn't say anything because I thought you would give it to him
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>>613207
To be fair, Gene's Quest doesn't get that much attention either. Hence all the sour grapes.

All the attention he is garnering is due to his asinine """"reviews""""
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>>613224
>the other positive review
Link it.
If I'm not talking shit I'd say your quest is just mediocre.
The opening was incredibly weak. Too many options, too many write-on only votes or binary choices, and a lot of dialogue and exposition.


To mimic your system, I'd give it a vague recommendation.
Maybe read it if you haven't got much else to read, or if you especially like what it's aping.
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>>613242
>Too many options
Chargen choices, rather.
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>>613135
Look, this is how a review works.

Someone reads through it as a Quester, plays along, yadda yadda and at the end say if they recommend it or not based on their opinion of the experience. You're not working for a publishing company, this is not your lifeblood or theirs, not a game you're looking to sell, nor is it a pitch. If the reviewer doesn't like the Quest, he just doesn't fucking like it. If someone doesn't like my quest or doesn't like yours or his or hers and has an opinion on it or some views on it, they're damn well entitled to them.

I don't understand why the Hell you folks are channelling /lit/ when you should be channelling /co/. When did Anne Rice take over your ovaries? Are your skins really that thin, folks? Sheesh.
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>>613256
>when you should be channelling /co/
But tumb- I mean, /co/ doesn't like mean words.
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>>613224
>You control f and it pulls up only you.

>>611676
>I never said better

You legitimately are referring to your fanbase with this comment "I never said better" as in you never said your fanbase was better.

>I said I'm glad my fanbase doesn't have waifu wars shit.

And does this make them better than Kayaba's fanbase? Because that's the assertion I inferred and I believe it is the assertion you implied.

>Because I don't want to read about antarctic Lovecraft hunting Trenk. It turns me off so hard. I just don't like it. And believe it or not I try to check my biases when I review something.

But you read the first thread, right? Right?! That's as much as you read Kayaba quest which you hated as well. Just throw up a review about how great Northern Beasts is since you accept it has objectively good writing.

>So that's what it come down to yeah? Not whether or not I have a point in my criticism but whether or not they turned people away

No what it comes down to is this.

You asked a man who gave no indication he wanted your opinion "Can I review your quest?" And then he said "sure, go ahead" and you tore into it like nobody's business and told everyone not to read it.

He never once asked you for your opinion. You asserted you wanted to give it and he accepted. That puts the desire for criticism and evaluation on you and not the writer.

Unasked for criticism is bullshit.
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>>613207
Let me tell you how Questing works.

It's not a fanfic and It's not a novella. It's, in essence, an online gaming session where YOU are a game master. I think I see the problem here with the lot of you. You're bringing your egos into play. Good God, I hope none of you rub real tabletop sessions. A lot of you seem like really horrible hosts.
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>>613256
Look - oh. You're someone different.

Alright. Look random person. I'm not saying he can't come out and say "this person's quest is shit".

Anyone can do that. But no one asked for his opinion. I mean you can come in to the /qtg/ and just start shittalking every quest you dislike, but there's a difference between posting your opinion and adopting the mantle of being a 'reviewer'
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>>613270
I browse "Work on your webcomic" and "Work on your art" often to see how people get things done. There's cussing left and right, but overall, they're receptive as Hell to criticism and ask for references. Stylisation, formatting, etc they're all given a reference back so people can improve or change their scopes. /qst/ seems to be populated by a gaggle of folks from the "Powerful!God!Harem!Naruto" generation of writers - which is fuckweird.
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>>613286
>but there's a difference between posting your opinion and adopting the mantle of being a 'reviewer'

Not really lol.
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>>613295
Hey, I get to call your character into question and have an opinion on why you say the things you do just as much as he gets to have his opinion on these quests that are much more popular than his but totally suck apparently
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>>613297

That's a long sentence right there. It may be the coffee or the 15 hours study session, one way or the other I don't understand what you mean. What kind of cars do you like btw?
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>>613233
Email?

>>613228
>Muh sour grapes

Can you say anything about my criticisms of his quest though or will you continue to try and peg me for thought crime?

>>613242
>Link it

It's the most current review in the OP pastebin. Come on.

>>613271
>I believe it is the assertion you implied

Of fuck off already with this thought crime bullshit.

>>613271
>Just throw up a review

I don't want to just "throw up a review". Unlke SAO where 2 thirds of it is punching wolves I'm going to have to write about characters, tone, setting, all that stuff because Northern Beasts actually has substance. I'm going to need to do a lot of work for it and I don't feel like doing it for something I personally just don't enjoy all that much.

>>613279
I do in fact run Dungeons and Dragons. My players love me. We're running a fresh party through Keep on the Borderlands this weekend.

>>613293
The people I actually review are respectful. They're nice. Their white knight fans are insufferable as hell though which is why I'm cutting them out altogether by just emailing QMs.

Likewise the guy that reviewed my quest (the first one, not the guy that admitted he just wants to shit talk me) had some criticism and I took it to heart and made some improvements on my quest's writing.

The "writer's workshop" thing really can work if you have the people for it.
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>>613293
>/qst/ seems to be populated by a gaggle of folks from the "Powerful!God!Harem!Naruto" generation of writers - which is fuckweird
Moving from /tg/ reset the quality standard. Plus all this empty space and the long-ass time it takes for quests to fall off the board, and you get a far lower barrier to entry than when we were on /tg/.
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>>613271
>Unasked for criticism is bullshit
If this applied in life, no one would bother. But I digress - whatever.
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>>613308
>Moving from /tg/ reset the quality standard
/tg/ had multiple naruto quests with varying levels of success, this ain't a new thing.
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>>613303
>It's the most current review in the OP pastebin. Come on.
Agreeable enough.

More positive an opinion than I have but that's fine.

My vague recommendation remains unchanged.
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>>613315
That's fine with me.

>>613313
I'm starting to wonder what would have happened if I reviewed Shinobi quest instead.
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Excuse me? I was in agreement with him! What the hell!? That had nothing to do with criticism or sour grapes! Unless you misread something in my post.

Besides, that greentext line was FOR ME. I wish I could hug everyone of my players.
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>>613320
Sorry. I linked to the wrong post.
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>>613317
>I'm starting to wonder what would have happened if I reviewed Shinobi quest instead.

Do iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttt

And post in the quest thread while it's live.
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>>613303

MUH THOUGHT CRIME

Seriously dude, you complimented your playerbase TWICE in your review of somebody else's quest.

The whole while you were also shitting on the playerbase of Kayaba's quest.

Sooooo what, is your fanbase NOT better than Kayaba's?

Because generally when you go.

>These guys don't do this thing and I like that they don't

>These guys do this thing

You're drawing a comparison. That's just how talking about things fucking works.

Also you admit you're fucking lazy and its easier to shit on a subpar quest than review a good quest which is just more evidence why you suck at your job and no one should listen to you.

>The people I actually review are respectful.

Excuse me? Are you calling me respectful because you've reviewed me?

Are you claiming the way I've been talking to you is respectful?
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You guys are all fucking crazy.

Anyway.

Cyber Demon Quest will run tomorrow. For the unaware, it's a high-violence, relatively fast-paced mixture of Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner, Deus Ex, and Genocyber - you are an ex-mild mannered corporate hacker who one day finds themselves transformed into a monstrous cyborg creature called a Steelshape (pic related: it's MC).

Thus, begins a lot of very bloody deaths and improbable feats of decapitation, while other Steelshapes hunt him down, and maybe he does some conspiracy searching on the side.

The first quest, if you're interested and would like to get up to speed, is here: >>579217 (Yes, this is my way of asking for a review because I greatly enjoy constructive criticism).

/endad
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>>613303
Piss Off. You're just a thin-skinned, safe space, mommy-they-were-mean, how-dare-you-disagree egotistical jerked of an excuse who really just can't accept anyone on the bloody planet saying "Eh, I wouldn't recommend it".

You're telling people on here - with their own views - that they're not allowed to express them. You're going to start attacking the next Joe who took the time to read through your drivel, my drivel, his drivel to write down their opinion and if they'd ask people to join in? That's the precedent that you're setting. You're telling everyone here. All of these Questers and QMs that their opinion isn't needed.

Put your ego to rest. You're a grown man.
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>>613330
>Review

Give me an email.

>>613326
Fuck no. I'm tired of this bullshit. Give me the QM's email and I'll send it to him.

>>613328
>Soooo what, is your fanbase NOT better than Kayaba's

I said what I said. I'm glad they don't rip each other to pieces over Waifu wars. Make what you will out of that.

>You're fucking lazy and its easier to shit on a subpar quest than review a good quest

It's easier to talk about something that's two thirds punching animals then something with a list of distinct characters with their own motivations and aspirations.

>Are you calling me respectful because you've reviewed me?

When I gave your quest a positive review you were respectful Trenk.

>>613339
>Can't accept anyone on the bloody planet saying "Eh I wouldn't recommend it?"

Excuse me? Are you sure you linked to the correct post? I've been defending my negative review all night long. When the fuck did I ever say anything like "you aren't allowed to express that negative opinion?"
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>>613359
>Make what you will out of that.
But I did. I made it out that you were saying they were better and you implied I was incorrect.

So what is the correct interpretation?

Your fanbase is worse than Kayaba's? The exact same?

I'm going to continue "making what I will out of it" by correctly asserting you were shilling for your own quest's atmosphere over the person you were reviewing because you're sour fucking grapes about it.
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Hey guys what's going in he-
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A Safe Haven Quest will have its new thread this weekend at a currently unknown time. I will post on my twitter when the time comes here: https://twitter.com/Stark1st but otherwise please be on the lookout this weekend.
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>>613488

don't lie, you enjoyed it.
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>>613488
Just the usual /qtg/ shenanigans
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Let's be blunt, it doesn't matter whether Cosmic reviews shit Quests just to shit on them or not. Either way he's a really sub-par reviewer that wastes too much times on off-hand bullshit, never really gives any actual constructive criticism, judges most of the Quests he reads by what they aren't rather than what they are and can't be concise to save his own life. The old ReviewAnon and the guy who did Dark Academy were both infinitely better. Even Cosgrove made decent points of criticism when he had his silly butthurt explosion.
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>>613488

My reaction exactly.

Hell, I'm glad at least one person reads my alone (The exodus kinda killed a lot of my viewerbase) but I just make the most of it. Hell so long as one person likes my shit I'm happy.

Too many jimmies are rustling man, we need to calm down.
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>>613330
Review written and sent.
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It seems my players are interested in a review of my Fantasy civ quest so much that one of them thought putting my name on is enough.
>>601894 is the current thread
I am on twitter @conannister
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>>613644

Are you writing reviews for any quest you see now rather than just requests?
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If anybody has Genesmith's list of Quests to review, post it here and I'll get started on reviewing stuff when I get home from work.
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>>613694
Do Northern Beasts first.
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>>613694
Do motherfucking Joker Quest.

The last guy got buttflustered.
We need someone to measure its levels of MURRICAH.
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>>613694
Don't review Tuffle Quest
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>>613694
Aw shit, Schteel reviews hype! Do you plan on just keeping them to first impression style things so you don't have to read huge quests or more in depth?
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I don't remember the others, there were a lot. I do know that Whirlpool Quest is part of the list.

If you ever get around to it, start at Thread 11, that's the point where I -think- I have my act together.
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>tfw /qst/ will never get Improvments
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>>612998
Great. Do Samsara Quest.
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>>613706
For now I'm doing first impressions because I've made a huge mistake. For now it's mostly along the lines of "as far as I need to get a good idea of the Quest." If someone suggests as many threads then I'll read up to that point.

Right now I'm reading Northern Beasts while I'm at work. I'm surprised at the amount of depth it has. I'm also a sucker for monster hunting though.
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>>613741
Run again already exabutt
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>>613783
> first impressions because I've made a huge mistake
Fighto Schteel, just commit to the mistake until it looks intentional! Though you're not wrong in calling it one. Seriously though, neat, now you just need a catchy name for them, preferably including at least one pun.

> Northern Beasts
I look forward to the first impressions then, been meaning to give that one a shot, but never actually got around to reading the archives.

Unrelated lewd infantry tanks.
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Do you guys remember a quest from some weeks ago, I think it was called Greenskin Quest and we were playing as an Orc Warboss called Wulfmaw Bludbanna. It was a pretty swell quest but the QM didn't continue it for some reason and it had like 2 threads.
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>>610609


Thegameroom is that you?
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>>613801
Such is the fate of all quests, to one day let everyone down by vanishing and never returning. All without a word from the QM. Those bastards.
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>>613804
At least some QMs do give word that they have stopped their quests.

But that doesn't really change anything when they wind up never running quests again.

Awoo.
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Cyber Demon Quest Episode 2 begins with a car thrown through a wall. Do you like fast-paced quest combat with relatively minimal rolling? Do you like cyborg monsters that are powerful enough to punch through steel? Do you like to make really sadistic write-ins for the best ways to kill and eat your enemies? If you answered yes to any or all of those, Cyber Demon Quest is the quest for you.

>>613821
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>>613833
Sounds fun, you're pitch is great. Might take a look at the first thread and catch up
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I always wondered, who do other QMs consider to be their spirit animal?

If it's not this guy then you are doing it wrong
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>>613317
I mean, I make the assumption most people here in the general wouldn't like it, yourself included. I'm quite used to the >Naruto shitposting by now.

Regardless, we have a good time when the threads run, and it's a good writing excercise for me.

Feel free to check out Shinobi at your leisure. Just don't post about fucking puppets.
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>>613909
But it's this thread that is for posts like that...
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>written as it is read
>not read in its entirety
What's the point? Quests that got better as they went on are, like, the majority.
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>>613943
Because no one wants to read 100 threads of whatever garbage you're writing, especially something that they don't find interesting.
Aren't you fucking entitled?
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>>613889
what I don't get is since we are banished here we should ignore the horribly shit taste of others (whether about waifus or quest) in order to form some sort of comradarie.

But no we must keep shitposting and calling each other faggots rather than trying to make our prison a bearable place
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>>613889
B-b-b-b-but MUH PUPPETS WARGLE! B-b-b-b-but if we only train in PUPPETS for 6 months WARGLE, if we only train in puppets we can be almost as good as someone who isn't a chunin yet warlge! MUH PUPPETS WARGLE!

/shitposting.

Man, those puppet arguments.
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>>613952
and you are just the most ignorant lil' shit I've ever seen.

Go and write one off shits because apparently you lack any sort of talent to maintain a lengthier quest
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>>613952
I'm sure "entitlement" is a fun word to throw around but I'm not the one asking for these reviews that don't actually judge the medium appropriately. No one even asked the guy to review that SAO quest but he went and did it anyway, and he's done a shit job of it.
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>>613982
And that's the reason why the passing of reviewanon is such a shame.
At least that man read the whole quest before reviewing it

And now we are stuck with these losers trying to imitate him
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Kudos to the cheeky fucker who archived the board discussion thread.

>>613952
People may not want to, but many QMs who write quests that go for years go through multiple changes in style and such. Critique for the purpose of the QMs improvement would likely be more productive if done through the lens of their most recent threads, rather than their first 15~. After all, lots of QMs do improve over time.
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Magical Girl For Hire Quest will resume in about an hour!
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>>613970
and you are just the most entitled lil' shit i've ever seen.

If they were interested, they probably would've read it already. The fact that you believe that someone needs to down all of the shit that you enjoy is ridiculous. Go ahead, shoot more ad hominem attacks at me because everybody doesn't want to suck Soma's cock with you.

>>613982
If he thinks it's enough to "see how it pans out" then it's fine. His disclaimer is enough for you to form an opinion on the review. The only people who give a shit are assblasted salty autists like >>613987. You know exactly what you're going to get when you read GS's shit, so don't act so surprised.

>>613993
Agreed.
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>>614011
what's wrong cunt? is "entitlement" the last word whiches meaning you figured out?
start throwing insults around once you have more than two you illiterate fucknugget.

And I find it hilarious that you are so desperate that you have to build a fucking strawman to try and argue against me.
I don't even know who soma is or what he writes, I simply posess more than 5 functioning brain cells and capable of figuring the basic concept of "improving over time"

Now crawl back to your shitposting you oxygen deprived little cancerous tumor.
I want to laugh more
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>>614024
Ah, just like your last few posts you're just full of wind. Instead of elaborating in whatever fucktwit argument you hold so high in your ivory tower you go ahead and puff yourself up that inane garbage you continue to spit out. Strawman? It was what I thought you were arguing since you were so thoughtful enough to actually try to communicate instead of kicking and screaming. See, >>613993 has a good idea, to which I had no problems with.

Unfortunately either your reading comprehension is toddler level or you're pretending to not see. But calling me desperate? No way! Laughing at poor ol' cancerous tumor me, oh no! Is it possible for you to not talk like a smug, egocentric fuckwatt for a second? But no wait! They have to read everything! Everything!
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>>613684
He sent me his email you prick.

I'm only doing requests and I'm only sending the reviews in through PM or email.

>>613694
Well you have fun with it. Remember to soft ball your criticism or they'll eat you alive.

>>613783
>Because I've made a huge mistake
You have.

>>613889
What's this about puppets?
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>>613279
I like the way that you're pretending writing doesn't matter at all in this
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I fell asleep what part of the shitposting are we at?
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>>614082
>What's this about puppets?
You'll never know. It's more than a few threads into the quest.
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>>614103
It does, but you guys are putting so much fucking EGO into this. You're acting like a bunch of wads who think that the smallest SLIGHT against your work is a damn sin. For a forum that throws insults left and rights about people's mothers, lifestyles, color of the skin and religion, THIS is the one thing that you folks can't stand? When someone writes out an essay as to why, in their own words, your Quest isn't enjoyable? That there's only one setting when it comes to your Quest? "Have fun or shut up"? If you're telling me that applies here, it applies everywhere else too, wouldn't you think? For goodness sakes, I go to fucking /co/. C fricking O, that brings up how SJWs are everywhere and takes an infectious portion of /pol/ into its threads... and I can go to:

>How's Your WebComic
>Work On Your Art

And they throw themselves to fucking criticism and say "Thanks, man, I'll work on it". You folks are fucking /lit/. Do you know how horrible that is? You're putting a barrier between yourself like Anne fucking Rice and the people who have their own feelings of your work. It's horrible and sad that anyone would take themselves that seriously. Do you make money from this shit? No? Then it's a hobby.

You're not a damn Fanfiction.net/LiveJournal Fiction writing posse.

Whatever, man. I didn't think I'd see so many crybabies here whining about bad reviews. I thought "we'd" take after /co/ at least, not the worst /lit/ had to offer.

Shipgirl Commander XXII is up.
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The plain spoilers bother me way too much.
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>>614143
>Whatever, man. I didn't think I'd see so many crybabies here whining about bad reviews.

Eh, I think you are looking at last night's events wrong. That was mostly taking the piss out of guy that thinks too highly of himself.
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>>614143
Well its good to know someone is backing me.

>>614157
>Thinks too highly of myself

Because I said I'm happy my players don't have waifu wars that makes me an egotistical prick?

Mechanic is right. You guys are crybabies.
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>>613123
Review written and sent. Death to cross fit.
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>>614143
All of this coming from a fag whose quest barely registers on the archive is really adorable.

You keep repeating the word "ego" like it instantly validates everything you say.

Well if you don't like the system then you can fuck off to Akun where you belong you fragile fuckin' flower.

And take your fuckbuddie GeneSmith with you the moment you have him stop sucking your cock
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>>614082

Hey calm down man I wasn't accusing anyone. I just wanted some clarification and want to avoid starting any sort of fights and drama while I'm here.
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Magical Girl For Hire Quest is live!

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>>614233
>Calls someone else a fragile flower
>While being this bootyblasted

Why are you this angry on an anonymous Filipino shadow-puppet forum? Who hurt you so badly that you need to yell at strangers on the internet?
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>>614233
>whose quest barely registers on the archive
You mean suptg? You know upvotes and downvotes mean jack shit right? By that logic, Merc Command's work is as good Homeless Mutant Quest, and Ruby Quest is the Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel of quests.
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>>610665
i miss crusty so bad
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>>614253
-meme arrows (1)
-reaction gif (2)
-not saying anything beyond "lol u mad!"

three strikes, you're out!
you can take your leave by tying a rope into a noose and hanging yourself on a door knob you cockend
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>>614267
votes meaning jack shit

I wasn't aware we have such individuals amongst ourselves who require special aids.
Okay, I'll help you bud.

Ya see when you have only one thing that can actually show peoples opinion with numeric data then you only ignore it if the data is not in your favor.

People upvote what they like, readers typically go for the quests with more upvotes as it guarantees some sort of quality.
If you can't comprehend such a basic concept then I don't know what to say other than "I feel sorry for you"

I'm sorry it was so confusing for you, hope this helped.
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>>614233
I'm not backing anyone. I'm just telling you that you can't put a lid on people expressing an opinion... and if you do, why the Hell would you do it on a site that smiles at racial segregation, looks over the shoulder for the SJW boogeyman and doesn't like "trips" on any level of fucking existence?

If someone doesn't fucking like you, they don't fucking like you. Go to everywhere else on 4chan. No one goes into defensive mode like the general mood of this thread - for goodness's sakes, /pol/ is more open-minded and they think every Muslim has a bomb strapped to their chest, every Christian is a wannabe psycho zealot, every Jew has a bank account that somehow taps into everyone elses when its total reaches $0.00 and that very African-American should STILL be a fucking slave race.

If you guys can fucking allow THAT, for fuck's sake. THAT. Why the Hell is there a damn problem with someone, anyone, literally hopping on this damn thread and saying "I read through this, I didn't like it". For God's sake - BENDIS and God-damned ARCHIE COMICS, not to mention PAOLINI and MEYER aren't this defensive.

What is up with the lot of you? Do you have running contracts with companies that have you nervous at the thought of a negative review? Is your Quest so BIG that it's on GoodReads or available for purchase on Amazon and that it would hurt your income? What's wrong with a negative opinion.

Random as it fucking is, not everyone is going to LIKE you. Just run your Quest and have your players have a good time. That's pretty much what it MEANS to be a GOOD QM. That you fucking care enough to take the good and the bad so that your QUESTERS ENJOY THEMSELVES and that whatever you learn can be applied to BETTER THAT EXPERIENCE.

SHEESH. All of you went to school. Did you cry when your teachers give you C+s on your assignments? God.

>>614267
As long as my Questers have a good time, I don't care for a big audience. My whole point in running this is that I'm having fun doing it... and that people have fun playing with me. Like I said, I run it like a DnD/CoC session. As long as people are having fun and engage/participate - and that I do in the process - that's enough for me. I don't have an ego to flex. I don't make money off this.
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>>614276
I didn't bother with a rebuttal because your argument didn't consist of anything at all.

You want a legitimate reply? Make an actual argument instead of just getting mad and telling everybody to fuck off.

>>>/tumblr/
>>>/trash/
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>>614308
last time i checked the teachers in school don't judge the tests by reading the first two tasks and then going.

"Welp I'm bored now.
I'll just give the kid a grade based on how he completed the first 2 tasks because the rest is probably the same way."

Were you born this retarded or did your mum fuck up when she threw you to the wall in disgust when the doctors first showed you to her?
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>>614324
If you're bored I can't do anything about it. THAT'S what I'm trying to fucking DEFEND. Your right to fucking say that there are things you enjoy or didn't on this damn thread. You can dislike my Quest, I don't really mind that. But when you're saying that there isn't room for people to put a negative opinion or their own feelings, what the Hell does that say about the population bulk that we want to consist of? Tumblr? Is that what you want from here?

Fucking Livejournal 2006?

"OMG Someone left this negative review of my Naruto Fanfic. Everyone spam his account"?

Feel free to dislike it. Really, you don't like my quest and I am fricking OKAY with that. You're free to say why you DON'T like it and should feel free to be able to DO so here. I'm sorry that I can't get you on board. Really, I am, but I can't please everyone. I can only tell you I'm doing my best with what I have to provide an engaging experience for my Questers. I don't care for "fans". I just want people to have a good time, and when they do, I have a good time.

>last time i checked the teachers in school don't judge the tests by reading the first two tasks and then going welp I'm bored now.

It must be a cultural thing. In Asia, that's how we're taught in regards to essay writing. Been the norm since even before I went to school and hasn't changed since I left.
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>>614338
jesus christ this is getting painful

I'll spell it out for you retard:
"YOU DO REVIEWS AFTER READING THE WHOLE THING!"

You are so freakin idiotic you always return to your shitty argument of "muh criticism".

News flash: NOBODY CARES

Now get this into that thick skull of yours and maybe people will stop calling you a retard for spamming the same thing over and over again while everybody else is talking about a completely different topic
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>>614347
>NOBODY CARES
You obviously do - you wouldn't care to reply otherwise. /qtg/ should be a place where people can say shit, talk shit and get away with shit because this place - 4chan - is built on the IDEA of having piles of shit around to sling at each other. Say whatever the fuck you want. There shouldn't be an unwritten rule that keeps people from saying whatever it is they feel. We have threads on /b/ saying "Rate" and /co/ threads that say "shit taste".

But we don't stop people from SAYING it. This isn't Live-bloody-Journal. Piss off. Let people write what they want on what they wish to here as long as it has to do with Quests. Whether they like it, hate it or recommend it, that's up to them.

Let them fucking do what the rest of 4chan, comparatively, save /lit/ does without batting an eyelash.
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I'm home. Gonna write the review now.
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>>614371

The review of what, GS?
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>>614380
Northern Beasts Quest. Once that's done, I'll get to Whirlpool and then Samsara.

Then Joker maybe.
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>>613108
Finished reviewing Not so Glorious and Cyber Demon . Are you sure you want your review on Discord? Is there an email you can give me?
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>>614396

Will be eagerly awaiting that review.
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>>611338
>Graham

Literally who?
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Northern Beasts Quest is a tale about Henryk the Hunter and his journey through the North to hunt Beasts. That's the basic gist of the Quest in its barest forms and I believe that it explains most everything. I'm a firm believer that most things sound utterly awful when you condense them to the basic purest form, and NBQ isn't an exception. So why should you read NBQ?

Because it's actually surprisingly good. It's sort of like the StuG III in Kraut way of thinking, "hey, maybe we should just stick an AT gun on it." And so what it was.

To describe NBQ, it's a very grim, grim, world that the MC and his peeps live in. There are colonies to the south desperate for independence, the world is full of vicious Beasts, Whales, and other things that want to eat people, magic and witchcraft is regarded as sort of a dark art, the nobility are apparently doomed to die of magical Alzheimers, etc. And in the center of it, Henryk the MC is a Hunter who hunts Beasts for a living, a very meager living, but a living all the same. He meets a girl named Lize who stowed away on his ship in the first thread who tags along with him, and after his ship sinks and he ends up having a mysterious meeting with the goddess Artemis. After that, the Hunt is basically on and it's open season on the poor Beasts that cross the MC.

From a technical perspective, the writing is actually pretty solid. Moloch does a good job of describing the scenes, making sure you know what's what, who's who, what they look like or sound like, etc. And he actually crafts a very interesting world laden with mystery and intrigue. Behind that is a surprisingly deep lore behind the world itself as well, everything gets some amount of explanation as to why it is and while I would prefer some things left to the imagination, perhaps it's for the better that they are laid out for the players.

I will say though, I'm not a fan of grimdark. I don't like grimdark stories, I don't like characters dying needless or pointless deaths just because "it's realistic". It's a story, stories are escapism, yadda yadda. And while Moloch's NBQ is pretty grim basically everywhere, it's not cruel. What I mean by this is that "yeah, everyone knows it's a shitty place to live and they know it". That means they take proper precaution, they understand why the world sucks and actively fight against it. And it's refreshing seeing something like that.

As for things I didn't like, there wasn't too much I didn't like to be honest. From a personal perspective, I would've preferred a bit more action to it, some more adventure and derring-do. But I can understand that it may not fit the story Moloch is telling. For what its worth, he has a very decent grasp of what he's writing and I admire that deeply.

As for would I recommend it? Sure. To be frank, I might read up to the third thread and that'll be that because NBQ is not my kind of story. It may be yours however.

Today's tank of the day: M4A1E8 Sherman
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>>614213
Thanks, man!
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>>614409
Hmm, fine.

I sent you my e-mail on Discord, if only because I'm too shy about it.

>>614396
Wait what, I'm next? Already? Oh snap, the only preface I could give is that it's literally my first foray into interactive fiction in general. Threads 1-10 is literally me learning everything the hard way like a toddler exploring the world for the first time.
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>>614470
It'll be like reading through a toddler's picture book of mommy and daddy then, looking forward to it.
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So what sort of music do you listen to when writing?

To start off, I listen to EDGY stuff when I want to intentionally make EDGE.
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>>614492
I'm on an 80s bender. I occasionally dabble into the 70s era as well. Kenny Loggins is the fucking shit.

I actually write Starship Idols to the tune of Top Gun Anthem along with the 80s as fuck Starship Troopers OVA soundtrack.
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>>614502
>Kenny Loggins

You're a good man. Ever listened to Doobie Brothers?
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>>614507
Unfortunately no.

I will take this time though to post some highlights of the Starship Troopers soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT1afUWV8N8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIgAVKrfSqc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyM1gd_FVZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15OyLB6nCvY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viBkHUda_FY

This is partially what inspired me to write Starship Idols. This is a fucking TOP GUN soundtrack set to an anime adapting a book uplifting the values of responsibility, duty, and sacrifice.
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Running Fresh soul reaper quest now: >>614659
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>>614669

Earthbender Quest is up
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>>614269
Me too

Who else is fucking dead?

I know
Dandelion (Witcher Quest)
Skargan (Chapter Quest)
Princely (Fuggan Karban)
Soma says he isn't dead but he's a slowly rotten corpse killed by math
Saucy
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So, I've been away from my quest for a week. I really didn't intend to be gone this long. There were plans to visit my ailing grandmother that fell through, brother moving... you know, family stuff.

But anyway! Now that I'm back, I'll be able to run more Samsara quest. It'll happen as soon as I'm able to get to it- tomorrow morning at the soonest.
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>>614679
I don't think Joker Quest has run in a while either.
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>>614697
He popped up once saying he wasn't dead but something about the last session being weird to write or something or the other

Reminder that Mio is best girl followed by Yui
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>>614703
I lost steam reading through the archives at around the 40s, been meaning to pick it back up some time.

That dude can really write a fight scene.
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>>614707
He was one of my biggest influences to write

The pain that I feel when I write a fight scene that will never be as hype as his is immense
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>>614163
>You guys are crybabies.

It's a consequence of ever-increasing namefagging.

Here goes nothing then.

Ia! Ia! Phtagn phgtagn! Planefag phtagn!
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Oh yeah.

I have yet to get an update regarding if I work tomorrow or not so Expect Spartan Quest around ohhhhhh

4PM EST
This is assuming If I don't get scheduled to work. if I do I'l be doing it on Saturday at the same time
Time to see if it has any gas left in the tank

Also might jump into Symbiote Quest and do a couple of udates if I figure out where the hell I'm going with that encounter
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>>614718
I like when he uses the word "judder" oh man
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>>614338
>"OMG Someone left this negative review of my Naruto Fanfic. Everyone spam his account"?

Nobody did this and nobody advocated this.

I accused a hack reviewer of being bad at his job, not reviewing people actually looking for critique, disregarding any sort of, y'know, system of which quests to review first and finally reviewing a quest solely because he's salty it is more popular than his own.

Crying that your criticism was met with derision makes you the one who can't handle a dissenting opinion.

This isn't the tumblr for QMs the same way this isn't the tumblr for reviewers.

Be good or get shit on.
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>>614886

No, that "someone made a negative review of my Naruto thingy!" was a quick reference to Livejournal in 2006. Not referring to something on 4chan.
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>>614450
Neat, I'll have to actually give it a proper go of things then, sounds like it's up my alley.

I'm actually quite partial to the A1 Shermans over the welded hull models, the cast front just gives them a nicer profile, though if I had to serve in one I'd take the welded variants any day.
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Cast hulls give me the frissions.
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Peter, if you read this, we miss you @ cultural evolution
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>>614886
>Not reviewing people actually looking for critique

Just did two private reviews, working on a third.

Guy looked like he could use some help, I asked if I could give him a review, he said yes, I did, and then the white knight bus pulled in.

>Disregarding any sort of system

I regret ever making that damn list. I said when I first made it not to hold me to it.

>Reviewing a ques solely because he's salty its more popular than his own

Even more thought crime.

>Crying that your criticism was met with derision

Your "criticism" has absolutely noting to do with the points I made about his work. It has nothing do with the points because you don't have any. Your sole argument is "You were mean when you reviewed it!"

>>614463
You're welcome.

>>614450
>Grimdark

Is it though? I never got the sense it was grimdark. But maybe that's just me.

>Lize

I have mixed feelings about the character. On one hand I like that she's a foil for the crew. She doesn't like us hunting and killing monsters. But she feels sort of forced. I didn't like that we can tell her cover story is bullshit but we don't have an option to tell the Captain.

Would you mind reviewing BioArmor Quest? It's only three threads long so far.

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>>614898
You guys seem to know a lot about tanks. What's the earliest "real" tank? Like what's the first to not be a proto-tank and be considered a "tank" tank?
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>>614910
Unfortunately, armour casting wasn't all it could be back in WW2, and inconsistencies in armour quality were common in larger pieces (like a hull), though it was quite good for smaller pieces like turrets.
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>>614948
>What's the earliest "real" tank? Like what's the first to not be a proto-tank and be considered a "tank" tank?
The Renault FT
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>>614948
British Mark I is the first tank to see action, the first 'modern' tank in that it's laid out with the driver in the hull and a single central turret with gunner and commander is the Renault FT-17.
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>>614948
>What's the earliest "real" tank?
Probably the Renault FT. It had a conventional layout that many later tanks copied and improved upon.
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>>614948
I'll give it a looksie later.

>>614949
Yeah, but otherwise it looked so attractive. It's like the smooth contours on a perfect waifu's legs.

Also yeah, the Renault FT.
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>>614948

>Your "criticism" has absolutely noting to do with the points I made about his work. It has nothing do with the points because you don't have any. Your sole argument is "You were mean when you reviewed it!"

Except this is patently false. I've critiqued your specific advice multiple times you fucking retard.

Advising him not to do an SAO quest is outside the scope of helping him improve his SAO quest.

You want to claim my issues with your criticism are incorrect, go ahead.

But don't you dare fucking lie and say I'm just mad you were mean.

You're the one accusing me of thought crime now, you hypocrite!
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>>614976
>Advising him not to do a SAO quest is outside the scope of him improving his SAO quest

It's not. He keeps the characters and themes while avoiding running into awkward moments where continuity happens and the character just looks on like with the Kayaba scene.
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>>615003
>>615003
Except he doesn't need to switch to an OC universe to fix that.

That's like buying a whole new car because you have a flat tire.

Your advice is unwieldy and retarded.
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>here we go again
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>>614975
True, that said, at least in my opinion I actually like my boxy British tanks best aesthetically. Even with the barnacle bolts on its dead flat turret and all its slab surfaces and right angle corners, I absolutely adore the Cromwell and its siblings.

Though I kind of wish it got a scaled up version of the Crusader's baller as fuck looking turret, though with a cupola added.
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>>615078
>>615078
>>615078

Beleaguered Prince Quest is now live again!
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>>615033
How the fuck did British tanks get by with so many flat plates?
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>>614267
>Merc Command's work is as good Homeless Mutant Quest,
>Implying it's not.

All kidding aside, suptg votes really aren't the final say of a quest's quality. At best they can give you vague indicators of how popular it is or how dedicated the existing fanbase is.
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>>615146
Well you beat out HMQ in the "not dying" category of judgment.
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>>615146
>>615151
The category that matters the most, fact.
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>>615132
Speed mostly. Otherwise they had heavy armor in the Churchill or just used Lend-leased Shermans.
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Anyone have advice for Earthbender Quest? Reception's been pretty warm so far, but I am always willing to hear some suggestions
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>>615132
>>615187
Flat armour makes tanks smaller as you end up with far less wasted space than on a tank with angled/sloped armour. For example both Churchill and Cromwell are a full foot shorter than a Sherman while having similar armour thicknesses, armament and crew space in Cromwell (the hatches on a Cromwell are substantially more cramped than the interior, it's a bit odd) and substantially more space and amrour in Churchill (though it's far longer obviously and wider obviously).

Additionally, sloped armour often only helps when facing the enemy on flat ground and/or pointed at them, many times in the uneven terrain of West Europe and Italy or the long range engagements of North Africa sloped armour proved to be negated either by fall of shot or differences in facing and elevation between armoured opponents. That said, on average I'd say sloped armour gives you enough of an advantage to strongly consider it on most tank designs.

Tl:dr, sloped armour isn't always the best option for a tank, it's instead a compromise like all other design decisions on an armoured vehicle.
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>>615224
More Tigerdillos
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>>615224
>Reception's been pretty warm
Well, earth kingdom avatars need to go learn fire after earth, so there's a problem.
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>>615303
Is that a rule, that they have to learn in a particular order?

Technically, Aang learned basic Firebending before he learned Earthbending
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>>615326
His nature as an air nomad wasn't ready for firebending before he learned the other two.

Air
Water
Earth
Fire

Water
Earth + Fire
Air
spirits change and balance lol

It's a pattern.
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>>615334
No but remember earth bending was hardest for him.

Earth is opposite air while fire is opposite water.
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>>615247
Point of clarification/expansion for this, the lack of sloped armour also came from British tank design essentially being delayed by two years due to the massive loss of armour and equipment in France during 1940. The industry was so busy trying to just produce enough tanks to supply troops in combat that there was little time, money or facilities to be allocated to further development. Maybe if it wasn't for this delay perhaps Churchill, Cromwell or Comet would've possessed different armour profiles than they did.

And Schteel's not wrong either, speed, thicker armour and lots of Shermans in addition to domestic designs was a large part of British armour's success, but it just wasn't wholly the cause of it. I'm going to stop going on about this because I could literally write for hours about British Armoured doctrine and performance in WWII.
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>>615337
Ah, but Air and Earth are the most peaceful elements, shit like ice spikes and scorching enemies to death runs counter to the philosophy behind those two.
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>>615346
No water is pretty peaceful with the whole ebb and flow shit + healing.
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>>615346
Zaheer might disagree
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>>615362
The Tide and Ocean are not peaceful, who told you that?

>>615366
Zaheer wasn't an Air Nomad, just a fanboy. Aang was an Air Nomad, taught with the philosophy of pacifism. Even earthbenders are all about using the earth to stop fights in the show, not finishing them with a gruesome spectacle.
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>>615362
>healing.
And what would a pacifistic culture need of magic healers?
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Still not feeling so well, will have to skip this week of The Bizarre Adventures. Will try to do something extra to make it up to you
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>>615452
>something extra
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>>615452
What kind of extra?
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>>615337
>>615346
>>615362
Traditionally there's no "air" element in the Wu Xing. But the closest to air would be water and earth has power over water within the system (which is funny considering Pokemon).

That could be why he had such a hard time learning earth bending.

The real reason of course is that even the creators knew that earth bending was OP as all fuck and didn't want Aang to be too powerful.
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>>610815
Is that you Trenchfoot?
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>>615541
maybe a vignette about josie's first encounter getting recruited by holly and fran
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For those interested, an update on the Paladin of Avalon is up.
http://anonkun.com/stories/the-paladin-of-avalon/-JRvxJl3loGBg9Bo64XE/27-games-of-the-damned/D82dK4ZfwpuanPYpE
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I miss Homeless Mutant Quest
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>>615995
don't we all
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>>615995
How fond of you of cheap knock offs?

http://anonkun.com/stories/symbiote-quest/T6xYtac9nx29Tsec6

I'm live by the way.
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Hey Schteel, do you ever plan on doing something similar to Robot Decommissioner, at least in tone? I loved that back when you ran it.
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>>616562
It's on the backburner for now. Maybe when I finish either Starship Idols or Magical Girl Bomber.
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>>617276
>Oorai High School circa episode 3
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>>617276
If I didn't live in Aus/had more time I would run a WW2 Tanker quest just to have moments like that when combat actually happens.
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>>606293
Can I have a new invite?
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>>617395
t. riggerman
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>>617402
??
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>>617432
Assumed you were a particular shitposter.
https://discord.gg/hVv73
Link in the OP should still work, by the way.
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what do you think of external media to go along with quests? like games, soundtracks and the like
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>>617557
If you can pull it of, it'd be great
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>>616301
So how's the fake designer bag that is Symbiote Quest?
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>>606293
>Chargen kills quests.

So I'm wary of chargen from the start, but I'd like to have some, what're the actual pitfalls and how do I avoid them?
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>>617748
>Female/Male
>Age
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>>617748
Make a character
Give said character traits, likes, dislikes, and a background that all leave room for development as well as roleplay

Or make a general charter and leave areas and options in which the players can vote on what they want the character to like and that sorta stuff isn't chargen so much as it's personality gen
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>>617748
What kind of chargen?
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>>617762
I've definitely got a 'frame', with the idea that they'll get to choose an "ability" and their "origin". Something a blank slate personality wise, hoping to have it emerge through the game.

Well, if this ever gets off this word document. I've still got a buncha reading to do, since it's an established franchise.
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>>617787
to
>>617792
Hope that answers the question... if not feel free to elaborate.
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>>617748
Make all the chargen options be within a tight framework that fits the theme you're selling your quest on. Ask yourself "would anyone be disappointed enough to leave if they lose this vote?" and if the answer is yes, it's a question you should not ask.

For example, if you're presenting an idealistic young aspiring paladin, having a character ask who inspired them to choose this path would be a mild form of chargen. Your playerbase already consists of people who want to play the character you've presented them with, and regardless of the outcome of the vote it'll still be the character they know, just fleshed out a little more.

Things like asking for gender, age unless within a very specific range, or picking a class are dangerous options.
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>>617800
Yeah- no age or gender questions here. I expect most everyone who is interested initially will know what to expect in general from the premise alone.
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Bit late, but a message to anyone that was waiting on Spookquest: Officially a dead quest, at least for the time being.

There are a few different reasons behind it; it was a beginner effort, my scheduling of posts was all over the place, I didn't really have any infrastructure set up like the archives or a pastebin, and some issues on the behalf of a fellow player of a different quest took a lot of the wind out of my sails.

I apologise sincerrly to anyone who was invested in Frankie's story; I am currently working on planning out something new and proper. Any feedback from those who played regarding my writing would be greatly appreciated, hope to write for you again soon.
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>>617748
alternatively, char select not char gen
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>>617792
>I've definitely got a 'frame', with the idea that they'll get to choose an "ability" and their "origin".
Good, that works.
Give the character something of a personality first, though. Doesn't have to be especially strong, just something they can work with.
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So I'm thinking of a fairly 'high' quality pixel art quest, exploring an abandoned spaceship. I've done a pixel art base builder in the past, but I'd like to do something with a bit higher quality art.

My problem now is though, I don't really wanna pre-build everything and then just show people through, I wanna come up with stuff at the spot and adapt to fan theories and whatnot. This of course with higher quality drawing would mean very long breaks, little possible interaction and thus a dead quest.

So basically... Help? Is there anything I could do to make this work?
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>>617888
you should probably narrow down exactly what you're asking for.
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>>617941
well to make the question more explicit:

does anyone have general advice how to deal with running art-assisted quests with art that takes slightly longer than the doodles you normaly see?
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>>617955
I said narrow, not explicit.

Cut it down from "general" to specific issues, point by point. No one person is going to solve all your problems in one swoop, but maybe multiple people have figured out a couple points here and there.
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>>617888
>Is there anything I could do to make this work?
Don't make good art?
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>>617959
I don't want all my problems to be solved, I want general advice, tips and tricks. there's no singular narrow problem I have other than it's a generally overly time consuming thing that would be helped by shortcuts.

This question isn't as difficult to answer as you make it out to be, something like this is routinely answered by personal experiences, anecdotal advice and the like. It's a usual question structure that would get some
>points here and there.

But I should have read through this thread to see the quality of advice before asking.

>>617967
yep, that's about what one could expect
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>>617974
>But I should have read through this thread to see the quality of advice before asking.
Fuckin' kek.

The general advice is in the pastebin, not much of it applies to drawquests but it boils down to what works most for you.
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>>617888
Ask https://twitter.com/cegremo_hq
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Soma is kill
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>>617983
yessssssss!

YESSSSSSS!
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>>612335

Joker Quest is rather more like a seinen anime. It's actually very 2000-ish rather that 80-ish, where character motivations and the like tend to be simpler.

I did like that the Quest seems to be written entirely in a spirit of spite at some point, because the QMC just does exceedingly vicious things.
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>>617888
It can be done, the quesition is, how much work are you willing to put in it?
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If i run a quest set in WW1, how important is realism? Can i go by rule of cool > realism or will my players sperg out?
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>>618039
Depends entirely on the tone you set in the beginning
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New thread of Dark Gate Academy: Stupid Sexy Naitos edition
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>>618037
>>618037
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>>618039
Realism, or at least a sense of authenticity is probably pretty important if the intent is to create a quest set in real life WWI. If you want to go crazy with alternate history stuff you can get away with rule of cool stuff but you'd be almost missing the point of choosing that historical period for a setting.

WWI was a war, at least more noticeably than many others of tragedy and slaughter after all, and being too flippant about that risks degrading the quality of the work or alienating players. Ultimately though it's on you as the QM, do what you want to do.
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>>618053
It's more that i want to incorporate things like charges towards enemy trenches into machinegun fire, even though it was not that common in real life from what i've understood.
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>>618054
I assume you mean a truly unsupported, running charge across no man's land, in which case, it depends what nation on what front in what year of the war you want to use, do you have an idea of that yet? Such tactics actually did see use on the Eastern Front throughout the war by the Russian army, as well as between Italian and Austrian forces and even by German, French and British forces during the early stages of the war. The kicker was they almost always ended in disaster. A machinegun chews up men a lot faster than they can charge across open ground.
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>>606325
From last year, Happening Skyline, which went full Event Horizon real fast.
And we never did figure out what happened with the captain and the wires.

Dark Spirit is a good one too, and is still running. And there is also Chess Quest, if you like that sort of thing.

>Player Question:
Sure. It is usually more fun to go off the rails, though it opens up to people screw everything up. If the QM can manage it, however, it usually makes for a better quest
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>>618059
It's very hard to outsmart bullet.
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>>618059
The plan is that MC is a Brit. First choice will be to charge or trying to run away.
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>>618064
Okiedoke, you could try setting it during the Winter Operations offensives of 1914-15 if you want the MC to be a pre-war Regular serving in the BEF, or if you'd rather a war volunteer or draftee you could push it a little later to the disastrous attack on Aubers ridge. I'm not as knowledgeable on WWI as WWII I'll admit but I think both of these actions saw British troops advancing across open ground with limited or ineffective artillery/fire support and only rudimentary tactical considerations. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to assume amongst certain units this took the form of a blind charge into entrenched German positions.

That said it would actually be more nerve-racking in my mind if instead of chargine the MC simply had to go "over the top" and then march across no mans land toward the enemy trenches after a preliminary bombardment, something common to basically every major offensive until the Somme.
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>>618064
Oh and just some general advice, even if you don't want things too realistic or whatnot, do a bunch of reading, watching and listening to stuff about the Great War, be they documentaries, podcasts, memoirs/historical books, films etc. Having a wealth of background knowledge will 1. Let you nip autist players in the bud by slapping them about with your knowledge-swollen e-peen and 2. give you something to fall back on in the case of being stumped by a player choice.

If you're just getting started I'd recommend Dan Carlin's Blueprint to Armageddon series of his Hardcore History podcast, along with The Great War Youtube channel. These aren't perfect and they won't give you the depth of a true historical text in a particular field but they're much easier to absorb than reading a several hundred page tome about say the Somme and provide a very good overview of the war in general terms. Also consider bugging the guys in /hwg/ on /tg/ if you've got a specific question, it's certainly better than asking /his/ about anything.
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QM Question:
What's the hardest part about writing for you?
Actually getting to the writing part. I REALLY need to get more proactive/productive.

Player Question:
Do you contribute write-ins? Why/why not?
It depends. If the options given are satifsfactory, I see no reason to use a write-in that will probably get ignored anyway.

Bonus Question:
What do you do while waiting for an update or for your players to vote?

Stress.
Nah, just kidding. I usually plan out the different outcomes to each given prompt so that I don't have to start from scratch when I actually have to write.
And if I'm just a player, well it's usually: hang on at the /qst/ Discord, play vidyagaems, read books, etc.
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>>617748
I'm a big fan of rolling chargen, where you pad out details as you build the world and your characters backstory.

In my latest quest, I established that the PC was an exile and built his character through a conversation with an NPC about where he came from and why he was on the run. It felt fairly organic and I got to introduce some supporting characters who will appear later, so I'm very happy with it.
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Magical Girl For Hire Quest should resume in two hours!
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>>617982
I never made pixel art, but I guess my advice can be related.

>>617888
>>617959
>I don't really wanna pre-build everything and then just show people through

Think about it twice. With Nerv Bridge Simulator I did huge amounts of prep work and it helped immensely. I had a good number of NPC portraits (with several expressions/variations each to make it more interesting) which I could then post to buy time and work toward the real meaty update. And my players ended up loving to chat with NPCs anyway.

It was on /tg/ though, so every updates had to be 15 minutes apart. That's probably not the pace you want, but it's still a good idea to keep your players hooked in the thread, even if it's just nibs. ARG stuff work wonders for this. Waifus too.

>This of course with higher quality drawing would mean very long breaks, little possible interaction and thus a dead quest.

My second quest Homeward had one, sometimes two 40~ sec roughly animated updates each day. Even then I had 9-10 responses every time, so there's a way for a really slow quest to be somewhat successful.

I never had a problem with player interaction but then again I never used prompts, only write-ins. Maybe that's something to look into if you're worried about player agency with sparse updates.

But seriously, just have a bunch of shit already made. BGs, characters in plain poses, props, everything you already have shave off updating time. Being prepared won't make you a railroading QM. I'd tell you to take every shortcut you can, even if your goal is quality. I use Google Earth screenshots for my backgrounds.

You probably know this already, but naming convention is absolutely tied to the speed of your work. Once I began to have a cleanly named layers and an organized folder it made a hell of a difference. I like having a constant resolution too.

I guess that's all. Remember to have fun, it shows in your quest when you do.
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>>618085
>>618076

Fuck it, i went for it anyway.

Come join me in here so i don't look like a complete ass.

>>618179
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>>615342
>>615247
>>615033

>tfw when a /qtg/ has more tank discussion than /wtg/

Feels good

>>617836

Sad to hear that man. Was a fun quest. Look forward to what you make next
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>>618007
>QMC just does exceedingly vicious things

Is this handling of the quest in general or specific incidents?
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>>618373
Yes
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>>618519
Cyber Demon Quest episode 2 runs again.
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>>617748
Just make the chargen stuff light. Not definitive stuff that entirely dictates the character, but enough to flesh them out so players don't feel overwhelmed with different takes and tones they could have. Make a launching off point and sprinkle chargen stuff throughout the quest.

Like awhile in, the character is working out a problem and you have a vote about how this reminds him or her of one of several small backstory things. Say there's a woman giving birth and you're there trying to handle the situation because it's clear you won't get to a hospital on time. Some chargen options are:

>But you've worked on the farm on summers and helped with plenty of animal births. It's the same thing, right?
>But you were always a good student, including sex ed class. They never described the sounds and smells, though.
>But you can at least keep her calm. Your voice is soothing and reassuring and you always know how to keep calm. At least, on the outside.

And those votes all sort of combine over time to form a character. Those three votes help to give the character some background, but a farmhand can still be a shy nerd and a good student could still have been a jock. The reassuring voice and calm demeanor can be anything.
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>>618431
Could you be more descriptive? How is the handling outside of very specific incidents?
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>>618744
Nah I was memeimng you mate

In Joker Quest there was always the sense that people would die at any time. JQOP had a very descriptive and awesome way of detailing combat and deaths so putting one and two together it'd be easy to see anybody we'd happen to care about at the moment just straight up dying horribly.

The first that comes to mind is Yui and there are several others but my mind is drawing a blank.
Also first and shit waifu Hecate I believe, just dies in front of us

As to who he was my impression of him was that he was a pretty cool guy although I heard he was a frequent user of pre-banishment QTG but I never used it back then
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Okay I had an idea

Mass Effect Quest
As a Krogan Biotic Or Human Biotic with a sword
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>>619089
If you promise not to kill it and also run frequently...
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>>619089
And how many quests does that make?
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The SAO arc of SAO quest is over.... guess I'll have to rename it.
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Whatever happened to Hellborn Quest?
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>>619099
I make no promises

>>619129
Spartan
Exalted
Symbiote
Brightest day
4 excluding that one quest we don't talk about. Just wait until I have a quest for everyday of the week
And no I don't have a problem
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>>618007
This and TrickQuest makes me wonder if theres a BDSM streak in quest players. The dripping contempt they have at times for their players should in theory turn people off. But they keep coming back for more.
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>>619320
Well it's more in that players actually like being challenged and being treated like adults. You do that, there's fun to be had.
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>>618201
If you like tank talk why don't you pop by Schteel's LGA2 quest, it's currently running over here >>619037

We generally spend like a third of the thread shooting the shit about tanks.
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>>619330
>Treated like adults

...You really sure about that?

The stuff Trick writes about his players comes off like that scene from Whiplash.
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>>619366
Adults in the challenge or 'think about what you're doing a little bit' sense, not necessarily the mental maturation sense.
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>>619366
Every QM should be able to treat their players as their peers, as the players are basically one half in a Quest. That means occasionally, you may have to tell your players, "That's fucking stupid and I'm not writing it." or "That's fucking stupid and you're going to suffer for it."

There's consequence to Quests, and it should be relatively known. I actually admire JQOP for writing consequence that his players like and discuss immensely.
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I wanted to show the work I have done on the planetary improvements for my upcoming Planetary Governor Guest. It’s still missing tank and aircraft production and the prices need adjustments but it’s close to the finals stages of completion. Again any criticisms, suggestions or just stuff you want to see are more than welcome.


http://pastebin.com/DpStBNgY
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>>619399


Lets see if there's life left in this dead horse
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What's your take on anti-climax as a plot device?

Say for example, you have a hated rival and you spend months in pursuit of him. Then you hear he died in a stupid way, to an absolute nobody for no reason.

Then your character has to reconcile that all their anger has nowhere to go. And the plots that the rival put in motion are hijacked by his underlings or by his other enemies and go in a completely unexpected direction.

Interesting or would you just be pissed off you couldn't get revenge?
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>>619432
I like games with lots of emergent gameplay elements like that, so I'd be game for it, but expect a shitstorm regardless. As you said, the MC has nowhere to focus his anger, and likewise, the players don't either, except you.
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>>619432
Think of the number of good films with satisfying climaxes.

Now think of the number of good films with "gotcha audience" climaxes.

I'm not saying it can't be done. But the "rising action falling action" structure is standard for a real good reason.
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>>619489
>>Now think of the number of good films with "gotcha audience" climaxes
Yeah, but it doesn't have to be the end of the story.

It's more about playing with the rhythm of the story, suddenly changing the structure of the piece from a familiar tempo to an unfamiliar one.

It doesn't have to be the bad guy dying, it can be an ally passing away without confessing their love to another ally, or someone failing in their vengeance or any number of things that end a plot in an unexpected way and bring about something else.

It's about playing on the audiences emotions by subverting their expectations, which isn't just something that GRRM can do by murdering the main cast.
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Hey friends, dunno if any of my old readers are skulking around, but SAQ is returning today swing on over if you're interested

>>619693
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>>619432
i get mad as hell but if it's good i keep playing
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>>619089
I had another idea

Inquisistor's Adept quest and you're her apprentice psyker
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>>619993
Done allready in Boone Quest
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>>620014
>>619993

Try it anyone but with a serious atmosphere.
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>>620032
That was the plan I'm not a very funny person
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>someone makes a Girls und Panzer quest on Akun
>audience is all about the yuri
>little interest in tanks
>the actual series barely has any yuri at all
End my life kami-sama
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>>620064
>I'm not a very funny person

I think you're funny.
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>>620132
Got a little something on your nose there.
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Pilot quest is live! Stop on by for some plane related stuff!

>>620215
>>620215
>>620215
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>>620127
The entire chat is tank talk though. Seriously, we're just talking about EW British tank design, or is there another GuP quest on Akun?
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>>620277
Only because it isn't running. Before that it was dyke dyke dyke
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>>620283
Then be the change you want to see in the quest, carry the torch for us tank nerds that can't make the actual play times. I believe in you anon.
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Well, as a way to hopefully motivate myself.

Weaponloli Quest(Tentative) will be coming to a /qst/ near you at some point in the future most likely.

It will be a quest about a legendary weapon whose legend has been told throughout the ages awakening as a person and discovering that throughout the years their legend has changed, and the changes to said legend have changed their very being.
It will be up to you to decide if you want to embrace the changes or try your best to restore the truth of your legend to the world by spreading word of your various deeds. Well, there's also the option of using the mutability of your legend to your own advantage, but would kind of legendary weapon would do such a thing?
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>>619407
Looking good so far, and you included that you would let player decision improvements as well, also good.

I'm worried about how the economy would look like, and break downs into smaller areas like local currency or being able to spend smaller amounts.

As far as I can tell there is no proper currency system in 40k. Aside from blood and human sacrifice.

A quick bing search gave me this http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/278963.page ,which seems to put some interesting thoughts into pricing and how a economy could work.

I'd say keep it simple, or as simple as you can with some consistent value to a few things objects or barter, and throw in a little inflation or supply and demand stuff here and there.

Nothing too complex for the players but have something where its not a guessing game or making stuff up entirely on the spot, and having to deal with it later since it became cannon.

I'm thinking something like system currency, and local currency, then maybe planetary current, with barter here and there when currency doesn't work well, or isn't accepted by the other party.

An example would be like the rouge trader, where our money is no good so we use barter with him and provide occasionally some services. I can only see a local planetary currency working for the time being, and maybe use human tithe payments. with some system credits that is in popular usage due to some forge world having a good enough economy and a bank or something.

Last thing I would add is, throw in a calendar or mention how much time has passed since the last event or post so we can figure out how events and posts change from one another. Making a post that is in game a year later with little indication can leave players thinking it happened right after "walking out the front door".
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>>619320
Well, there's at least one QM with one.
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>>620529
>but would kind of legendary weapon would do such a thing?
Have you even met players in quests?
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>>620529
never ever run this quest

you can't do it kid
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So basically C3: Cubed x Cursed x Curious?
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>>620772
Yes, yes I have. I fully expect that to be what happens.

>>620807
Kind of, I'm taking inspiration from all over, Fear is definitely one of them, I've actually been considering rewatching the show for the sake of inspiration.
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>>620634

For the economic aspects of the quest. I am thinking about having a single abstract currency C (representing the final value of all your collective resources in imperial thrones by millions) that can be use to buy Planetary Improvements or trade with the Imperium at large. So when you are trading with a rogue trader with C, you are not actually giving him a fortune in local currency, but multiple tons of food, metal and other stuff.

I am also thinking about adding a status to 4 resources. Metals, Materials, Promethium and Food. Depending if they currently are Abundant, Plentiful, Common, Dwindling or Scarce certain protects or actions will slow down or crawl to a hold and in the case of food lead to mass starvation and riots.
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> didn't want to run quest tonight
> smoked weed and looked forwards to running a great civ thread to take a break and switch genres for awhile
> not a single player

Why can't we give the inferior games a play every now and then /qtg/? Are we damned to only enjoy quests now?
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>>621853
Post link; will make sure maids are introduced to your civilization.
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Finishing off this thread in the next few hours, so I can run Monday or Sunday's thread not having to intro in King Aegon.

>>604018
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>>619432

When Joker Quest did that, it was a shitstorm. It was in fact the Quest's biggest shitstorm, ever.

It turned out that the main villain slit his throat to deny us the XP, which made sense given that the villain is established to be an asshole and a genius.
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>>622805
That was amazing
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Safe Haven is back with a new thread at >>622774
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>>622805
That is fucking hilarious
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Any mystery quests to read for reference? I have a concept in mind but I'm really not sure how well mysteries execute under the quest format.
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>>624145
they don't
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>>624145
Depends. Your focus needs to be on character interaction and the drama going through the mystery, not on solving puzzles and finding clues.

"Mystery" tends to hold quite a bit of genres under its umbrella. What kind of stuff are you looking for exactly?
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>>622805

That's fucking great.

I love it.
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>>624145

Sorta?

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13524887/
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>>624366

You won't believe how mad people were about it. The amount of salt defied description.
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>>624490

It's so good though.
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Hey GS if you're still hovering aboot could you review Shadow Quest? It's an old quest, not quite as old as Joker Quest, and it's finished so it would be interesting to see your insights on it.
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>>613694
He was gonna snag DLQ until Trick did, at which point he backed out for some reason. I'm always down for critique if you can find the time, but, y'know, no pressure; others are/were in line first.

SLAKE MY LUST FOR FEEDBACK

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Dungeon%20Life%20Quest


>>612998
Assuming you're serious, see above.
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>>624682
>>624772
Yeah. I'm just taking it slowly since I'm busy with Quests. Most of my reviews will come during the weekday.

Plus I'm busy mourning Jose Fernandez.
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Have there been more and more anime based quests going up lately? Or is that just me?
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>>624839
Most of them ran on tg, for some reason or another.

Guess where they went?
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>>624839
Anime-based quests have always been majority

Is asking questions like this the /qst/ version of 'stat me' threads?
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>>624839
What's fucking weird is that the fanfic ones seem to all be based on the anime 4chan makes fun of.

Like you're already looking towards the bottom of the barrel for a basis on your quest, and then making some probably even shittier fanfiction of it. I don't understand the mass appeal.
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>>624891
because they think they can derail things and make them better.

Instead they made things... not better, that's for sure, not quite worse either.
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If you follow anything I do I'm not going to be writing for two weeks at most so no
Symbiote Quest
Exalted Age
Or In Brightest day Is not dead.
Unless I get shot in between now and two weeks that is

>Is Spartan Quest dead?
Most likely. The amount of time and thought I put into it for it to have such a low turnout doesn't really make sense for me to continue it.

Pic Related might be my next project since Dandelion is fucking dead. F
Or one of the other 8 ideas I had.

>Do something original
But I'm a fucking hack who can't world build
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>>624983
>trying to worldbuild to be original
Honestly just steal stuff from everything you like an mash 'em up stick 'em in a stew until it looks original. Same with characters. Considering the other stuff you write I doubt that's an impossible task.
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Since i've never QM'd before - what is a acceptable amount of players in your first thread if you want to continue? Is nine enough?
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>>625027
One.
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>>625027
Just have at least one and barrel on regardless of the viewer count.
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>>624864
Not really. My money's on the same group of posters on /tg/ who tried to turn practically every /qtg/ there into a circlejerk about how much they disliked fanfiction and anime. Which are probably a subset of fa/tg/uys who bitch about anime in other threads as well, carrying on a tendency for irl gamers to either love anime way too much or hate on it for no real reason.

tl;dr it's absolutely par for the course.
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>>625027
Nine's alright.
Expect an extreme dropoff for your second thread, probably down to two or three. If you get more towards the end of the thread that'll be what decides the quest's fate.
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>>614269
Mate, I still check his twitter on the daily. Cant quite seem let it go.
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>>624983
Maybe the reason you aren't getting much players anymore is because people are realizing that there is no point in getting invested in 'Maleficar Quests' since there is a damn good chance of them getting dropped or the one they like being passed over for another quest.

Good luck getting rid of that stigma.
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>>625100
Probably this, honestly. Why play something if the chances of it getting dropped or not enough attention are too high? You spread yourself out to thin man, have some self control. Work on just a couple on a time, your quality dips when you have so much going on. For fucks sake man, just try to stick to a few things instead of bouncing all over the place.
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>>625100
Quite an unfortunate truth. Like, I doubt anybody would be following my current quest if they knew about all of my dead quests. Then again it's a holdover from pre-/qst/. But still it's nice to be disconnected from all the attempts and failures of the past, and very few people online or IRL find flaky jump-ship behavior to be endearing.
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>>625100
>>625105
>>625132
I had a schedule that mainly got fucked around cause of work. It went from me running like four or five days a week to something like

two days exalted
one-day symbiote
one day in brightest day
The only one that suffered was really spartan quest after the move.

but I see whatcha mean
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>>619263
not sure, but the QM tweeted today
https://twitter.com/HellbornQuest/status/780094105493786624
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>>625281
Happiness!
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>>625137
Gibbousmoon over on Questionable Questing is a really good questmaker, pulls in players every quest he makes, and drops quests like Dumbledore dropping babies. I think you'll be fine.
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>>625027
Honestly 9 is plenty for a first thread. Some people get a max of 3
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>>625403
>>625030
>>625036

I feel bad for tricking my players with a bait and switch.
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>>614703
>Reminder that Mio is best girl followed by Yui
Even on /qst/ this is some utterly shit-tier taste.
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>>625298
>Questionable Questing

Probably because they've got nothing else to play.
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>>614703
> Reminder that Mio is best girl followed by Yui
> Not realising that the Moogz is best girl
The fuck's wrong with you?
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>>625522
Men of Strings?
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>>625798
Yeah, sorry if you were a reader and disappointed, i just wanted a setup for the main story. Never really meant for the players to get attached to Montgomery or anything, just wanted to introduce the series BBEG early
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>>625824
>BBEG
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>>625942
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>>626364
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>>626364

Relic Quest is now live.
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>>626031
im running the thing again i guess
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So, quick question

What day would you normally say is the best one to start a quest on?

I'm going to start something soon, but I don't know entirely which day to start it on. Or even timeframe.
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>>627194

I usually find starting quests based on EST time works, around 6 or so.

Weekends are hella popular.
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>>627194
If you run EST, then practically any day is good to run because you're guaranteed to retain readers from the later timezones. However, if you run in PST, unless you have the time to run early in the day, you're usually better off running on weekends since sleep is less of a concern on those days.
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Is there a level of violence that is considered NSFW and can get deleted, or can I do pretty much whatever horrible things I like as long as they aren't sexy?
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Are there an QMs other than Soma who have met their followers in person?
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>>627721
As far as I've seen, you can get as gory and edgy as you want as long as you don't actually show anything.
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>>627721
I've written cannibal lolis eating people, desciptions of organs being shredded by swords, and limb loss, so there's no limitations in those things.
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I wanna run a Devil May Cry Quest on /qst/ but i wanna know how many anons are interested in playing this.
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>>628465

Dante or Donte?
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Hey,Hm here.
Put two of my quests on hiatus since I couldn't come up with ideas for them, so they're on hold until I can get that fire burning for them.

And due to my addiction of running quests I'm planning on running a third. Also due to my obsession with the meaning of numbers and other dumb bullshit.

However, this quest I wanna run is going to be based on (at least) one of my previous quests.

Now I'm probably not going to listen to anyone, and run whatever the hell I want to run unless my players want to something bad enough.

But the three possible quests I'm could run are

1: Unfortunate Magical Girl Rebirth. The first quest I put on hiatus and want to get back to, except since the setting it was put in has been fucked royally *turning it from the setting of Assassin school and Unfortunate magical girl quest into the setting of the current YDFQ* it'd be a sort of...second season restart though I do plan on keeping the characters from the first one, because I love them to death. And I'd enjoy writing them in the rather shitty world of Young demon familiar quest.

TL:DR/ the basics: Lazy Magical girl wakes up to find herself in a world populated by horrifying monsters and depowered from her previous state roughly a hundred years in her "Future", and that her friends have been separated from her during their reawakening/rebirths, scattering the destructive saviors across a dangerous new world as the previous monsters of the week, The realm of chaos, and the providers of MGs Power, the realms of order, start to try and push back into the mortal world to try and find a place next to its now naturally produced magic.


2: Ultra Supernova Quest: Based on the setting of my Reality Abuser Quest, a world of super heroes that are powered by a substance called ULTRA, which incidentally is used to power basically everything in varying degrees of potency and purity, which effects how powerful someone becomes when exposed to it, which is also determined by how it comes into contact with you. Now I've come to realize that I got stressed out by trying to be too...comicy in RAQ and also because I realized a reality warper is a little hard to write a quest for. SO I want to do a redo, with a less powerful MC *but still fucking strong* who can be good or evil, and have a variety of powers that grow as you beat the shit out of people or other wise come into contact with ultra in other ways. The setting is slightly futuristic due to ultra, and set long after an alien invasion that brought Ultra to the planet. And newspapers are replaced with comic books because fuck you.

TL:DR/the basics: Play a superheroine or villaness suped up on alien gasoline, trying to live in a world of mad men, super power egotistical shits, murders and all other staples of superhero comics. Become a hero love by all, or a villain detested by the world...or you know sell merchandise and meet your fans before robbing a bank or something
cont
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>>628477
3:Monster Girl Legend Quest: Alright this one is set in a changed setting of my monster girl academy quest, which was sadly short, and I've realized recently I want to revisit the setting, and darken the shit out of it, because I'm a horrible person. The jist of it is there's a disease/ virus that turns people into monsters...often monster girls because why not, and no one really knows the cause of it because surprise, its fucking magic. See what's actually going on is old souls from folk lore / the souls of monsters are waking back up and forcing their current body to something close to what they once were. Now for most this just turns them into a certain kind of monster, but a few of them are actually "Legends" aka things that have left a mark on mythology and pop culture, aka the heavy hitters like fenris, the behemoth, the leviathan, hyrda...etc...etc, and have a hand to play in the fate of the world

TL:DR/Basics: Play as a monster girl based off of a legendary monsters, struggling to adapt to your new body/ Hungers/ changing psyche as anti monsterists/ Crazed monsters try and make your life hell in Tartarus, the city of beasts. And discover your old self, and either embrace it and the role you once held, deny it and keep your "Human" identity, or try to balance the two as Legends clash over the fate of the world. Will you be a monster, or a hero worthy of legend

Okay, sorry for being long winded here

and you might be wondering why I came here to ask this when I already said I'm just going to do whatever the fuck I want.

Well see I'd like to see what you guys think, maybe to help me choose, maybe just to answer questions you have about them, and also to yet you know I'm doing a thing if you don't follow or give a singular fuck about what I do?

I'm curious to see what you think, if any of you reply or even notice this massive wall of text and bullshit.

And if any of you do have any questions, I'll answer them when I wake up.
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>>628490
.....Headmaster, I have never participated in your quests, and never intend to, but....

good to see you.
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>>628511
Thanks, random anon. Did you think I'd quit questing just because of the whole /tg/ business?
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>>628490
I'm sorry Headmaster, but i'd never play one of these quests. I can't stand female MC's in quests.
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>>628627
Man if feels good to enjoy a story regardless of the MC's gender.
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>>628627
I understand, some people can't stand dudes in quests for some reason, everyone has things they can't stand.

I mean
I just I do it as a good luck charm.
as the one quest I did WITH a dude as the MC had one thread, under this name at least
others I had under different names did pretty good for themselves.

But ever since I became HM, I seem to be only able to run with Chicks and succeed. Like a weird curse I really don't care about.
Since even when I do give the option my players just go female anyways.
So it really doesn't matter to me. But you do you man, you do you.
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>>628630
I don't have a problem with quests featuring female MC's in general. My problem arises from when the quest is advertised as having a female MC. The crowd feMC quests attract is not for me.

>>628633
I mean, the feMC crowd is pretty hardcore. If you want to tap into ez players (and i can't fault you, running quests is both tasking and fun as heck) by running a feMC (with optional yuribait), you can at least guarantee that your players will be dedicated.
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>>628630
yeah it's almost like we're more mature and better people or something
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>>628634
I know.

Also in terms of advertising, I mean...two of them can't run without of fem MC and in the one that could, I don't want people to expect anything differently from my usual.

But if you don't like that crowd...well I understand where your coming from, is what I'm saying
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>>628643
All power to you man, i don't mean any disrespect or anything, just not my cuppa tea.
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Just like I promised, Samsara Quest is back. I just started a new thread for it right here:

>>628731
>>628731
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How do people look at trying to manipulate voters through wording prompts in one way or another? For example people are more likely to pick "wait and see what happens" than "do nothing", even though it's essentially the same thing
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>>628735
I've tried it. It generally either backfires horribly or they do the smart thing if they're smart players and write-in.

I've learned that sometimes just making all the greentext options sub-par is all it takes to get people to think more, and if the terrible options are talking points that've been brought up before they'll write-in more often than for the prompt than if they were asked directly.
Players are weird, though, so sometimes trying to be "manipulative" beyond providing in-character options shows you what they really think.
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>>628735
>"wait and see what happens"
Literally the worst option it's possible to take ESPECIALLY in a fight. Accordingly it's one of the more popular fighting decisions.
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>>628781
>Literally the worst option it's possible to take ESPECIALLY in a fight
It's not though, that's my point. "Wait and see what happens" usually kinda implies that something will happen, that there's some development behind the scene, and maybe intervention will ruin it, or the problem will solve itself in the best way. What's really worst option is "do nothing", so that's how you use wording to suggest that some options might not be as bad as they might look at first glance
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>>575124
1 it needs to be renamed /qt/ other than that it's good.
2 for, just like most of the people who come to a board that exists for the purpose of running them.
3 any interactive story telling, dice are not necessarily but I like them and I don't think we need to limit what type of Quests can run beyond the blue board thing.
4 ideally OPs should have the option of tagging other boards that may be interested in the quest and have it appear on both boards but allow users of those boards to block quests if they want or have it be opt in. As it is /qt/ is a nice place with a name slightly longer than it needs to be.
5 it's clear that the mods only heard from the quest haters before splitting the boards but they did try and make things work. I was open to a quest board and had taken part in the discussions on /qa/ but I felt that the whole thing was a mess. Since qst became a thing I've only needed to report one post (an off topic thread) and response was slow.
6 not without remaking the reply box thing.
7 see answer 4.
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>>606293
tfw no planetary governor quest
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>>628735
I just establish how hard I'm going to punish them for doing stupid shit and then they stop trying to do it
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From /a/

>>SEA kids grew up on fucking obscure mechashit and toku in the 90s.

How do I harness this mecha fandom power and make them all flock to /qst/?
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>>629417
Run a mecha Quest.
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>>629363
Yeah I wonder what happened to him. Too bad.
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>>629425
Have YOU ever thought about running a mecha quest?
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>>629443
Closest I've got is Starship Idols which isn't mecha per say but more powered armor.

And put it bluntly, no, I haven't thought about it. I'm not actually too much of a fan of mecha. Powered armor is what gets me, not giant robots.
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>create an interesting premise
>first few threads are exciting and people start to show an interest
>then it starts getting boring and you can feel it getting boring but you just can't stop it
>no discussion
>dull content
>and your player numbers dwindle and your motivation starts to go
What the fuck do you do next /qtg/?
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>>629468
Kill a beloved character in a horrific and seemingly random fashion. Go full Maes Hughes. and include a funeral scene. Then allow the plot to develop around that event.
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>>629453
>Powered armor is what gets me, not giant robots.
So how about stuff like Bubblegum Crisis, Appleseed or Madox?
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>>629506
Haven't watched them. Might pick them up but I'm hoping the fall anime schedule has stuff I might like.
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Guess who's postponing Lamplighter again! It's me, I'm that guy. Sorry anons but some RL shit came up literally five minutes before the thread was supposed to go live. It'll likely only take an hour or so but I doubt it'll leave me in a good mood so the thread isn't going up until tomorrow.
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>>629453
>Powered armor is what gets me, not giant robots.

That's a very full-fleged Burger answer to hear from you.

How about Active Raid?
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>>629453
>Powered armor is what gets me, not giant robots.

Let me rephrase it.

"Spot the American"
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>>629591
Schteel loves baseball enough to know the ins and outs of the sport. He is ABSOLUTELY American. If it weren't for Rosehip, I'd expect Kay to be his waifu
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>>629598
> Schteel brings Rosehip back to America as a war bride
Going to other countries and stealing their women is incredibly American anon.
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>>629611
>Going to other countries and spreading American culture is incredibly American, anon.
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>>629598
I'm surprised his quest review didn't feature at least one baseball reference.
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>>629576
>>629591
>>629598
>>629611
>>629617
>>629620

Hey, there's nothing wrong with being an American except the fact that everything is going wrong on the domestic front but other than that, at least we're not being swamped with migrants.

The Cubans don't count, we actually want Cubans.
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>>628735
Depends on how you're wording it. After a point, you shouldn't really be including options that you actively don't want the players to choose. The only point in putting in an option with discouraging wording is to discourage write-ins of a similar nature.

>>629468
Add a sidekick character, or a quirky ethnic comedy relief character, or a younger character to help draw in younger audiences, or stir up some relationship drama, or a pregnancy, or... oh wait, this is about quests, not TV shows.

Ideally, identify what's bogging down the quest, and get rid of it, or away from it. If it's something inherent to the quest, then try to simplify it so that it's not taking up too much thread time. If you're stuck on Namek, consider rushing towards the climax so that you can move on to other plot threads. If players choices to explore a lot of social options are slowing down progress (and if this is seen to be a bad thing; isn't always!), then limit how much of that content they can do before main story progress continues.

If it's not that things are getting bogged down, but that the premise has lost its shine or mostly played itself out, then unfortunately you'll probably need to find a new gimmick to introduce to the quest.
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>>629468
Or just persevere and hope that you have one or two players who will stick by you no matter what.

Y'know, like Oersted from Live-A-Live, "As long as one person still believes in you."
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>>629438
>>629363
If this isn't him here>>619407
then its probably ded.
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>>629717
>QM posts in wrong thread.
Point at him and laugh.
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Alchemical Blade Quest is now up and running! Do you enjoy cyberpunk, magic in said cyberpunk, espionage, conspiracies, and high octane action of slicing tanks apart with sharp pointy objects? Then you make like it!

>>629693

Know about Exalted? Then you may tangentially enjoy this as its set within the Modern version of it!

God I hope that sounded good. I'm worried about it being too cheesy
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>>629732
I don't enjoy of it. Remove yourself from the premises

I'm highly interested.
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>>629443
No, but I've been thinking of running an Ultraman-ripoff quest.

Unless CDQ counts as Mecha, but not really.
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>>629715
Maybe hell return like the primarchs and save the imperium...
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>Ultraman-ripoff Quest

I'll one-up that concept.

Euzeth Gozzo Quest: Why can't I reincarnate as the Ultraman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WgU75FAfrs
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>>629443

Does Cyber Formula count as /m/?
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>>629909
>You will never be a SEAmonkey who managed to catch Cyber Formula showing on ABC-5

This
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>>629915

I downloaded the BD rips and some decent subs for the stuff that was good. (Fuck SAGA & SIN IMO)
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Endless Radiance Quest scheduled for after this rush of major papers and tests have passed. Thank you all for your patience, and apologies for the delays. The time for running is coming soon.
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Similarly, Magical Girl For Hire Quest will be running again tomorrow!
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>>629468
You failed as a QM either cut your losses or git gud and stop being so boring/predictable/unoriginal so your players will be more interested.

If a quest fails it's your fault 100% of the time.
Find something that captivates the audience.

You can do this two ways:
>Do something that's a bit niche but do it so well people won't have an option but to come to you for it

Or
>Be the same vanilla guy you are currently but git gud enough so your quest has no bad qualities.
(This is only viable if you truly are gud however)
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Is Banished Quest worth archive binging?
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>>630879
Almost every quest is worth binge reading whether it's good or bad.

The only quests that are not worth reading are the mediocre ones and banished is certainly not that
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>>630888

Usually the only quests I never binge read are the ones that just die off.

Honestly reading a quest knowing full well its never going to continue is more of a cocktease than entertainment.
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>>630879
Yeah absolutely, it is a crazy ride filled with terrible, terrible player choices which are, for the most part, in character. Tons of in-depth lore and information, really cool artifacts and magic system. It's great, just try not to get sucked into the salt-storm that is the player arguments.
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>>621069
When do you plan on running? The pastebin looks good and since the other Planetary Gov QM is dead I'd love a new one to begin
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>>611576
pic related
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>>610880
Any chance you have room for one more quest on your backlog? I'm in no rush as I can only write my quest weekly, but criticism and feedback are two things I could really use.
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>>631680
Sure. What's your quest?
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>>632158

>>621475
Ninja Monk Quest. Only on thread three though, so feel free to put it off until later when there would be more material/you've got less of a review queue.

Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=ninja+monk

Thank you, by the way! I could always use criticism and feedback to help improve my writing.
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As a heads up, Alchemical Blade Quest is continuing once again today!

>>629884

The BBEG Quest to make literally everything your fault.
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>>611165
ANONYMOUS'S PUNISHEDTRICK'S GENESMITH'S REVIEWS REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW

REVIEW #1

WRITTEN AS IT IS READ

The rabbit hole goes deeper. Nice ID by the way, /1/ board when, Hiromoot?
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>>632324
Do you have an email?
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>>634488
I sent you my e-mail on Discord, by the way.
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>>634488
Sure thing, any chance you could message me on twitter?
@TheRedL4dy

Haven't set up a discord and it's the easiest way to contact me w/o email
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Alchemical Blade Quest is now up and running again! Do you enjoy cyberpunk, magic in said cyberpunk, espionage, conspiracies, and high octane action of slicing tanks apart with sharp pointy objects? Then you make like it!

>>629693

Also if I get connection errors, the only option is to tough them out correct?
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>>614269
We all do anon. We all do.



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