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>>6102738 >What is a quest? An interactive story in which a Quest Master (QM) writes and provides the readers with options on how to proceed — similar to a choose-your-own-adventure book or an old text adventure
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>QM question: Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater?
>Player question: What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy?
>General question: Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive?
>Lurker question: Vote or you'll get tricked!
>Miscellaneous question: Got any Halloween plans?
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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>>6120952 New QTG!
>QM question: Halloween doesn't exist in the Versequest universe, so God doesn't. Fido however certainly does. I like to imagine it's one of the few times of year he can find any joy in life. It's also an excuse for him to talk about the macabre without looking as weird... He is most definitely a treater.
>General question I believe I made a little Christmas post in one of the Versequest threads, but besides that, I don't believe so. Maybe I will for the current Downerquest thread...
>Miscellaneous question Eat candy and watch horror movies. The same thing I do every year...
Anonymous
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>>6120952 Not only does the local analog to Halloween exist in the world of Cutémon, but her friend Ward has three undead-type mon friends who only come out one night a year on that date.
Anonymous
>>6120952 Loom where fore art thou? I want the adventures of Jet to continue.
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Fri 11 Oct 2024 23:02:35 No. 6120975 Report Quoted By:
>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? Unfortunately, Lodestar does not have Halloween! The closest equivalent would be a holiday mostly celebrated in Voda, in which people leave out offerings rich with mana to dissuade a malevolent being, one described in ancient stories, from destroying and consuming them and their loved ones. The tradition has since shifted, with mischievous individuals going out and 'stealing' the offerings of people that have earned their ire over the past year. These targetted people, of course, have made a game out of making it increasingly difficult to reach the gifts. They don't poison the treats or anything though, because that would defeat the entire purpose of the tradition.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
If FMH knew what Halloween was, it would probably be his favorite holiday.
Anonymous
>>6120981 who's that baddie ?
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 12 Oct 2024 00:17:11 No. 6121025 Report Oh hey, new /qtg/!
>QM question: Yeah, probably. Walter's from a place and family that had the holiday as a tradition even before it was a widespread American thing so he'd probably have indulged.
His favorite activity is probably tricking others, funnily enough. He likes trying to figure out what scares the most people at once and how to scare them the best way.
To that end, he's definitely a tricker.
>General question: Yes, yes, a hundred times yes!
I'll probably get a bit looser with time a little later in the quest just so that I can indulge in this. I love this shit to bits and it's a shame more quests don't do it. It's really leaves a world feeling static if you don't indulge in some seasonal fun from time to time. Sure, it can feel misplaced if your characters are celebrating Christmas in summer, but what's a little holiday fun in a fantasy world going to do to your immersion if the rest of the quest is in on the misplaced timing?
I don't find it disruptive at all unless it's something like a beach episode interrupting a big climax. Which never ever happens in good quests. So kudos to every single QM who includes seasonal differentiation and progressive time mechanics in their quests, I love you very much.
>Miscellaneous question: No idea. I'm not a party person so there's no way I'm substituting for trick-or-treating with some kind of party. I might end up just staying at home in some neat homemade costume and playing vaguely spooky vidya or watching creepy movies, I don't know.
The holiday would be a lot easier if I wasn't such a wuss. I'll figure things out when I get there, I guess.
Also, obligatory shilling below as I've finally had the time to put out another entry for Poképocalypse.
>>6121015 >>6121016 >>6121017 >>6121019 I wish it didn't take so long, but the curse is real bros. Don't underestimate its power.
Anonymous
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>>6121025 I thought I'd be off for three weeks but it turned into three months.
Anonymous
>>6121000 QTMummy, new character
More art must be made of her I say
Anonymous
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>>6121047 I would accept her as a mascot.
>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? Existing in a fantasy world, probably not. However...
>>Zith-Zi She would probably feel a little awkward about it, up until she realized she essentially had license to harass people for free shit. She'd absolutely go for a slutty/cute costume instead of a scary one, though, to show off the new bod, and get liquored.
>>Cara-Zi She'd be amazing at tricking or scaring people, being a demonic goblinoid shapeshifter. All the attention on her would make her self-conscious, though... if it didn't trigger her <WANT> and make her go berserk. She'd need minding, and ZZ would be in no state to do so.
>What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy? I'm genuinely not sure who my favourite character is, but I'll go with Hawthrone from GCBC and say... The Man With No Name, maybe.
>Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive? I've always wanted to do it in my quests, but rarely found a good way to shoehorn it in, in-universe. Whenever quests actually pull it off, let alone at an appropriate time IRL, I'm always delighted.
>Halloween plans I'd love to have some, but all my friends seem to be busy with responsible adult shit, so maybe the pub.
Anonymous
When was the last time there was a halo quest run here?
Anonymous
Obligatory one of these, too. WhatCHOO plain', /qst/?
>>6121130 I'd check if suptg wasn't down.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
>>6121130 iiirc there's a quest named Halo: Wolfpack or something like that
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Sat 12 Oct 2024 05:18:01 No. 6121217 Report Quoted By:
>>6121216 >>6121216 >>6121216 Want to scratch that Halloween itch? Maybe you should see a doctor about that. But if you can't afford one, then there's always my latest quest...
Anonymous
>>6121130 Halo Wolfpack will return buddy, i trust in Thunderhead
Madoka Lust !!uMcIymkHwB1
Madoka Lust !!uMcIymkHwB1 ID:VSv2mdV8 Sat 12 Oct 2024 08:44:27 No. 6121314 Report Quoted By:
Capetians who can survive in a fantasy world?
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>QM question: >Player question: >General question: >Miscellaneous question:
Anonymous
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>>6120952 >Vote or you'll get tricked! Joke's on you, I already get tricked every day of my life.
>Got any Halloween plans? No.
I have no friends.
Anonymous
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>>6121377 >concert They can be a lot of fun, just try to have a good time and get in the groove of it. I hope you enjoy, Mr. Bananas!
Anonymous
does anyone know what's going on with the sup/tg/ archive?
Al-Kimist !Joa6/cTmpM
>>6121139 thank you again for reading my quest
Anonymous
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>>6121452 Thanks for running such a fun quest!
Anonymous
>>6121410 It got cancer from having an upvote/downvote system.
Anonymous
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>>6121506 >Upvote/downvote system An especially easily-abused one, too.
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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Things get real in this new Downerquest update...
>>6121561 >>6121561 Anonymous
>>6121145 >>6121146 >>6121273 Oh, I asked since I didn't wanna step on any toes/ to see the sort of dice mechanics/ rules were used for it, cause I've had a brain worm of a spartan 2 quest roiling inside of my head like a bad taco in the gut
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
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>>6121609 Let it out! Run that Halo quest! (if you know what the questers like)
Anonymous
>>6121609 If you run a Halo Qst, lemme get ughhjjhh... boneless lesser used Covenant & unaligned aliens. Maybe some Killzone stuff included for offshoot human colonies.
Anonymous
what is a good easy quest to run for a new QM
Anonymous
>>6121666 Like the three fringe species and the October 10th aggressors?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6121667 Start with a one-shot with some major fixed points and a clear ending. Maybe something with a bit of simple combat or, alternatively, slice-of-life to hone your narrative chops. That's my advice, for what little it's worth.
Anonymous
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>>6121667 Sonic the Hedgehog x Jojo's bizarre adventure.
Anonymous
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Anonymous
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>>6121809 Incorrect, you do not have the hate necessary to equal mine. Even as the anger has cooled off, a deep despising continues.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
>>6120981 Made a little quest for this little lady if you'd like to check it out!
>>6121718 >>6121718 >>6121718 >>6120952 >QM question: Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? I've got a few quests under my belt now. FMH, as stated before, would if he knew. Jack Jackson definitely does; he loves dressing up in costumes. He used to like trick or treating, but being a cyborg, there's little reason to. QTM knows of Halloween but doesn't care much for it. She would definitely play into it if someone she cared for wanted her to, though.
>Player question: What would your favorite quest character dress up as for Halloween? What's their favorite Halloween candy? This is tough. I can't imagine DIESEL CRASH dressing up as anyone specific. Maybe Batman. And man, candy? I'll have to ask Bones later, but I'll go with candy corn.
>General question: Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive? Before today, I haven't, but I'd like to do more! I love holiday specials... save one. I never thought I'd ever see Luke Skywalker with such heavy eyeliner.
>Lurker question: Vote or you'll get tricked! Yipes!
>Miscellaneous question: Got any Halloween plans? My girlfriend and I are throwing a Halloween party! We're dressing up, drinking a ton, and having a great time overall. Also making her a top-secret "boo basket". I'll take any suggestions on what to add to it.
Anonymous
>>6121818 Oh wow, a halloween quest, nic-
>It's a dyke hoe romance story Anonymous
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>>6121609 Won't be stepping on anyone's toes. More Halo is always good.
Anonymous
>>6121825 Does that FRIGHTEN you? OoooooOOOoooOOO!
Anonymous
>>6121919 Just not keen on playing as some manhating hoe.
Anonymous
>>6121825 >>6121921 It says she hates MEN. There's nothing to suggest that she doesn't like little boys.
BANE !!NTsLgRM9VP0
>>6121921 For the record, QTM doesn't hate men. In fact, most of her organization is comprised of competent men she respects. She wasn't a huge fan of being married because of a dower (I used the wrong term in the quest but let's ignore that), but she doesn't dislike the guy. She just doesn't find him attractive. I'm saying this now because this probably won't crop up in the quest.
>>6121929 Also, gross!
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 13 Oct 2024 04:10:03 No. 6122000 Report Quoted By:
God damn it, just as my update schedule gets back on track some madman decides to leak almost all of gen 3's beta pokedex. What the fuck lol. LET ME WRITE!!!
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6120952 DISFORTUNA continues. There will be a reckoning.
>>6121972 Also
>Miscellaneous question: Wait until after Halloween then get fat off of discount candy in bulk.
Anonymous
Does a Nightmare Before Christmas quest need a unique dice roll system? Im making one for a quest I’m whipping up based on it but I’m not sure if it’s worth it. Im making 1d20 roll system in which a 20 is a treat and a 1 is a trick. Both of which change the environment in ways, so always going for a 20 isn’t always the best option because the scenario goes to both the opponent and the player. Trick mean’s something negative happens to the environment. Of course it isn’t a fuck you level of good or bad more like both may get new rules to play and adapt by.
Anonymous
I miss elf maiden quest :(
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6121609 GOD PLEASE DO IT I LOVE HALO SOB
Anonymous
I can't even think of a Quest to run.
Anonymous
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>>6122049 >Does a Nightmare Before Christmas quest need a unique dice roll system? It doesn't. I haven't seen a system like that before. Will it be best of 3? If so, you need to think of the swings caused by critical rolls.
NBC is a setting I've never seen run before, would give it a try. Even though it's been a while since i've seen it.
>Should I ramble about the power system? Go ahead.
Anonymous
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>>6121992 Whether you say she doesn't hate men or not, if a quest started with a male nobleman character bragging about having affairs with servant girls, even if his marriage was arranged, that'd usually be a sign of him being a jackass womanizer and not something to be seen as positive. It wouldn't be a positive thing. Add that to her just not finding men attractive, and i fail to see a reason why i, as a man who doesn't hate other men, would be interested in such a quest.
Anonymous
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>>6122073 Run for president quest
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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I believe we need a tiebreaker in Downerquest if anyone is interested!
>>6122131 >>6122131 Anonymous
Anonymous
... Does anybody know what happened to suptg and when it's coming back up again?
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6122186 Folks checked into it and supposedly it's a hosting issue. Seems like it's just something that'll take a bit of time to take care of.
>QM question: Oh shit, where do I start?
>Stan Definitely. She's short and immature enough to still be mistaken(?) for a special needs child so she definitely goes ham on the candy. At least until Sybil wrangles her. Fave candy: Sour Punks!
>Diesel Dude gets invited to a few parties by his fellow classmates, but he usually works on Halloween so yea. He DOES have some scary movies he likes to binge every year, though!
>>6121818 here is right--CANDY KERNALS is where it's at for Diesel!>Anton Also tends to work on Halloween, but he has a bunch of scary games he plays to make up for it. Once tried to stream, but no one watched apart from someone who was clearly jorkin it to the crappy Vtuber avatar Anton wasted money on. Favorite Candy: FINNISH FISH!
>Player question: RALPH from DownerQuest would probably dress up like a WIZARD so that he could wear robes all day. Dude probably likes Root Beer Barrels
>General question: Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? The BONERVERSE is pretty parallel to our own, albeit with a few minor changes, so yea--they've got similar holidays and whatnot. As for Zoral in Dark Quest, well... we'll just have to see, ey?
In general though, I've wanted to write seasonal one-shots, but with how long quests last on the catalogue these days I'd rather not commit... maybe some day!
>Miscellaneous question: Moved to a new state recently, but we're goin to a Halloween party. Vidya, movies, candy, the whole nine yards!
While I'm posting, looking for a DARK and (maybe) SPOOKY quest? Join us as we draw to the close of THREAD 1 of DARK QUEST--a rip-roarin' fantasy adventure where you help the erstwhile protagonist ANTON PEAS try to find a way back home from a dimension where everything is shrouded in DARKNESS!
It's DARK QUEST, people! Come check it out--it's seasonal, kinda!
>>6095278 >>6095278 >>6095278 Anonymous
>>6122140 >Humans having relations with their pokemons What a bunch of degenerates!
Anonymous
>>6122222 Not just that, but humans having children with pokemon is canon. And not even just the mammal-likes either, there's a story about a dude who impregnates an Octillery.
Wild shit, really.
Anonymous
>>6122248 >there's a story about a dude who impregnates an Octillery Kind of sounds like a Rule 63 allusion to the poem/painting 'The Fisherman's Wife'.
Anonymous
>>6122268 They're all basically allusions to native stories, like the one where Arceus turns into a human woman and becomes pregnant with two twins from a human man.
But that doesn't change the fact that there are actual official Pokémon stories about Octilleries, Lapras and Rapidashes getting impregnated by human men.
Anonymous
Did something happen to the suptg archive site? Can't seem to access it.
Anonymous
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>>6122281 Based??
More seriously, it IS Japan. they might bleach their panties for the Western market, but I'm not surprised at all that they have/had such stories in the original draft for their own culture. 'Animal bride' stories exist in many cultures, and Japan has some pretty famous ones in particular with kitsune and such, right?
Anonymous
>>6122073 Cat in a Haitian neighborhood quest.
Anonymous
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 13 Oct 2024 18:46:10 No. 6122328 Report >>6122140 already on it
though I will admit I don't think I expected to be reading THAT much about Pokémon-on-human rape and I have some uh
I have a lot of cat videos to watch and a lot of uncomfortable worldbuilding to do
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6122522 Thank you!
Any idea how long it should take?
Anonymous
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>>6122612 Nah, and I don't want to pester the man personally. It'll work when it works. Nothing he can do to hurry it along, by the sounds of it.
Anonymous
>>6122072 I'm currently doing some reading and lore diving to make sure I've got timeline and details right, and working out the choices for protag at the start and what'd make them special (Since every spartan has something, like John's luck)
Currently, the two I'm certain would be on the list are an asian girl whose incredibly stealthy, And Sven the big motherfucker who could to look down on an elite after their augmentation
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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>>6122522 Good to know, thanks.
I kind of wanted to look something up there before reviving my quest, but it can wait a little longer.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Mon 14 Oct 2024 03:11:46 No. 6122692 Report >>6121139 ah man I missed this
thanks a lot for reading my quest, anon! I'm very glad you like it :)
as for what i'm playing... not as much as I'd like to, honestly. Two of the quests I was playing most recently died on thread 1 with a whimper and the other one I just haven't had time to catch up on. The new Pokémon leaks keeping me busy alongside crazy irl shit has helped nothing, and I just hope that God lets me have some time off soon lol.
What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before.
CoreQM !HQdLRxFnaM
One more time. After some delays (hope the archive gets back up soon, seriously), Core of Steel is back for a finale!
>>6122691 >>6122691 >>6122691 Anonymous
>>6122692 >What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before. Pirate Tier.
No it basically means "me."
ReptoidQM
>>6122692 >>6122698 >What's the "R" stand for? Never seen it as a ranking before. "R" for "ReptoidQM"
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Mon 14 Oct 2024 03:24:33 No. 6122705 Report >>6122698 >>6122701 ah, got it, makes sense. Didn't realize your name was Reptoid lol, I think you lost your trip for that post.
Anonymous
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>>6122705 I don't usually
deliberately ear it outside my own quest, but some folks have learned to recognize the style of my ranking posts.
Anyway, your quest is great. Keep up the good work!
Anonymous
Is it autistic to watch several documentaries and read a 200 page history book solely in preparation for your quest idea that'll probably get like 2 voters max?
Anonymous
Anonymous
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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>>6122729 Lurking
Not writing and running a quest
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6122695 KINO ALERT
KINO ALERT
Anonymous
>>6122729 I have been bashing my head against the next part of my quest for several months...
and absence has not made the heart grow fonder. Anonymous
>>6122729 Sit on an idea for a quest but not have the balls to go through with it out of fear it'll flop instantly
Anonymous
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>>6122729 I've been putting off starting my quest for weeks.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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funny, the new thread i created for part 3 of the Caretaker Quest (live now) pushed part 2 out of the catalog, poetic
anyway, as i was saying, part 3 of the Caretaker quest is now live!
your (not) girlfriend is VERY mad at you for being forced to grope a student right in front of her!
what will you do to calm her down?
vote now!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
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>>6121609 >>6122645 thats fine, we all like spartans here.
i am waiting for thunderhead but halo wolfpack is a different beast from what you have in mind. The missions we have done are mostly in space, while we have also done operations on ground and boardings with full command of the whole thing. From what you are saying we would be using a spartan II so not the same thing of a human like Norman, different perspective and missions.
>>6121666 >unaligned aliens more enemies to kill ? i don't see them doing anything else but staying neutral or doing opportunistic raids against humans.
>Killzone stuff genocidal bald innies flavor to be glassed/nuked?
Anything else would change widely things, an actual power would be difficult to make sense of. Innies where being kicked hard, and hunted down even harder by ONI (even the highly organized groups of innies Cole fought didn't do anything more than salvage/steal and modify old CMA ships or civilian ships, they couldn't produce anything of their own). When you add the Covenant is full cleaning up of anyone remaining in the Outer Colonies, or in less known colonized smaller outposts and the like especially if they don't follow the protocol or before it was implemented.
Anonymous
Forgotten, I summon thee! Bring back our quests! (Honestly, either one is fine)
Anonymous
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>>6122775 Which quest anon
CoreQM !HQdLRxFnaM
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>>6122754 Saving that, nice job!
Anonymous
The final post-weekend numbers are in. An even 500 suckers peeked in on the /qst/ board over the weekend for possibly the first time. 4 cents per newfag is not a bad rate IMO. I know I've noticed a few posts from anons who seem like they're new to the board.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Mon 14 Oct 2024 15:46:09 No. 6122991 Report Quoted By:
>>6122985 Thanks for your service.
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6122985 Fantastic haul of anons, anon.
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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You try to calm down. You're the calmest guy in the world...
>>6123076 >>6123076 Anonymous
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>>6122985 Good work, anon.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6122985 Doing god's work, anon. Atta boy
Anonymous
Easy addition to A-tier right here. Anyone in the mood for a spooky-season quest ought to check it out!
>>6121216 Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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>>6122985 i'll be honest, i never thought these could actually work, glad to be proven wrong i guess
Anonymous
>>6122729 I have infiltrated the spaces of the /qst/men. they do not know I lurk among them, a fake in their midst.
as a certain vampire sorcerer would say, tee hee hee
Anonymous
>>6123178 >Knows about vampire sorcerer >Still thinks he's not a /qst/man Assimilation was inevitable from the start.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Mon 14 Oct 2024 22:00:13 No. 6123191 Report Quoted By:
>>6123178 >>6123189 Yeah, congrat you're one of us now, wether you like it or not.
Now, show quest played.
Anonymous
>>6122985 shame it coincided with the archives being down
Anonymous
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>>6123206 Newbies wont know much about suptg anyway. Luckily, we still have archived.moe.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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i hate to be a bother, but i could use a tie breaker for the next vote in ther Caretaker quest
>>6122821 thanks in advance
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Mon 14 Oct 2024 23:59:00 No. 6123240 Report Quoted By:
>>6123121 I knew you still loved me. Thanks, blud!
Anonymous
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>>6122140 SOUTHERN KALOS IS REAL
XY WAS COMPROMISED AND SOLD GANGBUSTERS SO THEY JUST KEPT FUCKING COMPROMISING
I NEED A DRINK
Anonymous
>>6122729 I've become too invested in my own quest characters and world and don't know if I want to relinquish control of them back to the players by starting a new thread. I'm half tempted to rewrite as a novel or make it a videogame instead of continuing...
Anonymous
>>6123292 Many such cases. You must be prepared to 'kill your darlings' to QM or DM, moreso than even as an author
Anonymous
>>6123292 You like the characters because of the choices the players made, no?
Anonymous
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>>6123292 You better not be Forgotten (though if you are I'd read that, but also, I want to finish playing)
Anonymous
>>6123292 From someone who also wrote a world of characters that were quite influenced by actions my players made in an older DnD campaign I hosted, it does get tough. Do write down your own ideas on the side if you get the spare time; there's always the possibility you might use it in your own project, or some nuance the players miss might come back to bite them in the butt.
Though yes; like
>>6123299 and
>>6123298 say, it could provide the more meaningful story for the players who made it possible to begin with as well.
Anonymous
>>6123314 For me, the fun of QMing is in the emergent, unexpected details that emerge. Do I sometimes wish players went another route? Sure, but there's a weirdly-poignant authenticity is the (admittedly sometimes meandering or inconsistent) way players take a tale and direct a player character. I'm experimenting with (slightly) more predetermined and fixed MCs in my current quest, but even then the write-ins and off-the-wall choices of the players have helped characterize them and direct their story in unexpected ways. Same with dice-rolls: sometimes the MC fails when I'd sort of had a plan for their success, or vice versa, but that lend undeniable dynamism.
Anonymous
>>6123322 Ahh, yeah. As someone who both wants to start my own /qst/ even though I'm relatively new here, though also having a good chunk of experience through other means in the past, I've been trying to read through various quests to see what that good balance of write-ins to predetermined courses is; I prefer being much more open-ended with my stuff, though my biggest fear is, give too many choices or don't give any suggestions and then, boom! Decision paralysis. Happened with a Battletech group I tried hosting once.
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>>6123324 As a little treat, go read Black Company Quest or especially, Sworn to Valour Quest (though ignore the anons infighting for the first dozen threads on that one lol)
Anonymous
>>6123324 >decision paralysis Very valid concern. I've seen it take down quite well-written quests
RIP Troll Quest, RIP Strogga . Mainly, I'd caution you to have some form of flow chart or similar device and to have a plan for every default option you provide, to vet write-ins you have no idea how to handle or genuinely do not like, and to NOT do "write-in only" choices until at least a few weeks in, so that players can settle upon a baseline characterization and solidify a short term and long-term goal. If they're wishy-washy, don't be afraid to just straight up put it to a blunt vote like "What is your short term goal? What is your long-term goal?" I learned that in my first quest, and while I tend to leave things open-ended and even give players a chance to "back out" of choices or directions (to mixed reception) it's a far cry from my fairly directionless, argumentative Quest 1 Thread 1.
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suptg still down and the spam bs on the board. /qst/ has fallen, millions must goon to femcs.
Anonymous
>>6123332 Flow chart? Hmm, never really did that in any of my campaigns before; then again, for the most part even if I did offer choices and suggestions my main campaigns were mostly open-world settings. I always set up some basic worldbuilding as well as basic backstories if the characters are in some way predetermined, yet still looking for some last tidbits of advice before I finally start putting a quest out... actually, I should ask those right now.
For one, if the world that I've built has a 'magic' system that has a lot of specific instructions to it yet also allows for lots of fluidity, is it better to infodump the basic rules of various components as they're encountered and give the users a chance to explore each one, or just softly suggest some creativity through NPC interactions?
For two, I suck at art. Like, REALLY suck. I also don't believe in AI usage for my imagery (nor have the money to purchase subscriptions to the actually half-decent AI image generators), and fear that if I embrace the drawfaggotry too much, it'll ruin... iunno, it'd probably ruin something. Is that the case, or do I not need to force myself to learn FireAlpaca for now?
Thanks!
Anonymous
>>6123322 I guess a lot of character choices and development only occured because of unexpected player choice and rolls. Its just now that the baseline has been established and I'm invested its daunting that a drastic change could be made by the one or two anons that decide to vote or roll that day...
But if I don't offer meaningful choices I might as well just be writing a story or gameplay etc.
Anonymous
>>6123348 Just don't include directions you'd be fundamentally uncomfortable running, would be my thinking.
>>6123347 Lots of quests have no art at all, so you're fine either way. As for the infodumo vs. diagetic reveal, diagetic is almost almost preferable unelss its a very "gamey" (vs. CYOA style narrative focus) quest.
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>>6123371 >Lots of quests have no art at all, so you're fine either way. As for the infodumo vs. diagetic reveal, diagetic is almost almost preferable unelss its a very "gamey" (vs. CYOA style narrative focus) quest. Good to know I shouldn't need art except just some generic cover-photo.
As for diagetic, then it'll play out quite nicely. In the words of , I'll just 'let these newborn gods play with the tools I was gifted and let them mold the very universe that created them; that I created for them.'
Might begin to post it starting a couple days from now- just gotta finalize one important NPC.
Anonymous
>>6122729 Life got busy and I've been gone for a few months. I forgot some of the quests I liked.... Shame. Also why is suptg down?
Anonymous
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>>6123458 Any alternatives? It's kind of cancer trying to find all the threads I missed out on.
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>>6123466 archived.moe is the only one
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>>6123347 Is it better if you explain it step by step, and through the quest it self. If the info gets long, you can write a pastebin or more than one and put it at the start of your next thread for easy access.
Not an issue.
People will appreciate even if you use the draw function on your posts and make something basic, or even paint.
It will ruin nothing. You could make a basic stickman, and anons would appreciate that. A basic map with a river that is a blue line, its fine too. Most of the anons make simple images, which are still okay nobody will judge them for it.
No lmao.
And if you don't think you can make images, you can just search and post images that are close to what you imagine they don't need to be made by AI or perfect. If anons like your quest enough, they might make some images and post them. Provided there is enough info for them. You should check around different quests, for get a better grasp of what i mean.
Anonymous
>almost ready to make quest >can't actually start it because I can't find a single fucking good battlemap maker
Anonymous
>>6123526 Wonderdraft/Dungeondraft depending on whether you want outside or inside
Anonymous
>>6123528 Something free, anon. Something free.
Anonymous
>>6123529 Piratebay anon, piratebay
Anonymous
>>6123529 Inkarnarte is also decent iirc and has a free (albeit limited) version
Anonymous
>>6123530 I wouldn't know where you can pirate wonderdraft. It's not in any of the "game" pirate sites. Also, who df uses pirate bay in this day and age?
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>>6123531 Though actually, that might only be for overworld maps
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6123534 >he actually uses piratebay That place is literally the most virus ridden site on the internet.
Anonymous
>>6123535 I mean... if you're smooth brained as fuck sure but alright anon, fuck me for trying to help. Gift horse and all that you know?
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:bdBIuB8+ Tue 15 Oct 2024 14:50:50 No. 6123563 Report Quoted By:
The Prophecy Names Me, So I Post About A Recent Update In /qtg/!
>>6123553 >>6123553 >>6123553 >QM question: No Halloween in fantasyworld, enough demons as in. Were one to exist, Niklos would be the type to put a bowl of sweets outside the door.
>General question: No, it would probably be disruptive.
>Miscellaneous question: Too old and childless for that.
Anonymous
>>6123347 >magic I do not know how your magic system is structured and what you mean by "softly suggest creativity through NPC interactions", so it's hard for me to answer your question. Do you mean there's a set of predetermined spells and you'd offer them to your players while slowly introducing the option of changing the spells to their own tastes through NPCs' guidance? As opposed to infodump the rules and leave them to figure out their own methods themselves?
I think both approaches could work. There IS a subset of /qst/ autismos that love crunching numbers and optimizing builds, so you could get away with a rules-heavy system, but I'd say most would be scared off by the need to understand it to participate. Though you mentioned you'd introduce the rules as they're encountered, not all at once, so I think you're going to be fine whatever you do.
>art Art is not necessary. Neither collected images nor your own drawfaggotry. Though it usually raises the quality and attractiveness of the quest if present. If you decide to include them, it will take a lot of time, both drawing and searching for the perfect picture, be prepared for that.
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>>6123535 That's what the antivirus is for.
Anonymous
>>6123536 >say you don't trust extremely sketchy, virus-ridden site >anon immediately gets offended and acts like i insulted his mother Anonymous
>>6123580 >thinking you actually have to go to www dot the pirate bay dot com in order to pirate something Is this the zoomer incompetence I've heard so much about?
Anonymous
>>6123586 I'm not the one who said to use pirate bay and then acted like i was being "picky" when i said "no"
StoryQM !!Z0PfpckB+ac
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You have severe head trauma and don't know what to do. Fun!
>>6123574 >>6123574 Anonymous
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>finally have a day (that isn’t taken up by some unique event or a natural disaster and its consequences) free to do more work on the quest >don’t get any sleep
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>>6122985 Thank you for your service o great Spender
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>>6123457 >>6123457 >>6123457 The Graverobber's Daughter resumes! Chlotsuintha has lied and winkled her way into the common room of Cancer House Coachery, only to conclude that she cannot risk boarding stage or team here. Unfortunately, this was after the Keeper of the House was sent for - which necessitated folding herself up like a pretzel and hiding underneath an out of the way table. Where she is stuck for the foreseeable future, lest she let herself be discovered and have even more questions put to her that she cannot provide answers for. Currently, she is trying to listen into a conversation between someone she presumes is the Keeper and the concierge she herself sent to fetch the Keeper just minutes ago.
I need some anons to make some rolls. Also, a question for the general. If there are multiple rolls called for, would you prefer having them done all at once, then a big update, or would it be better to have updates for each of the outcomes of the rolls instead? I'm trying the latter at the moment, and I cannot tell if it is better or worse.
DDSQM
>>6123622 >>6123622 >>6123622 Aaaaaaaand were back, even if its a day or two late. Thread 2 starts with... Gay feelings? What the fuck, where is the murder and killing?
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>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? Mamoru would celebrate with his little brother every year. They would dress up in cheap costumes based on whatever show Masao was obsessed with that year.
>What is their favorite Halloween activity? Returning home and having dinner with the family before sitting down to watch TV together until Masao passed out.
>Are they a tricker or a treater? Treater, though once in middle school he did go out with some friends and egged an old man's house. He felt bad and cleaned the mess the next day.
He hasn't yet had a Halloween without his brother.
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>>6123627 Nice! Glad to see it back.
DDSQM
>>6121139 >>6122692 am i just retarded, that's just a B in a fancy font, right?
Anonymous
>>6123643 It's R because (R)eptoid is (R)unning the quest.
Anonymous
>>6123648 >>6123643 The bottom tier on my list does, indeed, have a fancy B. Now that you're on thread 2, you'll probably be an A soon enough. My personal, bespoke, kind-of-autistic ranking system goes:
>R, literally me >S, a quest I'd recommend without any reservation >A, a quest I really enjoy and would recommend with caveats (slow or sporadic to update, niche appeal even for this site, unusual writing style or odd pacing, lots of anons bickering and shitflinging, /pol/, etcetera) >B, a quest that I'm liking so far but which I'm not sure I'd shill too hard for just yet, because it's too new to tell if it will last, because it seems low effort/shitposty/ChatGPT-esque, it's pure coom, or some other reason Dead Site is good so far, and was only in B because it was new and had a few hiatuses. If it keeps going as it has been, it's easy A-tier. Which will be great! I keep getting invested in Digimon quests that just drop.
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>>6122729 I am partially if not wholely responsible for crashing several asoiaf quests.
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>>6122813 I feel the same way.
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>>6123653 oh thanks for the nice words, i just thought i was being a knuckle dragger reading a letter wrong i wasnt really questioning my grade. but ill always take a compliment
Anonymous
>>6122729 >Confess I've abandoned every quest I've ever run, even the successful ones, and I'm still thinking about starting another.
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>>6123766 Because it's fun and I'm an attention whore.
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>>6123588 No no, you're absolutely being a zoomer. As if pirate bay is some scary place chock full of viruses
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>>6123588 Any of the websites on torrentfreak dot com slash top-torrent-sites are generally safe so long as you have an ad blocker. Browsing the internet without an ad blocker is like fucking Tijuana whores without a condom. Don't make a habit of it.
Anonymous
>>6123586 >thinking you actually have to go to www dot the pirate bay dot com in order to pirate something how was he supposed to download the thing without entering the site ?
Anonymous
>>6123762 soj is that you ?
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>>6123774 I've been using p2p since 1999 and I've never used a website interface for pirating. Any decent torrent client has a native search engine that you can add sites to.
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>>6123775 no, but he may as well be
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:mMJlTIKH Wed 16 Oct 2024 01:00:25 No. 6123858 Report >Art: Jonathan Hickman >Alt-Text: A Diagram of concentric circles. At the center is labeled Nick Fury. Other circles bear the names of members of Hydra, the Secret Warriors, the Howling Commandos, and Leviathan. Five circles with Xs are labeled US Event, UK Event, Russian Event, French Event, and Chinese Event.
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Suptg web page is back up but still broken. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
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>>6123858 Avengersquest is go??
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>>6122729 I counted a vote early to get the result I want.
Anonymous
>>6122729 I sometimes samefag in a thread to avoid ties or meet a minimum vote threshold. I also occasionally change my legitimate vote to stuff I don't necessarily support for the same reason.
I can tell the QM gets extremely annoyed when delays like that happen and I don't want to see him pissed off when it feels like he really enjoys running the quest otherwise.
Anonymous
[b:lit]Testing[/b:lit]
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6124052 As long as you are the thread's OP poster, yes.
You can also do [blue]and[/blue] but sadly no strikethru or other colors. Wish we had more. You have no idea how many characters I want to have yellow dialogue text.
Anonymous
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
>>6124057 >>6124057 >>6124057 My new quest here. After realizing i was being retarded and thinking of a map as a drawing, I realized i quite literally had professional cartography tools at my disposal.
Check it out, maybe?
Anonymous
>Player question: Considering that my favourite character is Pokepocalypse's Thomas J. Steele, I am betting on good ol' Uncle Sam. 100%
>General question: I love quests being a little festive. I do want this festivity to be seasonally appropriate to in-quest time. I dont want the characters be scorching during New Year's or something like that.
>Lurker question: Wish I could tbqh. Suptg is still having a hard time showing me any quests at all.
>Miscellaneous question: Might go to some party in a ridiculous costume with friends, but I'll probably go entertain my American friends by being unacquainted with the holiday. Such is life for a European in these months.
>>6122328 Average Japanese work of fiction, really. Just because it has been hidden doesn't mean they didn't write the gross shit.
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Wed 16 Oct 2024 14:58:15 No. 6124071 Report Quoted By:
>>6124053 I yearn for purple.
Anonymous
>>6124053 ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶s̶a̶d̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶u̶
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6124081 It's 𝘢 forbidden m𝘢gic, reserved for the wise.
Anonymous
>>6124088 It's 𝐚 hidden m𝐚gic, reserved for the wise.
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>>6120952 >Player question: If she had to, she probably would just dress up in her normal work attire, aka light merc armour. If that wasn't an option, she'd probably just get a weapon and look like some sorta slasher, the burn scar she has probably helps with that. As for her favorite Halloween candy? Caramel apples.
>General question: Not really. No.
>Miscellaneous Read the above.
Anonymous
>>6124091 I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶a̶n̶g̶e̶r̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶t̶f̶o̶r̶m̶,̶ ̶s̶p̶r̶e̶a̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶a̶m̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶s̶a̶g̶a̶c̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶e̶n̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶r̶e̶h̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t.
Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
>QM question >General Question >Miscellaneous question
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>>6124070 European folktales and mythology are not really any different in regards to weird animal/monster marriages. The Japanese are just less ashamed about the sexual parts of theirs in the modern era, while Westerners try to scrub that stuff.
Anonymous
>>6124186 Stay safe and thank you for running Enclave Remnant Quest!
I'm grateful you've told us about this instead of just disappearing quietly.
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>>6124056 I can't say, I've already given away too much.
Anonymous
God I just want the Exalted quest to continue
SpookQM !!a7Six4EVOK+
[b:lit]This[/b:lit] [red]is[/red] [blue]a[/blue] [i:lit]simple[/i:lit] [green]test[/green]
SpookQM !!a7Six4EVOK+
>>6124325 [vermillion]this[/vermillion] [fuschia]test[/fuschia] [chartreuse]has[/chartreuse] [cerulean]failed[/cerulean]
Anonymous
>>6124325 >>6124327 First of all, your notation was right on your first try. The issue is that you need to be a thread's OP in order for you to have perms to use things like [i:lit][/i:lit]. The only special text you can do outside of your own thread is
A spoiler Anonymous
>>6124329 Thanks very much Do you, personally, like fantasy or sci-fi better?
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>>6124336 Personally, probably fantasy. Both are good, though, and I think that sci-fi has more 'great' literature than 'fantasy' in the modern sense, for what it's worth
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>>6124386 >>6124386 >>6124386 Solarpunk Update! Where you find some very delightful yet unwelcoming guests - can you earn their trust?
>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? What is their favorite Halloween activity? Are they a tricker or a treater? Fiona is a southern German girl worshiping pagan gods (as revived by a nwo government) so the closest thing on the calendar would be harvest festivals. Though Walpurgisnacht is a German/Norse holiday of repute, it's also a Christian one and thus avoided like the plague and it's in the wrong half of the year anyway.
>Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Do you wish there was more of that sort of thing, or do you find it disruptive? I don't, though I might write doodle her in a halloween costume or something if I can, dressed up was my other QMC, Tristram.
>Got any Halloween plans? October has been and continues to be pretty packed for me as I just came back from a trip and will be taking a second trip starting the 25th past Halloween into November, so apart from Halloween festivities there, nothing really.
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>>6124068 I will be going to sleep now but I'd appreciate if someone were to break the tie by the time I woke up.
In retrospect, I guess the option was too open.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Thu 17 Oct 2024 02:42:18 No. 6124430 Report Quoted By:
Obligatory spooky update for Poképocalypse as Halloween draws near!
>>6124426 >>6124427 Nah, just kidding, it's just convenient timing. I completely forgot the season when I was writing this lol, I just wanted to have some practice with trying to portray really primal fear when faced with the unknown.
Could've done better, but I don't think it's too terrible for a first try. Anyways, assuming my body stops waging war on itself and I can sleep well enough to drive again, updates should REALLY be back to normal from now on. Cannot believe the string of luck I've had the last 10 or so days, it's a serious shame. At least I can finally write again.
Assuming I didn't just jinx it. The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:sYzzfBtS Thu 17 Oct 2024 02:51:29 No. 6124434 Report >>6123858 >Writer/Designer: David Sexton >Alt-Text: Comic art of a psychedelic poster illustrating a chain of different dimensions. From highest to lowest: Cosmic Concordance (The Well Beyond the Worlds, The Sacred Suns of Cinnubus, The Many Moons of Munnipor, The Realm of Dreams,) The Archipelago of Anguish ( The Realms of Nightmare, The Splinter Realms, Otherplace, Veils of Valorr, Dyzzak, The Sevenfold Citadels of Sephiroth, The Winding Road), The Consecution of Colors ( Raggadoor, The Purple Dimension, Krimson Kosmos), Flickering Realm, Serpents Sea, Avalon, Astral Plane, The Crossroads, Earth The Inner Planes >Dialogue Sample: Mark Waid The Mystery Intrigues Me
Atlas Event in T-Minus 5
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>>6124434 Marvel Tarot? Interesting...
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
Quick question:
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T̶e̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ m̶y̶ t̶e̶s̶t̶ w̶i̶t̶h̶ a̶ b̶i̶g̶ o̶l̶' t̶e̶s̶t̶
Anonymous
>>6124514 It's busted. The owner is working on fixing it, but there's not much he can personally do. If you need to look something up in the meantime, use archived.moe.
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>>6124531 RIP.
I take a short break from running Pokemon Trainer Quest and when I come back, it's to the archive being down. Figures.
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
Though, that does beg the question - how are threads getting archived right now?
Anonymous
>>6124535 They're not.
That is, outside of automatic archive uploads like archive.moe.
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
>>6124536 Guess I'll remain on hiatus for the time being then.
Anonymous
>>6124319 I've never seen any Exalted quest updated after page 3
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Thu 17 Oct 2024 07:59:18 No. 6124544 Report >>6124537 And I'll wait for your return. How's life in Stralia?
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
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>>6124544 Not bad.
Bit stormy last few days.
Work's been pretty damn dead.
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>>6124514 direct links to archived threads work, I haven't tested archiving new threads
Anonymous
>>6124186 Rip. It was a great quest, too bad it's over. Putting down a protest, killing NCRs left and right, prolonging the conflict between BOS and NCR, the ranger duel, killing tons of ghouls, all our deception, keeping heat levels low, the whole exodus plan, finding other cells, stealing and disrupting the Shi plans, the internal politics, the tactics, our squad, the Granite trial, our family. It was cool, i am glad i played it. I really liked us using all those tactics at the Red Rain base. From the mines and bomb, to using that police car, to killing that giant mutant beast. We cleared that place through every trick we could think of, getting a considerable amount of stuff for our people lots of weapons, equipment, armor and even some vehicles. We even managed to save somewhat the ZAX computer and get a brief talk with the enclave in the east.
And all the other plans we had in mind for future missions, fun stuff. We would have tear through that prison when it was time.
>Will I QM again at some point? A solid maybe. Doesn't really sound like you are in a great period for make other quests in the immediate future or future at all. Thats the impression i get from reading your post, maybe i am wrong. Good luck, whatever you end up doing and stay healthy Warden. Thanks for making Enclave Remnant and running it.
>>6124189 Its better that never saying it yeah.
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>>6124128 Z̶̡̧̧̧̨̛̞̫̼̟̙̝͚͕̜̤̤̝̹͍̝̜͎̤̭̜̳̘̮̪̖̺̹̘̥̪͉̭̯̠̝͈̹̘̥͓̣̯͇͊̈͋̐̈̄̂̽̀́̎͊̾̓̎͛͋̊͛͗́̃͒̾̀̐͒̃̃̏̀̄͛͊̄̓̈́͒͋̎̄̇̽̌̇̑͘̕͘͘͜͝͠͝Â̴̳̠̾́͋̑̌̀͗͑͗̇̓̊͋̄̾̃̏́̑̀̍͑͛̈́̈́̑̕̚͘̚͝͠L̷̨̧̨̢̧̡̡̛̛̼̱̗̫̣̫̙̱͖͖͙̮̘̙̦̹̝͚͙̪̖̩̜̠̹̟̠͓̥̤͇̙̜̰̙̩̠̭̱͎̘̬̤̭̺̭̫͇̈̈́̽̌͑̀͆̀̓́̃̀̈͜͜͝G̶̨̢̨̢̡̢̡̢̛̺̯̗̹̩͕̹̟̟͙̟̭͙̬̞͍̮̙̩̻̱̠͕̜̖̙͍̰͔̦̩͔̝̙͙̠͍̘̝̹̗̪̳̥͙̫̩̬̣͔̼̯͚͍͕͇̙̺̭͉̼̭̮͓̘͙̯̗͍̼̝̻̝̬͓̜̺̍͐͛͐̒̉̔̿̇̈̋̀́̈̔͊͊̓͊̃́̏̃̐̽̔͒̇͌́̀͒̒̋̎͂̎̀̊͛̏̎̄͗́̋̒̿͒́̀̑̊̄͑̐͆͑̽͐͑͌͗̆̑̿͒̉̆̓͛̒̋͋̋̿̀̐͋̿͐̐͐͛̈́̇̊̍̊̉̃͐͒͌̓̐̌̍͊͐͗̏̎͆̀̾̈́͋́̚̚͝͠͠͝͝͝͠ͅÒ̴̧̢̨̡̧̡̡̜͇̣͇͎͖̖͓̗̮̞̪̘̰̙͍̦̗̞͇̩͍͔̘̯̖̞͖̘̜͍̼͍͓̞̼̳̤̻̳̘̮͎̤̫̫͕̣̘̙̱͇͚̯͕͌͜͜͜͜͠ͅ
Anonymous
>>6124543 It had two good threads by Loom, which took an interesting turn. He managed to finish the second thread at a good spot shortly before it was archived. I just keep hoping to see the third, that this mfer didn't die in a hurricane.
Anonymous
>>6124591 I'd ask a link to archive, but...
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Who is the most heroic /qst/ MC?
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
>finally make the first proper update to my quest >mfw can't use the text colors because my IP is dynamic
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I've started a quest about an ill-fated space voyage and trying to make the best of a deteriorating situation.
>>6124601 >>6124601 PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:XPj3AEfR Thu 17 Oct 2024 15:28:48 No. 6124683 Report Apologies for the request, but would anyone be willing to give my quest some constructive criticism?
Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
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>>6124554 I wouldn't say never again, but the near future is very unlikely yes. This year has been very hectic at work, things have slowed down but God only knows how long that'll last. That having been said it's less my job being the issue and more personal struggles. I'm on an upswing in that regard at the moment, last couple of months have been pretty good in regards to me doing creative works. Actually started drawing again after years of not doing it and the tabletop game I'm running has been one of the most fun I've run ever.
So who knows if it will happen, but never is a long time, probably too long for my impulsive ass.
Anonymous
>>6124683 I like westerns, so your game has been a fun read.
I try to have an idea of what will happen after the next update for each option the players are given; i.e. if they have the choice between fighting and running away, I'll try to brainstorm the possible consequences of winning the fight, of losing the fight, and of running away, and frame the current update in such a way that each of these potential outcomes can flow organically from the current situation, and that none of the potential outcomes are going to be something I'm unhappy about.
Anonymous
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Any interest in a Emperor’s children loyalist trying to survive the istvaan atrocity
archivebro
>>6124683 For a quick pulse (since I happen to be one of said anons and I still have a backlog) I can confirm the level of worldbuilding is fine. You still have scope to go either more or less detailed to attract different subgroups of anons, so if you feel your personal worldbuilding fix vs. effort involved equation is unbalanced then you can adjust it and likely pull in a new anons to replace those who may lose interest. You only have two threads, after all.
If you’re personally content with your output then you can also leave it as-is.
Discussion does tend to die down at different points depending on the crowd. A narrative-heavy quest likely won’t get much talk during combat-related scenarios since anons as a whole will try to keep things on-topic for the quest. If the quest itself is goofy, open-ended, civ-style, or the QM shows they’re comfortable with shitposting then it might get more constant discussion since nothing is ever really off the table, but your quest is a lot more character-driven than that.
Anonymous
so what is the deal with the do your best quest? why are there so many threads up at the same time without hitting limit in any way?
Anonymous
So it seems the archive is back up and running. Everyone should check and see if it's on for them as well. Maybe let any threads about to fall off know.
Anonymous
>>6124717 This board has a "fun" quirk where threads automatically autosage after five days. Some people don't like this, because it filters out anons who use the default 'sort by bump order' catalog setting. I would guess that's part of the QM's decision.
Anonymous
>>6124723 only a psycho would do sort by bump order on the catalogue setting on qst though
Anonymous
>>6124683 I'm still enjoying it, though I'm eager to see more of the world developing and our boys Buchanan and Steele making their place in the new paradigm. Keep up the great work!
>>6124599 There's a fair few. Buchanan from Pokepocalypse is a good shout. Reynauld from Kobolt Klan and Elliot from Disappearing Hogwarts are both solid options, too, since they're genuinely good guys in over their head and fighting ancient evils with the help of friends and loved ones. They often display pronounced unselfishness.
Or Hippo from Seven Against Thebes in the more classical sense.
Anonymous
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>>6124747 You'd be surprised at how many anons don't know you can change the catalog order, or the color scheme, etc.
Anonymous
>>6124608 Is there even any way to deal with this? Seems like you're shittoutta luck.
Anonymous
>>6124793 Formatting is nice, but you can run a quite serviceable quest without it. Software limitations are part and parcel to the /qst/ experience!
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
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>>6124722 Cheers for the PSA. Working again for me.
New Pokemon Trainer Quest later.
Anonymous
>>6124599 I daresay Avae. He's sacrificed a lot more for the Hegemony than other Supremes by staying in the closet. He consistently sticks to what is best for the whole when what's easy or desireable would be something else.
A quiet hero.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6124793 I wish i knew.
>>6124817 It's not going to stop me, but it does really put a damper on it because shit like bolding and italics are very much great for texts. Especially in a quest based on strategy like mine where readability is very important.
Anonymous
>>6124847 You are extremely lucky I don't wanna bring a thread specific argument into QTG because this is so wrong it actually offends me.
Like I'm not even talking about /qst/ as a whole since that would be too easy.
Anonymous
>>6124855 My nigga just spit your shit
What's this place for if not talking about quests, would you rather somebody bring up mousetraps as a tangent metaphor for something and then have Souv talk about esoteric bondage porn themed around mousetraps for five posts?
Anonymous
>>6124857 Alright then
>Oh WOE is me! I, the most powerful man of my race, am FORCED to be slightly careful about my fetish that violates the very legitimacy of my rule. The Supreme who willingly marched to certain death after finding out his society was being manipulated by an cyborg intelligence? The supreme who basically sacrificed his life for a woman he didn't even actually love? The Supreme that had to murder a grown adult as a child and then decide the fate of billions yet again as a literal child? They suffered NOTHING compared to the utter pain of not being able to have gay sex in public. Truly, I am the most heroic jaxtian to have ever existed. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go make my citizens be miserable and poor on purpose because an AI told me it'd give me some dank tech in the future. Anonymous
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>>6124793 >>6124852 As for changing to a static IP (so this won't happen again), it should be in your modem settings. Usually you can access these by dropping your own IP into your browser and logging in with your network's admin password.
Anonymous
>>6124683 I get a little confused on some of the "action" posts, I don't understand some of the movements even if I understand where everyone is when the vote comes up
Anonymous
>>6124862 >They suffered NOTHING compared to the utter pain of not being able to have gay sex in public. Who are quoting?
Anyways. Sure, there have been a lot of heroic Supremes, some perhaps moreso than Avae. I'm sure I'd find one or two if I went through and reread the whole quest. Akule would probably be one. Avae however has willingly sacrificed decades of happiness. That's certainly something.
Anonymous
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>>6124599 Probably Muna, her whole MO is exterminating evil in basically any form.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Fri 18 Oct 2024 00:16:09 No. 6124874 Report >>6124695 >>6124705 >>6124748 ah, alright, thank you for the feedback! I didn't know about the combat bit especially. Was under the impression that combat sections were actually where most of the discussion took place... I guess it depends on a quest-by-quest basis.
>>6124868 Thank you, too, though can you elaborate? I think I might know what you mean but just want to confirm
Anonymous
>>6124870 >Who are quoting? I'm making fun of how you're acting as though not being able to be a fag in public is some sort of great sacrifice on Avae's part. He didn't even stop doing it, he just did it in secret.
Like, fuck man, the entire legitimacy of the Supreme comes from being the "best genetic specimen" and he can't even be bothered to have a focken kid because he's too much of a prancing lala homo man. Not that he'd be able to raise one well given he's so selfish he refuses to so much as take a wife for reproduction purposes even though that's the literal sole "noblesse oblige" he has as a glorified high noble from a powerful family.
There is nothing heroic whatsoever about Anae. He's not even doing the whole "care for the people" bit well he was supposed to lately.
Anonymous
>>6124847 He's not even the first closeted monke, or the first monke to sacrifice romance for his position. I don't mind him at all, and I give no shits that he's gay, but the guy isn't even a good boyfriend.
>>6124870 >Akule I mean, he's sure a GREAT monke in terms of objextive achievements and level of influence. He's a CULTURE hero it that he is essentially worshiped by his species. I struggle to imagine a definition of heroism that encompasses Avae and Akule at once, though.
I'd be inclined to call Eoba II the most overtly, traditionally heroic Supreme. The other ones
>>6124862 referenced was Val Takar from Thread 2 or 3, I believe. Hass also has soemthing of a heroic arc, and even Wrix, is we're going by a definition of heroism that doesn't penalize genocide, torture, rape, slavery, etcetera, which is the only way Akule is getting in.
Anonymous
>>6124878 >no wife, no het-sex, no genetic continuity I always did find it weird that Kima and her predecesors needed to be groomed/steered/raped to preserve their super duper genetics in an authoritarian society with cloning. The Hegemony should really just be force-cloning or taking amndatory sperm and ovum samples to avoid issues with mate-selection.
I assume it's something to do woth flaws or imperfections in the cloning process, or something, to facilitate the narrative beats.
Anonymous
>>6124879 >Wrix, is we're going by a definition of heroism that doesn't penalize genocide, torture, rape, slavery, etcetera, which is the only way Akule is getting in Eh...I wouldn't call Wrix heroic either. He was literally just handed the Supremeship, then all he did with it was genocide hundreds of billions. He didn't even properly kill all the Hazaar, which was the one fucking race everyone wanted dead, while murdering the ones no one had an issue with. That's why he went out like a bitch begging for help because he didn't want to die of carbon monoxide poisoning while Akule the lad literally fucking set himself on fire after he got too old.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6124882 >always did find it weird that Kima and her predecesors needed to be groomed/steered/raped to preserve their super duper genetics in an authoritarian society with cloning. The Hegemony should really just be force-cloning or taking amndatory sperm and ovum samples to avoid issues with mate-selection. Well first of all indigos only got invented during the game, by which point the houses already existed for millenia. Also, you're forgetting the issue of raising them. They're not just having children, they're raising them. At that point you might as well just do it naturally.
Also that was an option, I'm pretty sure. Making everyone an Indigo. We rejected it.
Anonymous
>>6124888 >indigo issues We had that tech by the time issues like Kima or, for that matter, Avae the Gay came up. And it's not about making EVERYONE Indigo... Literally just people like Avae who don't want to have reproductive sex and have the authority to not be forced to, or someone liek Kima who's genetics (not how she's raised, just her genetics) made her a super important specimen. There's no stated reason we couldn't just steal her DNA, stick it in a lady-monkey who actually wants to fuck our zombie ex-president and is a good mother, and still have our golden child. I assume there's SOME reason, but we don't knoww what it is.
>>6124884 Eh, fair. I don't really like him, but he WAS the first Blonde Supreme, the fiest Unsoekable since the OG, and struggled against the odds from a young age. He got handed the Supremacy and fucked up on certain key issues, but he also permanently (?) subjugated the rbeellious instincts of his species and created a new age fo monkey prosperity. I wouldn't call him a hero, but he has done more than Avae thus far.
Anonymous
>>6120952 How much is too much with roll modifiers? How far do you guys go and what do you like to see in quests? I wanna do something with simple RPG stats, the stats gatekeep spells but i also wanna give some incentive with roll modifiers so it feels like there's something more tangible there too.
Anonymous
>>6124890 >We had that tech by the time issues like Kima or, for that matter, Avae the Gay came up. And it's not about making EVERYONE Indigo Well it's kinda missing the point isn't it? Raising the next generation is basically like, the one fucking reason the elites even have to exist at this point. They create the next generation of high tier monkes to help the hegemony. And in exchange they get the best resources out of everyone else. Even if they could use their DNA, they're still kinda rejecting the literal only thing they had to do.
>WAS the first Blonde Supreme, Doesn't it kinda suck to you that the first blonde Supreme wasn't someone who deserved it but someone who got handed the Supremeship literally because he was the closest person? Like he wasn't even chosen for being good or anything Kima just went "Hey here's the crown, take it or whatever, I'm out"
Anonymous
>>6124890 I wonder if Bananas will give us an option to have Avae gene splive up a baby Monke with Fim?
Anonymous
>>6124915 >polluting an elite genetic line with some literal who homo Why?
archivebro
>>6124874 For an example of a quest where the combat provokes a lot of discussion then you can take a peek at the duels in Magically Challenged. It offers a good contrast.
The way to think of it there is the combat is a puzzle, where each side has a large variety of spells, the number of potential interactions is equally high, and the MC is too weak to have a simple “I win” combo. At least through the first thread, that is, as I haven’t started the second.
Puzzles, by their nature, are going to provoke discussion so long as the solution isn’t obvious. More complex combat systems have a greater chance of creating a puzzle out of encounters, driving discussion for those interested in “solving” them.
A fair number of quests I’ve read, yours included, are much simpler in what the best combat strategy is at any given vote. Write-ins can inject some chaos into the mix, but your system has to actively encourage and reward/punish such behavior in understandable ways if you want that to somehow be the sole engine driving combat conversations.
It’s perfectly fine to not have that though, you can get discussion going through non-combat scenarios such as when the sheriff kicked us out or we step into a town and try to decide what to fix first. You like your worldbuilding, focus on providing opportunities and depth to interactions with said world. Everyone wins that way!
Semi-related, I have no comment on how you do your action posts since I 100% skim them mentally even as I read every word. My brain makes zero effort to retain such knowledge unless I’m actively picking it apart for a clue or something. Not a knock on your skills, more a knock on mine.
Anonymous
>>6124916 As a singular act of selfishness later in his reign? Perhaps an expression of "I've earned this?"
Anonymous
>>6124918 >singular act of selfishness Lol. Lmao.
>Perhaps an expression of "I've earned this?" "Well, after a long life of purposefully impoverishing my people, I think I earned the right of going against the principles of my nation even more than what I already have"
Anonymous
>>6124920 >>6124916 We get it, you hate the gay monkey.
>>6124893 >Raising the next generation is basically like, the one fucking reason the elites even have to exist at this point. I thought they were arbiters of culture, and formed a managerial/administrative/officer class?
>>6124915 I'm not convinced Fim or Avae would be uniquely good parents, and Avae doesn't even seem to like Fim much anymore.
Anonymous
>>6124927 >We get it, you hate the gay monkey He's just an incompetent ruler in-universe.
>I thought they were arbiters of culture, and formed a managerial/administrative/officer class? They're noblemen. The hegemony denies it but that's what they are. But rather than having a "noblesse oblige" of being competemt honorable and fair, they just have to keep pumping out high quality kids.
Anonymous
>>6124933 Avae is only as competent or incompetent as the voting base. As for the second point, that's not been my reading of the social role of the noble families, personally, but I'll cede simply because I weary of discussing monkey-business
and have an update of my own quest to write .
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Fri 18 Oct 2024 01:43:56 No. 6124937 Report >>6124917 >Semi-related, I have no comment on how you do your action posts since I 100% skim them mentally even as I read every word. My brain makes zero effort to retain such knowledge unless I’m actively picking it apart for a clue or something. Not a knock on your skills, more a knock on mine. Nah, it's fine, I admittedly skim them while writing them lmao.
I've never been one for combat, I find basically kind of it to be boring to read and and it's quite hard to write. I like the puzzle-y combat that you mentioned the best since it's quite engaging, but I am nowhere near the level where I am able to make most combat encounters akin to that. I will definitely try in the future when there are more mon and more moves to play around with, though.
I'll definitely check out Magically Challenged. Everyone's been raving about it and my brain is giving me that fomo itch lol. A vote of confidence from you is just another selling point, so thanks for sealing the deal. :)
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>>6124927 They do seem to be growing distant. I suppose staying closetted had consequences too.
Anonymous
>>6124936 While he could have been less incompetent if the right choices won (mine) it is still how he acts. People cheered when Wrix died pathetically pathetically though he only became unspeakable because of a vote.
But fair enough. I've argued enough. This is kinda why I didn't want to start.
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>>6124937 If you made all your combat like MC duels then I’d probably burn out. Those are something you build up to. It’s like the difference between a wild pokemon battle vs. a gym leader battle, if everything were the latter then the only ones who could stick around are the romhackers.
Meanwhile I’m the weirdo who does pokemon quests when the last pokemon game I beat was Pokemon Yellow, and I last played Pokemon Silver. There are many anons who could contribute to high-level pokemon quest combat and team build strategies and I am definitely not one of them. I beat down the Elite 4 entirely with a Blastoise that had both Earthquake and Hydro Pump and no PP-restoring items, that’s how bad I was back then.
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>>6124940 I liked Wrix. Wierd how he didn't kill off the Hazaar. Sucked he went out like that.
Anonymous
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archives are back up
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:pUFd9+pG Fri 18 Oct 2024 02:47:04 No. 6124987 Report >>6124434 >Writer: Jonathan Hickman. Designer: Tom Muller >Alt-Text: A chart of 18 circles numbered 1-18, arranged around a central circle with an X inside. X marks the Spot
Atlas Event in T-Minus 4
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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In case any of the players who played my Fate Akeldama redux quest are still around, it's back on the board
>>6124998 Anonymous
>>6124937 >I've never been one for combat, I find basically kind of it to be boring to read and and it's quite hard to write. I know this feel as a reader, which is why as I writer I tend to be less granular or specific about action, reaction, play, counterplay, as a tactical ballet. Instead, I try to capture the feeling that always sticks with me in a good fight, drawn or written:
The particularly victorious blows or terrible, painfully-punished errors.
The rise and fall of confidence and anxiety as momentum turns towards or against the hero.
The sensation of losing track of a foe only to refocus, to react just in time to avert catastrophe.
To spot a chin in the proverbial armour and exploit it perfectly, or to miss the shot and curse a foe's escape to menace you again.
That sort of thing.
>>6124940 I think the difference in perception is that most of the controversial things Wrix did or didn't do weren't part of a direct vote. Avae hasn't ever really gone against a player vote like Talacent or Agori did, nor dramatically superseded and advanced beyond our initial decision on his own initiative. He also hasn't really gone against initial player perception of him as Hass did; when he went back on his "man of the people" thing, it was only because WE, the PLAYERS, told him to. Apart from being gay, Avae really hasn't done anything players haven't demanded of him, for good or ill.
>>6124987 Such enigmas!
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Fri 18 Oct 2024 05:44:07 No. 6125070 Report >>6120974 I'm friends with the nigga. It physically pains me to be the bearer of bad news, but Loom has decided to discontinue the quest. He's uninterested in the current climate of /qst/ and finds it unfulfilling to run quests these days. He was actually an old head from the glory of the /tg/ days. From his perspective, /qst/ is dying a slow and painful death and he no longer wants any part in it; running a quest is a lot of effort for minimal engagement and isn't particularly enjoyable these days as he described it.
I figured I should let you know since he doesn't want to announce the end of the quest himself, as he didn't care to post here any longer.
Anonymous
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>>6125070 Yowch. I can understand not really wanting to run here anymore, but not even wanting to post to say goodbye to your players of months or years? That sounds personal. My condolences to his players.
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>>6124937 >>6125049 The nice thing about running a Drawquest is the ability to direct more action-focused scenes to drawing, which is still not easy since you have to actually draw them, but it takes the load off writing them as much.
If you do insist on wanting to write highly physical and frenetic scenes; I highly recommend Robert E Howard's works, especially Conan, as much of the writing is directed to very physical sword based combat and I think is pretty good at that. But the strength of writing is in the senses other than sight and sound, so focusing on those is key to good action.
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New update for The Caretaker Quest is up!
and...is that *gasp* a hint of romance i see?!
how will you react to it this uncharted and slightly awkward scenario?
no votes this time, this time (You) have full freedom to chose whatever you want!
come and write down your answer for this (possibly) romantic scenario!
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Solarpunk update! You found children! It is a crime to adopt them because they're part of overpopulation! You hate the government!
>>6125149 >>6125149 >>6125149 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Fri 18 Oct 2024 12:14:11 No. 6125182 Report Quoted By:
Normal cultivator quest is back online
>>6125175 TrashQM
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>>6124948 >>6124948 >>6124948 The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha has avoided the search of the Cancer House Coachery's common room, and is now in a desperate bit to sneak her way to the stables before Machares, the Night-Keeper of the House works his way there, and speaks to the night-grooms. If he does, then getting out of the Coachery with your stage and team is almost certainly going to be magnitudes more difficult. Unfortunately, Chlotsuintha has gotten as far as she can with the limited concealment the common room offers on the most direct route to the door she came in through, which leads out onto the yard. She must either commit to making the final stretch without cover, remain in cover while heading further into the house, hoping for an alternate route to the stable, or take action against Lucullus, the unfortunate concierge who has been ordered to remain in the room and keep watch.
Before that vote though, I need some anons to make some rolls.
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:B10TbO4S Fri 18 Oct 2024 21:07:47 No. 6125373 Report >>6124987 >Writer (W): Jonathan Hickman. Pencils (P): Ed McGuinness. Inks (I): Tom Palmer. Colors (C): Chris Sotomayor.Letters(L): Dave Lanphear >Alt-Text: A chart of the Western Zodiac. Each sign is labeled with a person >Vasili Dassaiev. Alias: Magadan Title: Capricorn. Affiliation: Leviathan. >John Garret. Title: Aquarius Affiliation: SHIELD. >Shoji Soma. Alias: Hand Grandmaster.Title: Pisces. Affiliation: Hydra >Name Unknown. Alias Unknown. Title: Aries. Affiliation Unknown >Cornelius Van Lunt. Title: Taurus.Affiliation: Independent. >Nick Fury. Title: Gemini. Affiliation:SHIELD. >Baron Stucker. Alias: Supreme Hydra. Title: Sagittarius. Affiliation: Hydra. >Jake Fury. Title: Scorpio. Affiliation: Independent. >Timothy Dugan. Alias: Dum Dum. Title: Libra. Affiliation: SHIELD. >Name Unknown: Alias Il Professore. Title: Virgo Affiliation: Independent. >Name Unknown. Alias: Kraken. Title: Leo. Affiliation: Hydra. >Viktor Uvarov. Alias: Orion. Title: Cancer. Affiliation: Leviathan The World Turns on a Broken Wheel
Atlas Event in T-minus 3
Anonymous
>>6124892 Some of my favourite quests are those without rolls kek. They're hard to pull off though due to the need to introduce a high level of puzzle-strategy or drama to make choices meaningful, so I include rolling even in my own. With modifiers, I'd say so long as it's clear which modifier comes from where and they're built up gradually, it's okay to include as many as you like. I think your question is similar to
>>6123347 anon's in that regard, which I answered in
>>6123567 this post.
You have to be careful, however. I tried making complex systems in the past, but always ran into a wall of scaling with the power level of the character and relativity in regards to impact of the dice. Basically 1. making leveling up and obtaining new skills feel meaningful, introduce new moves/mechanics while 2. fitting them into a d100 roll and 3. making sure they provide equal power for high and low DCs. Because if you introduce e.g. +2 modifier from leveling up, for DC = 50 it means a 4% increase in success chance while for DC = 90 it means a 20% increase, you've got to keep it balanced somehow. And when they build up to large numbers, unless you do really small increments (which contradicts with "meaningful leveling") or do rare level ups (which I don't like because I want to provide constant dopamine +SKILL +NUMBER shit), the d100 roll is made irrelevant. I feel like progression in some of the quests I'm making is an aspect that is as important as the drama and plot, and I can only run for a few threads without the characters growing in power too much. I tried fucking with exponential modifiers and weird-sided dice but failed.
You have to keep these problems in mind and solve them somehow to construct a good system of modifiers. I myself have long since resigned to a simple Bo3 1d100 against a guesstimated DC, sometimes tiered. ig roleplaying systems solve it somehow but I'm too adhd to read rulebooks, browsing and taking note of their solutions to these problems lmao.
tl;dr this is all just me going off on a tangent about why I use simple rolls.
If you mind sharing your experience, have you made an elegant system and how? I'd like to hear more about the modifiers and skill+stat stuff you have in mind.
Anonymous
I wonder if there are QMs who use different IDs to discuss their quest like a player.
Anonymous
>>6125409 I've done it in the past. Drummed up interest for my most popular quest by shitposting about it negatively in QTGs back in the day.
Anonymous
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>>6125412 What would you even call that? Shiltposting?
Anonymous
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Handler QM, Cleaner quest when?
Anonymous
>>6125409 I’ve done it simply to vibe with my players. It can be fun and stir up discussion if used correctly.
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>>6125450 I guess but in my specific quest it would be too OP.
I guess it'll have to wait for my character centric quest.
Anonymous
>>6125409 I did it in my old quest from time to time, but mostly to clarify a correct someone else's misinterpretation of an ambiguous event with the intent of canonically declaring anything. I think one situation was
>anon: so we're doing weird time bullshit? how are we seeing our own character from the start of the quest >me(anon): weird space bullshit. this place is an instance, whenever nobody's looking it goes back to normal, and normal is us being here. we are outside of it because someone else removed us from it. I haven't done anything with my current quest yet. Any clarification would be spoilery.
Anonymous
>>6125408 my idea is just a simple RPG stat system so strength, speed, defense etc. The points are allocated like any old RPG. Lets say you have 1 strength, well you have a +1 modifier for rolls that require strength based solutions, max out the modifiers at +10 and keep it situational so the incentive for modifiers stays.
I am thinking of doing either a power level thing like Dragon Ball or maybe a simple level system from RPGs, something to show differences between an opponent so lets say the gap the gap is like 5 levels well now you have to roll a 3d100. You have to win 2/3 DC to get a minor victory, meeting all the DCs is a major victory, meeting only 1 of the DC is still considered a loss, crits are still a thing but only apply to the first dice. Multiple DCs means the probability is not in the PC's favor. I'd still keep the simple Bo3 1d100 from time to time. I might also want to figure out how the PC might lose the modifiers if the battle is hard enough but maybe not as the multiple rolls would make having modifiers more valuable and maybe the DCs would test for different stats so anons won't just minmax one stat and actually have to spread out the points.
If i wanna do the level or power level thing i can either use the level difference or use a percentage difference formula to calculate how hard a fight can be so if it's a difference of 10% then anons have to succeed with 2 DCs or i'll just roll a 4d100 that anons will have to beat with a simple Bo3 1d100.
I don't wanna overcomplicate it and force everyone to take out a calculator, i want this to be on the backend and make it clear to everyone how these DCs are coming out
Anonymous
Saw a guy with this hairstyle tonight.
>>6125506 Why go anon instead of clarifying as qm?
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>>6125635 Honestly that reminds me, I spent the better part of two or so months working on developing a system for the Nasuverse that was meant to simplify the act of rolling while also providing built in progression. Strong characters were meant to feel strong, but it had means to overcome them under the right circumstances. Or at least that was the intention. I even made an encounter and experience tables, as well as got around to mapping out every potential unique skill/talent that I figured could be applied generally.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mX9WWpztD36Q9Ke833tnkEq7hr0JtcPTLDqpj8dL7QE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1csnzWIetsrqWNFJWAmwsRL_OjLuOrXMbRgCKjShv96w/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hd74oqdTTi30_2V08pUIMyln1A65F9TvtqLxYspbgzs/edit?usp=sharing This was the thing I was rather excited to try out but held back on back earlier this year when I was trying to finish Enclave Remnant Quest. Mind you it probably could use a good bit more refinement, but I did do some numbers crunching and built some characters from the actual setting and most of them fell where I would have expected them.
I'd say the skills document is probably the weakest of them, mostly because it's incredibly difficult to define all those skills within the constraints of a single gameplay system, at least when you're just one person that is. I think the way skills work in the system is fine, I just never quite got around to smoothing out the specifics for each one from the setting specifically. Honestly would probably be better to ignore them and just come up with a more limited set of skills within the bounds of whatever quest is being run.
Now to be honest I'm still tempted to run a game using these rules, but if I never get around to I'd prefer them to be out in the wild so that if someone takes a liking to them wanting to try them out they can do so. The whole point was for them to be used to have fun so if someone can that's great either way.
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>>6125671 For reference to the links the first one is the rules in general
the second one is the experience charts
the third one is the skills.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 19 Oct 2024 13:24:33 No. 6125680 Report Quoted By:
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>>6125070 Jesus Christ this breaks my fucking heart man, he felt like a really good writer. I can't fucking stand how short some of the updates of other games are I wanna read progress for God's sake not choose breakfast cereal. That first thread I was breaking out the custom prompts left and right with suggesting Kaya stay with Jet's fiance instead of just running off and we got that nat20 on the letter with the bonus it got. Another for bargaining with the little demon bug for a secret which led Jet to getting the demon summon paper, his altered destiny revealed, and ultimately to being a GSP. I could tell he really wanted Jet to be a Green Sun Prince and switched my vote to make it happen lol. It did end up having some really fun payoff too.
The Szorney powers were really great, combining it with the weird exalted gun thats almost more like a flamethrower he could reload with the extra limbs. Trying to design his outfit and Loom was thinking along the same lines with longer sleeves so Jet could hide the limbs, or how his alchemy would be good for smoke for cover. Couldn't get as many custom prompts in cause it takes a bit but managed a couple like calling out the shapeshifter on being an escaped slave. Even though I had pushed for enslaving the fae I didn't really have any idea what to actually do with it. Could perhaps have made the shepherd boy into a full on antagonist. Tried to get people to go for Lilith since she seemed fun. I was looking forward to whatever deal Jet was hopefully gonna make with Lilith so he could secure some support after the fight with the other GSP in Hell, which was excellent.
How depressing. Atleast he didn't die in a hurricane so thanks for letting me know. Tell him I really appreciated it. Perhaps discord really is the way to go.
Anonymous
> there was a rapeman quest last year where joker gets the crazy raped out of him > todd philips made it canon
Anonymous
>>6125070 something weird happened in july. /qst/ lost like 50% users and never recovered
Anonymous
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>>6125070 >didn't even tell people nah, he's a bitch. a little bitch. If you can't even have the common courtesy to tell people who've been reading your stuff for such a long amount of time you're gone and it's not even for any reason other than 'I dont feel like it', then you're just a little bitch.
t. didn't even read his quests
Anonymous
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>>6125694 I stopped running price *dabs*
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>>6125408 I essentially took Simple D6 and scaled it up to a d20. DC 15, sometimes modified by circumstances, and leveling up a skill means rolling additional dice. If any of them beat the DC, it's a success; higher rolls or 20s are critical/exceptional successes. If none of them pass the DC it's a failure, and a 1 with no successes is a crit-fail. It's worked pretty well for a few quests, and has the added benefit of making crits more likely and crit-faiks less likely the more skilled a character gets.
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>>6125409 Closet I did was launch a quest with a different OP name to hide the twist it was in the same universe another one of my quests
Anonymous
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>>6125409 Closet I did was launch a quest with a different OP name to hide the twist ending that it was in the same universe as another one of my quests
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>>6125657 It's an odd matter of reader autonomy and freedom to have interpretations. If I clarify anonymously, I am encouraging discussion and having people explore the ideas mentally because that "anon," to the readers, has just as valid an interpretation as theirs. He could be wrong, but what if he is right? This gets people thinking about it, and that's nice.
If I clarify as a QM, I am shutting down the conversation and leaving it open only to questions and comments because my word is law in this context. The readers get their answers, and the mystery dies. Useful, but you shouldn't shortcut around things that develop useful skills, that just makes lazy and dumb people. I already try to write in a very forward and clear fashion, so I don't want my own commentary doing the thinking for people when there's so few things they can sit down and wonder about.
Of course a lot of it swings around what is being clarified. Literal moment to moment happenings and room structure and shit is done as QM, but insights into a character's actions or words need to be handled with care as to not spoil any developments.
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>>6125693 He didn't get the crazy raped out, just the happiness and the fight. :( Arguably it started with realizing how badly he affected his coworker, anywya. The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:k7eny20P Sun 20 Oct 2024 00:51:53 No. 6125997 Report >>6125373 >Map: Ta-Nehesi Coats & Manny Mederos >Alt-Text: A Map of Wakanda, an African Nation to the west of the lake Nyanza. It contains several fields rivers and lakes and mountains including Mena Ngai, The Great Mound From Above it Fell
Atlas Event in T-Minus 2
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Heads up for anyone following Disappearing Hogwarts, we're updating again! Elliot is ever closer to going hunting dragons with his girlfriend!
>>6125956 >>6125956 >>6125956 Anonymous
can I make a quest about gay vampires
Anonymous
>>6126053 You can make a JJBA quest, yes.
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Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Sun 20 Oct 2024 03:17:51 No. 6126094 Report Quoted By:
A brand-new character who no one has ever seen before is introduced!
>>6126008 >>6126008 XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6126119 COMBAT IS OVER!
I learned to not use TRPG rules on /qst/ - hard earned lesson bought with wasted time.
We're back to the narrative at least.
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Guh. Gonna resume Star Wars Interregnum tomorrow evening. Didn't want to do it yesterday when I've got a business trip out of town and I couldn't immediately update.
>>6120952 >>QM Question...gonna answer as "Testament of Tatamu" >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? Sinleq gets a bowl ready for trick-or-treaters, but doesn't do anything too extraneous nowadays beyond getting a pumpkin-flavored beer at the neighborhood potluck. But Babylonia at-large does have a very strong All Souls Day.
>What is their favorite Halloween activity? As a child, making costumes with his father, Sinbad. He has a fond memory as a child of being the "pilot" to a PUEXO costume that his father wore. But they haven't done anything like that since the death of Sinleq's mother, Itani.
>Are they a tricker or a treater? Treater. Sinleq is too straight-laced to be a tricker, even if he does like to tease his friends.
>>General Question Nothing insomuch as a side-story about observing the holiday that may or may not see the light of day.
>>Misc. Question Gonna watch either a horror movie or the last of the Rurouni Kenshin films with BolivarQM on the weekend of. He used to run Gantz Quest DC back in the day.
Day itself, probably finish the last of my Oktoberfest beer and hand out candy to the kids.
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>>6126056 It's more of a bisexual vampire story.
Anonymous
>>6122729 I run a degenerate yuri quest on akun, baiting civ autists with the civ tag. Except at this point it might be more like baiting yurifags and myself into spreadsheets.
Send help
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>>6125070 If that's how he feels, then may he find happiness on his new path.
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>>6126053 Sure, I recently gave up on being a homo so you can take my mantle
Anonymous
I wanna run my first ever quest here, but I have no engaging ideas that would require little priorhand knowledge or too much effort from me. I can try and run something like capeshit, but something tells me I can fuck up even that without providing sufficient mechanical depth.
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Anonymous
>>6126244 That one looks like the easiest to run. My other idea was running a V20 VTM, but I don't know if anybody cares for WoD properties anymore.
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>>6126053 any quest about vampires is a quest about gay vampires. but yes you can, and should.
Anonymous
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 20 Oct 2024 16:11:27 No. 6126303 Report >>6125694 I thought you were pulling this out of your ass for a moment but i've noticed spots of time where /qst/ is just dead. Properly unmoving.
Just this morning the entire board had no messages for nearly 20 minutes straight in any thread, and my thread (with the last response having been 10 hours from the time) was still in the second row of "last replied". The third or fourth row had threads in it that hadn't been posted in for over a day.
It's especially odd because isn't summer supposed to be /qst/'s downtime? From what I understand the place is most active during December/Winter break times and least active during summer breakish. Yet somehow the board seems significantly quieter now than it did even back in July.
Weird.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6125997 >mfw it turns out Wakanda are also colonizers >>6126180 Sounds like you've got things well in-hand.
>>6126239 >>6126246 I'd play either. Vampire-themed capeshit sounds kino, if you merge them. Urban Dhampir Quest when?
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>>6126308 Yo, that reminds me of that Crimson Bat greentext, where the Malkavian acted like a classic noir esc super hero. That shit was the bomb
Anonymous
>>6126303 Stv isn’t running.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 20 Oct 2024 17:58:28 No. 6126371 Report >>6126365 I can't tell if you're being serious. Is a single quest really that big of a draw(/has it been in the past)?
Anonymous
>>6126371 STV is the biggest quest on the board. That and monke.
Anonymous
>>6126308 The idea was more sandboxy - everybody votes on a starting difficulty that determines your EXP and Generation, then select a general archetype and a clan from which the character evolves and shenanigans occur. I am making some plot hooks before trying anything, but I think it's more interesting if the quest would be player-driven with the occasional plot happening to get involved in.
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I just realized all I know about gay vampires comes from a gay vampire quest I played on the other chan.
Anonymous
>>6125694 This isn't just /qst/. You can go to 4stats and check the activity of every other board for the past three years and you'll find the same decline. 4chan is dying.
If you ask me why I think it's because Zoomers prefer to have brains melted on TikTok rather than on Bhutanese basket weaving forums like us.
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>>6126414 I think its discord too, lots of people leaving 4chan to join discords
Anonymous
>>6126402 Worth a go, but my personal advice is beware of being TOO sandboxy at the start of a quest. Sometimes, new quests get players with very different directions for where they want to go and how they want to play, and inconsistent vote attendance can lead to a MC behaving (put mildly) erratically. I, personally, would suggest a vote or two early on to establish a baseline personality and a broad objective. Just my personal experience.
>>6126414 4chan also developed a reputation for being a right-wing political space in the big dumb culture war, at the same time more modern and mainstream alternatives like Twitter/X and even Telegram or Truth Social were competing in the same sphere. I think it's a market-share/attention-share thing.
Anonymous
>>6126436 Yep, that's what archetype is for. The idea is having a loose plot with little railroading.
>reputation for being a right-wing political space Politics in general made this place lose users because it slowly infected other boards and refused to be contained. People take discussions on /v/ as an excuse to argue about stupid shit, and a lot of people don't really wanna waste time.
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>>6120952 >QM question: I don't have a current MC. Perhaps for the next quest idea I have, they might. I don't know.
>Player question: Good question, but I don't have a favorite. I guess the MC from Banished Quest comes to mind. He strikes me as a candy corn type of guy. His costume? Probably a Rhynian.
>General question: I tend to write whole stories/quests based on the current holiday theme. I actually DO wish there was more of that, whether whole quests like me, or little nods and winks in-thread otherwise.
>Lurker question: I rarely vote.
>Miscellaneous question: Plans? Doomscroll, practice Spanish, write. Rinse, repeat.
Anonymous
>>6126246 I'd play WoD, just with something other than vampires. Especially if it's redone to give werewolves the edge for once. I hate how in MOST vamp vs wolf media, the former has main character powers and the latter is the whipping boy.
That being said, I had an idea for my own quest. Just not sure how I'd go about it. I know I wanted to do something involved dreaming/lucidity/surrealism, but I don't want it to be too open like
>>6126436 said, but also not a railroad (
>>6126440 ). So far, I only have the power system written up. I think it's farily original or at least not-too-often-done-here tier. But I'm mostly concerned about my shit writing talent. If I get no bites or feedback on this post I might just pay Kaz to run it. IDK.
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>>6126454 >>6126454 >>6126454 The situation turns for the worse in Fog of War as your artillery is destroyed by enemy mortar fire.
Anonymous
>>6126459 >Especially if it's redone to give werewolves the edge for once. Werewolves are rapists on WoD, though their strength may depend on the edition. In V20 at least, their war forms are immensely powerful, with ability to tank damage and regenerate mid-turn. They become less threatening for low gen vampires who have OP stats and disciplines of their own, but they can quite easily scare the shit out of neonates, and appropriately, have to fight tougher enemies.
Anonymous
>>6126459 Wolves fuck up vamps in OWOD. Saw a cocky, munchkin'd to hell combat beast gangrel decide to pick a fight with a baby, literal starting character wolf, glassware I think, who had just underwent the first change while the gangrel had somewhere over a hundred xp + bonus dots
Gangrel only survived cause the wolf didn't realize a torn in half vampire melting into the dirt wasn't dead
Old world of darkness wolves shat fury on all but the creme de la creme of vampires
It was funny seeing the power gamer shit themselves when the ST told them the wolf healed all of the damage they had dealt them in the first round immediately though, especially cause I and everyone else told him not to fuck with the furry
Anonymous
>>6126466 Tell me more, anon. Can you lay out the mechanics of this for me?
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>>6126474 The post above tells you everything. Garou in OWOD have multiple forms they can shift into, all with a different purpose. There's the semi-wolf that looks like a human with animalistic features, war form that transforms you into a traditional werewolf, and the wolf form that turns you into the animal.
They all confer different advantages, but war form is easily the most dangerous one. Being able to casually inflict aggravated damage (Supernatural damage in game terms) is huge, and these motherfuckers are also tanky, fast, regenerative, and can use a form of disciplines of their own that are basically spirit powers given to them.
Their weakness against silver is insanely debilitating, however. They're also rare because they're terminal retards either fighting each other or failing to protect Gaia from Wyrm.
Anonymous
>>6126466 >>6126471 Not sure if you're both memeing. If not, then based, but I recall vamps > wolves because of the following... (keep in mind, I'm applying general vamp vs wolf convention; not just WoD)
- wolves die of old age (vamps do not)
- vamps can sire more vamps easier than wolves can gain new pups (I think they have to bang a non-wolf as a human?)
- vamps don't NEED blood (wolves NEED food)
- in later works, vamps typically don't have sunlight weakness (you know the one; ironically in that though, the wolves are actually OP as hell to the point that vamps had to genocide them all)
But at least in WoD, wolves get to control when they transform, rather than being at the whims of the moon. Just don't like seeing vamps get all the cool shit. Even in later works where they each get a special snowflake ability, and regen as good as or even better than a wolf because silver wrecks wolves (and only not having blood for a million years wrecks vamps). But I'm not as well-versed in WoD as I once was, so set me straight if I'm tarding up my knowledge.
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>>6126474 While it's technically a werecrow power, werewolves can learn it as well. The power is summoning a miniature sun in your palm
That effects vamps just like the real thing, and can be used like a laser. This is just one way they dunk on vampires, who stay in cities partially because the wolves just fucking kill them if the go into the boonies.
Werewolf the apocalypse is just several power levels above vampire the masquerade until the wacky, ancient blood god levels of bullshit you only see if the ST is feeling funny or decides to throw some fucker who saw the great flood to punish the Malkavian for being too annoying.
And don't get me started on the were coyotes and their forced gay rape bomb magic power that they are mentioned in universe as using it for cheap laughs at the expense of innocent fuckers. The were coyotes deserve genocide
Anonymous
>>6126479 Bigger numbers or immortality doesn't matter when Garou can kill you right now and here, and in order to deal with their bullshit, you need to gorge yourself on your brethren until your funny gen number gets low. They're described as killing machines for a reason.
Anonymous
>>6126479 Doesn't matter, wolves have ways around it through spirit pacts
Wolves have to breed with wolf blooded (man or wolf) or they produced sterile deformed offspring there by RAW are the strongest choice between human, wolf and werewolf born PCs
Vamps need blood in Wod or else they frenzy/ torpor
Unless the vampire has enough fortitude dots, sunlight kills them dead quick
And wolves can control it, in wta, but death rage is a thing and has killed a lot of vampires who thought "hurrrr, ill ambush and alpha strike the lone werewolf what could go wrong?!?"
Anonymous
>>6126485 >>6126487 I see. So then, which is stronger out of the two: Garou or Ananasi?
Anonymous
>>6126488 Ananasi have poison strong enough to instantly cause aggravated damage that cannot be healed in combat, and may leave permanent injuries if untreated for too long.
Anonymous
>>6126488 Spider. Their abilities are whack even amongst shifters. Swarm form makes them practically immortal in the true sense of the word, and having a blood pool in addition to the standard Wta mechanics makes them goofy broken
Like that one exploit using human sacrifice to turn a high gen anarch lick into the equivalent of a fucking anteduvelian
Anonymous
>>6126492 >>6126494 >vampires getting rekt by wolves and spiders Why do we not have a quest of either of these two up yet? Why no love for anything other than vamps if the shifters go THIS hard?
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>>6126499 We had Rage Against Pennsylvania...
RIP Anonymous
>>6126499 I dunno? Running vampire games in OWOD is easier, and it helps a lot that character are far less broken and grounded than the bullshit some other races pull.
Shifters are also mostly jobbers compared to mages, the true munchkin race. These motherfuckers go from being D&D tier to ascending into Buddhahood and erasing your pathetic existence with a thought.
Anonymous
>>6126503 >Buddha I've changed my mind. I want MtA now. I very much like the "put in the work, become god" trope. Some Cradle series type shit.
Anonymous
>>6126499 Because Garou are team killing fucktards who ruined everything and are the reason the world of darkness is such a shithole. And spiders are glowies working for an insane and abusive mother in a huge fight with her on and off of.
Wererats are Irish car bombers. We're snakes tricked everyone into think Gaia needed dancers (they're actually gaias assassins), the were lizards are sad cause ancestral memories and can be kaiju if they want to be or dragons, were cats are every flavor under the sun and also oppress and kill themselves and other shifters like the wolves, were coyotes can go fuck themselves, werebats got killed because werewolves got racist at seeing something bat like, were bears got killed because they refused to give the rage tard wolves the power of resurrection, the wereboar got killed because they could cleanse wyrm corruption and wolves didn't want to admit they had a lot of wyrm corruption in their ranks. The were crow are the get of fenris' bitches. Weresharks are autists who just do nothing but swim and kill normies
And the were foxes are gaias perfect princesses who burst into fucking flames if a vampire bites them, killing them both and are canonically the creator of the shifting breeds favorite children
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>>6126510 Oh yeah and there are also were hyenas. Who are oppressed by the lion strain of werecats, that's all they have really
Anonymous
>>6126507 It's entirely possible, and low-level MtA is easy to get a hang of.
>>6126510 Real gigachads play Abominations and roll willpower checks everytime they want to walk or breathe.
Anonymous
>>6126515 How do mages attain enlightenment?
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>>6126515 Reminds me of that one werecroc abomination that's employed by pentex as an expy of barney the dinosaurs.
He eats children
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>>6126507 MtA is great, been running it for the last couple months. That said everyone kind of has to agree on what each level of a sphere does when mixing and matching to make spells. Or at the very least I guess in a Quest the QM has to lay out very clearly what they do.
Be interesting to see what kind of paradigm qst would come up with.
Anonymous
>>6126516 They achieve such great understanding of their sphere that they ascend to dot six, becoming an Archmage. Other bullshit follows, like additional dots and the Golden Path, and I frankly forgot most of the lore on these things. But, in essence:
>"Man, I don't like these limits. I know I am capable of more." >Ascend with help of your paradigm >Become insanely strong, to the point that one-shotting a Methuselah or an Antediluvian becomes an actual possibility with a degree of preparation >Also realize that Consensus works even worse on you, and the next Paradox you'll roll might be your last Anonymous
>>6126518 >>6126521 Man say, y'all better come up with some MtA in here. For real. You all missing out on ALL this heat. Maybe you not ready for that. I dont know. But you're missing some fire with MtA not being on the board.
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Captain Gāo has to make a decision about priorities... or not.
>>6126539 >>6126539 >>6126539 Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
>>6126522 MtA is something I'd be interesting in doing a quest of, but there is no way I'm running one while I'm also running it on Table top.
Mage is not something I can handle a double dose of, great system love it to death, would drive me utterly insane if I had to run more than one game of it at a time.
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>>6126558 I will say though I am working on my own setting that's inspired by WoD, and specifically focused on Mage the Ascension as the point of inspiration, and it's one of the things I'm workshopping for a quest.
That, Nasuverse, and a Heian era JJK quest are the ones I'm workshopping.
Anonymous
>>6126522 What is MTA? I assume it's not a game about trying to keep those damn vandals away from your Redbirds.
Anonymous
>>6126574 Mage: The Ascension
Anonymous
>>6126156 Tagged you on Twitter/X.
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>>6126522 Like the poster above pointed out, MtA can be quite heavy just on GM due to amount of tardwrangling you need to pull. I ran some games and feel like it's achievable in a form of quest, since it'll be multiple people potentially trying to pull off something stupid or fun.
You can always try the meme approach and limit Arete to 2 for a while and watch your would-be mage fail every roll.
Anonymous
>>6126471 >Wolves fuck up vamps in OWOD. Saw a cocky, munchkin'd to hell combat beast gangrel decide to pick a fight with a baby, literal starting character wolf, glassware I think, who had just underwent the first change while the gangrel had somewhere over a hundred xp + bonus dots >when the ST told them the wolf healed all of the damage they had dealt them in the first round immediately though, I dunno, this smells a bit fishy.
was the gangrel not dishing out aggravated damage using protean? because garou can't auto-heal aggravated damage. if the gangrel player was a 'power gamer' and as high level as you're saying and had popped their claws, even a moderately strong garou is going to have a bad time.
garou are tough but there's no way in hell that scenario should be happening in that one-sided a way unless everyone involved was running combat wrong.
Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
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>>6126614 They could come back from that, but it's not exactly likely that they would, I'd be surprised if a no exp werewolf had enough rage out of char gen and the luck to actually survive a Gangrel with 100+ exp and bonus dots. Would just be extremely lucky if they did.
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Mon 21 Oct 2024 01:09:40 No. 6126660 Report >>6126576 This is why one must abbreviate it as MTAs or MTAw. Because MTA alone could refer to Mage: The Ascension or Mage: The Awakening.
Anonymous
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>>6126660 >Magic: The A-gathering The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:pUFd9+pG Mon 21 Oct 2024 02:44:32 No. 6126705 Report >>6125997 >Chart: Jonathan Hickman >Alt-Text: A chart detailing a sequence of labeled circles. In order: Machine, Hive, Intelligence, a dividing line, Tehnarch, Worlmind, and Phalanx. A line connects The Technarch and Phalanx circles. [Come/Together]
Atlas Event in T-Minus 1
Anonymous
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>>6126614 Oh the power game rolled like shit lol
Anonymous
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>>6126705 Doing anything with the "One Below All/Green Door/Eldest" cosmology expanded by the last few Hulk runs?
Anonymous
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>>6126371 It's pretty damn big yeah. It's one of the only games I play here these days (though I acknowledge there are definitely other good ones). But yeah STV draws in huge amounts of players and posts
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>501 posts >574 posts >568 posts >525 posts >566 posts
Anonymous
>501 posts >574 posts >568 posts >525 posts >566 posts
Anonymous
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>>6126371 Not really. Last thread ran from July to September and had 1250 replies spread over 2 months. That's 21 replies per day. Nothing game changing
Anonymous
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>>6126375 Monke is 26 posts per day. Better than stv but nothing impressive
Anonymous
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>>6126246 I quite enjoy WoD. Bloodlines was very enjoyable
Al-Kimist !Joa6/cTmpM
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I had to take a week off because my ankle was killing me, but I'm back and updating Al Kimia Story again.
>>6116909 Anonymous
>>6126765 Oh it's like an anthology where the MC changes somewhat often? That's cool I dig it .
Anonymous
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>>6126780 Run a quest, invite your friends. if you're in other roleplay circles, let them know what you do here.
buy more ads Anonymous
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>October 21st >No updates on UTUTU Quest
Anonymous
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>>6126308 Well, yeah. Strong empires will usually push outward, even if only to secure their borders, then to prevent bandits from beyond those borders, then to provide law and build security for those communities outside their borders to stop the re-emergence of Banditry; then to secure their new borders which incorporate this newly wealthy area and defend them from the next bandits further on..
Anonymous
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>>6126879 Nah not quite, we accidentally got the MC killed in the first couple of threats because of a hubris and the QM not pulling punches.
I'd say we learned out lesson but we still do a ton of crazy shit and just barely scrape through sometimes. Still though, Emile (the current MC) is going strong and has really developed as a character. It's been an exciting, wild ride and I can't wait to get back into it.
I genuinely recommend you check it out.
It follows 1 MC and his retinue, various people that come and go depending on what the goals of those characters are. There are a few mainstays (including our squire especially) but really, no one is guaranteed to stay with us forever
Anonymous
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>>6126879 If you like anthologies with multiple MCs, I'd suggest:
>Simple Space Empire >Supreme Space Monke Ruler >Untamed Civilization Project Technically, my quests do this on a more gradual scale, with:
>Reptilian Infiltrator starring the OG
>Dragonborn Antipaladin focused on her son
>Seekers of the Esoteric wherein players control the boyfriend/research assistant of the last two MCs' cousin
>Cambion starring Reptilian Infiltrator's other kid and her doppleganger who was created during Seekers
Lodestar also has multiple MCs, but simultaneously active and alternating between threads rather than sequential.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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Solarpunk update!
>>6127062 >>6127062 >>6127062 After many warnings and murmurs, whispers and stories, you meet the faces of they who are why you are here in this pit. It finds you in its chambers where peace must be unbroken and spares your soul and body its immediate just wrath. Do not press Lorppo's mercy, overdweller.
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:Ituaesy4 Tue 22 Oct 2024 00:24:40 No. 6127081 Report Quoted By:
>>6126705 >Design (D): Jay Bowen >Alt-Text: A stylized logo reading "Marvel Ultimate Universe" ATLAS EVENT IMMINENT
ATLAS EVENT IMMINENT
The Great Wheel is Broken
The System has Fallen
The Age of Marvels has begun.
Who will be The Ultimate Civilization?
>>6127076 Anonymous
this is a test post do NOT respond
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Tue 22 Oct 2024 05:09:27 No. 6127241 Report Quoted By:
The number of human-type mons in the party has doubled!
>>6127236 >>6127236 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
does anyone else style up their offline docs for their own pleasure
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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>>6127286 i did what i could with my google doc, mostly because i dont have microsoft word in my laptop and i dont want to reinstal it just for this.
i made the pages a dark-ish gray to minimize the blinding white that google docs has by default and wont let you modify, i also have a couple of colored lines at the bottom for reminders
Anonymous
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>>6127286 Google docs
Black background
Grey font
Anonymous
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:Czq1C9uT Tue 22 Oct 2024 12:57:04 No. 6127335 Report >>6127286 I use Scrivener, this is how it looks:
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
>>6127286 Notepad
Black view
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6126156 >Gonna resume Star Wars Interregnum tomorrow evening Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh
>>6127286 Funny how everybody else uses dark backgrounds to write, too. I use a program called Q10 which by total coincidence looks a lot like YouAndYourWaifu's setup
>>6127335 . Widescreen yellow Courier solidarity.
>>6127390 I used to use Notepad way back in the day. Check out Notepad++ if you haven't already-- adds a lot of functionality (including autosaving and the ability to have multiple tabs open at once).
Anonymous
>>6127286 I use Notepad++ with khaki theme, except text made 11 size and changed to black for better readability. Consolas font. I think dark theme is harmful to eyes in spite of popular opinion being the opposite. iirc from my time reading stuff about this topic, it's better during nighttime hours because it lessens the contrast between bright screen and surrounding darkness, but light is more readable in general.
Anonymous
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>>6127434 Notepad++ user here; I like that khaki theme. Might try that out.
Anonymous
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Any chance someone knows the No Talent Cultivator QM? Very sad if it just dies after such a fun and lucky run
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6127471 >>6127471 GAME 1 END
Choose the modifiers for the next run...
The Merchant QM
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>>6127286 Gigachads don't write ahead of time, we respond to the needs of the moment!
In the Merchant Zombie Survival Quest: chapter 2
>>6087641 You too can join at a moment's notice to participate in the buffet of ultraviolence this week as we search for an old friend amid a sea of blac- . . . ahem, Zombies.
A question arises
>Merchant QM: Are you using Zombies as a metaphore for for something else? They sure do!
So join in the mayhem!
Create your own character and run amok, or pretend to be a regular worker inside a survival camp. It's your apocalypse, so play it the way YOU like it!
Anonymous
https://kadw.neocities.org/souvarine Wow, Souv really made it.
Nobody's ever made ME a fan-page, anyway Anonymous
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>>6127214 That's exactly what a VATNIK would say! You're all Russian hackers on steroids!
Anonymous
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>>6127422 It looks like the Portal 1 ending song
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 23 Oct 2024 03:11:14 No. 6127660 Report >>6127577 Is it really flattery if it comes from someone who considers Homestuck fanfiction and the SCP foundation as high art?
>>6127286 No, I'm a filthy heretic who makes my writing as awful to look at as possible. Google sucks dick and most other writing programs are too distracting; Notepad's pure blankness with nothing but a very minimal dropdown bar is the ideal.
Also, for whatever reason, Comic Sans is easier on the eyes when I'm very tired. Given that i've been exhausted almost nonstop for the past few weeks and a lot of my entries have been made near midnight, it's been very helpful and I would genuinely recommend it to people for that (outside of the existing lulz factor). Anonymous
>>6126303 It's also likely the new spam measure they've got running, could be its site wide rather than board specific
Anonymous
>>6127660 You can change the font in notepad? That's pretty fancy. I always just used the regular font.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 23 Oct 2024 03:17:02 No. 6127667 Report >>6127664 Yep, right here. I found out about it when I was way younger and obviously thought that it'd be hilarious if I changed it to Comic Sans, but I'm pretty sure it draws from every font on your PC so if you've got some custom ones you can change it to that too.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 23 Oct 2024 03:18:33 No. 6127670 Report >>6127663 Oh, shoot, I only just saw the new announcement. That probably plays a part, yeah.
Seems like it's site-wide given the phrasing. Absolutely retarded move from the admins given how the site's already bleeding members.
I wonder if this is due to the teraleak over on /vp/ and how many braindead Centro lackeys it brought over?
Anonymous
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>>6127670 I dunno I feel like while it's slowed traffic immensely it may have resolved the perceived samefag problem quest has (since ID is spoofable to a laughable degree)
Eh, whatever I have a dental check up.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6126590 I don't think I saw you. Try reaching out with a DM.
>>6127409 Getting set up now. Been a while since I've posted, so the email verification to make a new thread caught me off-guard.
Kaz !!ReO/ox958KJ
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After a long hiatus, Star Wars Interregnum #3.5 is here!
>>6127701 >>6127701 >>6127701 Chartman !!RtTRSNxm597
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>>6120952 >QM question: While the ancient human tradition of "Halloween" has faded with much of the TPN's lost history, various cultures still commemorate the anniversary of the Cataclysm in various ways that might resemble that spooky Old Earth celebration.
FOr example, on planets where the anniversary coincides with the darkest nights of Winter, the Ulveng ward off the great dark with fireworks displays — a yearly Cracker night to scare off the devourer of stars.
For our friends Dallas and Kiro, the anniversary coincides with the yearly harvest festival on their home planet where the excess produce would be carved by children into scary faces to frighten off the ghosts of those evil Wyrms. Dressing up as scary monsters yourself is optional and some children get into the spirit of the festival more than others...
>Player question: You have already been visited by Lord Pumpkinfiend XXVII, banisher of Wyrms. No further dress-ups are required! (He will take any hard candy as tribute, however. None of that chewy stuff, gets stuck in his little teeth.)
>General question: Referencing seasonal holidays is a fun way to explore different in universe cultures. Can also be a time for characters to relax and show a different side you don't normally get to see.
>Miscellaneous question: Not really but I might actually think about running thread #4 of Voidship Bridge Sim come November.
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>>6127643 >>6127643 >>6127643 The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha's clean escape from the common room of Cancer House Coachery has been upset at the last possible moment by a squeaking door-sill! Before she is entirely unmade by the unfortuity, she must either commit to sneaking her way out of the house, or adopt an entirely new tack.
Anonymous
>>6127698 Can't. You have verified-only on.
Anonymous
>>6127698 verifying your info on this hellsite seems wrong
Anonymous
>>6128000 It definitely does seem wrong.
Exposing your identity is antithetical to a site that's supposed to be anonymous.
Anonymous
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>>6127286 I tend to make a point of using mostly default settings on programs so I'm not crippled by using an unfamiliar system. So it's default light mode Notepad++ and Cherry Tree for me. I didn't like CherryTree at all when I did my first quest, so it just wound up being a shitty repository of notes, but in my current quest I've come around to it and the whole thing is contained within nodes. Hasn't made me any better at documentation and notetaking though.
Anonymous
>>6128026 We're anonymous to each other, but we've never been truly anonymous to the siterunners or governments.
Anonymous
Finally decided on what sort of dice system I'm going to use for that Spartan 2 quest I'm planning on running, Or I mostly have. Nothing special, just D20 Best of three, the one wolfpack used after its first couple of threads. Though If I don't vibe with it personally, I'll change it to something else. Still need to do more reading/ prep before I'm ready
Anonymous
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>>6128117 Ah shit meant to write 97, my fat ass fingers slipped and hit the wrong key. 96 was Musa, who was discharged the augments crippled his ass and put forward the spartan 4 program after
The Merchant QM
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>>6120952 I hate to have to inform you all of this, but the Merchant Zombie Survival Quest, Chapter 2 is dead
AND CHAPTER 3, HALLOWEEN EDITION IS UNDEAD!
>>6128116 >>6128116 >>6128116 We're preparing for the spooky season with MORE danger, ghouls and Thrills. So come along for the ride for co-operative survival game play, or drop yourself into the most dangerous part of the city to fight it out alone.
Beware of Trick or Treaters, and try to keep your head and your BRAAAAAAIIIIINS!!!
Anonymous
>>6128117 Super, convenient amount for a color coded fireteam too. We going to be one of the regulars or something more undisclosed like Gray or Black team?
Anonymous
>>6128117 >Spartan 2 quest Child soldier quest. Nice.
Anonymous
>>6128144 Thinking, currently, that'll depend on your actions in the initial part of the quest, and how well you excel. Since Grey team was, to my understanding, made up of uniquely independent and rowdy candidates of the program, and black team was similar but with more teen drama thrown into the mix.
>>6128146 It'd even start with the abduction of the MC
Anonymous
>>6128149 >and how well you excel Works for me. You going to go off the rails or should we expect the general timeline? If the latter I'm hoping we can at least save Sam or Daisy or something. Maybe get a roll on saving James before he flubs and gets thrown out into space during Reach.
Anonymous
>>6128149 I look forward to butchering whole families in the outer colonies for the crime of not wanting to pay taxes to their distant Earth overlords, at least until the covenant show up. And bullying ODSTs.
Anonymous
>>6128117 i almost thought you wouldn't do it, but glad i am wrong.
Anonymous
>>6128151 Well, since the four MC choices are going to be part of a little wrinkle to begin with, namely that there is a little more funding than there was in canon after some fucking moron in ONI reduced it so much that the numbers of candidates for the program got cut from 300 to 150 THEN AGAIN to just 75 for the initial batch of baby spartans.
Not enough to make the number of spartans 2s produced in the end much bigger since the augmentation procedure further cut them down to thirty something I think? (at least from the first group) but enough for a few more, which include the MC picks, to be snatched and trained, at least.
So you will get a chance to act as a proverbial nail or lack there of, provided you're present at said events to be throwing wrenches. Not going to make doing so easy, though.
But don't expect me to snap the timeline over my knee, or included other setting aliens into the mix, not doing a cross over here or trying to treat canon like its my bitch
>>6128154 That's the spirit! and I look forward to writing that part maybe a little too much, to be entirely honest
>>6128155 No promises I'll be any good at it, but I am itching to pen some good old spartan action. No idea WHEN I'll start it, since I want to make sure I don't fuck up immediately and get some important detail wrong or something embarrassing like that
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>>6128164 >But don't expect me to snap the timeline over my knee, or included other setting aliens into the mix, not doing a cross over here or trying to treat canon like its my bitch Awesome, that works for me. We'll have to be the best damn spartan we can be. Long as the dice don't fuck it up.
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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>>6128247 DCSS reference inbound. Very minor update, so let's chop chop this out.
Anonymous
retard retard retard retard
Anonymous
>>6128266 Guys look, a real life pokemon
Anonymous
retard retard retard retard retardSorry, just testing something out.
Anonymous
>>6128269 I'M SORRY, ALRIGHT?!
I'M JUST TESTING THE FILTERS
Anonymous
>>6128272 faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot
Anonymous
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>>6128269 Oh shit it's a shiny. GET HIM
Anonymous
ODSTs > Spartans don't @ me.
Anonymous
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>>6128301 >>6126111 New QM started this game and it could use a few players
Anonymous
>>6128274 >>6128266 >>6128270 The real test is:
onions
desu
senpai
Anonymous
>>6128366 Alas.
>>6123121 With art, a neat setting of a sort I'm always a sucker for, and a burgeoning cast of characters already
and helmed by a proven, reliable QM , I think Escape The Maw is looking like S-tier material to me.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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after an unusually and unintended long time betweem updates, we finally have more stuff for The Caretaker Quest!
You now have a girlfriend! yay!
now you have to decide if she will fight along side you or let her be cucked as a trade for an easier chance to wipe your target´s mind?
vote now!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:XPj3AEfR Thu 24 Oct 2024 12:46:56 No. 6128522 Report Quoted By:
Poképocalypse got an update that I accidentally posted out of order, so I’m just making this post to make things more orderly.
>>6128341 >>6128343 >>6128500 >>6128344 There’s a new character involved, so if you’re curious feel free to read it! I’ll be keeping the vote open a little longer today so that more people get a chance to voice their opinions since the usual 6-hour voting period while I was asleep kind of got fucked by the accidental sentence omission.
Anonymous
>>6128106 I thought that 4chan didn't cooperate with the glowboys even when a crime was committed. They just ban and delete. No?
Anonymous
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>>6128551 >I thought that 4chan didn't cooperate with the glowboys Hiro is very cooperative when it comes to sharing user information with third parties.
Anonymous
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>>6128164 >No promises I'll be any good at it, but I am itching to pen some good old spartan action. thats fine
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>>6128366 >baka is already forgotten King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw
King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw ID:us6racep Thu 24 Oct 2024 17:45:54 No. 6128617 Report Join us in Pondsmith's Symbipunk, where the hunted becomes the hunter, and the streets of Night City hunger for fresh blood and dying dreams!
>>6128011 >>6128011 >>6128011 As the inevitable march of deaths approaches, a mysterious alien creature wishes to create a symbiotic bond with you. Decide, and reap the consequences of your alliance. And don't let any cyberpyscho stomp your skull in, capeesh?
Anonymous
>>6128617 Okay, but what is it?
King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw
King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw ID:us6racep Thu 24 Oct 2024 18:18:38 No. 6128635 Report >>6128623 It's me combining the setting of a tabletop game Cyberpunk created by Mike Pondsmith, with elements from Marvel Comics like the Symbiotes. A mishmash of ideas I like, because it's simple and fun for a quest, and because I believe that particular setting has a lot of unexplored potential for the supernatural (the 2020 edition had a supplement that added minor psychic phenomena and tarot cards mechanic, not to mention that Pondsmith made a cyberpunk game about teenagers with superpowers induced by a cybernetic virus).
I now see that the name is pretty shit at conveying the general idea, but I guess I'll have to stick with what I've made. Woe upon me for my foolishness. Anonymous
>>6128635 Are you familiar with the Marvel 2099 setting?
King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw
King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw ID:us6racep Thu 24 Oct 2024 18:41:51 No. 6128647 Report Quoted By:
>>6128640 Yep. It's cool, but it lacks the crunchy worldbuilding to make the world feel more alive, and I do not intend to make this quest too capeshit-centric. It's more like 40/60, for the usual cape adventures and pulling suicidal gigs for your fixer respectively.
Anonymous
>>6128635 I do not think the core themes of Cyberpunk and Marvel Comics mesh well at all. Especially not Symbiotes. It's like having two instruments tuned slightly differently playing the same refrain, it'll just sound bad.
Anonymous
Today, I got reminded of Naruto Jounin Quest and I went to see when it actually ran. It was 2017. It has been 7 years. It never finished. One of the last posts was "He will run on monday."
King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw
King in Black !.xX0rf1Eyw ID:us6racep Thu 24 Oct 2024 19:00:37 No. 6128662 Report >>6128649 It's only elements, not the core characters or themes. Even 2099's themes are more on the surface than Pondsmith's attempt to explore a hypothetical cyberpunk future through the lenses of 90's paranoia about Japan 'n' stuff. But I appreciate the concern and will try my best to make it work, or at very least, fun to engage with.
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>>6128651 Never said which monday. Gonna have to go back to 1388 to see the end of it.
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faggot faggot faggot faggot faggot
Anonymous
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>>6128635 Thank you for explaining patiently, I appreciate that.
Anonymous
You know, I may not like a lot of things about /qst/, but one thing i do like is that QMs don't have mod powers to allow them to ban anyone they feel like
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Thu 24 Oct 2024 23:15:38 No. 6128781 Report >>6128772 Alright anon, confess. Which QM just banned you on which site?
I agree with you though, the curation of one's audience is the first step to turbofaggotry. Bans should be exclusively reserved for actually illegal shit or bots. Anonymous
>>6128781 I'm not giving the faggot advertisement.
Anyway, it's not just the banning. I'd say that the fact that they have this option just effects the QM's mindset as a whole. They just seem to turn into these pretentious faggots who go around being fellated by a group of flunkies and get pissed off if you disagree with them or one of their decisions.
>Huh, you didn't like this update? Well BANNED! [cue the flunkies talking about how you totally deserved it]
>Hmmm, i did put down this option, but i don't actually like it, so i'm going to just say it's samefagging and do the vote again so i can close it the moment the option i like is [Cue the flunkies talking about how it totally definitely was samefagging]
The fact that you can't ban people who disagrees with you probably helps QMs not get too big for their britches.
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Dark !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Thu 24 Oct 2024 23:24:11 No. 6128786 Report >>6128783 Well son, I'd say you shouldn't go sloshing through the sewers
aka akun and expect to find anything other than piss and shit.
Fair enough about the advertisement though.
Anonymous
>>6128772 absolutely dogshit opinion by someone who sounds like a perennial shitter. nothing kills a quest faster than one or two whiney fucks who didn't have a vote go their way and instead of sucking it up drag down a quest by launch a massive unending bitchfest.
Anonymous
>>6128786 I probably wouldn't have to if there were more interesting quests for me to follow.
>>6128788 >EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME SHOULD BE SILENCED! You sound like a massive bitch. Maybe reddit is more to your taste?
Anonymous
>>6128789 >try le reddit! yeah, absolutely a massive shitter
Anonymous
>>6128792 If your immediate reaction to someone disagreeing with you is wanting to ban them, why would you come to the site that prides itself on...you know, NOT doing that?
Anonymous
>>6128794 >If your immediate reaction to someone disagreeing with you is wanting to ban them my immediate reaction to someone starting shit in a quest thread for no other reason than they can't get the salt out of their vagina is, yes, I'd rather they not be there
clinging to the fog of the 'epic lolz' of a maladjusted teenager instead of acting like a goddamn adult is not a good thing. you absolutely sound like every ban you ever caught was justified.
Anonymous
>>6128797 >Everyone who posts something i dislike is a shitter who's just shitting up the thread! >There's no chance whatsoever that someone could have a genuine reason to disagree with me! >I'm just too right all the time! >No, he must simply be a shitter! See, this is why i'm glad this site doesn't allow that tool, because of people like anon here who would instantly abuse it like the faggots in that site.
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>>6128662 I getcha, but for my part I think that the symbiote exactly steps on the toes of one of the core motifs (cybernetic augmentation).
The idea/act of chopping portions of yourself off to replace them with the products of megacorps that oppress you is very poetic. That you do it just to be able to compete/survive in the environment those corps created in the first place is even moreso.
The symbiote interacts with this specifically. Instead of selling your body and soul to the megacorps to play in their game bit by bit, now it's the symbiote that owns the Faustian bargain. Just doesn't hit as hard.
Anonymous
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>>6128797 >>6128798 I like to shitpost solely to induce board/quest activity instead of just lurking. Why am I telling you this? I don't know.
Anonymous
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New thread! It's the perfect time for new players to cozy up (or freak the fuck out) to the end of the world as we know it! Check out Merchant Zombie Survival Quest and create your character now!
>>6128116 >>6128116 >>6128116 Anonymous
>>6128788 I don't really like the idea of a curated quest audience, myself. I don't come to 4chan, even /qst/ for a safe space.
>>6128772 But yes, the other guy has a point, people continuing to whinge and even stooping to sabotage a quest after losing a few key vites has SANK good quests in the past, and almost killed others.
The QM is not a machine. Players need to work with them, and wirh each other, to make the quest work.
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I'll say this much. While the /qst/ cabal of cult personae (to include the discord especially) is a cancer, I do agree with earlier sentiments about the lack of banhammers being a good thing. You can have your Nazi protag, your "Nigger Quest", or whatever else without fear of being IP nuked. I also like how anyone with an idea can jump in and quest. It may not be a GOOD quest idea, but it will have its time on the board before sage.
Anonymous
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>>6129013 I remember Mecha Space Pirate died with an anon or two bitching about the quest. I can't remember if it was about the harem or storytelling. I do remember there was some animosity over a couple of characters and how things played out at the end, though.
So there's one. Someone else can chime in now.
Anonymous
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>>6129013 the original Trojan War Quest
Anonymous
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>>6129013 Bastard of westeros
Crusader quest Advent
A case could likely be made for STV and its samefag drama and I want to say House Malroy & House Reynolds own sad deaths were the result of it but I'm not 100% on that off memory.
Kaz !!ReO/ox958KJ
>>6127990 >>6128000 What ultimately ended up happening was it asking me to "verify" that I wasn't a bot since it sent a verification link to a dummy email address I have expressly for questing.
Anywho, Interregnum update. Arotta relationship advances, Potkin's trial finished, time to pick the next mission.
>>6128528 >>6128528 >>6128528 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>6129087 >>6129087 >>6129087 Solarpunk thread conclusion, maybe, whereupon Fiona talks to a giant to learn who the hell shot him and to persuade him to not squash her like a bug
Anonymous
>>6120952 >QM question: Of course! And there's got to be kinds of Halloweens in other worlds too. I imagine a Sith would go trick-or-treating across different star systems...
>General question: Yes, I try to write in the spirit of the season we're presently in. I guess that's why I'm coming back here, hopefully to write a /quest/ again. 'Ber months always get me in a melancholic blue mood which makes me want to write adventure/drama stories.
>Miscellaneous question: Relax mostly, and take a break from academics. I really had fun writing here in /qst/ for the first time last year, so I want to try and write again. I QM'd a meme-y Star Wars-inspired quest featuring an anime girl MC and lots of OCs, written like a mashup between a visual novel and an R.F. Delderfeld military epic. The collaboration, and the idea of people directing and basically playing with the story I QM for them is super entertaining, and I think there's no place else like /qst/. I did learn some hard lessons though, like taking baby steps and starting small in order to avoid burnout and to finish quests to the end. There's lots of new things I want to do, and I think I can do it even better this time.
XOM !!LyIGObuRQ3d
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Need to make a>TEST TEST
Anonymous
>>6129108 >I imagine a Sith would go trick-or-treating across different star systems... I like to think that involves dressing up as a local cryptid or boogeyman and raising hell so you can drink their fear. Sounds like the Sith thing to do anyways.
Anonymous
Broke one hurdle to run the spartan quest. Which was figuring out, roughly, when the first part of Homecoming is supposed to take place
Anonymous
>>6129124 >Also,apparently, Johnson fought alongside/ trained the spartan 2s during one of their first combats against the covenant Silent Storm, right? I need to catch up on Denning's books. Halopedia's pretty solid on rundowns though.
Anonymous
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>>6129071 So where do I contact you for the commission?
ArchAlien Längsnūz !!uWqTkWc5zpv
ArchAlien Längsnūz !!uWqTkWc5zpv ID:bFVKUn0I Fri 25 Oct 2024 18:21:10 No. 6129225 Report Quoted By:
I, ArchAlien Längsnūz, am looking for 8 brave Klone Keeperz to answer my call!
I have terraformed yet another planet, and need one of you to populate it with the finest Klonez!
In this competition, you will face off against other galactic travelers, tend to Eggs and Klonez, manage resources, create alliances or enemies, and capture and fight over territory!
Will you be crowned as my viceroy and earn the honor of naming this new planet, and ruling over it? In the end, only one Keeper will win.
>>6129209 >>6129210 >>6129212 Join Klone Keeperz now!
Anonymous
>>6129190 Yeah. I only have the first trilogy on hand, so halopedia has been a life and wallet saver
Anonymous
>>6129227 First three books and Cole Protocol are great. If I may make a suggestion, don't be afraid to include high quality fan stuff like Sins of the Prophets to fill out the setting or obscure shit rarely mentioned. Some of it's good enough to get canonized like the Abel-class destroyer.
Anonymous
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>>6129231 I'll make sure to check that out, thanks for the suggestion. And I do like obscure shit
Anonymous
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>the next week or two >october 25th
Anonymous
Which Capetians (royal or prince du sang) would be most fun in an isekai?
Anonymous
>>6129296 Local Lord Quest is already doing the pic on the left, so the right would stand out more.
Anonymous
>>6129296 Louis VI? He was known as "the Fat" and "the Fighter", because his entire reign was basically BTFO'ing unruly subordinates.
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>>6120952 Evo Game discord link is broken
ContinuousQM !!lVJpPHWlL0z
ContinuousQM !!lVJpPHWlL0z ID:lFq1PTkN Sat 26 Oct 2024 14:35:31 No. 6129633 Report Quoted By:
>>6129367 >>6129367 >>6129367 The Fall of Hyrule is back with a Halloween Special
Anonymous
>>6129108 >I QM'd a meme-y Star Wars-inspired quest featuring an anime girl MC and lots of OCs, written like a mashup between a visual novel and an R.F. Delderfeld military epic What quest was that?
Anonymous
Qm using AI art == qm using ai """"assisted"""" writing.
Anonymous
>>6129690 here's your (you)
Anonymous
>>6129693 He's right though.
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>>6129690 >>6129709 I'm happy to use AI art in between commissions, because the art isn't the main draw of my quest and is just there for mood. If it filters out especially fussy people who like to pick fights for (you)s, that's a bonus.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 26 Oct 2024 20:24:18 No. 6129782 Report What’s the average lifespan of a quest on page 9?
Anonymous
>>6129782 It really varies. Ever sincr the mods purged all those low-effort quests
and maybe banned Wuxian the churn has slowed to a crawl, such that some threads last 60+ days from creation date.
Anonymous
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>>6129782 Probably a week at the least. Page 10 will last a day or two at the least. Page 11 is just the final countdown for shitposting, really.
Krypton !!+7BkWY5b0bO
I have started a quest, Evil Supergirl Quest:
>>>6129826 It's my spin on Supergirl from
"My Adventures with Superman" . I liked the idea of Krypton being more of an evil Viltrum style empire, but I don't think the show did a good job with it (or with anything much, it was either average or bad in every single way).
The quest is set in the DC Animated Universe, probably around the beginning of Justice League.
So yeah, let's have fun with the concept and see where it goes from there. All anons welcome. Write-ins welcome. Don't be a fag.
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>>6129838 >Don't be a fag. Anonymous
>>6129838 Can't play, too faggy. Well, that and MAwS was good, so a quest run by someone who actively disliked it is unlikely to be my thing. I wish you luck, though.
Anonymous
Krypton !!+7BkWY5b0bO
>>6129907 Don't get me wrong, I don't actively dislike it, I just think it had a lot potential and failed to meet most of it. It was the writers and directors' first gig and it really shows. Lots of cliche storybeats, one or two dimensional characters, most of the jokes weren't too good, pacing's all over the place, villains are dumb (dumb as rocks, cuz they have to make sure not to kill Lois and Jimmy), lots of issues that could stem from having a super-powered boyfriend and fighting his super-powered enemies don't really show up, it all seems to go too well and end too well, it's almost childish. And it's probably its intended audience, kids and teens. I'm almost 30 years old lol, so my criticism isn't too valuable anyway.
There are things I like a lot though. Lois and Clark's relationship is lovely. Clark being a shy nerd is super nice and the possibility of seeing him grow as a character and become the confident, truthseeking journalist that he is in most other iterations would've been super cool. Lois would've been the perfect way to have him learn to be confident, then have her struggle with her capability to actually keep up with a superhero boyfriend. Jimmy Olsen meanwhile was actually the better one of the trio, he seemed to be the only one actually using his brain.
It is still the best DC animated show since the 90s and I hope they actually keep producing shit like this. It's a stepping stone towards demarvelizing superheroes and being creative with them again.
And if you want to turn your brain off and watch some cute shit happening on the screen, this show is pretty much perfect.
Anonymous
>>6129942 I think it's a very good adaptation of Superman's Girlfriend/Superman's Pal/Superman Family, which I appreciated as someone who's grown to enjoy the campy Silver Age lore. I hope Season 3 has a bit more meat to it, but I don't mind if it stays mostly saccharine, episodic, and goofy.
I sort of hope the empire they lost against is Czarnia instead of Apokalips or someone 'more serious'. What tone is your quest going for? I may check it out later.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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hello anons, could i bother any of you with a tie breaker for The Caretaker Quest?
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
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>>6129690 Why would AI know what I want to write next?
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>>6129942 I thought this show was gay and lame except for the slice of life stuff. Kara so cute
Anonymous
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Thinking of doing a WoD quest with a minor splat as the protagonist (Kinfolk ideally), considering it's Halloween. Anyone interested?
Krypton !!+7BkWY5b0bO
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>>6129988 The tone I have in my mind is similar to the animated shows from the 90s. They had a sort of noblegrey vibe to them. The protagonists were really trying to be the best superheroes they could be and do good, but things are often more complicated than just good vs evil.
Though it's still a superhero vibe, there should be a sense of optimism woven in everything, and quips and funnies should happen from time to time. There's a reason why the Flash was a key character for Justice League, he's the key element to keeping everything lighthearted and reminding the audience that this is a kid's show and not everyone has to be a batman tier sourpuss.
I'm rambling though. Conclusion is, expect 90s animated show goodness.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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There is a new update for The Caretaker Quest!
the time for battle is fast approaching and things arent going according to plan!
will you risk it and stick to the plan or lose your one chance?
vote now!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
How do we stop losing QMs and players to akun and Spacebattles?
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>>6130292 I don't think i want the kind of QM/player that thrives on Akun to be here.
Anonymous
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>>6130292 Anyone who switches to Spacebattles is a tranny.
Anonymous
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>>6130292 You kinda just have to accept that the people who want to play in those spaces go and do so. No point in changing /qst/ just to pander to that segment specifically.
Anonymous
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>>6129838 >evil Supergirl quest You have my attention.
Anonymous
>>6129786 I concur, I've seen multiple threads hang for like two months recently.
Anonymous
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>>6130292 Don't worry about that, worry about making normies realize four cans isn't the shithole they think it is. It's a much cleaner shithole.
Anonymous
>>6129786 >>6130314 In July (I think), the mods purged/banned 30 threads, or roughly 20% of the catalog. Two QMs also mentioned on Discord that they received permanent bans. The threads weren't all from the same person, as each user can create a maximum of five threads.
The purge led to a significant drop in board activity, plummeting from over 1,000 posts per day to just 500-600 now. While most of these threads were low-effort, the QMs involved were active in other quests. By banning 20% of those low-effort QMs, the mods inadvertently removed a fifth of the active users and voters, resulting in a domino effect that turned /qst/ into a ghost town.
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>>6130358 I always said the purges were a bad idea.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Sun 27 Oct 2024 19:22:52 No. 6130427 Report Quoted By:
Well I enjoy the lack of "Transgender Snail Quest" spam.
Anonymous
I was trying to think up a halloween idea for a quest but drawing a blank.
Anonymous
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>>6130358 Nothing of value was lost.
Post quantity is a shit metric that gives equal value to a /pol/ shitpost sometimes done to intentional detriment of others' enjoyment as to a story post or a write-in post. If the board needs bad faith posts to artificially inflate post count then its better off not existing.
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>>6130434 Ghost waifu slice of life dealing with trick or treaters quest. Man has to deal with those dang kids trying to get into his haunted house when he's just trying to chill with his ethereal babe. Bonus points for being a cantankerous old man who is haunted by his actual dead wife and she's young and hot again just waiting for him to join her and they're still madly in love.
A fun little oneshot.
Anonymous
Life fucked me over hard, is it worth to continue a quest after 20 days or should I just take the hint?
Anonymous
>>6130490 From the same thread? Maybe not if providing a proper thread end fucks with pacing. New bread? Yeah, go ahead, just announce its return.
Anonymous
>>6120952 so what's the protocol for using fanart or OCs i find on Pinterest? Cause I don't wanna get yelled at for using someone's art for quests
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>>6130499 There is none. This is 4chan, absolutely nobody gives a crap and reuploading someone else's copyrighted art is unavoidable unless you want to draw everything yourself or use the small pool of public domain stuff. I've never heard of the latter part happening and the main concern of your readers is it good art and does it fit?
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>>6130499 You can always use what you find on the web for inspo (and chances are no one is going to find out you're using their art for a collective game), but I think you should also consider making your own designs because it can be extremely fun and fulfilling than taking something someone else already made.
Best of luck, anon!
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>>6130499 >what's the protocol for using fanart or OCs i find on Pinterest? Why are you gay?
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>>6130499 >that's my art! >No look, I drew an MSpaint dick on it. Totally OC. Fuck off. Anonymous
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>>6130499 It doesn't matter. The only way it could would be like, if you tried to say you drew it or something.
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>>6130496 >From the same thread? Yeah thread is still around.
>New bread? Yeah, go ahead, just announce its return. Hmm might be worth considering. I forgot the Curse and thought it'd spare me.
ArchAlien Längsnūz !!uWqTkWc5zpv
ArchAlien Längsnūz !!uWqTkWc5zpv ID:bFVKUn0I Sun 27 Oct 2024 22:41:01 No. 6130546 Report Quoted By:
Klone Keeperz is still looking for up to 5 more players!
Join the competition and fight for planetary rulership!
>>6129210 Anonymous
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Anonymous
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>>6130644 The Green Room opens.
DISFORTUNA Featuring R̶e̶d̶ f̶r̶o̶m̶ R̶u̶b̶y̶ Q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶ Xom from the Dwarf Quest (tm) Threads.
Anonymous
pretty excited for HALO quest!
https://youtu.be/kFchKKNZHLw Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6130688 How's it coming along?
DetectQM
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Gotham City Beat Cop Resumed yesterday instead of tonight! If you love shooting the shit with your friends then come do it with your fictional co-worker. (Also vote so I have enough to go off of for tonight's update)
>>6130210 Anonymous
>>6130689 Need to find a good OP pic, decide on a few names and make absolutely certain I get the spartan 2 training right and don't flub dates and times
So initial prep and setting research + hyping myself, more or less. I've got the special qualities of the four potential protags on lockdown, and have vague ideas of how two of them will be collected by the ONI spooks, as well as some earlier butterflies that can have ripples later on down the quest
Also rewatched headhunters for the first time in years, still holds up
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>>6130693 Wonderful, glad it's coming along. And yeah, a lot of Legends is great. If you need a little gassing up them remember as long as you actually enjoy writing it you're automatically doing better than anything 343 did.
Anonymous
>>6130693 >and have vague ideas of how two of them will be collected by the ONI spooks Didn't ONI just abduct kids from their homes, replace them with retarded cancer-riddled clones and make up a cover story about a rare and mysterious illness?
Anonymous
>>6130711 Yeah, but it wasn't always as easy simple snatch and grab. Kelly kept the team sent to pick her up working for six hours, only being caught because she thought the attempted and then successful kidnapping was a birthday party game. Or the one who actually got away cause he could see the fucking future
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>>6130715 >cause he could see the fucking future Caleb, right? Halsey thinks that was a bunch of bunk. But with neural physics being a thing in the universe I'll leave that one up to your interpretation.
Anonymous
>>6130715 Okay then. By the way, are you using the new lore where the forerunners are aliens or the old lore where the forerunners were humans?
Anonymous
>>6130693 >collected by the ONI spooks I look forward to trying to evade them. Will that be possible? Additionally, will it be possible to escape the program (even if only temporarily) and meet our flash clone? Just thinking about Oscar-129.
Anonymous
>>6130731 I prefer the latter personally, just felt cooler. Probably because it blew my mind when I read the terminals in 3
>>6130739 Yes on both, though key word on try on the first one and temporary on the second, since the quest will be about being a spartan, so preventing the MC from becoming one would kinda go against the spirit of it lol.
And I have put some thought on interactions between the MC and their flash clone, though there will only be a brief window for it. Cause you know, most flash clones don't have a long shelf life, though how long that window is depends on which of the four protagonists you choose to play as.
Pulling a homecoming is a possibility, probably the most obvious route being to do a runner with Daisy, Oscar and Co when they do theirs in homecoming
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Still kinda lowkey fixin bouffa run a Homestuck Quest.
Maw QM
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>>6128425 Thanks for the kind review! Glad you're enjoying the story so far. Speaking of Escape the Maw, after a brief pause, the quest is back up and running!
>>6130760 Anonymous
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>>6130743 >Yes on both >pic related Anonymous
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>>6130743 >about being a spartan, so preventing the MC from becoming one would kinda go against the spirit of it lol. >he doesn't want to run a quest about escaping the UNSC and taking up a shield and spear in some lush land somewhere Fucking helotes I swear.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6122729 I STILL cannot write a character to save my life.
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>>6128164 I like these types of quests the most, sticking to the canon but with a few extra characters thrown into the mix that they can cause big and small changes
Anonymous
>>6130812 You still get thread participation, so quit whining.
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>>6130743 >Yes on both grim.......
Anonymous
I remember way back a QM mentioned digital publishing their quest on amazon or something. I've seen some writers post their stuff for a cent or even for free just so that it's out there.
Anonymous
>>6130962 I've toyed with the idea, but I think most quests (mine included) would requiee very heavy editing to read well as a story on their own merits without the aspect of interactivity.
Anonymous
>>6130968 >I think most quests (mine included) would requiee very heavy editing to read well as a story on their own merits That's been my impression hence why I wouldn't mind seeing someone else's solution to it, if they had one.
Anonymous
>>6130962 >>6130975 QM of Banished quest made his into a novel IIRC. There was one other that did something with theirs too, I can't remember which for the life of me, though.
Anonymous
>>6130812 Consider drawing inspiration from your own life
Anonymous
>>6130983 Any idea what the title of the finished novel was? "Banished Quest" seems to bring up a lot of false positives.
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>>6131017 No idea. I'd heard about it years ago so I can't recall. Someone around here might know though. Maybe ask the Discord.
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>>6130873 Based... my brother...
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>>6131057 >>6131058 The Adlershorst Dynasty Quest is back. Please consider playing if you have the time.
Anonymous
>>6130984 No, that's stupid. This advice only worked back when writers had cool lives and did stuff like go to war or explore the world, not when they were lame nerds.
Anonymous
>>6131060 I'm pretty sure we here on /qst/ have some interesting life experiences and cool ideas, actually.
Anonymous
>>6131120 >no mystery quest Anonymous
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>>6131188 Sorry anon, can't play 'em all, and I missed the first four threads of that.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>6128783 I agree.
Any reasonably popular quest is inevitably going to get the attention of a couple shitters, but you can honestly just safely ignore them.
Back when I was running, I picked up one or two, and it didn't take long to realize I didn't need to speak with people who were annoying. Talking to them at all is a fool's errand anyway. Some people insist on being malcontents no matter what because they get a high from the attention and the perception of control.
Krypton !!+7BkWY5b0bO
>>6131060 Most past writers weren't cool adventurers, those were rare. A lot of them were nerds with too much time in their hands who read all kinds of stuff and inspired themselves on that stuff they read. Even Tolkien, though he had his own cool 'adventures', based much of his work on scandinavian mythology and christian concepts, in fact the guy denied that his experiences in the Great War shaped his writing in any significant way.
As for writing characters. Take inspiration from other media (or straight up steal, no one will judge unless you're caught) and spice it up with what you know from your own life. I try to remember that you have to 'become' the characters when you write them, make sure they act in accordance to what they know, think like you think they'd think, speak like you think they'd speak. The rest is just refining what comes out of that.
Initially characters will always be kind of blank slates unless you really put in the work (which may get overruled by player decisions anyhow). You will have a concept of a character but the character won't become a "person" until you've handled them for a long while. So yeah, just keep writing.
>>6130962 You'd have to rewrite the whole thing as the other anon says and probably turn it into 1st or 3rd person. That'd be the first big step, the rest is the bureaucracy necessary to get it out there.
>>6131120 Thanks for the B anon
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6130962 One of these days I'll turn Gaol Quest into a graphic novel or webcomic. Then Jail, when it gets finished.
Needs some filling in of gaps and the like, but it is very possible.
Alternatively, turn them into a visual novel or undertale-like rpg...
Anonymous
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>>6131357 That would be pretty cool! It's a rich world that I feel we only ever really see a sliver of.
>>6131348 >Thanks for the B anon No worries, keep up the good work!
>You'd have to rewrite the whole thing as the other anon says and probably turn it into 1st or 3rd person. That'd be the first big step, the rest is the bureaucracy necessary to get it out there. Unironically something I hope an AI can one day do: a substantive edit like "take these PDFs, take just the QM posts, and change them all to be first-person perspective, plus edit out the typos."
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>>6131060 Some things you can extrapolate and transplant safely even from a boring life, such as variety of temperaments sometimes even across a singular person, moments of unexpected kindness or treachery, distinctive mannerisms...
Anonymous
>>6131060 >This advice only worked back when writers had cool lives and did stuff like go to war or explore the world, not when they were lame nerds. The guy who wrote the Conan the Barbarian stories lived with his mother and did all his research at his local library.
Anonymous
>>6131579 H.P. Lovecraft traveled later in life, but wrote a lot of his early work while being borderline terrified to leave his house and corresponding with Howard and others primarily by mail.
Anonymous
>>6120952 I feel as if there's been a while since we had a star wars quest where you play some kind of an Imperial naval commander in the Warlord/post endor era. Do you guys think there would be interest in that, or does it need something to spice it up?
Anonymous
>>6131595 We've had a bunch of quests playing as an imperial. Why not as a rebel this time? It's not like you have to be some standard x-wing grunt, either. Plenty of people like Borsk Fey'la who were pretty fucked up.
Anonymous
>>6131595 I want to play that separatist jedi commander quest, keep Dooku from dying, which will end up causing Palpatine being discovered, ending his bitch ass, thus making the sequels never ever happen. Oh and the trade federations would wind up getting free sure, whatever. Too bad.
Also buy Ventress a wig. Egg lookin' headass Anonymous
>>6131599 Hmm, if I were to guess, I think it's just because there's more freedom in being an Imperial in that era compared to being a good guy rebel. But you were thinking something like being a New Republic squadron commander or corvette commander, to begin with? Being one of Lukes first apprentices could be something to make it more fun, sort of like kyp durron and kyle who had active military commissions?
>>6131602 Well, I can't speak for another quest, but that sounds interesting, checked out sup tg quick. Star Wars: Against the republic is the one?
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 29 Oct 2024 20:33:43 No. 6131626 Report >>6131579 Yeah, and Conan the Barbarian stories, despite creating a whole span of litterature, reeks of virgin meek boy powerfantasy
Anonymous
>>6131622 >But you were thinking something like being a New Republic squadron commander or corvette commander, to begin with? I was thinking more like being the leaders of a rebellion branch in some specific region of the galaxy, and having to deal with stuff like local and senate politics and the like, as well as imperial shenanigans.
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>>6131622 I made sure style won that day. Our dude looked so fucking cool.....
Anonymous
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>>6131622 >Star Wars: Against the republic is the one? That do be the one.
Anonymous
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>>6131626 Truly, he would have cleaned up on /qst/.
Krypton !!+7BkWY5b0bO
>>6131627 Kinda like Saw Gerrera, guy was a terrorist. Disney's attempt at "rebels can be bad too you guys". They then coped out of having him around after the Rebellion fucked over the Empire.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 30 Oct 2024 01:34:31 No. 6131765 Report I am begging Gamefreak to stop having private canon that makes me question my own worldbuilding and then proceed to have all that private canon leak specifically when I am running a Pokémon-themed quest.This is mostly a joke post; I don't actually mind the leaks. However, they do indeed have VERY BAD TIMING and I would've much preferred that they started back in July when I was just laying the foundations for the quest lol.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 30 Oct 2024 01:36:50 No. 6131767 Report Quoted By:
>>6122729 I simultaneously plan ahead way too much and not enough, leaving me with weird gaps in places that there shouldn't be and way too much in places that shouldn't have a lot.
It's a bad habit from my worldbuilding-only days that I'm trying to kick, but boy is it hard to do when it's so fun.
Anonymous
>>6131765 Have there been more leaks?
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 30 Oct 2024 01:45:50 No. 6131774 Report Quoted By:
>>6131768 They've been ongoing every single day since the start. The only exceptions have been the past 3-4 days when the leaker suddenly went silent, at which point people assumed that he'd been caught.
Apparently he hadn't, because today he emerged from the shadows to leak [i:lit]a metric fuck ton[/i:lit] more stuff, including plans for the upcoming World Championships and sales figures (alongside even more beta designs, anime reference sheets, scrapped concepts, storyboards, animatics, etc.).
Anonymous
>>6131592 I kinda love the horror at red hook because it was just a raw visceral reaction to his time in new York that tells you how badly he reacted to it.
You definitely see the difference when you compare that to just about any story that's set in providence or the larger New england region.
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its time for a VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE in The Caretaker Quest!
The plan has been set in motion.
Everyone is in position
But you dont know if your target is there.
Whatever you say or do in this next choice will dictate if you get a 1-hit or you start your toughest battle so far!
vote to find out what happens!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
>>6130984 >>6131060 >taking inspiration from REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES for fiction hmmm, let's see if any of these 40k characters reflect relatable life experiences for the target audience
>SISTERS Of SILENCE untouchable voiceless emperor harem women, who literally cannot speak. Their role is just to wordlessly condemn and castigate all those who participate in the 40k hobby
>SISTER EPHRAEL STERN She experiences a hashtag MeToo incident of psychic rape by the Chaos demon imprisoned within the Screaming Cage, yet she is sadly disbelieved by her male interrogators. Both minions of Slaanesh (transgenders) and Grey Knights (military) covet the unbridled rape-power of female victimhood, as a means for their own ends. But how does the injustice end? No-one knows, Daemonifuge just finishes abruptly, it is too ashamed
>INQUISITOR EISENHORN first he gets injected with some paralysing face toxin during torture and capture by heretic renegades, his face is completely ruined he cannot express emotion. Then in another battle his legs/spine gets crushed so he is a literal cripple, due to the exigency of the mission he can only use cumbersome retro cyber legs. So an emotionless expressionless tortured cripple
>INQUISITOR RAVENOR In a thinly veiled X-Men (?) floating psychic wheelchair plagiarism a chaos atrocity heretic attack leaves him horribly burned and mutilated confined as an isolated shut-in within a completely enclosed floating life support wheelchair coffin / levitating gun sarcophagus box, he can only communicate with women via a form of body hijacking, telepathic puppet skulljack psychic rape. His only friend whom he completely trusts is a space elf (possibly psychopathological metaphor for schizophrenia) he just does everything the space elf commands
>ELIZABETH BEQUIN All women are clones of this woman. She is Untouchable if you touch her she steals your potency/virility male sorcery psyker power noooo (wait, is this X-Men again??) It is not really explained why her Null power is bad, but it means that you cannot have sex with her, it is just too unpleasant. Also it is later revealed, if you just buy a FitBit wearable fitness tracker, this magic bracelet can somehow just switch off her evil male psyker leeching power, ensuring that the entire story of the original trilogy novels is completely obsolete. The best resolution to her narrative is to just make her character lose consciousness (it's like Sleeping Beauty in reverse), which is precisely what Dan Abnett does
Anonymous
>>6131994 >WHEELCHAIR >>6131060 >GO TO WAR...? recently I watched the NFLX adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover I also read the DH Lawrence novel.
All novels should feature a scene of ROMANTIC PUBIC HAIR FLOWER BRAIDING sadly this is not in the film, though the actress does get very naked but it was not very erotic for me hmmm
Lady Chatterley is essentially about the eponymous heroine who has an affair with a lower class woodsman because her WW1 war wounded aristocratic husband cannot have a child due to his war injury.
The DH Lawrence novel is probably only 10% sex it is about 30% Mining Bolshevism, 30% upper class English gentry inability to do the sex, 30% weird Merry England woodland hut Robin Hood paganism forest things.
But there is this wheelchair scene, it is faithfully recreated with an appropriate exactitude in the nflx film. I don't really recommend NFLX films the music is terrible, the actress has too many modern mannerisms and instagram face for a period drama, but she does get naked
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"I want this wood perfect ... untouched. I want nobody to trespass in it," said Clifford.
There was a certain pathos. The wood still had some of the mystery of wild, old England; but Sir Geoffrey's cuttings during the war had given it a blow. How still the trees were, with their crinkly, innumerable twigs against the sky, and their grey, obstinate trunks rising from the brown bracken! How safely the birds flitted among them! And once there had been deer, and archers, and monks padding along on asses. The place remembered, still remembered.
Clifford sat in the pale sun, with the light on his smooth, rather blond hair, his reddish full face inscrutable.
"I mind more, not having a son, when I come here, than any other time," he said.
"But the wood is older than your family," said Connie gently.
"Quite!" said Clifford. "But we've preserved it. Except for us it would go ... it would be gone already, like the rest of the forest. One must preserve some of the old England!"
"Must one?" said Connie. "If it has to be preserved, and preserved against the new England? It's sad, I know."
"If some of the old England isn't preserved, there'll be no England at all," said Clifford. "And we who have this kind of property, and the feeling for it, must preserve it."
There was a sad pause.
(...)
"The tradition of England! of this!"
"Yes," she said slowly.
"That's why having a son helps; one is only a link in a chain," he said.
Connie was not keen on chains, but she said nothing. She was thinking of the curious impersonality of his desire for a son.
"I'm sorry we can't have a son," she said.
He looked at her steadily, with his full, pale-blue eyes.
"It would almost be a good thing if you had a child by another man," he said.
Anonymous
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>>6131579 >>6131626 >>6132116 >CONAN remember after having THE SEX with a woman, you should throw her into the fireplace. Also when taking these screenshots I only just noticed for the first time the cool spiked Chaos wheel pendant thing he is wearing, hehe
New Flesh
Just now realized I should make my text regular and not make it all green-text options included. I’m stupid I apologize. Got too caught up in writing and mechanics. Damn it.
Anonymous
>>6132259 On any other board, you would be greated with LURK MOAR.
Here, we will say we're glad to have you there and it happens. Good to have such newblood energy. Care to link your quest?
What are you playing?
Anonymous
[b:lit] testing something [b:lit]
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>>6132307 You're not the OP of this thread, so you don't get formatting privileges.
>[b:lit] testing something [/b:lit] >[i:lit] testing something [/i:lit] These are correctly formatted.
Anonymous
>>6131686 If i had tony gilroys writing chops I'd write about an early cell around the first season of the andor tv show, after they do the heist and the empire starts cracking down.
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>>6132384 >>6132384 >>6132384 DISFORTUNA, Game 2 is coming! Vote for the next kind of story you want. I like the anthology format, really gets right into the action.
Anonymous
>>6131314 Spirit, Akule? Sounds like somebody's entertaining the notion of the 'soul'...
Anonymous
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Thu 31 Oct 2024 01:51:59 No. 6132422 Report im probably not gonna be around for the next few days so I will say now in advance:
Anonymous
>>6132422 Happy Halloween. May you be spooked by fat titted witches.
Anonymous
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>>6130743 Based. Making the forerunners aliens was a retarded retcon.
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>>6132422 Happy Halloween /qst/!
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>>6131836 >>6131836 >>6131836 The Graverobber's Daughter continues! Chlotsuintha makes the agonizing decision to leave stage and team behind at Cancer House Coachery - beyond the risks involved, she believes she doesn't have the time to find a third house to stow them away at and accomplish everything else she needs to this night. She now turns to walk off of the yard of Cancer House, her mind trying to distract herself from this defeat by figuring and appraising the best way back inside the Landward Walls.
I'm looking for a tie-breaker here, please. Even if you aren't keeping up with the Quest, it wouldn't be an issue if you cast a vote.
The Merchant QM
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>>6132259 >>6132300 >>6132330 >>6132389 >>6132408 >>6132422 >>6132710 >>6132710 I don't mean to alarm you all, but something Spooky is happening
In the ZOMBIE MERCHANT SURVIVAL QUEST
>>6128116 There's Spooks everywhere. We have 3 player quests active where new players can join in to fight for their lives against a diverse coalitions of Spooks.
Spooks in costumes and Spooks in dirty old grave clothes.
The point is.
The long and short of it is.
The object of my interjection is.
The thing I am getting at is.
>SPOOKS spooks, my parasocial friends. They be everwherrrrr. And they ainy gwine keel dey selfs.
So load up your shotguns and gas up that chainsaw and have a Spook ball, and a piece of a Spook arm and some tattered pieces of Spook clothing.
Oh, abd also, it's halloween themed. So happy halloween!
Anonymous
Anonymous
Still prepping for the spartan 2 quest. I am a slow reader, I've realized
Anonymous
Does anyone know if TG Archive is online? Seems to be down for me.
Anonymous
>>6132925 It is indeed busted once more.
Anonymous
>>6132931 I must pray to the Machine Spirits then.
Anonymous
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>>6132915 Silver linings, writing and reading are mutually beneficial. More you read the better you write, and the more your write the better you'll read.
Anonymous
>>6131934 It turns out that the best way to convincingly write horror of the unknown is to be perpetually afraid of everything and everyone you don't understand. Imaginary numbers, non-visible light, new places, new people, language you can't speak, food you haven't tried, rare animals... The more things you react to with terrified disgust, the more stuff you can convincingly write scary stories about!
Anonymous
>>6132967 You can't be afraid of something you know. You can be anxious, apprehensive, frustrated, but never *afraid* of something you know is coming. Uncertainty and unfamiliarity is the root of all fear and those things are necessary. There are some things that are certain, but are only scary because there's something else next to it that isn't certain. If there is a monster, you hear it, you see it, it will get to you in fifteen seconds, but that isn't the scary part. That's logic, physics, how the world works. But what happens when it does? Will it kill you? What is the afterlife like? Could it change how your afterlife will be? What if it breaks the logic you knew? What are its limits? What can kill it, if it is even possible? Lastly, do you even want to find out? That's what makes horror horror. Fear of the unknown is the only fear, which happens to turn its head up and manifest in different ways and describe differently.
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>>6132422 Happy Halloween to all and to all a good FRIGHT! Here's Anton Peas from DARK QUEST wearing his SPOOKY costume--try not to get too scared!
Next thread oughta' be up next week, by the way!
Anonymous
>>6133025 Is he dressed as Tzah-Tzie? That WOULD be scary. Especially if he had to explain himself to her.
>>6132983 I'm not sure I agree entirely. I think it's very possible to fear or dread something you've experienced before.
Anonymous
>>6132917 >>6132917 >>6132917 Character creation is open for ACT 1: ROAD TRIP THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE. It'll be a fun and moderately murderous story, I think.
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>>6133031 >he thinks that's what TT looks like Please, Anton's costume is nowhere near as menacing
Anonymous
>>6133032 wtf am I even looking at?
Can I get some context or a tl;dr?
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Testing something here for tomorrow.
Anonymous
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And happy Halloween my fellow questers. May your candies be many and your All Saints Days be blessed.
New Flesh
>>6132300 Sorry I’m new to the site and qst mainly, anyway I run the Forced Divinity Quest. A quest about the world turning into malformed angels based off of concepts of the world. My players chose a war angel. So I’m trying to make the first fight a bit like a strategy war game except of fighting another army your trying to take down one guy with your army made from bits of Effigy’s which grow on your angel wings like fruit. This a good gimmick for war? I wanna make it more than just barbarian “Me hit crit 20 and burst your ulcers”. I wanna make it cool and unique. Or should I go more unga bunga?
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>>6133161 /qst/ is quite friendly to more out-there concepts. Pic related were all eligible in our last Queen fo /qst/ waifu-adjacent tournament community event, and we've had everything from elaborate wargames, to civilization-builders, to play-by-post RPGs, to skirmishes, to evolution games.
At a glance, your quest seems fine and very much like the sort of thing that will get players here, irrespective of that one formatting issue you mentioned.
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>>6133086 >>6132935 >>6132947 >>6133032 Bad luck?
Apocalypse?
Halloween?
Oh we have all those things in THE MERCHANT ZOMBIE SURVIVAL QUEST
Tonight players contend with Jack the Pumpkin king, due to some discrepencies in the specific narrative structure of the game.
It's unclear how it happened. I'm not pointing fingers or anything, but i think that it was me all along, throwing curve balls and invoking deus ex machina level inversions of logic to bring the game where I want it to go. Or maybe it was the fates.
You know what? Sure, let's go with the fates thing.
Anyway, Jack the Pumpkin Head or Pumpkin King had some fun Halloween themed art, and it's October 31. And in THIS COUNTRY, that means spooktacular thematic gameplay.
Open character enrollment is still a thing.
>JOIN US Remember that? That's an Evil Dead referrence.
This is the Merchant Zombie Survival Quest: Chapter 3
>>6128116 Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B
Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B ID:UUwWxHlJ Fri 01 Nov 2024 04:32:23 No. 6133180 Report >>6122884 I answer the summons.
Alas I come bearing ill news, I will have to draw out this hiatus a little longer and perhaps into the New Year. My current IRL obligations are not leaving much room for any kind of consistent update schedule, nor indeed the energy to write much at all.
I hope that will change soon, but for now I must put off our return to BCQ and Sworn to Valour a little while longer.
Anonymous
>>6133180 Fucking Xenos
random question but how do you figure out the mechanics for your games? Local Lord
>>6129296 Perhaps Louis XV because while Louis XVI was a more competent and powerful monarch who slept with all pretty noblewomen that he saw Louis XV was not stopping at noblewomen and slept with every pretty girl he saw honhonhon.
But more seriously Henri IV would be the closest to an Isekai character, after all he had "le triple talent de boire de se battre et d'être un vert galant" the triple talent of drinking, fighting and being galant with women. He was a fearless commander who told his men to rally to the white feathers of his helmet that would always be in the middle of the battle and a good king who worked a lot to bring peace between Catholics and protestants and to ensure that every peasant will have "a chicken in his bowl" at Sundays. Let us not forget that he survived to the Saint Barthélémy's night and changed 5 times of religion that would give him the perfect amount of dumb luck and perfect minmaxing of a good Isekai character.
Plus he came from a region where every food (some courtiers joked that even the desserts too) was prepared with garlic and he always smelled of it so it should give him a kind of resistance to vampires.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Fri 01 Nov 2024 09:01:18 No. 6133275 Report Quoted By:
>>6133161 It's good and the concept sounds interresting.
You should link it here in a form of shameless advertising, like this :
Fellow Daoist.
After proving himself the top dog among the almost - 8 year old of the whole Empire, Quiet Word is struggling against time once again, to wrestle out of fate hand yet another legendary "Growth realm" item despite being banned from said Growth Realm, in the form of a Crafting Minigame.
Will he pull out the creation of the mythical Chuan Fu of Complete Defense? Or create a banner to bolster his leadership ability instead? After all, maybe his brand of Genius is to get other Genius to do shit for him.
Shape the young boy into a powerhouse of Fantasy NotChina in NormalCultivatorQuest, now including more politics, management, and avoiding beatups of offended Young Masters!
>>>6125175 Anonymous
Idea: youth correctional facility but they develop superpowers
Anonymous
Happy Halloween everyone.
>>6129121 It is! The Sith thing to do is probably also showing up with a fleet of Star Destroyers to launch a surprise "trick or treat" on a planetside...
>>6129654 I created a quest called "Space Wars" about a year ago. It was trying to mix the feels from SW movies like Rogue One and Andor, plus light novel/anime vibes with it. I was only able to finish the first part before writer's block hit me hard, so yeah.
This time, hopefully I won't fall for the same pit. I'd rather finish one part than start another and not finish it.
>>6129690 Never used AI to write. I don't know how I'd even use that even. But AI art can be pretty useful imo. I used it to create custom pictures of characters for my quest, and once you get good with it, there's so much more you can do with it. Stuff like original cutscenes and memes etc. I've been improving for almost a year now and I learned to fix it up, paint over some areas, do shading and draw in better eyes and not just use the raw AI pic as it is. AI should be used as an instrument, not as a crutch.
>>6130292 Is that really happening?
>>6130358 That's shocking. Why did they do that?
Anonymous
>>6133054 If you are referring to the elevator/diving bell, it's meant to be a character creation stage like in Thing Thing Arena, and otherwise inspired by Psychopomp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPuzbPbuVAI I should have thrown a fill in character doll but it's already out there.
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>>6133180 No worries mate, thanks for the update. Was worried the durries had done you in
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Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B ID:UUwWxHlJ Fri 01 Nov 2024 12:50:41 No. 6133311 Report >>6133231 Hey anon, I’m not sure that I entirely understand the question but I’ll give it a crack. The DC mechanics and best of three results for combat are actually quite simple at their core, with the extra layers of armour saves and battle progress rolls adding more complexity.
The other skill tree mechanics vary wildly but are typically, with some exceptions, going to have some sort of effect of situational DC modifiers. the only real difficulty is making sure I am keeping track of all the modifiers over the course of a long-running quest.
Anonymous
>>6133311 >the only real difficulty is making sure I am keeping track of all the modifiers over the course of a long-running quest. And you have plenty of anons there to immediately call you out if you don't give us our +5DC that we earned through some terrible act of sacrifice haha
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Forgotten QM !!cRQ2bB+8b3B ID:UUwWxHlJ Fri 01 Nov 2024 13:21:53 No. 6133326 Report Quoted By:
>>6133316 Hah! This is very true.
>What would you do for +5DC? Anonymous
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>>6133295 Reminds me a bit of the original Milestone Static Shock comic.
Anonymous
>>6133298 I'd like to know how many lewd images of the sweaty sith sister did you requisition of the image machine.
Anonymous
>>6133298 >That's shocking. Why did they do that? We had a LOT of spam quests, either just low-effort AI-gen nonsense abandonment two or three posts in or /pol/ bait ("Trans Naruto Quest!", "Black Superman Looks for a Breedable White Woman!", usually obvious bullshit like that), or even quests made specifically to mock/heckle/parody specific QMs or quests. They knocked other quests off the catalogue, cluttered it up, and generally annoyed people. Since threads still stayed up for 30-to-40 days, it didn't really bother me, but lots of people were fed up with it.
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Okay, status update to my players.
Anonymous
>>6133362 >"Trans Naruto Quest!" >"Black Superman Looks for a Breedable White Woman!" This kind of humour is why I stayed here kek. Never change, /qst/...
Still, I hope it gets better. I mean trolling and shitposting will always happen but I wish it wasn't so overdone to the point of driving people out of the community.
>>6133360 ...a lot. God Emperor forgive me, I've fallen down the rabbit hole. But it makes for some great memes. I hope to use it soon if I start a new /quest/ again.
I wonder if there's any RPG/roleplaying thread here in /qst/? Like, simple dungeon-crawling with a GM and 3-4 people roleplaying as a party.
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>>6133398 >Still, I hope it gets better. I mean trolling and shitposting will always happen but I wish it wasn't so overdone to the point of driving people out of the community. I've always thought that as long as it stays to those specific threads and doesn't dominate the /qtg/ or infest actual quest threads, it's just part of the local ambience. I don't always like it, but I prefer a more active /qst/ with some shitposting than a dead one. And I say that as a QM that has had a few of the weirder shitpost moments target me specifically.
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>>6130358 I’d rather have a ghosttown than one filled with tourists. Those days with 10 troll threads weren’t fun. It got so retarded in fact that the wire quest got deleted by accident because of their retardation.
Anonymous
>>6133398 >...a lot. God Emperor forgive me, I've fallen down the rabbit hole. But it makes for some great memes. I hope to use it soon if I start a new /quest/ again. You have my respect for honesty it took to reply to that post.
>I wonder if there's any RPG/roleplaying thread here in /qst/? Like, simple dungeon-crawling with a GM and 3-4 people roleplaying as a party. You mean something like Skirmishes?
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>>6133363 We're back for another thread of NICOLE FEDKILLER. And good luck with the December affair, what it may be.
Anonymous
I miss The Little Dungeon That Could.
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>>6133452 F
It was a good run
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>>6133452 Still have a meme folder for that quest
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>>6133435 >>6133398 I think Rise of the Awakened is also pretty much a multiplayer small-party D&D campaign.
>>6109463 BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6133398 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5642742/#5642742 https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2023/5642742/ I will shill this Quest once more. I attempted to run a sort of semi-generic TTRPG in /qst/ format with varying degrees of success. While I was quite proud of the mechanics and think it worked well to foster a sense of class balance and specialization amongst the characters, enforcing any kind of attendance or higher levels of involvement and group play is next to impossible. If you used /qst/ as a meeting point for an existing group, such as one on discord, it might work better; but at that point you'd be better off with any of the numerous TTRPG simulators and websites with way more and better tools. All in all, it's a concept still lacking in exploration but for some good reasons.
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
Did the suptg archive site crash again?
Anonymous
>>6133398 >>6133471 >DUNGEONEER QUEST, with traditional barbarian, dwarf, elf, wizard party I did this too, I even brought out all the miniatures and virtual tabletop hehe, I was inspired by the beloved old HeroQuest board games (2022 Nov 30)
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5481242/ https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5481242/ Sadly this thread was abandoned by the players (I think it was around Christmas / New Year holidays though)
Also something I realised was that despite my topdown virtual maps the players completely ignored all terrain though lol, even when I made chasms and ravines and things argh
I still quite enjoy making those dioramas and miniatures so I still deploy those VTT setups, but mostly just for atmosphere aesthetics and illustrative purposes etc.
Anonymous
>>6132931 Is a lack of funds or something? I wouldn't mind sliding something to the host for how much we rely on them.
Anonymous
An old article from OSR blogs which you may have seen, but I only found it recently when reading the rulebook for His Majesty The Worm rpg (which is more like a compendium of useful rpg advice)
https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2019/10/landmark-hidden-secret.html This blog describes a system for categorising the presentation of information in rpg games, or how to create THE HIDDEN THING etc. There are three types of information,
-LANDMARK
this is "free" information, that the dungeonmaster volunteers and provides to players upon establishing the scene. No action is required on the player side to uncover it, it is often used to anchor or illustrate the immediate environment and surroundings of the encounter setting
-HIDDEN
this is defined as any information that comes AT A COST, ie it requires a player action to uncover. The cost could just be time, or resources (eg spend money to bribe / hear a rumour) or it could be a tradeoff (eg by choosing an action that uncovers this hidden information, you forego some other choice action) and it could also be some skill check on the player side.
Something I thought was interesting about the osr blog approach here is that "hidden" information is NOT SECRET, ie the dungeonmaster should exert themselves and telegraph or provide blatantly obvious suspicious hints and leading information etc that invites the attention / alertness to encourage the player to be drawn to the "hidden" thing
-SECRET
the idea with the secret information is that it is sort of recursive, the existence of the secret is itself a secret. So from the dungeonmaster's landmark scene setting descriptions alone, as well as the hints at hidden things, there is no direct indication of the existence of the secret thing. Maybe it can only be inferred by a player after uncovering several "hidden" things at a cost as described above, but even then it should not be obvious, or may require some player initiative or intuition / experimentation. The secret thing is more like a conjecture, player hypothesis or conspiracy theory.
The author of the blog also recommends that all of the most important information should be landmark or hidden, ie discoverable. All secret information should just be optional, to prevent catastrophic game-breaking impasse etc. I thought this was very useful advice, and a concise dungeonmastering framework for the provision of narrative information
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>>6133478 Unfortunately yes, it's down since yesterday morning for me.
Anonymous
>>6129296 >>6129332 >>6129610 >>6133238 You get this gif of Philippe Duc d'Orleans from Versailles (2015) tv series
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God of Records !!92filgVOKq6 ID:bFVKUn0I Fri 01 Nov 2024 21:17:46 No. 6133526 Report Quoted By:
Do you miss Petty Gods - Pact of Solomon?
I did, too. Let's get godly up in this bitch:
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>>6129296 >>6133238 >>6133523 >harcdore historical rpg setting >MUDCORE Second only to my penchant for weeping crying tearful actresses in period dramas, I do enjoy films where actors get MUD ON THEIR FACE, it is a sign of ultimate acting commitment and histrionic dedication. So the Versailles TV series, whilst lacking complete historical accuracy (I did learn about Madame de Montespan and l'affaire des poisons from it though hehe) nonetheless it has a good example of this
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>>6133398 Eh, might as well shill myself: currently the story is following one guy playing as four different guys. I forgot to mention it in the thread proper, but I'm going to run it as a hexcrawl with a single destination.
Scenario: ROADTRIP THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE
>>6132917 Anonymous
>>6133486 >Is a lack of funds or something? LL (the site owner) said it's due to some problem further up the series of tubes from him.
Anonymous
>>6133507 That is pretty handy as a way to think about mamaging mysteries, including in quests. The challenge is figuring out how
to make hidden info feel "hidden" rather than eye-rollingly obvious, in such a fashion that players can and will find it and still feel a sense of excitement/achievement from doing so.
>>6133541 Alas. Thank goodness for archived.moe, for now. Been hearing that a lot of internet archival has been falling apart lately. QMs who care: don't forget to rip your threads to a PDF.
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>>6132967 >rare animals? >>6132983 >"afraid of something... that is coming..." >"there is a monster, you hear it, you see it, it will get to you..." >"Will it kill you...?" In my DUNGEONEER game
>>6133479 I invented a GUILLOTINE KNIGHT (just a decapitated monster with the pillared frame and axe blade of a guillotine sprouting upwards from his headless shoulders. I also conceived of it being a sort of disguised mimic type creature, ie you see a slumped corpse in what looks to be a guillotine but then the body rises and the apparatus extends from the severed neck itself muahaha)
Recently I was re-watching the 1996 Kama Sutra film tee hee hee it actually has some cool Indian fortress citadel things and exotic costumes also breasts yay, I had seen it a long time ago but I forgot about the ELEPHANT EXECUTION scene this was apparently a gruesome historical punishment, there were supposedly some variants like being dragged or trampled, sometimes the elephants had sword blades or sharpened tusks or were trained by the mahouts to twist and dismember the condemned victim pulling them apart with their coiled trunks. So I thought this was pretty frightening, I somehow forgot about this entire scene in the film until I rewatched it
>execution by elephant trampling >alas, the ironic demise of foot fetishists Anonymous
>>6133548 >QMs who care: don't forget to rip your threads to a PDF How is this done? First I have heard of it
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 02 Nov 2024 01:16:57 No. 6133657 Report so much for the last two days being taken off for a fun break I guessin the background just because I find it very fun and it might help me start thread 3 with a bang. captcha: 20TXT
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>>6133657 Truly this is an awful year for QMs. Stay spry fly guy.
Anonymous
>>6133657 Hope you have a smooth and speedy recovery, QM. Your quest really deserves continuation more than any other.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 02 Nov 2024 02:25:41 No. 6133691 Report >>6133687 I hope recovery is possible, it might be neurological. Nevertheless, best-case scenario it's a huge nothingburger and all can continue as normal soon enough. I'll probably be writing this kind of autistic fanfiction to my grave anyways, there's no way you can wrangle these dumb creatures from my heart as easily as just killing me.
Anonymous
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>>6133657 >Suptg being down worries me greatly and I don't want to keep posting updates on page 10 without that getting resolved. archived.moe is still there, and you can still archive on suptg even after you fall off Page 10 for a while.
>possibly serious health issues That sucks... I'm sorry to hear that. Get well soon, if plausible.
>>6133622 https://webtopdf.com/ is oen I've seen recommended.
Anonymous
>>6133691 Hoping for the best, then. Hope we won't have to deal with the first undead QM for a little longer.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 02 Nov 2024 04:13:33 No. 6133732 Report Quoted By:
Final update of thread 2 is out. Decide whether Walter is being paranoid or pragmatic today through sheep-related antics!
>>6133727 >>6133728 >>6133725 Thankfully I'm pretty sure I haven't got kuru, but boy do I hope that whatever this is isn't anywhere near that severe. I'll be seeing a neurologist soon enough to get it sorted, anyways. Thanks for the well wishes, all.
Anonymous
hypothetically if suptg just dies
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6133734 We mostly just cry in that case
Anonymous
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>>6133734 archived.moe and PDFs?
Anonymous
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>>6133734 uh
i do a fuckload of ritalin and code some html parser that lets me convert archived.moe pages into properly formatted /qst/ pages as a private thing and like share the method because i don't know how t make it a proper program
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
I wonder how mad they're going to be when they figure out there isn't actually anything planned for the "special breakthru research reward" minigame challenge.
New Flesh
I’ve written 4 pages of enemy and player rules and abilities.I don’t know why. My idea for enemy’s is that depending on a 1d20 roll they sue certain moves and go down a move list. For example They roll a 4 and roll’s between 1-5 have a certain movement set some ire varied some not,Which could be something like [Stab, Slash, Kick.] for the 1-5 number attack pattern they do, In which they have to do these actions and do them until their AP is gone. Player and opponent get 3 ap at the start and when both go a new round happens and both permanently get 1 new AP each. Going up to 7 each. The Player has much more freedom to strategize as all enemies have a pattern and strategy. Doing something a certain way can skip the opponents turn like blocking or countering their attack String. Which can be done with correct written assumption of their next action and a dice roll of 1d20. This sound interesting so far or should I give more examples of the system form the pages I wrote? I don’t wanna spoil things for my players but I’m excited to try it out.
Anonymous
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>>6133788 Sounds cool, I wanna see
Adlershorst
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Well, it looks like our heroes have been ambushed, can you help them out?
>>6133839 >>6133839 >>6133839 PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sat 02 Nov 2024 13:27:03 No. 6133931 Report >>6133734 boy have I got some good news for you
New Flesh
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>>6133788 For example if the enemy rolls a 5 they must follow this move list stopping if interrupted be it by terrain or AP limit. The total cost of this is 4 AP so rolling a 5 and getting this move set for this turn means it can only use 2 attacks. But on the next turn they can use all of them if it rolls a 1-5 again due to AP increasing by 1 each round up to 7. The move list goes downward so they can’t mix it up unless the move specified it does or the roll is a different move set like a 10-15 which has completely different moves. They can be predicted and accurate predicting a move causes the player to parry it wasted the opponents move if they roll well. Basically finishing the DM’s thought like “He’s gonna use leaping charge first since it’s a 5 so I’ll roll to parry.” Again the fight will have to go on a bit for this to happen and it ain’t a get win button but it does encourage them to write how they act and not just do multiple choice.
Enemy move set looks like this if it’s a bandit for example on a 1-5 roll on a 1d20:
[Charging slash] Lunges the opponent toward as the slash ahead moving them a meter as they swing. Dealing 1d4 damage [Costs 2] 1-5
[Stab] Skewer their guts lining with a jab of jagged steel. Does 1d2 [costs 1]
[Kick] Hits the groin causing one to stumble and be off balance does 1d2 damage, but has a 1d20 to stun [Cost 1]
Anonymous
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I'm trying to find a really old quest. I forget a lot of details, but I recall it took inspiration of Madoka Magica a little. We had our own realm, and I remember we had styled it in the image of a casino and there were other 'witches' or the sort. Wasn't finished. That's about all I can remember. Anyone recall what the name of that old quest was?
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>>6133931 Appreciate the heads-up!
Anonymous
I made a quest on anon kun
Anonymous
>>6134070 That's illegal anon. Shame on you
Anonymous
>>6134076 Forgive me father for I have sinned
Anonymous
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>>6134091 Sorry daddy I've been naughty.
Anonymous
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>>6133180 Honestly, thinking about it, I'd rather you waited until suptg was back up anyway and we were sure it was here to stay. Plus who the fuck will be around for christmas? (probably actually plenty of unwashed nerds but still, some people have loved ones they want to spend time with).
Fuck it, we'll see you next year Hangman, have a good chrissy
Anonymous
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>>6133769 This always goes well in Video games.
New Flesh
It’s been 5 hours and my players haven’t responded to the battle, which I wanted to be quick and snappy. I was probably too vague and weird with my systems. I just want them to type how they would use their actions and approach things. But nobody’s responded yet. I planned today to be a day of action where I’d spend all day here and answering questions about the system and stuff while making a fun fight where I can really engage with my players. Did I fuck up somehow? I’d like ideas to improve
I told them the battle would be at around 10:30 AM burger time. Got zero responses to that but I figured they got it. Then this happened. And I feel like a schizo talking to myself, Kinda worried I’ve overloaded my players. Here’s the Quest feel free to criticize. If I fucked up I wanna fix it. I don’t wanna lose those we were interested. Even if it’s just one guy I want to make their day fun and unique.
>>6131560 Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam
Watcher from the Core !!gkPzrDKpHam ID:Gv1CfUJx Sat 02 Nov 2024 21:11:11 No. 6134251 Report >>6133657 Trying to steal my title of World's Sickest QM, are you? I'll fucking kill you, you son of a bitch.
Anonymous
>>6134218 A typical quest has 3-5 player posts per day, spread out over random times. I've found the best flow is to try to make your updates at a consistent time each day and hope to have some replies by the time tomorrow's update window begins. It's possible to get a large enough pool of players that you can get replies very quickly after updating, but it takes time to cultivate a dedicated player base.
Keep at it, and you will definitely start to see some familiar players. Just bear in mind that this board averages about 500 posts per day, and there are 150-ish threads on the board.
Anonymous
>>6134218 The only critique I can offer is unfortunately unlikely to be useful, but I (and presumably some other players) primarily read and play quests for the characters, settings, and narratives. I like tabletop crunch, but I don't come to /qst/ to scratch that itch, as I find the format and the style of collaborative play to be cumbersome and frustrating, especially as someone who is often catching up and voting at work during lulls or breaks. As such, even in quests I like and follow otherwise, I'll often skip "crunchier" segments focused on strategy and tactics; I just don't have time or inclination to parse those and plan properly between doing other things. This is especially true if I'm busy, as I might only get a chance to catch up on a quest once every day or two (or, well, I have other chances, but spend some of that time writing my own and some of that time doing other stuff).
That isn't to say you did a bad job in executing this, but if you already have a smaller gaggle of players (the 3-to-7 range typical for a first thread of an accessible concept), you can probably expect a drop in participation during rapid, tactical, mechanically-focused events and votes.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
>>6134218 /qst/ is a really slow board even at the best of times, and a new quest might not always get a bunch of regular readers right off the bat! If you find yourself not getting much participation, play some games, go out with friends, or do some errands/workouts--even quick rounds of combat can take a long time for people to vote and strategize for.
That said, I'd offer one piece of advice as one QM to another: it's generally a good idea to offer your players choices for actions, especially during combat. You'll get more write-ins as you go along, but doing something along the lines of
>Charge directly at them! >Flank 'em! >Let them come to you! >Write-In! Is much less intimidating to new players and will also make it easier for people to participate. Again, you don't ALWAYS have to do this, but I've found the '3 Choices and a Write-In' model works really well in the long run.
Last but not least, stick with it! There are gonna be days where /qst/ is really slow, but if you stick with your quest your players will notice that. A lot of players (myself included) are wary because there have been way too many promising quests that started strong and disappeared like farts on a Winter night. Sometimes you just gotta proceed with 1-2 voters!
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>>6134251 Hope you're getting better btw.
New Flesh
>>6134254 >>6134260 >>6134281 Thanks I know about the three choices write-in idea but I wanted to do something different which in hindsight makes sense why engagement may have stifled a bit. I should just do my daily updates. But I don’t want the fight to go beyond like….a week. And people to get bored. It shouldn’t be beyond a few rounds but still. I have so much more I wanna do with this world and such. Appreciate the help you guys are pretty rad.
Anonymous
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>>6134292 Fight scenes are easier to manage if you use broad strokes instead of having the players roll for each specific action.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6134292 Good on you for asking for advice! No one's gonna run a perfect quest first try, but it's always the sign of a good QM if they can ask for tips and accept feedback. If you need to change anything around or you make an error, there's nothing wrong with letting your players know--lots of quests change mechanics mid-game and it's fine as long as you keep everyone in the loop.
Best of luck and keep on truckin!
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
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>>6134384 >>6134384 >>6134384 I have finally finished the last post for my first quest oneshot, Fog of War. Feels pretty good to not flake. I'd appreciate any criticism for my next time around.
Anonymous
The archive is back up. That's good
Anonymous
>>6134254 >this board averages about 500 posts per day, and there are 150-ish threads on the board Brutal
Anonymous
>>6134564 >>6134254 I'm doing my part.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
Its time!>6122821 >6122821 >6122821
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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>>6134614 >fucked up the link embarrassing...
anyway
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
>>6134292 >Still no link to your Quest in QTG Anonymous
>>6134638 >>6134218 linked it. It's Forced Divinity. >>6131560 Anonymous
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>>6134578 NICE
Post the banner?
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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A day late but fuck it, we ball. I was already delayed by two months or so, what's another day
>>6134923 >>6134923 >>6134923 And now that I don't feel guilty about posting here while neglecting my quest, might as well answer these nearly month old questions!
>>6120952 >Does your MC celebrate Halloween? While the holiday still exists 200+ years in the future and is still celebrated by those in the setting, Nicole doesn't really care for it herself. Well, as an adult, that is. As a kid she would be fucking enthralled by it and would love entering sugar comas. Now she really only cares about watching cheap B-grade horror movies.
>Do you do anything for different seasons/holidays in the quests you read/write? Not really, outside of minor things. I just find that I have a hard time stuffing holiday stuff into my quest in a timely fashion while also making it gel well with what's going on.
>Got any Halloween plans? I didn't have any this year since no one in my neighborhood bothers to come to my house to trick-or-treat. I just zoned out and watched horror movies all day while eating candy corn.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Vote is open for a while longer over at Ilvermorny Quest. Which House at American wizard high school will our plucky protagonist chose when she is the first in decades to be offered all of them? Only you can decide!
>>6134569 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Vote is open for a while longer over at Ilvermorny Quest. Which House at American wizard high school will our plucky protagonist chose when she is the first in decades to be offered all of them? Only you can decide!
>>6134562 >>6134562 >>6134562 Anonymous
>Was going to start writing a new quest >As I set up for writing I remembered how much effort running a quest took >Decided to not do it in the end
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6135107 Last time I went to the doctor's they said I had "very good balls", so checkmate.
Anonymous
>>6135115 I bet you would like to mate, homo
Anonymous
>>6135177 I went to get checked out after squatting too hard and giving myself a hernia, so they checked out my balls. You know back when I was in the gym blasting gear and writing my old quest you could tell I was going a bit psycho from all the shit in my system. I was saying how I was always angry and wanted any excuse to throw down with anyone.
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>>6135185 >bro blew his own back out Sucks. Would you rather bleed out of your nose after a heavy lift or your ass?
Anonymous
>>6134515 Hows prep coming for the quest?
Anonymous
>>6135277 Pretty good, still not sure when it'll be done baking, but I've made quite a bit of progress to getting to that point
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>>6135280 Glad to hear it, bake as long as you need.
Anonymous
>>6135013 >HARRY POTTER >Hermione, etc I prefer this webm, funnily enough the other day I was just watching a Merchant Ivory period drama A Room With A View (1985) with early horizontal egg-shaped moonface Helena Bonham Carter who resembles Stewie from family guy. I don't know really very much about Harry Potter, from what I can surmise in this scene Helena Bonham Carter whispers the horrifying truth to Emma Watson, concerning the inevitable downfall of an actress and her career with ageing. This is clearly what produces the tortured theatrical high-pitched screaming which I found unconvincing in an overly-melodramatic horror film sensational sort of manner. Nonetheless this was an enjoyable scene for me
Anonymous
>>6135336 >HELENA BONHAM CARTER weird horizontal egg moonface and Stewie Griffin from Family Guy surely I cannot be the only one who detects an uncanny resemblance. It is more striking in her early costume films / Merchant Ivory period dramas eg A Room With A View (1985), The Wings Of The Dove (1997) etc, the Mel Gibson Hamlet etc. Her face is really horizontal
Anonymous
>>6135336 >Hermione/Bellatrix mudblood torture scene Inspired by the last qtg where that anon noticed the weird contrived arm position of the Eragon sorcery magic arrow archery scene ruining my film gif lol but watch this webm sequence closely - is there some sort of continuity error as to whether Bellatrix carves the Mudblood words on Hermione's left or right arm? The ending shot and the shot where she is prone with her arms spread and sleeve rolled up clearly indicate it is Hermione's LEFT ARM, but when they are face-to-face and Bellatrix leans in to stab / slash her she lunges towards Hermione's RIGHT ARM??? This infuriates me, argh
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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YOU DID IT!
The trap worked and now your target is right where you wanted!
now comes the tricky part, erasing her memory!
Roll the dice in the latest update of The Caretaker Quest and find out if you can scramble a mind hidden inside a mind!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
>>6135013 >>6135336 >>6135344 >Harry Potter school houses >OH MY GOD THE HOUSE RIVALRY SLYTHERIN GRYFFINDOR !! I remember from my school days nobody cared about houses it was sort of embarrassing, teachers tried to award these colour merit stickers gold stars etc to create house rivalry by linking the merit awards to academic achievements nobody cared. The houses were named after some saints like Alban, Bede, Cuthbert or historical figures like Cowper, Drake etc (usually followed some ABCD scheme). All you got if your house "won" was some mention in assembly or a lame award, no-one actually wanted this, it was extremely shameful. I got an English-French dictionary which I never used and £20 book vouchers for WHSmiths. I mentioned in a past qtg a more accurate depiction of British education is provided by the film The Hole (2001)
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5861271/#5888933 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5861271/#5888929 it has Keira Knightley in it lol, this film is more authentic in depicting British education in a contemporaneous era to Harry Potter
As a cultural export or as some evergreen revenue generating IP franchise for WBD lol I suppose Harry Potter stands as a testament to the inadequacy insularity and increasing irrelevancy of the British education system as it disengages from the modern world, retreating into nostalgic vestiges of societal archaisms distorted by the fondness yet haplessness of memory for empire. Essentially Gormenghast for children, British education can no longer produce neither intellect nor talent - indeed perhaps it never did, for in the propulsive invigorated age of the Industrial Revolution many of the engineers, gentleman natural philsophers and hobbyist industrialists were self-taught and self-made (eg Stephenson). The Dickensian world depicted by Harry Potter is astonishingly antiquated and insular and essentially predicts nothing which is surprising because even Star Wars can prophesy a trade war. I think Harry Potter was the product of a comfortable Blairite era dissociated from consequences, Blair in his "education education education" mode, when the worst threats JK Rowling could imagine to Britain were fictional journalists like Rita Skeeter (lol before the Iraq War aftermath resulted in legal emasculation of the British press) existing in the multicultural melange of Parvatis Cho Changs and Igor Karkaroff Sturmdrangs, this is what Britain under Blair imagined foreign countries to resemble. Harry Potter itself essentially reduces down to What Matters In Life Is Who Your Parents Are. Which is probably true for Britain. It would have been better for the world if Voldemort had just killed him
Anonymous
>>6135013 >Americanise Harry Potter...?? >BECOME THE AMERICAN THE CHINESE IMAGINE THE JAPANESE THINK YOU TO BE This videogame looks appallingly generic in terms of gameplay, but I enjoyed the production value of this trailer. I had to look up many of the references I did not understand them (the magic mirror van?? hehe)
There are several versions of it even on IGN but I think this one is the best compilation with translated subtitles, it is deeply philosophical and very culturally sensitive. I actually had not thought of zombies in the way the voiceover describes for this, as unliving entities clinging to the past
Showa American Story, IGN/Gametrailers version with subtitles
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIUQo1y74Fw A while back on another qtg some anon described a burgerpunk combat streamer rpg setting, I was extremely fascinated by it and contemplated collating a visual moodboard
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5933504/#5946372 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5933504/#5946380 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5933504/#5946388 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5933504/#5951194 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5933504/#5954358 I guess the Showa American Story videogame trailer also furnishes some imagery
Anonymous
>>6135369 As mentioned I don't think the gameplay looks tremendously compelling for Showa American Story lol, but I appreciate the trailer comedy production value. If nothing else, just for this webm alone
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I think the funniest thing about today was twitters For You Tab showing me that planefag is a massive Republican
Anonymous
>>6135103 >not in employment...? The correct nomenclature for this is a gentleman. I understand nowadays that many have been coaxed in their necessity to abandon the natural disdain for commerce, embracing the mercantile professions for their livelihood, but if you think otherwise you must be A POOR who has bought their own furniture instead of inheriting it
Here is Daniel Day Lewis using this philosophy to seduce weird horizontal egg face Helena Bonham Carter
>>6135336 >>6135337 >>6135344 MRS HONEYCHURCH
What is your profession, Mr Vyse?
CECIL VYSE
I have no profession.
My attitude, quite indefensible -
Is that if I trouble no-one, I may do as I like!
It is, I dare say, an example of my decadence.
Anonymous
>>6135367 >the worst threats JK Rowling could imagine to Britain were fictional journalists like Rita Skeeter I think that the worst threats in the series are probably not a yellow journalist, but figures like:
>the resurgent race-nationalist sociopath terrorist obsessed with blood quantum (Voldemort) >the seductively-charismatic gay libertarian revolutionary consequentialist (Grindelwald) >ineffectual and compliant government and authority figures who fail to recognize or address these threats (the Ministry et al) >the cruel, petty, and banal people who gleefully go along with these emergent ideologies and try to indoctrinate children into them (Umbridge, the woman so vile in Rowling's view that she has her implicitly gang-raped by centaurs as punishment, and the centaurs are treated as heroic for it) I don't really like Rowling as a person, or the worldbuilding in her flagship franchise, but I do feel we can safely say that the actual villains are somewhat more relevant to the story than Rita Skeeter or... uh, ethnic minorities existing.
>>6135371 >>6135369 >Showa American Story Alright that looks pretty hilarious.
Anonymous
>>6135463 >Rita Skeeter, journalism/reporting in the UK before and after the Iraq War / News Of The World Leveson Inquiry Hehe, Voldemort is a caricature, a narrative contrivance, he is the real hero in the films because he is played by one of the few Shakespearean actors Ralph Fiennes who can actually act lol (unlike say Emma Watson fake single tear crying performance here hmmm
>>6135336 ) Just like how the plot of Star Wars 1999 is not really Christopher Lee Count Dooku or whatever, but the trade war against that Chinese accent trade envoy alien lol
Why is Rita Skeeter so important? I remember some interview at the time (I literally cannot find it, I think it might have been some radio BBC4 interview from around 2001, or maybe around the eve of the films coming out and JK Rowling was garnering massive publicity touring the PR circuits etc.) In the interview she explained how she created the characters mostly in response to her own personal life, but she gave a long exposition / rant detailing how this journalist character reflected particularly her personal interactions with the media, she originally intended for the journalist character to play a much larger role or something but in the end cut her back in the fiction she felt it was too personal. I apologise if I misremembered I cannot find a link to any transcript, it is just something I recall from maybe 2001 ish ?? (not sure about the date, I think it was a radio interview) before the modern internet existed lol.
When you examine the supine nature of the press in Britain today, you can see JK Rowling (alongside a lot of other politicians, celebrities or high net worth individuals) got their way.
>>6133548 >a lot of internet archives falling apart recently... Nowadays though instead of imprisoning that Fake Sheik tabloid reporter or convicting Max Clifford and letting him die in prison, it might be more effective to take down the internet archives or wayback machine before an election I suppose, hehe
Anonymous
>>6135367 >>6135463 >>6135545 I am trying to find some references about how Rita Skeeter was an extremely important and personal character to JK Rowling, I cannot seem to find the one interview I remember but here are a few quotes from 2001-04 internet lol which support what I referred to
(2000)
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/1000-scholastic-chat.htm Question: Has the huge popularity of Harry Potter changed the direction of the plot in any way?
J.K. Rowling responds: No, not at all. People have asked me whether Rita Skeeter was invented for that purpose, but in fact she was always planned. I think I enjoyed writing her a bit more than I would have done if I hadn't met a lot of journalists, though!
(2004)
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm Can you tell me more about Rita Skeeter?
I love Rita. You know when Harry walks into the Leaky Cauldron for the first time, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone? Everyone says, “You’re back” and he realises for the first time that he is famous. In a very early draft, Rita, a journalist, was there and she ran up to him. For some reason she was called Bridget—I forget why. Anyway, she detained him too long in the Leaky Cauldron and I really needed to get him moving, so I thought that I would not put her there. As I was writing book one, I was planning the rest, and book four was supposed to be where Harry’s fame became a burden to him. It really starts to weigh on him when he is exposed to the wider wizarding world so I thought that that would be the perfect place for Rita to come in. She was still called Bridget at the time. I didn’t realise that by the time I wrote book four I would have met quite a lot of Ritas and people would assume that I was writing Rita in response to what had happened to me, which was not in fact the truth. However, I am not going to deny that writing Rita was a lot more fun having met a few people I had met. I actually quite like Rita. She is loathsome—morally, she’s horrible—but I can’t help admiring her toughness. She is very determined to do the job and there is something quite engaging about that. There is more to come on Rita. It is really enjoyable to write her and Hermione because they are such very different people. The scene in which I had Hermione, Rita and Luna together in the pub was really fun to write because they are three very different women with very different points of view. You have this very cynical journalist, you have Hermione, who is very logical, upright and good, and you have Luna, who is completely out to lunch but fantastic. I really like Luna. You have these three people who are not on each other’s wavelengths making a deal. It was fun to write.
Anonymous
>>6135367 >>6135463 >>6135545 >>6135550 >Rita Skeeter, JK Rowling and journalists This is not the exact interview, but this background context seems familiar. Basically, a tabloid journalist delved into JK Rowling's past and came a bit too close for comfort
(2000)
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0900-independent-carrell.html (...)
So who was the inspiration? It does not necessarily all come from women. Last November, Paul Henderson at The Mail on Sunday unearthed Rowling's Portuguese ex-husband, Jorge Arantes, the father of her daughter. The story dredged up allegations of his physical abuse. Arantes, a penniless former journalist, also disputed the reported version that Rowling began writing the Potter series in Edinburgh. He said that she started writing the first volume, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, at their home in Oporto and already knew how the seven-volume series would end. He also claimed to have helped to edit the manuscript.
Very soon after The Mail on Sunday's interview with Jorge came another, un -bylined story that Rowling insists was "totally fabricated". Those two events, she claims, plunged her into depression and left her unable to write, reinforcing her reaction to the press.
She cites a feature in the Daily Record earlier this year, which described her as "irascible, irritable, paranoid", rather like JD Salinger or Howard Hughes. It claimed that a young boy and his mother who went to her flat for an autograph were "lambasted loudly" for disturbing her. It quoted neighbours and friends claiming she had become "increasingly reclusive, nervous and irascible" and it suggested that Rowling found little to enjoy from her celebrity.
The piece was published in March this year, after The Goblet of Fire was finished, so Annie Brown, its author, can rest easy. She is not the model for Rita Skeeter.
>Brown also insists that her piece, while unflattering, was properly sourced. "Perhaps she was angry because it was so realistic," Brown said.
There are some clues in this search for Anonymous. The next most unpleasant character in the books, Harry's uncle Vernon Dursley, a small-minded and vicious non-wizard who fostered Harry after his parents died, is revealed as a Daily Mail reader. Perhaps, then, the finger may point at Angela Levin, the Mail's senior interviewer, who ran two interviews with Rowling in 1998 and 1999, which played up the rags-to-riches theme.
But Rosamund de la Hey, Rowling's publisher at Bloomsbury, is quick to deny that. She says the character "definitely, definitely isn't" based on anyone in particular. "There is no one person that she names, ever."
(...)
Anonymous
>>6135550 >>6135545 >>6135563 I don't dispute that Rita Skeeter has relevance to the lady who wrote her. I just think that by the point you're dismissing the main villains of her stories (and all the pervasive themes of hereditary class/race prejudice, and the perversion and subversion of ineffectual government and the educational system by radicals that they represent) as "a narrative contrivance" while elevating a bit character based on Rowling's pet peeves about tabloid journos to Main Villain Status, you're maybe a little out in the weeds.
Anonymous
>>6135367 >>6135585 >why Rita Skeeter is the most important character in Harry Potter In summary:
-JK Rowling hates journalists
-UK tabloid press journalists uncovered her relationship to the Portguese father of her daughter, Jorge Arantes who was himself also a journalist (tv reporter?) He was apparently violent and abusive, once punching her in the face in the street (he hasn't denied it and claims she "deserved it")
2023 Feb
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11779995/JK-Rowlings-whirlwind-marriage-Portuguese-violent-husband-Jorge-Arantes.html >Arantes is said to live a solitary life in Porto, the city where the former couple met more than 30 years ago when JK was 23. After a night of drinking and chat in the early 1990s, love then blossomed having found they had a shared interest in Jane Austen. >But Ms Rowling, now happily married to Dr Neil Murray for the past 21 years, had hinted there had been violence in their short-lived relationship until 2020, when she revealed he had beaten her in the street. When confronted by reporters he was unrepentant, admitting he hit her hard in the face and didn't regret it >And yesterday the Edinburgh-based author claimed her abusive first husband kept the first Harry Potter manuscript ‘hostage’, the Philosopher's Stone, to stop her leaving him. >The multi-award winning author said she was forced to sneak the precious notes out of the house a few pages at a time and photocopy them at work, so concerned was she that Arantes would destroy the work that later transformed her life and made her a $1billion (£850million) fortune. Arantes, in contrast, was reportedly on benefits and did not work for a number of years. >>6135103 >>6135427 Ms Rowling first opened up about the violence she suffered in a personal essay published in the summer of 2020, and Mr Arantes said that he was ‘not sorry’.
‘When I realised I was definitely going to go,’ Ms Rowling told the podcast about that period in her life, ‘I would take a few pages of the manuscript into work every day, just a few pages so he wouldn’t realise anything was missing, and I would photocopy it.
‘Gradually in a cupboard in the staff room, bit by bit, a photocopied manuscript grew and grew because I suspected that if I wasn’t able to get out with everything, he would burn it or take it and hold it hostage.
(...)
The podcast interview quotes with JK Rowling I believe is this (text transcripts here)
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-witch-trials-of-jk-rowling/chapter-1-plotted-in-darkness Also, is it weird how this photo of her ex-partner actually looks a bit like what I imagine an adult, bohemian Harry Potter would resemble lol
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>>6135606 Toll paid or not?
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YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:O4WpQZ/2 Mon 04 Nov 2024 19:32:10 No. 6135616 Report Quoted By:
"The Prophecy Names Me, So I Killed A Rat To Get Another Prophecy" has received a brand new fresh day-today update. It's your chance to join Niklos on his journey and help him choose if he'll kill more animals, or if we can disentangle himself from the prophetic threads without that.
>>6135502 >>6135502 >>6135502 Anonymous
>>6135608 Toll is for coal. What is the cost of beans?
Anonymous
>>6135608 >>6135618 >itt Americans reveal they don't know where Portugal is or who the people are who live there If you want to insinuate he's non-white, you should probably be gesturing towards the Middle East. He's Mediterranean.
Anonymous
>>6135623 Portugal does not touch the Mediterranean sea.
Anonymous
>>6135608 So I am reading that JK Rowling interview
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-witch-trials-of-jk-rowling/chapter-1-plotted-in-darkness where she describes how this journalist bloke Jorge Arantes essentially forced her into marriage after her pregnancy miscarriage and then held her precious Harry Potter book manuscript hostage, resulting in JK Rowling having to stealth exfiltrate it page by page through photocopying lol, I believe this occurred in 1993 ??
Also JK Rowling describes how her plan to escape the abusive marriage was to flee to her sister in Scotland (this is very interesting, if you think of the landscape of how Hogwarts is portrayed, Alnwick castle in Scotland etc)
But what I am thinking is, if this story is true, her ex-partner this Portuguese journalist person is rich, he has her original (handwritten? 1993?) manuscript, he can sell it, in fact I know of a guy this person Glenn Horowitz
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/28/a-controversial-rare-book-dealer-tries-to-rewrite-his-own-ending he is a specialist dealer in literary book manuscripts and writer estate papers etc, so just get in touch with him, yay
>JK Rowling private life revelations far more interesting than entire Harry Potter book series >When do we get to see the film adaptation of a Portuguese man punching a pregnant ginger lady in the face Anonymous
>>6135626 >HARRY POTTER MANUSCRIPT >journalism something about this make me think Harry Potter is intended for girls, urgh ewww urgh
You may know this, but the titular character of the fashion editor below is based upon Anna Wintour of Vogue. Her brother Patrick Wintour is a journalist / diplomatic editor for the Guardian, where he mainly hypes war
(The Devil Wears Prada, 2006)
ANDREA "ANDY" SACHS
Miranda, about last night, I…
MIRANDA PRIESTLY
I need the new Harry Potter book for the twins.
ANDY
Okay. Okay. I'll go down to Barnes & Noble right now-
MIRANDA
Did you fall down and smack your little head on the pavement?
ANDY
Not that I can recall-
MIRANDA
We have all the published Harry Potter books.
The twins want to know what happens next.
ANDY (panicking)
You want the unpublished manuscript...?
MIRANDA
We know everyone in publishing.
It shouldn't be a problem, should it?
And you can do anything, right?
Anonymous
>>6135625 And yet, they are often called a Mediterranean country due to a variety of other factors including their immediate neighbors and historical influences, climate, and so on.
Anonymous
>>6135689 That's like saying Norway is one of the baltics. Pshaw sir.
Anonymous
>>6135702 Look, wiser men than we can disagree, but ti's in the Mediterranean Basin and if you had to accuse Rowling of miscegenation on this most sacred day of off-topic shitposting, USA Election Eve, "kebab" or "guinea" would make more sense than "bean".
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>>6135689 Portugal is also a slavic country because they appear the same colour as Eastern Europe on ranking maps.
Anonymous
>>6135707 Great, now Oman is a red sea state. Look at what you did.
Anonymous
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>>6135734 You're welcome, omanianons. This body of water is my gift to you, on behalf of the sinister lizard cabal.
Anonymous
>>6135707 >ELECTIONS a return to a system of sortition is needed, when making a sacrificial offering to the dragon
ELSPETH
My father is a wonderful man, a wise man.
The lottery was his idea (...)
You don't understand.
From the moment it began, the dragon was tame.
The kingdom prospered.
GALEN
And only a few had to be sacrificed.
ELSPETH
Yes, that's true.
Isn't it better that a few should die
that many might live?
GALEN
Depends on who does the dying.
ELSPETH
Oh, but we all take our chances.
My father is a just man.
My name is entered on the lists,
along with every other young --
GALEN
Virgin?
ELSPETH
Maiden.
GALEN
If you say so.
ELSPETH
What do you mean? (...)
GALEN
I'm sorry. I heard a rumor.
Families with money, that sort of thing.
ELSPETH
Don't listen to rumors. They're lies.
I have to go now.
(...)
CROWD
The name! The name!
(...)
KING
That's not the name. It's been
misread.
The King moils through the tiles, finding his daughter's name again and again.
KING
The lottery is invalid.
Another and another. What treachery is this?
ELSPETH
Hear me, good people! It is true,
that my name appears on many of the lots.
This does not falsify the drawing, it certifies it!
I have learned that my name has been kept from jeopardy
in all the drawings in the past.
So I have put my name among the rest many times --
once for each risk that, over the years,
you took and I did not.
Anonymous
>>6122729 I want to start questing to stop being terrified of people and get used to showing my creative work to others, but I am too terrified of others and critical of my creative work to start questing. I am paranoid about upsetting people and them secretly hating me in the mentally ill kind of way.
Anonymous
Every time Souv starts posting dialogue script he needs to have a finger broken. Literal spam. Get the fuck out of here with that shit, go to /tv/ or /lit/.
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>>6135847 Post it anyway or I'll make a voodoo doll of you and dip it in motor oil up to the balls.
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>>6135847 Using
>>6135850 as an example, the hate wouldn’t be secret. So there’s that, I guess?
Getting useful feedback is harder, but that’s what other QMs are for. And me. When I get off my ass and actually finish my reviews.
I should be doing that now…
Anonymous
>>6135850 >FINGERS It is ok anon I have very strong powers of regeneration, I do feed upon suffering (slurp slurp) yay. What is truly disturbing about this webm is the leftward facing positioning of the bolt on the sniper rifle, I used to never notice this (a lot of old games do it including STALKER, counterstrike etc) now it is truly aggravating and visually painful argh argh noooo
Anonymous
I keep returning to the thought of giving my players the option to kick a grunt like a football to serve as an improvised explosive
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>>6135903 Based and Kig-Yarpilled.
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>>6135903 Based. Grunts are the galaxy's silliest methane bombs.
Anonymous
>>6135903 My favourite game was Halo Reach, I solo completed it on legendary with nearly all of the skulls activated (not Blind though) I did complete Halo 4 (2012) as well ooohh look my stupid grenade gun and floaty levitating scope promethean rifle oohh but was mildly disgusted I gave up on the entire series afterwards, Halo Reach was the ending the best and final game of the franchise in my imagination. Also I personally liked the look of the assault rifle design from Halo Reach best even though on legendary with Tough Luck Tilt Thunderstorm Mythic etc skulls, it alongside all weapons except plasma pistol and headshot guns, the assault rifle does no damage lol lol. Ok let me just revive my memory of the sniper rifle in Halo series, based on that South African Denel NTW-20 surely they don't do the old flipped left hand side bolt visual thing ARRGGHH NOOO NOOO THE SUFFERING
>>6135893 Something I never understood about Halo, the most satisfying thing about Halo 1 was the pistol switch check slide animation, why would you take that out from all subsequent Halo games, why why why?? I remember they did this too in the Deus Ex Human Revolution to Mankind Divided sequel (dxhr had a very similar pistol switch / slide check animation, if I remember correctly the sequel which had basically the exact same guns took it out) hmmmm hmmm
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>>6135923 I just checked I think Halo Reach also has a pistol slide rack / brass check animation, the sound effect is not as rewarding and it was only on the first switch / first time weapon pickup (I think if I remembered it right?) subsequently switching to the weapon doesn't do anything, in contrast to Halo CE or Deus Ex HR where everytime you switch to the pistol it plays this cool animation and sound. I don't understand why videogames would ever not include this, it is so cool and satisfying, all games should have this
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Have a choice over in Ilvermorny Quest now that we are at the school and have met up with a familiar face!
Good clean, safe, school fun!
https://youtu.be/SRwrg0db_zY?si=n5Hu3LSJ1SvzVO9B >>6135960 >>6135960 >>6135960 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6135847 Give it a shot. I doubt you are going to upset people unless you write the most vile shit imaginable. People aren't going to "hate" you unless you are insufferable, samefag your own game or something; this is a hobby for nerds. We are pretty chill. I love the quests I love, sure, but it's not like I go ape-shit if stuff doesn't go my way. Get those creative juices going! You are probably going to kinda suck at first, but the only way to get good is to be bad for a while.
Most of the board probably won't care about what you write, even great quests can only have like 4-5 dedicated players, but the people who like your stuff make it all worth it. Above that though, as long as you write stuff that makes you happy, that you like, you will usually be satisfied.
Or don't.
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Gotham City Beat Cop returns for the week.
We caught the mole.
Decide what to do with him and if we should trust anything out of his mole mouth.
>>6135987 Anonymous
>>6135103 >>6135427 >RPG adventurers >professions, classes, careers >not in employment...? Something which always struck me as peculiar about rpgs, it is the obsession with lifepaths careers professions skills employment etc, whether it is dnd or traveller or or Cthulhu or Burning Wheel or Shadowrun or even World Of Darkness (which with the myriad proliferation of allegiances of lineages and bloodlines etc it is basically mechanically the same gameplay effect of dnd careers archetypes etc).
Every rpg lorebook begins like an HR recruiting manual.
So on the one hand you have this apparent verisimilitude, eg look oohhh our comprehensive rulebook 400 pages lets you be anything!
You can be a druid or a warlock or a detective or a librarian or a space pilot! It is like a careers fair!
Maybe it is just a deep innate vulnerability, the need of players for a sense of belonging, affiliation?
But if you think about the people who "go on actual adventures" actual adventurers, they would likely be UTTERLY MENTAL. I was actually trying to think of a "real life rpg adventurer on a quest" the other day, immediately the first person who came to mind was that unhinged man Ryan Wesley Routh lol who went to Ukraine came back and then got caught trying to assassinate Trump on a golf course lol. Basically he is like a real life "rpg adventurer" (maybe not a successful one? Or did he succeed?)
Similarly, the base class background of actual adventurers would probably be closer to the archetype of this anon
>>6135103 ie by definition, they exist outside the rules, outside the system, they probably do not have many social or familial ties (unlike the modern PBTA trend, oohhh lets all establish friendship and relationship bonds yay! lol) the adventurer is probably some violent unhinged outcast fanatic ON A QUEST I HAVE A QUEST GAH!! who has ruptured all ties to society in their obsessive monomaniacal sense of mission. If you are a detective or a soldier (maybe even a mercenary) etc you are not an RPG adventurer because you have to follow the rules, the hierarchy, you are subordinated to the narrative world logic of the system so you are probably an NPC.
Also, all criminals are by definition adventurers. (It is the OSR gold=xp thing, the only rpg class is thief - but I would argue fanatics are also adventurers, think those wfrp flagellant horde people lol).
An actual rpg adventurer would probably not belong to any definable career, and would appear as a completely insane lunatic to all conventional people
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>>6135103 >>6135427 >>6136042 >not in employment...? (continued) Maybe there needs to be some WASTREL DILETTANTE class (Stars Without Number does actually have a dilettante starting option lol) you know some swords and sorcery rpgs do have a Wastrel lifepath lol, but I don't think the "careers classes professions" approach is the means to characterise it.
So the way dnd type games often do it is they have the Class career as the central gameplay combat thing, and then you can choose some lore adornment / embellishment ie roll on a table if you want some wastrel background life origin but there are no real mechanical rules for it. But shouldn't it be the other way around? For a start, the majority of people are not carrying weapons lol or combat gear (even in a highly militarised setting, think the tooth-tail ratio thing, the ratio of logistics supply noncombat support to people pulling the trigger etc) so shouldn't there be some means of parameterising THE VAST MAJORITY OF ORDINARY PEOPLE in your game lol who you interact with as opposed to focusing just on the weird ADVENTURERS who are completely unhinged mental violent combat mutilation assassination torture thievery specialists? Again, the dnd contrivance is to bifurcate the world into ADVENTURERS and MONSTERS who exist to be killed, but then this bestiary bifurcation departs more and more from reality whilst still maintaining the veneer of verisimilitude (look! I have a career! And all these skills! I am really just a librarian! But also, I have all these magic weapons)
I don't know what the solution to this is, dnd is very successful lol so maybe it is just what people want, but just something about this rpg "careers convention" feels increasingly odd to me. I do think some pbta games recognise it (eg the "bonds" thing I ridiculed earlier lol is sometimes used to create social assets or social resources, Blades In The Dark, Heart, Spire etc all do this, you can draw on these in rolls to create an advantage as opposed to all interactions just being draw sword to slay monster or roll charisma check etc. But I am not too keen on how pbta lifelessly formalises all those into boardgame style "moves" etc). I think the elusive goal would be some rpg pattern that can parameterise or mechanically adjudicate the "average story character interaction" in a manner outside of combat (combat is pretty well covered lol) because after all, that is generally what all fiction is about
Anonymous
>>6136042 >>6136053 Some past solutions I thought about to this: instead of CAREERS SKILLS PROFESSIONS which if you think about it are all a bit meaningless it is just an alternative flourish as to how quickly can I reduce the monster hp lol, what about EMOTIONS (hopefully, your imaginary fictional characters have them, or even if they are cold calculating and psychotic they can at least recognise or acknowledge them for manipulating others etc) this is what I described in my past qtgs about that RPG emotion transition wheel, I mentioned I was inspired by what I saw from a crude implementation on the character sheet of that cyberpunk rpg game The Veil etc but of course you can endlessly elaborate or psychologically embellish upon the list of emotions and emotional transitions. The main difficulty with this is some ruleset for a coherent and believable emotional transition sequence as opposed to just dumping a wikipedia list or taxonomy of a hundred feelings and rolling a 1d100 etc, and perhaps even more advanced, developing some psychological coherence of emotional reaction function in response to world narrative / world events. Then again this is sort of what fiction is about etc
The Burning Wheel games also have drives or goals (tied to in-game xp, called artha, Burning Wheel tediously has all this alternative complex nomenclature) my feeling from this is that players don't enjoy constantly being asked WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS? JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?? lol it is very tiring they expect the DM or the game world to supply them with purpose and responsibility.
Something I keep thinking about is how in the real world people have conflicting desires, they have desires about desires and higher order volitions, they are not just utility maximising robots but they feel guilt and shame etc ie people do not just try to maximise food shelter sex money, or they might want to but feel ashamed of becoming fat or being perceived as promiscuous or immoral or greedy etc afterwards, they have all these self-conscious desires about desires also related to perceptions of others (internal world view, world model, I guess the literary term would be Weltanschauung, which is really a form of ideology)
Maybe instead of the dungeonmaster artificially creating the MORAL PURPOSE it would be interesting in there were set of game rules or a game pattern that could identify character moral purpose or create it, hehe
Anonymous
>>6135850 >film scripts / scenario dialogue The way I approach this is to imagine all of these film scenarios as RPG encounters, they can literally look like actual fantasy rpg encounters (eg the Dragonslayer 1981 film princess / maiden sortition sacrifice lottery to placate the dragon and the brood in her lair)
>>6135766 but also if you look at this one, this is a quest lol this is a questgiver allocating a task, a seemingly impossible unfulfillable task
>>6135649 it is sort of interesting imagining how these film scenes if they were rpg scenarios, how you as a dungeonmaster might structure or organise the dramaturgical unfolding gameplay aspect of them, what complications and resources you would introduce and provide, hehe
I once fantasised about some vast searchable index of "all the possible dramatic scenes encounters events situations" you know if that TVTropes website were better organised it could have become that resource, but alas TVTropes is often unhelpful (is it deliberately a mess to lengthen site dwell time?) it is also peculiarly selective in its sources (there is too much anime nooooo) and there is also some implicit social agendas behind what is included and excluded etc (glancing sadly at the forlorn sparseness of the Damsel In Distress category noooo) I suppose it is the best we have though, but often I just rely on my own memory of films books and videogames instead. Imagine if you were able to comprehensively search and source and compare similar "dramatic scenarios" across film tv literature videogames etc it would be an amazing utility for making narrative games
Anonymous
It would be s̶a̶d̶ amusing to track the completion rate of quests. Do you think it's above 10%? 25%? 50%?
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>>6136071 Generally below 2%
Personally at 0%
Anonymous
>>6136065 >all the possible dramatic scenes encounters events situations https://garykac.github.io/plotto/plotto-mf.html Not "all possible" obviously.
Anonymous
>>6136077 ah thank you for this interesting romance narrative link, it does seem incredibly dense and convoluted hehe. There are actually a lot of rpg books that follow this "tabulation / exposition of storyline outcomes by genre" they literally try to list all the typical genre events and occurrences that might happen etc and you can roll on various tables to concatenate them into some story sequence, I suppose this is also akin to the oracle deck or oracle table ("spark table") inspiration method of solo rpgs too. But it can get a bit cumbersome sometimes Nonetheless thank you for the recommendation I will have a look at this the syntax of all those asterisks seems very complicated, hehe
Anonymous
>>6136086 There's also the 36 dramatic situations, based on classic greek and Elizabethan plays, which is less complicated and far more applicable in practice.
Anonymous
>>6135103 >>6135427 >not in employment... WASTREL DILETTANTES >>6136077 >courtship and romance narrative theme, and >how to create stories with THE MORAL PURPOSE... >using incels I enjoy tracing the literary antecedents of various phenomena, I guess you could take Joris Karl Huysmans À rebours (1884) as an example, I did read this a very very long time ago.
However, for brevity I prefer the charm of this short story, it is by Tolstoy in full MORALISATION MODE didactic overdrive (all of 19th century literature is like this) and it was only published posthumously, maybe he held it back as unfinished for after he died. I have heard that it is almost like a miniature version of War And Peace lol addressing many similar thematic ideas (I have not read War And Peace though)
You can read it here, it is very short
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/243/pg243-images.html#link2H_4_0006 It is about an older middle aged man, who reflects on a dance he attended in his youth where he falls in love with a beautiful woman. The young narrator is briefly made jealous when she dances a mazurka with another man, but in the end as a gesture of coquetry she gives him a feather from her fan before she rises for the last dance with her father. He is a military colonel and the narrator notices how he is wearing less expensive regimental boots so that he can afford to dress his beautiful daughter in the most fashionable raiment, and the narrator seems to be impressed by his dignity and honourable bearing.
After departing the dance the narrator is still infatuated with the lady, so he gets up for a night stroll outside as he is still restlessly thinking about her. By chance he encounters some sort of military procession, two columns of soldiers who are beating and flogging a Tartar deserter, leaving gruesome bleeding welts across his flesh as he is made to run the gauntlet. To the narrator's horror, the Colonel ie the military father of his beloved is the one administering this punishment, but the Colonel himself pretends not to recognise him in the street even though they had just met hours before at the Ball. The aged narrator then explains to his listeners that as a result of witnessing this experience, he abandoned any career in either the military or civil service, broke off the romance and never fell in love ever again
>reading this story taught me what a ferronniere is, yay Why does the narrator identify with the beaten / bloodied Tartar? Instead of standing and pointing and laughing, or making a webm of it to upload onto 4chan? Is it some metaphor for the ordeal of marriage (overseen by his military father in law?) Is briefly fondling a woman and then withdrawing to watch some male bdsm whipping incredibly gay? These are the eternally penetrating spiritual insights attained by Tolstoy in Russian literature
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Tue 05 Nov 2024 14:12:27 No. 6136096 Report "Happy" election day to any fellow Americans out there! Embarrassed to admit that I thought the Berlin Conference was maybe a week long. Oh well, you learn something new every day.
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>>6136089 >36 dramatic situations I am familiar with this one, but thank you for mentioning it!
>ELIZABETHAN PLAY it is just one dramatic situation, (Versailles gif here)
>>6133523 ALL THE WOMEN ARE ACTUALLY MEN
I think this is mostly true here for roleplaying games in general. All romance is ruined
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>>6136096 It's a humiliation ritual, and I mean this with zero irony.
Anonymous
>>6136053 >>6136063 I think many DMs outside of very specific, mechanics-focused, ildschool ganes tend to steer players AWAY from playing murderhobos. With the TTRPG hobby being further popularized by the likes of Critical Role and its aninated adaptation, and other narrative works like Stranegr Things or character-exploration heavy special D&D episodes, I think that dialogue-heavy improv acting between characters with complex inner motivations and connections to the world around them is increasingly what people expect and want, versus playing a "lone gunman" type fo outsider zealot.
>>6136065 I think you might enjoy DM of the Rings or Darths & Droids, two "comics" (writing bubbles over film stills) whose conceit is that they are tabletop games playing through tge events of the movies in a universe where those films/books don't exist, operating on RPG logic and conventions with unreliable, questionably-committed players.
>>6136071 As with life expextancy metrics, I imagine you'd get very different numbers depending on if you adjust for "childhood mortality" (that is, quests which die in less than a single thread, maybe 2 or 3). The vast majority of quests seem to be flaked on, dropped, or the QM realizes they don't have time/energy/ability quite quickly. The completion (or long-term continuation rate, for those which never seem to finish but rather go on indefinitely for years and years) is probably much higher for those which make it through the first couple months without issue.
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>>6136206 >Gompertz Makeham age-dependent / age-independent mortality rate component decomposition of survival curve etc very astute demographic observation anon, I am very impressed yay (NOOOO must suppress the vile vampire sorcery nooo) but there is probably a survival component that is driven by time and also some stochastic time invariant component hmm. Maybe the comparison to videogames, those steam statistics of 20-30% completion, most videogames are never completed and some are never even launched lol? But I would imagine that those who visit 4chan are probably a bit more obsessive than even the typical videogamer lol, I think probably if you visit this site you would be amongst the hardcore or dedicated niche interest gamers?
>Critical Role Matt Mercer convivial low threat DM gaming optimised for parasocial audience viewership metrics as opposed to killing off characters in accordance to rules So I watched all of Critical Role season 1 but gave up around episode 100? of season 2 or so, no idea what has happened since then (to be entirely honest I think I also had too much of the Matt Mercer brigade voice acting, because I was playing Pillars Of Eternity 1 and 2 nonstop whilst watching it, and that Xoti (?) Laura Bailey character voice accent perturbed me in POE2 lol I could not handle it). It is absolutely fine if people want to have fun their own way that is absolutely fine and warranted hehe. But combat oriented dnd rulesets (and to be honest, the entirety of most mainstream rpg rulesets) probably not the right apparatus for the storygames (in fact you could run the narrative drama storygame with maybe just some coin flips lol or coin pools or even just do FKR and have diceless rulings, no dice at all!) I always say my ideal rpg would literally be like a Shakespeare play hehe (in fact, the reason why I create all my own idiosyncratic settings, I want often to mingle 19th century type literature influences with rpgs). For instance how would you run a dnd scenario like the one being depicted in this film scene
>>6135427 or say that Tolstoy short story
>>6136093 ? Nearly all rpgs - even the socially focused ones - cannot handle it, they have literally no rules attributes or parameters gameplay apparatus or even conceptualisation to encapsulate any of the dynamics / social condescension / remorse etc at work within the narrative here. I guess you could just roleplay it which is also fine. But I am obsessed with THE MORAL PURPOSE in games I want to create some sort of coherent believable random table generation of MORAL PURPOSE driven gameplay, imbue all NPCs with moral purpose, I am still searching and evaluating the various game patterns and narrative structures for this to emerge hehe
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Also I just want to commend the aesthetics of ObserverQM, his False God quest
>>6134429 appears to very much on trend this year, it hits all the 2024 gaming trends hehe for some reason the art makes me imagine a bit of a hex tile Tiny Glade (I have not played that game, but I have seen streams of it though) though the hex tiles miniature tiny villages forests cottages etc and seasons also remind me of the look of the Armello hex map, a different purpose and type of game but one which I used to play a lot. I don't know what genre you would call Tiny Glade (just cosy gaming? A sort of decoration / architecture outdoor microcosm sandbox simulator?) but I can see the aesthetic appeal of whatever genre to which that game belongs. Being far too grimdark cringedark to ever even begin to contemplate or even create cosiness I deeply admire what ObserverQM has made in False God Quest, yay! It is very appealing!
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>>6136071 I think it's 5% or less. Flaking is the default state for all quests.
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>>6136042 >>6136053 >>6135103 >>6135427 >careers, professions, specialisation in games Of course nowadays everyone is obsessed with the agentic (urgh) AI, everyone wants the multiagent AI simulations of populations I was reading some dubious study (this one)
2024 Oct 31
Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00114 Basically the researchers played too much Minecraft and they claimed to have autonomously evolved religion democracy and also "careers" (eg farmer, miner, scout, trader, explorer etc...) ie specialisation / division of labour through their iterated interactions of machine learning agents in Minecraft. It could all have just been already embedded or hallucinated in the training data though. But who knows maybe the best that superhuman AI can ever achieve is to regurgitate the rpg rulebook character creation career lifepath lol
Imagine you invent this utopian fantasy game world, it is literally unconstrained by any of the parameters of reality, physical law, resource scarcity, hierarchy or societal convention, it is literally unbounded possibility, so the first thing you do? Assign everyone to a job like some sort of demented Glassdoor /
indeed.com / Recruit Holdings Japan 6098 JP. Maybe you are a transcendental superhuman AI. How frustrated would you feel if the humans kept asking you these dumb questions lol
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>>6136096 Just voted and came home with groceries. Drew a cute girl earlier this morning. Life is going well.
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>>6136042 >>6136053 >>6136215 >Bonds etc in adventurer rpg setting A version I saw recently from His Majesty The Worm, which is not a pbta game, but does borrow a lot of mechanics from many different places (I do think the rules might be a bit haphazard). But it illustrates how the pbta-style bonds might try to create multiple bilateral social obligations, pairings of emotional resources to resolve situations beyond just rolling CHA or Fellowship or whatever or slashing with a +3 sword etc. Some games call them debts or holds ie being beholden to another etc. Not sure if this is the formula to create the MORAL PURPOSE it might be just a bit too engineered or artificial, though I suppose you could put all these into a random table and just roll and assign them to NPCs in an aleatory manner
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>>6136065 TVTropes has been shit since they delisted loli or any similar tropes because they are pussies.
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>>6136244 >>6136240 >rpgs in 2024 (left hand side) vs 2004 (right hand side) Right-hand side graphic genuinely from an expanded rules supplement to Ron Edwards Sorcerer rpg. The standard economic explanation attributes all of the cosseted emotional fragility and DEI initiatives to excess cash hoarded by corporations over the post 2008 crisis decade of low interest rates (DEI serves as a costly signalling function).
I don't even know what that Ron Edwards Sorcerer rpg diagram is even about lol (sex death and storytelling catharsis?) but I do feel that you probably cannot roleplay as JK Rowling and her Portuguese journalist ex husband in a modern rpg anymore,
>>6135606 the impropriety argh, you would never ever ever get consent it is far too taboo and naughty
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>>6136071 Very low single digit %s. The overwhelming majority don't even make it to the 100-post mark.
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>>6136256 Yeah... I am not sure if I am not smart enough to fully parse that diagram or not schizo enough. Still saving it, since maybe one day I will be on a bender or something and get the fundamental truth in it or something.
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>>6136224 I am very impressed by the poetic lyricism of ObserverQM False God narration,
>>6134429 I detect modernist influences with the detachment and embodiment / personification of the wind the seasons the elements, it is very accomplished, very elegiac and evocative, yay!
Well here is a section on the wind and stars from Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse. It is famous for one section featuring no people whatsoever, depicting the passage of time over world war 1 from the perspective of an empty house. In her stream of consciousness mode nothing is really happening, the characters are just submerged in internal thought, the torrent and compulsions of their inner feelings. Below the perspective of Lily, a painter - another remarkable aspect of the novel is she begins as a minor character - authorial misdirection, you don't think she is of any consequence or distinction at all; as the novel builds and culminates she and her thoughts are suddenly thrust into the foreground, as her painting / art finally emerges. Virginia Woolf corresponded with a Chinese lady writer Ling Shuhua (maybe lesbian??) I wonder if she was influenced by Daoism or Zhuangzi, given how many writers of the era read and borrowed from the East eg TS Eliot and the Bhagavad Gita
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Not that she did in fact run or hurry; she went indeed rather slowly. She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered; to detach it; separate it off; clean it of all the emotions and odds and ends of things, and so hold it before her, and bring it to the tribunal where, ranged about in conclave, sat the judges she had set up to decide these things. Is it good, is it bad, is it right or wrong? Where are we all going to? and so on. So she righted herself after the shock of the event, and quite unconsciously and incongruously, used the branches of the elm trees outside to help her to stabilise her position. Her world was changing: they were still. The event had given her a sense of movement. All must be in order. She must get that right and that right, she thought, insensibly approving of the dignity of the trees’ stillness, and now again of the superb upward rise (like the beak of a ship up a wave) of the elm branches as the wind raised them. For it was windy (she stood a moment to look out). It was windy, so that the leaves now and then brushed open a star, and the stars themselves seemed to be shaking and darting light and trying to flash out between the edges of the leaves. Yes, that was done then, accomplished; and as with all things done, became solemn. Now one thought of it, cleared of chatter and emotion, it seemed always to have been, only was shown now and so being shown, struck everything into stability. They would, she thought, going on again, however long they lived, come back to this night; this moon; this wind; this house: and to her too.
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>>6136240 >>6136256 The Avatar TTRPG used a sort of class system (more of a nationality and combat style system, given the setting) but its mechanics are iverwhelmingly focused around building intraparty dynamics and encouraging what you would call "MORAL PURPOSE", specifically encouraging players totake steps towards and away from "balance" with their core aclrchetype. Each character archetyoe can be any sort of elemental bender or non-bender, but your archetype comes with a sheet that has two philsophical poles to vacilate between. As you level up you can gain combat maneuvers (very loosely defined) but also change your moral center. Even levelling up focuses less on combat success than developing your understanding of the world, making changes in the world, finding common purpose with your party members, and advancing your character development towards harmony and inner peace.
It's all very kumbayah and verybappropriate for a Daoist/Buddhist sort of setting, but I have to admit I was a bit let down by the lack of flashy superpowered action and adventure. I've always preferred the fighting, crafting, exploring, etc to be where the mechanics come in, and the roleplaying to be a bit more freeform, especially between PCs.
>>6136244 Weird place to put your red line, IMO.
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>>6136322 I like loli just fine, as much as I like normal mature stuff, but it is more the cowardice shown by removing multiple tropes or listings due to stupid outside pressure or internal politics that bothers me. It is fiction. Who the fuck cares? If they are willing to do that, what else will be censored or removed in the future?
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>>6136322 >Weird place to put your red line, IMO. While I couldn't care less about loli garbage, I agree with him when it comes to TV Tropes being sorta iffy these days. I distinctly recall them going out of their way to remove a page of some game because of petty internet drama.
They're absolutely a shell of their former shelves.
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>>6136316 oops hehe I actually made a mistake in my description of this Virginia Woolf extract lol this is what happens with the modernism the disorientating disembodied thoughts stream of consciousness floating around all the time hehe.
I had to go check it again, the section is much cleverer than I remembered - what Virginia Woolf depicts here is Lily (the painter) she is watching someone else, another lady, Mrs Ramsay, I think she is the hostess in this situation. And so by the means of observation and keen scrutiny (remember how Lily is a painter) the ambiguous "she" it is almost as if she is just sliding into another's thoughts, the author / character is just sliding inwards and inhabiting another character so smoothly that their conjectures and imaginings have been internalised into their own. In the paragraphs that follow, it is made clear that this "she" is actually Mrs Ramsay, and the novel then shifts to her perspective. This is a common modernist stream of consciousness trick (make a character observe another, and speculate or imagine their inner motives... and then the authorial voice / perspective focus moves to inhabit / become that other character's actual inner thoughts etc) it can get confusing lol
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>>6136322 >DAOISM https://ctext.org/zhuangzi?searchu=%E5%B1%8E 東郭子問於莊子曰:「所謂道,惡乎在?」莊子曰:「無所不在。」東郭子曰:「期而後可。」莊子曰:「在螻蟻。」曰:「何其下邪?」曰:「在稊稗。」曰:「何其愈下邪?」曰:「在瓦甓。」曰:「何其愈甚邪?」曰:「在屎溺。」東郭子不應。
Dongguo Zi asked Zhuangzi,
“This thing called the Dao —where is it to be found?”
Zhuangzi said, “There is no place where it is not present.”
The other said, “Give a specific instance of it."
“It is in the ant.”
“Give a lower example?”
“It is in the blades of grass.”
“An example beneath that?”
“It is in the broken shards.”
“Surely that is the lowest example?”
“It is in the piss and shit.”
To this, Dongguo Zi gave no reply.
>Wuxia rpg mechanics I read this rpg called something like Qin Warring States it had this mechanic called the Yin Yang die, basically one black 1d10 one white 1d10 the roll was a subtraction essentially
result = abs(d10_black - d10_white)
and there was some table for looking up the results, but the criticals were essentially doubles (ie whenever both black, white die result the same, subtraction = zero ie Yin Yang in balance). I also remember that rpg adhered to the whole Metal Water Fire Wood Earth five element thing they were the attributes
Metal like Strength, martial etc
Water agility, speed dexterity
Fire was social? charisma for some reason
Wood was mental, intelligence, memory concentration
Earth was inner will, Heaven and Earth metaphysics etc it made sense because of Chinese geomancy or something
I have a hoard of wuxia adjacent art assets hehe I am not really well versed enough in the genre to worldbuild a setting though, maybe someday. I am always tempted by a sort of Silk Road or desert and steppe type setting, maybe I could get away with the lack of historical genre knowledge by making everyone Mongolian chaos warriors or something. Basically I watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon lol that is all I really know and all my fantasy settings just turn into warhammer fantasy battle chaos warriors anyway argh
pic related is Zhang Yimou pretending to make a Wuxia film but actually trying to secretly reference Hong Kong umbrella movement instead or something (what was going on with those stupid metal umbrella sword uprising things??) Basically you can have this, or Matt Damon ??? in that Great Wall film NOOO
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>>6135960 >>6135960 >>6135960 Anonymous
>>6135367 >retreating into nostalgic vestiges of societal archaisms distorted by the fondness yet haplessness of memory for empire. England, you have been here too long,
And the songs you sing are the songs you sung
On a braver day. Now they are wrong.
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>>6136483 >England, you have been here too long, >And the songs you sing are the songs you sung >On a braver day. Now they are wrong. >Stevie Smith poem quote on the decline of England Thank you SpookQM for introducing me to that poem, I had never read or heard of this poetry before, I am very impressed by your erudition! Her poems are very concise and laconic expressions of whimsical mortality, they give the surface impression of being merely humorous and naive in their simplistic economy but they are far from innocent in fact there is some inner cynicism given that her work seems to be invoke reminiscence of Britain over the course of two world wars and the aftermath etc.
From wikipedia I see mention of how Sylvia Plath admired her poems,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Smith >Sylvia Plath became a fan of her poetry and sent Smith a letter in 1962, describing herself as "a desperate Smith-addict." Plath expressed interest in meeting in person but took her own life soon after sending the letter (...) heedless of their moral warning concerning Perfidious Albion, maybe charming American Sylvia Plath read them and then decided to fall in love with Ted Hughes then kill herself, this is just how we in England conduct romance (see JK Rowling / Portugal for another example
>>6135606 ). I had a look at that extremely short Stevie Smith poem, Not Waving But Drowning
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-drowning It is sort of amusing (how can a dead man be moaning and flapping his arms about etc, I hope that upraised arm is not a Nazi salute) the strange thought I had was it might also be a warning about society ignoring extremism or far right opinions (the last stanza: I was much too far out all my life / And not waving but drowning.) But as with all poetry you can really interpret it however you want, yay
Also SpookQM I had a look at your setting (I think it is this one?)
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5718998/#5718998 I always appreciate dialogue that attempts to recapture dialect colloquialisms or vernacular hehe I associate it with various 19th century / early 20th century literature phenomena (Dickens, Hardy, DH Lawrence etc) it does take a lot of effort and exertion to voice and inhabit characters differently in polyphony hehe, so I admire it as well as the sort of Hunt Showdown (? I have not played the game) / Cormac McCarthy type genre setting, it is very intriguing
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>>6136483 Whoa! You're SpookQM? I think about Hunter Quest all the time. Please come back (or run something else just as good)
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>>6136483 >>6135367 >the face of Britain abroad >>6136141 >humiliation...? As you know, many many large PR agencies are located in Britain, eg not just WPP but there are endless strategic corporate communications consultancies image management marketing media relations firms and boutiques etc an entire industry, you would think it is highly professionalised
So I was just browsing the Wall Street Journal the other day, random headlines, I saw this. They quote the Head Of MI5 it is James Bond, it is an extremely serious article, very serious deeply concerning and troubling allegations and the photo of him that they chose, the actual facial expression they found for this incredibly serious article and decided to publish to the entire readership audience of the Wall Street Journal, CEOs investment bankers management consultants asset allocators fund managers, the actual PR photo they went with, was this one, pic related
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>>6136559 >eminence grise / hideously disfigured twisted face / secret leprosyface kuromaku 黑幕 shadow kingmaker puppetmaster / spymaster / manipulator behind the scenes etc I do like this deep state character archetype, I think it was best portrayed in Mel Gibson Braveheart, that Robert The Bruce father with his cowled leprosy face (this is literally the most warhammer fantasy character ever depicted in film lol) I did like that dramatic battlefield scene in Braveheart where Mel Gibson unmasks that helmed visored knight with the lance and it is Robert The Bruce who has betrayed him lol sided with the English etc obeying the political machinations for the throne at the behest of his disfigured father, hehe
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>>6136559 >>6136571 Also it is not the exact same thing but in general the leprosyface king archetype is very cool, I think on the qtg a while back some anon reminded me of that Baldwin ? from Orlando Bloom Ridley Scott crusades Kingdom Of Heaven film,
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6102738/#6112699 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6102738/#6112686 you get this sequence of superhot Eva Green gazingly longingly at her beautiful handsome brother. House Of The Dragon also overdid it with the elderly infirm toothless lopsided eyeless socket king at the end of season 1, but it was not as good
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>>6135103 >not in employment...? >>6131348 >most past writers were not adventurers (...) >>6131060 >(...) go to war / explore the world, or be lame...? >>6136042 >adventurer lifepath / career / profession / class In conclusion, I think this is an incredibly inspiring message, it proves that even if you are facially disadvantaged or morally disfigured, you can still achieve many great things in life. This is my DEI inspirational recruitment PR image, Hakluyt could use this
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>>6136559 Come on, you mean people are out there who still aren't convinced the lizard men of Alpha Centauri are infiltrating our society? Not human. I mean, he's British so that's already a given, but this is extra not human.
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Drumf won, so I better not catch any fag characters around here anymore. Yep, things will be different now. Looking at you bananas, you're on thin ice.
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>>6136604 I run the most heterosexual quest on the board and you know it.
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>>6136604 >>6136606 >>6136604 >>6136606 I am indeed gladdened and relieved anon that thanks to the backing of upstanding, conservative and successful men like venture capitalist Peter Thiel, America has finally chosen to DEFENESTRATE THE GAY and return to Christendom. I am now convincingly reassured that under Trump and Vance, no longer will America be subjected anymore to the scourge of THE GAY
Anonymous
>>6136606 >I run the most heterosexual quest on the board and you know it. Call me when a supreme's wife gets as much screentime as Fim.
Anonymous
>>6136628 Technically Hass' wife Jem, and maybe Kima's mom, got more screentime in spinoffs. Anonymous
>>6136669 All her screentime was from before she ended up with Hass, after that she only appeared twice.
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>>6136622 I am so sorry, anon. I hope it isn't terminal.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 06 Nov 2024 17:21:32 No. 6136707 Report >>6136604 Good thing my quest's too old for that kind of thing haha.
>>6136622 My condolences.
Did any of you have a good time last night and this morning? I spent my time with family and got some great rest once it was over with. I hope you all had similarly pleasant times once it was all over with.
I wonder if he'll win the House too? He's getting there for sure if Reuters is anything to go by.
Anonymous
>>6136676 I did say "technically".
>>6136701 I will likely die with this condition, yes.
>>6136707 >Good thing my quest's too old for that kind of thing haha. Waltuh does spend all his time with a charming dandy and doting/fretting over an ever-expanding collection of small, cute animals.
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>>6136712 >I will likely die with this condition, yes. Anonymous
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>>6136717 I actually quite like being Canadian for the most part, self-deprecation aside. Anonymous
Don't worry leaf, things will be so good now it will trickle down to Canada
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Come and join leading a colony in deep space as it struggles to set itself up. In Unbroken Empire: New Frontier !
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I just remembered how much I love the GUNGNIR variant of Mjolnir
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Giant spider fight over in Ilvermorny quest! Roll well! Time for some action in an otherwise kind of chill adventure.
>>6136852 >>6136852 >>6136852 Anonymous
>>6136727 Kek. Alas, runny shit ALSO trickles.
>>6136855 >giant spider fight A man after Jon Peters' own heart.
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>>6136869 >Jon Peters Hey, and who knows? We might have an American Werewolf in...America, I guess.
If they come up, I do plan on making them less gay and stupid than they are in the books and movies. Think more of the ones from the cult classic Dog Soldiers. Anonymous
>>6136880 >birmingham werewolf in america >werewolf is so genuinely happy to be out of birmingham that it hurts absolutely no one and has a chill time IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6136882 Hahaha.
A British werewolf so happy to be in the land of the free and sweet Wizardry that he doesn't even need a potion to not chimp out. He is just chilling with an American flag blanket, checking out the moon and eating like 20 burgers.
I might have to add that or something close for giggles.
Hell, a werewolf from most western Euro cunts would work too. A Parisian one so glad there are no Pakis or North Africans around, he just runs up and down the roads around the School waving a flag. Maybe give him an oversized MAGA hat with ear holes.
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>one American election happens >the /qtg/ is now hos to delusional fantasies of the USA as a white ethnostate full of patriotic werewolves
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Downerquest is back with a new update!
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>>6136886 >be me, serb werewolf >in america >no bulgar neighbors >no hungar neighbors >the gypsies here are just yuppie pricks >be happy Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Thu 07 Nov 2024 03:11:43 No. 6136956 Report Quoted By:
Will Joe capture his first flying-type mon? And more importantly, will he have help?
Find out!
>>6136951 >>6136951 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Looking for 1 more roll if someone wants to be a bro so I can start writing and get another update out tonight. Sorry for shitting up the thread.
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>>6136541 >heedless of their moral warning concerning Perfidious Albion, maybe charming American Sylvia Plath read them and then decided to fall in love with Ted Hughes then kill herself, this is just how we in England conduct romance She fell in love with Hughes because to quote her, he had a voice "like the Thunder of God." Though it is unclear if she meant his physicality or his poetry.
As for analysis of the oft inscrutable English spirit and how it relates to their conduct in romance, I can only offer up some witticism I once heard in passing.
"An English lord once lost his entire fortune and estate to a thimble-rigger, which is a very English thing to do, he then threw himself off of Dover in shame, which is a very French thing to do."
>It is sort of amusing (how can a dead man be moaning and flapping his arms about etc, I hope that upraised arm is not a Nazi salute) the strange thought I had was it might also be a warning about society ignoring extremism or far right opinions (the last stanza: I was much too far out all my life / And not waving but drowning.) But as with all poetry you can really interpret it however you want, yay The grotesque is often somehow amusing. An inherited allergy to its sinister associations I think. With Stevie Smith I believe the answer is in line with why Plath loved her so; she was a dépressionard of the first class, and said once, referring to suicide, that "death is the only god that must come when he is called."
>I always appreciate dialogue that attempts to recapture dialect colloquialisms or vernacular hehe I associate it with various 19th century / early 20th century literature phenomena (Dickens, Hardy, DH Lawrence etc) it does take a lot of effort and exertion to voice and inhabit characters differently in polyphony hehe, so I admire it as well as the sort of Hunt Showdown (? I have not played the game) / Cormac McCarthy type genre setting, it is very intriguing Thanks, I often reread the first appearance of Magwitch, "A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin."
I often think that if you could wave your fingers and vanish all the propriety and whimsy out of Dickens he would write very much like McCarthy. Their use of space in syntax is very similar and for all his aforementioned whimsy I think Dickens was a dark man with a dark turn of mind.
It helps of course that people were still educated on the King James in his time, so the biblical is as present by nature as it is in McCarthy by nurture. Though McCarthy takes on the sweeping dooms and eschatology that American Protestantism to its heart in so self-satisfied a fashion.
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>>6136555 You're a kind soul you are. I'm surprised you remember. Hunter Quest is dead and buried I'm sorry to say, too meandering, too unfocused and sloppy, too naive and generally incompetent.
Still, I do not regret running it. All those mistakes are natural enough for a first attempt, I learned a lot and I can look back on it and say I tried my best.
Mostly though, it was lovely and inspiring that people sacrificed their time to spend it with me and whatever I wrote. So thank you again.
>>6136559 I believe a sizable majority of the US elected their president based on his potential entertainment value. If society is truly syncretic, then infantilization occurring at one level occurs at the others. I wonder whether they noticed it was funny, or rather, I wonder if that's why they picked it.
Anonymous
>>6137005 You're too hard on yourself. Hunter Quest was very, very good, even if you weren't necessarily sure where it was going and (perhaps) it wouldn't have remained such to the end.
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>>6137008 Another kind soul, thank you. All i can see are things I could do better, but I think that's natural too, and maybe you're right, maybe I shouldn't trust my own opinion on it.
Anonymous
>>6137005 >too meandering, too unfocused and sloppy, too naive and generally incompetent I assure you that this describes every single first and second thread of a quest in existence. The only thing that matters is whether the QM sticks around to make it better, or whether they flake before they're able to. (This is not to say that you're obligated to bring it back-- but it's no reason to be hard on yourself.)
>All those mistakes are natural enough for a first attempt Correct.
>You're a kind soul you are. I'm surprised you remember It's not kindness. Hunter Quest was one of the best-written quests, on a raw prose level, that I have ever read.
I do have some punctuation quibbles, but I'm willing to forgive a lot of that in exchange for pretty sentences. Yes, even with two threads. Yes, I have read a lot of quests, and I don't give idle compliments. Come back with something else as soon as you're able to, and if you don't, write something that isn't a quest and drop a link here.
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Thanks to one AMAZING roll, you managed to turn Salazar Slytherin into the equivalent of mind decorative plant, Now you have to clean his mess and calm Lily down, what will you do?
Vote now in The Caretaker Quest to find out!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
I'm thinking of making my own quest. I already have the concept and some initial stuff for the entries; it will be named Grey Skies. It'll be a realistic(ish) historical quest set in a temperate Atlantic climate surrounding.
Anonymous
>>6137143 I'll elaborate a bit on the quest by sharing a short summary of the start:
You will wake up in a ditch in a Western European field. You have no memories. It's been dark for a very long time.
Anonymous
>>6137143 >>6137156 It's very difficult to say whether your idea is interesting based entirely on a vague title and a geographic region, but I do enjoy historically-rooted quests.
The same very general (but not incorrect) advice gets trotted out for newbies here when people ask, amounting to: have some sort of plan for a direction and one or two possible endgoals; don't get too attached to things going excatlya s you plan; never include a vote option you have no plan for or don't actually want to write if people vote for it; don't feel obligated to accept write-ins if you find them confusing/boring/unpleasant; work on a schedule that you can maintain rather than trying to force yourself to update more regularly and burning out; communicate concerns and scheduling changes with your players; don't add extra layers of mechanical complexity unless there's a reason for it and you enjoy fiddling with numbers.
Welcome aboard, and see you around!
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>>6137157 Thanks for the advice. I have seen as much being posted before. As for mechanics, I intend to do very little of them. I know I have provided little information, but this is instrumental to the quest; we'll discover things as we go. I'm just hoping I get enough players to sustain it in this time of low activity.
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>>6136316 Flattered that you find the quest interesting souv. While the quest was partially created due to BananasQM's incessant and infuriating goodfantasyquestposting, I also find it interesting to write from a non-human perspective at times.
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After a long and perilous hiatus due to work, Forgotten Realms Adventures continues as we head into the final threads.
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The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:Ituaesy4 Thu 07 Nov 2024 22:22:04 No. 6137334 Report Quoted By:
>>6137327 The Ultimate Civilization quest is back from its delay. Join to do your part in building a Mutant Civilization!
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A final roll for spider fight round 2 would be appreciated! Roll a 1, so I have to delete the little bit I have written already!
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>>6137363 >>6137364 >>6137365 Grey Skies has launched. Be there or be stuck in the mud.
Anonymous
Finally picked names of the four MC choices that I like
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>>6137463 Shika and Nesta seem like cool concepts for S2s, the lot of them already fit a dynamic too.
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>>6137389 >>6137389 >>6137389 It hasn't been that long, but Dark Quest is BACK... and it's the start of a new thread! Join us as we try to get Anton Peas, our daring and somewhat clumsy protagonist, back home after being whisked away to a fantasyish world shrouded in DARKESS!
Join in if you like one or more of the following (This isn't a suggestion. It's mandatory. You HAVE to join in if you like one or more of the following.)
>DARKNESS! >Fantasy! >Crappy drawings! >Simple mechanics! >'Humor'! >Lots of Write-In Opportunities! >A charming(ish) cast of characters! >Sidequests! >Main Quests! >Adventure! >Action! >Swashbuckling! >Secrets! Anonymous
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>>6137055 Well, I'm embarrassed to be praised like that. Thank you. I have thought about running something else, and I think I will.
If you have the time, I would like to hear what those punctuation quibbles were since I'll be getting back to it.
Anonymous
>>6137463 nice names and qualities
Anonymous
>>6137463 Nesta seems neat. Or Dimas, actually. Cool sounding worlds, too. Wouldn't mind seeing more of them!
Anonymous
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>>6138062 MUNCH KILLS A MAN! And our hexcrawl continues! Onwards!
Anonymous
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I'm only posting this so the timer doesn't reset.
Anonymous
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>>6137473 I was aiming for there to be one between the four picks, so I'm happy it's gotten across. Briefly considered including a pyro/ demolitions specialist but decided they'd be better as an NPC early on, since there are more additional spartan 2 candidates than just l the four PC options.
>>6137516 Lol
>>6137715 Thanks
>>6137854 Glad you think so, and I just hope i can translate how i picture the colony worlds into text. I did cook up a few extras already, and there will definitely be a chance to return to/fight on the home colonies of the MC choices.
Siderite
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>>6138093 Support a local small protagonist-owned business with [b:lit]DIO'S MONEY[/b:lit] in the latest update of SDC.
I assure you, these trinkets that I spent several days getting distracted on researching and looking at images of are integral to the plot.
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Sat 09 Nov 2024 07:39:31 No. 6138171 Report Quoted By:
Yes, it's a new episode of Cutémon!
>>6138162 >>6138162 Anonymous
Sometimes I like to vandalize quests by posting inappropriate write-ins and just generally pushing the OP. I was the anon who made QM of that one Disco Elysium quest ragequit. Stupid QM brought it on himself by including a choice he didn't want to write. I feel no remorse for my behaviour.
Anonymous
>>6138236 What's your endgame?
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6138362 >>6138371 Grey Skies has updated.
Be there or be on a frozen death march.
Anonymous
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>>6138274 shotgun to the head probably
Anonymous
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Al-Kimist !Joa6/cTmpM
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>>6116909 Update! I have been busy trying to get fit so updates are being delayed. Sorry about that!
DetectQM
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Gotham City Beat Cop Bonus Update on my weekend. Come catch a glimpse into what Huntress is up to when she isn't thinking about shooting people.
>>6138815 Adlershorst
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Time for round two in the Adlershorst Dynasty Quest.
>>6138834 >>6138834 Anonymous
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Holy shit, there's a lot of new threads. I think I was bumped back a page or two, that's pretty good.
Anonymous
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>>6138872 More shameless references, exposition, and XOMposting continues.
Anonymous
>>6137240 I finally completed all of Neverwinter Nights 2 main campaign, it is such an incredible and captivating adventure with wonderfully enthralling characters. I discovered the ultimate MORAL PURPOSE, pic related. This is the good ending
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Sun 10 Nov 2024 20:22:32 No. 6139042 Report Neurologist appointment got cancelled, but the issue seems to have gotten better in the meantime so I don't know what to think. Glad that I'm feeling better, I suppose. Going to try and book another appointment regardless because I want to make sure i'm healthy.
Anonymous
>>6138995 So Neverwinter Nights 2 is a good fantasy game, I think it is underrated, the modding is overshadowed by NwN1 with vastly more content for its engine, if you want better voice acting / deeper character cutscenes there is Bioware Dragon Age. The graphics of this 2006 game (Obsidian Studio ex Black Isle, Icewind Dale not Bioware) are excellent, full 3d free switch between isometric style overhead or witcher 2 style npc chase camera yay arguably crpgs meandered backwards graphically with Pillars Of Eternity. NwN2 is the bridge game between BG2 and Dragon Age - it is very linear, predictable, stereotypical campaign, all the archetypes are there, Khelgar the warrior dwarf, Neeshka Tiefling thief, the gnome bard etc everything you expect to find in a stereotypical dnd campaign is there (look, the villain that has been chasing you... is only fighting you because you unknowingly aid the EVEN GREATER EVIL lol) nonetheless the pacing, the narrative rhythm is really well structured. The voice acting is uneven, the aforementioned dwarf Khelgar and Neeshka thief are good, sarcastic elf mage Sand is amazing (I genuinely laughed at his hilarious delivery) but Ammon Jerro, who arguably is well written, an emotionally tragic character (his archetype is the classic to defeat evil I MUST BECOME THE EVIL lol) his voice actor is miscast with perpetual throat bubble growl. Similarly the only romance option the Elf druid lady Elanee is lobotomised, her character just sounds superbland and barely conscious, you are forced to use her as the main healer for two thirds of the game. I enjoyed the game story more than Pillars of Eternity, the setpieces are memorable (I almost have no memory of what any of Pillars 1 and deadfire walking god nonsense was about lol) whereas NwN2 follows the narrative rhythm of classic fantasy. I prefer the NwN2 story which does not involve THE GODS, GODS BECOME A GOD lol I am benumbed by the inevitable apotheosis storyline used in every game from Divinity OS2 to BG1,2 and Pillars Of Eternity etc.
I remember the keep management game in Pillars Of Eternity and it is in NwN2 also (was NwN2 the first crpg to incorporate a castle?)
I think it could be adapted to a text or forum game, you have a few actions like construct buildings, roads fortifications; assign tasks to your soldiers eg train, recruit, patrol (choose whether to patrol lands or roads) collect tithes and the resources are gaining peasants and merchants (tax income) and upgrading soldier weaponry, armour. You specify where you recruit soldiers from eg peasant levy or mercenaries and you assign sergeants (NPCs with various attribute bonuses), manage wandering encounter type events eg brigand attacks, monsters or recover treasure. In NwN2 the keep management minigame isn't too consequential to the story, but it has a good ludological structure, I think it could easily be adapted to a text format here etc.
Greenwood !!2IhCLnnO0Db
>>6139062 >I prefer the NWN2 story which does not involve THE GODS, GODS BECOME A GOD That would be the expansion, Mask of the Betrayer. I highly recommend playing through it and importing your character from the main campaign if you feel confident in their ability to tackle epic-level content.
Anonymous
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>>6139075 I imported my character and am playing it right now, thanks! I heard Mask Of The Betrayer is a bit like planescape torment and better written than the original nwn2 campaign, so hopefully it will be fun, yay. oohhh a bald head wizard lady, oohhh
Olympus QM
Hello again /qtg/, Great Value archivebro is back with the milk, and the promised review of Voidship Bridge Simulator.
Olympus QM
>>6139106 Ah, as always, let me know if you'd like a review. I generally prefer active quests under 7 threads. Otherwise, Damned Hunter is next by qm request.
Anonymous
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>>6139042 Hope there is an explanation for this, it sounds like something that could return in the future. Thanks for giving us an update on your quest though.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
3 hours-ish for a choice on what Jenn is going to do with her first week in America in Ilvermorny Quest! I also cannot wait to write the 4th of July special with you going to the paranoid-schizo girl's house! I need it.
>>6138695 >>6138695 >>6138695 >>6139106 Seems interesting. More of a Fantasy guy but I do like Sci-fi. Nice review. Still slowly making my way through your archives but been writing enough it eats into my time to binge read.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6139106 How about my quest lol?
Anonymous
>>6139165 Your quest is SHIT. It SUCKS and I HATE YOU and I hope your socks are too short the back of your show chafes your foot's heel.
Anonymous
>>6139168 Bring back The Prince, fool.
Anonymous
>>6139174 Wrong person, I'm too lazy to learn how to draw.
Anonymous
>>6139177 Your pattern of switching to 1 post ID to sarcastically shit on Bananas plus excessive use of caps has ratted you out.
You are more transparent than you realize.
Anonymous
>>6139192 Sorry, anon, but no. You got the wrong guy. You need to retune your samefag sensors.
Anonymous
>>6139194 Okay "anon." :)))))))))))))))))))
Anonymous
>>6139165 I'll do it.
Ahem.
It's bananas.
Anonymous
>>6139174 >>6139204 My schizo theory is Bananas and Soj are the same person. So it wouldn't make sense for him to be shit posting at himself, ergo that poster is not soj.
Unless... Damn, how deep does this thing go?
>>6139237 kino
Levelman !rnYhP.nKQo
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>>6139107 Hit me up if you like boss. (you can safely ignore the sidequest, there's plot relevance but it's easy to skip)
>https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Chaos%20Quest Anonymous
Chartman !!RtTRSNxm597
>>6139106 Thanks for the review (and the art).
Yeah those fight scenes did get a bit technical since they were XCOM style turn based. If I were to rewrite I'd probably stich it together with more descriptive language but that's how a quest goes I suppose.
I am curious though — are any of my readers here invested in keeping the control and game mechanics, or would a more story based approach be better for my future threads?
Future as in, maybe Thread #4 after Christmas to avoid gap due to holidays. Unless people are desperate for the story to contiunue. Also have an RGB void wyrm to brighten your night.
Anonymous
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>>6139359 I'd say cutting the XCOM style combat would be for the best. I feel it bogs down the thread too much to be viable. Other than that, I have no complaints for the current arrangement.
Anonymous
>>6139299 If that were true, Monke Quest would’ve been long and dead.
However, both have a similar typing style, but Bananas is more of a whore, while soj just kind of beats around without acting. Don’t give (You)s to either.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Mon 11 Nov 2024 19:34:35 No. 6139539 Report So I made a "crafting" minigame in my Normal Cultivator Quest.
Can the Autists of /qtg/ out-autism with sheer logic the autists of my quest?
No quest knowledge required.
>>6139330 >>6139332 Anonymous
>>6139539 holy shit that's so confusing
ReptoidQM !!UCDxn1yqtzR
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To my players, and anyone who wants to join us in occult adventures: Cambion Quest is back!
>>6139675 >>6139675 >>6139675 Please feel free to join if you like:
>goblin shortstacks (available in strawberry and, ahem 'banana' flavours) >Chinese giant salamanders >a variety of pain-in-the-ass-to-type accents >D&D-style dungeon-crawling with a relatively rules-light system managed on the back end >Western esotericism, occultism, neo-gnosticism, and New Age-y quasi-mysticism >body horror >half-remembered sociology and psychology electives from a decade ago filtered through poorly-considered and not especially PC allegories >romance (and 'romance', for those of a saucier disposition) >Scooby-Doo creepypastas >LORE Anonymous
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>>6133309 >Thing Thing That's a blast from the past. I'm surprised no-one's used "bioweapon on the run" as a quest plot.
This is from that moth officer quest right?
Anonymous
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>>6139359 I am curious though — are any of my readers here invested in keeping the control and game mechanics, or would a more story based approach be better for my future threads?
I like how the character relationships and synergies are the DC mcuh of the time. That's a neat twist. That said, I'm more of a story-over-mechanics guy when I read.
Anonymous
I enjoy quests and vns. I was thinking about making a website catered towards branching and collaborative writing - the idea is that stories are presented as a tree, allowing routes to be explored or letting other people branch from specific points-of-divergence.
Anonymous
>>6139839 If it's something you want to make of your own volition for fun there is no right or wrong. Unless you want to include bronies. Then you are very much wrong and you will be judged for your actions.
Anonymous
>>6139861 Huh. You know, I don't think I've ever seen a MLP quest on here and, not being a brony, I never noticed the suddenly-conspicuous absence of that particular subculture until you mentioned it.
Anonymous
>>6139863 I think I saw one. But I think it was a shitpost and not someone genuinely trying to pony it up in here. Though I think they can do quests in their containment board. I would never go there to find out of course. Especially since their baleful gaze may fall upon us if it came out we write funny stories and roll make-believe dice.
Anonymous
>>6139507 All QMs are just one giant QM.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:12:28 No. 6139916 Report Quoted By:
>>6139680 Yes, and it somehow generated 50+ answers
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6139873 I have serious moral objections to that.
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6139576 >>6139577 >>6139578 Forgot to post this here yesterday. Be there or be stuck in a stable with a wounded ankle.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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welp, after a short ban and taking care of some irl stuff, The Caretaker Quest is back on the road and updated!
After getting rid of Salazar you now have to deal with Potter, but first, Lily wants to know stuff, would it be wise to let her know what is she dealing with, would you stal or will you refuse to tell her anything?
VOTE NOW!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 12 Nov 2024 14:12:29 No. 6140128 Report Quoted By:
>>6139680 One anon coined it exactly right :
"This is like watching some sort of accountant chess battle and I'm honestly fucking amazed"
Anonymous
>>6139863 During the height of it /mlp/ had dozen of Quests (they called them CYOAs) but they ran them inside their board.
Anonymous
It is a damn shame the Prelates were never fought in the games. Never knew the prophets had their own super soldiers. Definitely going to use them in the quest cause godamn
Anonymous
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https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5498029/ I was looking through some old notes and found this again: Liquidator Quest by SI-23 Zakuro. There's barely anything but the formatting and super scifi gobbledygook still really tickles my fancy.
Anonymous
>>6140153 >>6139868 Out of curiosity, I visited their board to check if they still had quests. It doesn't seem like it. But how can that be, with such rich lore??
Looks like they have some sort of creative writing general which probably serves the same purpose. >>6139873 Oh man, I WISH I was part of a gestalt with some of the much more talented QMs.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6139863 Arent mlp quests banned here?
Anonymous
I am using a different id to remain anonymous.
Anonymous
>>6140284 Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.
But in all seriousness, I don't know any solution that is one-size-fits-all. Here, the trick might be to get a cab to take you to Emergency, report extreme and life-threatening mood disorder, and see about getting checked in somewhere that will keep you safe from your own malfunctioning brain until you can get checked, administered meds, and assigned a therapist. It's not for everyone, and in other parts of the world that might not be an option, but it works for many who have access to these options and resources. >>6140281 Are they??
>>6140228 I mean, if they are, it might be because of how overwhelmingly and constantly horny that board and subculture seem to be, but it doesn't stop furry-adjacent threads from existing here.
Anonymous
>>6140284 Have you tried finding a psycholog/Psychiatrist?
What are those things that help you?
Try to create a checklist like this.
Things that might help : go outside, sports or moderate physical activity; shower, interract with someone (protip : that can be a complete stranger without any tie bond after that interraction)
Anonymous
>>6140284 Are you really a chick or a fake-ass?
If you're dead-set on NOT getting any treatment (I refuse as well, simply because meds are bullshit that will kill your mind and body. Also the social stigma), exercise, eat healthy, and socialize! Spend less time on the screen as well.
I struggle with depression as well, and these things help me when I do them; so I hope this helps you too!
Anonymous
>>6140209 >>6140228 They seem to run it all in the cyoa general.
>>6140288 It's banned outside it's board.
Anonymous
>>6140295 As it should. However, I'd be in favor of lifting that ban on /qst/ for a month or two, just to see.
Anonymous
>>6140295 >CYOA general Oh huh, missed it entirely. I must have lost in in the sea of ass-shots of small cartoon horses. My eyes just glazed over and my brain rejected what was before me, refusing to parse it further.
>It's banned outside it's board. All pony-related content is banned outright? Well, I'd normally say that's extreme and silly, but also, that board is EXCEPTIONAL.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6140301 Hey I can't genuinely hate them (yet), I never suffered their obnoxiousness
Anonymous
>>6140303 Pray that you never will.
Anonymous
>>6140301 >>6140303 >>6140314 I wonder how much of the reputation for obnxiousness is overblown or rooted in a bygone era when that series was more popular. But also,
>Flutterrape >Pony Transformation General >the batpony overbreeding resource crisis >"Do you guys also get really emotional when just thinking about the existence of MP and the fandom?" and other highlights include:
>an entire thread dedicated to Twilight Sparkle's tummy >"Would a fat pegasus be able to fly? How would everypony else react to a pegasus who's so fat their wings won't carry them anymore? Does Equestria have fat-shaming?" >"Fingerbang: The Equestria Girls and Humanized Thread #343 - Spooky Week Edition" >So many threads devoted to loli horse ass I'm not necessarily against a MLP quest or two existing here, but I fear for what we would unleash by inviting /mlp/ in.
Anonymous
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>>6140315 4chan is autistic. That board is fucking retarded. They should not be let out of the containment just like the developmentally challenged should always wear helmets in public.
DO NOT
Anonymous
>>6140284 "girl work" was a typo for "IRL work"
>>6140288 You know, I may actually look into a psych ward. I was in one before about eight years ago. It was comforting while I was in there. I put puzzles together , read Ready Player One the book before it became a movie, chatted with a super taster that claimed Wendy's lied about there beef never being frozen because they could taste it, saw a DVD of Attack of the Clones, but the moment I left and returned to the "real world" that was causing me so much pain, the depression returned. My main issue with the ward is how to pay for it, and also missing out on work. I run a family business with my Dad and he really needs the support I believe.
My concern with things like enjoying media is that it feels like escapism. I just sit and binge watch and blot everything else out, which has less me to be behind on work, class and my quest. I have basically alternated between soul crushing despair and zoning out to British Disney Plus (use a VPN, it gets you Hulu for no extra.)
Its a good idea to reach out to friends. I basically have two (and my partner) but it's better than nothing .
>>6140290 I have a general therapist, a sex therapist and a couples therapist. I see the general and sex therapist biweekly and the couples therapist SHOULD be being seen biweekly but we have fallen off.
My primary issue with my therapists (and similar things happened in University and in my current classes) is that they work very well when I am in the session and immediately after, but I struggle immensely in the weeks between seeing the people .
I am going to Tocoma Park to pick wild garlic now. so hopefully that is some outdoorsy stuff.
Anonymous
>>6140325 Do you best and hang in there.
From one internet stranger to another : (You) matter. (You) are already taking the necessary step to go better. Work and Class are hard to balance together, but your Quest should be some valve for releasing pressure, not a problem running it by itself.
Just, if you are the QM of one of the quest I follow and you just stopped giving signs of life, drop in your thread, say that you can't update because of life, and either you'll have to drop or Hiatus. As a player, I like the disclosure which provides better form of closure.
Anonymous
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>>6140325 >it feels like escapism It 100% is, as is quest-writing or listening to music, an annual vacation, or even going for walks in nature. Everyone needs their escapes. Escapism isn't a solution, but it's not bad, in moderation. If you feel like you can't find that sweet spot where you escape for a bit and then come back... I get it, and I don't really have an answer for how to find and maintain that balance. I can only wish you luck.
>>6140331 >As a player, I like the disclosure which provides better form of closure. Agreed.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6140284 I deal with some depression as well as some other stuff. Take one tiny anti-depressent a day which helps some but doesn't have any noticeable side effect; tried more, but I either sleep too much, get nauseated, have nightmare, stop enjoying stuff, ect. Might try a small dose.
Also just taking a break if you feel like keeping up your current schedule is too much helped me some before. Go and binge a favorite book or even an old quest. Write something new, just for yourself.
Talking to people IRL helps; I am lucky that I have a good number of people I can do that with, though I know others might not have that option.
I've gone to therapy a few times, it kinda helped some for a couple of days.
Get shit-faced, unless you are contemplating self harm, might make it worse.
Anonymous
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>>6140315 >bygone era when that series was more popular. That's how the board was created and many others like vg, pol, and the Pokemon one.
>>6140325 >sex therapist biweekly and the couples therapist I got none of that buddy. Maybe your life isn't as bad as it seems?
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TimeKiller, if your there, i reread cobra quest and Neon terminus Evangelion. Thank you for those masterpieces.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6140315 They had a containment board for a reason. You don't build containment boards unless you need to contain something foul.
While bronies are far, far less of a problem now than they were 10~ years ago, I feel like letting them out of their containment board is a bad idea.
>>6140300 >All pony-related content is banned outright? Well, I'd normally say that's extreme and silly, but also, that board is EXCEPTIONAL. It's a global rule. Outside of /mlp/ and /trash/, it's just not allowed.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Last chance for a quick vote in Ilvermorny Quest
Going to close the vote for which, if either, of the totally not evil Germans to drag to the Dueling Club before I write and get some rolls out in around 2 hours from now.
>>6139721 >>6139721 >>6139721 Have a cute pic of your paranoid-schizo new friend, Aubrey when she was younger.
Anonymous
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>>6140378 >It's a global rule. Outside of /mlp/ and /trash/, it's just not allowed. Huh. I guess I just never noticed because, until today, I hadn't really thought about MLP in a long time.
Anonymous
>>6140177 343 was more interested in pushing those shitty prometheans when they were making Halo 4 and 5 and then the banished in Infinite. Prelates likely weren't even prophet super soldiers during the bungie era and it was just a title for a high ranking priest in the covenant's religious elite.
Anonymous
>>6140426 To be fair, I quite liked the Banished as a faction. Brutes are based, making chainsaw motorcycles and space-age flechette guns. What a bunch of Czarnian Space Ork alpha chad gorillaman weirdos.
Anonymous
>>6140429 Banished are a neat idea of a splinter faction but 343's shilling of them as the new big bad after the Covenant is ridiculous. There's so much you could've done with Halo post 3 between UNSC, the Covenant schism and it's races, Insurrectionists, ONI. Being Master Chef fighting Red Covenant before meeting the Floo-I mean, Endless feels like a real waste on top of 343's other bad decisions with the franchise.
Anonymous
>>6140429 I like the concept of the Banished but they shouldn't have been presented as some massive threat that even the Covenant feared. The fact that the Banished were apparently fighting the Covenant during the UNSC-Covenant war and winning really annoys me, I hate it. Maybe instead they could have been some minor renegade faction during the UNSC-Covenant war that started to gain momentum only after the Covenant fell as the Banished begin to market themselves as an alternative for those who were fed up with the deranged zealotry and hypocrisy of the Covenant and the descendant terrorist groups that rose up after the Covenant collapsed.
>>6140429 343 and it's consequences have been a disaster for Halo.
Anonymous
>>6140458 >343 and it's consequences have been a disaster for Halo. Meant to reply to
>>6140454 Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
>>6140458 The biggest problem I have with 343's management is that they never commited to the story that they wanted to tell and went through with it in the games. You could say Halo 4 was self-contained, but the epilogue and Spartan Ops were leading into another story arc that could have been continued in gameplay. Instead half of the plot-threads were hastily wrapped up in supplementary materials, the other half ignored, and we get Halo 5 which starts a new, unrelated story arc. Then most of the plot-threads dropped in 5 get resolved in supplementary materials or ignored and we get Infinite, which introduces a new story arc that I can't help but imagine is going to get prematurely aborted and replaced by something totally unrelated again.
Anonymous
>>6140295 >CYOA general Oh what the fuck. As a regular on the /tg/ cyoag I am now ashamed to be part of something that shares a name with the mlp stuff
Anonymous
>>6140315 >I'm not necessarily against a MLP quest or two existing here, but I fear for what we would unleash by inviting /mlp/ in. /mlp/ gets over 6,000 posts a day. /qst/ barely gets 500. Why would they bother coming here?
Anonymous
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>>6140325 Get better mate. I'm not sure if it counts of anything, but rest assured you do have people rooting for you
Anonymous
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>>6140755 >we're getting mogged by the brony board The biggest oof of all. Makes me wish I hadn't finished off all my tequila last night.
>>6140962 Don't let your dreams be dreams.
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>>6140962 We're on page 6 and nowhere near the image limit, so not for a while. This one was only early because someone spammed images last time.
Which I would recommend you not do because all of the stupid-ass measures put in place lately are because Hiromoot is out of money and is trying to cut down on server time.
Anonymous
Awaiting the return of Lesches' Trojan War Qsts & the various Star War Qsts besides the headliner Interregnum.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6140659 We live on the internet. MLP, funkopops, and guys with shitty facial hair are par for the course I guess. I have a twitter, something on a normal person site and some of the stuff I see causes... questions to arise.
>>6140755 >Those numbers They disturb me slightly. Picrel.
Anonymous
>>6140962 Summon Souvarine.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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>>6140755 I'm not that shocked given how autistic horsefuckers are.
Anonymous
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>>6141122 >SUMMON...? sshhh I am playing videogames
>>6139062 >>6139873 >ALL QMs are ONE GIANT QM I predicted this, see the animation of this webm
>>6135371 >>6140228 >ALAN RICKMAN REACTION FACE it is very difficult to evaluate or rank the best possible incarnation, there is Die Hard, Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves etc, but the iconic version for me is this webm. I recommend watching the youtube version with audio / music, it is a poignant and affecting moment
Sense & Sensibility - Weep You No More Sad Fountains
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhI3lWxArCU Anonymous
>>6140429 >SPACE AGE FLECHETTE GUN why does this thing deliver NO DAMAGE
Anonymous
>>6141173 >Halo 3 useless brute mauler shotgun lol Something I just realised looking at that picture of the Mauler from Halo 3, I did not know this playing Halo 3 back in 2007-08 lol but having watched so much Tarkov and having played so much Arena Breakout extraction shooters lol that "sci-fi" space gun slanted magazine is clearly the Molot 75 round drum mag from the RPK-16, hehe
Anonymous
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>>6141173 >>6141177 I guess given that the Halo 3 mauler is a shotgun the visual inspiration might have been one of those 12ga drum mag Saiga shotguns (Saiga is also a similar AK-looking mechanism). I can't find a good picture of those, there is a Saiga slanted mag one that looks very similar to the RPK-16 picture, but I think the standard drum one usually depicted in the extraction shooter games is a massive vertical circular disk/drum mag with side-exposed shotgun shells
Anonymous
>>6140454 >>6140586 >>6140458 >>6140463 >HALO 4, msft, 343 etc It has been a while since a played it lol so forgive me if I remembered anything wrong, but I have the weirdest memory of Halo 4, if I remember it correctly, msft at the time was in full meltdown over aapl iphone, ipad success lol, I think if I remember correctly Halo 4 came out ~2012 ?? just as msft had shutdown Zune lol (remember Zune?) this was when msft was still in Ballmer mode before ValueAct and Nadella etc. So as I was playing Halo 4 in a mood of obligatory distaste, I was thinking about all this context, and the storyline cutscenes took on this new significance. You have these humans with clunky militaristic looking tech fighting against these advanced glassy, sleek polished aliens right? This is basically the aesthetic of Halo since inception. But amidst that backdrop of msft, intc and x86 vs aapl lol I kept thinking whenever PRINTED BLUE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT GIRL Cortana who is basically the Intel Inside logo crossed with the msft Word document paperclip assistant whenever Cortana had a rampancy emotional meltdown, becoming increasingly desperate and demented, this was basically the reaction of msft-intc-x86 to aapl success lol. Anyway, just a random memory reminiscence I retrieved from 2012 lol, it probably no longer makes any sense outside of that moment in time tee hee hee
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>>6140454 >>6140586 >>6140458 >>6140463 >>6141225 The most amazing cutscene in all of Halo, this SSTO style launch for the brief jet fighter gameplay moment in Long Night Of Solace from Halo Reach. I always thought Halo's appeal was more towards the military / hard space sci fi audience, I wish they had jettisoned more of the alien promethean forerunner etc stuff and focused more on human-to-human scaled conflict (eg the Insurrectionist type wars).
To be fair though for me Halo is just the guns lol,
>>6135937 >>6135923 the characters in Halo games for me are just how satisfying the guns look and feel, I never delved very much into the lore, it was just a pure visual spectacle for me LOOK A GLOWY FLOATY LIGHT BRIDGE OOOHHH
Similar to the apotheosis style BECOME A GOD THE GODS oh my GOD style crpg narrative that is seemingly inevitable for all rpg videogames from Baldurs Gate to Divinity OS to Pillars Of Eternity etc, I feel sci fi that veers too much towards the intergalactic incomprehensible scale can implode in terms of believability or storytelling direction (lol Dead Space 3 ending I AM SHOOTING THESE ALIEN RELICS METEOR SPIKE THINGS TO BLOW UP THE MOON etc)
Anonymous
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>>6140177 those are quite strong
>>6140458 The Banished can work has pirates and the like, or one of many states rising with the Covenant collapse.
Anonymous
Would anyone be interested in a genshin quest?
Anonymous
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>>6136483 >>6135367 >>6136559 >>6136141 I feel obliged also to reciprocate the literary offering of SpookQM, who furnished me with a very intriguing stanza so here is an ekphrastic poem from WH Auden from a volume with some similar themes on decline of empire. I think the idea of poems is to allude to a thing without shouting out the obvious, Auden does this well, hehe. But maybe it is just about a house falling into the sea. I like poems with internal rhyme, this sounds very pleasant if you intone it out loud. I don't think there is an epub of it, just some pdf scan, this poem alongside several other works is omitted from most of the published collected editions and edited compilations of WH Auden's works, hehe
***
Look, stranger, at this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.
Here at the small field's ending pause
Where the chalk wall falls to the foam, and its tall ledges
Oppose the pluck
And knock of the tide,
And the shingle scrambles after the sucking surf, and the gull lodges
A moment on its sheer side.
Far off like floating seeds the ships
Diverge on urgent voluntary errands;
And the full view
Indeed may enter
And move in memory as now these clouds do,
That pass the harbour mirror
And all the summer through the water saunter.
Anonymous
>>6140284 >>6140291 >>6140325 >>6140345 >DEPRESSION Giebt es einen Pessimismus der Stärke?
Is there a Pessimism Of Strength?
-Nietzsche, The Birth Of Tragedy (1872)
Look it is 1872 the United States is overtaking Great Britain in economic prowess, the world has fallen into a Long Depression (1873-1896) following various speculative manias, bank failures,and financial contagion from the Viennese bourse, collapse has triggered waves of mass emigration and the rising imposition of tariffs and protectionist measures across the continent, in this entirely unfamiliar foreign political landscape you are Nietzsche, that immoral Lou-Andreas Salome lady just won't have sex with you so you have decided to become an incel and you pose this intriguing question. After spending some time combing your moustache and plagiarising all of Schopenhauer's ideas, using ChatGPT to regurgitate them into an elaborately enlengthened prefatory essay, you rant incomprehensibly about THE GODS THE GODS Dionysian Apollonian aspects etc, you conclude:
(...) What if the Greeks in the very wealth of their youth had the will to be tragic and were pessimists? What if it was madness itself, to use a word of Plato's, which brought the greatest blessings upon Hellas? And what if, on the other hand and conversely, at the very time of their dissolution and weakness, the Greeks became always more optimistic, more superficial, more histrionic, also more ardent for logic and the logicising of the world,—consequently at the same time more "cheerful" and more "scientific"? Ay, despite all "modern ideas" and prejudices of the democratic taste, may not the triumph of optimism, the common sense that has gained the upper hand, the practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like democracy itself, with which it is synchronous—be symptomatic of declining vigour, of approaching age, of physiological weariness?
>affliction, suffering, tragedy and despair are completely healthy and normal >if you ever feel happy or triumphant, STOP IMMEDIATELY for the sake of your own wellbeing Anonymous
>>6141313 I don't know shit about genshin, but I like good quests.
Anonymous
>>6141320 map skirmish wHere you deploy heroes to delay abyssal corruption for as long as possible until either all civilians are evacuated for you destroy big bad node spewing monsters (good luck with that lmao), your heroes can either be on field or provide garrison bonuses. They better have strong willpower or they too will be corrupted~
-resource management
-prompts
-Sacrifice
-Waifus (a lot of dead one by the end of the one shot)
-BDSM
Anonymous
>>6141321 The basic premise sounds interesting enough.
Anonymous
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>>6141326 i have chosen genshit because of its established universe and how popular it is right now (I don't get to draw maps, yoiy)
Anonymous
>>6140177 Lotta shit in the background that's never brought up in the games. Plenty of super obscure shit, like how a few days before Halo 2 starts an entire UNSC carrier battle group gets schwacked in the solar system out by the gas giants by unknown alien hostiles who jump out before the UNSC can muster a real response.
Anonymous
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>>6140454 Could have set up a great UNSC civil war scenario instead of the dogshit AI uprising stuff. Preston skipped town with his innie wife and allies, could have set them up as a seppiegroup back by a war hero. Even kept the banished as either a third faction or backers for Cole's separatists.
Anonymous
>>6141418 Yeah, the October 10 aggressors.
Anonymous
>>6141425 That's the one. Even within the confines of the games and direct media there's still a bunch of stuff only mentioned. Like the UNSC Army and Air Force, Covenant fringe species and vehicles outside the games. I need to start rereading the books. Shitloads more stuff that's dubiously cannon like the failed S2 Class 2.
How's the quest coming along? Getting close?
Maw QM
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Escape the Maw is back after a brief hiatus!
>>6141442 >>6141442 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Going to close the vote over if to try out our BS MC powers in a fun duel in Ilvermorny Quest in like an hour.
>>6140938 >>6140938 >>6140938 Anonymous
>>6141428 Yeah, every day. I just read at a glacial pace so my research is going slowly
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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The Caretaker Quest has been updated!
Lily showed up at your door after finding your note and now you are having a very important talk with her.
will you tell her what she has done before or will you hide it?
Vote and roll now!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
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>>6141428 There is some stuff they never really looked upon a lot. The army and air force is not that much explained but we can take a guess on how they could be. Probably bigger numbers of men and variety of land vehicles for army, and Air i have no idea. Halo wars does add some new vehicles though is still marines and not that many.
I don't think is something they really explore a lot. Even if they could since the UNSC army actually won a decent amount of battles on ground (and then was forced to retreat for avoid orbital bombardment), and that could make for some cool stories. There is probably some stuff made by fans too like the sins of prophets mod.
>>6141661 progress is progress
Anonymous
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>>6141313 Depends, who are the characters you are interested in writing.
Anonymous
You ever been in a quest where it's so ridiculousçy blatant someone is samefagging but there's no way to prove it because they're not using an 1PBTID so pointing it out would just make you look like a sore loser?
Anonymous
>>6141925 you ever just schizo out over some monkeys in space and start barking at shadows?
Anonymous
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>>6142017 Many such cases.
Anonymous
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>>6142017 The monkeys are there dude. I saw one jumping to the edge of the universe once.
Anonymous
>>6142017 >get found out >have no way to defend self >loool dude you're just jumping at shadows! See, this is exactly what i said. It's obvious, but people don't like it when someone points that out.
Anonymous
>>6142048 Maybe try not being a sore loser. If we've all sucked it up about much bigger deals like Sunshine/Starfire, you can probably live with having a not-quite-your-favourite Supreme for a thread or so. If it ruins your enjoyment, maybe just take a break. It is ultimately a game.
Anonymous
>>6141012 I came back from a year-long hiatus from qst expecting TWQ to have progressed a fair bit. My disappointment is immeasurable if the last thread really was in May and it's not just that people forgot to archive it. What's the last we know about Lesches, does it seem he just lost interest or is he actually running that kaiju themed quest he talked about in the last TWQ thread?
Lesches we need you my ni
Anonymous
>>6142069 >Point out extremely ridiculously unlikely coincidence whose sole feasible explanation is samefagging >"Urgh, just accept it" Anonymous
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my quest has a bunch of samefags but no one complained so far
Anonymous
>>6141925 >>6142073 Every single quest is decided on by samefagging. Every "majour" vote always rests on the samefags nuance. No system will stop it, any system you use only makes it easier to get away with samefagging because people believe "no one would go through the effort". but they absolutely will. Best you can do is vote on shit the samefags doesn't care about or simply win by a landslide vote against the same fag. If you are a QM, you are writing a quest for the biggest most entitled motherfucker in that thread. Every one else just gets to read.
Accept it or leave /quest/. Not trying to be an asshole but that's what it is there is no realistic way to stop it. The best you can do is make sure that you are at all times writing something you enjoy.
Anonymous
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>>6142101 Quit your doomfagging or go do it somewhere else, things are bad enough between the timer and the time of year it is without you spouting bullshit.
Anonymous
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>>6142101 >Every single quest is decided on by samefagging. So shouldn't you take an opportunity where you catch the samefag red-haded to have a fairy vote for once instead of shutting your ears and acting like the one who pointed out the samefagging is wrong?
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6142110 >>6142111 >>6142112 Got around to posting another one of these. Be there or be burnt to a crisp.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Fri 15 Nov 2024 22:33:56 No. 6142117 Report >>6142101 I failed to see any instance of samefagging in any of my quests
So protip : don't be as succesful as Bananas and it won't matter
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
>>6142101 I hope my quest is spared from this issue. If you are doing as much and are reading this, please stop. I started my quest with the idea of everyone having their say in the story.
Anonymous
Looking forward to the return of Lesches as well, plus Enclave Remnant, Sunbelt Crusaders, Greenhorn/Redcap, & Stoker even though it jumped ship to another site.
Anonymous
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Say what you like about monke, but it's the only quest still capable of producing salt mines. Everything else is dead.
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Fri 15 Nov 2024 23:25:15 No. 6142150 Report When did this board lose its five-day automatic autosage? Just realized Cutémon is still on page 1.
Anonymous
>>6142126 I'm personally looking forward to Pokemon Apocalypse and Pokemon Trainer Quest returning.
>Enclave Remnant Wait, is he actually back? I thought the QM of that quest said he wasn't continuing.
Olympus QM
>>6139112 No worries! The archives aren't going anywhere. Unless they do again
Speaking of which, Olympus Incarnation Quest has entered its 9th thread! Never too late to join us!
>>6142153 >>6142154 Anonymous
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>>6142157 No clue on any of them, although Lesches was active just a month or so ago, & Sunbelt Crusaders was revived not too long ago as well. Naturally I also look forward to Sworn to Valour.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6142101 >make sure that you are at all times writing something you enjoy That is just good advice in general. If you aren't having fun with what you put down? Why would you keep doing it unless you are getting paid?
>>6142158 Nice art. Wish I could still draw or even do people back when I did. Most of my old stuff looks like the stuff people in insane asylums would put out.
Anonymous
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>>6142150 It didn’t. The board just got really slow.
Anonymous
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>>6142073 Unironically, yes. You have no way to prove your supposition to the satisfaction of the QM and your fellow players. If you did, it would be settled. Space Monke already breeds arguments like nothing else, so getting all pissy about your pet theory to the point of running two concurrent versions of the argument in two threads does nothing for anyone.
>>6142101 >>6142118 Most quests here aren't popular enough for that, actually. Pick your poison, I guess as
>>6142117 says.
>>6142070 I do hope it comes back soon, too...
>>6142126 Oh shit, and Greenhorn! It's been longer than I realized...
Anonymous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnw018YDq8k&t=101s >>6141661 You're not going to start till you finish doing research?
I think a anon was doing the same for a JoJo quest. Some battle royal, penis worship, millions of Asians slaughtered. He did like 5 posts and seemed to go schizo.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
It's gonna be every time now huh?
Anonymous
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Warlords of Chaos Qst is still going strong, Lanu is a very dedicated QM. That said, it seems that a lot of the old warlords haven't returned due to the hiatus. I hope to see Krantagarh, Sarrick, Korthak, Narvoch, Drakothraen, & Chorf Anon in the thread again soon.
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k
The Hypercrisis Bro !!wy0RzVFRI8k ID:Ituaesy4 Sat 16 Nov 2024 03:52:12 No. 6142292 Report Quoted By:
Ultimate Civilization Quest Update!
The Mutants of Nation X journey to Japan to treat with the powerful Yoshida Clan.
Will they join the ninjas of the Hand in their crusade, or urge the powerful mutant Mariko to rise up? You decide!
>>6142286 Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Sat 16 Nov 2024 05:06:10 No. 6142337 Report No jury in the world would convict Tamounda.
Anonymous
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>>6142337 2 cute 2 prosecute.
Anonymous
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>>6142070 I think I remember Lesches mentioning in a previous qtg that he was being bombarded by life/work. Said he was expecting to return around january or something.
But who knows what fickle fates have in store. I miss Nira quest a lot. Maybe she can burn down fair Illium.
This timer is killing me.
Anonymous
>>6142202 Just want to make sure i don't fuck up the details
Anonymous
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>>6140297 >I'd be in favor of lifting that ban We'd be flooded with pony quests within the first few minutes.
You underestimate how obnoxious bronies are.
Anonymous
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>>6140378 >You don't build containment boards unless you need to contain something foul. Reminder that /qst/ is a containment board.
Anonymous
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>>6142206 Give us hell bananas
Anonymous
>>6142380 Just don't want to hear how you killed yourself after unloading 600 Assault rifle bullets into yourself over Grunt GF's not being real.
>>6142206 You are the George Lucas of /qst/. Made something so popular and sent nerds insane.
Apologize. BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6142431 It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Anonymous
>>6142454 But is there an attractive monkey?
Anonymous
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>>6142488 I think that depends on what kind of monkey you're talking about. I'll just say it, Mandrills are always gonna be fuckin' ugly.
Anonymous
Sorry for the silence, magically challenged should start at the end of next week, just needed to take a break.
Curse Carrier DM
>>6143102 It's been so long my name's been taken out, setting it back up for clarity. Since when do we need to set an email for session here, is it a recent thing?
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
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>>6143105 You don't *need* it, it just allows you to not have to wait 900 seconds to post the first time in the (day? set of X hours? who knows). All I know is every time I update my quest I need to go through this shit.
Also, the new captcha sucks ass and I hate it.
Anonymous
>made a formatting error
Anonymous
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>>6143102 >>6143105 You only need an email if you want to skip the fifteen minute wait time on your first post from a device. if you don't accept 4chan cookies, though, I think you have to do that damnable wait every time.
I bought the 4chan pass. Anonymous
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>>6143536 It happens. I wish we had the ability to edit posts; it's literally the only feature that tempts me to other questing sites at all.
Anonymous
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>>6143536 every spelling error is a step closer to suicide
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Mon 18 Nov 2024 10:47:24 No. 6143599 Report /qst/ is too damn slow.
DetectQM
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Gotham Beat Cop returns for the week after a Crash Cut from the action to self reflection.
Join us as we face the scariest thing about the modern day.. a conversation with your boss about your performance.
>>6143589 Anonymous
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>>6143599 it really has become agonizingly slow
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
I kind of want to run a fantasy quest here soon, but I can't think of a good MC. I'd like to do something a bit unique, with a nonhuman protagonist, though the setting could be fairly generic. Not sure yet- I still don't really have a "GOOD" fantasy setting all written up. Any ideas on themes or whatever?
Anonymous
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>>6143651 I yearn for a GOOD fantasy quest where we play an human Eldritch Archer.
Seen as both a weakling and dishonorable fighter because of bowman + magic cowardice stacking, having to overcome bad odds thanks to wit and use of his kit;
Anonymous
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Hey Superbusy, where's my Pokequest fix?
Anonymous
>>6143651 You know what's a good style for a fanrasy setting not done a lot? Dark ages. Every time there's fantasy it's always medieval. At best you have something classical. But not late antiquity, fall of Rome, Attila the hun dark ages.
I think the doom and gloom and dark color palette style would be a good change from your usually bright colorful stuff.
Anonymous
>>6143651 I think the sheep guy you post seems cool. Or the pigman. Or maybe, and bear with me here, some sort of society based on weird arthropod, like aphid-farming ants or those colonial, mostly-herbivorous spiders, or bat-flies?
As for themes, I think that's really got to come from your interests. Duskmourn is a super cool setting I've been reading up on, which I think would made great quest-fodder. I like your folkloric take you've done before, though.
>>6143599 It is pretty noticeable how few quests have been getting started lately.
Anonymous
>>6143651 Golem or undead of wizard who's died.
Mod for MMORPG.
Ace combat but birds.
A powerful being whose body parts have been sealed away, one has been let free now get the rest.
Anonymous
>>6143764 >Ace combat but birds. ObserverQM !!W1X+5SlTLqC
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>>6143651 How about you run my quest for me huh buddy?
>>6134429 Adlershorst
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Adlershorst Dynasty update.
>>6143793 >>6143795 Anonymous
>>6143702 >It is pretty noticeable how few quests have been getting started lately. I wonder why? Most active quests have no problem getting 3+ players, so it's on us.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6143651 Perhaps have one 'main' character that everyone plays together, but also have some players deciding and rolling for their own supporting member of that character's team alongside him, as with the characters in 'Night Without Stars'?
If you're looking for a MC, that Burly Snailman warrior might be distinct enough to use again?
Or you could let interested players create/name personal characters for the team FIRST at some sort of selection/choosing event, then have every voter choose which one of the characters is the one who gets elevated to MC status and powers (but hereafter becomes played by all posters in the thread)?
Anonymous
>>6143807 Well the site, and this subset of it, have both been in a state of decline fr a while. The noticeable shift seems to be a combination of:
>the bait thread and low-effort quest spammer(s) getting banned Their quest were not quality, and often didn't run for long, but they churned the catalogue, such that rather than a thread lasting 50-to-60 days it was 25-to-40 days
>the limits on posting without a pass or persistent cookies It discourages shitposting, but also just casually posting on-the-go from mobile or on break at work or the like
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6143702 >Was A Tier >Managed to get to S Tier with current thread >Back down to A Tier again Anonymous
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>>6143877 Sorry Bananas. It's not you, it's the incessant bickering of certain anons.
Anonymous
Hey Infliction. I bet you thought I'd forget but I'm expecting thread 3 of False World Online in December.
Anonymous
>>6143887 Good to see someone remembers! All is on track, currently planning to have Thread 3 up around Dec 7-9.
Anonymous
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>>6143904 >heels >twintails Yep, that's fuckable.
Anonymous
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>>6143904 >ywn have a levitating gigeresque gf why even live?
Anonymous
They really down played just how big of assholes the Kig Yar tend to be in the games, huh?
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6143904 I just read the prior threads and it seems pretty cool. Nifty.
One more choice in third best Harry Potter quest on the board,
>>6143503 >>6143503 >>6143503 Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6143702 No Normal Cultivator, no Goblin Cultivator, no Humanity Fuck Yeah?
No?
Anonymous
>>6143944 Kig Yar and Jiralhanae are both pretty awful. That being said, the former are at least willing to work with you sometimes before they eat you.
Anonymous
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>>6143961 Give him a break he can't read every quest
Not like it's a blue ribbon seal of approval from the council of cum
Anonymous
>>6143807 >Getting 3 votes after waiting HOURS Grim
>Some QMs aren't even getting that Beyond grim
>>6131057 >Adlershorst dynasty Last story post 11 hours ago, 0 votes
>>>6130126 >One Life Last story post 1 day 12 hours ago, 2 votes
>>>6120773 >The Prophecy Names Me, So The Demon General Betrays Her King?! Last story post 15 hours ago, 2 votes
>>>6136429 >Drowned Quest Redux Last story post 21 hours ago, 2 votes
>>>6127530 >Tai Lung Quest Last story post 8 hours ago, 0 votes
>>>6114140 >Kobolt Klan Adoption Last story post 3 days 8 hours ago, 2 votes
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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The Caretaker Quest has been updated!
You took care of Salazar and Lily is fine...kinda...
what will you do now?
vote to find out!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 19 Nov 2024 08:33:14 No. 6144082 Report Quoted By:
>>6143961 Hey I'm qst-famous!
I think I'm too ESL and crunchy for our dear RQM taste. Sad, but it happens.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 19 Nov 2024 08:34:34 No. 6144083 Report Quoted By:
>>6144075 I REALLY have to catch-up Kobold Klan Adoption.
Sorry Spinejuice. I loved the quest but it started moving too fast around a year and a half ago when I was struggling with my phd's final rush.
Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh
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>>6144075 >Grim Literally the status quo of /qst/ for years and years, anon. If you can't cope with it, don't run here. Personally, I find consistent interaction with 3 engaged readers loads more motivating than writing to a silent view counter, as I would if I wrote a webnovel (to say nothing of an actual novel).
>Last story post 21 hours ago, 2 votes Yeah, on a write-in only prompt, which reliably halves participation. Like any normal /qst/ quest, I average out 3-5 votes Don't rope me into your demoralization psyop. Thank you.
Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh
>>6144075 >Grim Literally the status quo of /qst/ for years and years, anon. If you can't cope with it, don't run here. Personally, I find consistent interaction with 3 engaged readers loads more motivating than writing to a silent view counter, as I would if I wrote a webnovel (to say nothing of an actual novel).
If you try to evangelize Akun to me you get the rope btw.
>Last story post 21 hours ago, 2 votes Yeah, on a write-in only prompt, which reliably halves participation. Like any normal /qst/ quest, I average out 3-5 votes, so don't rope me into your demoralization psyop. Cheers.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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>>6144085 i think that guy just posted in my quest for no other reason than to say "brutal"
i dont know whats his problem
Bullpen !!h15+BsQodN2
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With Great Power update:
>>6144098 DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 19 Nov 2024 09:45:09 No. 6144102 Report >>6144085 >I average out 3-5 votes Same here; but with how "complicated" the usual vote are in my quest, I'm often finding myself in ties when my reliable 5-7 voters shrinked to 3-5 lately.
Skill issue on my side I think.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6143678 That's funny, I have LONG been since a proponent of Iron Age fantasy! I especially love the armors. For D&D specifically, I always thought it was a much better fit both in terms of game mechanics and theme then high medieval renaissance. You have small fortified towns and villages that are mostly independent and needs lots of help from adventurers, inexplicable absence of black powder, lots of unclaimed wilderness with monsters and mysterious spirits, no giant monotheistic church (at least more conflict with it and the local pantheistic cults), much more of a "man vs nature" world as opposed to high medieval courtly intrigue where everything is owned by far away kings and bands of feudal obligation; even the AC and To-Hit system fit better with you needing to be lucky enough to find "gaps" in armor, something that doesn't really work as realistically with platemail.
The issue I think is most fantasy is already pretty anachronistic and the "place in time" is much harder to visualize. You can set it in individual cultures like vikings, huns, celts, romans, etc. to get the feel across but generic fantasy is going to feel Arthurian and medievaly. Conan is also a pretty good benchmark too but that feels more ancient world to me, even though it is also very anachronistic.
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>>6143651 I'm on a Warhammer Fantasy kick lately, so that image brings to mind a Turnskin Bray-Shaman from a Beastmen Warherd. Basically someone who starts out a normal human, then mutates later in life. The Bray-Shaman part is the rarity, as usually Turnskins end up looking like sickly, hairy people with forehead nubs & no great abilities. I know you like adding degeneracy to your Qsts too, so that could work with the setting since many Beastmen, as mutated creatures of Chaos, worship Slaanesh, whom they refer to as Slaa or the Serpent, & it facilitates their "recruiting." There are tons of minor Chaos Godlings out there that never get much mention, I can post a list & then you can research from there if you'd like. You can also incorporate elements of other fantasy settings in, create your own Chaos deities, etc. Sworn to Valour basically took Warhammer Fantasy as the foundation of Forgotten's worldbuilding & then focused more on his parallel of Bretonnia, & Warcraft started out as a Warhammer Fantasy setting before they filed off the serial numbers & started doing their own thing. Of course the inspirations of Warhammer itself, mainly Michael Moorcock's Mythos, is a great place to find inspo as well. Not to mention Sword & Sorcery/Bronze Age stuff, or drawing parallels from real life ethnos & their myths, ancient customs, distinctive warrior archetypes, etc. I second the anon who mentioned the Dark Ages, there was a Qst not too long ago that focused on a young Anglo-Saxon nobleman's son set just a bit after Christianization that was promising, not to mention the one about a Draugr trying to fulfill his oaths beyond the grave. Something else that could interest you is the Byzantine Empire/Rome II, or even the Holy Roman (German) Empire, or Rome III. Hopefully my rambling has helped.
Anonymous
>>6143807 The new posting rules are definitely a factor
Anonymous
>>6143869 >Their quest were not quality, and often didn't run for long, but they churned the catalogue, such that rather than a thread lasting 50-to-60 days it was 25-to-40 days The catalogue isn't the issue. The real reason for the decline is that many of the QMs who were purged also voted in other quests. When those QMs were banned, quests bled regular voters, which caused a ripple effect.
>>6144085 >Literally the status quo of /qst/ for years and years, anon Before July, /qst/ had stable, though stagnant, activity. But after the purge, everything started to drop off sharply.
>>6144102 >I'm often finding myself in ties when my reliable 5-7 voters shrinked to 3-5 lately. Take "Transgender Snail Quest" and "Black Superman Quest" as examples, these were created by anons who voted in multiple other quests. When they got banned, every quest they voted in lost 2 regular voters. Your quest survived losing 2 voters, but smaller quests didn't. The result was a domino effect, and now /qst/ has only half the activity it did before July.
>>6144161 >The new posting rules are definitely a factor The new posting rules didn’t come until October, but the activity drop began in July.
Anonymous
>>6144194 Yeah, because banning their cheap spam quests definitely stopped them from voting forever, right?
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 19 Nov 2024 15:26:41 No. 6144199 Report >>6144197 I noticed the drop in the two/3 last weeks.
More likely a change of lifestyle of college kids or something.
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>>6144199 Pretty sure that one's because of the 15 minute wait timer which makes it really annoying to vote.
>be on mobile >decide to check out quest >have to wait 15 minutes to vote It's dumb, really, but i guess hiro really wanted to start selling emails to scammers.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
Maybe it's me not really noticing since my quest gets 5-6~ votes on average per update but I think the only change that really impacts my ability to vote/interact with quests is the new spam filter.
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>>6143764 >>6143765 >Ace Combat, but BIRDS I was actually researching a concept similar to this the other day, it was going to be set in a mountainous / chasm / ravine like cliff landscape world, with DRAGONS AS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS or something, I spent a lot of time looking at HANG-GLIDER videos (there are some interesting things you can do with the idea of riding thermal currents in flight etc). I watched a lot of first person view hang glider videos on youtube I really recommend them, they are more graceful and serene than the cliff dive wingsuit videos which are more adrenaline rush headlong plummeting over in a matter of minutes, I reckon hang-gliding is the closest you get to riding a dragon in real life or doing the pterodactyl / Heavy Metal serpent rider of doom dark fantasy thing, eg here is a good FPV hang glider video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQtN98Vzoek&t=2m11s (link timestamped at 2min11sec as first few moments just safety checks. I like it when he swerves up to the waterfall rainbow, hehe)
I was actually thinking about hang gliders because before embarking on my NwN2 crusade I replayed and completed all of Far Cry 1 again on hardest difficulty, I believe it was the first videogame with a hang glider? Anyway Far Cry 1 which is still incredible, actually felt a lot easier than I remembered it to be back in 2004. Just that on rails section in the Swamp level, where you have to glitch the game engine (look backwards to prevent the engine spawning legions of 1-bullet instant headshot enemies lol) as you are stuck in that unavoidable woman driver section hehe
Anyway you get this random bird picture from a contemporary artist Rember Yahuarcani, I just read about his exhibition randomly from an art essay (it is this one)
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/12/the-painted-protest-dean-kissick-contemporary-art/ I looked up his amazon rainforest neon bird picture, it could be used for an rpg
Anonymous
>>6138995 >>6139062 >>6139075 I am 2/4 sections complete on Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask Of The Betrayer Act II. I think this game is the best crpg ever made. I genuinely got gooseflesh shivers in that section of the hagspawn drowned labyrinth, with the singing and the revelations about Gannayev's parentage, how his hag mother was FORCED TO EAT THE FLESH OF HIS FATHER as punishment for their forbidden romance before being exiled to madness, confined within the flooded subterranean dungeon maze of the Skein lol. Afterwards I Meteor Storm firebombed all the dream hags so hard lol that felt so cathartic and good, I didn't even bother collecting their special essences or harvesting the unique crafting materials I was in such a vengeful GRIEF RAGE lol lol
The writing of this game is so incredible and intensely psychological, the npc characters are SO GOOD so well written, I looked up this lead writer (George Ziets? From Obsidian studio?) He is really good not sure what happened to his writing and creative directing in between NwN2 MotB and Pillars of Eternity lol which was far less memorable. The npc voice acting and the lore of NwN2 Mask Of The Betrayer is genuinely HARROWING. And something I am impressed by the entire game is not just grimdark, there are nightmarish horror elements but also some intertwined levity like the Gannayev quest where he stayed with a farmer girl (dream-rape?) and caused her to become lost in a fantasy world with an imaginary idealised duplicate of himself. I am sad I cannot romance the angel wing companion lady nooo. But NwN2 MotB is literally the best crpg I have played ever
I think the limited resting / hunger / devour spirit essence mechanic is very clever, it is one for the hardcore gamers (yes I know the Mulsantir Gate to City teleport essence recovery glitch lol) but all crpg games need to implement limited rest (just like how the hardcore usermade mods for NwN1 implement it for challenge to prevent spellcaster spam rest). Also I only just realised this harrowing frostbitten tribal land of superstition harshness and cruelty Rashemen, is actually the same land as Minsc hamsters Go For The Eyes Boo! and his witch companion from BG1, 2 lol, it just demonstrates the complete tonal shift and worldbuilding feel that can be achieved with serious atmospheric writing and worldbuilding lol
>>6143651 >GOOD FANTASY QUEST...? Anyway pic related is from some random internet person's playthrough a section I have not reached yet, I have three walkthroughs and maps open at all times playing this game lol
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>>6144075 fuck off nigger.
Anonymous
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Thank God I'm not one of those fucked users who has to do a humiliation ritual to post on mobile.
Anonymous
>>6122729 still masquerading as a man in /qst/-adjacent communities because the almost getting caught is mildly thrilling even tho gh its quite stressful. i only continue to make these posts because the short lived games of guess who are mildly funny
so i vent just a little since its mbeen s while and the constant pretending gets to me
Anonymous
>>6144151 >IRON AGE SETTING >must include HILL-FORT So in my Song Of The Oath And Wild setting I referenced the Firu Fortrenn,
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5265138/#5265748 which is not a made up word hehe but I stole it from wikipedia, it references a Pictish hill-fort
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortriu Maybe you could combine a hill-fort with the NwN2 castle / keep management format idea?
>>6139062 I think Iron Age is well-established in current videogame / media settings, you have that Vikings tv series, viking Assassins Creed, The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell Anglo-Saxon King Arthur etc. also that retelling of Hamlet / Amleth the Northman or Skyrim cosplay ruined by Nicole Kidman increasingly plasticface except I enjoyed the severed horse limb rearrangement scene. There are a lot of good concept art visual references, even historical ones for an Iron Age setting, no crossbows, probably not even many bows, spears and hand axe / throwing axe and the shield wall mainly, massed cavalry is rare? SHIELD WALL. Or schiltron, sceldtrome, hehe. If you are a feminist I recommend this archaeological study attempting to make economic inferences regarding Dark Age wellbeing / prosperity from the yarn / weft and warp of Icelandic cloth.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viking-textiles-show-women-had-tremendous-power/ All women in these societies wield only the distaff and weave pretty tapestries, NO FEM PALADINS MAIDEN KNIGHTS PERMITTED under any circumstances nooo
I have an entire folder in my 30 gigabyte visual inspiration folder that contains nothing else other than pictures of hillforts, you get this pic related
Anonymous
>>6144151 >inexplicable absence of black powder... I met this cool wizard he sold me his fire lance now I just need to mount ergonomic grips flash hider and an Aimpoint or a riflescope and canted sights on it yay
Anonymous
>>6144151 >>6144259 I wanted to also paste the Hera Arms tactical foregrip for the ultimate tryhard build, I guess the elite operators circa 950 AD favoured the c-clamp grip though, oh well
Anonymous
>>6144197 >Yeah, because banning their cheap spam quests definitely stopped them from voting forever, right? According to the stats, it seems that way. /qst/ hasn't reached 1,000 posts since July, and hasn't hit 800 posts since September.
>>6144199 >I noticed the drop in the two/3 last weeks. 4stats data shows the decline started in July. The new posting rules only started in October.
Anonymous
>>6144273 how can we stop the decline?
Anonymous
>>6144267 Give him an NVG and pointless hanging pouches for extra tacticool
Anonymous
>>6144274 >how can we stop the decline? If I knew, I'd share that instead of just doomposting.
Anonymous
>>6144277 Did the ad campaign work?
Anonymous
>>6144273 >According to the stats, it seems that way If they decided to stop voting for all quests just because their spam threads were removed, then they were either trolls that only troll-voted, or they weren't actually voting.
Anonymous
>>6144280 How can they vote if they're banned from posting?
>>6144279 >Did the ad campaign work? From what I can tell, there may have been some minor spikes, but no sustained growth in users.
Anonymous
>>6144273 Has the concept of the summerfag been completely lost to time? You're describing a well known trend that's existed across all boards for years.
Anonymous
>>6144283 >How can they vote if they're banned from posting? Removed spam threads don't get you banned forever.
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>>6144287 We have data from previous years and other boards. /qst/ activity didn't drop this sharply in July 2022 or July 2023; this decline only occurred this year. Other boards also didn't see a downturn after July 2024. For example, /mlp/ had 2,000 posts in July and over 6,000 in October. In fact, most boards either saw an increase in activity or remained steady after July. /qst/ losing 50% of its activity is a massive outlier.
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>>6144289 Purged QM confirmed on Discord that they were banned from posting. Also, if the spammer hadn't been IP-banned, I'm pretty sure they'd still be creating new threads.
Adlershorst
How do I attract voters for my quest without coming off as too much of a self-promoter?
Anonymous
>>6144304 Shamelessly self promote and describe more about the quest and what's currently happening in your posts linking the thread.
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>>6144305 I am not certain how far I would be willing to go with self-promotion, but the rest is solid advice, thank you.
Anonymous
>>6144304 Make your MC hot or cute. Either or both always works.
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
>>6144317 Read: make your protag a woman. Any sort or age will do.
Do prepare to have the worst players ever, though. Anonymous
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>>6144318 Well not always. Non-human MCs often fall into the cute category. Still, it's better to have degenerate players than no players at all.
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Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:d3kvGa8v Tue 19 Nov 2024 19:55:49 No. 6144327 Report Quoted By:
>>6144304 Pack your game with cute girls, and then every couple of threads make sure to add a cute boy.
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>>6144318 Veto every lewd decision. Trust me. It’ll save your quest.
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>>6144248 fake ass woman with no grammar skills.
TITS. NOW.
Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh
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>>6144194 >Before July, /qst/ had stable, though stagnant, activity. But after the purge, everything started to drop off sharply. Okay? But that doesn't change the fact that 3 voters is entirely normal, and has been for, again, years and years. Catalog churn or lack thereof isn't the same as the boots-on-the-ground experience of running a quest, which for me and presumably many others is unchanged.
Anonymous
>>6144276 >>6144259 >>6144267 GPNVGs yay. I only just discovered from random googl search that you can also apparently wear those quad image intensifier tubes in a vertical mounted configuration hehe
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>>6144276 >>6144259 >>6144267 >>6144345 you know every time you play a hardcore milsim type videogame or extraction shooter and you see those alluring tactical operator fetishistic gas masks, maybe you are wondering, just what is going on inside there, what is the face behind the mask, what are they thinking amidst all the door breaching charges and bullet ricochets gunfire flashbangs tear gas and heavy panting / lens moisture, condensation, heavy breathing? I can now reveal this, this is the face
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Tue 19 Nov 2024 21:23:14 No. 6144370 Report Quoted By:
>6 votes in the last 8 hours for a thing as complex as last turn. >VS 4 votes in one day and half between Sunday at noon and monday evening
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I assume the ads on 5chinz were directed at gamer, lit, & x boards. Could try other sites like sb, sv, fiction live/akun, or whatever questionable questing is, the draw being no pron qsts & no censorship otherwise. (for the most part)
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>>6144151 >fantasy is anachronistic Well it has been widely discussed, but Dungeons and Dragons is basically cowboys, the Weltanschauung of the typical dnd adventure is completely ahistorical it is closer to some Clint Eastwood frontier town lawgiver manifest destiny vision with just mere adornments of medievalism compared to history. An example I can give (don't judge me lol) I am so ashamed, recently I watched the ULTRA CRINGE cringe film, Mythica: Stormbound, (do not watch this) I have no idea what this film series is about lol i just watched this random film as a divertissement after too many period dramas and historical novels
>>6131996 >>6135427 Matt Mercer lol is randomly in this cringe Mythica film but I thought I would brace myself and watch it because it is literally a dnd adventure in cinematic form, the main girl in it is sort of attractive anywa lo and behold the archetypes are "bounty hunter" , "border marshal" etc and they are even wearing what resembles some leathery medieval cowboy attire as well
In terms of dungeoneering, the real world historical counterpart that most closely resembles these endeavours would be Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon excavating the tomb of Tutankhamun Nov 1922, it is no coincidence that Lovecraft and Cthulhu etc (1926? I believe) all published around this era, as the discovery of these ancient mythological worlds combined with the exhibition of their tangible museum relics sarcophagus etc inspired the fictional iconography of dungeon delving, mummies necromancy undead etc and ancient eldritch realms beyond the imagination of the emerging mass entertainment western audience. Maybe you could go back a bit further and argue for Napoleon getting the Rosetta stone or shooting a cannon at the Egyptian pyramids or something, just like how Ridley Scott depicted it with absolute completely unerring historical attentiveness and exactitude
For another more modern example of a dungeon delve, I present STALKER it is Ukraine lol Pripyat Chernobyl it is an EXACT PARALLEL of dungeons and dragons even OD&D hardcore osr gaming, it is filled with traps ("anomalies") treasures and relics ("artifacts") and supernatural entities and monstrosities ("mutants") navigated and fought by fearless dungeoneers (STALKERs) etc. I guess the original dungeon delve, the original katabatic journey would be Orpheus and Eurydice, but the necessary ordeal and denouement of that particular tale is lost upon the modern audience lol as evident by whenever I commence ranting about tragedy
>>6141315 and the moral purpose hehe (imagine the Orpheus dnd adventure which ends: your character became gay but it is not Dragon Age Veilguard you are decapitated your head is thrown into a river after you are cannibalised by maenad women, Your Quest And Adventure Ends Here)
Olympus QM
>>6144075 I actually saw a significant uptick of readership (or at least voting) over the past couple days from 2-3 to 4-5, maybe things aren't so bleak after all
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>>6144421 >>6144075 I just came back and was going to ask what was up with all the 1 id posts in my quest
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>>6143964 Oh yeah the brutes are fucked, but you kind of get the gist of that from how often they talk about wanting to eat chief.
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>>6144359 HAHAHA
Fucking awesome
I'm putting him into my game
Anonymous
New idea for a quest: Jules Verne inspired "green hell" exploration survival
Anonymous
>>6144437 I have two questions:
1. Are there preexisting sun domes
2. Will there be electric rifles
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>>6144438 By Jules Verne inspired I mean less sci-fi and more "autistic scientific focus on technical details"
You know his "Trip to the moon"? Well, it's actually pretty much two books because he spends an entire book's worth describing the construction of the giant cannon they use to launch it.
Anonymous
>>6141315 >tragedy, the moral purpose?? >>6144151 >Iron Age setting >THE HERO DIES you should also include a random woman, the "Geatish Woman", she appears, cries RAPE laments and wails about the fate of war captive sex slaves and then recedes mysteriously into the background
>Heofon rēce swealg >HEAVEN SWALLOWS THE REEK I imagine this is the Beowulf equivalent to "imagine the smell".
As with all these translations the meanings and atmosphere evoked can differ quite a bit. I use the Seamus Heaney one which can be quite idiosyncratic but it is presented as a convenient bilingual edition. I particularly enjoy the Beowulf verdict on Iron Age monetary policy and central banking, as presented below
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The Geat people built a pyre for Beowulf,
stacked and decked it until it stood four-square,
hung with helmets, heavy war-shields
and shining armour, just as he had ordered.
Then his warriors laid him in the middle of it,
On a height they kindled the hugest of all
funeral fires; fumes of woodsmoke
billowed darkly up, the blaze roared
and drowned out their weeping, wind died down
and flames wrought havoc in the hot bone-house,
burning it to the core. They were disconsolate
and wailed aloud for their lord’s decease.
A Geat woman too sang out in grief;
with hair bound up, she unburdened herself
of her worst fears, a wild litany
of nightmare and lament: her nation invaded,
enemies on the rampage, bodies in piles,
slavery and abasement. Heaven swallowed the smoke.
(...)
And they buried torques in the barrow,
and jewels and a trove of such things as trespassing men
had once dared to drag from the hoard.
They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure,
gold under gravel, gone to earth,
as useless to men now as it ever was.
Pic related is from the Robert Eggers Northman (2022) I wasn't too convinced by this kingslayer scene they did the whole samurai struck by arrows in snow forest lol it felt a bit too Hollywood overacting. I think it would have been more dramatic if the assassins just rode up and hacked off his arm or something, without saying anything at all
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>>6144151 >Iron Age setting >"I ESPECIALLY LOVE THE ARMOUR..." I am beginning to suspect BananasQM has certain... preferences, nooo
Anonymous
>>6144438 >Jules Verne -esque electric rifle I mentioned this useful inspiration website
technovelgy.com before, it is basically a compendium of every science fiction technology and invention presented in a loose fictional / author attributed chronology, but the far cooler variant of the raygun is the PHOTIC BORER, I just like this name hehe
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=2853 Anonymous
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>>6144438 >ELECTRIC RIFLE you get this webm of the Arc Lance from The Order: 1886 I never finished this videogame it had some interesting graphics and worldbuilding but the gameplay was insanely linear and frustrating it felt like throughout the game you were being rigidly shepherded along a buttonpress sequence and the designers never wanted you to participate or veer off course or experiment with anything, it could have been one long quicktime event corridor cutscene. But there were some interesting graphics and gore effects within this videogame hehe
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>>6144461 >raygun >it's just an x-ray flashlight Pic related
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:TB8+CRns Wed 20 Nov 2024 01:23:51 No. 6144475 Report Good news: I'm in the clear, I think! After getting my sleep schedule on track and winding down on stress somewhat, a fair amount of my health issues seem to have disappeared.
Not all of them, though, but I'm reconsidering going to a doctor. I don't know. I'll figure all this out later when I'm less busy, I think. More good news: I've decided on a definitive date for Poképocalypse's return! If all goes to plan, thread 3 will go up on or before:
December 13th!
I might be free up to a week before then, but I have serious doubt that I will be so I'm putting the date this far out just in case. I intend to keep my word regardless-- expect to see the thread up by the third week of December for sure.
>>6143536 This is the kind of shame your ancestors will remind you of in death.
lol, my condolences. If it helps, people don't seem to mind much as long as the content is good. I made a formatting error in my first damn post and nobody commented. >>6143599 Honestly? Go for it man. I don't mind the slowness much but it never hurts to have some fresh blood. Just make sure you're advertising in the right places so as not to attract retards, coomers, or retard coomers.
Imho, the obvious choice (beyond /tg/ or /lit/) would probably be boards like /co/ or /tv/ that are filled with disgruntled fans wanting their favorite series to change for the better. Fanfiction is far from the highest art, nor are the fans always right, but I think it might be worth advertising there just to possibly snag the truly devoted superfans who are willing to put in the effort to make their dream rendition of their favorite series and be rewarded for it with constant participation. >>6143702 Are the struck-through quests abandoned ones? If so, that's a shame. Primitive Fantasy had a pretty cool premise.
I'd also mourn Dead Site if it didn't turn into fujobait really quickly. Serious shame that the borderline-apocalypse plot tossed out most of its intrigue in favor of watching two middle school boys longingly gaze into each others' eyes or whatever. >>6144199 Could be that, could be the spam QMs losing their votes. Finals are creeping up on a lot of college students right now so, assuming they make up a nonzero portion of active QMs and voters, that would explain a lot.
Obligatory "fuck 4chan's new rules and death wish". Does anyone have any decent ideas of how to keep this board alive when 4chan inevitably bites it? All the questing sites I've heard of suck massive donkey balls and are beyond repair.
Anonymous
>>6144151 >even the AC and To-Hit system fit better with you needing to be lucky enough to find "gaps" in armor, something that doesn't really work as realistically with platemail. That’s not necessarily always the case. Depending on the time period, the armor at the time - even plate armor - had a lot of gaps. By the 15-16th century, plate envelopes the entire body, sure, but certain parts like armpits, elbows, back of knees, inside of the hand (if they’re using mitten style gauntlets) and of course the slit of the helmet.
By the 17-18th century, however, armor gets reduced to mostly helmets and cuirasses, and maybe tassets.
But if you go further back to the 13-14th century, you start seeing less plate and more mail - a thrust with enough force behind it will punch through it. (
https://youtu.be/L_EGoLvsaeY?si=jZN8lShrFDqtVJYl )
The early modern era also has its shares of superstition - even extending to witch hunts in certain places of Germany. Early Modern Era Germany also has some details that may fit a d&d feel; weapons ownership and carry as a legal obligation for men, gun control (although there were shooting competitions), towns with some independence and of course mercenaries, although they were increasingly professionalized.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1672087005109399552.html#google_vignette , The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany)
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6144507 Medieval fantasy fiction poster try not to be a pedant challenge
Difficulty : LEGENDARY
Anonymous
>>6144085 >If you can't cope with it, don't run here I don't, I'm from /pw/. I follow this board's decline with the same morbid curiosity I have when checking AEW's weekly ratings threads
>WTF is AEW? AEW is a wrestling company that fired its biggest star, CM Punk (who, funnily enough, is a huge leftist and tranny supporter), after he got into backstage fights. Since then, their main show's TV ratings have dropped from 1 million to 800k, and now down to 500k lmao
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>>6144567 >the doomposte ris a /pol/tard tourist Checks out.
>>6144475 >Poképocalypse is back on the menu. Nice!
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>>6144567 >literal misery tourist You have to go back.
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With Great Power update:
>>6144611 Anonymous
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>>6144507 >>6144151 >>6144565 >dnd AC to hit system etc >did I PENETRATE THE ARMOUR?? My new historically accurate schlechte Kriege warfare simulation:
>roll 7d100 >result is the length of your pike in cm (typically 3-7metres?) >longest penis wins Anonymous
>>6144565 >“medieval” fantasy BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>6144641 Really though what the hell is Medieval fantasy? Like which medieval? That's a span of like 800 years, isn't it? What part of it? Am I going to fight a dragon with a pike or am I some schmuck with a hatchet fresh off a boat? Do I have a flanged mace to engage that stone golem or do I just gotta use a big knobbed club? Is it an arming sword in my hand as I duel the vampire or a Merovingian sword?
What about my verisimilitude, Bananas? What about my kayfabe? Bananas. pls
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>>6144507 >>6144507 >youtuber Skallagrim rapier vs chainmail pierce test etc Thank you for that video link HEMA anon it is very intriguing, I would echo what I saw some of the commentators in that video and his replies already mentioned, I remember from my own fencing lessons (sabre and epee) doing prise de fer and enveloppements at school decades and decades ago, I was definitely taught to deliver the thrust in an upward bowed arc when lunging as opposed to that Skallagrim youtuber sagging downward U shape bending sword blade hehe. In fact if you look at the blade cross section of an epee which is the only sport fencing weapon that resembles a duelling sword it is tempered in a pronounced V shape, to deliberately support the upward bending blade flex arc and if you have one of those orthopaedic pistol grip fencing swords where you thrust in a lance like motion as if holding a rifle grip with a bayonet etc the upward arc flex shape just emerges naturally. Nonetheless I appreciated his video and I liked the rondel dagger stab demonstration, that was very cool hehe
Anonymous
>>6144663 >using a sword to fight a vampire? I will flee screaming in terror if you approach me in any form of sword wielding Final Fantasy anime cosplay
Canonically, the vampire slaying weapons of Bram Stoker are the Winchester lever action rifle (regarded as the most modern available rapid fire armament at the time of publication), the kukri, and the Bowie knife. The Winchesters mainly just get fired or waved around threateningly at the gypsy minion cohort horde of Dracula though. I was impressed when rewatching the Francis Ford Coppola Dracula (1992) film, in the end chase scene Coppola mostly adheres to the weapons and armaments as described by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel. Of the five vampire hunters the American bloke Quincey ("Quin-", ie five lol Bram Stoker ran out of rpg name generator ideas he just called the last npc "Mr Five") dies though. Everyone knows Bram Stoker's Dracula is mainly a parable warning against American military expansionism overtaking the British Empire as the Monroe Doctrine is explicitly discussed and debated in the novel. Also Bram Stoker was probably gay
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He had parried with his great bowie knife, and at first I thought that he too had come through in safety; but as he sprang beside Jonathan, who had by now jumped from the cart, I could see that with his left hand he was clutching at his side, and that the blood was spurting through his fingers. He did not delay notwithstanding this, for as Jonathan, with desperate energy, attacked one end of the chest, attempting to prize off the lid with his great Kukri knife, he attacked the other frantically with his bowie. Under the efforts of both men the lid began to yield; the nails drew with a quick screeching sound, and the top of the box was thrown back.
By this time the gypsies, seeing themselves covered by the Winchesters, and at the mercy of Lord Godalming and Dr Seward, had given in and made no further resistance. The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell long upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too
well.As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph.But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same moment Mr Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart.
It was like a miracle; but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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>>6144419 >>6144690 >EVERYTHING IS COWBOYS >dnd, medieval cowboys >Dracula vampire cowboys (also gay) I remember there used to be that xbox western vampire shooter Darkwatch with those bayonet axe revolvers hehe, but it is indeed true that EVERYTHING IS COWBOYS. I already mentioned in previous qtgs how the vampire myth of Dracula as conceived by Bram Stoker mentions explicitly the Monroe Doctrine within the novel (see this excerpt and discussion on Dracula carrying around 50 crates of earth)
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5896313/#5932790 Anyway, here is the ending of Francis Ford Coppola's film, which takes a few liberties with the source material but is also remarkably faithful to many other aspects of the novel. Dracula is basically a cowboy film
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Hello there fellow QMs.
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>>6144700 sometimes one, sometimes the other
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Wed 20 Nov 2024 12:21:20 No. 6144710 Report >>6144690 One of my player in Curse Of Strahd is actually playing Quincy Morris brought into Barovia by the seer-gypsy using a 'Wish' spell.
Of course, as a Texan, he have a +1 to firearm passive ability.
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I have run dozens of civ threads since before this board split from tg. Dozens. I am certain no-one remembers any of them - only a handful have lasted more than two threads. I'm not the civshitter, I don't spam the image - honestly I think civs are kind of just a shorter term format. Something to spend a couple nights reading up on watching your tribe of trolls or whatever sacrifice swamp turtles to the sky gods. Most of the fun is getting in character and shitposting along to the narrative.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Wed 20 Nov 2024 12:28:58 No. 6144715 Report Quoted By:
>>6144712 Would you run a slugman civ quest for me?
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>>6144699 >>6144690 >>6144710 >QUINCEY MORRIS, the American cowboy who dies in Dracula There is a theory and aome analysis that suggests he is a hidden and unmentioned disciple of Dracula. It is very noticeable at the end of the novel how his death synchronises with the slaying of Dracula himself. In the famous blood transfusion scenes, where five men line up to er, um, inject their fluids into Lucy Westenra after she has been stricken by the vampiric sickness, each time she receives a transfusion Lucy seems to recover her vigour, but when American cowboy Quincey (the fifth and last man) offers her his blood, she dies.
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The voice came from the sofa across the room, and its tones brought relief and joy to my heart, for they were those of Quincey Morris.
Van Helsing started angrily at the first sound, but his face softened and a glad look came into his eyes as I cried out: ‘Quincey Morris!’ and rushed towards him with outstretched hands.
‘What brought you here?’ I cried as our hands met.
(...)
‘I think I came just in the nick of time. You know you have only to tell me what to do.’
Van Helsing strode forward and took his hand, looking him straight in the eyes as he said:—‘A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. You’re a man, and no mistake. Well, the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them.’
Once again we went through that ghastly operation. I have not the heart to go through with the details. Lucy had got a terrible shock, and it told on her more than before, for though plenty of blood went into her veins, her body did not respond to the treatment as well as on the other occasions. Her struggle back into life was something frightful to see and hear. (...)
For fully five minutes Van Helsing stood looking at her, with his face at its sternest. Then he turned to me and said calmly:—‘She is dying. It will not be long now. It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, and we have promised him.’
(...) In the hall I met Quincey Morris, with a telegram for Arthur telling him that Mrs Westenra was dead;
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>>6144731 Didn't knew that! thanks.
t. the guy who called his cat "Mina" as a Dracula reference
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>>6144731 That's such a random fact only a vampire would know
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>>6144700 Depends on the prompt. Sometimes I know exactly what's coming; sometimes I need to figure it out for myself.
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>>6144700 Usually I have a decision-ppint in mind, but sometimes I find the update is going too long, or that I'm making a decision between those two points that the players might prefer to make themselves, and I cut it off early and split it into two updates.
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>>6144700 Both, depending on the case.
In Normal Cultivator Quest, there is a "Normal" loop of gameplay designed around practice. Each post is what happens during the protag's training based on the result of crunch on my side. Then, there's the 'adventures'. Some are set in the scenario : a yearly tournament, a visit to the main sect, the capital city squad-format tournament, the yearly recruiting of new sect member... Other depends on above-mentionned practice. In particular, as in all Wuxia style story, the protag can get sucked into a parallel realm related to a concept if he have some kind of heavenly insight (aka Crit), resulting in a small side-adventure with high reward available.
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As of right now, the crusade seems to be going rather well for our protagonists. The only task left is to deal with the remaining foes who are currently barricaded in the village.
>>6144813 >>6144813 >>6144813 [GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6144811 >>6144812 >>6144814 >>6144815 Massive (for my standards) update for Grey Skies. Be there or be blinded by a bent tube.
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>>6144475 Oh sweet, Poképocalypse is back. Hope you do get on top of the health issues that remain though.
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>>6144475 Primitive Fantasy seemed to burn through QMs sadly. Maybe one of them (or someone else) will pick it up. I'm a sucker for a story with lizardmen in it.
Dead Site had promise. I don't mind a bit of romantic comedy mixed with with my digital monster action and spooky monster mystery. But, yeah, seems it's abandoned. Evil Supergirl, too, which was really shaping up. Sad, but it happens.
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>writing >"man, all my sentences are really repetitive, always starting with nouns or stalling the start with some minor comment before getting to the noun, I'm a total hack" >"I'll go read something and see how actual people write and what else I could be doing" >grab book >turn to page >it's exactly the same
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>>6145096 Just open a few with conjunctions. "And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from Earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.". It's the second sentence, but it is a sentence all the same.
Just look up different types of words and open with those types of words. Put it on a little paper and roll a die to see how you'll open your next sentence. Unless of course you have a certain flow you're trying to maintain. A speaking pattern does not follow grammatical rules for instance.
You don't really need good grammar anyway. I, as an example, abuse the fuck out of commas in my typing. This is because I, as a speaker, have a very eclectic manner of speech. Almost Shatner-esque but not quite. I have that natural inclination when conveying information in any format because of it. Does it affect the quality of my writing overmuch? No. It's shit because it's shit, not because I type-a like-a I talk-a.
So just be aware of your habits and if they irritate you so, take those minor steps to correct it. Or just accept your idiosyncrasies and own that shit. Anon, there is no "right" way to write on a Jordanian Alpaca-shearing Website. Have fun.
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>>6145096 >>6145118 Whatever you do
DO NOT
use a hyphen when you should use an en dash
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>>6144731 >calmly:—‘She What the fuck even is this
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>>6145138 >>6144731 >>6145138 >ORTHOGRAPHY I checked this in my epub and also
Gutenberg.org , this is how it appears. Idiosyncratic punctuation is not uncommon in the 19th century in fact all of their stylistic mannerisms of writing far better than anything we possess today
Bram Stoker is not a good writer lol he is not literary or particularly eloquent unlike his GAY FRIEND Oscar Wilde, who conjures some elaborate belletristic utterances and aphorisms, Bram Stoker's prose is rather ungainly and cumbersome. But the skill of Bram Stoker lies in the amount of factual journalistic and encyclopaedic research embedded within his novel, all the science, technology, geography street names brand names etc of the late Victorian era are meticulously researched, it is why I often call it a sci-fi novel because it refers to all the leading and cutting edge science of his day (at one point, Mina defeats Dracula by memorising a train timetable lol, Dracula also defeated via shorthand and phonograph diary recordings, it would be akin to using text speak or tiktok or something today. Stoker also references the methodology and practice of Cesare Lombroso - his phrenology / atavistic approach to criminology discredited today, but in the 19th century this represented significant intellectual advancement in psychology and forensics).
>In conclusion, the orthographic symbol :- is probably a penis Also I should note I made a slight mistake or at least a spurious misleading reference in my excerpt (Dracula is a very convoluted novel, because it does the common 19th century epistolary thing where it is retold through telegrams, letters, diary entries etc constantly shifting perspectives really Bram Stoker just wanted to unleash his inner gay and write affectionately in the persona of a pretty woman) So where I excerpted this line:
>(...) In the hall I met Quincey Morris, with a telegram for Arthur telling him that Mrs Westenra was dead; Mrs Westenra of course refers not to Lucy (who is unmarried before she dies) but her mother, who dies after she removes the garlic garland from her bedside. But the essence of that Quincey Morris American Cowboy secret vampire servant thesis lol is not affected, it remains the case that Lucy dies not long after receiving blood from him etc
>>6144736 >Dracula references in my game setting UPYR You may have noticed a brief reference to this obscure character, Immanuel Hildesheim, from the Bram Stoker novel, in my game setting, hehe, I did this just in homage to the Dracula novel
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>>6145171 >:- >:= I have a vague memory that in some computer science languages the "colon equals" symbol ie := is used to denote the assignment operator for variables, whereas in C or C++ or javascript languages just the equals symbols alone is used as the assignment operator, which can confuse people because equals does not mean equals which is instead == etc. Really to minimise the confusion, elaborate ascii penis symbols should be used to assert masculine dominance throughout
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>>6144151 The centauress quest I was planning to run before my current one was to be set in post-Roman Britain-like world (funnily, what the original Arthurian Welsh setting was suppose to be), for many of the reasons you mentioned besides the uniqueness of the setting. Not only the villages and towns being small but even the kingdoms, with a land even having a multiple of kings and princes. Conflicting religions, as you said.
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>>6145138 >the ":-" orthographic sequence, often prefacing dialogue etc I just checked it is fairly common across 19th century punctuation typesetting, for instance Charles Dickens does it at least 23 times in Great Expectations. I wonder if you could use this to manipulate the machine learning LLMs and tokenisers hehe because clearly if you submit text dialogue containing ":-" it would be subconsciously referencing a certain era of text. But maybe chatgpt has some intermediate stage where it strips out or normalises or recalibrates all the punctuation tokens or something before it does the inference, hmmm. I just think it is interesting how as a human you probably wouldn't notice it but a tokenised LLM probably would detect these punctuation or orthographic peculiarities
>what if to befuddle stylometric analysis, you deliberately quote long swathes of 19th century literature, or film scripts, or poems Anonymous
My halo lore research has reached the point it is seeping into my dreams, which probably means I'm nearing the finish line of quest prep
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>>6145185 >HALO are you saying you are still fighting the Iraq War in your dreams?
Remember when in videogames purple was the colour of the enemy, and you shot them. I am a little concerned by the author of this piece, and his (deliberate, unintentional?) naivete when it comes to the notion of time precedence, and premeditation. Everything just spontaneously happens. I guess these days you can just play that Six Days In Fallujah videogame in Unreal Engine lol no need for plasma swords or complex alien allusions
https://techland.time.com/2007/09/26/is_halo_3_a_geopolitical_alleg/ Is Halo 3 a Geopolitical Allegory?
By Lev Grossman Sept. 26, 2007
Just so that somebody has said it somewhere: The Halo franchise is the story of a Western-style human civilization locked in a conflict with an enemy chiefly characterized by its zealous and inflexible religious beliefs and its hatred and contempt for said Western-style human civilization. The Covenant have subsequently suffered an internal schism, to the point where its war with humanity has been complicated by a civil war.
The Halo series is, obviously, not an allegory for America’s involvement in Iraq, or the war on terror, where America is the UNSC, the Covenant is radical Islam, and the Brutes and Elites are the Sunni and the Shi’a (or vice versa, it would be idiotic and wrong to try to map one onto the other anyway). It’s a ridiculous idea that breaks down in any number of flagrant ways. Obviously the first Halo came out long before we invaded Iraq, and was conceived and planned even further back (I think it came out November 2001). And unlike the Iraqi insurgents, the Covenant have, or at least had, technological superiority, and they don’t go in for terrorist tactics — they’re toe-to-toe fighters. And they’re aliens. And they’re obsessed with purple things. And on and on.
But you can’t quite get away from the idea that Halo says a few things about the way we Americans view our place in the world. I’d even give the writers at Bungie credit for some prescience. Prophet of Regret, indeed.
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>>6144151 >combat, Dark Ages, Medieval, vs modern / urban warfare tactical operator etc >dnd AC systems, and hitpoints etc, focused upon "medieval" or melee combat / pre-firearm vs high lethality systems I was thinking about this extensively, I am still trying to find a good ruleset framework for the "modern urban guns" type scenario. I think the reason why it is so hard to implement guns is because of the (perceived or fictional verisimilitude) believability of lethality, it is intrinsically linked to the roll-to-hit and damage mechanics of dnd, whether THAC0 or AC or opposed rolls etc, for instance there exist fictional rationales for why you might get stabbed or slashed by a sword and you "survive", "recover", "heal hp" etc it is just harder to imagine being hit by almost any form of gunfire without being severely impaired. So I think one manner might be to abstract away from hitpoints, deploy a fictional Harm tier hp scale (just denote physical "impairments", categorised by severity) instead. I already do this in my diceless settings, the descriptors do matter, an example I read recently from the expanded Deep Cuts supplement of Blades In The Dark extended systems and rules:
Basically there are four tiers of Harm, ascending in severity / impairment:
1 is a condition that will recover naturally absent treatment eg dazed, staggered
2 is a wound that requires treatment, but is not life threatening;
3 is an injury that needs treatment, and is potentially life threatening;
4 is instadeath peril, it can be like decapitation or a sniper headshot etc but also something like being thrown out of an airlock in space, drowning outside a submarine etc.
So the two types of Harm that are interesting are the extremes, 1 and especially 4. As a dungeonmaster you can create some death suspense excitement by threatening instakill 4 (muahaha I like doing this) but if the choice or the dice roll goes poorly what can you do to ameliorate the outcome? (Not just drink healing potion, recover from decapitation, or Resurrect spell lol).
I think when the instadeath 4 is threatened, which often arises in situations with guns, firearms, explosives urban combat, what the player needs to do is to negotiate imaginatively some ENVIRONMENTAL CIRCUMSTANCES to escape the situation. Basically the pressure is then on the player's side to imagine some situational or contextual advantage, imagine it into being, imagine it into the surroundings or landscape, to justify how they can escape the INSTADEATH
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>>6145318 Another element of the modern firearms combat vs dnd medieval bludgeoning slashing rules, I think a lot of the ignored side of modern warfare is on the tactics and manoeuvres (dnd seems to mostly neglect this). So assault rifles are basically all the same lol from the wargaming perspective (despite videogames training all people towards standard gameplay perceptions of damage coming from "different guns" not M855A1 or FMJ). What differs is the unit tactics and manoeuvring eg, if you divided your attacking force into separate elements, an assault, suppression and reserve element, (or maybe more advanced with scout, recon and command/control elements) then after capturing an objective you cycle the reserve and assault elements with support / suppression reconstituting the reserve. None of this really supported in dnd combat heavy systems whereas it is integral to modern / urban warfare type settings.
The OSR does have morale rolls eg rolls to flee if you lose 50% of health or hp etc or commander killed (akin to a unit or squad cohesion type effect in modern combat, something that always impressed me from the Halo games from Halo 1 to 3 to Reach was how they coded the grunts or shield covenant into fleeing whenever you headshot their commander, it is exceptionally prominent on the hardest difficulty, I think the AI even falls back and regroups around a new Elite Covenant commander sometimes as you are whittling away their shields with overcharge plasma pistols lol) but dnd generally disregards the psychological reactivity to combat, (compared say even to the WFRP new editions momentum type combat roll mechanics) dnd opting instead for magically imposed fear or stunned etc type effects (why use magic to control feelings? as opposed to emergent from the battle outcome developments themselves etc). I think it should absolutely be the case that in every roleplaying game that if combatants think they are losing they should just give up and flee / yield and beg for mercy etc, this is the more believable outcome vs dnd fight to the death fight to the very last hp etc.
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>>6145318 I suppose the alternative means of interpreting that 4-stage Harm system is not as "hitpoints" health damage etc but basically player extent of control over possible actions in any given scene or encounter. So in that context the most severe Harm 4-stage harm is not necessarily instadeath permadeath but simply represents the player exiting the scene (ie no further actions can be taken, the dungeonmaster moves to setup or establish the next encounter. It could be something like, you are knocked unconscious and your body thrown into a sewer / midden heap etc, you reawaken in the slave-pit or you flee the court weeping in shame etc), whilst the 1- to 3-stage harms just represent successive encroachment of the DM controlled, DM determined narrative events and actors upon the possible choices confronting the player etc
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>>6145185 Total immersion, you're just about as ready as you can be.
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>>6145318 >>6145325 The first mistake is thinking guns are any more lethal than knives or maces. It's still all about placement. If you don't hit an artery, vital organ, or the spine, you won't die if you get your bleeding tended to. People have been shot dozens of times and survived without major permanent debilitation even.
It's just like fall damage. If you fall from standing height and hit the back of your head -just- right? Instant death. Meanwhile, you fall off of a roof and land well? Sprained ankle and maybe a bone bruise. Accuracy kills more often than overwhelming power.
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>>6145333 I do not disagree with you anon, it is absolutely the case that melee weapons are lethal hehe I was merely responding to BananasQM notion of how a dungeonmaster can more easily narratively justify the less severe or serious hp damage, misses or recovery (eg the blade slides harmlessly across your breastplate / vambrace / spiked studded loincloth straps, or it pierces some gap in armour etc) vs the scenario with guns where any hit is potentially severely debilitating. I linked this table I found before on an old qtg it is just some random compilation I found from the internet, the source was just some ex police officer who compiled some of his own statistics so accuracy may be dubious lol. I mentioned this when I was discussing the Delta Green rpg (newer modern edition) firearms rules, they had this clever hybrid d100 system, whereby for some damage types the d100 is rolled as a digit sum total ie 17 would be 1+7=8 damage so that the 2-18 scales approximately to a d20 type hp scale, but for others "lethal damage" eg some firearms and grenades explosives the d100 converts to a predetermined instant kill probability eg say if you roll under 15% with a pistol at some range or whatever, you instakill the target. So I was looking at those probabilities, I was trying to hunt around for some real world empirical data random internet search arrived at this link
https://www.ammoman.com/blog/why-do-police-shoot-to-kill/ table is a reformat of this source
https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/alternate-look-handgun-stopping-power And you see that from this table for what it is worth, head / torso single shots are basically 50% incapacitation from just one pistol round. Fatality is 25-34%
On the second link, rifles and shotguns are 80-85% incapacitation, from 1 round. Fatality is 65-68%
(None of these data estimators statistically adjusted for the bias varying sample size of gunshots eg .44 magnum a lot less common than 9mm etc)
Something I also remember reading is unlike in videogames survivability can be surprisingly high from headshots, it is actually a function of whether you are in an urban area (with fast access to ambulance, emergency medical care etc, proximity to medical care can make even head / torso shots very survivable).
If you read the second link, the author also makes the observation that most of the time, the target just "gives up" after the unpleasantness of being shot lol it is psychological or a morale roll as opposed to being physically killed / injured / impaired.
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>>6145185 The scales have been removed from your eyes and you have now glimpsed the true source reality
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>>6145349 I also have a personal theory (just from playing a lot of Arena Breakout extraction shooters lol, but even just PUBG) that any firearms driven urban warfare rpg should be heavily focused around evasion. Basically avoiding contact and hiding. Not sure how to capture this in a ttrpg style game...? What Arena Breakout taught me is that you basically cannot get into any gunfights and live. (Typical rig is maybe 3-4 mags? You basically cannot sustain a firefight, the moment you shoot you alert an entire map worth of squads hunting you converging onto your position, immediately after a firefight you need to retreat and hide probably heal and repack all your bullets into magazines, eat food / rehydrate take combat drugs lol and also repack / rearrange all the loot inventory ammunition in your backpack, you simply cannot nonstop do this whilst being ambushed and attacked by rival squads of operators). It is best to plan ahead and envision some secure fallback zone or hide site for this logistical stuff, instead of squatting upon the loot corpse of a recent battle in plain sight of everyone (by definition, the corpse will be situated in some fatal exposed position visible to everyone, every line of sight, that is why the corpse is dead lol) The most skilled teams don't even immediately try to kill you they setup at some chokepoint with map knowledge of where they anticipate you traversing and kill you only after you cleared and looted a location on their behalf lol nooooo. I played all ranked raids in Arena Breakout solo on my own I got to Ace entirely by avoiding all gunfights as much as possible, killing one human opponent operator for precious rank points and then exfiltrating and fleeing immediately like a coward lol.
After coward grinding one season to Ace rank I stopped playing the game ranked matches genuinely too stressful I have post traumatic stress disorder trembling just thinking about it lol
Pic related is me in tryhard mode, I use the FAL despite the uncontrollable recoil and expensive 7.62x51 ammo because it is the only thing that reliably pierces the high tier armours hehe
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>>6145362 Very vampiric strategy.
Souv I kneel.
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>>6145209 >>6144690 At the risk of going Full Souvarine, i think the Covenant and Dracula with his 'gypsies', contrasted against the USMC or the cutting edge' Helsing and his Anglospehre Friends,actually kind of rhyme thematically. It's a common idea in lots of Western fantasy and sci-fi, and of course in historical fiction too, and even (gas) politics:
>One the one side, our heroes! Strong-willed, sensible and rational, mercantile and modern, and secularized to the extent that they no longer dabble in the silly rituals of their Christian (sometimes Judaeo-Christian, depends on the author) forebears, let alone any pagan nonsense! They wear cool, fashionable clothes in sensible, serious colours, and speak normal people languages, and they like merit and hard work, but also family. >On the other, the villains! Beholden to superstition and ritual, trapped in the past, wearing strange and goofy cultural clothes in silly colours for religious reasons! They have a nonsense hierarchy of clerics, to whom they cringingly (cringily?) submit, ignoring the rugged individualism or impetus towards PROGRESS in favour of ancestral obsessions with the old ways. Naturally, they speak in strange old foreign tongues, ignore or disdain modernity, and they want to make YOU like THEM, or else destroy you! It's arguably a universal theme, but the specific way that heavily Protestant cultures do it lends itself really well to a progressive/modern versus backwards-archaic sort of contrast, with an occidental versus oriental subtext.
In Halo it's
>recognizably-modern human military making all these advances and siding with whoever they have to, all quite American in their general vibe and iconography versus
>the Covenant adhering rigidly to Foreunner designs and Prophetic authority, fearing even the idea of integrating humans with their HERETICAL new ideas, while resembling vaguely the Catholic, Orthodox or Muslim clergy in their aesthetics and lingo but Dracula has shades of this, being
>a band of fairly stout-hearted and organized English and American men-of-modernity with a doctor, testing out the newest technology of the day against
>a spooky Eastern European, Catholic aristocrat, transformed into a creature out of old-timey regional folklore from some "backwater" country on the continent, surrounding himself with cowering peasants and (gasp) GYPSIES, which is to say swarthy non-Protestants with mixed blood from THE EAST or maybe ANCIENT EGYPT It's pretty common. I play around with it a lot in my quests as set-dressing in how Hawksong and it's surrounding peoples view and interact with the other forces of their world, from Reptilians to other humans from the ill-defined (so-far) South and East regions. In Reptilian Infiltrator and Dragonborn Antipaladin, both main characters at some point disguise themselves or their actions by pretending to be "foreigners" from an alien culture they honestly know almost nothing about, but neither do the people they're duping
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>>6145527 That is a very astute juxtaposition and comparison Reptoid QM I had not thought of it that way before! I suppose establishing that "Anglosphere versus the PURPLE exotic / orientalised / DIFFERENT foreigner OTHER enemy" is probably a basic way to create the MORAL PURPOSE the motivation to fight or impetus for conflict / culture clash etc in games and settings, I don't think there is anything wrong with it I really really enjoyed all of the Halo games hehe. I think also (very insightful of you to emphasise it) mention the dimension of THE HEROIC RELATABLE MODERN people vs THE VILE ANCIENT ANCESTRAL TRADITIONal enemy people, that is also a moral purpose dimension (the hero-enemy roles can be reversed etc)
I wonder what other dimensions of MORAL PURPOSE / conflict exist beyond these two that Reptoid QM identified?
-familiar vs foreign;
-modern vs ancient tradition etc
I do think the "cultural resonance" of Halo has passed, Halo lost the moral purpose underpinning the setting, it was really a product of that Iraq / War On Terror era, just as I think (lamentfully) vampires and THE GOTH also a very specific product of a certain 90s 2000s era (I am thinking Blade 1998 and Kate Beckinsdale Underworld lol not Twilight) of course you can endlessly NFLX recycle and regurgitate the visuals themes and aesthetics, we will see what Robert Eggers does with his upcoming Nosferatu film, but the "cultural resonance" or MORAL RELEVANCY is often subsequently lost, I don't really know how to describe it but sometimes some games some fiction (either explicitly or subconsciously) capture a certain moral resonance with the contemporary era, anxieties/prevaling themes trends, Halo had it during the Iraq war etc but that era is gone now
>>6145209 A lot of the academic analysis on Dracula always likes to dwell on the foreign vampire etc (usually comparing it to Byronic themes or the Ahasuerus / Wandering Jew type archetype from 18th century Gothic literature etc) I always thought Dracula was less a Gothic / Romantic thing (Oscar Wilde is far better at this, see Salome, and Dorian Gray) instead Dracula is extremely (at times cringe lol) mundane
The plot of Dracula is about a foreigner trying to buy a house in England (essentially, the opening is Harker as lawyer / estate agent travelling to Transylvania). It is entirely about estate agents and the housing market lol. Similarly, the plot of Halo is about these ancient apocalyptic Forerunner ringworld superweapons that annhiliate the Flood (er, Flood of ... immigrants? Fire a nuclear weapon somewhere to... stop the immigrants?)
>>6145526 I am a real woman though, look, pic related
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>>6145527 >>6145623 The two dimensions of moral conflict Reptoid identified are also spatiotemporal, it is basically geography (in a deictic near/close, far away sense) and time, ie familiar vs foreign is spatial; ancient/ancestral tradition etc vs modern tech is temporal. So it is all quite tribal in a sense, it reqches down fairly deeply into that primitive reserve of moral imperative for conflict to drive the purpose.
On the last qtg I was trying to create a random table to generate moral purpose, a faction generator better than the Skyrim Warrior Guild Wizard Guild Thieves Guild lol, partially inspired by the STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl Duty, Freedom factions and the old wh40k Inquisitor 6/8mm miniature factions lore (monodominant, amalathian, recongregationist, xanthite etc)
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6102738/#6121266 but instead identify some ideological conflict dimensions that would be system setting fantasy/scifi agnostic that you could use to create random factions (something like roll on a d100 table to imbue a faction with an ideology and moral purpose)
The six aspects I thought of at the time were
1 Establishment vs Renegade
2 Tradition vs Progress
3 Reconciliationist vs Radical
4 Isolationist vs Interventionist
5 Closed vs Cosmopolitan
6 Hierarchial vs Egalitarian
So I got maybe one of Reptoid's elegant spatiotemporal formulations hehe, but I am now thinking that idea of Familiar vs Foreign is a very powerful one for establishing game settings, hmmm.
I don't know if this is the best framework, the axes here are not orthogonal or independent there is probably overlap and there must be more dimensions of moral purpose for game settings, or some better wording or phrasing of it, hmmm
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>>6145623 >The plot of Dracula is about a foreigner trying to buy a house in England (essentially, the opening is Harker as lawyer / estate agent travelling to Transylvania). It is entirely about estate agents and the housing market lol It's worth remember that this was during a time when you needed to own property (as well as be a man) to have legitimate political franchise in Great Britain. Universal suffrage wasn't given until after WW1. Dracula buying property is a deeply political move, less so about any kind of monetary land value or speculation.
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>>6145632 >Dracula as foreigner buying house in England, estate agent novel etc >Political franchise, voting and land / property ownership etc You are absolutely correct anon, I momentarily forgot this I think the political dimension is probably more in the context of England / Ireland etc, Bram Stoker of course just like Oscar Wilde was Irish, to some extent outsiders (they themselves embodiments of "the foreign") there was some essay I read that claimed Bram Stoker despite all his detailed elaborate research camouflage with Carpathians place names atlas and encyclopaedia references, essentially he had zero knowledge of Romania lol, so basically every time he writes about Transylvania he is really mentally thinking about Ireland, Dracula is about Anglo-Irish displacement resettlement, Irish landowners, the Union, the British Empire, political enfranchisement or reclamation of heritage etc (lol, note how in the Halo series, the Spartans are called "Reclaimers" by the Forerunners etc) I have a vague memory that I think Catholics were forbidden from land ownership in Ireland (or at least subject to some partition or confiscation)? To be honest though I don't really know enough about all the Fenian uprising or Home Rule stuff in that era of history. But Reptoid also mentioned that Catholic / Protestant tension theme
>>6145527 that is indeed very prominent in the Dracula novel.
>be immigrant, Bram Stoker >displaced from native land, confusion about identity / sexuality >"well, I guess I have to write a gay vampire novel now..." Here is Harker, seeing something of the unnatural vampire in the mirror image of himself:
>I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count’s voice saying to me, ‘Good morning.’ I started for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me. In starting I had cut myself slightly, but did not notice it at the moment. Having answered the Count’s salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken. This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror! The whole room behind me was displayed; but there was no sign of a man in it, except myself. (...) This is why imperialism is PURE EVIL, it literally turns you gay. Remember to incorporate this detail to add credibility and convincing realism / historicism to all your fantasy worldbuilding
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>>6144475 >Does anyone have any decent ideas of how to keep this board alive when 4chan inevitably bites it? There are other questing sites, so I'll probably migrate to one of those when/if this site is shut down. I've thought about setting up a phpBB or something, but the idea of being responsible for such a forum full of (no offence to anyone specific) often fractious strangers and acquaintences exhausts me just to think about.
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>>6145632 >>6144151 >economics, theology in the Dark Ages >housing market in the Anglo Saxon age? When I was reading Beowulf, I came across this article
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/life-and-land-anglo-saxon-england The author mentions this word,
>læne, an evocative word frequently found in Old English literature. Though usually translated as ‘transient’ or ‘fleeting’, its literal meaning is more specific: it is related to modern English loan, so the real sense is that something læne has been ‘lent’, and can be taken back again. >Anglo-Saxon writers thought of many possessions, tangible and intangible, as being ‘lent’ in this way. They use læne to describe the body, given to us only for a short span of time, or speak of ‘þis læne lif’, ‘this loaned life’. The poem The Wanderer is famously comprehensive and blunt: ‘Here money is læne, here friends are læne, here mankind is læne, here kinsmen are læne; all the foundations of this world come to nothing.’ (...) >Beowulf had to ‘leave the earth; against his will he must find a dwelling in some other place, just as everyone must relinquish the days loaned to him’. >This poignant word seems to have derived at least some of its cultural power from a connection to economic transactions, housing and a detail of Anglo-Saxon property law. This was the distinction between lænland, lands leased by a lord to his men and held only for a defined period, and bocland (‘bookland’), which was granted to the beneficiary in perpetuity and secured by written charter. (...) >This distinction, founded in a technical point of property law, offered metaphorical language for expressing fears about the uncertainties of life. Read today, the anxieties associated with the word læne resonate strangely with modern concerns about housing instability. Our public conversation about insecure housing increasingly recognises it as a pressing issue with profound social implications, affecting everything from the birthrate to the mental and physical health of ‘Generation Rent’. The destabilising insecurity of knowing your home is læne, and can be taken away from you, appears at first to belong to a distant world, but the fears it expresses are closer than we might think. So I hunted down in my bilingual edition, this is the passage I believe the author is referencing. It occurs immediately after Beowulf kills the dragon
Bīowulfe wearð
dryht-māðma dǣl dēaðe forgolden;
hæfde æghwæðer ende gefēred
lǣnan līfes.
(William Morris, most direct but cumbersome translation)
By Beowulf was
His deal of the king-treasure paid for by death;
There either had they fared on to the end
Of this loaned life.
(Seamus Heaney translation)
The treasure had been won,
bought and paid for by Beowulf’s death.
Both had reached the end of the road
through the life they had been lent.
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As someone who mostly just runs Quests instead of playing in them, I'm curious to understand player motivations and satisfaction better. When playing in a Quest, what is the thing you most want to "do"?>Is it having a certain amount of freedom and expression, such as when interacting with characters or exploring? >Is it overcoming a mechanical challenge or demonstrating mastery of a game system, even if that system is thematic instead of mechanical? >Is it reading/experiencing the writing or storytelling of an author you like while also being able to shift the narrative in directions you enjoy? >It it vicarious escapism and the "what if" factor of letting you experience fiction with a better, player-run protagonist? >Is it power fantasy/progression dopamine seeing slow and steady progress in the development of a character/nation/narrative? >Something else?
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>>6145706 For me i'd say a mix of
>>Is it reading/experiencing the writing or storytelling of an author you like while also being able to shift the narrative in directions you enjoy? and
>Is it power fantasy/progression dopamine seeing slow and steady progress in the development of a character/nation/narrative? Anonymous
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>>6145706 I'd have to say
>Is it reading/experiencing the writing or storytelling of an author you like while also being able to shift the narrative in directions you enjoy? Is probably what i like. If i wanted a game, i'd just play an RPG. Sure, some elements on gameplay that make the story more interesting work, but what i like above all is getting to see an interesting story that i can shape.
Of course, a story doesn't necessarily mean it has to be purely narrative. A quest where you're managing a business or a fief forcing you to deal with things like numbers is still a story.
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>>6145706 Is it reading/experiencing the writing or storytelling of an author you like while also being able to shift the narrative in directions you enjoy?
mostly this. its nice to play a bit instead of being a Real life gamemaster all the time
also i sometimes just wanna see where things will go in the future and how one can better the Characters lifes with choices.
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>>6145696 >>6145696 All is fleeting, nothing lasts. There is no permanence
***
(Josh pulls out his phone.)
JOSH
(realizes, excited)
I’ll look it up!
JAMIE
No, that’s too easy.
DARBY
Let’s try to remember it!
(They all sit in silence, racking their brains)
JOSH
(fiddles impatiently with his phone)
Can I.., now...?
JAMIE
No, let’s just not know what it is.
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>>6145706 >Is it reading/experiencing the writing or storytelling of an author you like while also being able to shift the narrative in directions you enjoy? Primary. I don’t mind pushing characters into directions I wouldn’t personally go if it makes thematic sense. I was one of the effort posters in Thrant Queen even though I don’t like playing MCs as straight-up villains. It had to do with reason 3.
>Keeping touch with fandoms that interest me but I lack the time to experience directly. Secondary. I’ve been in several cape and pokemon quests when I barely touch superhero properties and haven’t done a Pokemon game since Gold/Silver. I can play along with other anons more versed in the properties well enough.
>Engage with feedback from other anons on shaping the quest. Secondary in general, but primary when it comes to lurking vs. voting in a quest. Just doing a greentext vote without any explanation of why or attempting a write-in feels deeply wrong to me, yet if I’m going to be engaged with votes then I want to convince anons or be convinced by them. A lack of anons similarly engaging with each other or me will push me towards lurking instead.
On the flipside, I can get burned out from too much interaction. It’s why I bounced off of SV - too many players and conversations going on in the quests I enjoyed and I couldn’t keep up with them. Didn’t help that a number were also settlement/economic quests mixed with narrative so the crunch was heavier, but I felt that way even with the crunch-lite ones.
/qst/ is small, but that’s part of why I stick around.
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>>6145837 Well, what's at stake? I can't call it if I don't know what it's for.
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>>6145349 Having been in many many streetfights I can say with authority that these stats make sense. Most people looking for a fight are high/crazy and in decent shape and are expecting a boxing match wherein they can beat some out of shape, overweight/very small person with no combat experience into a pulp for an ego boost.
The second the Jim from the office or granny pulls a gun and pops them, or even if its somebody pulling a knife, their ego-trip is OVER and they "was just playin."
Few things are more satisfying than watching a 25-year old prison gym rat who has just spent the last couple of minutes stripping off shirts and describing how they are going to beat you to a bloody pulp jump up and down and call you a pussy while running away from you because you've got a boxcutter or a folding knife.
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>>6145706 All of these pay a role, though sharing a player character with so many anons makes the 'power trip by proxy' part hard for me, which is probably why I'm a bit more open to loss/failure in quests than I've noticed some others to be: I can't self-insert very well.
>Is it reading/experiencing the writing or storytelling of an author you like while also being able to shift the narrative in directions you enjoy? This is a big one, though: reading cool or weird ideas written down by people doing it for the sheer passion of it, for a community that can proselyte appreciate such idiosyncratic narratives, and seeing all the weird twists and turns I, other players, and the QM can make the narrative take. /qst/ has it's own pervasive cliches (certain waifus, shadowrunning, diplomancy, certain typical ideological leanings of protagonists), but I find quests so much less predictable and safe than a lot of other narratives, and you can really tell when QMs and players care deeply about a story, and how their personalities infuse it and create something really unique.
It's a beautiful thing. I sometimes wonder if that's what old pulp magazine authors and letter-contributors felt, or zine creators and subscribers.
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>>6145954 Hey man I don't fuck with boxcutters. When you got a fresh one they cut so nice you don't even feel it.
>>6145958 >/qst/ has it's own pervasive cliches >haggling Without fail.
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>>6145970 >the eternal haggler Just like in real life, you have to cut it short after one or two attempts and lock in a price, for sanity's sake if nothing else.
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>>6145954 >>6145970 >BOXCUTTER I was about to remark upon the lack of boxcutters in videogames, having played so many violent videogames, everything from voulges to bardiches Manhunt plastic shopping carrier bags, the inevitable sledgehammers and chainsaws, a scythe (Clive Barker's Undying, oh my god) concrete rebar (yay Condemned) or garden shears (lol Hitman) I don't think I have ever seen boxcutters in a videogame. Clearly as a melee weapon boxcutters are far too fearsome and horrifying to include, every developer that tried to 3d model them as an in-game asset cut themselves and bled horribly to death, hence no videogame features them. It feels like a sort of postapocalyptic raid item, or maybe some survival horror or even a point-and-click adventure game type item (maybe as a utility useable item, not a weapon etc). I thought maybe the newer Hitman games might incorporate one but apparently not? Of course, I underestimated the rapacious grasp of the lootbox lottery machine of Call Of Duty, apparently I see you are supposed to wield boxcutters in this reverse grip, this is the technique
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>>6144663 >Merovingian sword, hatchet, flanged mace...? >>6145954 >>6145970 >>6146012 >>6135923 >>6135937 >>6135893 >>6141173 >>6141177 >>6145362 >WEAPONS IN GAMES?? Of course, as we all know, AI is the future. In the future, the precise make of your assault rifle or medieval stabbing slashing bashing stick will not matter, all weapons will be recreated synthetically in the oneiric nightmare diffusion model dream world. Just like how actual photography yielded to computational photography (synthography?)
The only weapon you will ever need is AI dream sludge. Ubisoft and Activision will probably make this. With lootboxes
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There is a new update for The Caretaker Quest.
Your main obstacle has been taken care of, now you just need to find the missing pieces.
you are practically going blind for now, would it be easy? or would it be like looking a needle in a haystack...while hypotetically blind?
Roll to find out!
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Adlershorst Dynasty update
Now that the enemy has been cornered, it has been decided to give them an opportunity to surrender, will they take it?
>>6146047 >>6146047 >>6146047 I hate November. Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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Posted an update in Fatequest for the first time in a few days
I've been sick all week so I'll use that as a low-hanging fruit excuse >>6146149 Anonymous
Quite a few new quests started this weekend. Seems like the board is saved!
Anonymous
>>6146350 Hopefully mine will join them soon, still haven't found an OP image I'm happy with.
Anonymous
>>6146358 Wanting anything specific? There's shitloads of good fanart and official for Halo
Anonymous
>>6146359 Preferably spartan focused since the quest is going to be about playing one of them. Doesn't need to be, say, a spartan hitting a badass pose, just need something that looks nice that is a: clearly from HALO and B: make it clear the quest is about playing a spartan
Have been having trouble finding anything, that isn't clearly the chief/ some other spartan(s) like noble team or is just in horrible picture quality.
Anonymous
>>6146361 >Doesn't need to be a spartan hitting a badass pose Well too bad because that's like 90% of the artwork depicting spartans.
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>>6146363 Yeah I'm fine with and am aware of that, and probably will go with a pic like that in the end, but I figured I'd make it clear that I'm also cool with the 10% that isn't that so long is it fits the vibe I'm aiming for
Anonymous
>>6146361 You honestly might be better off biting the bullet and using pics of Chief, at least his CE appearance sense if my memory is right the Mjolnir Mark Vs were uniform
Anonymous
>>6146367 Yeah, I might end up doing that, at least until the quest reaches a point where the PC ends up getting their own customized set of Mjolnir and I can afford to commission something or can jury rig an approximation of it in one of the games. I know that not all spartan 2's stayed in the stock, baseline Mjolnir (James 005, Daisy 023 and of course, Jorge 052 are just what comes to mind immediately)
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>>6146365 Certainly, I just thought it was funny pointing out the pose thing. Could also pose up a character in Infinite/MCC for a good header image. Would match the art direction for early book covers like Fall of Reach.
>>6146367 Not the worst idea. Rollout Mk.V didn't have any variations or mods like it's preproduction suits, MkIV, or MkVI. Didn't last long enough to get them.
>>6146369 They had a lot of choice for mods when it came to everything except the MkV rollout they received for RED FLAG. Sky's the limit in every other generation.
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>>6146371 Hmm, didn't think about using the games and now I feel like a dumbass.
And yeah, MK V basically gets shipped out just prior to the fall of reach, and then gets replaced just about when Halo 2 starts, if I remember my dates right. Also the V was the first pattern outside of...I think the grenadier variant of the MKIV, to have any sort of an energy shield incorporated into it, and the grenadier to my understand was just a prototype to see if it could be done. Could be mistaken thou
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>>6146383 If it' good enough for RoosterTeeth, it's good enough for us!
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>>6146383 Correct, Mk.IVG was the test bed for energy shields. Mk.V preproduction suits were issued before the design was finalized in November of '51, and the finalized armor in August of '52. No need to worry about something so hyper specific though, plenty of leeway with the cannon to make shit up to fill gaps or do fun things with.
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>>6146371 >>6146383 You could just take screenshots of Halo Wars cutscenes. They are bound to have a few stills of "generic" Spartans just standing around.
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>Halo-posting >Red vs Blue mentioned >New Quests on the board
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>>6146407 qst will never die!
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This is a test please and thank you.
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>>6146519 That was a test, here you go and you're welcome.
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>>6145706 >Is it reading/experiencing the writing or storytelling of an author you like while also being able to shift the narrative in directions you enjoy? +
>Is it having a certain amount of freedom and expression, such as when interacting with characters or exploring? To me, for the most part it's like reading a good book, and anytime it comes across something I particularly enjoy I can go "more of this please" or if it comes across something I don't like then I can go "less of this please". Like when you have a book series of a setting, where you can skip the books that focus on the parts which you don't like and only read the stuff that interests you.
Further than that, there's also a small part about being able to more easily relate to a character, and thus more easily self-insert as the story-wise, when they behave/act in ways that you would act in their situation. Like those Choose Your Own Adventure books or the cyoag on /tg/.
Anonymous
>389 posts >literally the lowest point in /qst/ history
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>>6146543 If i had to guess, Thanksgiving.
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Shoutout CHAOS Quest
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>>6146543 lack of crossboard posters/new players
we got stuck in a containment board to kill us and its working
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QST IS DYINGnah but I like the slower, comfier atmosphere of /qst/. Or at the very least I'll run here until I can only strangle out 2 voters for every single update I post.
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>>6146562 >until I can only strangle out 2 voters for every single update I post. hey, thats me and my quest so far, and i wouldnt change it. its comfy as fuck and i like it
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>>6146543 If you track it back I bet the trend begins around the time they added the 15 minute registration.
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>>6143102 Glad to know you're still alive
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>>6146580 They just need to make a throwaway email and register that. That's what I did and it works perfectly no matter where I go or what Wifi I use if any.
>>6146607 >>6146609 https://youtu.be/Rn6GbXZCt-o Anonymous
>>6146580 >add what is basically an anti-samefagging measure >/qst/ activity drops like a stone What did Hiromoot mean by this?
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>>6146612 >an anti-samefagging measure how the fuck is a 15 minute timer an anti samefagging measure? 15 minutes between votes is nothing. All it does it make it more annoying for people to vote.
>inb4 1ID That doesn't stop samefags. Samefags will actually abuse that since they'll multibox and then call you a schizo for thinking they're samefags since clearly they're not 1PBTID
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Anonymous
>>6146634 Samefags are easy to detect once you keep in mind the dedicated ones will absolutely keep a bunch of IDs and sometimes vote for different options in inconsequential votes. Then when there's a big one they all come together to work for the same side.
Anonymous
>>6146543 Containment board successfully quarantined us from other boards.
4chan as a whole is dying a slow death of decreasing relevance, while the newcomers all tend to be here to shout about WOKE and CHUDS and AMERICA, and stick to other boards dedicated to more popular hobbies, and even there many people just seem to want to shout about stuff they consume at people who disagree with them than actually collaborate on creative endeavours.
Questing as a whole isn't as relevant as popular as it used to be, I'd bet. Even if it was to pick up in popularity, other websites have better tools for voting, editing, formatting, and archiving to facilitate it.
Other questing sites exist, and siphoned off some of the membership.
Certain quite popular quests aren't currently running, too; Space Monke's thread just ended, Silver Knight, Greenhorn, and Pokepocalypse aren't active, nor is Sworn to Valor.
New security measures put in place decreased people's ability to post on-the-go or without allowing cookies on their device.
That said,
>>6146562 and
>>6144201 and
>>6144085 are all right: this place has always been pretty quiet and slow, since I got here. there's been a noticeable downturn since 2019 or 2020, but it has seemingly steadied for a while in terms of the amount of activity I see in my quest, and the quests I play. It's still nice to run here, and so here I stay. I just wish I knew how to get some new blood in here so I had more quests to read and play...
>>6146631 It's only 15 minutes the first time you post on a device. I've literally never seen that timer, because I didn't clear my cookies.
Got the 4chan Pass so that, if I clear my cookies, I can still avoid it. >>6146642 How would you possibly differentiate that from regular voters who aren't frauds just... Sometimes agreeing about things you disagree with? Seems like thinking that would give itself very easily to a persecution complex, anon. No offence meant.
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>>6146661 >How would you possibly differentiate that from regular voters who aren't frauds just... Sometimes agreeing about things you disagree with? Most samefags end up following a pattern because they're not schizophrenic enough to have multiple fully active IDs that post all the time and discuss stuff all the time. You *can* tell if you just start looking at the IDs and their posting histories.
Anonymous
>>6146665 Okay, but how do you differentiate that from someone who just has a day job or other obligations and sometimes gets busy, only catching up periodically.
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>>6146669 Well it'd be one very big coincidence if multiple of these people who seemed to have the exact same pattern of sporadic voting just so happened to all vote at the exact same vote for the exact same thing.
And then, the moment you point that out, they come out of the woodwork to say "Uuuhm you're just a schizo" even though literally every single other time they compeltely dropped the thread after just voting without even discussing or talking about anything.
Anonymous
>>6146543 Still waiting for anyone to explain what happened in May of 2021, that's the true "where it went wrong" point.
Of course you all should be voting or running more quests if all you want is numbers Anonymous
>>6146671 So it's a general vibe or intuition rather than anything concrete?
>>6146690 Why May 2021 rather than, say, January of 2020? Or July 2019, which is when the downward trend seems to have started (going only by 4stats)?
Anonymous
>>6146661 >other websites have better tools for voting, editing, formatting, and archiving to facilitate it. what other sites?
Anonymous
>>6146713 Mostly because the start of 2021 saw the board seemingly start to recover after 2020 (and that year in general probably wasn't the most conducive to the creative proces) before peaking and crashing.
Anonymous
>>6146720 While I'm just going off of quick glances (I only run or play here at the moment) SpaceBattles, SufficientVelocity, and Akun/Fiction.Live all seem to have more modern and visually-appealing interfaces, with after-posting edit functions and native archival. Akun in particular has a chat function, in-line art, and even a voting/polling function with an area for write-ins.
The downsides are having to make an account, and potential the moderation and local cultures, based on what people have said (and I've seen in my browsing), which is part of why I don't hang out there. Apart from nostalgia for this website in general, and the lure of familiarity and an established readership and (para)social circle, I just find this place more free, open, and mellow.
>>6146723 Speaking as someone who took the plunge and started my first properly long-running quest in 2021, I think that upswing/recovery was actually probably because so many people were still working or studying from home, and still subject to periodic partial lockdowns or excused/enforced absences due to Covid, affording them more time to fart around on 4chan. I think that uptick was destined to be temporary.
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>>6146727 >(para)social circle I really dislike how parasocial is used. This is a social interaction. Distance does not make it parasocial. Parasociality predicates on it being a one-sided relationship. Typically wherein a person talks to/writes to a media personality, character, or act. When chatting with your favorite streamer it's more than likely parasocial. When writing letters to Santa it's parasocial. When sending an e-mail to your favorite actor(s media manager) it's parasocial.
What we have here is absolutely just a bunch of regular weirdos doing regular weirdo chats. Not a bunch of ninnies being absolutely sure their waifu/husbando noticed them. We're at least 26% more normal than those dweebs. Which is distressing because look at where we are.
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>>6146731 > This is a social interaction. The QTG is, sure, albeit a weird form of socialization. The Discord is, too, and arguably less "weird" in that there are persistent identities with attached names and mannerisms that you can't just dip out of into a cloaked alterego. Even some quests might qualify, though I'd argue almost all player-to-QM discussion in quests has an aspect of performer-to-audience making it closer to a streamer situation. LOTS of quests with less-chatty QMs who "respond" mainly by integrating bits of discourse into the narrative are very much parasocial.
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>>6146731 I'd also add to
>>6146732 the relative asymmetry of information: players usually know way more about the QM (even if it's just their interests, schedule, writing style, etc.) than vice versa. Plus the whole guarded semi-anonymity thing: the only people here who know my real name are the people I've bought art off of, and even they probably couldn't pick me out of a line-up or tell you where I live or what I do for a living or anything, outside of very broad assumption.
Unless the e-stalked me, but I hope none of the art-anons are that weirdly fixated on me, for my sake and for theirs since I'm actually very boring. Anonymous
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>>6146732 >implying speaking in prose, using archaic language, and period-correct grammar isn't how those QMs actually talk slander
I get that. Some QMs like to put on that mask to get into writing character. Very true. But they also don't present it as an actual outward personality and it's easy enough to interpret it as an act and everyone rightly treats it as such. Except for the most mentally ill among us (amogus?! SUS!?!?) so no one is really treating the act like a friend, more often just playing along with the act for fun when replying to it. >>6146735 Funnily enough, should the QM be internet savvy and with context clues all of those details can be gleaned on anons as well. I knew an anon that lived in Florida because of how they posted around hurricane seasons. I also knew which ones lived in what general region of the U.S. because of how they referred to soda. And as an Amerifat it's usually pretty easy to pick out Europoors based on when they usually post. There was a guy that would always post when he woke up before going to work, and then like clockwork ten or eleven hours afterwards when he was off.
It's all about attentiveness. Though I suppose that's only possible since our scale here is so relatively small.
Adlershorst
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The battle is reaching its final stage, as the enemy is attempting a desperate breakout. With it shall end the second battle in the crusading adventures of Albrecht von Adlershorst.
>>6146771 >>6146771 >>6146771 Anonymous
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>>6146690 Late 2020 to mid 2021 had one really popular quest called Fate/Paradox Reincarnator running, which at it's peak activity would have six threads in the catalog with between 2-3k posts in them at once. You see the spike in April 2021, that's where it was most active before inter-playerbase drama (a threeway drama battle between the most notorious tripfag of the quest, the regular players and the QM) killed the momentum in late May, and subsequently the quest itself at the end of the year.
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
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DH got archived before I could post the final update. For players who may be worried, I just archived the thread, and should resume in a few days.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Disappearing%20Hogwarts God fucking dammit I wanted to finish up the thread with the end of the Act in this update but I couldn't write yesterday and now it's already gone. I *almost* timed that perfectly. Crap. Well, at least it gives me more time to write it. Anonymous
>>6146661 You will never be a real woman.
Anonymous
Anonymous
People used to play to post by mail, not email. Sadly the internet is shrinking and most stick to the "big" sites/apps.
Anonymous
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>>6146856 >$3! per turn Fucking WHAT?
>new south wales Ah, australian dollars. That makes more sense.
Siderite
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>>6147016 (Updates seem to be easiest on Sundays. Now to get more replies in after that on weekdays.)
Anonymous
Happy to announce I found some images I'd be happy to use as an OP image for the spartan 2 quest
Anonymous
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>>6147047 Nice. Happy for you.
Anonymous
>>6146690 Voting is actually pointless you are better off just reading and lurking.
Anonymous
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>>6147151 If i didn't vote, most quests i read would have went to shit. I can't count the amount of times i had to stop anons from voting into something really retarded and self-destructive.
Anonymous
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>>6147151 Doomposting doesnt make you any less retarded. If you never gave that much of a shit you wouldn’t even be posting here in the first place.
Anonymous
>>6146358 i have seen some nice images i will throw you a link later
>>6147047 thats cool
Anonymous
>>6147047 >>6135103 Xbox Game Studios presents
HALO: InfiNEET
On the distant ringworld Installation (Beta Futa Halo), Spartan Commander Tourette Vagryna mourns the sacrifice and loss of her mentor and friend, Doctor Palmer Palsey, a former scientific advisor of the Office Of Neurodivergent Intelligence (ONI). Before her tragic death, Dr Palsey helmed a secret program, which attempted to transform abducted unemployed people into supersoldier clones to create an even stronger ultra-supersoldier, or Ultramarine, with the aid of two highly advanced Meta-arch class artificial intelligences, 09-11 Inclusive Bias and 01-06 Offensive Transition, excavated from the ruins of an ancient alien precursor race known only as the Foreskinners. Doctor Palsey sought to contact the highest form of shared consciousness, a parasitic compound form that inhabited the reincarnated dead biomatter of the alien Foreskinners, known only as the Rapemind, in order to subjugate and incorporate the will of this being towards her military program. However, during the faster-than-light transition into the infinitesimal dimensions of seethespace (also known as the slit-stream), the UNSC light cruiser Pillar Of Chornobyl carrying Doctor Palsey on route to her secret military biolabs encounters the fugitive alien renegade and traitor known only as The Arbiter, who has hijacked a frigate known as the ICC-Forward Unto Pawn. Inexplicably speaking with the extraterrestrial voice of a black man, the Arbiter explains that he is searching for the long lost Spartan, Master Chef Juan-117, also known as the Proclaimer, adrift in cryogenic stasis across an unfathomably vast region of space (about 500 miles). The Arbiter reveals to Dr Palmer Palsey that the Foreskinner artifact worlds are in fact components that together comprise an immense intergalactic networked array, colossal installations that were once used by the Foreskinners to annihilate all known sentient life using lethal ring-shaped megastructures that unleash hardlight extermination unravelling both space-time and seethespace through its firing ring sequence in an event known as the Dilation. The shock of this revelation induces instant death through prolapse for Doctor Palmer Palsey, as Covenant battlecruisers mercifully arrive to glass what remains of humanity
Curse Carrier DM
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Magically challenged 3. Sorry it took so long, needed to take a break. Still in the timeloop arc.
>>6147182 Anonymous
>>6147171 Thanks in advance
Anonymous
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>>6147047 Awesome. Slipped my mind to find you a header, sorry about that
Anonymous
Y'know, I'm this close to being able to start my quest. The only issue is figuring out how to deal with my dynamic IP stopping me from using text formatting. I mean, i could even go by without colors and such, but italic and bolding are just really good for making it look better. Just greentext and spoilers isn't enough.
Anonymous
>>6146817 Take it to /pol/, or better yet to somebody who cares.
Anonymous
They can't even pass here with no picture or audio and they think anyone IRL is fooled?
Adlershorst
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With the end of the battle, the crusading army can withdraw back to quarters for the winter, and just in time too, for the postman just came by.
>>6147318 >>6147319 >>6147318 >>6147319 >>6147318 >>6147319 RQM
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>>6147321 I didn't claim to be a woman, though?
>>6147317 Think it's mental illness, or a bot?
Anonymous
>>6147151 Here, anon, I made you a picture.
Anonymous
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>>6147151 I'd say just read books or webcomics at that point.
Anonymous
>>6147321 i don’t care to make myself stand out. why would i when women are a staggering minority?
just so I can have some nigger say “lmao I am not reading your quest cause you’re a girl” or some other weird leery comments? props to any ho with enough balls to run as a chick on here but I wouldn’t reveal myself for any good reason as there is none.
Anonymous
>>6147331 Aww, doin Hitler dirty like that?
Anonymous
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>>6147337 >insert "that's bait" reaction image here Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6147335 Despite being 51% of the population, women are only responsible for like, what, 33% of posts? Its probably because they have better things to be doing with their time.
Anonymous
>>6147309 I believe if you use a trip when you create the thread, using that same trip will give you format privileges regardless of your IP.
Anonymous
>>6147368 Alas, no. I tried that out in my first quest, it didn't work
Anonymous
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>>6147370 Well that is too bad. It's good you told me though.
Anonymous
>>6147346 Pretty sure there was a census last year and women only comprise 25% of this board. We NEED a higher diversity quota.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6147395 A self-reported census? I'm dubious. I know we are a surprisingly diverse board, though, if you count national and ethnic origin, sexuality, etcetera. There's at least one or two female QMs, too.
>>6146407 I strongly suspect a couple of these new quests are ChatGPT-generated, but the QM(s) curating them are doing a pretty decent job. They have that directionless vibe and mushy writing-style I associate with AI storytelling, though.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
Solarpunk Cleanup Agent Quest returns December 2nd!
Anonymous
>>6147441 I just was getting an ad on YouTube for AI-powered interactive storytelling, though the thumbnail seemed to imply a comic book or manga rather than a written narrative.
Anonymous
>>6147395 Damn, 25%? I honestly thought that'd be a smaller percentage, but I guess most of them lurk. I can count the amount of quests i've seen that were almost certainly run by a woman on one hand and I've been lurking this place for like 3 years on-off.
Anonymous
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>>6147508 it makes sense when you consider online writing activities like fanfiction is mostly made up by women. questing isn't too different from fanfiction, just a lot more niche.
Anonymous
>>6147469 Aww yiss.
>>6147500 I remember when AI Dungeon II was the shit, but merely a novelty. Now, ChatGPT writes pretty good (albeit somewhat samey and sappy) prose... But it still can't keep a story going without either adding a dozen random plot threads every few paragraphs or wrapping them all up neatly at once in the same span. It requires a OT of editing. Still, it's competent, enough that three threads I'm in all have that same vibe and yet are pretty alright.
Anonymous
>>6147555 Out of curiosity, which 3 are you referring to?
Anonymous
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With Great Power update:
>>6147589 Time to fight some bio-ghouls
Adlershorst
Update for the Adlershorst Dynasty Quest, you peeked from behind the protection of the mountains, and things are going to shit.
>>6147733 >>6147734 >>6147736 >>6147737 Anonymous
>>6147600 I'd feel bad if I was wrong, and in briad strokes they still seem cool and have potential, but Dragon Girl, Battle for Athera, and Hollow Garden give me some of those vibes.
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6147877 >>6147878 >>6147879 >>6147880 Grey Skies is back. Be there or be ignored by your surroundings.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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After a short neither ban or cow related hiatus, a choice or two over in Ilvermorny Quest.
>>6147001 >>6147001 >>6147001 Will likely keep it open till early to mid-evening as there are Thanksgiving things to start working on for a while.
Anonymous
Anyone remember the name of this quest?
Anonymous
>>6147991 >Anyone remember the name of this quest? Yes I remember This Quest. It was my next favorite after That Quest. Those Quest was trash though.
Anonymous
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Nevermind, I found it
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2018/2467869/ >>6148006 You were close, thank you for the attempt regardless :)
Anonymous
Christmas is due to arrive in little less than a month.
Anonymous
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>>6148324 Either
>the Little Dungeon That Could Or
>That one marine slug RPG drawquest Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6148324 Hive Queen Quest
Anonymous
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its thanksgiving so not a lot of people are around. need some rolls over here:
>>6148350 Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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BIG and WEIRD things are happening in The Caretaker Quest!
Something is attacking your brain and even Merlin himself is struggling to fight it!
can you roll high enough to counterattack!?
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
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>>6148324 I'd accept
>Royal Rumble or
>Greenhorn Pokemon Fork & Spoon, Dragon Ball: Legacy, or Matuno Idol Agency would all be up there, too.
Anonymous
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>>6148324 Shinigami Schemer. I don't even read Bleach, I just liked it
Adlershorst
>>6147738 I need some extra voters, if someone would be so kind to step up it would be much appreciated. The short story is that some crusaders have decided to start their kingdom instead of handing it back over to the not!Byzantines
Anonymous
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>>6148324 The Little Dungeon That Could, my beloved...
Anonymous
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>>6148470 I'd like to read your quest one of these days, but every time I do i too feel lazy to start.
Anonymous
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>>6148470 I've been lurking your quest since Renovation Imperii and Space Empire quests haven't come back and I didn't vote since I don't know the context but, since you're asking, I'll just go with my gut then.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:pAuBI/be Wed 27 Nov 2024 17:40:26 No. 6148488 Report >>6148324 how could I forgot Pokemon : Loser?
ObserverQM !!W1X+5SlTLqC
>>6148324 40k AI quest
Come back please QM I'll do anything...
Anonymous
>>6148528 OK? Bring back Solstice then but start out from BlackHorse's POV.
Adlershorst
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With letters sent and policy decided, it is time to decide how to spend the Autumn.
>>6148531 >>6148532 >>6148531 >>6148532 >>6148531 >>6148532 Anonymous
Been thinking, should I go forward calling my yet to be started Spartan 2 Quest, just...Spartan 2 quest, or should I call it something like For want of a Spartan or A Spartan's tale instead?
Anonymous
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>>6148610 A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. I do find quests with recognizable, descriptive titles seem to attract an initial player base a bit more easily, but anything with Halo pics and "Spartan" in the title will probably be fine.
Anonymous
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>>6148610 Whatever works, long as it's recognizable and you stick with it.
Anonymous
>>6148610 Jesus dude, it’s just a quest. No one’s going to excoriate you over getting the release date of Spartan armor off by a few minutes or get some other obscure bit of lore marginally wrong. Just name it whatever would entice you to play if you were scrolling through the catalog.
Anonymous
>>6148643 I am now going to spend an additional hour researching obscure lore about how Sergeant Johnson likes his coffee
Anonymous
>>6148324 Chalco Civ Quest
Dolomite I know youre somewhere out there, your little isometric civ was my favorite quest that ever graced the board
Anonymous
>>6148651 So, how does he like his coffee?
Anonymous
>>6148740 I am 90% its never referenced anywhere, but I need to buy contact harvest to be 100% certain about how Johnson he likes his coffee if he drinks it at all. But in the very, very unlikely even it comes up in Quest, I'll just go with whatever I think is funniest, maybe badger someone I know for a ridiculously specific Starbucks order
also, in the process of actually looking up coffee in Halo, I learned Johnson has a pretty shitty sex scene in Contact harvest. So I now have confirmation Johnson fucks. Which I assure you, is important.
Anonymous
>>6148742 >a pretty shitty sex scene Shittily written, or like it goes poorly and it turns out Johnson fucks POORLY?
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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>>6148324 I still mourn the LadyKnight quest's passing
Anonymous
>>6148742 >has a pretty shitty sex scene in Contact Harvest. Ah, yeah, thanks for making me remember that.
>So I now have confirmation Johnson fucks. Which I assure you, is important. I agree. Also, remember, Spartans aren't chemically/genetically castrated or anything like that, they just don't have a psychological/hormonal sex drive. No the suit does not jerk them off.
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
>>6148750 >No the suit does not jerk them off. Instead it's catheterized, which while making sense to explain why they leave it on for days or longer at a time, is kind of unsettling.
Anonymous
>>6148747 It uses the term tactical error at one point, and happens really quickly, but I ain't holding that against Johnson, editor probably just had to cut some fat or else the book would've been 90% of him showing what the ladies like
>>6148750 Yep, same implant that has a 2% chance of causing elephantiasis. Think it was the thyroid gland one.,
Anonymous
>>6148758 It's even worse considering that MJONIR has been forcibly stripped from Spartans on several occasions.
>>6148762 Catalytic thyroid implant. How close is the OP looking?
Anonymous
>>6148764 Pretty good, decided on which of the images I'll use as the header, just need to tweak it a little. And I finally figured out how to explain where the funding for the additional Spartan 2 candidates came from/ why it wasn't cut as badly as in canon, in a way that makes sense to me.
Anonymous
>>6148769 Dank, and reasonable change. Never made sense to me how hard and fast the S2 project was cut.
>Halsey you're our only hope to save humanity from falling into innie chaos. >Here's 75 kids and some pocket lint to fund it. Anonymous
>>6148771 They cut it in half twice! Like, I get it took awhile from conception to enacting the whole kidnapping plan thing, and longer for the spartans to be trained and augmented, but what was competing for the budget in ONI at the time for it to be halved fucking twice?!
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
>>6148776 Colonel Seetherman had a vendetta against Halsey because she wouldn't put out, so he made sure her budget got whacked at every chance
Anonymous
>>6148790 That's a good point. When in doubt, blame Ackerson.
>>6148776 >but what was competing for the budget in ONI at the time for it to be halved fucking twice?! Parangosky's adrenochrome treatments. The old bat was 61 by 2525. And whatever else the the rest of the crack heads in Section Three were cooking up with their hundreds of black sites and xenotech archeological digs.
Anonymous
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>>6148790 That reminds me, I need to get my hands on Ghost of Onyx as well
>>6148798 fair lol
Anonymous
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>>6147763 They're are all from the same person. Every few months, he starts a series of new AI quests to artificially boost /qst/ activity, then disappears once he inevitably burns out.
ObserverQM !!W1X+5SlTLqC
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>>6148530 I promise that I'm still working on solstice...
Anonymous
>>6148742 i remember reading it but nothing about coffee, unless i forgot
Some stuff about agriculture before the direct attack on Harvest, and with jackal raiders attacking a cargo ship prior. And johnson shaping up the soldiers there a bit. Neither brutes or jackals seemed to like a lot grown vegetables and fruits :(
>>6148610 Both the first two are completely fine for names, but if you want to go more complex tie it with the feel of the war. Or that sounds more militaristic. Something like "Spartan 2 War Reports" or Documents.
>>6148771 >>6148776 yeah that was kind of a stupid thing. Not that those doesn't exist a plenty or that humans don't err, can't be corrupted or do shit against each other, but it feels a bit dumb such a important project isn't expanded upon greatly. Or takeover by someone else high ranked in ONI for expand it on their own initiative, just with their sign on it. The UNSC isn't lacking in people or resources, and has a very sizable military. Funding for this secret projects would be very high, even for spartans. I always felt the number of spartan candidates was low too honestly.
>but what was competing for the budget in ONI at the time for it to be halved fucking twice?! probably a lot of black ops for kill or find innies, and archeological digs ? Maybe more combat drugs research or more research on robotics/automation/AI (with the amount of it the precusors have it should show up in any of their ruins even if they are broken relics, something the UNSC would look at definitely since they have no issue in doing research on precusors tech unlike covenants), or new weapons like trying an hand with energy ones. I guess that special armor in one of the halo anime episodes kind of gives an idea of what their military research might look like.
Or more stealth spaceships. Those are nice. It could also be they redirected those funds for training more ONI agents and spies, and making specialized equipment for them. So they could better deal with Innies, or other rebels/terrorists. Never a bad idea what with the UNSC level of growth and expansion.
Anonymous
>>6148923 >Something like "Spartan 2 War Reports" or Documents. Try "Spartan Ops: Declassified".
Adlershorst
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Update time! It has been decided to take time off, and with a that I mean that boys are going on the time-honoured Adlershorst tradition of barging into the remains of dead civilizations.
>>6148960 >>6148963 >>6148960 >>6148963 >>6148960 >>6148963 Anonymous
>>6148610 Could title it Halo:(Spartan Deux related subtitle), atleast.
Anonymous
>>6147441 I'd rather have my quest go at a glacial pace than use AI. Even then, I wonder if my writing is dry enough to seem AI-written. It can be fun to speculate about who an author or anon is, but the tidal waves of machine content are just sad to see when it's used as finished writing and not even randomly-generated lists for prompts or item tables. Even then, there are other options.
Anonymous
>>6149122 >I'd rather have my quest go at a glacial pace than use AI imo using AI shows both bad taste and a fundamental lack of faith in their own abilities/creativity
I don't want to play with a computer on /qst/. There are websites out there that already let me do that.
Anonymous
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>>6149127 Yeah, it's kinda tragic go see someone default to AI writing for a quest. Most AI junkies don't have an artistic vision enough to truly curate their work. I've used AI images a couple of times if I needed something more specific than what images I could find or have readily available, but in terms of writing, death before dishonor. What reigns do you even have over a quest in a text based forum, when your own words are not your own?
Anonymous
While just straight up using AI is bad, is there really anything wrong with using it as a writing aid? Finding better ways to word a phrase. Checking for ways to make the text better in general. Checking the grammar.
Anonymous
>>6149183 Yeah, but who wants to use an AI as a glorified Word replacement when you can just get all the work done for free.
Anonymous
>>6149183 I mean, there's dictionaries and google and whatnot already. While there's nothing wrong with consulting an abhuman object for another way to put something, is ChatGPT necessary or even better than a Google search? Both are equally worthy of your attention, which means you should seek an alternative opinion anyway and see how you feel given that input.
Anonymous
>>6149183 There’s dedicated grammar checking programs already. The problem with AI chatbot is they say something that sounds right, but not necessarily right. They make conversation, but they’re not a fact checker.
Anonymous
>>6149189 AI provides a statistically probable answer, not really a good or correct answer.
Anonymous
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>>6149183 'how many r's are in the word strawberry'
Anonymous
>>6149188 I mean I can see AI being useful as a supplementary resource, those chatbots and shit like ChatGPT are great as a dictionary if you can remember a definition but not a word, and it works well as a thesaurus too. It could probably also help quickly steer you in a direction if you need to know something like "what are some traditional blah blah blah foods" and then you can google what it brings up to see if any work for you. Helps you find things so you can check yourself and sort yourself out.
The problem with most AI is people treat it like an infallible thing of the highest quality when it's really just, slop. And I like slop as much as the next guy but I want my slop cooked at home in a pot, not at THE FACILITY in an industrial vat. I have no need of a quest written by a machine because I am here to play with people and myself.
Anonymous
>>6149198 >It could probably also help quickly steer you in a direction if you need to know something like "what are some traditional blah blah blah foods" and then you can google what it brings up to see if any work for you. I disagree. Straight up searching 'ethiopian food' is probably more reliable and less time consuming than using an AI then having to fact check the AI to make sure it isn't feeding you bullshit.
Anonymous
I also can't understand a writer who doesn't want to do research. Reading up on something as simple as a recipe can lead you to all kinds of interesting stories, about cultures, people, events, that can really give your brain more to draw on.
Anonymous
>>6148324 Dark Fantasy Quest
I miss green rogue and red templar bros...
Siderite
>>6149153 >>6149165 >>6149235 Trying out a time limit for rolls in SDC's newest update.. It's about 24 hours from now, and with the holiday if things are slow I'm fine extending it if need be. That said, I'm thankful for any existing/new anons posting in the quest, and for everyone putting their creative effort to work on this board.
>>6149215 Research can be fun to the point it's distracting. If it's hard to find a place to start from, I just go with something that already interests me. Reading through some quests, it's really visible when the QM has an existing knowledge base and passion about some sort of topic/setting/profession.
Siderite
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>>6149244 And we immediately got a critfail. It's the first of the quest, so still exciting! Tune in soon to find out what absurd and bizarre thing will happen.
Anonymous
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For anyone bored, I continued an abandoned civ quest you may vote in :)
>>6149245 Anonymous
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This board feels so dead
Anonymous
>>6149186 It usually does a better job, and faster. I sue AI to typo-correct my work emails, or even tow rite the more bland ones.
>>6149193 Often good enough for filling in little tidbits during a quest, too, I find. I have to edit it to fit the setting, but when I'm trying to come up with a few little details for a meal, or look up terminology, it can be faster than googling like
>>6149206 said, and close enough for that purpose. I'm not going to be writing any essays (or full quests) off it anytime soon, but it's a handy helper when you're just trying to save time and precision or deep detail isn't needed.
Anonymous
>>6149283 >It usually does a better job, and faster. I sue AI to typo-correct my work emails, or even tow rite the more bland ones. so it saves you at most an extra couple of minutes out of your day? not really seeing the appeal vs the trade off on how expensive it is.
Anonymous
>>6149206 Most search engines like to promote shit based on bribes - sorry, ad money instead of accuracy nowadays. And they tend to front load the exact same thing a billion times. I had to search up tensile strength studies one time and the first three pages all cited the exact same paper. Which is less than ideal if you want to corroborate it. If I can get a specific thing to look up instead of asking a generic question and getting generic answers that would be preferable.
I understand where you're coming from though. Cutting out middlemen is a time honored time and money saving tradition.
Anonymous
>>6149286 but the way you're doing it you're putting too much trust in an AI when AI has proven to be meme-ably unreliable, not being able to discern junk from jokes from reliable sources (geologists recommend eating one rock a day)
Anonymous
>>6149285 >how expensive it is OpenAI's playground is a pay-as-you-go model and outside of the early novelty period, I spend less than $10 a month on it even on a busy month, usually more like $5. It probably saves me half an hour a day, which is well worth it.
>>6149287 They're gotten a bit better, but yeah, they're better at specific kinds of writing than others, and they aren't a reliable fact-checker. Like I said: good enough, for specific purposes, and fast.
Anonymous
>>6149287 I'm not trusting it at all though. Everything should be verified. Just like when you're raw searching something up you should look at three separate sources at least. If accuracy is what matters it doesn't matter where you're looking, you always check again. Measure twice, cut once as the saying goes. Nowhere did I say "go ask the AI and run with it". And if I get to see something retarded along the way and have a laugh at it, great.
Search engines can also outright lie by displaying cursory information that is being signal boosted for whatever reason. Be it payment, arbitrarily inflated site traffic, or intentional weighting algorithms.
Anonymous
>>6149188 >>6149198 >>6149206 >>6149286 >>6149287 >>6149290 >>6149298 >chatgpt vs googl search engine? I can no longer tell which form of censorship is more advanced. The abuse allegations made against Sam Altman by his sister Annie Altman surfaced on twtr around Nov 2021 I believe, possibly earlier
>>6149215 LLMs AI is the erasure of the self. I mentioned it many times before on past qtgs: everyday, tech companies help computers make humans easier to use. The technosingularity man / machine convergence arrives not from the AI surpassing human level intelligence, but from humans becoming more stupid, when corporations train a majority of humans to accept, tolerate or even welcome and exalt the ineptitude of their machines
Anonymous
>>6149298 >>6149298 >Just search again to corroborate / verify accuracy...? When I was doing the investment management VAMPIRE SORCERY something I liked to ask people in interviews, how do you find the information that people, companies do not want you to know?
You cannot search for something you do not even know, you cannot search for information of which you are unaware. It is like an epistemological conundrum
This is the most powerful censorship technique; it is more powerful than just blocking or banning something (which can create perverse incentives to surmount or overcome the obstacle for access etc). All the information is probably out there somewhere, it is that mosaic theory as the intelligence analysts call it, but you have been trained to ignore or distrust or overlook it
hehe, in a certain context, this post about rpg secrets and dungeonmastering also has some real-life implications
>>6133507 Anonymous
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>>6149303 Usually if I have actual questions and not just deranged ideas that need feeding, I'll just email someone in a particular field. Maybe a phone call. It's not that hard to find and get in touch with actual experts or serious hobbyists nowadays. Ask the right questions and you'll get answers to things outside of your depth, even.
Of course I'm sure no one here is looking for things that have been explicitly memory-holed by any powers that be, RIGHT GUYS?
Anonymous
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>>6149298 >>6133507 >>6149303 >>6149299 >just search again... for accuracy! Every dungeonmaster knows you are not allowed to just re-roll over and over again in a repeated attempt to pass failed skill checks, until one eventually succeeds and you overcome the obstacle. You get one roll ONE CHANCE after that you let it ride. Here is the section from Burning Wheel rulebook codex, hehe
Dolomite
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>>6148682 thnx mate
I search my name in qst in archivemoe sometimes to extract precious (You)s
Indonesian Gentleman
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>>6149215 This! I looked up the ASL dictionary for Jail Quest. There are two sign languages in the current and previous thread, can you guess the other one?
Anonymous
>>6149298 >>6149299 >>6149303 One thing I've found quite handy is Notebook LLM. It hallucinates quite vividly at times, so it isn't reliable enough to not have to double-check, but when I want to remember the name of a specific spell or NPC from a quest I wrote three years ago and don't remember what volume it was in, I can ask Notebook LLM and it will usually answer correctly or at least know which PDF I should check and what page, whereby I can fact-check it with way less scrolling through backlogs. For all its flaws and dangers, AI is just a tool.
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>>6149314 >I am PULLING THE MEMORIES OUT OF MY MIND YAAaarRRrghhah I posted already far too many times that image sequence of Harry Potter spoonfeeding the ichor into Dumbledore's agonised mouth in the dark cavern (it's semen) so I suppose I have to upload the Pensieve gif now. I am not sure where this particular memory went though
>>6135598 >>6135606 I am afraid all of the Pensieve imagery feels a bit gay to me urgh. The Pensieve in Harry Potter is sort of a techno-prophesy but the special fx I always was impressed by in the films would rather be the CGI of the animated antique hologram photographs, the Harry Potter films seemed to anticipate the appeal of gifs and webms before they become far more mainstream
Anonymous
>>6149314 >AI is just a tool. Hey Alfred is a cool dude. How dare you?
Anonymous
>>6149326 >>6149314 >>6149299 >>6149303 >AND IN THEIR DESPERATION THEY TURNED TO A MAN THEY DIDN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND Michael Caine has a really really annoying voice he continues the tradition of American actor with British butler servant (Batman/Alfred, Buffy/Giles, interestingly, Doctor Strangelove film the US military base commander and that British RAF attaché captain hehe) Look it only took about 5 years after the 2008 release of the horrible Christopher Nolan Dark Knight film for Edward Snowden to realise he had to plagiarise the storyline, probably nothing similar will ever happen with ChatGPT because it has lobotomised the imagination of the entire next generation of sci-fi and fantasy fiction authors
Anonymous
>>6149334 Sounds a bit like your'e catastrophizing there, Souv.
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>>6148923 War reports/ documents does have a nice ring to it.
>>6149023 Also like this idea
>>6148948 And this one
All this talk about AI has also brought me back to some notes I jotted down about the possibility of the PC getting a Cortana equivalent of their own down the line, and the various personalities/ appearances I think would be neat. One of the basic ideas is one that is Ackerson derived, since the fucker can't have an original idea of his own, but I've got others here like "Fork of Cortana/Sister", "Triumvirate" and "PC's own flash cloned brain+ Samurai!" Which is exactly how I wrote it down here.
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>>6149337 >One of the basic ideas is one that is Ackerson derived Lmao, that'd be one shit ass of an AI. I'm partial to the cloned brain option. You could do stuff with ancient human Servitors too given the existence of The Assembly and it's very undefined origin.
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>>6149335 What is exceptionally disappointing is the aesthetics of the interior decor of these intelligence agencies at least Christopher Nolan in the Dark Knight had that sparse industrial lighting minimalistic feel in that shipping container where he ran his telecommunications project.
In contrast Keith Alexander who led the NSA during the Snowden revelations was apparently some Star Trek fan so he went for the full Star Trek Enterprise captain bridge interior design look for his top secret INFORMATION DOMINANCE CENTER lol here is apparently the photograph journalists found from some architect design website.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/nsa-mind-keith-alexander-star-trek During the whole PRISM episode in an IR meeting I once asked Patrick Pichette (CFO of googl back then before Ruth Porat and whoever the new one now is) directly to his face whether they spied on people of course he lied but I thought it would be funny to watch him do it whilst keeping a straight face in front of me and a room of other investors. What did also amuse me is how Keith Alexander's investment project after his NSA career did not turn out so well lol
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/04/collapse-of-cyber-firm-founded-former-nsa-chief-leaves-bitter-wake.html >IronNet’s founder and former CEO Keith Alexander is a West Point graduate who retired as a four-star Army general and was once one of the most powerful figures in U.S. intelligence. He oversaw an unprecedented expansion of the NSA’s digital spying around the world when he led the U.S.’s largest intelligence agency for nearly a decade. >Its pitch — combining the prowess of ex-government hackers with cutting-edge software – was initially a hit. Shortly after going public in 2021, the company’s value shot past $3 billion. >Last September the never-profitable company announced it was shutting down and firing its employees after running out of money, providing yet another example of a tech firm that faltered after failing to deliver on overhyped promises (...) Of course there are many others nowadays with apparent momentum and success, eg PLTR. But in my experience this entire space is morally a very murky dubious and grey area. The premise of that IronNet company sounded a bit like that Darktrace venture funded by Mike Lynch. I met him in 2011 just weeks before the advent of the entire AU/ HPQ saga, (see this 2011 June article for reasons)
https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/the-canadian-department-of-national-defence-selects-autonomys-meaning-based-computing-platform-145290195.html as well as Meg Whitman some years afterwards hehe. Well Mike Lynch had an interesting superyacht accident recently, just as his former codefendant encountered a traffic accident hehe
>this is literally the worst edition of Shadowrun ever devised Anonymous
>>6149335 >>6149337 >AI CATASTROPHE This gif with a nubile Cortana from Halo 4
>>6141225 provides definitive evidence that AI is probably not schizophrenic everything will turn out fine in the end
I was going to include Cortana in my adaptation of HALO:INFINEET
>>6147184 >>6135103 But then I remembered msft purged the Cortana voice app
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/end-of-support-for-cortana-d025b39f-ee5b-4836-a954-0ab646ee1efa https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/04/microsoft-kills-cortana-in-windows-as-it-focuses-on-next-gen-ai/ probably because msft did not want rampancy to reach Azure their hyperscale cloud lol this made me a little sad I actually quite liked the idea of importing some Halo scifi nomenclature into enterprise software lol
I played Halo 1,2 3, ODST, Reach, 4; I played Reach the most I completed it solo on hardest difficulty 3 or 4 times and also played Halo 3 a lot, have not played any of the newer Halo games (lol I liked the Halo 2 Arbiter Gravemind narrative I have no idea who that lady Laurette Agryna from Halo Infinite is but her name just sounded irresistibly silly lol)
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>>6149335 >>6149355 >>6141225 >AI CATASTROPHE >AI, chatGPT is ironically the reason why msft killed Cortana it almost seems too cruel
I just noticed the scanlines on Cortana's blue integrated circuitboard face lol this enraged me because I have a memory of once attempting to play the retro game Privateer 2 The Darkening (some old wing commander game) on dosbox, it turns out all of the video cutscenes in the game (they are live acted real people filmed full motion video) all of the hours long film cutscenes have scanlines running through them something to do with just the compression or video resolution capabilities of video in MS-DOS 1996 lol, I tried downloading some patch fix it did not work lol I was enraged I gave up nooo
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Happy Thanksgiving y'all, even if I'm 5 hours too late in my timezone to say that.
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>>6148324 White Tower Quest
Had the perfect sense of humor and messy draw-style that really fit well with it's tone. And the QM really knew how to roll with the punches with it incorporating a ton of wacky write-ins and player-made characters.
Anonymous
>>6149413 Same with Violent Masquerade, but alas it also ended its life early.
Anonymous
>>6148324 Lamplighter
It died at the most interesting place, its potential unfulfilled
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>>6148324 I will roll the dice! Checking my bookmarked suptg pages...
1 I Am Reborn in a Harem RomCom, but I'm Only A Mob Character?!
2 A New Mutant
3 Gantz Quest DC
4 Pokémon Urban / Pokemon Loser
5 Stand Quest Requiem
6 A Herald's Journey
7 Castlevania Elegy of Inheritance
8 Fall of the Regime (I KNOW YOU'RE HERE YOU INDONESIAN FAGGOT!!!)
9 Pizzeria Quest
10 Pokemon Fork & Spoon
Anonymous
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Rolled 1 (1d10) >>6149458 And of course I forget to roll...
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>>6149458 Pokemon Fork & Spoon was based
>>6149448 Agreed
>>6148380 Good taste
>>6148488 Yes
There are so many that left too soon, it is hard for me to pick one. I did really like Boruto Quest. Oh and Joker Quest of course.
Anonymous
>>6148324 Halo Wolfpack
I really want to get that victory home.
I hope thunderhead is doing well.
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>>6149529 That's twice now with him flaking. I have no idea why it's so hard for most QM's to just say they're burnt out or giving up.
We were so damn close to making an actual, tangible change in the war effort with that captured Ket battlecruiser.
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>>6148324 Also missed, for how short its time here was: A Dragon's Credenza, ai believe it was called? A post-apocalyptic quest that survived for almost a month, with magic albino girl (?) adopting a cyborg dragon who she powered up with bardic songs. It was pretty cool!
Anonymous
We're so close to reinventing the Builder format it physically hurts. Any real heads still here who remember Crusader Builder back in the day? No-one did it like Urban.
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>>6149593 post the archive,il have a look at it
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Got a bit of a vote up in Ilvermorny Quest!
>>6149642 >>6149642 >>6149642 Anonymous
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>>6148324 My picks:
That far future Star Wars Qst with a galaxy-wide death cult as a bigger threat than the Sith
Fallout: Enclave Remnant
MK: Kaito's Konquest
Old medieval ruler qst dealing with heirs & druids, involved ravens in some capacity & woad-paint assassins
Star Wars: Imperial Remant Captain
or possibly the best & most original of the batch,
Stoker Qst, with it's surreal art & dead world
Anonymous
I hope Lesches, Forgotten, & Drunk QM are all doing well. Any Warlords of Chaos Qsters in the general?
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>>6149661 I recall Forgotten has gone like almost a year I think with no posts and has come back. He does have a completed quest to his name as well, so I am positive he will be back at least.
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>>6149697 It's the first enemy Stand of the quest!
With an OP vampire
And your nerves on fire, here's your first test
It's the first enemy Stand of the quest!
Anonymous
>>6149413 White Tower Quest was very fun.
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>>6149725 For a second I read that as "whale tower".
Anonymous
>>6139062 I did complete NwN2 Mask Of The Betrayer, genuinely one of the best-written crpg storylines, follower companions, more emotional than Planescape Torment or other cited crpg landmarks. dnd is broken you are an unkillable walking spell flinging god, the moment you try crafting immediately you make a +8 greatsword, enchant 5d6 x3 fire lightning acid damage, equip on a wizard with no base attack and melt all enemies. Combat is thereafter ruined, every encounter ends in 2 hits, bizarrely reviews cited Mask Of The Betrayer as challenging, intimidating (Vampire-like spirit eater mechanic, your energy constantly drains, you must choose between devouring enemies / satiating your hunger, or restraining it) the actual game mechanic is laughable you can barely ever die from it, if you adopt an evil / devour spirits route, you gain even more overpowered crafting artifacts, no challenge whatsoever
MotB is a vampire game, the spirit eater mechanic makes you feel like a vampire, yet I completed the entire game without devouring anything it was extremely easy. The hunger mechanic intends to add tension eg the Hag Mother drowned maze
>>6144222 it is possible to get a bit lost and panic as your spirit drains but really the game is not difficult, it is the opposite you are far too overpowered. Really NwN2 MotB is played for atmosphere and story not challenge
Many of the loading screens in MotB are presented as a dungeonmaster describing the level transition, eg "you see tree roots emerging from the cavern ceiling... you must be close to the surface now"
A crpg battle I remember as difficult was BG2 Demogorgon, casting multiple simulacrum spells rhythmically spam summoning and spell breach to whittle down monstrous resistances, that was an interesting fight (the Twisted Rune fight or the early lich battles in BG2 could be a challenge, but you could use positioning tactics to overcome them)
After playing Nwn2 MotB I completed an adaptation of a 1979 Gary Gygax dnd module, Keep On The Borderlands, someone converted the campaign into nwn2 engine, it has distinctive dungeon design.
In many rpgs the dungeons are just H, T, L shape grid junctions. In the 1979 Gygax module, the layouts are varied, in particular there is Z shaped slope terrain (imagine a ridge, or a road winding around a hill) The Z-shaped hill mound occurs in one of the very first fights (I had 4/4 hp lol) versus archers and spearmen, the fight is impossible as liinear confrontation, but you can use the ridgeline to trap the numerically superior force, eliminate archers from height and then rain missiles down as the wave of melee charges you. I was incredibly impressed by the Gygax terrain layout, having played so many crpgs, it was not something I had seen before. Also, there is a DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (I fell for this trap, unlock dungeon door, it is a horrible medusa lady)
Anyway, pic related is nwn2 Harp And Chrysanthemum, this one is incredible too
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>>6149725 >>6149413 >>6149420 >MEDUSA LADY I did enjoy the art and humour of the White Tower and Violent Masquerade games and I commend the efforts of the creator.
Another excellently responsive, highly creative, inventive and humorous hand-drawn effort from the creator of WIZARD TOWER, I participated in this with imageposts and I enjoyed the Reverse Medusa (snake with hair of human heads, who petrifies you if you stop looking at it)
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5529930/#5566240 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5529930/#5568653 >"You look at the reverse medusa, and it turns you rock hard" The entire series is linked here
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5486321 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5529930 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5576095 I really appreciated the simplistic and clever game design loop in this, something I liked was how each level floor puzzle challenge is a reset so you can just jump into the game at any point, no need to familiarise yourself with pages of characters or lore or background setting information or past choices decisions it is very accessible and playable from that perspective, ideal for a text / picture forum game. So I really applaud the design setup of WIZARD TOWER game creator, it was very funny and enjoyable
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Adlershorst Dynasty update, it is time to delve into the mysteries of the old empire.
>>6149964 >>6149967 >>6149964 >>6149967 >>6149964 >>6149967 YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
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You like quests? If you like quests you'll like "The Prophecy Names Me, So The Demon General Betrays Her King?!" as it is, indeed, a quest! The slow update will let you catch up in no time!
Niklos is a peasant content with his life--until a fiery demon bursts into his house, declaring him the chosen one destined to overthrow the dark ruler. And the demon is eager to betray the Demon King, for Miranna, the Demon King's strongest General, believes the prophecy to be an undeniable gospel; she won't take 'no' for an answer, or be convinced otherwise. At Miranna's actions, the full might of the Demon King's forces, along with other Generals, falls upon Niklos, something he never asked for.
>>6149932 >>6149932 >>6149932 Anonymous
>>6144663 >>6143678 >>6144151 >>6144419 >What is "Medieval"?? for rpg settings etc >What is too anachronistic? I am not an expert in historiography but I do like reading about it a lot for the feel of settings
>tldr; probably can get away with Renaissance / Elizabethan >If you meet Napoleon, you have gone too far For me I think a key date would be 1453, fall of Constantinople, it demarcates the era between the end of the Crusades (I hope I got this right?) and the transition to the Age Of Discovery / New World exploration etc.
I remember there was some theory that the Renaissance began due to the fall of Byzantium / East Roman Empire, sudden influx of essentially highly educated Greek speaking refugees fleeing the sacking of Constantinople, they included scholars, artisans, fluent in Greek and knowledge of the antiquities and they settled in Italy etc or at least this was some theory I read. So potentially 1453 (sometimes cited as the final fall of the Roman Empire) also aligns with the approximate introduction of matchlocks (around 1400s from wikipedia) and is the demarcation between "medieval" dnd absent black powder handgonnes etc versus what becomes the Renaissance and eventually all your galleons and matchlocks and arquebuses or Elizabethan wheellocks and things yay
I know how a lot of the Dark Ages era could also be early "medieval" eg potentially Beowulf
>>6144454 >>6145698 or the 5th Century is an early medieval rpg setting, but I would just refer to that as the Late Rome swords and sorcery feel Dark Ages setting, for me Medieval means chivalry and knights and Romaunt Of The Rose etc I think the Beowulf type setting is a bit of a different genre.
Also I used to adopt the convention of the coastal or urban cities being a bit more Renaissance or Elizabethan (you can have galleons, pirates, wheellocks and cannons and gunsulphur because of trade, access to the sea) whilst inland in some grim hilly mountainous terrain
>>6144252 it might be more like Beowulf or the Dark Age shield wall, throwing axe and spear type world.
I would probably avoid making the urban cities too advanced though (eg nothing Baroque, no musketeers or Versailles type things etc
>>6133523 or Napoleonic era
>>6144419 ) that would become potentially too ahistorical and anachronistic, you can run into this genre clash because vampires (Byron, gothic romance) obviously more a feature of the 18th century, so strictly speaking the feel of vampires, "horror" in that Walpole Castle Of Otranto gothic sense clashes with medieval genres
So overall I think it is possible to accommodate multiple historical eras co-existing within a fantasy setting in a vaguely believable plausible coherent manner
The article I referred to concerning Rome was this one
https://antigonejournal.com/2024/09/when-did-the-roman-empire-fall/ BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>6149993 Embrace anachronism across geographic regions, I say. It's more realistic than many would guess. Our world, even today, is full of people living decades or centuries behind some of their neighbours. If you have a setting where flow of information and technology is even more limited (or more tightly controlled?) you can easily have Victorian vampires coexist with regions of sword-and-sorcery chieftains and medeival knights. Magic gives and even greater excuse, especially if it's a setting where "magitech" isn't really a thing and choosing magical thinking or technological/scientific development isa cost/benefit analysis.
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>>6144663 >>6136604 >>6149998 >KAYFABE I wish I received this level of education, better than what Obama got at Columbia or Harvard
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>>6150000 >magitech dungeonpunk NOOOO It is possible anon, you can fictionally conjure anything you desire hehe, it just isn't my personal preference, I think I intrinsically default to the medieval / Elizabethan type fantasy setting only because my early rpg impression established from WFRP, whereas I suppose other audiences have grown up with League Of Legends or maybe even world of warcraft final fantasy or jrpgs style genre mash and so are very comfortable with medieval knights together with magic robots or steampunk dwarves etc or say even Dragon Age Veilguard with its neon castle Tevinter architecture cyberpunk flying city (I guess dnd did this with Imaskari / Netherese floating cities too? Or Eberron, or Planescape Sigil).
Historically grounded settings are very hard, you need to research so much, if I knew more history my preference would be to only ever play in historical settings lol, but it may just be too much effort to construct these
Every medieval setting needs to include a woman with this HORNED HEADDRESS thing (hennin? escoffion?) for some reason I now associate it only with warhammer 40k and rogue traders lol, because of this Dan Abnett extract from Eisenhorn
***
Maxilla was a veteran trader who had run the Essene down the lanes from Thracian Primaris to the Grand Banks for fifty years. He told me he’d dealt in bulk consumables at the start of his career, then begun to specialise in exotic goods when the big bonded guilds began to dominate the wholesale market.
‘The Essene’s got speed, a sprint trader. Pays me better to carry luxury cargoes and deliver them express, even if I don’t run at capacity.’
‘You run this route regularly?’
‘For the past few decades. It’s seasonal. Sameter, Hesperus, Thracian, Hubris, Gudrun, sometimes to Messina too. When Dormant finishes on Hubris, there’ll be a lot more work there.’
We sat in the luxurious surroundings of his audience suite, sipping vintage amasec from large crystal glasses. Maxilla was showing off, but that was acceptable. He had a ship and a reputation to be proud of.
(...) He was a sinewy man of indeterminate age, dressed in a full-skirted coat of red velvet with wide button-back cuffs and an extravagant black lace cravat. His smile showed teeth that were inlaid with mother of pearl. Ostentation was common among ship’s masters, it was part of showing off. Forget family lineage and noble blood, one had told me once, the lineage and pedigree of starships is where the new Imperial nobility is to be found. Ship’s masters were the real Imperial aristocracy. So Maxilla seemed to think, anyway.
>His face was powdered with white skin-dye, and he wore a sapphire as a beauty spot on his cheek. His imposing two-horned wig was spun from silver-thread. Heavy signet rings clinked against his balloon glass as he lifted it (...) Anonymous
>>6144151 >>6144565 >>6144419 >>6144663 >>6149998 >>6149993 >"Late Medievalism" is the world of courtly intrigue...? >Viking Celt Beowulf is UNCLAIMED WILDERNESS, FREEDOM ??? I have to dispute this BananasQM, I don't know if you have watched any of the reasonably popular and mainstream tv series like Vikings 2013-20 or even The Last Kingdom (based on the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian saga) but even in these completely mainstream fictional "Dark Age" tv series, the entire narrative is about feudal obligation, structures of church, land, enfeoffment etc I don't even know much about the exact history but even the mainstream tv storylines are all about struggling against the grasp of the Church and thanes or kings etc. So as an example, Vikings series 1 (I only watched 8 episodes of this lol) the entire plot is about a grievance whereby Ragnar disobeys a command from his Jarl and raids west (Lindisfarne monastery) as opposed to raiding the Baltic. It has been a while since I watched The Last Kingdom, but I remember a lot of it surrounded King Alfred etc doing ecclesiastical things and it was about church and land, there isn't really a lot of this MANIFEST DESTINY I AM A DND COWBOY look I slaughter the untamed buffalo herds I mean dungeon monsters and depopulate the native american orcs etc, that is not really the Dark Ages that is still dnd
As I tried to illustrate with this academic lady's article on Beowulf
>>6145698 and the etymology of "laene / loan", the reach of the courts and church (in terms of legal land rights etc) seem deeply established even in the seemingly wild and savage "Dark Ages" era of Christendom
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>>6144151 >UNCLAIMED WILDERNESS?? >>6144419 >>6144699 >>6144690 >>6150059 >dnd is medieval cowboys >everything is cowboys >MANIFEST DESTINY I AM A DND COWBOY look I slaughter the untamed buffalo herds I mean dungeon monsters and depopulate the native american orcs Please refer to the artwork in pic related
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Alright /qtg/
Are you bored? Come and create your own child-soldier mageblade or something!
>>6150078 Anonymous
>>6144151 >>6144419 >>6150059 >>6150071 >man vs nature >how to depict the UNCLAIMED WILDERNESS?? This scene, from one of my favourite films, award winning Michael Mann directed Last Of The Mohicans (1992). Everything about the acting, the costumes, the guns, the waterfall the encampments and mountain forest scenery is so beautiful utter perfection in cinematography. In particular I really liked the performance of Magua (in pic related) he is actually a very relatable character sadly he gets bashed and gored to death by a gunstock club though
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunstock_war_club In the pic related scene Magua explains the fundamentals of international trade and economic bargaining, also you get two damsels in distress tee hee hee
Something I thought interesting about this scene in pic related, it is actually conducted through translation English, French, Huron, Mohawk? and the entire film depicts in depth the native conflict (ie extraterritorial powers England and France manipulating the natives for their own ends) This film is truly excellent
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>>6150089 >Last Of The Mohicans >unclaimed wilderness, manipulate indigenous peoples into fighting each other... >1979 Gary Gygax Dungeons And Dragons, Keep On The Borderlands? >>6149856 I didn't screenshot my nwn2 playthrough of the pnp conversion of the campaign to the videogame engine because the graphics of that user made fan module were fairly basic (though functional, even with a handdrawn black and white grid overworld map), but the plot of this original Gygax dnd adventure, possibly one of the most famous and original foundational dnd campaigns, is about depopulating a disparate series of tribal monster caves, all living next to each other, orcs, goblins/hobgoblins, kobolds, bugbears, undead/cultists, on behalf of the Castellan of the titular border keep, because he is fearful of these monster tribes uniting someday to overwhelm the castle fortifications, this is paraphrasis of the exact background story as delivered by the castellan npc.
A detail I appreciated in the labyrinthine cave dungeons, you could approximately guess how close you were to the tribal chieftain leaders orc goblin kobold etc, because you would start seeing their womenfolk "female orc" ie his wives etc pathetically rushing you with 1d4 daggers
I thought it would be funny to play this traditional dnd module with a minmax dex build warlock, so I Eldritch Blasted them
Essentially, one of the most famous and foundational Dungeons And Dragons campaigns authored by Gary Gygax himself uses the same framework ethos as this lol
>>6150089 Anonymous
Souv I have a question - given your immense wealth and (presumed) fondness for this board, is there any chance you can consider buying 4chan?
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>>6150107 >Mergers and Acquisitions...? A long time ago I did work in tech M&A (briefly, abortive career before I became a fund manager). I would admit I was never very successful in M&A, whereas I enjoyed global equities far more. Also I would emphasise I was a fairly junior person in the great scheme of things, I met many senior people like a spy, the deputy supreme allied commander of NATO (SACEUR) also some North Korean ambassador and LMT and NOC or Bobby Kotick also Satya Nadella etc many many others, but I was really just a very junior person, who got some privileged corporate access hehe
As you know, most acquisitions destroy value (hey, at least the Endeavour / TKO Group WWE share price seems to be doing ok!
>>6150003 ) pic related is the sort of deal outcome that sometimes occurs (headlines dates 2015 to 2024)
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>>6150059 >The Last Kingdom (based on the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian saga) Pretty sure it's based on the series by the same name. The Arthurian saga one is The Warlord Chronicles. Although they have very similar protagonists and plots.
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Seeing as how this board has an Art general along with the General general, would anybody be interested in starting a Writing Group General type of thing? There's one on /tg/ but its very anemic, rarely making it to 60 posts before being bumped off.
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>>6150107 >Souv I have a question - given your immense wealth and (presumed) fondness for this board, is there any chance you can consider buying 4chan? 4chan is unironically worth at least 8 figures.
>>6150230 >Writing Group General Someone tried to do that a few years ago and it just turned into a rival /qtg/ full of worse shitposting and pissing contests. Just post your questions here and pray that Souv isn't around for a few days after you do.
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>>6150228 >Bernard Cornwell Arthurian book series Winter King / Warlord Chronicles etc is a completely different adaptation to Uhtred / The Last Kingdom You are completely correct anon I am retarded lol, I did get confused because I read the Arthurian books a long time ago, you made me want to re-read them hehe I remember the first time I encountered the Nimue character in Arthurian mythology (she is sometimes portrayed as the seductress / imprisoner of Merlin in other more fanciful/magical retellings) was through the Bernard Cornwell books, I was not really aware of her before then. The Bernard Cornwell Arthur books perhaps fit BananasQM notion of pagan / Dark Ages medievalism better than the Uhtred / Last Kingdom tv series, as it is filled with druids and omens etc maybe what BananasQM is really saying is he wants paganism as opposed to the pseudomedievalist Christendom knights slaying monsters etc, I can see the pagan / heathen world as possessing that early osr dnd appeal. Also I prefer the primitive low magic feel of this setting, the omens curses forebodings etc, the dnd Eldritch Blast Prismatic Spray Bigby Hand Magic Missile Acid Arrow Meteor Storm lol does not really meld with the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian pagan world
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>>6150059 >>6150228 >>6150247 >BERNARD CORNWELL (plot synopsis from wikipedia) I am beginning to detect a pattern here, courtesy of websites such as
https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/ I am not sure how I feel about this website, hmmm. Also, it has a shop, there is quaint whimsical merchandise; all avenues well monetised
The acclaim won by Bernard Cornwell reveals that clearly there is an audience appeal craving this history, historical settings, compared to cowboy modern dnd
>>6150071 hehe
>Harlequin (Hundred Years War) >Then the murdering, pillaging and raping begin. Jekyll attempts to rape Jeanette, but is stopped by the earl. (...) >The duke agrees to take care of her son, but believes lies about Jeanette and rapes her. Jeanette escapes with Thomas. She is severely traumatised, but Thomas nurses her back to health (...) >The Winter King (Arthurian, Warlord Chronicles. There are so many Bernard Cornwell novels but I believe this is the book I originally read) >Then, in retribution for Nimue's curse, he rapes her and plucks out an eye. Derfel rescues Nimue and while escaping runs into Morgan, who has the baby Mordred with her (...) >The Last Kingdom (Saxon Chronicles, review) >This novel, and the series of which it is the fifth part, has been well received. One reviewer remarks "Vivid descriptions of merciless battlefield slaughter, rape, and destruction are artfully related by a masterful storyteller." >Aethelred, Aethelflaed's husband, wants to divorce her to break free of Alfred's domination of Mercia. He directs Lord Aldhem to rape Aethelflaed, which would give Aethelred the excuse of "adultery" to divorce her. Uhtred kills Aldhem and is reunited with his children and Aethelflaed (...) Anonymous
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>>6150233 If it's been tried and failed I under the reluctance. I still think people could help each other in a variety of ways if there was a dedicated place to discuss it. I suppose that's what this is but as I said it always seemed more of a break room than a study room if that makes sense.
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>>6150281 Cornwell does this thing where every other character is a brutal rapist except the protagonist, who is a savage man capable of brutal violence with little time for the prattle and falsehoods of civilization but retains a core sense of honor and decency that transcends his barbaric instincts.
In many ways Cornwell has been writing Conan the Barbarian fan fiction his whole career.
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new thread when? my browser is strarting to struggle to load this particular thread
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>>6150071 >>6150059 >>6144419 >>6150228 >>6150247 >>6150281 >>6150407 The difference between COWBOY DND and the Dark Age?
Here is a compilation of magic spells from the beginning of Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King.
Please compare and contrast them with dnd magic spell equivalents. I would describe Bernard Cornwell as a feminist author, he is very frank about women's bodies
The general formula is BODILY EXCRETION + PAGAN SPELL EFFECT
>dnd, Bigby's Hand? >URINE HAND >Nimue crouched in the door and urinated on the threshold to keep the evil fairies away from the hall, then she cupped some of her urine and carried it to Norwenna's bed where she sprinkled it on the straw as a further precaution against the child's soul being stolen away at the moment of birth (...) >dnd, Fireball? >AFTERBIRTH FIRE-SONG >Morgan would not accept it. “And the boy is the last child Norwenna will ever bear, High Lord,” she warned Uther. “We burned the afterbirth and it did not sound once.” The afterbirth was always put on the fire so that the popping sound it made would tell how many more children the mother would bear. >“I listened close,” Morgan said, 'and it was silent." >dnd, (druid spell) Summon Plant? >DUNG-TREE (faeces an excellent Christmas tree decoration) >One year Merlin had a similar thorn tree enthroned on the Tor and we all worshipped it by singing, dancing and bowing. The village's Christians said we would be struck down by their God, but nothing happened. We burned our thorn in the end and mixed its ashes with the pig feed, but still the Christian God ignored us. The Christians claimed that their thorn was magic and that it had been brought to Ynys Wydryn by a foreigner who had seen the Christian God nailed to a tree. (...) >May God forgive me, but in those distant days I mocked such stories. I never understood then what the thorn had to do with a God's killing, but now I do, though I can tell you that the Sacred Thorn, if it still grows in Ynys Wydryn, is not the tree sprung from the staff of Joseph of Arimathaea. I know that, for one dark winter's night when I had been sent to fetch Merlin a flask of clean water from the sacred spring at the Tor's southern foot, I saw the Christian monks digging up a small thorn bush to replace the tree that had just died inside their stockade. The Holy Thorn was always dying, though whether that was because of the cow dung we threw at it or simply because the poor tree was overwhelmed by the cloth strips tied to it by pilgrims, I cannot tell. The monks of the Holy Thorn became rich anyway, fattened by the generous gifts of the pilgrims. Anonymous
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>>6150731 Ah, damnit. I thought maybe this time i'd have kept the same ID. Damn.
