Welcome to /qtg/, a place to talk about quests.
Previous thread
>>6029851 >What is a quest? An interactive story in which a Quest Master (QM) writes and provides the readers with options on how to proceed — similar to a choose-your-own-adventure book or an old text adventure
Questionably Useful links:
>QTG discord: https://discord.gg/6s4Xazmv >Skirmish discord: https://discord.com/invite/DZCVvVU >Evo Game discord: https://discord.gg/v55Xaaja >Old pastebin containing advice for QMs: https://pastebin.com/Z78p8gXf Badly in need of renovation.
>Archiving guide: Go to
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/requestqstinterface.html Fill out the request form to archive a thread.
Threads are also automatically archived by other websites, such as archived.moe.
>Formatting guide: Only the thread's OP can format. Note that should the OP change ID, they will lose this ability as well.
Remove the spaces between the [] brackets and the letters:
Bold:
text Italics:
text Red: [ red ] text [ /red ]
Blue: [ blue ] text [ /blue ]
Green: [ green] text [ /green ]
>Formatting guide for everyone: Dice (type this in “options”): dice + [no. of dice]d[no. of sides on the dice] (optionally you can add modifiers: dice + [no. of dice]d[no. of sides on the dice]+[modifier]; for a negative modifier type: +-[modifier]
Examples: dice+1d100 = a 1d100 roll, dice+1d100+10 = a 1d100 roll with a +10 modifier.
Spoiler:
spoiler or by pressing alt+s in-thread
>QM question: Do you have any quest concepts that you really like the idea of, but for whatever reason aren't confident that you could run?
>Player question: Are there any quests you're playing that you'd like to see revisited from a different angle, or with a twist?
>General question: What multimedia franchises do you think would be best suited to /qst/, that haven't already generated a successful quest?
>Lurker question: Why don't you at least chime in to let the QM know you're reading? And do you ever share what you're reading with other people?
>Miscellaneous question: What other boards do you frequent, besides /qst/?
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6101693 >>6101551 >>6101328 >>6101524 >>6101493 I think all of you are overthinking an obvious joke.
Anonymous
>>6101697 What if that so-called "joke" or how obvious it is isn't important to the point?
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6101697 All difficulty spikes are vertical. If they did not go up they'd be a difficulty Savannah or somesuch. What a pointless affectation.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
Quoted By:
>>6101725 >>6101725 >>6101725 Solarpunk Thread #7 is live! Swing on by.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6101546 What was the quest?
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
Quoted By:
after a severely bad writers block, the next part for the Caretaker Quest is live!
will you keep the secret or will you let Professor McGonagall know?
up to you!
>>6080818 >>6080818 >>6080818 Anonymous
Still waiting for Halo: Wolfpack and The Gundum quest, Thunderhead and Contolist.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Quoted By:
Hoping for a tiebreaker in Ilvermorny Quest, if anyone is interested.
>>6089315 Anonymous
>>6101848 I'm waiting for the next thread of monke.
R. Roger Smith !!qY92vX+Q0HX
R. Roger Smith !!qY92vX+Q0HX ID:1H1ZqWUT Wed 11 Sep 2024 20:18:04 No. 6102053 Report I need to work on speeding up my drawing so I don't spend eight hours making one (1) decent image for a quest and thus have to spend four days waiting for the opportunity to finish it. My ego demands I produce images worthy of 10th-grade DeviantArt rather than roughly hack out black and white chicken scratch that would be faster and allow for the quest to be, you know, playable. Any advice from people who are competent at art?
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6077418 Jester I hope you come back if you see this, I really liked the premise you set and how the characters were looking.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102053 Idk, maybe ask 91m10 from Do Your Best Quest. He's pretty prolific, and his style has changed significantly from Thread 1 to current day.
Anonymous
>>6102053 try asking the artmongers in the discord
people like dembones, bananas, indonesian gentleman, levelman, etc
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102053 Have you tried just practicing your sketching until it gets to a point that looks good? Sketch artistry is a different beast from other kinds of art. Despite being a fundamental sorta thing.
Anonymous
I'm scared that if I end my quest now to take a break and to prep more stuff, I won't see my readers again
Anonymous
>>6102215 There have been quests that go like a year between threads. If people like your stuff, they will come back; I mean, I am still waiting for Boruto Quest and Joker Quest to come back and the last update for Joker was like 5 years ago I think.
Anonymous
>>6102215 Don't stress. I was gone over two years and people came back when I restarted my quest
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Anonymous
>>6102222 >made somewhat niche quest like 3 years ago >shit the bed on thread 2 >immediately abandon it and attempt the underlying premise in other quests over the years And you know I would do it again in a heartbeat. Good thing I wasn't popular enough to be discussed by /qtg/ citizens
Anonymous
>>6102216 I don't think I'm popular enough for people to hold out for me.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102228 Having zero confidence in what you write is why you perceive yourself as unpopular
Why would you knowingly write crap?
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Quoted By:
>>6102228 Meh. As long as you like what you write, keep going. I got started on this whole thing writing smutfics of a fanfic of something a wine aunt scribbled down on napkins as a waitress. And the only way to get better is to practice; besides, if you are working hard enough to need to take a break and prep, at least someone will appreciate the effort.
Or don't, I am not your supervisor.
If you post the quest, will check it out.
Anonymous
>>6101700 If scatological humour destroys a setting, I fear most humorous settings are by default ruined.
>>6101941 It has been a while since we had a new Supreme Ruler. Defining their early rule is always the most exciting and unifying time in Space Monke's ebb and flow.
>>6102227 I sort of did the same thing. Aspects of my first quest made their way into Reptilian Infiltrator and the sequels.
>>6102228 There are quests in which I was the only or one of the only players that I still think back on fondly months or years later.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6100868 I find it funny that despite both having won the qst tournament, she'd probably be able to beat the ever loving shit out of her king.
Beta Core might be a mech, but she has crazy supernatural powers and stuff iirc.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102354 You can apologize by making a new thread of monke. I wanna see more of our alien buds, especially now that they can actually be normal characters in normal spots that would have gone to monkes usually.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
Monster Hunter Asoiaf cross over quest is what I want, since I just had a strong mental image of a gross harag fucking up a bunch of wildlings before a similarly transported hunter fucks it up, preferably with a greatsword. Like it turns out what lies to the west of westeros beyond the sunset sea is just the monster hunter world, and the extinction of Targ-Dragons triggers a migration event or some cruel god just shits out the ecosystem of MH directly into Westeros' face, or maybe Aegon goes down to conquer and finds a bunch of shit meaner and tougher than his dragons in Westeros already. Diablos in dorne. That'd be fun
DetectQM
Quoted By:
>>6102104 I can personally vouch for Indo Gent, he's been kind enough to do some art for GCBC and it was great.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
Trash it's been over a week now
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102354 No apology is necessary, BQM. I hope your health is on the mend?
Anonymous
>>6102104 IG is the only good artist listed, the rest are shit
Anonymous
>>6102494 Levelman's pretty good. The others all have their own styles, but admittedky soem of them are deliberately quite doodly. Narrator' art is also pretty dang good these days.
Anonymous
>>6102053 Don't make fresh art every time, focus on asset art and reuse. For example, portraits, or props for scenes.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102500 Doodly is the nature of the deed starting out, especially for drawquests, which are a ton of effort to run.
Though if anon wants to follow through on running a drawquest there's really no way to improve like repetition under a time constraint.
>>6102522 Also this. You will save so, so much time by reusing stuff that's decent, or drawing over it for a new pose or the like, and if time is your main concern, then cutting that wherever possible is a good goal.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6102527 No, you post YOUR work :^)
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102548 Image limit reached :)
Anonymous
>>6102494 I'm pretty bad, not gonna lie.
Anonymous
>>6102582 We talking "Michael Jackson's Bad" or "The Room" bad or "Concord" bad?
Anonymous
>>6102589 I want to be Michael Jackson bad, but I'm definitely closer to The Room bad.
I don't know anything about Concord, not gonna lie.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102622 "Concord Bad" in video gamer terms is "so generic it doesn't stand out in a game market flooded with similar enough time sinks."
"Concord Bad" in video game executive terms is "massively overestimated game project that was given too much money and which took too much time in the oven."
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6102670 Well what do you want to do know about this board?
Anonymous
>>6102677 I just don't know anything about qst at all.. I'm a DM of 35+ years so I'm not sure how much explaining I need for qst
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Quoted By:
>>6102681 Pretty simple. Quest Master, QM, writes up a prompt in their setting for the player character. People vote on the action the character takes, QM writes up what happens and progresses the campaign/story based on those actions. Some quests are completely narrative but most have the players rolling dice if the character is doing something difficult or fighting, stuff like that to determine if the character succeeds. Dice systems vary by quest but some variation of best of 3 is popular since it gives more people a chance to roll and engage.
A lot of quests are set in pre-existing franchises but there have been plenty over the years that are OG setting.
suptg.com is normally used at the end of a thread to archive and preserve a quest so people can read it afterword. Tons of old quest there if you want to check out some.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Now that it's dead I can tell you that SLRQ fucking sucks ass and I hate it for occupying the same niche I was gonna write.
Anonymous
>>6102948 I have no idea what SLRQ stands for.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
Quoted By:
>>6102104 >>6102053 >>6102494 Can confirm I fucking suck, but one bit of advice I'd give as something kinda like an artfag is to make 'paper dolls' of your characters, even if they're crummy. That way you have some 'sprites' to work with if you don't have a lot of time or motivation to draw. Experiment with different expressions, use references (cartoons are my fave) and don't worry too much about how it looks--practice makes perfect! We used to have a Quest Art General on here which was helpful, but even posting art on this general can get you some feedback!
At the very least you can post an image/photo of some scenery that fits the post. Pictures with posts can add quite a bit!
>>6102681 Definitely take a look at some of the other quests and lurk a bit--that'll give you a better idea of what goes on here than anything else. You can also ask for recommendations in here of current and old quests!
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>6102966 probably School Life Revenge Quest