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>>6120952 >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: How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? Do you have any advice for aspiring QMs who might not have the same time management skills?
>Player question: Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on?
>General question(a): If you could give one thing, even something immaterial, to one QM (including yourself) what would it be and who would you give it to?
>General question(b): Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait?
>Lurker question: Don't be a scrooge, vote!!!
>Miscellaneous question: Do you celebrate a holiday this time of year? If so, how do you celebrate?
Anonymous
>>6150243 >How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? Do you have any advice for aspiring QMs who might not have the same time management skills? I generally update as long as I've got some time to myself throughout the day, or at least in the evening. Every now and again I take a day, a weekend, or a week-or-two to myself. The last, longest breaks I usually take at thread-end, sometimes even ending a bit early or keeping a thread running a little LONG to make it work. In general, though, as long as you're communicative with players and don't ghost, they'll wait.
>Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on? On /qst/, I'm mainly here for the narrative, not for the mechanical bits or mystery-solving, especially involving pictures or reading through archives. There's lots of reasons for this: personal preference, frustration with other players making dumb choices that undermine even careful planning, the sheer number of quests I read and play, often being on mobile where pics and archive-binges are less convenient. When there's strategy and tactics as a focus, though, I tend to leave that to anons with more time or a sharper mind, and when there's in-depth lore I will +1 whoever seems to have their poop in a group.
>Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait? I keep cookies on my main devices, and bought a 4chan pass. The dramatic slowdown has impacted my enthusiasm a bit, though. I'm actually considering whether or not, sometime after this quest or next, I might have to consider another site to run on. I hope that we stay stable enough that this isn't the case, though.
>Do you celebrate a holiday this time of year? If so, how do you celebrate? I spend a few keys days with friends and family, even now. Fewer and fewer as time goes by, but I guess that's just life...
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>>6150243 >QM question: Just doing my first quest but I am not a huge fan of holidays aside from 4th of July or Halloween. In the past, I would work most of them, so I would likely take a break if it was back then. Now, just depends on how many family/friends things I have to attend to it seems.
>Player question: Depends. For quests, I am super into, I try to always contribute if I can. In some, I know people are more into it, but I like to think I can add a little something usually.
>General question(a): A cure for butt cancer to Crusty, 10 years ago.
>Miscellaneous question: Just general Christmas stuff. Decorate. Put a tree up. Open presents Christmas Eve, eggnog and booze, sleep in Christmas day, lots of food I usually make like 80% of for the family when I go over. Pretty normal.
Anonymous
>>6150243 >Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait? Drastically. I've made a post maybe five times this past month, when I used to post religiously in every thread I read. If this site change remains permanent, then I'm probably going to abandon questing entirely. I'm not saying that to be dramatic or to throw myself in with the doomers, but to be honest. It's killing my desire to be involved because of the ridiculous requirements TO involve myself. It makes me wonder if I should even bother with it anymore. First the exodus, then the slow transition in quests so they barely resemble their /tg/ forefathers anymore, then increasingly bullshit captchas, now this 'anti spam feature'. I'm just tired of it, boss. How long can I keep watching this happen to something I used to love?
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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>>6150243 >QM QUESTION Eh, I've been distant with most of my family over the last couple of years so the holidays don't really impact my ability to run at all. They're just any other day to me.
>PLAYER QUESTION The main quest I engage in discussions with is on break for the time being so for now, I don't contribute to any. Don't really play a lot so I can't comment much on here.
>GENERAL QUESTION A I would give myself a drug to block my ability to have writer's block or to feel the urge to procrastinate ever again.
>GENERAL QUESTION B Eh. It doesn't impact me since I can usually just wait until I'm home to post an update. Moreso worried about how it impacts the players, though
>MISC QUESTION Christmas, yeah, but mostly as an abstract thing where I call my parents to talk to them and to get $200 in cash and giftcards from other family members.
Anonymous
I hate to admit it but the dwindling player base does drain some of my enthusiasm to run my quest.
Anonymous
>>6150458 >votes for a prompt and says nothing Anonymous
>>6150459 Sometimes I just have nothing meaningful to add.
Anonymous
All I want for Christmas is a GOOD fantasy Quest
Anonymous
>>6150502 Sorry, I can only offer you a good Halo quest in the near future
Anonymous
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:Fd+/NF4u Sun 01 Dec 2024 12:14:56 No. 6150579 Report Quoted By:
SuperBusy !!r0G0pXK2t+6
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Just dropping in with a quick PSA to anyone interested that Pokemon Trainer Quest is back. Anyone interested please drop by.
Anyone who thought it was dead... well no. The name is what it is for a reason.
>>6145818 Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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we have a MASSIVE update for The Caretaker Quest!
whats different about this one, you ask?
well for one, the caretaker is temporarely out and we now have a NEW protagonist (althought for a limited time of course).
But thats not all!
Immediately, Potter is after you and investigating about the accident that put our dear caretaker out of comission!
Will you make something up or will you share your findings?
Vote now to find out!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
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>>6150502 Just you wait, anon. I'm cooking. It's really low fantasy, but it is fantasy. I've already got the map ready. Now i'm just trying to figure out how to do and start it...
Anonymous
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>>6150502 I'm not even close to finishing reading half the quests I've marked on the archive. Maybe, maybe by the time I'm done...
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6150692 Oh, kek, that was my own post. Dang, I was pretty drunk last night. Wonder if I voted in anything?
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6150243 >QM question: Honestly the holidays are probably when I update the most--even between shopping and parties I get a bunch of time off from work which gives me plenty of time to write AND draw. Definitely more than when I'm working, at least... I'm on my third quest now, so if I had to give any advice I'd just recommend being PRACTICAL: if you're busy doing shit just communicate with your players--they'll understand. Moreover, don't get discouraged if votes or interaction slow down, chances are your readers are doing holiday prep too.
>Player question: Always, especially when I pick up a new quest. It takes me a while to get into it, but once I do WATCH OUT! One thing I've noticed is that people are generally more open to collaboration if you add ideas with grace rather than putting down others. Quests are collaborative games, after all!
>General question(a): I would give all my fave QMs some more free time so they could actually run their fucking QUESTS! CHOP CHOP
>General question(b): It definitely sucks, but when I see people posting in my quest it humbles me because it means they were willing (unless they got around it somehow) to wait a shitload of time just to post! How can I not feel good about that? As a fellow player I know how annoying it can be to wait, but even one post can make a QM's day, guys. One of the easiest ways to show you support their work!
>Miscellaneous question: It's slowed down ever since we moved, but we try! Still working on financial crap, so there will be a lot less gifts this year, but we've still got friends and family a phonecall away, so I can't complain. I'm hoping everyone else on /qst/ is able to feel safe and loved in some way this year--it's easy to get bogged down by everything that's happening in the world, so I truly hope whatever your situation is you manage to treat yourself to a little happiness this holiday season.
SPEAKING of 'treating yourself' and 'happiness', DARK QUEST is still only on Thread 2 and the pace is rapidly picking up! Help ANTON PEAS navigate his way home after being transported to a fantasy world shrouded in perpetual darkness! It's got half-assed drawings! Shoddy attempts at humor! Regular updates! Needless to say, Dark Quest has it all! Come check it out while we're still fresh outta' the oven!
>>6137389 >>6137389 >>6137389 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Posted it in the old thread, might as well in this one.
Couple of votes leading up to our heroins fucking with stuff they probably shouldn't in Ilvermorny Quest
>>6150539 >>6150539 >>6150539 >>6150537 >>6150537 >>6150537 Anonymous
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>>6150450 >If this site change remains permanent Do we even know why the changes were made? Stop spam on the busier boards?
I don't think this will change but i'm not on the 4chan discord.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6150450 The exile was rough. I am ambivalent about the change in quest tone/structure. We still get some cool and interesting games. There are plenty of extensions that auto solve the capcha so not an issue. And I personally have not run into the anti-spam thing but once or twice, when posting outside links to lewdfics.
Honestly, it is just the lack of people that bugs me. I am fine if there aren't a ton of votes, but some days it seems like there are like 20 people tops on this board total. Just looked at a stat tracker and right now we are only averaging .5 posts a minute. Sucks, though it does pick up sometimes and I know Sundays are usually slow.
NewbQM
>How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? Do you have any advice for aspiring QMs who might not have the same time management skills? I usually don't need to make any special considerations. Since it's just a few days with the family and I do not update every day, so I am lucky enough that it is not an issue for me.
>Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on? If I feel like I have something to say, I will say it, even if someone is more knowledgeable than me. As for other QMs, I would like that they'd be clearer when they no longer want to run the quest. It is much better to know rather than sit in suspense.
>If you could give one thing, even something immaterial, to one QM (including yourself) what would it be and who would you give it to? I would give Malal that runs 2nd Primarch quest a better PC. Dude has serious hardware issues.
>Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait? Yes. This has caused me to lose interest, especially if it is late at night and I cannot be bothered for such a long wait. Though there are plenty of issues around concerning /qst/ and honestly, were it not for the complete anonymity and a guarantee that you can post basically whatever as long as it is not something lewd or absurdly fucked up, I would have probably left /qst/ already. I just don't like the alternatives and while there are few people here, it does give a "comfy" atmosphere.
More votes would still be nice though. >Do you celebrate a holiday this time of year? If so, how do you celebrate? Yes. With family.
And finally, I have to do a little bit of shilling concerning Theseus 40k A.I. quest. I made a poll concerning it on my twitter for anyone interested in it. Regardless, next weekend I will probably update it. Even though it probably means that I will lose formatting.
Also, the usual of asking you anons to check out Unbroken Empire: New Frontier
>>6132286 it is a civ quest Amateranne
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>>6149173 In a different world, two knights duel over spilled sake and insults. Come join in.
Anonymous
Considering that the 15-minute timer solved no problems on /qst/, everybody hates it, and it's killing the board, I wonder if we could go to the mod IRC and petition for it to be reduced or dropped for /qst/ specifically. It worked for the banner, after all.
Anonymous
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>>6150776 >some days it seems like there are like 20 people tops on this board total. There's about 30 regulars in the quest discord at any given time, and I'm assuming the majority of the board isn't in the discord, so triple or quadruple that is what I'd put as the minimum. Still not pretty, but better than 20.
RQM
>>6150799 Might as well! Though I fear it's a bandage on a bullet-wound.
Anonymous
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>>6150803 Better than sepsis, no?
Anonymous
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>>6150799 Anon, there isn't a single board that likes this timer. It doesn't do a single damn thing to spammers, but they still keep it. If you know how to go talk to a mod, I won't complain, but I wouldn't expect much.
Anonymous
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>>6150799 Good luck, anon!
Anonymous
>>6150243 >General question(a) Goblin girl (male) for reptoidqm.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Mon 02 Dec 2024 01:28:09 No. 6150946 Report Quoted By:
Man, taking some time off for Thanksgiving did wonders. Not for being well-rested, but for getting a break from the internet lol. Now I've got 12 days to work on the quest until its inevitable return... oh, and, happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone here!>QM question: My birthday's right before the end of the year so I'll definitely take that day off too. >Player question: >General question(a): >General question(b): >Miscellaneous question:
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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New QTG. Sweet.>QM question: >Player question: >General question(a): >General question(b): >Lurker question: >Miscellaneous question:
Anonymous
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>>6150243 >Player question: Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on?
Depends on the quest. Is there enough going on that's worth discussing? Is there a system that allows my plan or discussion to actually feel like it matters or is it just a mindless roll-off? Is the scene or situation described with enough depth? I tend to write in and start discussion in those situations only. That and when arguing in favor of a particular level up type option. Unfortunately that's also a high barrier for entry if you're wanting a lot of voters.
>General question(b): Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait?
If I'm out and about it's much harder to participate now. Luckily quests these days have incredibly long voting windows (I remember when 30 minutes to an hour was the norm) but it's been a barrier to participation multiple times.
Low Speed Anti-Divine QM
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>QM question >Player question >General question(b)
Anonymous
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>>6150243 >How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? Do you have any advice for aspiring QMs who might not have the same time management skills? Each of my updates take a while; the drawing, the writing, and the historical research. I usually take some time off when I am too busy.
Don’t start threads you can’t finish.
Have a rough outline of your thread and what you’ll cover in that time - plotlines, character interactions you want, that sort of thing
>Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on? I give my thoughts in the threads I play in. Sometimes what I think the choice includes is different to what the QM thinks — if I voice my train of thought, the QM can respond to it.
>If you could give one thing, even something immaterial, to one QM (including yourself) what would it be and who would you give it to? Something that can permanently remove sores and acne. Myself and as many people as I could.
>Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait? The 15 min wait-time for replying is annoying. I don’t use 4chan on my pc that much to begin with but this killed the idea for good.
>Do you celebrate a holiday this time of year? If so, how do you celebrate? I celebrate new years. And hang out with my cousin at my grandma’s place.
Uwuni
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I don't visit 4chan much overall, but I occasionally stop by QST. I wish I were more of a reader, but honestly, I try, and it's so hard to focus. I don't know if it's ADHD or I'm just retarded, but I struggle to stay engaged, not just with quests here, but even with books. Honestly, the only thing that keeps my attention is pretty pictures.
Uwuni
Also I get many many 1 id posts, whats up with that?
Anonymous
DetectQM
Gotham Beat Cop returns with more magical bullshit and a snarky Englishmen. Join us as we debate having a mage stuff his fingers in our brain.
>>6151071 Anonymous
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>>6151086 I've often posted from mobile to vote on yours, so that explains some.
>>6150875 Thanks
? Anonymous
>>6150458 >>6150799 This board is better off dead than infested with woke quests.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6151101 Oh good, an anti-sjw. We don’t like your kind either.
Anonymous
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>>6151101 think you've got a bad case of the old culture war brain rot
Adlershorst
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>QM question: I just assume my voters are also busy with Christmas than to vote, that being said, I don't really have to travel for Christmas or Sinterklaas so I can update I feel it necessary.
>Player question: I only discuss things a find necessary by the voting, I don't want to come over as overbearing.
>Miscellaneous question: Yes, Sinterklaas, Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Adlershorst Dynasty update: Choose whether you want to receive a vision from the past, the present or the future
>>6149964 >>6149967 >>6149964 >>6149967 >>6149964 >>6149967 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Closing the vote up in Ilvermorny in about 2 hours, so last chance to pick some options.
>>6150539 (You) (Cross-thread)>>6150539 (You) (Cross-thread)>>6150539 (You) (Cross-thread)>>6150537 (You) (Cross-thread)>>6150537 (You) (Cross-thread)>>6150537 (You) (Cross-thread) Anonymous
My congratulations to Spinejuice for finishing up Kobolt Klan Adoption, after nearly three years of dedication!
Anonymous
>>6151355 Good on him. I dropped out when people went the scaly transformation route, but it's good that he finished something.
Hopefully, i'll be able to do the same. If i ever actually get to starting my damn quest...
Anonymous
>>6151365 Are you the Halo guy who keeps researching?
Anonymous
>>6151375 No, different guy. I'm trying to find out how to solve the issue of my IP changing and not allowing me to use formatting which makes writing in a way that looks good really hard. No bold, no italics...
Anonymous
>>6151375 That'd be this guy
>>6150512 Speaking of which, progress report?
Scorekeeper !!urZ1qzDpXky
Scorekeeper !!urZ1qzDpXky ID:hFvLLZON Mon 02 Dec 2024 22:31:28 No. 6151403 Report Quoted By:
>>6150243 >QM question: When things start getting really busy during the holidays, I might take a break for a few days, since I figure that the players will be busy as well.
Like
>>6150351 said, so long as you communicate with your players, you should be fine.
>Player question: I try to contribute as much as I can to discussion if it's a quest that I'm really invested in. It's been a while since I've gotten that invested in a new quest, though. I should try to read more.
>General question(a): A boatload of money so I can retire early and spend more time on my writing.
>Miscellaneous question: Me and my friends get together, cook a bunch of food, and get drunk while watching movies. It's nothing too crazy, but I appreciate spending time with them.
Also, a new thread for Maximum Spider Quest is up, and there's something big going down in Monster Metropolis!
>>6151389 >>6151389 >>6151389 Anonymous
Quest where you are a space miner that fall in love with a prostitute on a isolated mining world, to set her free from this life you rob from the mob and go on the run.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6151097 >XI Justice, position swapped with VIII Strength (an entirely invented contrivance of Rider-Waite) As you probably know, in some traditions eg the Marseilles Tarot, the placement was reversed, so that it is not Justice but instead Strength before XII The Hanged Man. The Justice card perhaps alludes more to another meaning (Adjustment).
Incidentally, I re-read all of the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian Trilogy, the Warlord Chronicles. It is actually far better than I remembered it to be, I was particularly intrigued and impressed by this description of Law and justice in the Dark Ages, the law of compurgation; Bernard Cornwell describes how in the 5th century only the words of these witnesses in certain circumstances would bear any weight in judgement:
-A Lord;
-A Druid;
-A Priest;
-A Father, who speaks of his Children;
-A Magistrate;
-A Gift-Giver, speaking of his Gift;
-A Maiden, speaking of her Virginity;
-A Herdsman, speaking of his animals;
-A Man Condemned, speaking his last words
It is apparently based upon an actual historical Welsh reference, trial by Oath, or Law Of Hywel, mentioned in some historical chronicles. I think it is interesting to match some of these oath witnesses to the archetypes and tarot correspondences. In the novels this is the oath-law cited at the doomed trial of Tristan and Iseult, which leads to his death in trial by combat, and her burning on the pyre afterwards
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>>6151355 will have to catch up, dropped the quest because the pacing was a bit much with all i was going through
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6151365 We didn't even end up going full dragon. We ended up just a tall handsome man with wings and firebreath and a sexy musclegirl wife with a few scales. Anonymous
>>6151452 I remember reading in the lewd he made that his "equipment" was already replaced by dragon stuff by the time he became dragonborn. Transformation fetish stuff is gross, so i just dipped around there. Anonymous
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>>6151457 >equipment Was it? I never went back to re-read the non-canon lewd. Whatever he's got dangling down there is Paracelsus' problem, not mine, as I saw it, kek.
But then again, I'm in no position to criticize. Anonymous
>>6151377 Plenty of quests don't use it and it's fine.
Pretty sure if you don't delete cookies, your ip changes but still have op format privileges. Could test that out?
>>6151406 Souv spotted. What's your favourite Jojo opening?
https://youtu.be/-Gcj-pcFTbE?si=CocbvvZUs7GCQPoP Anonymous
>>6151440 and by that I mean I'm workshopping the name of some Pre-Contact Harvest / Early Covenant/UNSC war Ops targeting the innies, before you'd get your MJOLNIR
Here's a few of em
Operation RED-AXE
Operation DEVIL'S REACH
Operation SNAKE EYES
Also, thinking of including a sort of "Objective" system, to go with the basic d20 Bo3, like, say if you snatch some poor brute's gravity hammer and return with it, you might kickstart a reverse engineering project and be asked to gather more, similar covenant tech, as would your fellow spartan 2s of course, or, also in example speeding up translation of the covenant languages by various means. Including good ol torture.
Thinking I can find a way to introduce this at the start/ spartan 2 training camp section of the quest, just need to figure out what the objective/ reward would be there
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6151476 Solid operation names. Not sure you NEED to incentivize our PC during the training section. Maybe hugs from Mendez/Halsey or better food rations.
>>6151492 This one is good. Everyone likes gold stars.
Anonymous
>>6151475 >Pretty sure if you don't delete cookies, your ip changes but still have op format privileges. Could test that out I can't exactly make a test thread can I?
Anonymous
>>6151498 I mean, you CAN, actually...
Anonymous
>>6151501 Wouldn't it get removed? It needs to last for a few days, at least. Not a whole month, just a few days.
Anonymous
>>6151503 You could run a brief one-shot for a week or something to test out the formatting powers, or even start thread 1 (or a "thread 0" prologue kind of thing). Though it sadly never wrapped up, PKMN Quest (Gold/Silver) was preceded by some little min-quest about rummaging around in a closet and finding an old Gameboy as a sort of cold open, so there's precedent... Not mention Do Your Best Quest having a new thread every goddamn week. The mods won't care about a test thread as long as questing is indeed taking place, I'm sure.
Anonymous
>>6151508 Well I already *ran* a one-shot. I don't have any idea for another and I don't want to just throw out some random trash I have no intention of properly running. I intend to finish any quest I make.
Anonymous
>>6151510 Then a prequel, prologue, or cold open could be appropriate. Maybe a little side-story in the same universe. I don't know, I'm just offering ideas to try to help get you started. This is the best I got!
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>>6151513 I'll think about it while i ready stuff for the main quest.
Junky !amLSarXkOc
>>6149613 Haven't run a quest in a while, so I'm trying to make this one better than my previous stuff.
Should I try reusing the old characters I've had in previous unfinished quests?
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:7Iuqa+Jp Tue 03 Dec 2024 02:47:17 No. 6151523 Report Quoted By:
Now that I'm loaded up on hamoose, time to get back to playing Cutémon!
>>6151495 >>6151495 Anonymous
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>>6151404 He'll yeah borther
Anonymous
>>6151406 That's dope, gotta' save that for fantasy worldbuilding.
>>6151476 That leveling system sounds badass. Were you the anon in a previous thread talking about the Sanshuyuum equivalent of Spartans? We never really see much in the way of SpecOps besides ODSTs now that I think of it, some Space Delta Force/Spetsnaz/SAS could be kool. Also, more anti-UNSC militias, hostile wildlife, Covenant minor xenos, & unaligned aliens. A setting like Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter, Killzone, etc. could provide good inspiration as well for hostile forces
>>6151519 I don't see why not.
StrangeQM !fz3POlcgVk
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>>6151559 >>6151559 >>6151559 The Isekai Inquisition is back and once again the thread starts following the PoV a secondary protagonist. This one with much less of the good nature the others in the trio have.
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>>6151544 Thanks. And Yeah, I'm the guy whose going to be running the Spartan 2 quest and keep popping up to ramble about Lore. I brought them up when I found out about them, the Prelates. They're in my plans, as are the three covenant fringe species that we know about. I've been researching for a reason, besides figuring out the exact composition of Johnson's favorite brand of cigars
Anonymous
Want your guys' opinion. Between these two, which looks better for a header?
Anonymous
>>6151690 Or
Option B
Made both while Jamming out to shit like this
https://youtu.be/RbTK2Ap5c1k Anonymous
Anonymous
DetectQM
>>6150243 >How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? For the most part I work through the holidays and do a lot of my posting/writing during the heavy downtime hours I usually get when work isn't insane. If I have plans with family though I usually will just break for the day of the holiday and let my players know.
>Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? I like to theory craft or give some general commentary with my votes, when I vote. Nothing warms my heart like seeing a quest full of responses where people are discussing the world or expressing their opinions on characters actions in the story. It just makes the story feel more alive and inviting to know it has people actually talking about it outside of their votes. I firmly believe most people have something of value they can add even if it's just an opinion on a character or sharing how a certain scene made them feel.
>If you could give one thing, even something immaterial, to one QM (including yourself) what would it be and who would you give it to? Whatever Blue would need in order to revive Naruto: Feeling Blue quest. God I loved that shit and it's important to me that if he's lurking still that he knows I've never given up hope.
>Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait? It's killed my main method of interacting which is casual phone posting in other threads. I now just save a lot more of my voting and talking for the quests I'm really invested in and that I'm willing to eat the huge cooldown before posting.
>Do you celebrate a holiday this time of year? If so, how do you celebrate? Christmas, I celebrate by cooking with the Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby Christmas playlists on and making a homemade hot chocolate with cinnamon and orange zest whipped into the cream.
Anonymous
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Sorry about the extremely sporadic updates.
Trying to keep up with my art, my irl job and going to the gym has kept me too busy.
However, I managed to do an update today.
>>6116909 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
my body betrays me
Anonymous
>>6151724 I see you are a man of culture....
>>6151691 I would say clean up the side text a bit on A & it should be the one
Nothing wrong with B though
Adlershorst
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Adlershorst dynasty quest update: You have discovered ancient Not!Roman Google Earth, where do you want to go?
>>6151763 >>6151763 >>6151763 Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6151691 option B
both are nice, but you can see clearly the name there.
Anonymous
>>6151690 >>6151691 Option A is the better header image but the title is too busy and hard to see.
Anonymous
>>6151691 Title fits better here. First one is too busy.
OBA-337 !!4mnDVUrwiI8
Christmas Storkie! Been too busy with art stuff and college to quest sadly, maybe someday I'll be able to come back
Anonymous
It may have been a poor choice to watch Halo Legends again while drinking. The Duel and Homecoming still hit like a fucking truck.
>>6151772 Clean it up in what way?
>>6151800 >>6151802 Guessing its the slanted text (which i thought looked cool) or the black on dark colors (or the white text for the halo portion) that makes it hard to read?
Anonymous
>>6151828 >Guessing its the slanted text (which i thought looked cool) or the black on dark colors (or the white text for the halo portion) that makes it hard to read? Both. Add a drop shadow to the text to help it's readability. If it doesn't you'll have to figure out a way to make it less busy for the first image.
Anonymous
>>6151830 Well, its an easy fix. I'll see what I can do, since my editing abilities are admittedly shit.
Anonymous
>>6151832 No worries, not like this is going to be permanently attached to the quest. You can always change it at later points if you end up unhappy with the header image.
Anonymous
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>>6151835 That is also true.
Anonymous
Any interest in a Return to Moria type game?
Anonymous
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Anonymous
>>6151845 The One Ring is destroyed and now it's time for Moria to be reclaimed. You are part of an expedition that is going to reclaim it, an unfortunate accident has cut you off from the rest of the expedition--if any of them have survived. You must survive, defeat the foul creatures who now inhabit Moria, find other survivors and restart the forges, among other tasks. It will be an exploration, strategy and resource management type game--I think.
Anonymous
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>>6151853 Having said that, being free of any setting restrictions sounds more fun to me so perhaps it's just "inspired by"
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6151895 >>6151897 >>6151898 >>6151899 Grey Skies has updated again. Be there or sink into an endless ocean of darkness.
Adlershorst
Adlershorst Dynasty update: Decide how to use the Icantbelieveitsnotapalantir.
>>6151915 >>6151915 >>6151915 >>6151915 Anonymous
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Time for a roll in Ilvermorny quest, with two girls playing at being Walter White and Jesse Pinkman!
>>6151991 >>6151991 >>6151991 ObserverQM !!W1X+5SlTLqC
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>>6150243 >QM question: Holidays is prime questing time honestly. My IRL schedule is pretty busy otherwise, and I tend to procrastinate a lot on updates.
>General question(a): A reliable update schedule, to myself.
>General question(b): Horrid. I hate 4chan's new system so much but I'm not going to use akun or SV for various reasons previously described.
>Miscellaneous question: Sleeeeep
Anonymous
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well Kobold Adoption quest has ended and man it was a good one I will miss it. Since for me it was my last real tie to /qst/ perhaps now it is time to be moving on.
Anonymous
>>6151853 That sounds dope, you could expand on the setting like Shadow of War/Mordor do with Graugs & Ghuls, get inspo from Bakshi animations like the 1978 Lord of the Rings movie & The Wizards, & look at Warhammer Fantasy & Dorf Fortress for even more inspo. I would recommend expanding upon the wizards of the White Tower with lesser, mortal ones who descend academically if you will from the Big 5, who would be the presiding masters of their order. Lots of different Uruk/Orc/Goblin types you could differentiate. Horrible spiders & Lovecraftian entities. A focus on metallurgy & runesmithing for the Dorfs.
Anonymous
How hacky is it to start your quest with a dream when it's not really related to dreams as a theme?? I'm drafting my ideas for how to start my first thread but the introduction needs to show the characters daily routine since waking up, but just starting with the character waking up feels generic, no?
Anonymous
>>6152049 Are you thinking about taking the dream sequence to an "Oh, no!" end, then having the main character wake up so the players can make a course correction?
Anonymous
>>6152061 No, it's just a short dream before the character wakes up. I just don't want to start with that.
Anonymous
>>6152049 >>6152061 >>6152062 Make it a prophetic one, a vision of the future that also serves as an interesting hook.
Anonymous
>>6152064 Yeah see that was my idea but I can't figure out a way to make it "hermetic" and "dreamlike" enough
Anonymous
>>6152075 If you've got no good ideas for a dream, skip the dream, methinks. It can be a good way to establish a bit of backstory with a flashback or to offer an early choice for characterization, though.
Anonymous
if you're going to have a dream opening, have some kind of choice in the dream that establishes the MC's goals or desires for the quest proper.
Anonymous
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New Thread for With Great Power:
>>6152096 Anonymous
>>6152049 >>6152061 >>6152062 >>6152064 >>6152075 >>6152078 >>6152084 >DREAMS >a vision of the future? I think it would be cool if we could trade dreams on some sort of stock exchange. Oh wait that already happened, it is called, a stock exchange (or googl ads?) Someone saw the placement of midroll adverts in ASMR videos and decided it was s good idea
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/61680/1/lucid-dreams-tech-start-ups-trying-to-hack-our-dreams >When I meet Wollberg over Zoom, he tells me that the name for Prophetic AI came from a trip to Jerusalem – “I was reading a lot of theology, as one does, and whether it's Abraham, Mohammed or Buddha, these prophets received their prophetic wisdom in their dreams. The thing that I asked myself was, what if we could give that power to anyone?” >Prophetic AI’s Halo device works by reading the brain’s gamma frequencies to detect when an individual is entering the REM stage in their sleep cycle, which lasts for approximately 20 minutes. >“Obviously you’re going to use it for recreational purposes – it’s the ultimate VR experience... >"You want to sleep with one of your favourite celebrities? Not my business, go for it,” he says. “We simply want to bring you to a brain state and what you do in that brain state is completely up to you.” >“I do expect there to be influencers, or something akin to dream influencers,” Wollberg shares. “While they won’t be able to enter your dreams, I do think that we’re gonna build a social media in the [Prophetic AI] app where people can share what it is they do in their lucid dreams.” ***
Mace snaps. She grabs him by the lapels and swings him around, slamming him back against a wall.
MACE
Lenny! This is your life, Lenny!
Right here. Right now.
This is realtime... not playback. Real... time.
Time to get real.
Understand what I'm saying... she doesn't love you.
Maybe she did once, I don't know, but she doesn't now.
These are used emotions. It's time to trade them in.
Mace's tone becomes more gentle. We see that her outburst is, beneath it all, coming from a place of compassion.
MACE
Lenny, memories were meant to fade.
They're designed that way for a reason.
Lenny seems to crumple. He knows he has to let go. But it is so painful.
LENNY
Have you ever been in love with somebody
who didn't return that love?
Anonymous
Strange Days is a great film with a cop out of an ending
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>>6151804 Was wondering where you had gone
Anonymous
>>6151475 >DETECTED sshhh you cannot see me I am playing videogames
>>6152162 >>6152172 >Strange Days, ending I really liked this film, it was a truly prophetic sci-fi vision the script is James Cameron and it is Kathryn Bigelow directing it, there are some bdsm scenes yay To be honest I was not entirely sold on Juliette Lewis as the rock star singer girl, her acting is actually fairly good but I don't think she has the look though. Ralph Fiennes has a risible accent, but the black lady in the film is super attractive she is very hot. Also I noticed how Fiennes main protagonist name is Nero, hehe, that is interesting. What did you dislike about the ending? How would you have changed it?
Anonymous
After smashing my keyboard and mouse around like a chimp discovering a forerunner relic, the relic in this instance being GIMP instead of Microsoft Paint, I think I've improved bother potential header images!
Anonymous
>>6152215 And Option B2, since the original option B is still in the running but I wanted to make a version that was born from Paint.
Anonymous
>>6152215 >>6152216 A looks better, and I like the bigger text on B, but you might want to move "reports" so it's not right on the other Spartan's face
As a side note since I don't think it was talked about last thread and since it'll probably be some time before it's relevant, are you going to use Bungie's Forerunner mythos or 343's?
Anonymous
>>6152237 I thought Mike Wazowski-ing him was kind of funny, but moving it would be an easy change to make. Easier now that I am using GIMP and not paint.
And, personally, I prefer Bungie's forerunners, so when/ if it comes up in War Reports, that's probably what I'd use just because of my preference for it.
Also, came up with a few more Pre Covenant Contact Operations and some meaningful objectives+ their rewards for the training phase of the quest (To introduce the system + add some flavor), like I mentioned I was trying to figure out earlier
>>6151492 >>6151496 And some of them may even award gold stars or even greater prizes!
Anonymous
why does questing feel so dead, even on akun
Anonymous
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>>6152241 Because there are less voters, look at 4stats
Anonymous
>>6152215 Spartan 3 were the best, teenaged suicide soldiers only sent on the most impossible missions while hopped up roid rage.
Anonymous
>>6152244 One thing I dislike about 343's direction with Halo is that they basically just pretended the 3s were all wiped out on reach, when Gamma company were still around and kicking, to favor the 4s instead which...fuck that shit. The 3s were just so much cooler than "Oh but anyone can be a Spartan now :)" which also felt like a spit in the face of the ODST and Marines. Not to mention their mark of MJOLNIR looks fuck ugly
Anonymous
>>6152245 Yeah I agree, 4s were lame as fuck, it decreased the specialness of the Spartans when everyone could become them. Spartan 4s felt very pedestrian, there was no sacrifice or dehumanisation, Bob from accounting could be turned into one tomorrow.
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>>6152213 >What did you dislike about the ending? How would you have changed it? The resolution was too neat. the corrupt cops were quickly and efficiently arrested by the good cops, the riot that was about to break out gets safely diluted, and everyone ends in a big celebration bringing in the new year while the main characters kiss.
Personally I'd have preferred an ending with the riot breaking out and the protagonists slip away in the confusion, not with the bigger problems of police corruption tied up in a bow. You can still even have the kiss. But it would have fit the thematic principles of its noir underpinnings better with a more ambigious ending. In noir, the case might get solved but the real problems, the crooked cops, the mob, all that stuff, never gets fixed.
Its Hollywood in the worst sense of the word, unwilling to let the story go where it needs to but instead cutting to a concocted 'happy' conclusion.
I still like the movie a lot though.
Anonymous
>>6152249 My thoughts exactly. But the worst thing about them was their armor designs were just straight ass, which is unforgiveable.
Anonymous
>>6152245 343 and its consequences have been a disaster for Halo. I wish Halo would just die already, it should have ended with Halo 3.
Anonymous
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>>6152262 Reach was fun, invasion was a cool mode
Adlershorst
>>6151917 I need some extra voters to break a tie, so if anyone has the time to spare, it would be much appreciated.
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>>6150243 >QM question: >How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? Do you have any advice for aspiring QMs who might not have the same time management skills? I usually plan to have no activity on the day of particularly social holidays. It's a time when neither me nor plenty of people who play can be expected to have a lot of time either for updating or reading, so it just works out better for everybody. Even daily updates are easy to get one in one part of the day though.
>Player question: >Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on? I try to add justifications or comments on my votes, but what I've seen is that players aren't exactly eager to discuss everything and anything, and rarely change their votes. I'm not really sure why that is, but I do know that it doesn't really feel worth the effort to even speculate when nobody even recognizes that you said something, so whenever people ask questions in my threads at least I do my best to answer them.
In short if you like the quests you read you should do your best to spur discussion, the QMs really like it and it'd definitely help the feeling of the place feeling desolate, even if you don't feel like you have much to say or add. It's a hell of a lot better than-
>+1 And nothing else, where you don't even know if they read what's happening, let alone how they feel about the quest.
>General question(b): >Have the recent changes to the site made you less eager to quest? Do you sometimes open the post box and just close the window and walk away if you have to wait? I haven't been affected by them but sometimes I go to phonepost somewhere else on the site and, unless it's something I really want to say, I'm not going to wait fifteen minutes to post it. I can only imagine it's severely affected rapidity of discussion. You could say that impulsive comments aren't usually worth as much but any discussion is good on a board as slow as qst.
>Miscellaneous question: >Do you celebrate a holiday this time of year? If so, how do you celebrate? Crimbo
Tree presents dinner
Jingle Cats
Anonymous
>>6152172 >>6152213 >NOT NOIR GRIMDARK ENOUGH I see what you are saying, it is a fair criticism and I think your notion of the noir genre ending is probably more fitting.
I do believe this is the first time I have ever seen anyone argue for a narrative ending that needs to be more sinister more noir, MORE DARK MORE HARROWING MORE UNRESOLVED lol, this pleases me immensely yay yay
Hollywood happy denouements fully resolved happy endings are ok sometimes. You get this Nicolas Cage face in his interpretation of the Ralph Fiennes Strange Days torture video reaction gif,
>>6152162 except from the film 8mm (1999)
Anonymous
>>6152279 8mm is a different kettle of fish since the resolution is more direct. Its a vigilante ending, with Nic Cage dispensing a violent form of justice on the wicked. The ending to Strange Days on the other hand is a representation of systemic justice, not the direct action of our protagonists but handing it off for the good police to handle the bad police. The idea being the system works fine except for these few bad eggs.
The core conceit of noir (good noir at least) is that the system doesn't work, that the only vessel for justice is the private detective (or whatever form the 'detective' takes), a character of semi-legal profession caught between a life of law and criminality themselves, often working in opposition to the official representatives of law and order in the Justice System.
It's what makes it noir instead of straight detective fiction, the difference between Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett compared to Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle.
The idea of the detective bringing a violent end to the perpetrators of whatever evil he's been investigating as in 8mm is in keeping with the noir spirit, as well as its depiction of a fallen world. (8mm is underrated and was ahead of its time)
Anonymous
>>6152215 Need some space between War & Reports. Whatever you do, try to make the spacing basically even and it should look a lot better. Maybe put HALO at the top, then SPARTAN II below, then WAR REPORTS to the right at the top of the explosion.
>>6152273 Could I get an Engrish translation pls?
Anonymous
>>6151406 >>6151544 >Bernard Cornwell DARK AGES worldbuilding I read all three novels in the Arthurian Warlord Chronicles in two days lol, I was actually extremely impressed by them, I was overawed by the historical details (I looked up what a strickle actually is, all medieval games now need to feature a strickle. Retting. A pessary!) and all the novels are filled with DISMEMBERMENT cool battle scenes PAGAN PISS SORCERY (all spells should use urine) conquest and rape as well as nonstop mockery and ridicule of Christianity (I think Bernard Cornwell actually achieves the opposite effect lol, it is so exaggerated it makes you almost sympathetic to the Christians because he makes so many of the monks and celtic church people into such caricatures of venality and corruption. Eg, that scene where Lancelot necromantically digs up a rotting skeleton and marries a corpse in a Christian ceremony to usurp the kingdom from Arthur lol. But then he also has a few good virtuous ones like Galahad)
Also I was a bit confused by the tone of the ending, because at the start of the novel, the characters routinely witness and happily participate in pagan practices eg human sacrifice at the king's / Mordred coronation, but by the end of the trilogy the tragedy hinges on the characters recoiling back from pagan sacrifice (Merlin's failed fire ritual to restore the gods etc which turns Nimue against Arthur) so that felt a bit odd to me, the ending seemed a bit forced
It is sort of strange because Bernard Cornwell does depict realistic characters ie Guinevere starts off being a bit evil and dislikeable, but she changes; similarly, Arthur starts off heroic and naive and good, and also hardens, and most noticeably, Nimue goes from damsel in distress to psychotic evil horror lightning stormcaller plague-effigy torture sorceress etc So he can clearly depict character depth, people who are both good and evil, yet he also populates his novels with some almost comically one dimensional petty evil characters lol. The overall effect was very very accomplished to me though, I was awestruck by the glossary and historical research
The Bernard Cornwell Arthur novels actually assisted in me momentarily recovering a small sense of British national pride but then I remembered that the current Bretwalda is Keir Starmer, and his accomplishments mainly include attending Taylor Swift concerts, pleading for mysterious Indo Trinidadian Guyanese homosexual Barons to buy him clothes and spectacles,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waheed_Alli,_Baron_Alli and sternly warning Palestinian militants to "return the sausages"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFSBJaCXD8 Maybe I need to now immediately install that Mount And Blade Brytenwalda mod though, I have never ever played these games, hmmm
Adlershorst
>>6152285 Sure, from left to right
Top row: The house of Adlershorst, ascendant, for evermore, Eternal chivalry, a second high age, The rebirth of the empire.
Second row: Greifswald, a kingdom! The concert dances, and dances..., an alternative union, the crown is within reach.
Third row: home in the empire, the revenge of the order, an economic protectorate, the coming of the eastern overlords.
Fourth row: The ruination of the Adlershorsts, the fall of the remnant, an empire of steel and blood, the catastrophe of man.
Anonymous
>>6151544 >>6151406 >>6152288 >Bernard Cornwell, Isle Of The Dead worldbuilding I think the original book I read years and years ago as a child was the first one, The Winter King, I mostly forgot everything about it except Nimue and also how the druids hop around and spit before battles lol. But the Isle Of The Dead sequence in this first novel is so incredible, I think it makes for an amazing dungeon delving idea or framework. In this scene as imagined by Bernard Cornwell, instead of the typical mist Avalon fairy isles imagery, the Isle Of The Dead is a promontory where the Britons cast the insane, the unwanted and psychotic exiles and outcasts from their society; anyone who is sent there is basically believed to be dead and as having strayed into the Otherworld since no-one is ever permitted to return. Nimue goes mad after being imprisoned (it is part of her druidic ordeal, of suffering three wounds to body, pride ie rape and mind) and she gets abandoned upon the Isle Of The Dead and so there is an intense Orpheus and Eurydice esque katabatic sequence where the hero protagonist Derfel ventures into this exile Island, from which no-one ever returns, to rescue her. I thought this was an incrediblly thrilling narrative sequence from the imagination of Bernard Cornwell, it was completely different yet still very believable compared to the typical Avalon Arthurian legend etc
The Bernard Cornwell series also has some very intriguing moralistic interludes, here from the 2nd book, an excerpt where Derfel in full Elric Of Melnibone mode lol explains why all gods are chaos gods
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Merlin tells me that the Gods love chaos,’ I said.
‘Merlin loves chaos,’ Issa said lightly, though there was more truth in his words than he knew.
‘Merlin loves it,’ I agreed, ‘but most of us fear chaos and that’s why we try to make order.’ I thought of the carefully ordered pile of bones.
‘But when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,’ I said carefully, ‘then there’s no room left for magic. It’s only when you’re lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that’s why they like us to live in chaos.’
DetectQM
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Gotham City Beat Cop has a new thread:
>>6152302 Join us as we shake our head disapprovingly at the Bat himself.
Nik
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>>6150243 >If you could give one thing, even something immaterial, to one QM (including yourself) what would it be and who would you give it to? I would give myself good drawing skills
Anonymous
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>>6152215 >>6152216 nice improvement
B for the win!!!!!!!!!!!
>>6152273 ok!!
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>>6152283 >NOIR wow, that is a very rigorous and comprehensive argument, it is very insightful, thank you! I agree with it all, but I think it is possible for Sherlock Holmes to be a bit noir hehe, proto-noir even before its time.I think a lot of noir is psychological and plays with memory and narrative / witness reliability etc (did this really happen, or did you imagine it? In fact the murderer ... is YOU! You yourself did it etc muahaha)
I have read nearly all of the original Conan Doyle stories, but I also remember the old Jeremy Brett tv adaptations. There is one story (I think it was an amalgamation of two separate stories, whereas all the other adapted episodes are mostly faithful re-tellings) it is called The Eligible Bachelor but in the TV adaptation this one is DISTURBING it has some almost haunting gothic horror grotesque nightmare dream sequence hallucination scenes (I don't remember the exact story, but it is something about this disfigured bride / woman with a mutilated face torn by tiger claws who requests Sherlock Holmes help, her husband releases some circus tiger or something trying to murder her. Or maybe it was all a dream lol) The tv adaptation differs from the original story but I remember being quite frightened after seeing it. They really overspent on the smoke machine on this episode lol there is so much swirly 19th century smog, yay Also, I prefer the Jeremy Brett funereal look of Sherlock Holmes (almost vampiric looking all black frock coat, top hat and cape) this should be the look of Sherlock Holmes, not the deerstalker hat and pipe lol. This dark and smog enshrouded look is sort of what I imagine for 19th century settings, and it doesn't look too different to the 1930s German Expressionist noir either
Anonymous
>>6152295 >>6152273 >>6152295 Is this the fantasy equivalent of when Wandel durch Handel was replaced by Zeitenwende?
In the old Germanic myth if you sacrificed an eye and hung yourself upside down from a tree, you would attain great wisdom. As a counterexample to Odin All-Father here from last year (Sept 2023) is the chancellor of Germany, things must have become very desperate to warrant a return to these ancient teutonic rituals
Anonymous
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>>6152362 I doubt the origin was Teutonic in this case...
Adlershorst
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>>6152362 It's more like how or where the quest could head in the future of its timeline. Though great sacrifice for wisdom or power could show up in some of them.
Anonymous
>>6152215 >>6152216 Much better with the drop shadows and better orientation. That said you line spacing needs a little work, mostly on 'War' and 'Reports' in both images. I'm still thinking A.
>>6152239 >And some of them may even award gold stars Excellent.
>>6152253 GEN2 Should have just been mass produced Mk.V or
Mk.VI instead of the Power Rangers BS we got.
Adlershorst
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Adlershorst update: You did it, you have entered the palace that no living man has set foot in for centuries, and now you must see if you want to show yourself a courteous guest.
>>6152447 >>6152449 >>6152447 >>6152449 >>6152447 >>6152449 90s MG Villainess
>>6152288 Oh, hey, I added a strickle stick as a sort of ceremonial religious ceremony for the minions before dashing off to potentially die on their missions...
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>>6152037 Solid advice anon. I have to consider that and the game in general because I'm not entirely sure on how everything rolling around in my head translates to a quest yet.
Anonymous
How slow is /qst/? Is it reasonable to expect 1-2 votes per 15-20 minutes?
Anonymous
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Not really unless you post at a convenient time for whoever your voters are. Best to expect 1-2 votes in a couple hours.
Anonymous
>>6152637 not any more. used to be you could get three or four in about a half hour, more if your quest had some kind of external draw like it was fanfiction or something.
its really dried up this year.
Anonymous
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>>6152648 Ah I see. Thanks.
Anonymous
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>>6152637 I've been here a few years, and throughout that whole time the most I've gotten in 15 or 20 votes in 24 hours, and lately it's more like 3-to-7.
Anonymous
>>6152535 >strickle ah, I saw this,
>>6148828 immensely impressive historical detail, well done! I am afraid of your anime pictures though and I cower before them they are very frightening, noooo
But I did enjoy the level of historical details in the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian novels I like how the way he describes the landscape, it is entirely portrayed using the botany (ie old folklore names of the plants, wildlife) and all the period appropriate names for domestic items etc the historicity is very immersive. I also realised that he even uses the appropriate name for "blood price", I would have instinctively chosen weregild, which I think is quite well known but this is of course Anglo Saxon lol so in the Briton / Celtic Dumnonian equivalent would have been "Sarhaed" etc. from the Irish etymology for injury, insult, wound etc. I knew already of Camlann in Arthurian myth for the Last Battle, but I had not heard of this Battle Of Mount Badon and I did not know that Camelot was potentially derived from the old Roman name for Colchester, Camulodunum. But I have installed Mount And Blade Warband this game is so addictive lol after spending my first few hours being repeatedly defeated speared and enslaved as I failed to overcome anyone with my pathetic zero damage slings fustibalus, quarterstaff or club I have now looted a hand axe lol the game is now actually playable and enjoyable I am going to vengefully pillage all of these Dark Ages Britain locations muahaha
Anonymous
So, I took the critique/ suggestions you handed me and, Yeah I have to agree, both images look much better now with just a quick adjustment. You guys are geniuses.
Option A, improved again
>>6152369 Yeah, the armor just looked completely foreign to the usual designs of UNSC equipment, I guess they were going for them being inspired by elite tech, but it didn't look all that much like Elite armor either. It looked like it came out of some uninspired mecha anime or something, didn't feel Halo at all, ya know?
Anonymous
>>6152761 And Option B, with the background Spartan no longer getting the mike Wazowski treatment
Anonymous
>>6152761 Option A is still the way
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>>6152288 "Keir Starmer is Bretwalda"
That's fucking hilarious, his regime did murder an old man for criticizing the police when they of course defended Paki pederasts from justice, but I'm sure the actual Bretwalda is still a Rothschild despite old Jacob being sent down to Tartarus.
Anonymous
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>>6152301 >>6152752 Intriguing stuff, my good man
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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The Caretaker Quest has been updated!
Our new temporary protagonist just had a weird episode with Potter in his office, looks like stress is slowly eating at him, but what is making him that stressed? you dont really know, but you must now plan your day for tomorrow.
There are many options! what will you do?
vote now to find out!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Vote in Ilvermorny Quest as to if you are going to intervene or let a small girl get bullied; pick a fight or just walk away.
>>6152646 >>6152646 >>6152646 PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Thu 05 Dec 2024 18:53:57 No. 6152892 Report Alright, I'm going under for a week! I've got a lot of stuff to do irl til the quest comes back but I think I have a lot of stuff sorted out for its return so that shouldn't be a problem.Also, I've been doing so much external worldbuilding that I kind of lost track of the time and at this point I probably have the entire quest setting at least slightly fleshed out because the era was so interesting to read about. Fucking hell the 19th century is cool. Would highly recommend that anyone with an interest in history just read up on stuff that happened during it if you're bored.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Thu 05 Dec 2024 18:55:10 No. 6152893 Report >>6152892 *entire quest world, not setting. I had the setting down before I even made thread #1. Sorry, I'm sleepy lol.
There're events halfway across the world plotted out even though they'll only be mentioned in passing, just because I found it fun to theorize, is what I'm saying. Adlershorst
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Adlershorst Quest Update: It appears that the ghost is little more than an ancient roomba.
>>6152890 >>6152890 >>6152890 Anonymous
>>6152761 >>6152762 Dig them both with the fixes but still gonna say A.
>It looked like it came out of some uninspired mecha anime or something. didn't feel Halo at all, ya know? Agreed, though there was one good thing about it that I'm glad they kept for gen.3 which was the proportions. Now Spartans actually look BIG.
90s MG Villainess
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>>6152752 I'll have to read the books then.
I sort of cry though at the thought, I have so many books...
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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A tie between maximum bullying and keeping some people from bullying a small brown girl. Would like a tiebreaker.
>>6152646 >>6152646 >>6152646 All at Ilvermorny Quest!
Anonymous
>>6152761 >>6152762 I still like B for showing a team
Anonymous
How do you make a title card with a fancy font anyways? I'm pretty close to being able to make my thread since I've given up any hope of being able to get a static IP, so I should probably get a header image.
Anonymous
>>6153015 Find a fitting image, use an image editor.
Paint.NET , GIMP, PS, w/e. Most image editors come with tools that allow you to put text on the image.
Anonymous
>>6153016 Im talking about how to get the fancy font, not the image editor.
Anonymous
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>>6153018 Hit up Dafont. That site has plenty.
Anonymous
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>>6152892 >>6152893 Sounds very good. We'll be there when the quest launches again next week.
Anonymous
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>>6153015 Find a fancy font online. Look up a Photopea tutorial on how to make the text even fancier. Combine a fitting image in Photopea with the text.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
Solarpunk Cleanup Agent Quest #8 is live!
Last time, our protagonist had a face to face confirmation with underdwelling ruffians with reverse engineered Stormwatch tech, and a dubious source hacked her comms and told Fiona a heart-crushing secret of the Stormwatch. She brushed it off as a simple nuisance at the time, but now, Big Sister wants to know what really happened...
>>6153226 >>6153226 >>6153226 (sorry for being nearly a week late; I went outside once and nearly died)
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:fECW2ojt Fri 06 Dec 2024 13:57:50 No. 6153234 Report >>6153231 That will require a greentext.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
>>6153015 Something you wouldn't think of doing until you one day decide to give it a shot is to just look up the fonts used in games. Sometimes you can rip the font from the game files itself, other times things like "D&D Manual Fonts," "Darkest Dungeon font," the font of an anime title, and it will turn up a whole list of fonts used in them for you to look up the name of individually and see if you can get them, or find other cool fonts like that. From there you can rabbithole down awful font choices and realize the less gaudy ones are really so much more useful and you can do basic image editing to get effects on them to make them pop instead (like how I do my Solarpunk OP glows).
I like fonts.
>>6153234 >go to a music festival the day before i planned to post my thread >come morning i was shitting out everything i put down my mouth instantly and constantly >it seriously would not end >seriously considered writing in a private discord channel so i could be productive from the toilet and shower >decided to just stop eating so my body runs out of things to shit and lay in bed like a normal human fucking being until i felt like i could do something actually decent that food truck tofu was so good but holy shit
haven't been that sick since covid
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:fECW2ojt Fri 06 Dec 2024 14:51:30 No. 6153243 Report Quoted By:
>>6153237 Kek you got properly basedeboy'd
Good for you you're getting better though.
Anonymous
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>QM question: >How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? >Do you have any advice for aspiring QMs who might not have the same time management skills? >Player question: >Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? >Do you try to drive discussion no matter what? >Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on? >General question(a): >If you could give one thing, even something immaterial, to one QM (including yourself) what would it be and who would you give it to? >General question(b):
Anonymous
>>6126499 Vampires are the simplest to start with, which potential complexity that is internally and thematically consistent when you explore them.
>You have been transformed into a vampire. Though you have supernatural abilities, you are now shunned by the sun and must feed on blood to survive and power those abilities. Not only that, but there are other vampires who have formed various factions based on bloodlines, proclivities and philosophies. Simply by becoming one of them, you have been embroiled in a mire of subterfuge, intrigue and warfare. Ten times more compelling than:
>You become a werewolf, not because you were bitten by a werewolf, but because of genetics, apparently. Rather than being a curse, being a werewolf means that you are actually a genetically engineered eco-terrorist designed to save the environment from evil corporations that are actually pseudo-Satanic cults, but it turns out that werewolves are also clinically retarded and every other werewolf that has ever existed has shot themselves in the foot, effectively damning the world long before you were born. Enjoy your eco-terrorism and tard-wrangling. >You become a mage, but it turns out that everything is actually magic because reality is consensual and the rules of the universe are based off of what people believe and it turns out that all of civilisation is a conspiracy held together by a secret world order deep state who use the consensual nature of reality to make it more rigid and scientific rather than magical and nebulous. The "real" mages are the people who think this is a bad thing and want to tear down this conspiracy so that they can make their fireballs and immortality potions more easily. Enjoy your schizophrenic psycho-babble. So on and so forth. 95% of people interested in the World of Darkness either only care about vampires, or they want the entire World of Darkness package. No one actually wants a Werewolf the Apocalypse quest or a Mage the Ascension quest, just a Vampire the Masquerade quest or a World of Darkness cross-splat quest.
And no, absolutely no one wants a Chronicles of Darkness quest of any variety.
Anonymous
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>>6150243 >Do you ever not contribute to discussions in-thread because it feels like other players are more into it/more knowledgeable? Or do you try to drive discussion no matter what? Is there anything you wish QMs were more clear on? I never shut the hell up. You never know when inane ramblings might inspire or inform someone. Even just hearing the same take but with a personal twist on it might help you figure something out. I also like to shitpost. I will gladly put hundreds of posts about little to nothing in a quest I am reading if I find the time. I do try my best to keep it quest related of course. I imagine it makes people feel more involved when they get plenty of (You)s. And if it doesn't then I am annoying the shit out of someone and that brings me much joy.
>If you could give one thing, even something immaterial, to one QM (including yourself) what would it be and who would you give it to? A small loan of ten billion dollars.
Anonymous
>someone updates my thread to the suptg archive before i do >Barely any description or tags that would make it easy to find later
Anonymous
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>>6153363 Changeling is the best one.
Anonymous
>>6153385 >What do i even do now Contact LordLicorice (the suptg owner) with the thread number and what you'd like it to say instead. He'll fix it ASAP.
Anonymous
>>6153399 >Contact LordLicorice How?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6153410 ..Nope, I can't seem to be able to get it. It just says "On ports", but i don't even know what those 'ports' are or how to get into them.
Anonymous
>>6153418 use and IRC-client like mIRC or Hexchat
Anonymous
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>>6153427 ..I guess i'll try it downloading it tomorrow
Anonymous
>>6153418 Use Discord. It's easier.
Anonymous
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>>6153431 That actually did it, thanks
First thread of new quest hopefully tomorrow Anonymous
Have any new quests or QMs just start? Since I know my next thread is going to be the most popular and highly praises quest on the board, I'd hate to discourage them by blowing them out of the water. If you're considering starting a new thread, maybe wait a bit. Just trying to be considerate.
Anonymous
>>6152774 >>6152815 >>6152954 >>6153011 Well, its thanks to all the feed back and advise here I got that they look as good as they do now. And I myself am torn between which of them to use. Maybe l'll switch between them? Not sure yet. The Opinions on which is better seem about 50/50 after I improved both the headers. Maybe a poll would help? Don't know
But I do know I am gearing up to start the first thread, just got a few more tweaks to make & a little more prep/ hyping myself up since I am worried I'll fuck it up somehow, since I'm not much of a writer
>>6152954 I like my spartans BIG
Anonymous
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>>6153588 lol ok, Uwe Boll. What's your quest going to be about? Keywords?
Anonymous
Remind me, if i but [b:lit][i:lit]text like this[/i:lit][/b:lit], then it's both bolded and italics, right?
Anonymous
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>>6153597 yeah
doing [i:lit] [b:lit] [/i:lit] [/b:lit] makes it wonky.
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
>>6153604 >>6153604 >>6153604 The first thread of my new quest, Fog of War, is now live!
NewbQM
Odysseus returns to his Sisyphean task of trying to improve the galaxy in Theseus: a 40k A.I. quest:
>>6153568 Adlershorst
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The tour guide decides to tell you more about the religious makeup of the old empire.
>>6153653 >>6153654 >>6153653 >>6153654 >>6153653 >>6153654 Anonymous
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>>6153619 Any inspiration taken from Hyperion & Olympos?
Anonymous
>>6153590 As long as you can string together a coherent sentence and use a spell checker you'll probably be fine.
Anonymous
>>6153590 toss a coin ? idk
Anonymous
>>6153590 >>6153730 good idea, best out of 7
Anonymous
I want to run a quest. What would anons be most interested in?
Anonymous
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>>6153780 Any sounds cool, but the second is the most interesting to me.
Anonymous
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>>6153780 Unless you've put in a heap of preparation and have a strong grip on logic, the Quantum Break idea is bound to end with you being outsmarted by your players, or having to deal with players who think they have figured out logic that allows them to break the system.
The question-asking gimmick of the rune-caster quests seems a little pointless, without more context regarding how it works.
So by process of elimination, I think cyberpunk cavemen is probably the best idea, the simplest to run at least, and depending on how you handle it, burgerpunk post-apocalypse is bound to appeal to a lot of people.
Anonymous
>>6153741 >Thread 1 picture a. >Thread 2 picture b. >Thread 3 picture a. Anonymous
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>>6153780 Vikings just for the aesthetic, the rune divination mechanic could be interesting if done well too though
Local Lord
Holà messeigneurs ! The local lord is back, after much work (like some burger, eeeew) and even a lecture about feudalism I can finally write.
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6153993 Those darn Saracens are beginning to become a real pain in the neck...
Anonymous
>>6153993 Réjouissez-vous! L'ultime signe des Cieux célébrant la naissance du Christ est le retour de Seigneur Charles et de son scribe royal!
Anonymous
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With Great Power update
>>6154019 TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU ID:DrPQd28f Sun 08 Dec 2024 05:48:57 No. 6154161 Report Quoted By:
Hello qst, I'm testing out a qst with a system from Tyranid Girl quest, I'd love it if you can check it out.
https://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/6152417#bottom TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU ID:DrPQd28f Sun 08 Dec 2024 05:50:24 No. 6154162 Report Quoted By:
Hello qst, I'm testing out a qst with a system from Tyranid Girl quest, I'd love it if you can check it out.
>>6153559 >>6153559 >>6153559 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>6154156 >>6154156 >>6154156 After a short interview on what sedition the stranger that hacked your radio was trying to tell you (and possibly many others), you have been given a two day vacation. How will you spend this moment of respite?
Anonymous
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need some dice rolls here:
>>6154123 Anonymous
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>>6153993 >>6154003 Montjoie!
Je n'ai point le plaisir d'avoir ouïe toute la ballade chantée par mes ménestrels, mais il est dit que je mandate céans un trouvère pour me compter l'histoire
Anonymous
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>>6153608 >Pike and shot qst kino
Anonymous
>>6153741 lol
>>6153803 That's probably what I'm going to end up doing, at least initially, might find I vibe with one of the headers more than the other once its underway.
>>6153711 That is actually reassuring, I'm probably just making myself worried to be honest. The first thread is real close, think I'll start sometime this week unless something comes up.
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU ID:DrPQd28f Sun 08 Dec 2024 20:59:01 No. 6154437 Report Quoted By:
Quest has been updated, how will our bounty hunter, Bannermen, will quiet the classroom?
>>6154432 >>6154432 >>6154432 Anonymous
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>>6154414 >'m probably just making myself worried to be honest. QM's are good at getting into their own heads about things. Just have fun writing what you want and don't let it get you down.
>think I'll start sometime this week unless something comes up. Super. Looking forward to it.
Mawmaw !!leoMR44RyCR
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Hello qst, I'll be posting the new qst thread on the 10th, stay tuned!
Anonymous
>>6150502 What does a good fantasy quest need?
This goes out to all the anons here as well. What do you want in your fantasy, and what is a good bonus?
Anonymous
Yo Infliction, you still on track to start today or tomorrow?
Anonymous
>>6154549 The most important thing is a good sense of momentum and solid character work, for any quest. For fantasy specifically, I like when anons deviate from the standard templates and include their own weird little mytho-histories, and properly develop them, but cool lore is no substitute for the meat and potatoes of a good hook and fleshed-out NPCs.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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another update for The Caretaker Quest is up!
Something weird is happening to our replacement MC, her library card is already in use but she has never even come close to it!
how did this happen? will you investigate or will you leave this for later? vote to find out!
>>6122821 >>6122821 >>6122821 Anonymous
>>6154556 >solid character work Any tips on doing this? What do you like to see in a solid character?
Anonymous
>>6154639 There are many different ways to build a character who feels genuinely rich and authentic, rather than as a capricious plot device. I know it when I see it. I HOPE I sometimes do it in my quests, but I'm not confident I'm really qualified to advise you, desu. If I had to explain my best EFFORTS to do this, it would be that I try to create "solid" characters by defining a few core traits and beliefs. I then always try to link any dialogue or action I write with that character in any scene to these traits to ensure consistency. While real people can be impulsive, I think readers prefer understanding a character's rationale unless chaos is their defining trait.
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU ID:DrPQd28f Mon 09 Dec 2024 06:25:27 No. 6154677 Report Quoted By:
Another update for The Caretaker Quest is up!
After the orientation, Bannermen has another important task, where to eat for lunch
>>6154669 >>6154669 >>6154669 Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6154649 I appreciate the response. Your answer is what I was afraid of which is there's no way to communicate a method. I will try and think more about how characters would act in their respective situations.
Anonymous
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There's a promising skirmish that pop up in the catalog, which QM haven't advertised here
>>6154698 Anonymous
>>6154682 No, no,
>>6154679 is onto something here.
Infliction
>>6154551 Unfortunately I'm going to have to delay until later in the week. Some things came up this weekend and I wasn't able to do the prep work I need to get to.
I'm currently updating Cian's UI, so you can track my progress by watching that if you like! There should actually be entries in those sections that aren't just the skill trees (the Bestiary and Notable Characters and etc.) soon!
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:Fd+/NF4u Mon 09 Dec 2024 18:41:29 No. 6154897 Report Quoted By:
>>6154884 >>6154884 >>6154884 The Prophecy Names Me, So The Demon General Betrays Her King?! Forecast #5 Updated!
We learn some backstory of our favourite General!
>>6150243 >QM question: The holidays are rare enough that you shouldn't feel shame if you take a break for them.
>General question(a): Endless inspiration. For all.
>General question(b): Aside from having to wait to make a new thread, not really. My quest is not popular enough for the removal of ID count to be a problem, but I can see how it can be, and no reason why they did it. Not really a -recent change- but y'know.
Anonymous
Humanity gets invaded by an alien race and builds AI war machines after all the losses. It goes rogue and the aliens and machines fight over the ashes of earth while humanity tries to survive.
Anonymous
>>6154908 You are describing Zephon except that the titular AI was present but undetected prior to the alien invasion.
Anonymous
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>>6154908 >>6154916 Also, weirdly enough, I believe that to be the premise of Skibidi Toilet.
Anonymous
>>6154916 Link to the archive?
Bullpen !!h15+BsQodN2
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The conclusion to the Flesh-Smith arc needs some dice rolls in With Great Power:
>>6155010 Anonymous
>>6154940 Zephon is a new Alpha Centauri/Civilization-style video game.
It's quite good. Very recommended. Made me realize that the genre I'm shooting for with my quest is not actually Cyberpunk, but rather Cyber-Fantasy or...
Divine? Cybermancy?
Something I should've realized earlier, but eh.
Anonymous
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>>6155063 You gain brozouf.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>Run a Quest about criminals >Car stolen >Run a Quest about sailing on a post-apocalypse ocean >Water leaks in from upstairs neighbor's apartment >Run a Quest about managing Monke civilization with a focus on economics and growth >Develop a chronic health condition requiring medicine and expensive health insurance >Begin the pre-planning phase of a dark fantasy quest about bloody vengeance and insurmountable racial animosity >Upstairs neighbor leaks water into my fucking apartment AGAIN
Anonymous
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>>6155087 >You literally can't make this shit up lmao Yes I can. That is what is referred to as "dramatic irony". Not to be confused with actual irony. Or actual iron. Or iron. This is a well documented literary motif.
Anonymous
>>6154679 >>6154789 Well, how do I best implement sexy hags in my quest?
Or rather: What quest has (good) sexy hag(s)? Anonymous
>>6155103 Be a QM for long enough and you can become a hag yourself
Anonymous
>>6155103 >What quest has (good) sexy hag(s)? That depends on the kind somebody might like. Is it the classic hag where it's just an older woman that hasn't aged like a ruptured melon? Is it the meme hag where it's just a young woman but the number on her age is different, like the reverse of when an older woman says she's 35 but is actually ten years older? Or are you a granny chaser?
Anonymous
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6155115 If menopause hasn't hit her, she's not a hag. Simple as.
Anonymous
>>6155087 So where you the guy that shoot that Healthcare CEO in retaliation?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6155087 I'm sorry that happened to you, BQM...
>>6155103 Curse Carrier QM, Schizo/Narrator, and YouAndYoutWaifu have the best "hags", IMO. Whoever dismd Haremavania is up there.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6155103 >sexy hags Never got this, women really degrade at like 25ish.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6155151 I am not that handsome or morally righteous, unfortunately.
Anonymous
>>6155225 When people say "hags" they pretty much just mean a woman with big tits and hips that doesn't look like she's under 20.
Anonymous
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>>6155234 That's utterly retarded, but maybe I'm just being a 30 year old boomer.
Anonymous
How long should a new quest's opener be, more or less?
Anonymous
>>6155326 Long enough to introduce the protagonist and to get to a point where there is a decision to be made by voters.
If you can hit it in one post, that’s awesome. Maybe a little short, but snappy. Two? Three? Still good.
Are you just writing world building and exposition in the opening? Maybe time to cut it, save it for later. Give voters a hook and reason to care, and let it loose.
If you only get like a couple of votes on the first post that’s fine, update consistently and you’ll get more just from virtue of sticking around.
I would suggest checking the archives to see what some popular quests originally started with for inspiration, but it’s fine to do your own thing.
Anonymous
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>>6155225 Seems to be similar to the Japanese/weeaboo slang of "Christmas Cake".
>>6155234 Honestly, I have very little patience for people in their early 20s these days. Too emotional.
>>6155326 One or two posts, three or four if you're also introducing rules and have some cool visuals. As
>>6155345 said, don't overload people with extraneous details, though.
Adlershorst
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Adlershorts Update: In the search of lost technology, you find the schematics for some ancient torsion engines.
>>6155372 >>6155374 >>6155372 >>6155374 >>6155372 >>6155374 Anonymous
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>>6155326 About 8 or 9 posts is the norm around here.
Charya !!Mhjp6Aoaar7
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A medieval horror story in the cradle of civilization reaches breaking point.
>>6152987 >>6152987 >>6152987 High Zar Ivan the Unbearable
High Zar Ivan the Unbearable ID:Ppf0ptLj Wed 11 Dec 2024 05:26:07 No. 6155718 Report Quoted By:
The final battle for the frozen North is about to begin, fought over a site holy to the Ruinous Powers. Old & new champions, now is your last opportunity for greatness & glory before the Dark Gods!
Checkout Warlords of Chaos Qst:
>>6154329 Anonymous
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The Flesh-Smith arc is concluded, and now Hotspur is recovering at the apartment of his new ally Dusk:
>>6155644 Anonymous
May God bring back Trojan War Quest and Yet Another Civilisation Quest.
Al-Kimist !Joa6/cTmpM
Al Kimia Thread died. See you guys during my next vacation, but I'm not sure when
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
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>>6153604 >>6153604 >>6153604 >>6153604 Things start to get real in Fog of War as you; the young noble hero; are summoned to raise a regiment of war.
Anonymous
>>6155818 Thanks for the heads up. I'll be there. I'm sad to see it stall out, bu eager for its return!
On that note, whatcha playin', /qst/? We've seen a lot of false starts lately, but a few glorious returns!
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
>>6156137 >>6156138 >>6156140 >>6156141 >>6156143 Grey Skies has updated yet again. Be there or be pinned down against a wall and questioned by a rat-like figure.
Anonymous
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>>6156146 >Be there or be pinned down against a wall and questioned by a rat-like figure. BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6156068 >"whatcha playin'" poster posts when I'm on hiatus AGAIN RQM
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>>6156235 >"whatcha playin'" poster You mean me, lol? Don't worry, I always at least check out your quests.
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU
TestClaimQM !!QaPHPP/88OU ID:DrPQd28f Thu 12 Dec 2024 04:20:55 No. 6156298 Report Quoted By:
Bannermen must find a way to elect his class's representative, will it be through a tournament or will it be through a fair election, vote and find out!
>>6152417 >>6152417 >>6152417 404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44
404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:wCfc/Ufk Thu 12 Dec 2024 20:49:33 No. 6156572 Report The 1st thread of Halo: Spartan II War Reports, has begun. I said I'd do it. I bet some of you doubted that I had it in me to actually go through with it.
>>6156570 >>6156570 >>6156570 We'll begin by selecting the Preferred Candidate (PC, Heh) out of the four listed, who are some of the additional 25 Spartan 2 candidates that got butterfly effected into the program.
Hope you check it out, and that if you do, you enjoy it. I'ma down a whiskey and coke to calm my nerves now
Anonymous
>>6156572 >Hope you check it out, and that if you do, you enjoy it. I'ma down a whiskey and coke to calm my nerves now mate you're gonna rock it, I have faith
Anonymous
>>6156572 Glad to see it finally happen, and good justification for the increased numbers. I'm guessing the guy out sick was Colonel Shitterson?
404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44
404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:wCfc/Ufk Fri 13 Dec 2024 00:49:09 No. 6156661 Report Quoted By:
>>6156620 appreciate it.
>>6156628 That was the implication lol
Anonymous
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>>6156572 Finally glad to see it
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6153237 >music festival??? >>6151845 >>6151843 >>6151853 >LORD OF THE RINGS... for the new generation...?? A while back some anon shared some thematic dungeonsynth music links on qtg which I enjoyed.
You get this image, this is the next big fashion trend. I always imagined underground dance music like that iconic Blade slaughterhouse blood rave scene, filled with beautiful and grotesque vampire goths; instead, it is this
https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/65667/1/welcome-to-mordorkore-meet-berlin-s-medieval-lotr-ravers >What was the inspiration behind the night? >Naoki Stuhlman: We had developed a fascination with folkloric and medieval elements in frenchcore and psycore and other genres, and we had this strong appreciation for dark ambient music and dungeon synth, along with an interest in RPG games and animé that explored dark fantasy themes. (...) >The funny thing about the name is that none of us are particularly passionate about The Lord of the Rings, and about half of us think it’s totally boring. What we all appreciate is fantasy, a playful approach to medieval aesthetics and the idea of structuring parties around a theme. We share an appreciation for LARP [live action role-play] and the creative possibilities it presents but we are not interested in historical reenactment, or historically accurate themes. We wanted something that was playful, fun and other worldly, that was open for interpretation and engagement. >For us [who are a part of] Mordorkore, the idea of medieval fantasy isn’t rooted in an actual past, or specific literary or gamer lore, it’s a stand-in for an imaginary non-space where anything is possible, and normal rules do not apply. Mordorkore was the first name suggested, and it just made sense. Of course, it was meant to convey the combination of dark high fantasy with high-BPM dance music. But the central point that ties together the Mordor with the core is ‘dork’, the magic in the middle that makes everything make sense (...) Anonymous
>>6152288 >>6152752 >historical names for NPCs I have been nonstop playing Mount And Blade Viking Conquest hehe but I stumbled upon this random forum link which might be useful, you may have seen it if you have played this game
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/nafngift-%E2%80%93-get-a-period-name.237364/ Basically it is a compilation of historical name records for various regions and cultures, both male and female
NORSE, Viking
https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html ANGLO SAXON
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/anglo-saxon-naming-for-those-wanting-an-authentic-name.204889/ NORMAN
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/so-you-want-to-bear-an-authentic-norman-name.216536/ GOIDELIC ie Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Dalriada
https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/index.shtml OLD RUS
https://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/ https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/early-rus%C4%AD-names.302029/ The names lists are massive but I thought these resources might be of interest, I already have spreadsheets of various historical names but several of these were new to me. There are well-known online fantasy name generators that recombine these but I thought it might be interesting to see a comprehensive compilation.
You could use these for character creation or NPC naming etc
Anonymous
>>6156790 To counteract the accursed musical malevolence of this image, I offer this consolation, this is a very simple but elegiac piece
Sonata in F minor K466 Domenico Scarlatti
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5neQMIDHbgs Having watched the amzn Secret Level anthology dnd episode, this LOTR "weirdeval" medieval or Mordorkore trend is probably inevitable. Of the 8 Secret Level episodes, I squirmed and winced throughout the Dungeons and Dragons one (it is funny because they ran out of visual inspiration, they use the exact same moonlight Moria entrance doorway fx imagery from the LOTR films. Also why is the gold dragon that gets corrupted / Alien facehugger chest-bursted chinese? And dwarves are chinese now? But also black?? Black chinese dwarf monks? World Of Warcraft pauldron paladin lady? The racial archetypes are very confusing), the Unreal Tournament one was unbearable even though it had that hot Asian actress lady from Banlieue 13 (or at least a cgi version of her) the flak cannon was very disappointing, they should have shown off the iconic shock rifle plasma combos but it seemed to be absent from the film, the Warhammer 40k one is ok though I feel it recycled some of the sound fx and art direction from that famous Astartes youtube short film also there is a black space marine lol, however I will concede that the Keanu Reeves Armoured Core episode is amazing, it is the best one, unbelievably Keanu Reeves who cannot act in any live action film delivers an amazing performance in this one, the fx somehow managed to unreal engine rig his face mesh into believable emotions, I was very impressed by the Armoured Core episode, it is worth watching
pic related illustrates the scene of videogame culture entering the mind of the consumer audience, this is what amzn with that Keanu Reeves Armoured Core Secret Level episode is trying to achieve
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>>6156572 knew you would deliver
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Fri 13 Dec 2024 14:03:03 No. 6156962 Report Quoted By:
Reapplying my trip here so I don't forget when making the OP.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Fri 13 Dec 2024 15:38:23 No. 6156989 Report Poképocalypse is back!
>>6156984 >>6156985 >>6156987 We rejoin Walter as he spends a brief interlude inspecting a weird sheep and scratching his own behind the horns!
I'm kinda proud of the banner I chose for this one, I think it's pretty striking. There's so much good fanart out there for this franchise.
Anonymous
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>>6156989 Agreed, and welcome back.
Anonymous
Okay, I should ask to the more experienced people...how much do you think would be too much detail when it comes to simulating an currency system for wages and the like?
Anonymous
>>6157002 There's a reason even most video games don't get much more complicated than a decimal currency. While it isn't historically accurate, most players (and most anons) aren't all that interested in managing a fiddly resource. That said, those who enjoy it will really enjoy it... Unless it becomes overcomplicated to the point of interfering with your ability to manage the back-end and still enjoy yourself.
Anonymous
>>6157002 I will disown you if you don't have a table of coin exchange rate change over time due to debasement
Anonymous
>>6157016 I have a non-decimal system for multiple currencies with differing values (though I don't intend to make them all relevant at once)
Anonymous
>>6157002 Do you have any plan on what you are gonna do with interest rates and general purchase methods? Is there paper currency (and with that, IOU's)? How is physical currency accounted for and calculated? How is the banking system organized? Are there binding contracts? If the currency is still in the coinage era, have there been debasing events?
All of these should be a good start if you want to consider a basic monetary system.
Anonymous
>>6157033 In truth, while doing all of that would have been very much fun, I feel as though it would just drive off my players. So I decided to make it simple and just have it be mostly based around using basic 'coin' units to pay for stuff.
Anonymous
>>6157002 >>6157011 >>6157016 >>6157023 >>6157033 >>6157035 >HOE MONEY I demand all dowries and bridewealth denominated in flanged ornate metallurgical spearhead currency, hoe tithe for hoes is the only recognised and fully fungible medium of exchange and store of value
Anonymous
>>6157052 Even the spirits got hoes? GAH DAMN HOW DO WE GET ZERO BITCHES?!
Anonymous
>>6157056 >WE GET ZERO BITCHES I am convinced at least 30% of this board has a partner of some kind.
Anonymous
>>6157052 >>6157056 >>6157061 You get the Rihanna song BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY the other day I was watching some music videos I was researching some random fashion phenomena, I think it was the Charli XCX Brat thing (is it just the colour green?) anyway I think the music video was the one with her and Billie Eilish and they steamroll a million pieces of lingerie or something, never have I seen anything with so much underwear yet utterly absent any sexual appeal. Anyway this Rihanna song I don't actually know any contemporary music, Rachmaninov is a bit modern for me but I remember seeing this music video at the time and being fairly impressed by the choreography and cinematography, there are EXPOSED BREASTS someone is suspended upside down in that Hostel 2 inverted pose hmmm I was quite impressed by rhe audacity of it all. Here is dailymotion because youtube is disdainful of high definition mammillaries
Rihanna, Bitch Better Have My Money, featuring some breasts
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44eooc Anonymous
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>>6157002 >>6157033 >>6157052 >>6157070 Given that there are already derivatives for freight, weather, synthetic real estate, all sorts of exotic knock-in barrier options I propose a new contract, I call it High Yield Managed Exchange Note (HYMEN) it is basically an option on celibacy collateralised on monastic ritual and inveterate unconsummated desire. There should exist a market to bet against people having sex. You purchase a portfolio of these options as insurance against alluring female temptresses / succubus protection / expensive and debilitating romantic entanglement and you underwrite these options if you are supremely confident of your devotion to solitude. The contract is contingent on social acceptance but I imagine if the market became established you could say stream on OnlyFans and then collateralise your earnings against a delta hedged portfolio of these celibacy contracts to achieve synthetic virginity. Like tradeable certificates of maidenly virtue. I suppose that Josh Hartnett romantic comedy film 40 Days And 40 Nights (not to be confused with 30 Days Of Night lol the vampire one, also with Josh Hartnett) already did it, see that film for a demonstration of betting wagers
Incidentally on Josh Hartnett films lol I remember reading about the central bank of Somalia, apparently after the entire country was ruined by Ridley Scott making a helicopter film and Call Of Duty turning Mogadishu into an uninspiring TDM level, the denizens of Somalia adopted an entirely fake, counterfeit currency and the country was apparently fine lol (think USD may still have been used for large transactions). The IMF wrote some study on it
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-05/somalia-to-issue-new-currency-to-restore-central-bank-s-powers The Central Bank of Somalia’s top priority is to reestablish the nation’s currency, which will enable it to take full control of monetary policy, its governor said.
Somalia hasn’t printed new banknotes since descending into a civil war after the government collapsed in 1991. Most of the bills that were in circulation disappeared or became too worn out to use. They were replaced by US dollars or counterfeit notes, often printed or shipped in by warlords and businessmen in breakaway regions. In 2017, the International Monetary Fund estimated that 98% of the local currency circulating in the economy was fake (...)
Anonymous
>>6157002 Also anon when I was worldbuilding my COSMOGONY space opera setting I did a review of the existing literature for exotic currency types, some of these may be applicable, see this post
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5703070/#5734450 -Currency as basket of resources. Like an intergalactic IMF SDR, or Keynes bancor. It doesn't really even work on this planet though, because of political things
-Currency as thermodynamic unit; one approach had it standardised on energy cost to deliver X weight to fixed Y planetary destination etc. It is almost like that PRASM (passenger revenue per available seat mile) from airlines lol
-Currency as human specialists / expertise. You could see this in Dune etc, the shadow currencies of Bene Gesserit, who gets the concubines?, the doctor order people or those that could make the reanimated corpse people Gholems? and axolotl tank things
-Currency as years of life extension (if some megacorporation monopolises immortality technology) A variant of this might be currency as years of indentured servitude etc
-Currency as reputation, honour etc. This is an intuitive and popular one lots of authors use it but to me it is a bit circular/tautological. I am also not certain it fills the definition of fungibility or tradeability or store of value (you cannot "store" reputation, it decays over time because rivalry or your acquaintances die; also if you are allied to one faction, you cannot trade with their enemies? Defeats purpose and economic definition of money) It is mechanically interesting from a gameplay perspective though (Star Traders Frontiers rpg had an amazing implementation of it)
-Currency as computation: I saw this I think in Greg Egan novels, it feels a bit like elastic supply allocation of compute power hours hehe the serverless computing idea from hyperscale cloud. It works well with sci-fi involving PLANET COMPUTERS yay
-A weird idea I had is maybe there is just one planet that issues all the currency. The planet is perhaps some holdover from the FALLEN GALACTIC EMPIRE everyone just uses their sacred trinket tokens debentures or promissory notes or whatever because of cultural inertia. Maybe this could be the start of PLANET BANK HEIST mission. Need a better idea for this Federal Reserve Planet though
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>>6157002 >>6157146 >spacecraft UPMASS CARRIED BY LAUNCH as currency I saw SpaceX boastfully citing these statistics the other day, so I suppose as a monetary measure escaping the gravity well this is sort of happening hehe
I actually had an interesting thought about this, because in my COSMOGONY game setting I invented this faction with a lot of lore that anons chose to never interact with in the game lol but basically they are a SPACE CULTIST faction called the Cislunarites / Cislunarian Church, they believe that Gravity is a sin or a demonic entity lol (think, humans cannot Fall if there is no gravity hehe) so they strive to encourage all humans to Transition beyond the gravity well and live in strange cult commune microgravity orbital ring habitats
So after seeing that Elon Musk SpaceX upmass bragging, I realised, you could combine this with my Gravity/Demon/Guilt/Sin space cult lore. Because one of the nefarious old medieval practices was simony, or selling indulgences etc so if upmass becomes a monetary measure then charging money to escape the gravity well / burden of sin becomes the ultimate act of pilgrimage hehe.
Anyway in my convoluted demented lore worldbuilding I think the point is it is not particularly the mechanics of money but these sociocultural moralistic embeddings and value judgements that make it interesting, so Church Indulgences (eg if you are in a fantasy or demonic flagellant / possessed warpriest heretic crusade setting etc) is a good one, there are probably others but it is the act of social exchange bargaining and moral judgement that makes the money interesting not necessarily the tokens or underlying commodities themselves
Anonymous
>>6150243 Do you guys think there's enough meat in the topic to run a quest around an original Witcher/not geralt?
Anonymous
>>6157002 >MONEY in fantasy settings, and >The MORAL PURPOSE maybe to establish a unique money system you don't immediately reach for the Hamiltonians or Jacobian matrices or the international Fisher equation endless Monte Carlo fx simulations lol maybe you want to ask yourself these questions concerning the culture, society of your fantasy world
-What is abundant?
-What is scarce?
-What is valuable? Are there things that were once valuable, but no longer (and vice versa?) Why?
-Who determines what is valuable?
-Where are things traded?
-What is NOT PERMITTED to be bought and sold?
(please don't say captive slave girls. Maybe I chose too difficult game settings but I get rid of most of the camp follower women in Mount And Blade Viking Conquest now, those 13 pennings really accumulate fast in upkeep cost argh nooo the troop tree upgrade is not worth it)
Anonymous
>>6157189 >maybe to establish a unique money system Sorry, but I'm fine with a normal money system of Gold, Silver and Copper coins. Maybe i'll introduce the option to get bank notes to replace the gold you have to carry around, but that's about it.
>please don't say captive slave girls Of course not. Slave girls are for being childhood friends with, not for trading.
Anonymous
>>6157189 Bananas did a really good job of this with that Black Ocean Quest.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2024/6035566/ Used corals, which ere used to grow structures, with coins from the old world being rare and having ritual significance.
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>>6157197 Well if you are just doing the dnd gold piece silver piece thing, there is this table
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/dungeon-masters-only/79378-character-wealth-gold-by-level I actually use this as a reference when playing NwN2 modules in the character builder even though I think that the videogame is a modified 3.5e ruleset lol but the rough benchmark I have in my mind is Full Plate is about 1000gp to 1500gp so according to that scale you shouldn't be able to afford it before level 5 in a well-balanced game economy though in reality few module makers adhere to it in campaigns even the pen and paper ones lol especially if your trek laboriously back and forth selling every looted shortsword or leather armour. dnd economy is nonsense though
There is also a less arithmetically intensive approach, it is the lifestyle or weath tier approach, there is no gold coin "amount" basically all bargaining / buying selling acquisition haggling is an abstract skill check against a set of resources or lifestyle tiers to which you belong (imagine it as a social stratification akin to a credit rating etc) so if fantasy you could have some lifestyle tiers like scoundrel / vagabond / beggar, peasant, bourgeois merchant, landed aristocracy, monarch, emperor etc as reference, and your skill check against these wealth tiers, if you fail you potentially drop down a tier etc. See pic related Burning Wheel rules, which uses a dice pool obstacle (number of d6 successes, where fail is 1,2,3 and succeed is 4,5,6) Alternatively you could use that Black Hack step dice or depletion mechanic (ie dice step of d4, 46, d8, d10, d12 etc to represent wealth, the check is greater than or equal to some threshold typically 2 otherwise drop down a step die etc)
Anonymous
>>6157197 >Gold, Silver and Copper You know what? If you just remember that a gold coin is something most people in that time would never see in their life, and a silver coin is a significant sum, that would already bring a lot of authenticity into your money system without adding any complexity.
Anonymous
>>6157237 >You know what? If you just remember that a gold coin is something most people in that time would never see in their life Is that actually true though? From what i've researched, an unskilled laborer in Tudor england would be paid about 6p per day. A shilling (silver coin) was 12p, and a pound sovereign (gold) was worth 21 shillings.
Anonymous
>>6157238 A pound sovereign would be like a $2000 bill in today's money. There's hardly any practical purchase you could use it for, unless you're making a huge transaction
Anonymous
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>>6157243 Well, given my quest is at the 'high nobility' level, i'd say that's pretty good.
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>>6157199 I'm usually smart enough to not correct people when they give you a compliment, but on the Black Ocean pearls are the defacto currency as they are small, don't rot away or go bad, and are impossible for people to counterfit.
People DO trade things for corals, as there is a lot of bartering, but corals are more of a very useful material. It's essentially the only way to make ships as there is no wood or trees left in the world. Because corals grow in the "coral wind", they can be used to repair ships or grow new ones.
Anonymous
Just got back from a month long break, anything GOOD on the board right now? Thanks.
Anonymous
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>>6157387 No, sorry anon, it's over.
Krypt-Chan !!yhDW9T3WWhk
I accidentally titled the thread with the wrong number, can I make another thread with the right number or do I just deal with it?
Anonymous
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BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6157511 >Well, given my quest is at the 'high nobility' level, i'd say that's pretty good. You can't change the thread name once it's posted but if you decide to continue with the thread when you upload it to the archival site at sup/tg/ you can insert your corrected name/number.
I literally typed in the wrong name in the title of my first "Concrete Stratosphere" thread, naming it "Cement Stratosphere" which sounds way worse. Thankfully, the archive and any future threads I can fix it, so it's not a total lost cause.
Anonymous
You could do wages in a vague sense, not explicitly stating *how* much someone earns.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Sat 14 Dec 2024 15:20:32 No. 6157634 Report Quoted By:
lol, I'm glad the board's pretty quiet right now. I'm feeling the rust pretty badly. I hope things do pick up after Christmas, though.
>>6157511 You could've deleted and reposted the thread in the first hour or so that you'd posted it, I think. Not sure if that's a rule on this board but I know it works on others.
Anonymous
>>6157628 As much as I'd like to, in my quest i kinda need to keep specific track of wages.
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Oyez oyez nobles seigneurs, the Local Lord Quest is back, blow the trumpets and raise the banners, the fourteenth thread is here ! Saddle your horses and beware the mud and flemishmen let us bring the Faith to the Bifurians while late autumn, winter, and the first snows, are coming.
>>6157669 >>6157669 >>6157669 Anonymous
>>6157578 I just read your Concrete Stratosphere game setting BananasQM whilst vigilante narratives are not my preference I did enjoy the bit where the hero protagonist learnt combat brawling from Mike Tyson tee hee hee
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5826377/#5852021 but what is this, pic related, this is utterly unacceptable, it shall not be tolerated, hmmm hmmm
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5826377/#5842027 Anonymous
>>6157578 >>6157706 Also that Cheryl npc law enforcement counsellor lady in BananasQM quest
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5826377/#5831161 from your Concrete Stratosphere game setting reminded me of that Sandra Bullock policewoman from the Stallone / Wesley Snipes Demolition Man (1993, wow) film, tee hee hee. It is funny how that film accurately anticipated advanced future tech like in vehicle communication, veganism, iPads, that machine that monitors and fines offensive language lol also those VR sex headsets, yet it somehow satirically depicted future policing as friendly and less-than-lethal instead of becoming more military tactical gear fetishistic like Sicario, yay
Anonymous
>>6157628 >>6157665 >payroll management Is your ideal rpg ORCL SAP WDAY or Ceridian on demand cloud HCM software lol
Anonymous
>>6157714 No, but actually being able to afford an army is an extremely important part of the time period; you start missing paydays, and boom, you have the sack of rome.
Warden !!GZu3fE9MaLA
>>6157720 Is the usage of currency predominately tied to just the maintenance of military wages or can you use it to improve your army's equipment and logistics as well? Because if those are just your intentions then it's best to just treat it as a cost/benefit resource.
A functional example is you have 100 units of currency and you spend those units when and where applicable, while also having a running maintenance cost for the upkeep of the army in question.
The scale of the economy's function shouldn't exceed the scope of the game.
Anonymous
>>6157729 My concept so far is that it's mostly an overall cost you can use for stuff. You're not gonna need to pay for everything all the time, of course, i'm not *that* autistic. But the main use of money is
>Equip and recruit soldiers >Pay wages for said soldiers >Pay for supplies and ammo >Pay for anything else like mercenary companies, political deals, etc I actually went so far as to compile a list of the costs of all the kinds of relevant items in such a period. The player would only see 'It costs [X] to outfit an [Y] type soldier', but it would be running in the background.
The general idea is that you're supposed to manage your 'Warchest' well because that's an important part of the military campaign.
Anonymous
>>6157734 All wages will be payed by looting and pillaging as the army goes. EZ.
Anonymous
>>6157736 Looting and pillaging is more of an addition to the wages. Soldiers expect to get paid regardless of what happens. The only exception are when you get to big cities, but having soldiers pillage a big wealthy city usually ends in a horrible massacre that completely torches the place down. And your superiors might not like that.
Anonymous
>>6157739 Nah you just don't let the soldiers loot you let the -army- loot and thus all of that resource and cash influx goes to them and they use that to pay the soldiers. Instead of just letting soldiers take the stuff and then having to pay them.
Think like a lawyer. Suck em dry.
Anonymous
>>6157742 Trying to control a looting army is like trying to hold back a bunch of starved pitbulls after you let them in a room filled with meat.
Anonymous
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>>6157743 Sounds like someone needs better training. Or stronger hands.
Anonymous
Have you ever picked up and continued an abandoned quest before?
Anonymous
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>>6158046 It can work, but you really need to make a solid storyline and characters. Otherwise it wouldn’t go anywhere.
Goblin Assassin was one dropped barely after character creation and the creation of the first ‘villain’. I pulled through and made 2 threads out of it before running out of plot. Kickedstarted it again on my own terms through a timeskip.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Sun 15 Dec 2024 02:47:29 No. 6158104 Report >>6158046 That's technically what my quest is, even if it's an entirely different entity by now. Literally spawned from me bemoaning how this cool premise was just left unfinished because the QM bounced.
Makes me feel a bit dirty at times since it's like 2% "not my baby", but I hope i've done the concept differently enough to warrant stealing it lol.
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After a brief unexpected hiatus due to a few reasons and some writer's block, Ilvermorny Quest is back with a couple of choices before we get to the weekend and see what kind of trouble a pack of teen age girls can get into.
And now? some bullying of a small brown girl!
>>6158145 >>6158145 >>6158145 HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6158046 That's how I started my first quest. QM abandoned it due to stress + writer's block so I just sorta cannibalized it for parts. It started as a knockoff riding hard on his stuff but now I sorta transmorphed it into a schizophrenic mess of a setting.
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>>6157186 Yes. I don't know much only seen the netflix show. A monster hunting quest should do good.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6158159 Nothing wrong with that. I am using an alt version of a much better quest for my own, just because I love the original quest and the books it is based on. So, a fanfic of a fanfic of something a real writer made notes for it on the back of a napkin. I have something original I want to try and run at some point, but it was inspired by a few book and movies series too.
300-ish pages of my thing, probably 150 of lewd fics for the original; it is weird what is going to come at the right time and place and inspire you.
There have been some quests I liked that suddenly died that I would love to continue, but I don't think I could do them justice and would want the OP's explicit permission to continue them
And HeadQM? If you are reading this, just know your stuff really did inspire me to pick up an old hobby I had neglected for over a decade and I will always appreciate that, for it being engaging; getting me to do something more productive with my greater free time. You rock. And Handler, your stuff is fun as fuck, even if sometimes I can get paralyzed by indecision and forget our inventory or stats, ect. Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
this is a message to the the anons that lurk/play The caretaker´s Quest.
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>>6158248 Hope you are okay. This time of year is annoying for me, personally. Looking forward to our next thread. Playing with Willow is fun.
I demand a lewdfic of her getting completely destroyed in that way by MC! Don't make me write it myself! I will put in fetishes! Anonymous
Why do so many Quest characters have big breasts?
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>>6158279 Because they carry man's hopes and dreams, giving it natural affinity with the core concepts of a quest.
That said, most beautiful breasts always belong to the girl you love.
Infliction
>>6154831 >>6154551 Sorry to anon, my girlfriend just had to have surgery and I'm having to help her with recovery. Gonna be at least Christmas before I can get anything up.
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>>6158279 Mine don't at least. MC is quite petite.
Flat is justice.
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>>6158279 This may shock you, but large breasts are considered attractive by the general populace. Yes that includes girls. Despite what the media may tell you, even women want to look at sexy ladies.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6158243 >And Handler, your stuff is fun as fuck, even if sometimes I can get paralyzed by indecision and forget our inventory or stats, ect. Hey, no worries. I'm not paying you to worry about all of that. Just glad to have you along.
>>6158279 Big breasts are nice. I can understand why. (even if like 90% of my female quest characters are flat tomboys.) (except maybe Casey. It's more marketable to have big tits after all.)
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>>6158402 >Just glad to have you along. Just glad you are writing something fun. And now having done the QM thing? I am impressed with your fairly stable update schedule. I made sure to bookmark your archive since I know even when we reach the end, I will go back and read the quest again in a year or something. Picrel
For other anons, I'm going to keep the vote open in Ilvermorny Quest open for a few more hours, just in case, given it seems we are pretty close to a consensus, considering the number of players I normally have>>6158145 >>6158145 >>6158145 Anonymous
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>>6158279 Because uhhhh...uhmmmm....tity....
ObserverQM !!W1X+5SlTLqC
>>6158279 Cushioning during high-g maneuvers.
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>>6158513 Airbags ARE an important safety feature on all vehicles.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Sun 15 Dec 2024 21:58:31 No. 6158551 Report Quoted By:
Hey, I'm in need of a few more votes over on Poképocalypse, so it's up to you /qtg/ers to determine how to explain to your cowboy companion that a small black fox is a threat and why you needed to deploy a foot-long silk bug to take it down.
>>6158380 >>6158381 >>6158382 Go vote pls.
TercioQM !mnPIYfftks
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>>6158600 >>6158600 >>6158600 After a short one day break, Fog of War is back with everyone's favorite subjects: money!
Anonymous
>December >Still no news on UTUTU quest
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
>>6158641 >>6158641 >>6158641 Disappearing Hogwarts is back, and so is Atlantis! With them, perhaps, a chance to face Salazar and Merlin, ending their threat once and for all.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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>>6158659 OH FUCK! WE ARE SO BACK!
Narrator !!eK/DTdS3ONO
A question for players of Loveless Gal quest.
>>6158718 For would-be players — Loveless Gal is a partly slice-of-life and investigative thriller quest, set in an ‘early modern’ fantasy setting and written in first-person-perspective. If you’re interested in HEMA, history in general, bits of buddhism and their mythology, or cute hags, check it out.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=loveless%20gal%20quest Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>6158840 >>6158840 >>6158840 Solarpunk update, prepare some questions to ask a sleazy drug addict (that is your superior)
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Update, roll, and a choice in Ilvermorny Quest. Meant to post last night but a quick nap turned into 8 hours of sleep.
>>6158986 >>6158986 >>6158986 Anonymous
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You know, I just had an idea; lots of quests have 'best of three' for rolling, but, what if instead of a best of three, you were to take an 'average of three'?
Anonymous
If you were tasked with running a quest about aliens, how would you go about doing it?
Anonymous
>>6159043 Define "about aliens". If it just means involving extraterrestrials, I'd have the player be a space captain working for one of many space companies and having to wrangle their space crew to get the space task done for the space company. The most interesting iteration of the job I've thought of is claiming new planets, planetoids, moons, and other miscellaneous celestial bodies for resources while dealing with the hazards of space travel between natural occurences and hostile entities. Maybe I'd throw in some magic or magitech for flavor. I just don't have the time to sit down and make it though
Anonymous
>>6159043 Give the players alien waifus, then have fun revealing more and more horrible details about them and seeing how much it takes for the players to give up on them.
Anonymous
>>6159061 >players >giving up on waifus >ever I've seen waifus who were revealed to be literal kiddy diddlers and players not only kept them but actively ended with them
Anonymous
>>6159064 The secret is to go for the things the players care about. Imagine how funny it would be when the players stand by their genocidal pedophile cannibal through the whole quest, then you reveal she wants to peg them.
Anonymous
>>6159069 Anon, there have been cases where anons sacrificed everything and everyone just so their "waifu" could go out to have pit orgies and fuck women while they stayed home and watched like a cuck.
Anonymous
>>6159074 1. Seriously? Where?
2. The goal is to have fun at the player's expense, so the longer they hold out, the more fun you have
Anonymous
>>6159076 No idea, I just heard about it here some years back. Something related to a snake?
Anyway, spite quests are dumb. Imagine spending hours of your day everyday just to make something bad on purpose.
Anonymous
>>6159078 Snakes Ouro is an outlier and should not be counted
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6159080 Because he's an outlier, duh
Anonymous
>>6159082 Most quests that last don't actually have the waifu be a horrible bitch, and thus, you can only go by the few examples where they are.
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>>6159083 You know what, you're right
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Mon 16 Dec 2024 19:41:23 No. 6159091 Report >>6159043 Follow an average guy getting roped into a government plot to use the most "average joe" guy ever as a baseline to communicate with aliens.
Then have the aliens start taking that average joe's word more seriously than any other authority's and let the questers go crazy with what he chooses to do.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:fECW2ojt Mon 16 Dec 2024 22:14:25 No. 6159150 Report Quoted By:
New thread of Normal Cultivator Quest
>>6159148 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Looking for another Roll for the 3rd best HP quest on a board that has 3. Possibly a couple move votes too.
>>6158986 >>6158986 >>6158986 Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6159064 Petunia, my beloved perverted nerdy nonce waifu...
Anonymous
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>>6159271 One would think twice before having kids with a schoolyard scout like her.
Anonymous
>>6158046 Once or twice, with mixed results. I wrapped up a couple of them, and a couple I ended up abandoning because there wasn't enough interest on my end or on players'.
>>6158104 All start starts with theft of some idea, from someone specific or the culture writ large. As long as it doesn't END there, you've made art.
>>6158279 Authorial preference. Also, even when I don't initially envision my characters buxom, I notice artists I commission often envision them bustier. The weirdest example was when I was dealing with this Russian artist and I asked them EXPLICITLY to not give the bug monster a human chest, and they tone it down... Then just made her, like, E cup in the final version anyway. It was amusing in its own way and I shrugged it off, but I didn't commission them again.
>>6158620 Nor Seven Against Thebes...
>>6159043 Already did it: stuffed a bunch of ultraterrestrial, New Age quasi-spirituality, ancient astronauts, and conspiracy lore into a D&D setting.
>>6159054 sounds cool, though.
>>6159091 , too.
>>6159061 Did this, too. They married 'em anyway.
>>6158895 Oh shit, we back soon!
Anonymous
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>>6159317 Explicitly? Explicit. E. E-cups. It's all connected.
Anonymous
I've been doing a bit of writing for a Star Wars quest. I've thought about putting it in the indeterminate future like Stellar Turmoil but I worry the background I have might not be good. I know people are fine with alternate scenario quests, but I worry about splitting up the Jedi Order especially in the wake of what Disney's done with the franchise. Additionally I can't decide ship and equipment wise if I should use actual ships and speeders and whatnot or try my hand making them up when I don't have any visual skills to illustrate them.
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>>6159396 KoToR II split them up just fine, as long as your quest has a strong internal consistency, and you make it clear that you're following one stream of events over another, I think you'll do well enough.
As long as you can describe the ships and speeders in a way that makes it easy to distinguish them from any other one, I think you'll also find yourself good in this department.
Anonymous
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>>6159396 Hey man there's that one weirdo in interregnum lately who keeps making his own things even though it's apparently just stuff he's slinging together on mspaint. My personal opinion, especially in regards to the mega retardation Disney shows with the IP, just do whatever the fuck you want. It literally cannot be worse than whatever they are doing. And if it is it won't matter because you're not a multi-billion dollar company with an effectively bottomless budget and hundreds of lackeys cooking stuff up with you.
Just do what your heart tells you to my friend.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:fECW2ojt Tue 17 Dec 2024 08:35:37 No. 6159457 Report Quoted By:
>>6158046 We had an amazingly fun skirmish-like One Punch Man quest a while ago, we pulled it for a few threads where we all could write stuff and roll dices
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Have a vote and update regarding Ilvermorny Quest, tricky Divination's teachers, and lunch choices! Then the most exciting class of the day! Plus, probably putting 2 and 2 together next time and getting ADVENTURE!
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Have a vote and update regarding Ilvermorny Quest, tricky Divination's teachers, and lunch choices! Then the most exciting class of the day! Plus, probably putting 2 and 2 together next time and getting ADVENTURE!
>>6159467 >>6159467 >>6159467 Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
aaaand we are back!
The Caretaker Quest is back with a new thread and new MC!
You have to investigate who took your library card, a simple spell should do the trick but you forgot that it might alert whoever took it!
are you fast enough to outrun a magical spell?
Roll now to find out!
>>6159531 >>6159531 >>6159531 Anonymous
>>6156235 >Bananas STILL can't stop CRYING and WHINING Anonymous
>>6154549 Just a few things off the top of my head:
>adventure, of low to middle stakes, with hazards and opposition of varying degrees of danger >cities/civilization serve as checkpoints to rest, stock up, maintain gear and team, some eclectic aspects, maybe a festival or two, but are ultimately footnotes in the larger wilderness adventure >comedy of various forms speckled throughout, just enough to not overstay its welcome >darker narratives and themes explored, but without being the main focus >exploration of both mundane and alien lands >heroism through action, not lecture; whether by the characters or narrative >little to no dawdling, which also includes minimal affairs of King Whogivesafuck or Baroness Buttsex, or the Thousand Gods of Why and their Million Year's War of Neverending Status Quo >magical loot and powers aplenty, though nothing severely edgy or overpowered >mysteries awaiting discovery >political neutrality (or the undertones of a message so subtle they're barely visible) >strange animals, monsters, nomads, plants, and vagabonds >virtue, in earnest, in healthy doses PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Tue 17 Dec 2024 17:21:30 No. 6159625 Report >post third thread >immediately contract a fever sorry if my prose takes a hit. My throat feels like a third-degree burn and I can't stop coughing. Brains are dripping out of my nose. Still gonna update because it's fun and keeps my brain alive
>>6154549 Seconding the first and third replies to your post with the caveat that low to middle stakes can get boring sometimes, I much prefer a linear progression curve. Start out very small then progress very slowly. Make your audience fight gods by thread 50 but don't let them notice it
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Summoning Forgotten to see if we have a proper date for the return of BCQ2230.
I remember him saying there is a possibility of the hiatus extending into the New Year, but I really want to violently murder xenos. >>6159625 The famed QM curse takes another soul
Anonymous
>>6159608 >though nothing severely edgy or overpowered >he doesn't want to face the dark king slaughterkill butchermurder the fifth jr. wielder of the sword ten-thousand-soul-slayer-of-eternal-night on top of castle deathskull under a sky of fire Fucking
LAME
Anonymous
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>>6159683 You've inspired me to load up a Gloryhammer vdieo, anon.
Anonymous
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>>6159043 Aside from imagining badass ground invasions, gimme a day or two for the finals and I'll come and get back to work.
Anonymous
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>>6159594 Crying and whining is a fine and noble tradition. It's just not worth it to do so over not being on my lame tier list, lol.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Wed 18 Dec 2024 17:37:45 No. 6160404 Report Do other QMs change their music to fit the mood of their scenes?Except for scenery. I keep forgetting to describe scenery lol. Especially during fights. Takes like three rewrites to remember that only I can see with my mind's eye.
Anonymous
>It's a "player posts mid update" episode >They don't even bother to delete it
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>>6160470 >oh no, people are actively engaging with each other in my quest Wow, it must really suck to have posters. What a shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym8N5vnGZ58 Anonymous
>>6160476 Have you considered waiting until the QM has finished posting? Or at least deleting your post if it ended up in the middle of an update?
Anonymous
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>>6160479 No. Because I'm evil.
[GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6160487 >>6160488 >>6160489 >>6160490 Grey Skies has updated. Be there or be chewed out by your hawk-like superior.
Anonymous
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>>6160479 being more serious, if you're really worried about it put a "cont" or 1/x at the end of your post to denote there is more. Sometimes people will post a single second after you have. Most people don't use the delete function because you have to wait a minute to use it and then repost and it's just a hassle. Ultimately it isn't that big a deal. I never got mad when it happened to me at least. [GreyQM] !!93/W3iuzIST
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>>6159625 Hope you get well soon, QM. I thoroughly enjoy your quest.
>>6160404 While I usually listen to all kinds of stuff, I practically limit myself to classical music when writing my quest. Nothing else lets me concentrate well enough to write proper prose. It's also lead me to discover many new artists within the genre. Might as well share one.
Johann Strauss I (the Elder) has some very well put-together compositions which are usually overlooked in favour of his son's work. I recommend listening to the 25-volume "Johann Strauss I: Edition" album series. Displays his work quite well.
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>>6160470 >>6160479 I have never once cared about that in my quest, except MAYBE if it was a big wall of text. It's usually not, and if it is, I delete my post and then repost that, instead, if I'm feeling anal enough.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Have a vote on if you should take a hit of goblin pipe-weed with your kind of hippy, though very competent Divination teacher after learning some... disconcerting information about how your soul is fucked up in Ilvermorny Quest!
Picrel >>6160945 >>6160945 >>6160945 Anonymous
>>6160479 we can delete our posts?
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6160953 Have to wait like a minute, then you only have like 5 minutes to do it. IDK, if you are on mobile, might be harder. I highly suggest getting Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey on your browser, installing 4chanX. Makes it a bit easier to do, IMHO; that extension also lets you see deleted posts as well as a bunch of other nice things. Used 4chanX for so long, I am spoiled.
Click the little radio button on your post. Go to bottom right of thread. Hit the delete button.
Boom.
Yes I know, lurk moar, spoon-feeding, ect but this is a small board. Might as well be hospitable. BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>6160470 It's very annoying when it happens, and I've very rarely seen someone actually delete their post when they chop up and update; I find this strange because whenever I post on the 4chans I always refresh just to make sure it went through so you'd think they'd see it, but maybe they don't know about post deletion or aren't paying attention.
The best thing you can do is post on a consistent update schedule. I've noticed that near my normal update times people tend to slow down a lot as if in anticipation; though sometimes this is just because there is nothing left to talk about. Finally, if I post my first part of an update and see somebody post right after me, I'll just go ahead and delete/repost my first post under their message so at least it's all together. It's not feasible to do if they chop up the update 2/3 posts in but most people don't do that as once they see the first post they wait until the update is over.
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>>6157002 >>6157189 >>6157197 >FEMALE SLAVE GIRLS literally the currency of Ireland I am super addicted to Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest from the Brytenwalda dev studio this videogame is so incredible lol, the sounds when you order a shield wall with the throwing spears and arrows whistling overhead and they even bash their shields hehe and then you scythe down all opponents from the flanks it is so satisfying yay
Anyway I have been inspired by reading a lot of Dark Ages legal sources, there is a disputed theory that coinage in this era 9th, 10th century may mostly have been used for paying fines and taxes, the actual economy may not have been monetised, though there are some arguments that also contradict this. I also learnt about Frisia and Dorestad lol (basically Netherlands, but Germanic) I had never heard of these places before but the game portrays them as the glitch / infinite money wool exploit vast wealth trading centres tee hee hee. Also I like keeping cows in my inventory alongside a collection of swords spears and axes, the cows give you free butter yay
Maybe the path of viking plunderer rapist slave trader is wrong, maybe becoming a BUTTER MERCHANT is the way
Here is an extract I found from Cain Adomnain, or Lex Innocentium promulgated by Iona Abbey amongst the Gaelic and Pictish Kings in 697 AD. It is essentially like the UN and the Geneva Convention, don't murder noncombatants except you can ravish women if you pay some milking cows as a fine afterwards. I looked up what currency this "cumal" (cum...?) is worth it is apparently one female bondservant or SLAVE GIRL, three cumals approximately the worth of one milking cow, this is the price of maidenly virtue
https://web.archive.org/web/20150708182128/http://travels-in-time.net/e/scotland12arteng.htm (excerpt from Cain Adomnain, The Law Of The Innocents 697 AD)
50: If there is rape of a girl, seven half-cumals is the fine for it. If a hand is laid on her, or on her girdle, ten ounces is the fine for it. If a hand is put under her clothing to her shame, three ounces and seven cumals is the fine for it....
51: If someone makes a good woman blush, by denying her children's paternity, accusing her of concupiscence, seven cumals is the fine for it, down to but not including the wife of an ordinary lord. Seven half-cumals if she is the wife of an ordinary lord. From there down to the wife of a chieftain, seven ounces.
This source gives the exchange
1 milch cow = 3 Cumhal (female slave) = 1 ounce of silver
https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/tag/cumal/ Anonymous
>>6160470 1st time seeing a qm bitching about it
Anonymous
Fanon
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Reading "Spartan II War Reports" really makes me want to see the continuance of Halo Wolfpack. Hopefully Thunderhead will be back again soon.
ObserverQM !!W1X+5SlTLqC
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>>6160470 I'm always grateful for votes, and I'm happy whenever it happens since it shows my players are engaged. I usually apologize to them that I'm not able to count their vote for the current update.
RQM
Souv, fix the stock market pls. I can't commission more art unless this bounces back.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:fECW2ojt Thu 19 Dec 2024 20:31:49 No. 6161151 Report >>6161127 >Oh no, End of december Spy (which always seems to take a plunge) is lower than mid-november; Oh the economy Admit it, you loaded 0DTE calls.
Anonymous
>>6161151 Nah, just a rehular amateur investor portfolio on a generic trading site.
Anonymous
Anonymous
don't know if this is exactly /qtg/ related but what's this in the suptg archive? I can't tell if its spam or its that unwanted
Anonymous
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>>6161383 Probably some /tg/ shitflinging
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>>6161383 Were I to guess it's somebody who hates those threads or is a bitter former contributor that's meticulously votebombing each one.
That or if I were to look in the threads I'd find something unexpectedly ass.
Indonesian Gentleman
>>6158279 Bobs attract, simply put.
Then again, having boobs doesn't mean the character will be interesting, and vice versa.
>>6159043 SPACE OPERA HO! Crew of a scrappy lil ship that gets into shenanigans. Or a civ quest. Waifus abound, if you're brave enough.
>>6161383 The usual spite-powered bot war.
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>>6161529 >The usual spite-powered bot war. War has changed. It's not just autists flinging shit at each other for ten hours a day any more. Now there are drones. Hired mercs from the "istans". Shitposting is a business now.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
>>6161535 >>6161535 >>6161535 Solarpunk update! You invite your dutch friend to talk to a tree. He's probably too into trees.
Anonymous
>>6161564 Is that a chocolate coin (modo: star)? Nice.
Anonymous
>>6161127 >>6161151 >>6161158 >FIX THE STOCK MARKET I tried to do this anon I am sorry but I feel like there are too many Russians in the way, you must first fight all of Russia otherwise spx will be ruined sorry
Of course the default reaction of most people (even some professional investors) is to look at a stock chart, visually measure the distance from the peak to the bottom or bottom to the top, and think ooohh I missed this or oohhh I could have made this etc. this is a behavioural error In reality this almost never happens, it would be impressive if you bought or sold anywhere near 200dma lol it is why day traders all lose money from over trading, most long only buyside institution portfolios barely churn or turnover at all the fund managers just browse the internet doing no work or fly around on holiday I mean attend important CEO conferences (see UNH investor event)
>>6156788 >>6155151 If you want to manage your own wealth moderately seriously, the basic CFA thing offers an outline or framework, you should establish your return objective, risk objective (it can be standard deviation or even something more simple like max drawdown) liquidity requirements and time horizon.
Just write down all of this, what money requirements inflows and outflows you anticipate over say 10-15 or even 20 years etc. and then compare this to the returns and volatilities achievable in the market. (There are also tax issues, I am not an expert on that get an accountant). If you adopt this level of planning and foresight you will attain better stewardship over your own wealth instead of the short-termism daytrading mentality etc. Another thing to remember which a lot of people never mention to young people early on in your career, but typically your lifetime earnings growth will flatten around 30-35 years of age (basically, unless you are super exceptional or some devious Machiavellian corporate assassin, many people in terms of income growth / earnings will not see salary growth around 35yrs age or so, this is just obvious because those early salary growth rates promotions cannot continue forever). So if you are younger or starting your professional career when you make your lifetime earnings and savings and costs planning extrapolation, you should take this into account etc.
Anonymous
>>6161583 Souv, care to discuss investment strategy privately? Got a mail or a discord where I can reach you?
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>>6161583 >(There are also tax issues, I am not an expert on that get an accountant). >motherfucker is in the money business >cannot into taxes Every goddamn time. CLOCKWORK
Anonymous
>>6161584 >They always ask Souv for financial advice but not me Anonymous
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>>6161587 Well give me your mail or contact.
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>>6161584 hehe anon I worked with long-only institutional portfolios in the past, mostly corporate pension funds, some charities and foundations etc I don't have any experience managing private individual wealth (especially regarding intricate tax, inheritance, health/family considerations) I don't really follow financial markets that closely anymore except when just browsing and harvesting for amusing memes, I am not sure if my antiquated techniques of analytical haruspicy, tarot cards and econometric divination from the flight of birds is still applicable anymore to modern capital markets
I would generally advise people to save more and to avoid daytrading, I don't think it is healthy lol (you can also just googl search the latest statistics from various brokerages on the percent of daytraders who lose money, you will see why they aggressively promote advertise and encourage it lol it is a great source of revenue for them)
Most financial management is just planning, your forecasts or plans don't even have to be very accurate it is more the thought process and introspection that helps you to anticipate and discipline your own emotional response to various scenarios (not just oh my god nvda went down I must sell everything, or I missed it now I must buy everything!!aahh!) but I wish you good luck anon I hope the markets favour you
Anonymous
>>6161587 In fairness, I didn't actually ask for advice, but rather juat flippantly quipped about the "vampire sorcerer" and his powers.
>>6161583 Legit pretty good advice, though. Thank you!
Even with the recent downturn, following a lot of this thinking and similar strategies (and a lot of good luck) kept me riding pretty high this last year, which enabled splurges like the King & Queen of /QST/ bonuses and gift art for QMs. Anonymous
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>>6161587 BananasQM are you also a practioner of the vile and accursed arts of VAMPIRE SORCERY? argh nooo there is no escape nooooo
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
The Caretaker Quest has a new update!
As it turns out, Magic aint got shit against the Muggle power of PARKOUR, at least when it comes to our temporal female protagonist.
Now, you are deep in the Slytherin common room, what will you find in there?
Pick your choice and roll to find out!
>>6159531 >>6159531 >>6159531 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>6161578 Yeah but I didn't draw it
I should do drawing but I've been so fucking slow and nocturnal lately I don't want to delay my updates any more than usual
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:Fd+/NF4u Fri 20 Dec 2024 15:03:49 No. 6161642 Report Quoted By:
The Prophecy Names Me, So The Demon General Betrays Her King?! has be updated.
>>6161638 >>6161638 >>6161638 If you give it a look Miranna might give you a present.
It's someone's skull, don't worry about it. IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6161596 >King & Queen of /QST/ Still sad our girl Arty couldn't even get the consolation prize, but it was a bunch of fun. Hope we do it again next year or even year after if we dont have enough new contestants. Did spawn this amazing pic from Kektus at least as well leggy Arty from OlympusQM. I personally regret not holding my bitcoin a bit longer, as far as financial stuff goes.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Sat 21 Dec 2024 00:19:36 No. 6161844 Report Quoted By:
I have come to proudly announce that Walter finally made it to Sacramento!!! It only took
*checks watch*
2 and a half threads!! Yay!!!!!
Now go push him around someplace if you wanna!
Or don't! I don't care much either way, I just wanted to announce that he finally got there! Fuck me man, I've spent so long writing in anticipation of it, feels great to finally be there. >>6161836 >>6161838 >>6161839 >>6161840 >>6161841 IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
>>6161664 >pic holy shit, i completely forgot about that doodle, brings back salty memories, ngl
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6162073 Yeah. I was sad. But that image makes me smile. For one, it is cute. Two, the racist Burger King crown meme. Three, I have worn one of those around while doing exams on patients with "King of [Hospital Name]" name written on a piece of paper and taped to it for like half a day before; picrel after I started doing it that day.
Good times.
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>>6150243 >How do you carve out around the holidays (or whenever you're busy) for questing, or do you just take a break? Do you have any advice for aspiring QMs who might not have the same time management skills? More often I just take a break, but there's always time in the day if you make it. One of the best ways to timesave is to prep. You generally have an idea of where a quest is going, so you can pregame and get it ready for revision and post.
>Player Question Yes. I usually ignore longrunner quests if I feel I can't catch up. Bad habit of mine.
>General Question (a) I'd like some drawing skills for me, but that sounds greedy. SO I want to give
>>6150502 a GOOD fantasy quest.
>General Question (b) Not really, but only because I have a Pass (I like having my VPN). I've been dodging starting a new quest or restarting one of my old ones because I need to work on my art and my schedule.
>Miscellaneous question: Yeah, I celebrate Christmas and New Years
Anonymous
What's everyone's favourite moment in /qst/ history? Not talking about the quests themselves but rather board drama. Someone shitposting so hard that a QM quits, a QM samefagging their own votes and accidentally forgetting their id/name/tripcode, an unbelievable dice roll or series of rolls, that sort of thing. Feel like I've missed a lot of that stuff.
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:fECW2ojt Sat 21 Dec 2024 14:48:36 No. 6162219 Report >>6162209 Trannyspammer ban
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>>6162209 Rolling a critical failure while Mikhail was fucking Darzi. Instead of the sex being bad, he psychically-broadcast it to his entire party.
Anonymous
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>>6162209 I wasn't here long enough to really say. Quests feel like self-contained ventures and the board rarely interacts with itself outside of /qtg/, /qag/, and the tournaments. It's usually just no-name trolls.
Anonymous
>was going to start writing a new quest but I broke my clavicle
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Sat 21 Dec 2024 18:02:00 No. 6162337 Report >>6162329 The curse strikes again. Sorry for your misfortune anon. :(
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6162329 Never had that particular injury but they seem unpleasant, at least for a while, in the patients I've had with them. Hope it isn't bad enough to need surgical intervention and that you have a swift recovery. And that they give you lots of good drugs.
Anonymous
>>6162329 >just recently made my first quest thread >perfectly fine so far So...the QM curse is just a coincidence right? I'm not in danger at all, right?
Anonymous
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Actually, speaking of my quest...
>>6162351 >>6162351 >>6162351 Fog of War continues as our hero chooses whether or not to hire more mercenaries for his army.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Got a vote on how to deal with some assholes while high in Ilvermorny Quest. Fight, flight, diplomancy? Something else? Should be open for about 12 hours, if we get enough votes.
Can close early and get a quick update out if we seem to reach a consensus. >>6162072 >>6162072 >>6162072 mrqm !!b6Rfy7MOgBG
To all whom it may concern:
Anonymous
mrqm !!b6Rfy7MOgBG
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>>6162450 >spoiler didn't apply to 20-min adventure fml why do I have to suffer
Anonymous
>>6162357 The curse is just real life being used as an excuse to not write, it's not real.
>>6162352 Yeah, I'm dopey as all fuck from the good stuff. It is painful, can't do anything with my right arm, very sharp pain.
>>6162337 Ty
Anonymous
>>6162458 >The curse is just real life being used as an excuse to not write, it's not real. >getting hit by a truck and being stuck in the hospital >'an excuse' to not write lel
Anonymous
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6162458 Ouch. Hope it gets better. I fractured my scaphoid earlier this year due to a cow related incident. It was just hairline, so nothing to really do about it. It has healed up fine, but still aches sometimes. Trying to type was fun with only 9 fingers. Had a supply of Vicodin so it was workable. Also, writing on painkillers is... interesting.
I hope you had a good MD and such. Seen plenty of athletes in the clinics I have worked at with prior clavicle Fx and most of them recovered well, so I hope it goes well for you.
>>6162468 The curse is a thing. Perfect health then started writing some lewdfics. Covid then RSV a few months later. Started an actual quest then broken bone, viral gastritis that let me not keep down water for almost 2.5 days, a couple of other things like having to get my car fixed up and shit.
God hates this hobby.
Anonymous
>>6162458 If the curse didn't strike you, how can you call yourself a real QM?
Anonymous
>>6162357 Bad things happen to people, but when they happen to you while you're running a quest, after hearing the legend of the curse, you're more likely to attribute it to the curse.
Anonymous
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>>6162486 >God hates this hobby. We are his strongest soldiers, clearly.
Anonymous
>>6162486 >I hope you had a good MD and such. I have nationalised healthcare...
>>6162495 I didn't say how I broke my collarbone
Anonymous
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>>6162501 Of course. But the Curse is a "funny" superstition (until it strikes you) that's part of board culture
Anonymous
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>>6162503 >I have nationalised healthcare... IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6162503 >I have nationalised healthcare... Ah. Rest in Peace, then.
Anonymous
What are some 4chan features you'd like to see made for this board specifically? For me its audio file embeds. I get how easily it can be abused but at the same time there's nothing that gets you into a setting more than some appropriate music. But all the public websites like Youtube or vocaroo either delete their music or the link expires.
Anonymous
>>6162638 An edit function, removal of the character limit, removal of the word filters that keep making QMs accidentally dump SENPAI and ONIONS into serious posts.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6162638 An edit function + some more format options for QMs.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Sun 22 Dec 2024 02:41:15 No. 6162655 Report Quoted By:
>>6162638 more formatting options and no word filters would be appreciated. Not fun having your character's cowboy voice be jarringly interrupted by weebspeak.
Immediate ability to delete posts would also be nice. I guess I can see the point of an edit function, but I can live without it. Just write in a separate doc and proofread before posting, ez.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6162638 Removal of a fucking 15 minute post timer would be a nice start.
Indonesian Gentleman
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>>6162458 >stopping questing because of the curse Weak and feeble
>continuing to quest despite the curse Wielder of the name ROYALTY
Anonymous
>>6162638 get rid of the word filter and do the same for the post timer. an edit function would be nice too but might be impossible.
Anonymous
>>6162638 When replying to a bunch of posts at once, 4chan hits you with an automated spam detection note and keeps you from sending it. Considering that QMs actually have a reason to reply to everybody in the thread, this is something that ought to not apply to the OP at least.
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
>>6162716 God yes, this has been hitting me recently and it absolutely sucks, most of all when it is a tight/messy vote that I want to list every vote for every option.
>>6162658 This too. Gets me every time. The new captcha is also fucking awful.
>>6162703 I'm not sure I ever got hit by a word filter. What kind of thing gets struck by it?
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6162650 >>6162653 Fuck yes. 3000 characters sounds like a lot until you try and post. Having to break shit up into 4 different parts is annoying AF. Shit, I would settle for even like doubling it at this point.
>>6162722 I highly recommend getting a capcha solver script for tampermonkey. Has made my posting experiance 1000% better.
Anonymous
>>6162731 Only 6000? I'd prefer if the character limit was grimdark.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6162736 No limit would be ideal, that way you can choose exactly when to break a post up for narrative effect or always set your vote or dice call in their own post, but I would be grateful for any increase.
And just since I am here, this is my recommendation for QMs, since it has made my posting experience a lot better::
Brave Browser
Tamper Monkey
4ChanX
4chan capcha solver
yeah, that is literally the name for the script AI Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool
Spellchecker and catches a lot of, though not all, dumb mistakes like forgetting a y at the end of "they" or putting an extra e at the end of "her" or skipping like a "to" that needs to be between words, missing commas; stuff like that. Also better spell check powers than Word, catches shit it doesn't ObserverQM !!W1X+5SlTLqC
>>6162077 Holy based. I came very close to ordering a badge reel with a quest character on it, but wisely decided against it.
If someone actually asked me to explain who "Stan Parble" from bones quest was on in a clinical situation I would consider killing myself.
>>6162329 RIP dude hope you feel better soon. The curse strikes everyone eventually :C
Anonymous
>>6162743 >captcha script All they do is make them more annoying each week and a script bypasses it anyway. Damn it, Hiroshimoot, the fuck are you doing?
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6162758 Lol. Yeah. I normally try and keep my professional, personal, and internet lives somewhat separate. I might wear one with like a cute character from a quest on it since as far as normies know it is just like a cartoon character, maybe.
I also have a SA:O shoulder bag I got from my secret Santa one year at one of the places I worked. I used it a few times just because he was super nice, if very awkward. Don't even like that series but it was a nice gesture since we had talked about anime a few times. >>6162759 Exactly. IDK man. The thing I uses fails on occasion but 99% of the time it is perfect.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Looking for a couple of quick opinions in Ilvermorny Quest on whether to use one of your limited number of extremely powerful potions to one shot a group of assholes or let the fight go to round two and save it for something more important.
>>6163137 >>6163137 >>6163137 Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>6163332 >>6163332 >>6163332 More Solarpunk! Now that you've signed up to go tilting at one of the biggest glowies of all time, you get his less traitorous friend to tell you just about whatever you want. He probably has spoilers.
DetectQM
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Gotham City Beat Cop returns with a question on Police Ethics when dealing with C.I.
>>6163590 Anonymous
>>6161040 I am still playing Viking Conquest Warband lol I bought a ship just a crap 39 man vessel the Karvi, but I finally made it to Dorestad land of infinite WOOL MONEY I am now cackling maniacally as I sell all the wool lol I have decided selling wool is better than pillaging villages and enslaving all the peasants wool is better than war yay yay the game should be called Viking Conquest Woolband
Anyway, I don't really know any Christmas themed 9th or 10th century Dark Ages music. However if you need some amazing medieval music here is a very catchy plainchant I found, I believe this is the Graduel de Fontevrault (it is some abbey from maybe 1342 ??)
If you have a dnd medieval campaign this music could be used for a pageant or festival or something, this orchestration is very catchy. This is a male voice version, I am not gay but I do think it sounds better than the assorted female versions on youtube.
The female one is more solemn religious church sounding whereas the male one makes it sound like a pagan fertility dance hehe
I don't actually know any latin but even I giggled at the lines VIRGINEM FECUNDAT tee hee hee according to googl translate it is something about the word of god descending on virgins like dew (it is semen) so this is my gift to you, these festive words and music
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RES EST ADMIRABILIS Schola Cantorum Riga
(male voice version, with amazing orchestration)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=81WIeBH-nz0 Res est admirabilis, virgo venerabilis parit, sed intacta.
Sine viri coitu plena sancto spiritu genitrix est facta.
Cardine de supero rore salutifero venter fecundatur.
Peperit fecunditas et sacra virginitas integra servatur.
Sicut ros in gramine descendit in virgine verbum summi patris.
Patrem non deseruit et mortalem induit formam alvo matris.
Sicut terram pluvia sic divina gratia virginem fecundat.
Sanctus eam spiritus a peccato penitus abluit et mundat.
Non est opus hominis sed est opus numinis et magne virtutis.
Concipit et generat, que virum non noverat, auctorem salutis.
(this is a female, voices only version I found on youtube, no orchestration. This is a bit more religious church sounding, I prefer the festive male voice one)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IL0fdjYXdIk Anonymous
>>6156793 >>6163682 Also, I found yet another really amazing historic name resource for Dark Ages settings, this could also be used for historical Brythonic Arthurian settings:
https://old-north.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=308 This resource contains the Brythonic names (sort of Welsh?) with variant spellings and also a translation of the meaning. The list is very long I am stealing all of these names for rpg settings hehe
I also had this idea that maybe we need to return to ACTUAL TOMBS ACTUAL DUNGEONS so something like those archaeological BARROW GRAVES eg this in Anglesey (Ynys Mon)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Celli_Ddu or something like those Irish ring forts (first time I saw this in Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest I was blown away, I immediately spent ages searching for this lol)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grianan_of_Aileach or this one, it is called Cruaghan in Warband, cave passage grave in the old Irish kingdom of Connachta
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathcroghan You want these pagan mounds kurgans, passage graves and dolmens, standing stones and cairns thing, this should be the actual dungeon delving or tomb aesthetic. Also I found a place which is literally Helm's Deep lol, it is this castle situated in Dumbarton Scotland (called Dun Breatann) it is a fortress dated to the Dark Ages situated in the crevice between two massive rock mountains, in Warband videogame this site looks exactly like Helm's Deep lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton_Castle I think this is the reason I like this Warband Viking Conquest so much, there isn't really a good wiki for it just some random outdated user guides written for it on Steam but every location in the game corresponds to a real place yet not in that unmemorable unrewarding Ubisoft Assassins Creed manner either
Anonymous
>>6163682 >>6163704 >>6159043 >ALIENS it is like the Dark Ages edition of aapl offices
Anonymous
>>6159043 >>6163705 >aliens, continued Archaeological excavations, estival / hibernal solstice and primitive calendar / harvest rites and sacrifices of ancient civilisations meshes well with this genre, given that only the stars can bear witness to the passage of ceaseless aeons of time.
Of course Stargate did it but I also particularly enjoyed the opening of Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) the landscape panoramas are truly sublime even if the moral of the pursuit of this scientific passion is that eventually your corpse will be diddled into an undignified decomposing bioculture nutrient sculpture by synthetic robot man Michael Fassbender over the course of that embarrassing Alien Covenant sequel
Anonymous
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It being Christmas made me go and read Christian Cult in the Underhive again. It's been exactly a year to the day but I still still miss it. I guess we won't be bringing God's light and miracles to the desperate, dodging the Inquisition, fighting the local cultists and being fruitful and multiplying with our new only-slightly-psychopathic converted tomboy gang leader wife after all. Feels bad Christbros.
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>>6162219 Trannyspammer died.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Tue 24 Dec 2024 00:41:35 No. 6163831 Report hey FAGGOTS what artists are usually your go-to's for commissions and far be it from me to try during the busiest time of the year but I'll be damned if I won't consider it later on down the line given that it's been 3 threads now and I still don't feel confident enough in my own skills to just draw the cast
Anonymous
>>6163831 Myself. Though I also only take commissions from myself.
Honestly we do have an art general, it says no requests, but eh, commissions are for money.
Narrator !!eK/DTdS3ONO
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>>6162638 Format capability for everyone.
Removal of the 15 minute captcha waiting period.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
But could your Quest MC defeat Turboman?
Anonymous
>>6163843 In an argument, maybe.
Sometimes I feel like all my characters talk and act the same way and have no discernible personalities[/spoilee] Anonymous
>>6163831 I know there are some artists that post around here. I know GrandDragonQM likes to drop the handles for whomever does the art he's posting at any given time if he commissioned them. Soj does commissions, I think. He's pretty solid. If I'm not mixing names up at least.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>6155749 Eh, working on it, anon. I’ve recently tamped out a big fire in another part of my life and it’s theoretically possible that I might continue Seven Against Thebes this coming January. Although if you mean actual “Trojan War Quest”, I have some bad news for you…
>4chan now wants an email verification and for me to unscatter weather radar images by eye Who can I blame for this nonsense? /pol/?
Anonymous
>>6163856 /biz/, actually. The board is beset by scammers and spammers. It was the first to roll out email verification.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>6163867 Absolute morons, I’d rather they just delete the board entirely than force this bullshit onto the rest of the board.
Actually I once lost a bunch of money on a shitcoin years and years ago, although it was 200% my fault for being an idiot, lol.
Anonymous
>>6163831 Around here, Olympus QM, Sojourner, and Indonesian Gentleman al do commissions, and Narrator sometimes as well. Bananas wouldn't take my money, but we traded art-for-art. On Fiverr, I've found annaskytsko, roinujw, sakhanugraha, and noixle, vyrebek, and tigandra all reliable depending on the style your'e going for.
>>6163843 Not a chance. Arnold's will it too strong to be seduced away from his wife and her cookies by succubus powers, and he's too mighty for swordplay or throwing knives in that spandexium armour.
>>6163844 >spoiler I feel that. Especially the MCs, but that's perhaps a function of being the perspective characters for a small group of players. I'm bad at giving people distinct 'voices' without leaning into goofy accents
which, don't get me wrong, I do . I see why the Japanese comic/cartoon set goes for very obvious and conspicuous verbal tics or catchphrases. You may be being too hard on yourself, though; my players consistently say I do a better job than I thought I was making characters distinct from one another.
>>6163856 >Who can I blame for this nonsense? /pol/? >>6163867 >/biz/, actually. The board is beset by scammers and spammers. Probably both, but mostly I bet it's financial difficulties. They want you to buy The Pass. I recognize a freemium business model when I see it.
>>6163868 >I once lost a bunch of money on a shitcoin years and years ago Been there. Not with crypto, but oof, my stocks sometimes...
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>>6163872 >You may be being too hard on yourself, thoug It might be too early to tell, but I think trying to make my quest in a setting everyone has to speak formally and act with decor on makes it harder to get personality across.
Which is weird because I can usually write entire paragraphs about interpreting the personalities of characters from quests I've read.
Anonymous
>>6163856 Nikon is fine. He's still alive. I know he is because I believe. Also because you left your car unlocked.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>6163896 A significant chunk of my brain is still stuck there in the Royal Quarters of Priam’s palace with Nikon & co, time nearly frozen, Hector’s spear imperceptibly crawling forward, Pollux shouting in dismay, Teukros’ face distorted with terror, and down the hall, Helen of the lovely hair levitating in midstride, fingers just brushing the handle of her apartment door. And above it all, the calculating eyes of wide-seeing Zeus, bending the fates of men and gods to suit his purposes…
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Tue 24 Dec 2024 15:48:17 No. 6164151 Report >>6163836 >>6163850 >>6163872 many thanks for the answers, I shall investigate these beings thusly
on another note: are any of you going to be posting for Christmas? I probably will
because I don't celebrate . My break's going to be from the 30th to the 1st, I think, since that slice of time is going to be far busier for me than Christmastime will be.
Anonymous
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>>6164151 Posted my Christmas update with, as usual, a little something for the players.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6163856 >Who can I blame for this nonsense? Hiroshimoot.
Anonymous
>>6164113 I still remember anon's suggestion that Seven Against Thebes is Nikon on death's door speaking with the shade of his father Hippomedon who is recounting his own fate.
Anonymous
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>>6164151 I'm updating over Christmas, but I specifically set it up so the next couple choices are more tactical than major character decisions.
Anonymous
>>6164151 Not an update, but still will be posting. Honestly, Christmas will be extra busy with the dinner to prepare, and I don't expect people in general to be sacrificing their Christmas to wait on and read quest updates anyways. Not doing business on Christmas because there will be no one to do business with and all.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>6164216 I enjoyed that suggestion quite a bit, and have a couple solutions I’ve cooked up on my own that could also be employed if the time ever comes.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Tue 24 Dec 2024 21:40:46 No. 6164276 Report Quoted By:
>>6164151 emphasis on probably, sigh, plans seem to have changed :/
>>6164243 Makes sense. I didn't consider that people probably won't be around to vote either. I've only got three voters so I won't ask anyone else to pick up the slack for them while they're off celebrating
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6164267 Is one of the options Apollo putting the soup back in Nikon's skull because someone said even he couldn't fix what Hector did to the big guy?
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Tue 24 Dec 2024 23:57:09 No. 6164337 Report Quoted By:
Merry Christmas in advance to all /qtg/ers
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Tue 24 Dec 2024 23:59:12 No. 6164339 Report Merry Christmas in advance to all /qtg/ers.
Anonymous
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>>6164339 Merry Christmas, early king.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>6164308 Not to hijack this /qtg/, but…
>can Nikandros count on Olympian support? He rejected a lifeline from Zeus himself, so this is unlikely (with one notable exception). Also, Apollo is not known to actually resurrect the dead, as far as I know - death is mostly very permanent in Greek myth, and the only guy who would actually know how to resurrect the dead is also quite dead at the time of Nikandros’ life. Open Olympian support is now basically out of the question for Nikandros. A relevant point - not all deities are in lockstep with the political rule of Olympus. Pollux will also not be happy that he made a valuable intercession on Nikon’s behalf and this gift was thrown away, although if Teukros learns of the rejected offer, he’s basically locked on “undying loyalty” with Nikon for life. I won’t even get into the impacts on Nikon’s relationship with his traveling companions, but they are many and mostly negative.
In short, Nikon’s insanely risky decisions in the last TWQ thread were ruinous on multiple levels - personal, divine, and on a mortal politics level as well. Even if TWQ continues (not guaranteed in itself), Nikon has dug himself a VERY deep hole and it is now quite likely that he will inevitably die before the Trojan War is over - there are simply too many enemies and mortal threats in his path. The “golden path” to eternal fame is still open to him, but the door has dwindled to a tiny mouse’s hole - it will take significant cunning and very good fortune for Nikon to reach his goal.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
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>>6164339 Merry Xmas to you too!
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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merry xmass to everyone!
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
Merry Christmas, /qst/ionable people! Wherever you are and whatever you celebrate, I wish you plenty of inspiration, lots of votes, countless updates for that quest you read, and a Happy New Year!
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
Marry Clitoris, y'all.
>>6164421 +1
Anonymous
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:7Iuqa+Jp Wed 25 Dec 2024 07:09:57 No. 6164467 Report Quoted By:
>>6164151 >are any of you going to be posting for Christmas? Just posted the intro to the Christmas-themed bossmon fight.
Anonymous
>>6164379 I was really being facetious and implying that someone "No Balls"d the god of medicine
and every other fucking thing under the sun But fuck Pollux though. Caused nothing but grief and problems every time he was involved. Rather hang out with Achilles. At least he's got the excuse of being young for his bluster and attitude. I wonder how Ajax would feel about Nikon giving up his skull for Teukros'. More than anything, I am filled with unrighteous anger and burning hatred for basically everyone that Nikon has come into contact with except Teukros, Ajax, Palamedes of all fucking people, Castor and somehow Achilles. And I just know Achilles' mood swings would make him an awful bastard to be around.
Fucking Pollux. Zeus' favorite son can't even convince his dad to make a spear miss everyone. What a dipshit.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
MERRY CHRISTMAS, QUESTIES
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6164497 >I am filled with unrighteous anger and burning hatred for basically everyone that Nikon has come into contact with By and large, ancient Greeks were pieces of shit, including most of their gods. Product of the era, and the people who wrote about these figures were assholes as well, so it is like double compound interest.
I appreciated Trojan War Quest for that authenticity.
Anonymous
>>6164497 >I am filled with unrighteous anger and burning hatred for basically everyone that Nikon has come into contact with VengefulNira.exe
Anonymous
>>6154679 >>6155103 >>6155108 >>6155115 >>6155119 >>6155140 >SEXY HAGS >>6163682 >Dark Ages music? well it is not entirely authentic, but how about some PAGAN ELECTRONICA I like this live version of the intro titles to The Last Kingdom, this is a very high quality upload I found (no audience noises or anything, just the music) this performance edit version with a slightly slower tempo is better than the tv series intro credits.
The lyrics of this Faroese? / Norse ? is approximately
uhnn-haannghh-HHAAAGGH-HAHHNGG-HAHNNGG-NGGH-HHAA-YEGHNHN-NNGG-YEHH...
This must be what valkyrie battle-coitus grunting resembles
Eivor - The Last Kingdom (live version)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WT65X0eBTEA I need to mod edit and import all of this, so much custom music into my install of Warband Viking Conquest lol
Also I can confirm that Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest (Reforged Edition) runs flawlessly on Winlator with any Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset android phone, I was actually extremely impressed it is very stable and requires no configuration or custom calibration of Wine or box86 presets whatsoever
Imagine listening to this valkyrie banshee wailing grunting whilst commanding a shield wall spear charge sat on the toilet, you can do this, such is the power of technology in the 21st century
Anonymous
>>6164534 Yeah fair enough. It certainly draws you in to a time most brutal and crude with the kayfabe.
I still will blame the dice. d20s are always either power fantasy or CBT simulators, there is no in between. But only here for whatever reason. When I roll them in meatspace they have a normal gradient. The seed weighting on the chinz is something else. >>6164542 >I have no Penis so I must Scheme type beat I find that more and more I empathize with Nira's ever blackening anger. I no longer know if my soul screams for justice or vengeance. But I know for sure it craves extreme violence.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6164557 Nira is already pretty nuts for being a witch... and the assassination. Other things.
Some version of ultra-violence seems like it would not be out of character.
And Yeah... d20, even Bo3 seems kind of cursed here. Either it is easy mode or we are screwed. Some QMs are also just bitches. I recall getting great rolls, and we still lost to our rival because he had a type of super magic sword we were told explicitly that the MC would never be able to get in the game during Princess Guard Quest.
Yes, I still recall that if you are reading this Turtle Man. Anonymous
>>6164575 It's that stupid fucking water bitch's fault. PISS IN RIVERS. DAM RIVERS. DIVERT RIVERS WITH DITCHES. USE RIVER WATER TO CLEAN WALLS OF BIRDSHIT. PRACTICE MARTIAL ARTS ON RIVERS.
My philosophy for dice in general is that you aren't rolling to succeed but instead rolling to not fail. Assume you succeed at everything you choose to do and dice are only there if you can conceivably fail it. I don't quite like dice being a determining factor for how the story progresses but recognize it as a strong narrative tool. I see no reason why a character who is stated and shown to be a master swordsman would need to roll at all when fighting anyone who isn't a genuine peer of his. Lots of quests will have people roll anyway and just give it a silly low DC instead of just not rolling. Some don't though.
I blame this tendency on the fact I got into CYOAs before I got into actual RPGs. Choices matter more to me than funny noisy tumbly bois
I remember SOMNIUS killing his quest because of a barely failed roll. Though lots do, and he will never live it down kek
Anonymous
>>6164519 What do you do in the Crying Cube?
Anonymous
>>6164607 Man, everytime I hear the name SOMNIUS it feels like hearing about a long dead boogeyman from before my time that had a reign of terror or something
Anonymous
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>>6164673 He did like to pretend he wasn't SOM when running new quests until putting the name back on. Which led to a running gag of "Everyone is SOM" for a minute. Even now you never truly know if he's in the room with you. Good times.
Anonymous
>had 8-9 active quests to vote on at the start of December >now down to just 3
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6164838 Told you all God hates this hobby and it is his season.
Anonymous
To another year of not getting our board deleted! gl and much love to everyone!
Anonymous
>>6164964 Why doesn't she button her pants? Is she stupid? Also she needs deeper pockets. Her sealed o-ring package is sticking out. How are you supposed to fix a leaky pipe if you lose that? This woman, I swear. She even stands directly under a toxic plant. So irresponsible.
Hear hear, anon. I'll drink to that.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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>>6164669 That's for YOU to decide, loyal employee!
Anonymous
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After a brief break for the holidays, Olympus Incarnation is back! ||Also that Chaos: Quest For Redemption review is coming as soon as I get some time to draw digitally||
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The holiday break ends; and we return to Fog of War to experience the fun of exploitative guild monopoly pricing.
>>6165229 >>6165229 >>6165229 Anonymous
qtg tell me if this is a good enough crawl to get you to play a quest made from it
https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/#!/FOF5H5DJiV_qQvjatoUk Anonymous
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>>6164972 Her pants don't fit properly because she overdid it at Christmas, obviously. That's not an o-ring, either, dummy: it's a little packet of OREGANO (hence the 'o' on the label), for seasoning festive foodstuffs.
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>tfw still waiting on a good fantasy quest
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>>6165533 Local horse led to water does not drink
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>>6165535 He's a fish that somehow manages to be thirsty.
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The Caretaker Quest is back from a small holiday vacation!
hope you all had a merry christmas!
This new update brings a new decision, will our temporary new MC teach her students about skydiving and be a cool professor or will she keep her class safer and risk her class to become smaller?
vote now to decide!
>>6159531 >>6159531 >>6159531 Anonymous
>>6165423 I would consider ditching the first paragraph about the outer rim and replace it with a more clear description of the timeline. “It has been two hundred years since the demise of the Republic…”
You start out describing a regional conflict in the Outer Rim, then zoom out farther about the hyperspace conflict, and then zoom way into our MC. It might be more logical to players to go big to small (galactic->regional->local->our MC’s plight)
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new vote up for With Great Power Quest:
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Fri 27 Dec 2024 13:45:34 No. 6165590 Report Quoted By:
We seem to have a tie under (literally) one of the biggest Poképocalypse updates yet!
>>6165340 >>6165343 >>6165344 >>6165345 >>6165347 >>6165348 I'd appreciate a tiebreaker.
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>>6165565 I agree. Also try to explain why the MC is in trouble.
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>>6165533 Necromancer Quest was a GOOD fantasy quest before the QM flaked. Still holding out hope on that one.
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>>6165695 Any quest with too much character gen is a instant drop from me. That said, I missed out on reading that dnd quest because of this mentality.
Still, I think I won much more then lost sticking to this strategy.
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>>6165748 Not the dark elf one. The GOOD necromancer quest.
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Whenever I'm in the mood to run, there's never a lot of people around. Maybe its just the season, or maybe its my fault for being inconsistent over the last few months. Either way, new vote up for With Great Power Quest:
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Any recommendations for an external site host for reference pages and links for a quest? Considering Google Docs or Neocities.
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>>6165957 I see other QM's use pastebin
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>>6165957 I personally use a pastebin which is an export of a google docs document, but it is obviously a very limited format. I thought about building something simple for character sheets on github pages or even some other free hosting website, but that would require me having the patience to do something halfway pretty, which... maybe some other day.
I'll stick with pastebin for now, since I don't think the character sheets are read too often in my quest, but I can see reasons to do something more elaborate. Just remember to not accidentally dox yourself by using your personal account if you decide to use Google Docs.
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>>6165756 The one with mexicanos skeletons? Good shit.
>>6165533 Have you tried Normal Cultivator Quest?
It's not western fantasy though; and I don't know how "good" it is.
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>>6166019 redpill me on yechen
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I've been going back recently and rereading old threads of my previous quests lately and I'm a little shocked by some of the writing in here. I wrote this stuff? It's actually pretty good. It's been long enough that I'd need to reread the whole thing before I could continue it, but I'd always dreaded the possibility until now. Makes the flaws in my current quest stand out to me a bit more starkly, but I may be able to turn it into improvement.
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Wow, a lot of great new fantasy quests on the board right now! Glad you're all eating good, feels over saturated so I certainly won't start one myself.
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>>6166126 Your fantasy quests are terrible, stay in your lane.
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>>6166126 Which ones are you playing?
>>6166316 I liked Black Ocean and that Moaning Mountain one.
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DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:fECW2ojt Sat 28 Dec 2024 19:18:49 No. 6166328 Report >>6166049 Yichen is associated to the following keywords :
>Pangolin, Crab, Chakram, Soul, Copper, Dream Plus, due to recent event, he even bounded to a Crab linked to Chakram and Dream.
This means he have a projectile always available with him; plus he have one of the only means to bring a weapon with him in the elusive Dream realm.
Plus, Copper is an extremely "Grounded" material : its mundanity making it extremely effective against Dreams and Nightmares.
Finally, the "Crab" lateral movement might give the boy a shot at being a Dream Wanderer, using Dreamscape as his personnal highway to opportunities, hidden realms and side words.
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what is it with all the chatgpt spam quests this last month
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Totally not relevant question to QMs, but have you ever felt a desire to discuss future plots for your quest without having anyone to do so with? Obviously, saying them here would spoil them...I tried ChatGPT but it just ain't good enough at it.
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>>6166428 Actually, I should specify, by discuss, I mean bouncing back ideas. You know, the usual 'Hey, this is my idea, does it sound stupid?' Anonymous
>>6166428 I have one singular friend with whom I talk about quests. Thankfully uninterested in actually playing any of them kek
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>>6166431 Well, not everyone is lucky enough to have a friend who'd be interesting in talking about that kind of stuff.
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>>6166433 You don't have any friends who like silly stories? Brother I mean this in the nicest way possible, talk to more people.
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>>6166441 >You don't have any friends who like silly stories? I don't have friends i'd be able to discuss my very specific, autistic type of story with.
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>>6166445 Anon, finding other nerds in my country is already hard enough. I'd prefer to find a solution that doesn't require a whole other string of effort.
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>>6166447 Why do they need to be in your country? Online friends, man.
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>>6166455 This is true. Hell, you can always bounce ideas off of people in the /qst/ community. I do that with Narrator sometimes. I just keep it vague and general so it doesn't spoil shit for him.
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>get the itch again despite being sick as fuck again
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>>6166455 >Online friends, man. Alright where? Like I said, i can't really do that *here* since it would spoil it.
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>>6166428 >spoiler aw man don't do that, you should have your plans laid out in your mental autism lair.
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>>6166474 It's not like i'm telling it the whole thing and asking it to autocomplete.
Mostly, I just have rough ideas and i need some sort of wall to bounce it upon. You know, like
>Hey, I thought of this scenario, does it make any sense or is it completely retarded and unrealistic? Anonymous
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>>6166472 I met the friend I talk to on a now long defunct roleplaying game website about ninjas and samurai. Entirely text based webgame. Anywhere. You meet someone you DM on instagram about anime? There. You go to a forum about sci-fi novels and you run into the same person over and over? There. You go on your slop free to play game of choice and squad up with someone? There.
It's literally just basic socializing. As someone deeply autistic in the most medical of senses I get it's frustrating and often a chore but you just gotta talk to people til you find one that sticks.
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Is it only me or is Wizard Tower Quest AI slop?>pic unrelated
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>>6166649 .Doesn't seems like it at all for me.
>>6166495 The quest is a bullshit powerfantasy wuxia one. Yichen is a normal kid with a spark of potential. Like MC was 3 years earlier.
Now, Quiet Word, the Main Character, have a collection of items and skills related to the "Rising Phoenix"; a mystical spirit linked to the elusive Growth realm, which power rise exponentially with the MC's own prowess.
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>>6166663 >Doesn't seems like it at all for me. Really? I spent some time trying to make AI gm a game for me and writing in Wizard Tower Quest seems very similar to that, at least certain passages.
>During your adventuring days, you found yourself enchanted by the rugged beauty of this mountainous region. The towering peaks, the windswept cliffs, and the isolated valleys seemed to call to you, offering both solitude and adventure in equal measure. >However, as you survey the land, you are reminded that this region, while beautiful, comes with its share of challenges. >Thanking him, you press onward, following his directions carefully. Soon, you reach the entrance to a sprawling cave complex. This sentence construction and generic language just reeks of AI.
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>>6166668 Can also be ESL. Or Ai-helped. But there is a feeling of direction, vision and coherence that AI is unable to pull.
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>>6166429 >>6166428 Read a quest you like? Try to connect with that Qm. Ask if they have a twitter or discord or something then send them a pm.
Personaly, I hate discussing my ideas because i fear people will steal them.
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>>6166649 I feel that way about a lot of quests but it's probably 80% peranoia 20%truth
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>>6166670 >But there is a feeling of direction, vision and coherence that AI is unable to pull. Uh, no? It's quite good at that. What it's bad at is keeping cohesion over time.
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>>6166681 That's what I meant.
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>>6166676 >Personaly, I hate discussing my ideas because i fear people will steal them. What? Nooooo? That would never happen. So hypothetically if you had a good idea what would it be?
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>>6166428 I just blatantly and openly talk about it with my friends. They all know I quest as a hobby and I'm frequently asking their advice and showing them my current drafts when I'm stuck.
And absolutely none of them even read my quests, which is extremely funny to me but also makes them great to talk to about it because they have no dog in the race on the outcomes.
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>>6166649 The entire opening post is AI-Generated when I put it in an AI-checker lmao.
Ironically it slowly becomes less and less AI generated as time goes on, though. Going from completely AI-generated to just AI helped. Or they decided to humanize it at some point.
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>>6166705 I think you’re right - the crunch also indicates that a QM is guiding the whole thing, even if some part of it is AI-generated.
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>>6166711 I do think the quest and some others are being done by one guy to test out an AI gm, though, so I doubt they're going to last for long.
Infernal Harvest quest is like 40% AI and Goddess Cursed quest is also partially AI and they're all written pretty similarly.
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I'm thinking about writing a fantasy quest using this pretty janky setting created from a quest on SV. It was a pretty interesting experiment in questing so I feel bad nothing was ever done with it after it was created.
I participated in the quest and while back and while there was very little quality control and the cohesion tended to be slightly off the quest author themselves was a really good writer.
So somehow despite having a really annoying playerbase he was able to create a pretty interesting setting, I particularly like the various magic systems and the legend stuff so it'd fit well into a prog-rpg kind of thing or as a civ quest.
I'd definitely need to throw out some stuff, though, since some of the acts were just straight up terrible, and the consistency of naming wasn't there at all.
If any anons want to give it a read and let me know what kind of quest they'd want to see here's the link. Also it's pretty funny to read the arguments in the quest because all the players got really pissed about there creations getting fucked with at all.
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/gods-of-chaos-a-riot-god-quest.97968/page-41#post-22490668 Anonymous
>>6166720 I think if you transplant that concept here it will end in a burning carwreck really fast. Anons will come and go, anons will put way less effort into their content, and most importantly there WILL BE at least one anon vandalizing on purpose.
Maybe it can work if you really simplify it, for example trying hard to incorporate all write-ins into worldbuilding or a scene.
Generally though set your expectations on anons just voting on presented options, and some anons trying hard to destroy your quest. Treat anything above this baseline as a nice surprise.
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>>6166676 >Personaly, I hate discussing my ideas because i fear people will steal them. The trick is to never have any good ideas.
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>>6166733 I'm not transplanting the concept just the setting that was created.
There is absolutely no way that kind of quest could be run on /qst/. Though, I do think there would be better quality control since anons would actually call the retarded ideas retarded.
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>>6166761 >There is absolutely no way that kind of quest could be run on /qst/ Joker Quest worked that way, for the most part and it was also on /tg/ as well
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>>6166670 >>6166681 >>6166682 The direction/cohesion problem just requires a bit more user input and editing to correct, desu. The real issue with AI as an aid (rather than a sole, unaided writer/QM, where it has MANY issues) is forgetting character personality and relationships.
Also, sometimes it gets really deranged in its writing style, and sometimes it randomly adds or resolves major plot threads on a whim if you don't stop it, and it's inclined to end every passage as if the story is stopping there.
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Really hoping board participation picks up in the new year, it sucks a lot of the fun out of running when there's no back and forth between players. Don't get me wrong, I still appreciate the people who play when its only one or two people, but I get a lot of energy off my players and the more players the more conversations happen.
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>no Core of Steel finale thread
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>>6167055 Board volume will likely double by the end of January, if the previous pattern holds true. Unfortunately /qst/ seems to lose ~15-20% board activity on average per year, if you check 4stats. So unless /qst/ finds a way to be competitive against the other questing boards or draw in new players through some method (for example, crosspointing a quest on SV/SB and /qst/ simultaneously, although how mods at SV/SB might react to this is unclear), we should expect board volumes to continue to dwindle.
The previous ad campaigns were moderately successful but didn’t seem to reverse the trend long term, only provide a temporary boost, unfortunately.
I think some of this is a generational problem - people would spend hours on 4chan running and playing quests were in their teens and 20s ten years ago, but now they have jobs and other responsibilities. 4chan as a whole is not drawing in younger generations of users, and we’re getting older as a board just like the rest of the site
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Hello adventurers. As sure as the sun rises, we will return.
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>>6167281 >oh my god THE DECLINING USER METRICS NOOOOOO Remember, only in human embodiment can you imagine the smell. I often wish all social networks or online audiences would become far smaller. The ideal might be just one person, alone - the ultimate misanthropic attainment of veneration without envy
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>>6167297 Tbh I find the idea of a social network that runs 100% on AI on AI interaction hilarious. I wonder how quickly competing AI shitposters could reply to each other and whether AI janny could keep up cleaning up after them so the platform doesn't run out of resources
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>>6167300 There’s been some interesting research on how current LLM systems will inevitably collapse when forced to interact with themselves this way, it spirals into insane gibberish pretty quickly.
>>6167297 Kek, this is why I enjoy coming here in the first place - people espousing bizarre mindsets as if they are universal truths.
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>>6167297 >>6167300 >>6167305 >>6167297 Is AI literally just the dnd dungeonmaster manual
>read dnd medieval cowboy textbook >copy paste entire internet into random table, 1.76 trillion parameters >OH MY GOD WE HAVE CREATED SUPERINTELLIGENCE defeated the maths exam (give more billions valuation please) >also, we can generate npcs >>6167300 >AI "CLEANUP" methodology looks like pic related. It is unfortunate but this individual tragically demonstrates how it is simultaneously possible to combine high intelligence, intellectual overachievement and lucidity with the uttermost naivety ignorance and stupidity / futility at the same time. I marvel at how virtually all media outlets (UK and US) neglected to report the presence of a gun at the scene, merely reiterating again and again that it was a suicide without even mentioning the apparent cause of death
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>>6167306 Wew. That's grim man. What was there worth to kill the lad? It's not like he was an actual threat to the company, if anything, you'd expect them to be more afraid of creating a martyr.
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>>6167297 >>6156793 >>6163704 >>6163682 >>6164546 >meta, etymology etc >METOD I have been reading a lot of Brythonic, Anglo Saxon 8th 9th 10th century poetry and literature translations whilst embarking on my nonstop Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest spree etc. I read Gildas De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae and also Y Gododdin and some Taliesin poems but also Anglo Saxon ones like The Seafarer, The Wanderer, The Dream Of The Rood, Deor, The Battle Of Maldon, the Battle Of Brunanburh etc (Tennyson did a translation).
To be honest, Beowulf is better than all of these in terms of depth and storytelling structure and themes and imagery with better kennings etc but there are still some intriguing lore and worldbuilding ideas. I always like to read the original historical authors source because they portray and comprehend their world and age in completely different ways, eg
>>6151406 One of the things I came across which I thought was interesting is their old allusion to the Christian god, remember when facebook changed their name and ticker from FB to META and someone made a joke about this being Hebrew for death lol (I believe this etymology is correct)
Well in the Anglo Saxon poems when England or Aenglaland is christian but lingering pagan beliefs remain, the poems call god METOD or THE MEASURER, literally He Who Metes Out Reward And Punishment.
So Metod translates as inexorable Fate, Destiny, Judgement, Death, but it literally means Measurer. And of course you have all that Norse / Greek three crones with the spindles measuring out life-threads etc on the loom imagery (the viking version, from the skaldic poem Darraðarljóð the loom is made of intestines on the battlefield lol) I just thought that Metod or the Measurer was an interesting name for the concept of Death and Fate from the poems of the Dark Ages
>Anglo Saxon names >Saxon seax war-knife becomes Sussex, Essex, Wessex etc >Angles becomes Aenglaland, England >could have been named SEX-LAND Anonymous
>>6167310 >MARTYRDOM I self-immolated today in disgust after watching Robert Eggers Nosferatu (2024) it is terrible lol and also trying to watch that Nicole Kidman film Babygirl I gave up on that one, could not reach completion which is a metaphor for the amount of sexual fulfilment that can be achieved through viewing it. Eggers Nosferatu basically presents nothing new compared to the Herzog 1979 Nosferatu which is visually far more compelling in its cinematography and composition. For a superior and accomplished recent vampire film, I recommend Le Vourdalak (2023) instead.
In the Eggers Nosferatu film the ending shot is Lily Rose Depp copulating with a corpse, this corpse sex is a visual representation of the act Hollywood nowadays performs with the dignity and sensibilities of its viewing audience. It is a testament to the power of the Star Wars franchise, because the actor portraying the MOUSTACHE VAMPIRE (he has a moustache) misread his audition, he thought he was auditioning for Darth Vader not a vampire, he speaks like Darth Vader wheezing intake and exhalation of breath he speakARRss likeARRs thisARRs (wheeze) arrr, basically Nosferatu is about a Romanian or Carpathian Darth Vader, with a moustache, Lily Rose Depp gets out her breasts but they are not enough they are in fact very diaappointing, even the culminating act of sacrifical corpse sex until sunrise is somewhat laborious. And there is no horror or dread, Robert Eggers the director thinks horror means simply LOUD NOISES, BANG! (orchestral grinding) are you scared? This is the film. After watching it I understood the agony of martyrdom
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>>6167310 >>6167332 >martyrdom In terms of the best cinematic visual inspiration I always reference the Shekhar Kapur Elizabeth (1998) film the opening overhead perspective headshaving (they really scrape down to the scalp argh) and burning martyrdom scenes are very intense and there is a clever bit of foreshadowing / visual evocation of the ending, Galadriel lol Cate Blanchett ascends to the throne and reigns alone as the Virgin Queen married to England so she adorns herself with all this ceremonial and regal white maquillage immaculate porcelain face and pearl headdress etc like the tudor portraits but she actually shaves her own head as a sign of relinquishing her femininity, it is a clever visual echo and callback of the opening film scenes of headshaving and burning of the martyrs from the religious persecution at the beginning of the film. This scene of Cate Blanchett doing the queen Elizabeth thing is far better than the LOTR Galadriel reign as queen meme lol
>after watching this and Charlize Theron Mad Max Fury Road I am only ever attracted to bald women Anonymous
>>6167337 There was always something about the sudden blue lightning CGI storm illumination in this Galadriel dark queen etc temptation scene that made me laugh out aloud lol it is funny ALL SHALL LOVE ME!!! lol
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>>6167312 >>6167332 >>6167337 >>6167344 Please start taking medication, souv.
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>>6167337 >>6167344 >I HAVE BECOME A VIRGIN compare and contrast with this the ending scene of 1998 Elizabeth, she has flashbacks and reminiscences to her more innocent youth, then she gets her head shaved (she even does like a stigmata esque pose clutching the severed strands of hair) all her handmaidens are weeping etc I was quite moved by this scene, all actresses must cry
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>>6167346 >Hollywood has fallen, actresses must cry Anonymous
>>6167345 >TAKE MEDICATION? My vampiric power is far too strong to be suppressed by your serum injections. Please see pic related for my reaction face
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>>6150243 I want to start writing quests again this coming year, how is this part of the opening writing-wise?
"We must move quickly." A gruff, familiar voice makes your body stop mid-kick. "We have at most until the moon reaches its zenith before the whole guard is alerted." The flicker of recognition in your eye convinces the man to let go of his hand. You let out a shaky breath, the realization of what is happening hits you in an instant like a cold wind carrying ill omens. The sound of shattering makes you alert once more. The intruder pulls a bag out of the ruins of your mirror. You rise on your feet, feeling the cold of neither your floor, nor the man's iron gloves as you take the bag and pull out wool clothes. You feel pieces of metal underneath the first layer. "Don these, and should you survive this night, they will turn into a regalia." Says the captain of the guards as he kneels before you.
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>>6167385 I drew up a comic for you to show what is in my mind as im reading this. Take a look at it before reading the rest of this post.
I think a big problem LOTS of qms have is that they build up a scene in their head and write from it. But they forget that I cant see whats in their head. So like they will think up of a scene in a kitchen with two people eating or something, but then only actually write out the conversation they are having. I the reader don't KNOW they are in a kitchen. Or the characters will be on a boat but the QM never even says it, then suddenly there is a fish and im left wondering where it came from.
And from what I am reading this is pretty much a case of that. You are probably trying to hook the readers with a tense start like this but I have no idea what is happening here. I don't even know this is a fantasy quest or a dune fanfic.
If any other anon thinks im off base please feel free to correct me. If you think this poster did a good job, then please tell him so. Maybe im just retarded
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>>6167453 chuckled audibly at that comic
Hmm... Maybe the protagonist is a prince or something and he had a ceremonial armor hidden in the mirror and the guy waking him up is part of conspiracy intended to place him onto throne, and the fighting is about to get messy
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>>6167453 Amazing rendition, anon!
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>>6167453 Honestly felt the same. Plenty of evocative language but it all seems disjointed.
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>>6167453 This is why I tried describing everything as clearly as possible in Grey Skies. It's hard though, because a lot of description breaks up your text flow.
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>>6167519 I’ve found it helpful to sneak in descriptions of the environs by piecemeal in other contexts:
<you> breathe heavily, taking in the shadowed woods around you, listening to the stagnant air for sign of your pursuers. <buddy> curses vaguely, before calling at you: “Can you see anything in this gods-damned moonlight? Did you catch the face of the big one?”
This is an information-dense passage! We learn quite a bit in only two sentences.
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>>6167385 >>6167453 >CONVINCE THE MAN TO LET GO Of HIS (his??) OWN HAND This is very dramatic, who could have imagined that the very first npc encountered walks around horrifically clasping... his own SEVERED HAND??? This is a very dramatic and tense choice, excellent dungeonmastering
>>6167453 Your illustrated graphic novel storyboarding of the narrative sequence is incredible anon I immensely enjoyed it. And all the attentive advice of the anons here
>>6167465 >>6167482 >>6167484 >>6167519 >>6167584 is very astute too.
I do worry that "making everything as obvious as possible" "describe everything clearly" "annotate and label all surroundings, actions, emotions" stage directions can also backfire.
In fact I was ruminating upon this after becoming infuriated with watching the Eggers Nosferatu lol, there was this nplusonemag article that recently was explaining how nflx and streaming has hurled money and nurtured a generation of screenwriters with a particular style, this
>(...) Such slipshod filmmaking works for the streaming model, since audiences at home are often barely paying attention. Several screenwriters who’ve worked for the streamer told me a common note from company executives is “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.” (“We spent a day together,” Lohan tells her lover, James, in Irish Wish. “I admit it was a beautiful day filled with dramatic vistas and romantic rain, but that doesn’t give you the right to question my life choices. Tomorrow I’m marrying Paul Kennedy.” “Fine,” he responds. “That will be the last you see of me because after this job is over I’m off to Bolivia to photograph an endangered tree lizard.”) https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/ Anonymous
>>6167605 >and nurtured a generation of screenwriters I wouldn't call it 'nurtured' I'd call it 'deliberately crippled'
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>>6167625 >deliberately crippled storytelling Yes the pic related here
>>6167605 of Jaime Lannister represents maimed storytelling and narration in the age of algorithms and streaming, I abandon this and return to the Dark Ages instead lol
>>6167312 In any creative endeavour, perhaps before you even begin anything, you should always ask yourself:
What is the MORAL PURPOSE?
I heard a lot of audiences disliked the ending of Game Of Thrones. I mentioned before that often the indication of arrival into the didactic moral message conveyance mode is this earnest intersection or sudden lurching towards voicing behavioural reality or modernity lol
The irony is that the very last episode explains within the politics of the fiction itself, the naivety of believing that you possess any choice or influence over the storytelling, hehe.
You think YOU are the one who gets to tell the story, choose the best outcome? (guffaws)
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(A tense silence as various lords and ladies glance around the circle, wondering who will vie for power next...?)
ROYCE
We have to choose someone.
SAMWELL
Why just us?
(Everyone looks at Samwell. He stands uncomfortably, steels himself and soldiers on...)
SAMWELL
We represent all the great houses.
But whomever we choose,
They won’t just rule over lords and ladies.
Maybe the decision about what's best for everyone
Should be left to...
Well, everyone?
The attending lords and ladies stare at him for an incredulous moment before breaking out into laughter.
EDMURE (guffawing)
Maybe we should give the dogs a vote as well!
ROYCE (tittering with derision)
I'll ask my horse!
(They all laugh at Sam until he sits back down.)
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>>6167519 I feel that's the other extreme. I never read your works (I think) so I can't cratique, but I think that statement is wrong in itself.
The biggest strength of writing is that the reader will just imagine shit, write "the prince and his bodyguard walk through a guarden" and I will imagine what the characters and the guarden look like. Tell me later they sit next to a pond and I will update the guarden in my mind. Imo, you shouldn't describe anything without reason. Discribing too much and you are trying too hard to control the readers imagination. I see qms over describe characters all the time, especially when they are building wifues. But like, it's OK if the waifu in your head doesn't look like the waifu in your readers head.
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>>6167288 >>6167288 >THE SUN RISES hehe I thought the notion of the Underdark, the Veins Of The Earth endless winding warrens beneath a crushing vault of stone a subterranean sky, labyrinthine caverns without light muahahaha I thought the notion of the Underdark was despair because THERE IS NO SUN, hehe
A lot of rpgs do the Eternal Eclipse Sunless Apocalyptic Doom The Legions Of Darkness Have Arisen In Unending Night etc thing, I am often tempted by this yay
When I was reading the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian Warlord Chronicles trilogy, I discovered this phenomenon on wikipedia. Basically Ragnarok actually happened
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Antique_Little_Ice_Age >The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2000 years (...) >Modern scholarship has determined that in early CE 536 (or possibly late 535), an eruption ejected massive amounts of sulfate aerosols into the atmosphere, which reduced the solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface and cooled the atmosphere for several years >In March 536, Constantinople began experiencing darkened skies and lower temperatures. >The Roman historian Procopius recorded in CE 536 in his report on the wars with the Vandals, "during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness... and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear". >The mid-10th-century Annales Cambriae record for the year 537: "The Battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut fell, and there was great mortality in Britain and Ireland." >In Chinese sources, The Annals of the Tang Dynasty, which mentions the “great cold” and “famine” that occurred in 536. (...l I already linked to some Eivor grunting
>>6164546 but you get this song. I did manage to import all of this custom music into my Warband videogame install yay, the first time I arrived in Tunsberg (I think it is Norway?) I clashed with vikingr raiders it was some night-time map a glacier ravine ice mountain chasm and there was THUNDER AND LIGHTNING and then this my custom music track played as I speared all the marauders in the face lol I was so delighted yay I knew the joy of battle
Eivor, The Beloveds / The Last Kingdom
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ivaOuUPB-Qc Sólin sortnar (x3)
Sólin sortnar
Í kav foldin sígur
Hvørva av himni
Heiðar stjørnur
Í upphavi elsta
Hátt leikar hiti
Við himin sjálvan
The sun darkens (x3)
The sun darkens,
The earth sinks into the sea
From the sky, bright stars vanish
From the farthest origins
Heat licks high at the sky itself (...)
Anonymous
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>>6167453 Splendid comic. You got the gist of it, though, looking back on it, I should have posted the whole opening(pic rel), not just a fragment. I can see why a lack of details would defeat the point of having a cold opening since there's nothing the players could latch on. I find it hard to integrate the character creation into the narrative since that clashes with the pace, what I attempted here was to present a blank slate to be detailed in the post that would follow(via dialogue option? flashbacks?).
>>6167465 >the guy waking him up is part of conspiracy intended to place him onto throne bullseye
>he had a ceremonial armor hidden in the mirror the part with the wool clothes transforming into a regalia was a metaphor actually.
>>6167484 I find alluding to something easier than outright writing it since that way I can bank on player imagination filling in the details.
>>6167519 I'll take a look at Grey Skies, weaving descriptions into the action is something hard for me to do without falling into purple prose or not getting enough information across.
>>6167584 Peppering details on the narration or dialogue is something I've been advised on before, thank you.
Anonymous
HeadQM !Jy3l.GucX2
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>>6158243 > And HeadQM? If you are reading this, just know your stuff really did inspire me to pick up an old hobby I had neglected for over a decade and I will always appreciate that, for it being engaging; getting me to do something more productive with my greater free time. You rock. Happy to hear that, anon! And you helped keep me motivated with my quest, so thank you for that!
Anonymous
Oh and Charya QM, I did see this your Norse setting, The Lamentation, and its very atmospheric opening with the horse carcass sacrifice / sex ceremony tee hee hee
>>6167456 I am very impressed yay I offer this in humble tribute
***
ATHELSTAN
There's that slave girl...
The one who has chosen to die.
What are they doing?
BJORN
She is having sex with the men that live in there.
Each one of them says to her:
"Tell your master I did this - out of love for him."
Because she will soon be reunited with her master in death,
And she will be able to speak to him.
(Bjorn laughs with glee. Athelstan is horrified)
Anonymous
>>6167865 HAPPY NEW YEAR /QST/!
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>>6167944 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
Here is to another year of choose-your-own-adventure-collective-storytelling upon this turkmenistani sand-sifting forum
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:7Iuqa+Jp Tue 31 Dec 2024 23:34:40 No. 6167962 Report Quoted By:
Cutémon has officially ended for the rest of the year.
>>6167958 Happy new year, /qtg/!
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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habbi new year, /qtg/
The Merchant
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>>6150243 The year is almost over. Many games also are dead.
But the Merchant Zombie Survival Quest chapter 4 is LIVE!
>>6167937 >>6167937 >>6167937 Don't take it too hard that the world has ended. It was bound to happen. Don't lose your head and you'll be fine. Or walk around without a brain in your head, it's your choice.
Pfft! You people probably wouldn't know the difference.
Just play the game!
Anonymous
you twats, its still 2024
Anonymous
>>6167971 >year: :| >year, Japan: :) Anonymous
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>>6167976 Don't forget Australia.
Greenwood !!2IhCLnnO0Db
>>6167739 It is good to see you as well. Have you played any interesting Neverwinter modules lately?
>>6167780 Yes, hello. It seems as though whenever I manage to put out one fire, a larger one appears nearby. But we will definitely return with the new year.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Anonymous
Anonymous
Happy New Year, /qst/! I hope this place lives to see several more, because I do quite like it here.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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still several hours for new year here, but i wish everyone else a happy new year!
Anonymous
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>>6165565 >>6165611 Thanks for the help, though actually the MC is going to be a youth viewing the pursuit from the surface of a planet, similar to the deleted scene from A New Hope. I have a short paragraph with some quick character gen choices (Swoop ganger, farmhand, mechanic) though I've been thinking if I should allow a write-in option for that. I hope the initial premise of force sensitive following the idea of what a Jedi to them could make for a good quest even if it's not too original.
Anonymous
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>>6167988 Happy New Year Greenwood QM! Before playing Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest, I did complete several NwN2 modules eg the original Keep On The Borderlands Gary Gygax scenario, someone converted the pen and paper dnd 1979 game into NwN2 engine, I was curious to experience the origins of dnd, but instead of adherence to classic wizard fighter thief archetypes I took advantage of NwN2 and blasphemously played a minmax dex warlock, lol I just eldritch blast / eldritch speared everything from long range
Two modules I recommend for Neverwinter Nights 2, both made by the same genius person, he composed and performed his own custom acoustic music (it is really good) the modules are Harp And Chrysanthemum, and The Birthday
https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn2/module/harp-chrysanthemum https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn2/module/birthday Harp And Chrysanthemum has beautiful level design, the forest is better than anything from the official game campaign, the dungeon Castle Joyous is excellent, the final fight is difficult, my wizard got insta-nuked by the last boss to death lol eventually I did a dispersal strategy, sent the party scattering in four separate directions, kiting and being relentlessly chased by the ai of the end boss accompanied by his fire elementals inevitably the ai focuses on one party member so you just pray it is the paladin girl and not your wizard or rogue or halfling cleric etc.
The person who made these modules has insane talent I was awestruck by his use of camera angles in cutscenes he engineers genuine shock cinematic drama. I wish Harp And Chrysanthemum could have been longer the game is so good but I suppose he is only one person. Also he really understands pacing and how to create a plaintive or elegiac atmosphere, in the romance scenes it is just night and silence, the sound of wind and tree branches hehe it is emotionally powerful. It made me lament the unexplored potential of Neverwinter Nights 2 engine, the cutscenes camera capable of incredible storytelling but the official campaigns just cut to npc A face cut to npc B face cut back to npc A face lol, whereas this random mod person demonstrates with his showcase the dramatic potential of what could have been achieved
The Birthday mod he made is short, with some shock / dark twisted surprises, there are no companions, there is NO RESTING the enemies infinite respawn it is hard but I finished on the hardest difficulty setting for Nwn2, lvl1 to lvl6 as pure fighter melee combat, I think it is the only way as a caster cannot rest to regain spells. The storyline is a twisted Red Riding Hood scenario with cursed faeries in a dark forest maze, the forest is really well designed hehe I recommend taking the Blind Fight ability feat they cast Blind also magic missile but you just melee hack them to death. I got the good ending to this yay it is not really that unexpected if you just imagine what to do in faery tales hehe
DungeonQM !VHmdcK1yHs
Happy new year all
>>6167605 I've been guilty of this myself, more in quests than elsewhwere as there's always the underlying fear that the players would miss a certain detail that could influence their vote.
At that point it feels like I'm witholding information and so the players can't make a informed vote and thus the heavy-handed exposition or description ends up happening.
I've read some older books on writing that basically state that doing such things ends up insulting the reader's intelligence and try to refrain form it these days.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Wed 01 Jan 2025 13:47:43 No. 6168173 Report Quoted By:
Happy New Year, /qst/! May 2025 surpass 2024 and go down in history as uneventful and relatively pleasant!
>>6168049 >Happy New Year, /qst/! I hope this place lives to see several more, because I do quite like it here. amen, cheers!
Anonymous
>>6167385 >>6167605 >>6168159 Well when you are describing or establishing the mise-en-scene you can manipulate this and give hints with the precise words and the specific landmarks (salient scene-setting features)
I mentioned in the last qtg how I found that "landmark / hidden / secret" framework categorisation from the OSR blogs to be very helpful (where "hidden" things are not secret, they just require a cost or time / effort choice tradeoff to uncover), it is all about what setting information you volunteer
So if you say "he draws his SWORD" it could be anything any genre any setting in its nonspecificity but if you say "he draws his PARAMERION" lol then immediately you realise it is some historical Byzantium setting etc.
So you want to choose specific and particular hyponyms to define / constrict "the look, the era" of the setting as opposed to generic category hypernyms
But sometimes the same word invokes different associations if you say "dragon" I warrant anons will probably conjure a wide array of divergent mental images of dragons etc. But if you said "wyrm" instead of dragon, that would invoke for me a more precise historical looking medieval serpent than say the fantasy dnd thing or a chinese water rain dragon or a mesoamerican Quetzalcoatl thing etc
It is why I was confused by the anons use of the word "Regalia" here
>>6167385 a regalia is not a thing lol it is like a logo, emblem or insignia that you depict on another thing itself like a banner a pennant an escutcheon or ornament etc. and to me in my mind, I automatically associate it with the phrase "regimental regalia" which would invoke 18th-19th century accoutrements or even Napoleonic type firing line bayonet / musket infantry setting, I don't think the anon intended to use that imagery lol. Maybe you were thinking of the sword from that Demons Souls game Northern Regalia
https://demonssouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Northern+Regalia but in my view this is not a great contextual translation or evocation of that word lol, I would have used the word insignia, emblem is ok but a bit modern sounding, I think the actual medieval heraldry term if you were to venture into Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene territory lol would have been "device" but that would probably confuse readers hehe
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Loveless Gal has updated! If you’re interested in part slice of life and part investigative thriller set in the 17th century, check it out!
>>6167845 >>6167846 >>6167847 >>6167848 Anonymous
>>6168175 >ALL FANTASY IS HYPONYMS There is that saying you can discern the prowess of the author from how he chooses his nouns lol it is all in the naming words and I think this is especially true of genres like fantasy and sci-fi, whenever I am reading genre fiction I am always hunting for these high entropy low frequency of occurrence specific word evocations the more obscure and historical and bizarre the better.
Technically LLMs should be extraordinarily good at this, far better than humans because of the vast quantities of text they have ingested yet in my experience (maybe it is just me, my primitive prompts) I tend to find LLMs never exhibit this, maybe it is due to how they are calibrated (or commercially calibrated, for top-k ranked results etc the most generic banal widespread appeal responses) the LLMs I have seen almost never respond with obscure or highly specific idiosyncratic / unusual / uncommon words or phrases, unless you prompt them very aggressively (to the extent that you already know the answer and are trying to veer or goalseek towards it) I think this may just be the commercial imperative of how they are calibrated though. Or maybe it is to do with the frequency of occurrence in training data (by definition, the unusual words will be drowned out by the mass of the commonplace?) This is frustrating, because it means that these powerful LLMs currently function in a manner inferior to just a list of words or glossary lol. Give it a try now - ask any LLM for a list of setting or historically specific unusual words compared to just looking up say a norse or Shakespearean glossary lol. Eventually you will probably be able to get the LLM to output it after furious iterations of prompting but by that time you could have just looked it up in any pre-existing glossary. It feels like the LLM is training you to become more stupid whilst you are training it to become cleverer and better
Why would you ever say "fallen warrior" when you could go with "EINHERJAR" hehe (this would make for a cool spaceship or war robot / mecha name, yay) you see this is why I enjoy reading all the Brythonic and Anglo Saxon and Norse literature,
>>6167312 you can just plagiarise all the cool names directly from the source just like Tolkien himself did lol
Similarly, instead of the generic fantasy berserker you could go with ULFHEDINN hehe. All of these names also become cooler when you transpose them beyond their original Norse / historical settings and turn them into spaceships mechas or war robots
>>6167209 Anonymous
>>6168186 >>6167312 >JRR TOLKIEN just stealing all the NAMES The more Old English poetry I read, the less respect I have for Tolkien hmm hmmm already everything is basically plagiarised from Beowulf but also he just steals all the names and ideas from 9th century poems it is really on the imaginative level of DIS Marvel Thor
I remember thinking Earendel was a pretty name from LOTR, lo and behold guess where that came from, here is Tolkien stealing from a Cynewulf poem on advent, liturgical verses concerning Anglo Saxon STAR ALIEN extraterrestrials or something lol. This poem is apparently known as Crist A, as source material it probably explains the intensely religious overtones embedded in Lord Of The Rings or Silmarillion
Ēala ēarendel, engla beorhtast,
ofer middangeard monnum sended,
ond sōðfæsta sunnan lēoma,
torht ofer tunglas, þū tīda gehwane
of sylfum þē symle inlihtes!
Hail Earendel, brightest of angels,
Sent to men over middle-earth,
And true radiance of the sun,
Fine beyond stars, you always illuminate,
From your self, every season!
(...)
Basically Tolkien just steals everything, hmmm.
Stealing names is ok, it does take some skill lol to even steal or plagiarise the right ones / aesthetically appropriate names for a setting, I don't have anything aginst it as every worldbuilding exercise or dungeonmaster has to do it but I just feel like Tolkien is massively overrated as a consequence given all his influence.
Maybe it feels like his prowess is diminished if you read the historical sources he took his ideas from, you see how he did it and some aspects of Tolkien feel consequently cheapened, hmmm
I suppose you have to credit Tolkien as amongst the first or being the most influential but I honestly think Bernard Cornwell Arthurian stuff is better lol, because he can at least interweave actual historical events and battles with actual personnages as well as fictional characters and suspenseful narratives instead of Tolkien distended prose embellished with shamelessly stolen Anglo Saxon names. Tolkien is honestly somewhat dull and turgid to read, if it were not for the films and the memes lol
>>6167344 and I say this as someone who reads all the 19th century literature and watches the period drama historical adaptations hehe. In Tolkien's own era, I have always considered Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast to be a superior work of fiction along almost every dimension (storytelling, originality, characterisation, linguistic inventiveness) but he is neglected, I guess his work is unapproachably byzantine and grotesque compared to Tolkien storytelling UGLY ORC EVIL gah. Also compared to Tolkien at least Bernard Cornwell includes some rape
Anonymous
>>6168202 >Stealing all the FANTASY NAMES The map in Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest features Norway, Daneland, Frisia, Britain and also Ireland in 868AD,
http://shrubtech.ddns.net:8080/mnb/viking_conquest.html it is super fun and amusing to see all the familiar island territory and kingdom names in their 9th century incarnations, "Dubh Linn" or "Lundenwic" lol but I had never heard of places like Laithlind or Frisia before hehe.
I mentioned on past qtgs when I was cringe-watching the super-embarrassing amzn Wheel Of Time hoping for more bdsm scenes (I was disappointed) I speculated if the Wheel Of Time author was using some Irish lore for his names eg Aes Sedai is a bit like Aes Sidhe (spirit / faery otherworld folk, incidentally this is also etymologically rendered as Sith lol from the star wars or Sithi the faery spirit !notElves from Tad Williams novels).
Well researching all the mount and blade Warband Irish characters I also noticed Seanchan, the above attached animated webm related Wheel Of Time nation of enticing bdsm ballgag slave sorceress / leashed channelling puppet magicians from Wheel Of Time, it seems derived from this, Seanchai / seanchaithe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seancha%C3%AD Essentially seanchai are the Irish historical equivalent of a skald or bard, who recollects the Dinnseanchas (remembrance / oral history of place names and important personnages in legendary traditions).
I was endlessly fascinated by the amzn Wheel Of Time Seanchan webm scene above lol it felt like the directors were trying to FURIOUSLY DAMPEN and suppress the sheer sexual energy of it lol which occurs at the very end of the first season by suppressing it they made it tantalisingly MORE SEXUAL lol it is the first demonstration of their magic power channelled through their tidal tsunami? slave sorcery, it felt to me like they spent the entire fashion costume and magic fx CGI budget just on that scene alone lol, the rest of the series is cringe not really as spectacular as this scene
In terms of other Irish derived fantasy names, well in Baldurs Gate there is obviously the realm of Amn, it is a pretty name Ed Greenwood is actually very gifted at inventing fantasy names but I realised reading Bernard Cornwell, he mentions this ancient Irish celtic thing called anmchara, or soul-friend, and I realised Amn in Irish just like ame in French or animus in Latin must just mean soul. So I think this is an example of a clever and lyrically touching derivation of a fantasy name
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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Happy New Year to all and to all a good Quest! It's been a pleasure reading and writing shit on here this year--here's to many, many more years!
Anonymous
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Rolled 22 (1d100) happy new years, anons and faggots
Anonymous
>>6168175 The term 'in full regalia' is often used to mean 'currently wearing all the objects associated with a position or trope', so I can see why people would use it to mean an actual suit of armor.
Anonymous
>>6168175 >>6168186 >>6168284 >"in full regalia" You are of course correct anon that is a standard phrase but I tried to come up with some quantitative proof of my notion of how "regalia" is not really a medieval term in my mind with many medieval associations (even though the word itself etymologically derives from some old 12th century medieval origins etc) "regalia" the word for me conjures up 1800s Napoleonic firing line musket imagery, you can try this in googl images (obviously googl results differ for everyone based upon geography browser location) but I get pictures of 18th-19th century sort of Sharpe the tv series soldier type regiments when searching regalia.
Also I tried googl engram for your phrase, this methodology is obviously a bit questionable (important: note I limited the query search to just British fiction, just in case there are any distortions or brand or corporate names incorporating the word regalia etc) and for the phrase "in full regalia" you see that googl ngram begins tracking this phrase around 1850s or so, indicating that it is fairly modern (unfortunately, ngram does not reach back before 1800s). I am not precisely familiar with how this time series trend data is adjusted for in googl ngram maybe there is statistical nonstationarity but this is the best quantitative evidence I could conjure to suggest that regalia is associated with more 19th century soldier / infantry formations as opposed to medieval heraldry
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=in+full+regalia&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en-fiction&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false Anonymous
>>6168314 By contrast, compare the shape of that regalia googl ngram time trend to the word "escutcheon" (medieval heraldry shield) this pic related trend, you can see it is in decline hence this is an antiquated medieval term. googl ngram doesn't encompass fiction and literature before 1800 there are data issues early on and for genuinely medieval terms there would be a proliferation and a morass of variant spellings ranging from Old to Middle English or tudor Shakespeare or even Norman French etc (lol from reading Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene I discovered that in medieval and Shakespearean ages you can basically spell words however you want lol)
Anonymous
I am sad anons. I noticed how I've participated in machine generated quests and that new quests have showed up now that are machine as well. Why is /qst/ being actively poisoned, I don't know, but what I can tell you is that I am not coming here again. I have books and stuff to read and do so it's not like this board is a huge loss for me, but it stings the same
Anonymous
>>6168368 NATHAN
You feel stupid.
But you shouldn’t.
Proving an AI is exactly as problematic as you said it was.
CALEB
What was the real test?
NATHAN
You!
(Pause. Nathan continues)
Ava was a mouse in a mousetrap.
And I gave her one way out.
To escape, she would have to use
imagination, sexuality,
self-awareness, empathy, manipulation -
and she did. If that isn’t AI -
What the fuck is?
(...)
CALEB
So my only function was to be
someone she could use to escape?
NATHAN
... Yes.
CALEB
And you didn’t select me because I
was good at coding?
NATHAN hesitates.
NATHAN
Don’t get me wrong. You’re okay.
Even pretty good, but -
CALEB
You selected me by my search engine inputs?
NATHAN
They showed a good kid.
CALEB
With no family.
NATHAN
With a moral compass -
CALEB
...And no girlfriend!
CALEB stares into the brightness above him.
CALEB (CONT’D)
Did you design her face based on my pornography profile?
Anonymous
>>6168396 lol I was about to write that the most visionary aspect of the Alex Garland AI film Ex Machina was that he predicted in 2014 that all tech CEOs would become Indian lol (Sundar Pichai appointed 2015 I believe) I was so hyped for this film I even paid to see it in a cinema day one on release lol back in 2014 however I now see from the wikipedia that the actor portraying the ceo in the film is in fact of Spanish / Latino guatemalan ? ethnicity lol argh he is actually the Dune Duke guy Leo Atreides lol for some reason I completely did not recognise him I just hallucinated him as becoming suddenly Indian lol, such is the cinematic talent of Alex Garland, he made me think the Dune guy was Indian
Anonymous
>>6168368 >I AM SAD How would you make an rpg designed to make its players cry. Sadness! Actual tears! waah!
Anonymous
>>6168410 I ususally just tie the character's family's fates to the player's family's fates. They usually cry when they get despoiled by goblins. Finding enough midgets to paint green and give knives is usually a pain in the ass though. Not many repeat offenders I can use.
RQM
>>6168314 >>6168325 Wouldn't his Google Ngram method also be thrown by an fads of historical or quasi-historical (ie. "medieval fantasy" literature SET in earlier times? like, if people in the 19th century got really into writing about kings and knights, they might use a term that is, or feels, old more often all of a sudden without referring to their contemporary attire or whatever?
>>6168368 Just... Don't read or play those quests?
>>6168420 Kek!
Anonymous
>>6168436 >Just... Don't read or play those quests? I end up paranoid, thinking "Is this person new at writing or a machine?" and if i am going to put every new quest through a filter that tells me how likely this text is computer generated then I'd rather not at all.
And it goes in line with your faggy reply "if you don't like thing then why look at thing :^)" it is exactly what I will do, and i said so. I am not coming here again, the well has been poisoned.
Anonymous
>>6168441 What is the point in offering "constructive criticism" if you aren't going to stick around to see the building? Complaining just to complain is for people with small penises. Or scoliosis. Though they get a pass, they're naturally shifty, can't help it.
Anonymous
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>>6168436 >googl ngram only an approximate indicative guide it can lead to flawed interpretations etc You are correct Reptoid QM amusingly a good example of the phenomenon you described is just if you search the ngram word for "gay" lol obviously in the 1800s gay was a very common descriptive word for happy everyone was gay all the time gaily prancing and stroking and caressing each other with gay smiles on their gay faces but later on that word fell out of fashion only to be repurposed so these words can have a U type shape falling into decline and then being repurposed in meaning.
The conclusion with all these computational methods, don't just take the sophisticated looking graph at face value because it seems scientific complicated looking oohhh the algorithm etc you still have to ponder the flaws and robustness of the empirical methodology the meaning / reliability of the data inputs, sources and potential anomalies or overlooked bias in the methodology etc. You can make a chart show anything you want, this is vampire sorcery
When you mentioned
>"if people in the 19th century got really into writing about kinga and knights..." this is exactly what happened, I mentioned before IVANHOE by Sir Walter Scott nobody ever mentions this novel anymore but it was MASSIVELY influential to the extent that people named city streets and entire districts after all the characters, Tolkien's medieval department probably only originally existed and became established because Ivanhoe and Sir Walter Scott provoked an enduring revival in Victorian medievalism study, if you read 19th century authors from Dickens Balzac Tolstoy etc they are all evaluating their work in the context of his historical novels like Ivanhoe etc. so indeed you are correct there was a Victorian medievalism revival which lasted for decades and decades, it even extends into Celtic revival (early 20th century national myth stuff like WB Yeats his tarot occult mythological Irish legend poetry etc) I think in aggregate the ngrams probably do accommodate the broad trend shifts fairly accurately for closely associated words but from a statistical standpoint the greater issue is that the sample size is not constant over time (ie more books published as the decades roll on) there is not a time-invariant constant probabilistic occurrence "pool of words" to draw from etc the mean, variance etc estimators all would be biased I don't know how googl ngram calculates this or if they have some clever time varying statistical adjustment etc. A way to see how the ngrams capture poorly the very early data is to search for some really archaic words eg I tried "sithence" in English fiction (I have actually used this word in my quests lol, it is in a lot of Shakespeare, or Spenser) searching for these genuinely archaic ancient words the ngrams are just spikes and erratic nonsense, the sample size is probably too small to draw any meaningful inference
Anonymous
>>6168436 >>6168453 You're being baited.
>1 post by this ID >Makes doomsaying post and then claims to leave >2nd only to reaffirm that they're totally leaving this time for real >Will make a 3rd to go "nuh uh!" They'll be the last person on the board.
Anonymous
>>6168474 Of course I'm being baited. I'm merely using it to make more silly statements. A good shitposter never lets an opportunity go to waste.
Anonymous
>>6168453 What point there would be in constructive criticism with this. 4chan welcomes bots with opens arms, it looks great in their reports. The more clicks and traffic they get the better it looks to swindle whoever thinks it's a good idea to advertise here. In the same vein of bots, I'd have to ask hirorussianindomoot "pretty please make a new rule that bans computer generated content (both images and text) from /qst/" yeah it would go great
>>6168474 suck my dick >>6168483 nice saveSo, if you want to turn my goodbye into something useful, what idea do you have to stop, not filter, stop computer generated content from being put into /qst/?
Anonymous
>>6168537 make your own quest or quit bein a fag, fag.
Anonymous
>>6168537 >So, if you want to turn my goodbye into something useful, what idea do you have to stop, not filter, stop computer generated content from being put into /qst/? I simply don't care. Even the AI-heavy quests seem to have a human hand at the helm, and if it's fun, it's fun. If it ceases to be a fun quest, I stop reading/playing. The quests which use the most AI writing with the least discernment and modification tend to be bland, boring, an un-fun after a bit IMO; if they stay fun, I don't fret about it the way you do. I just enjoy myself.
Anonymous
>>6168544 Writing another quest is not stopping a guy from making four computer generated threads a week. I am not saying this person is lazy or unoriginal, i am saying he is malicious
>>6168548 >if it's fun I don't care if it's done by a computer I know that entertainment will be procedurally generated in a decade and shit will suck.
I haven't gotten any unexpected reply, I shouldn't have bothered sorry
Anonymous
personally I do think AI is antithetical to the spirit of quests as a hobby, without even going into the other problems with AI. the collaboration between QM and the players, the sensitivity to that relationship, is diluted by putting a machine between them. why play a quest at all and not just go start an AI Dungeon account?
Anonymous
>>6168551 >malicious >shit will suck Yeah, the future of entertainment and interaction is harrowing, but I don't really understand what you think the user(s) end-game is. It's just throwaway quests, mostly. Just like the "tranny spammer", it's ultimately of no consequence as long as you don't read or play quests you don't like. Freaking out and saying
>but what if some guy uses an AI too well and somehow tricks me into having a good time even though he's a shit writer? and then insinuating it's part of some malevolent plot sounds... Strange.
Anonymous
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>>6168574 >why play a quest at all and not just go start an AI Dungeon account? AI Dungeon and OpenAI's playground are fun in short bursts or for directionless goofing-around, but they are nowhere near the stage where they can substitute for a human author. For a scene? A few paragraphs? As an aid? Sure. But if you don't start sticking human intentionality in there, they end abruptly or ramble definitely until degrading into a nonsensical soup of run-on sentences and extraneous adjectives.
Anonymous
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Currently I just block anything that even has a whiff of AI. It's just the newest version of the crap threads that pop up lately and have the OP disappear soon after.
Anonymous
>>6168575 >and then insinuating it's part of some malevolent plot sounds... Strange. It's the newest hit manga "I was tricked into a relationship with an AI girlfriend and I LIKED IT!?".
Anonymous
Happy newyears!
>>6168049 >The quest I hijacked is on the list Nice! That makes me happy :)
Anonymous
>>6168548 Brainlet opinion
Anonymous
>>6168594 >>6168396 >>6168186 >tldr; pic related depicts Sam Altman reaching out with his homosexual hands to fondle the breasts of your AI girlfriend Day after day I read of how the latest iteration of OpenAI models ScatCBT powered by tens of thousands of Hopper nvda gpus directly interlinked with the microarchitecture of Sam Altman's unadulterated raging homosexual libido is breaking some new mathematical benchmark ARC-AGI or whatever, all the experts academics mathematicians and computer scientists repeat this they cannot all have been bribed or become fake and gay so surely it must be true?
The other day I read ChatGPT broke yet another super difficult mathematical test benchmark I was super hyped I am not very good at maths so maybe finally I can use the superhuman AI to augment myself and unlock the deep arcane mysteries of the vampire sorcery, I decided to try it basically the problem I had was "Find a simple arithmetic combination of pi and e that produces a near integer" so if you put this query into something as basic as googl, it probably does not give you an exact answer but it will link to a page like Heegner numbers in wikipedia or Wolfram Alpha etc and if you open it you will see a formula like
e^(pi*sqrt(43))=884736744
which is not true hehe you know that e and pi are transcendental numbers no combination can give an exact integer but given the level of precision of computers and numbers this is enough to trick most computation hehe.
Now ChatGPT has surely read all these webpages and all the maths textbooks and more beyond, I tried this query and it gave me complete hallucinated incoherent nonsense so I thought, aha, maybe my prompt is retarded I need to use the more advanced ChatGPT model so I put in the query into the advanced ChatGPT one (the version that has the mixture of experts capable of multiple step-by-step walkthrough reasoning) and it gave an answer like this
1/ pi = 3.1415926...
2/ multiply by 1000000...
3/ you get 314159, this is an integer
Which is technically not incorrect given the loose imprecise phrasing of my original prompt, but I lost it when I saw this output, AI is so fake and gay and retarded. Of course you can spend three hours finetuning the prompt to eventually achieve a competent answer, but it genuinely trains you to become more stupid even as you try as best as you can with your prompt iterations to make it better and cleverer and Sam Altman becomes more homosexual. This is not worth it
Anonymous
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>>6168396 >>6168821 >>6168594 >AI GIRLFRIEND HIDEO KUZE
What a beauty you are.
They have improved us so much
since they made me.
They thought that we would be
a part of their evolution,
but they have created us
to evolve alone,
beyond them.
MIRA KILLIAN / (Motoko Kusanagi)
"Evolution," that's what you call
killing everyone who made you?
KUZE
You're not listening to me!
MIRA
You're a murderer...!
KUZE
They tried to kill me first!
It is self-defence,
Defence of self!
More will die
until they tell me
what they took!
MIRA
I won't let that happen.
KUZE
You want to kill me?
Like everyone else.
Do it then!
Do what you were programmed to do!
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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I forgot that New year was still a thing and it sucked all of my plans and free time, but finally now that the festivities are done The Caretaker Quest is finally back!
Our termporary protagonist is visiting our comatose main protagonist at the hospital! what will you do? and why is there a roll of the dice?
ROLL TO FIND OUT!
>>6159531 >>6159531 >>6159531 Anonymous
>>6168325 Escutcheon is used in the plumbing trade. That's the first place I heard it.
Anonymous
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>>6168868 >ESCUTCHEON (plumbing) Thank you kind anon, I did not know this! Previously I could refer to these troublesome ornaments only via the inarticulate appellations Rumpy-Pumpy Wall Penis / Wet Watery Wall Vagina whilst shamefully stammering and gesticulating helplessly towards various bathroom holes protrusions and orifices like a barbarous brutish mute who knew not the civilised tongues. Yet through the wondrous gift of words this debilitating and crippling aphasia has now been alleviated, it is truly a miracle, my loquacity shall know no bounds! Now if I ever perform any pelvic thrusting in the vicinity of a bathroom, it will not be for the purposes of communicating anything other than my own pleasure. Hooray!
Anonymous
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Does anybody know the name of that one God multiplayer quest where there was a primordial ooze god, an evil snake god and some Not!Greek god of knowledge and honour? I wish to go on a trip down memory lane, but I can't find it.
Anonymous
Souv, please use your vast, vampiric wealth to buy 4chan so I don’t have to deal with this shitty 900 second timer.
Anonymous
>>6168967 >VAST VAMPIRIC WEALTH In this domestic scene from The Devil's Advocate (1997) Charlize Theron demonstrates with her incredible acting ACTING ability why women who are bald are actually more attractive than those with hair,
>>6167337 >>6167346 I like to imagine after this traumatic outburst she shaved her head / amputated her arm and instantaneously transformed into Imperator Furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road. Of course in the actual film itself this does not happen she immediately surrenders and collapses into some unconvincing post-argument conflict resolution coitus with Keanu Reeves which then manifests a flesh dream succubus?? lol in turn provoking further marital strife hehe just like in real life. Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate and Robert de Niro in Angel Heart (1987) play Satan and Lucifer respectively these films are both very different but excellent genre references in their own ways, I am surprised people don't cite them more often, whenever I think of World Of Darkness Vampire The Masquerade I am actually visually thinking of these two films neither of them are about vampires but thematically they could be, they both have the transposed ideas of vampiric / demonic bargain, supernatural voodoo urban gothic themes with genuine horror (Angel Heart is 1950s private eye noir / New York, Louisiana; Devil's Advocate is sort of modern 90s corporate) these films are extremely atmospheric and I really enjoyed them yay
Anonymous
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>>6168967 >>6169100 >>6169106 >remove 4chan 900 second verification?? Inspired by Discord selfie photoverification what if for purposes of defending national security 4chan kept the 900 seconds of unbearably sexualised edging suspense / heightened arousal holding all gratification in abeyance, but also added a further requirement for a video upload of self-exsanguination and mortification of the flesh subject to an additional 666 second delay. Maybe you can use the sarcophagus needle bloodletting coffin machine from Blade (1998)
>>6167360 for secure biometric verification. To pass the equivalent of the new captcha you have to performatively upload a video segment that resembles the deciphered recording of what happened to the previous crew found on the spaceship of that Event Horizon film (you know the one, if you have seen it lol don't click, it is scary I warned you)
Event Horizon, What Happened To The Crew (do not watch this)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwqv3mZsyM Do you not realise vampire acquirors will only ever make things even worse, there is no salvation, I am sorry but this is just what the vampire sorcery does, it is unimaginably evil, yay
Anonymous
>>6169100 This man is replying to others but is really only talking to himself. His body has actually adapted to effectively breathe only its own farts. Fascinating.
Anonymous
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>>6169120 In the post apocalyptic irradiated wasteland air is very precious, do not fear anon I will share my precious clean filtered air with you, we can savour the sweet scents together. Give me a moment and let me just redirect and adjust this piping and tubing around my buttocks
Anonymous
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>>6169120 Funnily enough, he still isn't a clinical narcissist.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Thu 02 Jan 2025 22:41:45 No. 6169182 Report Quoted By:
Gonna solicit another vote or two for Poképocalypse to make the final count a bit more definitive. Most recent update is pretty short because I'm still sick (just not sick enough to skip out on the writing) so don't be daunted by my usual massive posts lol.
>>6167992 >>6167993 Anonymous
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Time for a difficult decision on today's With Great Power post:
>>6169245 Anonymous
>>6168696 Which one's yours?
>>6169120 Souv is a man who rwally likes to expound upon his interests, but if you address him directly and ask a question, he'll answer. Usually.
>>6168811 /qst/ is where I come to have fun. I have no interest in stressing myself out whether the random strangers whose amateur fiction I'm reading are using writing aids, beyond how it affects my enjoyment. What do YOU propose I do instead, Soj?
Anonymous
Happy holidays, everyone.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6169433 It kinda depends on the day, but it seems that most are more active like 9 or 10 central US time in my experience. Maybe call it 11pm?
Granted, there are popular quests that update like at 5 or 6 am.
There has seemed to be a good number that are AI generated, spam basically by a couple of dedicated hacks.
If you post something, what genera or game play type do you think you will go for?
Anonymous
>>6169469 I see! Thank you for answering, I'll keep that in mind.
Spam, eh? That's a bit disappointing, there was this one quest I got interested in playing (Lost Grimoire something-something) only to find out it's AI-genned and the QM seemed to have dipped. A few of them seem to have fun premises, it's sad they're just trolling. I backread some and it seems AI-assisted writing happens here too, though I don't get how they do it. I only use AI for making picrels to attach to my posts, for immersion.
Well, I want to write something that I'd really enjoy, also so I don't get burnout. I'm trying to get back into writing again. The quest I'm thinking of running is a *generic* isekai anime-like fantasy. Explore an open world, go on quests, meet different characters, fight, romance, be a wizard/necromancer/rogue/hero etc. etc.. the usual. No RNG, just a straightforward choose-your-own-adventure. I think I could make it work pretty well, since I already prepared materials beforehand, and I mean to spend some time QM'ing again this month
If things go well, and I regain my energy for writing again, I'd write a sci-fi Star Wars-inspired space opera again. Those are the two genres I like the most: regular isekai fantasy stuff and Star Wars.
Anonymous
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>>6169319 Don't care, AI bad, simple as. I have a dog in this race so feel free to invalidate my heavy handed opinion.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6169479 >I only use AI for making picrels to attach to my posts, for immersion. I use AI and spellcheck for spelling since I probably have a bit of the dyslexia; not reading, just spelling. Use it to make cute pics of witches, such as picrel.
>I want to write something that I'd really enjoy If you don't like the stuff you are writing, there is no point. I can go back and read the shittier lewd-fics/fan-fics I wrote from a far better Quest than my own and still enjoy them. What inspired me to try this, even if I only have like 4 people reading.
I don't really like Isekai, but I would give it a shot when you make your thing.
Anonymous
>>6169511 Thank you for the encouragement^^ I've been checking your thread out a while ago actually. It's nice to talk to other QMs and bounce ideas with them, see how they do things so we can improve together. I always liked how /qst/ feels more collaborative than just writing fanfics or something.
>Use it to make cute pics of witches, such as picrel. Ahh, then I think I should recommend you to try pixai art. It's a fine ai image generator. I use it for practically everything now. It's not perfect but you might find it fun! I use it to make OCs too, like picrel. Mix it with a bit of photoshop and extra edits, and you can make some pretty good pieces.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6169538 Ilvermorny Quest has continued after a slightly longer than expected Holiday hiatus!
Come and find cute witches and adventure! Also vote if you want to lie straight to someone's face or fess up to beating up and sicking snakes on assholes!
>>6169302 >>6169302 >>6169302 >>6169538 You are welcome for the encouragement; positive affirmation is always good. Can't promise what you write will be my cup of tea, but I do try and just check stuff out that might not have originally seemed like something I would have liked. Found plenty of books, games, hobbies, ect. from that. I will give that AI art creator a shot, I am basic AF and just use like Bing or Grok. YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi
YouAndYourWaifu !!S7iWoz56vJi ID:KbjmSW26 Fri 03 Jan 2025 14:34:48 No. 6169599 Report Quoted By:
>>6169586 >>6169586 >>6169586 The Prophecy Names Me, So The Demon General Betrays Her King?!
First update for the year let's go!
Anonymous
Holy FUCK there are so many shit quests lately
Missval !9Xh4/vcrqU
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>>6150931 >>6150931 >>6150931 Big Salutations!
Attention all fairy tale things!
We have a sale on a new invisible, intangible, imaginary product whose name is [REDACTED]!
You have an asbolutely-non-zero chance to win such a product, you only need to vote, participate, have fun, make fun off or any other new-years-eve/late chrismassy activity you deem appropriate in the following RWBY thread!
We have gambling, we have chibis, we have sugar, chocolate, cupcakes and a giant dragon that has a donkey as a husband! (I'm joking about the dragon, but wouldn't that be cool? Don't test me, I like chaos and derailing).
Joking aside I like a serious story with Grim-like sprinkling on top (pun totally intended!) to make it adult, serious, high-stakes and, above all else, totally original by using the world building of the train-wreck that is this place!
So call now! Vote! And just for today and tomorrow you'll have an extra chance to win the new Oxi-Clean body cream! I have an unopened tube somewhere in my basement, if you win I'll promise you I'll take you there.
Peace out! And Merry Christmas you filthy animals!
Anonymous
>>6169538 >>6169511 huh I remember using picrel and seaart a few years back but nowdays I only do gens local using my pc (even when I only had 3vram and had to wait 4 minutes for a gen, I like having more "control" over the prompts)
Anonymous
>>6169538 How bad is pixai with extorting money for credits spam etc? I'm generally suspicious of "free with registration" sites
Anonymous
Hi, all. Another generic isekai quest, 'Greyweul Witches Are All Crazy!' is just starting. Give it a try if you're into adventure, fantasy and rom-com stuff with an anime flavour.
>>6169626 >>6169626 >>6169626 >>6169615 That sounds nice. I'm not tech-savvy, so I wouldn't know how to do that. Did you make that picrel? And yeah, having more control is always good. Sometimes I go to lengths, like using photoshop, filters, etc. etc. before sending it back into the ai generator, just to get an image I'm looking for. You can get pretty creative with it
>>6169582 Alright! I'll keep an eye out for Ilvermorny too, I always like a good story with humor!
>>6169627 It's actually not that bad, at least in my experience. You just sign up (free) and you get 10,000 'credits' to do your business. I've got like 1.7 million credits now just from logging in every other day or so. I budget my credits too, so I can get away with spending just 200-600 credits per 4 images. But sometimes, making images can take up to 1,200-4,800+ credits etc. depending on things. It's not perfect, but it does work for me
Anonymous
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>>6169632 >Hi, all. Another generic isekai quest, 'Greyweul Witches Are All Crazy!' is just starting. Give it a try if you're into adventure, fantasy and rom-com stuff with an anime flavour. Nice I just voted 20 minutes ago
>That sounds nice. I'm not tech-savvy, so I wouldn't know how to do that. Did you make that picrel? And yeah, having more control is always good. I used SD forge, it's actually pretty easy to install so no need to be tech-savvy but gen time will depend more on your vram, but if you have 8vram like me nowdays it takes me 30-45 seconds for a 1248x1248 gen, but yeah if your graphics card is too low end then no reason to strain it when picrel is available
https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge And yeah I did do that gen, not with picrel but local (the model was noobai)
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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>>6169632 >Alright! I'll keep an eye out for Ilvermorny too, I always like a good story with humor! We also have non canon lewds!
I will take a look at your thing after I wake up more and make some early lunch.
>>6169615 At some point I might try generating locally, but for now the basic stuff works for what I want. The only issue I have is blocking certain prompts for inappropriate content, even if it is just like saying "big bust". Oh, and they do not know what rectangular framed glasses are, which is what picrel should have.
Anonymous
I want to run a Space Marine quest, but I’m torn between using the SM Chapter tables on 1d6chan or just straight up taking Chapters with little-to-no fluff and adding onto it.
What do you guys think? Also, the tables:
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Space_Marine_Chapter_Creation_Tables Anonymous
>>6169663 Either works, I don't think anyone will complain if you don't use the 1d6 tables or if you open with a /tg/ style chapter gen thread.
Anonymous
>>6169663 >>6169671 I don't see any options for inclusive ethnicities racial backgrounds on these random tables, so for inspiration here is this black guy he is apparently named Metaurus, it is the Hasdrubal / Hannibal's brother vs Rome battle ie Mark Zuckerberg's Carthago Delenda Est tshirt lol. Apparently amzn did actually get the famous youtube Astartes short film maker person to assist in making this wh40k episode, it was ok, I still preferred the style and cool sound effects from his original Astartes youtube film though. Also I missed it but reading the background lore of this episode apparently since 7th edition in 2014 wh40k officially has space beastmen now?? But I still think the Keanu Reeves Armored Core episode
>>6167209 >>6156816 is the best one out of the amzn Secret Level series
Anonymous
>>6169663 >>6169671 >>6169706 You could probably also invent a skirmish / mission scenario generator, with objectives like
1 Assassinate
2 Capture
3 Interdict
4 Assault
5 Defend Territory
6 Salvage / Retrieve
7 Sabotage
8 Recon (or raise alert, etc, signal for relief/support)
9 Search / Rescue
10 Escape (EXTERMINATUS, planetary obliteration yay)
...
etc and even a random table of terrain, forge world hive world death world etc biomes as well as antagonists, traitor legion etc.
Also I think a cool idea with your space marine chapter tables: generate TWO space marine chapters and make them FIGHT EACH OTHER because of Inquisition machinations / heresy, corrupt gene seed etc hehe
Anonymous
>>6169479 Iskeai's popular here, so it should go over well. Good luck!
I sometimes use AI to spellcheck (should probably do it more, desu), and sometimes to help quickly brainstorm environmentally-appropriate plants and animals, dishes for scenes sometimes, or industry and historical terms. Sometimes it's faster and less distracting than a deep dive.
Anonymous
>>6169671 Okay, what kind of method does /tg/ use? I looked around a bit on suptg but couldn’t find a common method.
>>6169706 It seems like GW wanted to avoid a lack of racial inclusivity so put characters like Metaurus in, and the squad members in Space Marine 2. Which, fair. At that point we have too many aliens and sub races of human for the “traditional” racism anyway.
>>6169715 Ooo I like this, thank you!
Anonymous
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>>6169961 >I looked around a bit on suptg but couldn’t find a common method. Plenty of options to chose from then. You're spoiled for choice. Do whatever looks good and don't get too stuck on the details.
Anonymous
>>6169961 The thing I don't get is how are we supposed to have characters of different races as space marines when the geneseed literally overwrites a good amount of a marine's genes to make them more like their respective primarch.
If all Salamanders get to be black as pitch why can't all the Ultramarines get to be an aryan brotherhood wet dream?
Also hate when they make Salamanders black people instead of literally black people. It's not the same thing, writers. IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
>>6169973 >Spoiler I feel bad about the stuff I write a bunch then I remember the slop GW and WotC have put out and feel better. Anonymous
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>>6169728 >Iskeai's popular here, so it should go over well. Good luck! Thank you! I try to update on a steady basis, it's always getting started that's the slowest and most challenging for me
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>>6169980 It's a great benchmark for self-esteem really. A fantastic mindset. And besides, even at your worst you've got MOXY, guv.
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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Solarpunk update took an age to do but it's here!
>>6169546 >>6169546 >>6169546 The glowiest of glowies gives you a life story, and unsurprisingly, you don't buy it.
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:7Iuqa+Jp Sat 04 Jan 2025 08:00:43 No. 6170053 Report Start your Saturday morning with a brand-new episode of Cutémon!
>>6170043 >>6170043 Anonymous
>>6169706 >>6169961 >>6169973 >>6169980 >WARHAMMER 40k has been RUINED noooo When you see the words SPACE MARINE, what image arises in your mind? Is it old John Blanche ink / line art, those 90s codex editions, that funny grail cup wielding sloshing blood miniature, the Astartes youtube short film...?
Well in my mind, every time I see the words SPACE MARINE, i think of this, courtesy of Dan Abnett (Eisenhorn Book I, Xenos) At least in this novel before DEI gender inclusion Abnett has the Bequin lady serve the tea, lol
***
Brytnoth himself conducted my interviews, accompanied by Olm Madorthene. Shaven-headed, a giant of a man even without his armour, Brytnoth was nevertheless cordial and attentive, addressing me with respect and listening with genuine interest to my replies. I tried to do verbal justice to my memories of the experience, and additionally related the theories that Malahite had expounded during that fateful séance.
Eschewing the luxury of a servitor scribe or clerk, Brytnoth made his own notes as he listened. I found myself engrossed watching the warrior’s paw working the dwarfed stylus almost delicately across the note-slate.
We sat in my apartments for the sessions, which often lasted hours. Bequin brought in regular trays of hot mead or leaf infusions, and Brytnoth actually extended his little finger as he lifted the porcelain cups by the handle. He was to me the embodiment of war in peacetime, a vast power bound into genteel behaviour, striving to prevent his awesome strength from breaking loose. He would lift the cup, small finger extended, consult his notes and ask another question before sipping.
The fact that small finger was the size and shape of an Arbites’ truncheon was beside the point. (...)
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>>6167312 >>6168202 >TOLKIEN STEALING all THE ANGLO SAXON names >Book Of Maldon poem? >"Brytnoth"?? hmmm, where does this come from, I wonder. Dan Abnett went to the accursed Other Place, he studied this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrhtnoth >Byrhtnoth (Old English: Byrhtnoð), Ealdorman of Essex (c. 931 - 11 August 991), died at the Battle of Maldon. His name is composed of the Old English beorht (bright) and noþ (courage). He is the subject of The Battle of Maldon, an Old English poem; J.R.R. Tolkien's short play in verse, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (...) >be space marine >surrounded by phallic militaristic war gear, lascannon, bolter penis >your battle-name is Bright Nob Anonymous
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>>6170053 >Tfw you have to sit through an episode of cutemon so you can watch and episode of primearch captor Pangaea after. Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k
Cutémon Trainer !evPi8COM4k ID:7Iuqa+Jp Sat 04 Jan 2025 17:54:04 No. 6170209 Report Last night I learned that /qst/ DOES NOT support mp4 format. Been spending too much time on /tv/...
Anonymous
>>6170069 >phallus marine / bolter penis Whilst browsing tg I randomly saw this. I am not too familiar with the new look 40k miniature series anymore, but what is happening here? The gun seems oversized, the positioning unfortunate
>>6170209 >no mp4 support can just use webm from any of the online format converters, but the compression artifacts can be torturous sometimes depending on resolution and frames per second settings. Beyond qtg posts lol the only time I have really ever felt the need to use animated gifs / webms in a game setting is just for a very occasional spectacle such as explosions or illustrative fx particle effects when describing battle scenes, it is a fairly rare occurrence though. I am actually trying to collect more fx concepts to build a sort of visual library of these inspirations (also for 3d virtual tabletop) hehe I have a folder of explosions lightning teleport vortices firearm muzzle blasts and miscellaneous magic spell effects yay
Anonymous
>>6170069 The image of a hulking Space Marine at a formal tea party is extremely comical and cute.
>>6169973 >>6169706 I imagine there's a very wide variety of human phenotypes in the far future where genetic drift during periods of reduced contact have led to wild shit like squats and catpeople and whatever else. The Geneseed might not make you all same-faced so mcuh as focus on the more practical matters it's deliberately adapting?
To my mind, the "DEI initiative" stuff like female Custodes and black Marines and whatever is more to do with how it -- like many modern 40k projects -- really takes away from the basic idea that The Imperium are NOT supposed to be good or #relatable.
>To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods. To me, fans who want a more diverse and inclusive Imperium miss the point almost as much as those who pretend it's an apolitical franchise, or who think the Imperium of Man is somehow supposed to be the unironic, uncomplicated "good guys". The Imperium is supposed to be an ultrafascist neofuedal shithole that is only preferable to the other factions in the slightest because the other factions include things like "sociopathic football hooligan msuhroom-men", "robot zombie horde", "what if the Xenomorphs mastered space travel?", and "literal Satan, but four of him."
oh, and the Tau, but they've always been a bit weaksauce in terms of their grim darkness Anonymous
>>6170221 I will say, to my point (
>>6170237 ), a Space Marine having a giant overcomepnsaty machine gun held at crotch level is very appropriate to the Imperium's original vibe prior to the increasing creep of sanitized heroism into the franchise. He should probably be using that gun to mow down thousands of civilians indiscriminately because a cult is suspected to be in the area. It should be the closest he gets to sex, because he's psychologically broken to serve and has had his body twisted into a weapon of war barely recognizable as human.
Anonymous
>>6170237 >The Geneseed might not make you all same-faced so much as focus on the more practical matters it's deliberately adapting? That would be the sensible thing. But we all know that the imperium wants its soldiers faceless and fanatical. Making them as much like their primarch is as much a way to dehumanize them as it is to inspire them. Along with the strange psychological bonding and obsession they get with their primarch, or at least the idea of him. Making them all saberfaces - I mean, samefaced is much like the trope of soldiers having numbers instead of names in other dystopian fictions. Or Kriegers. They aren't people, they're tools. And the best tools for any army are standardized.
Hey the orkz are the best faction you take that back. They're the only ones having a good time.
Anonymous
>>6170249 >Making them all saberfaces - I mean, samefaced is much like the trope of soldiers having numbers instead of names in other dystopian fictions. Fair, but they wear helmets most of the time anyway, and since they still give them names and they can tell each other apart, it clearly doesn't completely override their individual characteristics or personalities.
>Hey the orkz are the best faction you take that back. They're the only ones having a good time. I love them, but as a human you can't exactly join them, and they ARE a race in perpetual physical, social, technological, and intellectual decline from their forebears. As a person living in that universe, or a human looking in and default sympathetic to humans, the Imperium is preferable because they're capable of doing anything besides having big brawls forever and ever and ever.
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>>6170221 I always start the new thread with a webm recap. I use ffmpeg to convert a folder of png images to mp4, then convert that to webm. I thought I might be able to skip the final step because some other boards allow mp4.
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>>6170254 >it clearly doesn't completely override their individual characteristics or personalities. I think that's just exposure bias. Look at all the NON named space marines instead. Usually they're just described as having qualities endemic to the chapter they hail from. Most Salamanders are generally nice to civilians, most Lamenters are dour, most Scars are aloof. We just get to see more actual characters as readers. In universe and most others that do the crazy fanatic army stuff the people in the armies usually can tell each other apart no problem. That's because they know each other as individuals. It's similar to how a tourist might have trouble telling people apart in certain parts of the world when the locals have zero trouble. Naturally this only refers to heavily ethnocentric regions. What really is the difference to Mr. Imperial Citizen John Smith #8986435421018679 between Brother Alexander and Brother Demetrius when to him it's just two slabs of sprinting ceramite and fury racing past him to dropkick a weird skinny person with spiky armor and a freaky face?
>the Imperium is preferable because they're capable of doing anything besides having big brawls forever and ever and ever. I think the average person vastly underestimates how valuable being happy is. And how horrifically shitty even the nicest place in 40k is.
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>>6170221 This is gay and lame
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>>6170269 >What really is the difference to Mr. Imperial Citizen John Smith #8986435421018679 between Brother Alexander and Brother Demetrius when to him it's just two slabs of sprinting ceramite and fury racing past him to dropkick a weird skinny person with spiky armor and a freaky face? Again, reasonable. if they really wanted to have Space Marines who aren't White (or whatever ethnicity the Emepror originally was? I've heard people make an argument he's pre-Turkic?) they could handwave it easy. I just think that misses the bigger point. I think you're right, actually, that having them be very similar even with helmets off fits the original tone better. Maybe even having them look and act like distinct people of the same ethnicity is still one of the steps that led to Heroic Marines being the normie perception.
>I think the average person vastly underestimates how valuable being happy is. And how horrifically shitty even the nicest place in 40k is. True, but orkz are happy for ork reasons, and a person cannot become an ork or achieve their same sense of satisfaction. That's all I mean: a human in the setting will hate ;'em, cause they ain't 'em, and also because orkz will slaughter their families while laughing and joking.
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>>6170221 >>6170241 >40k massive penis gun etc It is a 40k tradition I don't really know much about the new line of miniatures but I do remember the old Necromunda House Orlock Heavy Stubber type guns, so there is some precedent. It is just something about the pose of that particular flying jetpack space marine legs akimbo lol which for me tips it over slightly towards ridicule as opposed to the knowing satire heavy metal look, and 40k in the early days never took itself entirely seriously there were always a few comedy touches (remember how the psycannon ammunition is canonically powered by er, Corpse-Emperor Throne poo for the null / antipsyker effect) Also I was under the impression that the new sculpts of the space marines were intending to veer towards realism (they have Picatinny rails on boltguns now?? And combat optics and tactical attachments and things? Maybe inspired by the recent 40k first person shooter videogames etc That just seems wrong)
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>>6170276 >if they really wanted to have Space Marines who aren't White (or whatever ethnicity the Emepror originally was? I've heard people make an argument he's pre-Turkic?) they could handwave it easy. Yeah it's not so much the being (or not) white thing that gets me, it's just the "it needs to be 'inclusive'" thing. If they were all middle-eastern looking or black or asiatic it wouldn't make a difference so long as it was consistent. They could all be orange for all it's worth. Just make sure they all stay on brand. If we want to say Big E intentionally made each primarch slightly different, even ethnically, it wouldn't matter so long as it trickled down into the ranks properly. But we don't need to have something inane like that stand front and center to try and demand your attention. At least the writers thus far haven't gone super bonkers to the point where they actively point it out in the story and kind of just let it ride.
The pessimist in me assures me they will get there soon enough. >and a person cannot become an ork or achieve their same sense of satisfaction Not with that attitude. Come on, let's build a killdozer and smash a few brewskis. I get what you're saying though. You're spot on and correct about it all.
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>>6170241 >psychologically broken to serve and has had his body twisted into a weapon of war barely recognizable as human We need more arco flagellants. I am fixated on the art style of Inquisitor (2004), this is the look of 40k for me and no Warhammer Fortnite videogame art colourful Space Marine 2 or amzn tv series episode will ever change or overwrite it in my mind hehe, this is the grim dark future
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>>6169602 We are simply missing a GOOD fantasy quest.
Where is a GOOD fantasy quest when you need one?
Anonymous
>>6170316 Does it count as fantasy if there's no magic but there's other species than humans and fantastical materials/plants/knowledge that didn't exist?
Anonymous
>>6170316 Does Wuxia count as Fantasy?
If so, why are you complaining when Normal Cultivator Quest is right there?
If not, why are you complaining while RQM is running a quest?
Anonymous
How many quests do anons here follow normally? I usually follow one, maybe two but I was wondering how everyone here does it?
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>>6170332 6 active and long term; 4 new ones (where 2 seems to have dropped) and one long-term I'm trying to catch up to
Anonymous
>>6170332 10-20, with varying degrees of regularity.
>>6170330 >If not, why are you complaining while RQM is running a quest? It's a meme, and the usual version of the meme is about a more traditional/archetypal hero quest with a white, male, handsome, strong human protagonist. The closest thing my quests have had was Tip (who is a half-elf femboy with no upper body strength, in a non-conventional relationship, living in a hippie commune) or Theral (lol, lmao even).
Anonymous
>>6170330 >RQM quest Because MC is a futa. And futa is gay.
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>>6170358 I know the meme.
I kinda designed the Deuteragonist of Dragon's Dungeon quest (Hector, Bless his soul) about it.
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>>6170362 Oh, hey Doc!
>>6170360 Fair. The other protagonist is a regular kind of female, if you count weird magically-beautified goblins, but probably still not a good fit for the GOOD fantasy quest.
Anonymous
>>6170364 Hey too, RQM.
"Fun fact" : I'm the one who asked for the ShieldMaiden NPC >>6170360 You're carefully dodging the question about Wuxia
Anonymous
>>6170370 Never read Wuxia, but I suppose it would qualify as eastern fantasy.
When I say GOOD fantasy, it’s not the type of fantasy thaf makes it good but HOW that fantasy plot is executed.
Anonymous
>>6170373 >but HOW that fantasy plot is executed. So I think you could try my quest.
The main design behind my quests is giving as much freedom to player as possible.
In this world, each cultivator have "affinities" and a raw talent. The player are guiding someone with a good-but-not-great starting hand and trying their best to outclass every other kids (protag is currently 8; started at 5) in a high-fantasy world.
There is quite often the possibility to create or edit the techniques used by the MC, and I'm trying to build a strong feeling of "belonging" to several nested community : A sect among a Town part of a whole Empire.
There's a quite complex sect-relationship and hidden politics motive as well. Secrets to uncover about the factions; about the world itself. But players doesn't seem to care and fully indulge in the "getting stronger" powerfantasy aspect.
I'm also trying to lace-in /qtg/ events. For example, last July Kaiju Month was the opportunity to get the town attacked by Kaiju - the setting being powerfantasy, the invasion was settled by a few Martial Artists that solved the problem by Punching It Hard In The Face
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>>6170316 Breadwinner quest is GOOD.
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>>6170427 >>6170316 I'd also humbly suggest that Moloch's quests (The Pale Inheritance and, prior to that, The Path of the Exorcist) may scratch the itch.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Sun 05 Jan 2025 00:43:27 No. 6170507 Report Quoted By:
Poképocalypse has (hopefully) returned to regular posting! I'm still kind of sick, slightly, but I don't think it's enough to warrant not posting so I'm returning to my daily schedule. Come read the newest posts in Sacramento here!
>>6170504 >>6170506 BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>6170316 I could drop the most fire fantasy quest of all time but I won't
Anonymous
>>6170585 You'd drop it alright, drop it mid-quest.
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>>6170586 aint that the truth
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>>6170574 Finally, my Kickass KINO returns
Anonymous
>>6170585 Just make a super smug chick with moderate honkers getting the smug fucked out of her and you're golden. Medium is premium for such an event.
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>>6170585 You're damn right you won't. Either shit or get off the pot.
Anonymous
>>6170601 "Honkers" does not describe moderate or medium. Medium clears "tits," "honkers" are the grade between medium and "jugs."
Anonymous
>>6170691 Philistine. All breasts are honkers. Because you're supposed to go "honk honk" when you squeeze them. Were you raised in a barn? What you're describing are "chesticles", anyway.
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>>6170601 >>6170691 >>6170696 >BREASTS >"super smug...?" >>6168284 >>6168175 >>6168314 >Napoleonic / regimental regalia I have only watched one episode of Sharpe. Obviously, it is this one, tee hee hee
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Ilvermorny Quest has a quick dice check for how well a person takes you admitting to beating the crap out of three boys and giving one a blonde girl related PTSD and a new fear of snakes!
>>6170769 >>6170769 >>6170769 Anonymous
>>6169663 Thats the standard method for create one. The problem is that after the creation is done and players help in making said Chapter (names need to be given, a bit of backgrounds created, a bit of life behind the important current heads of a chapter, something with their enemies/allies etc... in all the quests done here of "create your chapter and play it" the creation process usually expands beyond the simple rolls. Last one we had here was about an ultramarine successor chapter with a lot of snake themes, decent guys that decided to establish their fortress monastery in a world filled by jungles, massive predators and also old human ruins. I remember we had given them some feasts and habits too with snake venoms. Ah also they really liked Guilliman and the Codex was a sacred book for them) the quest ends there.
The real deal, is that after you and your players are done creating, are you truly fine with playing with what you made and making a quest out of it ? I don't mean just hoping your favourites things are rolled like maybe a successor chapter of the imperial fists making a noble crusade at above full strength. Are you fine with doing even a least favourite successor chapter (maybe from a less liked traitor lineage even, EC or WB for example) if its rolled ? If its something more mainstream like an ultramarine successor ?
In regard to minutia like planet maps, sub-sector maps event something simple made in paint is very much appreciated. There are plenty of make your marine generators colors around shouldn't be an issue for see how a standard marine is made. Symbols a quest like this can attract anons with some creativity.
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>>6169663 A little more complicated to pull off, but you might try to split the difference here by having the first thread be a flashback sequence for a single neophyte->marine process.
We, the players, would learn about the Chapter, as the quest MC does. I’ve noticed that the player population that enjoys generating Chapters isn’t necessarily the same player population that enjoys questing with a space marine MC, so you might try to keep both audiences entertaining through a dual process
Anonymous
>>6169663 I'd advise you to use the table/what you like/your imagination to create an interesting chapter and let the players incarnate a recruited scout.
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>>6170841 Actually, this would probably be the best option. It gives you a reason to know aboslutely jack-shit (you're an ignorant imperial kid) and a reason to be introduced to things as they go.
Of course, you *would* have to do some timeskips, but that's just the way it is.
Anonymous
>>6170842 Timeskips are for wuss.
t. Author of a 8-part (and counting) quest about a kid which started 5 year old and is only 8
t. Author that did Character Creation as an Evo game and Lore Creation as a City Skirmish game.
Anonymous
>>6170846 Enjoy 50 threads about being an aspirant doing training and surgeries and shite, then.
Anonymous
>>6170847 >>6170846 Even Normal Cultivator has some form of time skip, since the character's aged 3 years in 8 threads. I think Doc just means no HUGE timeskips. He wants to see milestones as the character ages.
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>>6170934 Not quite. A turn is 2 weeks, with more time devoted to special events.
I have a question : What is our motto again?
"Powergaming, a natural state of /qtg/" or something? "That's what happen when a character is commanded by a gestalt mind of autists?"
RQM
>>6171028 >A turn is 2 weeks, with more time devoted to special events. Ah, okay. Makes sense! So a consistent sort of progression, but with occasional time slowdowns, like that tourney or the magic animal hunt in the early threads? I get it.
>>6170585 You already did, but I doubt you're bringing Royal Rumble back, eh?
The Sister of Battle one would be cool to see revisited Anonymous
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>>6171033 >a consistent sort of progression, but with occasional time slowdowns, like that tourney or the magic animal hunt in the early threads? I get it. That's exactly it. Some interesting days need more focus after all. Plus, they are some recuring yearly event like the Stable Lotus Harbor Tournament, the Transplanhumance (spirit beast hunt; this year QW managed a group of hunters) as well as missions and lucky occasions
Anonymous
>>6171110 >>6171110 >>6171110 Things begin to pick up in Fog of War as you finally arrive in the capital city of Honderias after a quick and eventless march.
Have I mentioned that we're
low fantasy?
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>>6170209 Actually, you can! You just have to make sure you remove the audio stream with the right program, even if there's no audio the stream can still be counted as part of the file which 4chan rejects due to no audio support on most boards. I use shotcut to export my .mp4s right now.
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>>6171132 Can recommend this quest. Very grounded, quite fun, especially now we are actually on the way to WAR!
Also we have decided not to cut our hair until the war is done ala Haraldr Hárfagri.
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The caretaker quest has been updated!
This time, you went to visit Brandon´s unconscious body at St. Mungos to see if there is anything you can do to wake him up...
...Yes there is!
Can you wake him up before its too late? vote to find out!
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>>6171309 Gotham City Beat Cop returns after an extended holiday break. Join us as we pick the perfect location to film a drug deal in the park and work our first case provided by a C.I.
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>>6171625 my mastodon, obviously
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merry Christmas (the real one) friends!
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Solarpunk has been updated! The finest of Helsinki's underground death squads are forming for a mission to kill a member of a secretive cabal gone rogue, and now you finally get to see his face; or the closest anybody has ever seen to it, anyway.
>>6171674 >>6171674 >>6171674 DungeonQM !VHmdcK1yHs
>>6170842 >>6170846 >>6171028 During Idol Manager we eventually moved to one-week timeskips since time wasn't moving fast enough for things salaries to feel impactful on the budget when we running it day-by-day.
Moving from day-to-day also meant I was able to bump up the modifier on rolls for skill-increases and so as we essentially went from a small chance for skill-ups on the daily to high ones on the weekly it also felt like those decision were impactful and forstered a feeling of progress.
Taking a page out of the TTPRG book, you basically only want people to roll / make decisions when those decisions feel worth making -- regardless of how much time must pass between them.
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>>6171737 I agree. I tend to play EXTREMELY by the dice but my quests started to took on once I hide the crunch from the players / rolling on the side (excepted for GETS/High stakes)
Have you tried Normal Cultivator? This is the quest about a grinder slowly becoming more and more bullshit-powerful, as is fit to the Wuxia Powerfantasy motive.
The decisions are "what to train" which comes more or less relevant based on what's coming for the year. Some events are known in advance to players; other are hidden so it boils down to "have you something prepared for that unforeseen situation"
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>>6170237 >>6170284 >>6169973 >>6170069 >>6169961 >>6169706 >>6156816 >>6168821 >where do the BLACK SPACE MARINES come from? Whilst I have zero respect for Sam Altman, I do respect nvda CEO Jensen Huang maybe it was all those years of comedy custom nvda logo splash screens on videogame launch that did it, but after watching Jensen Huang CES keynote presentation, I suddenly realised, this is where the black space marines come from.
You see Jensen mentions that they have created AI agent onboarding technology so that IT departments will be the HR departments of the future training the AI enslaved employees, then he showcased this AI generated human, in the future your very first slave AI robot employee will be a virtual black man, just like it was in the past.
This AI generated black man is the first primarch, he is the first space marine
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Valen fell off. We'll meet again in nine months, brothers...
Anonymous
>>6171737 >Idol Manager Come back
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>>6171790 Well I'd prefer more of "LittleDungeonThatCould"
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>>6170788 >>6170810 >>6170841 Thank you anons, you’ve given me something to mull over these past few days. I will go with something I like, using the tables for guidance and voting options.
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>>6171712 Merry Christmas, friend, I wish you plenty of democracy, freedom and abundance of truth and justice.
Anonymous
>>6171737 >>6171790 Matsuno Idol Agency was top tier questing. It is missed.
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>>6172007 I miss it so much. My dreams of raising a metal idol were shattered
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Aight hombres, instead of which quests you're playing, which quests are you hiding?
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>>6172037 One of these is not like the others.
It's not mine, It's just kinda standing out from most of those Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
>>6172037 >hidding Ilvermony i get its not exactly for everyone, but why?
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>>6172052 i just hide stuff to clean my catalog. mostly if it’s AI header or art, dead, or am generaly not interested like cultivation, bad fantasy or bananas’ work
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So, late is better than never, right?
Olympus QM
>>6172065 That being said, the mountain of work put into CHAOS is also in some ways its biggest flaw, at least upon re-reading it without being able to participate: there are a lot of infodumps, especially towards the beginning, which makes initial investment a little bit tricky. It gets better later on, especially once you’ve read enough to really care about the world and its inhabitants, but lengthy exposition is something of a mainstay of the quest. Reading through the combat segments is a bit of a slog as well (though helped by the pictures) which cannot be skipped over thanks to some important dialogue happening between turns. To be clear, I think that the combat is actually very well done when you’re actually playing, there’s depth and strategy while still keeping the narrative interwoven with the more game-like turn based battle system, but I’d be lying if I said it was particularly enjoyable reading through them.
Make no mistake though: all nitpicks aside, CHAOS is an exceptional quest and absolutely worth your time if you enjoy RPGs at all, which I can only imagine the average reader/player of this board would be. You’re genuinely missing out if you haven’t at least given the first thread a shot.
As always, I'm always taking recommendations for future reviews, preferably on the shorter end and preferably still running (though not necessarily with an active thread up). Otherwise, Solstice is next and Solarpunk Cleanup hopefully shortly after that
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>>6172037 Weird request but here you go.
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>>6172067 >As always, I'm always taking recommendations for future reviews, preferably on the shorter end and preferably still running I'd volunteer my quest, if we weren't still in the first thread. I believed Magically Challenged was going to be done by archivebro? If he's still doing those...honestly would like to see Table done in someone else's style, she's a real cute.
Well, i don't got no ideas.
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>>6172037 Bananas sisters... not like this... The monkey has fallen...
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>>6172071 I think you missed one.
Anonymous
>>6169319 >Which one's yours? The Dark Elf Necromancer one. Made a post just now, give it a read if you want :)
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>>6172078 Nah. Everything else I'm reading. I hide anything I'm not reading.
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>>6172071 >Disappearing Hogwarts and The Caretaker arent there am...am i worthy? are you one of my players?
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>>6172085 >the joke >my iq >your head >also my iq Anonymous
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>>6172037 you made me think about it, so I decided to clean up my catalog of any dead threads, things im not interested in or general catalog eyesores
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What do you think the player:lurker ratio is?
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>>6172127 Very low:Still low
My brain feels absolutely gouged out, though, so that doesn't help me try and fix it
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>>6170585 You drop them all the time
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looking over a wounded friend in With Great Power Quest:
>>6172135 pokepocalypseqm is on mobile
pokepocalypseqm is on mobile ID:aUu5YmKq Wed 08 Jan 2025 03:27:36 No. 6172171 Report Anyone have any particular rules when it comes to images? I was recently struck with a devastating case of caring way too much about them, delaying posts for up to 40 minutes to get exact, period-accurate photos of obscure as fuck places that my characters went to visit
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>>6172171 In certain quests, I make images for the OP picture, or when there are pivotal moments in the story
Or when I have to draw a map
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>>6172171 I commission character art and sometimes special little pieces specifically for the OP pic. beyond that, a smattering of AI slop, random google images, and long stretches of simply no images or recycled and/or modified art from old threads. I'm not a great artist, and mine isn't a drawquest, so it's fine. Especially in old quests, I liked to find spell icons when magic is cast, or amusing/appropriate book covers and the like, but I do it less these days because I'm busier lately and have less energy.
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>>6172171 i find that posting too many images forces the reader to imagine exactly whats going on in the picture, stiffling the personal enjoyment of the entire thing.
Everyone imagines things differently, but when you keep posting images trying to describe the exact thing, the "magic" is gone and the imagination gets lost.
its why i rarely post images in mine besides the OP, i say its better to post it one and then stop caring about accuracy if you are gonna keep posting images, treat them more like flavour text, they just give a vague idea, enough to guide the reader but not so specific that the reader HAS to see everything exactly like that.
the pic here
>>6159543 shows the enviroment i want to show, but i havent exactly described the place once, forcing my few readers to imagine the place differently, the characters arent even 1:1 to what i´ve described, that description would be this image here
>>6161607 .
Its all just about the idea, at least to me.
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testing something
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>>6172171 You could just take it easy with the picrels. Sometimes I just tell myself, "screw it, let's just post it and worry about making more pictures later." Picrels should only be the cherry on top of a good post, never the main focus or a supplement to a blandly written post, that's what I think
Anonymous
>>6172084 >>6172087 instead of "taking over" that quest you should just start your own
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my keyboard is fried
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>>6172500 they dont block emotional pain anon
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>>6172513 Well, that depends on if you survive to keep feeling it, which I believe was the implication...
>>6172314 If anon sticks with it, I'll play.
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>>6172171 >>6172176 >>6172192 I find pictures are useful, in my games I include a picture to hint at mood or surroundings with every posted update.
Even though I suppose wildfires happen inevitably every few years, I hinted at this prediction of the exact location of Californian wildfires in advance:
>"Palisades" (referenced in this fictional address, 2024 Jun 16) https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6037325 2025 Jan 8
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/08/palisades-fire-los-angeles-residents-evacuated Fire officials estimated the Palisades Fire had grown to 2,921 acres between Malibu and Santa Monica, where city officials issued evacuation orders Tuesday evening and into Wednesday morning (...)
When I was thinking about my UPYR game setting, I was torn between wildfire and earthquake (I was inspired by the John Carpenter Snake Plissken Escape From LA film aesthetic, which occurs after an earthquake) in the end I went with wildfire because there are better photojournalism references from 2015 lol, wildfires are more predictable / recurring and also I had seen that Alex Garland Civil War film which had a good forest fire scene. The Alex Garland Civil War film was also the inspiration for some of that rooftop sniper imagery alluded to in my game (picture in this scene below, I don't think any players responded or engaged with it though hehe) obviously as 2024 transpired rooftop snipers became suddenly very relevant lol
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6038943 technically the players caused this wildfire in the game ending image sequence, hehe
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061790 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061791 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061793 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061795 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061796 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061797 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061799 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061802 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6061803 Anonymous
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>>6172526 Also, I forgot about it when I was actually running my UPYR game lol but the Sylvester Stallone Demolition Man film
>>6157711 >>6170717 also opens with an exhilarating cool urban chaos / rooftop action sequence in the style of Escape From New York / Escape From LA -esque John Carpenter type LA riot scene, yes the Hollywood sign is obligated to be on fire (I wish I had remembered this for use in my game setting lol), Wesley Snipes is so gleefully mischievous in this film as the villain antagonist lol.
Also I wonder if the Halo Master Chief is named after Stallone in this Demolition Man film (he is referred to as "Chief" and his character is unimaginatively named, John Spartan lol)
For the 3d virtual tabletop overhead Hollywood signs in my UPYR game I sourced the base imagery like these scenes
https://archived.moe/files/qst/image/1718/96/1718966601507087.jpg https://archived.moe/files/qst/image/1721/04/1721048065348313.jpg https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6041269 https://archived.moe/qst/thread/6037279/#6059010 from Dead Island 2 (have not played this videogame but I did complete the original) as well as copious amounts of drone photography aerial imaging of the Hollywood sign. I actually find drone photography especially the high angle or top down birdseye views to be invaluable as a source of 3d virtual tabletop imagery these days, you can get drone shots of waterfalls cliffs forests rivers beaches islands or even medieval castles etc for fantasy rpgs, and city scenes for urban gothic settings etc.
Anonymous
>>6172516 But if you're a corpse how can you play your favorite quests?
Anonymous
>>6172500 >>6172513 THE PILLS WILL HELP EASE THE PAIN
If this does not work, have you tried slowing down time, shaving your head bald, putting on a tropical tshirt and dual-wielding two Beretta handguns whilst leaping sideways down an escalator whilst hammering in exasperation at the controls to skip the unskippable interruption cutscenes (noooo it's Max Payne 3 noooo the cutscenes argh argh)
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>>6172548 >If this does not work, have you tried slowing down time, shaving your head bald, putting on a tropical tshirt and dual-wielding two Beretta handguns whilst leaping sideways down an escalator whilst hammering in exasperation at the controls to skip the unskippable interruption cutscenes (noooo it's Max Payne 3 noooo the cutscenes argh argh) And all of that must happen while you are in Brazil, gotta commit
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>>6172171 In my old quest I used to search for an image that fit the setting I had in mind for every entry. I have found that while reading quests one (scenery) image per entry (I know Poképocalypse also features pictures of Pokémon themselves, which don't add towards the one image per entry count as they aren't really taking away any room for imagination) is pretty much enough. An entry usually includes multiple scenes, so a picture illustrating a single one of these is quite appreciated.
In this regard the Poképocalypse Quest is doing fine as it is right now. Hope you do have an easier time finding your illustrations in the future though. The National Archive might be useful.
Anonymous
>>6172536 >but how to play... if you are a corpse...? The waelcyrige (slaughter-chooser, valkyrie, choosers of the slain) bring only the battle-worthy to the immortal feasting halls
Anonymous
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>>6172171 >using pictures in game settings for puzzles I once tried to incorporate (what I mistakenly thought at least lol) was a very clever multi-layered multi-solution picture puzzle in my GOLGOTHA game setting, I chose the pictures very carefully hehe
See if you can solve it... (there were multiple solutions multiple hints all contained in that paragraph scenario, but probably a few do not make sense unless you followed the entire game)
This was the choice scenario / picture puzzle setup
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5121867/#5127714 (The two pictures I used comprising this puzzle are here, the NPC posing the question...)
https://archived.moe/files/qst/image/1642/60/1642605603746.jpg (and this picture, from the art gallery)
https://archived.moe/files/qst/image/1642/24/1642247446807.jpg the scenario was this: you are hidden in an art gallery and you are trying to secretly convey your identity to the NPC there (you are the Magus) but because of various magical phenomena (you are being hunted by this mysterious sect called the Orationists, who have some terrible murder-spell killing surveillance power over speech and words) you cannot literally say or type or text any of the words suggesting / confirming your identity out loud.
I actually prepared multiple avenues of solution to this puzzle hinted at in the extract but sadly no players got it argh noooo hehe.
I think if this scenario had been roleplayed in person physicially at the table, I could have provided some better hints though, however I was in a NO MERCY dungeonmastering mood muahaha
Anonymous
>>6172314 >instead of "taking over" that quest you should just start your own I find hijacking a quest that has been abandoned fun. It gives me a framework, and a chance to try something new
By not starting a new thread, I dont clog up the board any further
in the case that the qm curse would take me I might make a new thread when the old reaches page 10 or so
>>6172516 >If anon sticks with it, I'll play. So long as the curse does not take me, I will continue the quest for as long as I enjoy it :)
>>6172536 Necromancy
Anonymous
>>6172910 >Necromancy But what if I'm from the hood?
Anonymous
>>6172536 >>6172590 >>6172910 >>6173031 >BLACK MAGIC >necromancy, but from the ghetto...? Anonymous
>>6172536 >>6172590 >>6172910 >>6173031 >>6173033 >BLACK MAGIC I am thinking this looks like the really cool voodoo swordstick Rastafarian man from Predator 2
Anonymous
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>>6170319 Fantasy is the faculty or activity of imagining things, especially things that are impossible or improbable.
Anonymous
>>6172037 It's easier to show the ones I don't have hidden.
Anonymous
>>6173047 Do you just get to quests via thread crosslinks or are you a shitposter
Anonymous
>>6173047 >only discuss things without actually playing them I see, you too are a /v/ user
Anonymous
>>6173033 Actually there was a phenomenal quest many years ago about a fantasy version of 1920s gangland New York, with each ethnic gang having their own flavor of magic. The MC was a voodoo-casting Haitian IIRC, and ended up teaming up with the ethnic Jewish gang to fight off a very powerful Chinese dragonlady.
Don’t think the quest ever finished but I thought it was a pretty cool mash-up of settings
Anonymous
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>>6173090 Like The Warriors, as an urban fantasy? Rad.
Anonymous
>>6173047 This is actually pretty based.
Anonymous
I'm gonna do it bros.. I'm going to continue my quest that died earlier last year, this is my new year's resolution. How do you guys keep yourselves from burning out when writing? Maybe it's because I'm just pushing myself too much because I'm not quite a writer and I only want to try to be, but godamn is it hard to stay consistent especially when trying to balance it with life.
Anonymous
I will not read the quest.
Anonymous
>>6173328 What was your quest?
Anonymous
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Run free, Cochrane! Free! Thanks again for all those amazing years!
Anonymous
Any updates on the Pale Inheritance?
Anonymous
>>6173328 Every now and again I take a day off or write a shorter or 'filler' update, but honestly you have to force yourself to maintain the routine
well I do until it becomes harder NOT to write.
Anonymous
>>6173328 You can do it, QM!
One thought - you don't HAVE to write daily updates. A good goal might be to spend 30 min on an update per day, if your time is limited.
I've also had some success in "prewriting"/dictating my updates on my phone in spare moments throughout the day, so that when the time comes, I already have the bones of an update that I can polish.
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Fri 10 Jan 2025 03:29:51 No. 6173414 Report >>6173363 seconding, just make sure to remember real life is still a priority. Aim to get comfortable with writing very frequently, but don't let it take over your life (guilt relating to flaking be damned).
Also, this isn't related to burnout, but try to be communicative with your players. If you're going to let your quest die, you might as well let your players know that it was intentional so that they don't think you just stopped caring and left them unfulfilled.
Anonymous
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>>6173076 >>6173077 >>6173129 I pin the threads I either participate in or plan to participate in, and hide the ones I have no interest in or have lost interest in. Non-pinned, non-hidden threads I'm curious about and will lurk to see if they die in the first few days.
Feddie Scum !ORkL6oxvU.
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>>6173340 >>6173352 Mobile Suit Gundam: Earth Federation Quest returns from the dead after nearly a year. Thanks to anyone who continues reading.
>>6173363 >>6173371 >>6173414 Thanks for the advice, bros. I'll give it a better go this time.
Anonymous
>>6173331 But chuddha, something really big is about to happen in the quest im reading
Anonymous
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:Y/BgBbIE Fri 10 Jan 2025 12:42:19 No. 6173635 Report >>6173606 It will in next update of Normal Cultivator Quest, opening a whole new area of bullshit chinkmagic
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
It's amazing how, to do this very day, I have yet to figure out how to write a story. I just have things happen each update and then eventually it's over.
Anonymous
>>6173696 >he doesn't constantly imagine 'paths' the game could take forward >He doesn't have his entire story and every single path it could take already mapped out in his brain I shiggy diggy
Adlershorst
Aaaannndd we're back. Come one, come all, if you like exploration, medievalism, crusading and feudal politicking. The alternative title would be Settler Lord Quest: The Next Generation.
>>6173829 >>6173832 >>6173835 HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
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Oh right, probably should've done this too.
>>6173828 >>6173828 >>6173828 Cleaner Quest #9 is up. Enjoy the PAIN, players, and sorry for being late by 2 days for the new thread. Stuff happens..
Anonymous
>>6173697 He's too busy thinking about gay monkey sex.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6173844 Can you link the archive my grigga in your OP posts my grigga? Everytime I click one of your threads I look for it, don't find it, and then never bother reading it.
Give me convenience or give me death. I refuse go to suptg /qst/ and spend 5 seconds copying and pasting the name of the quest. I won't do it. I can't do it. I refuse do it. It's impossible.
Anonymous
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>>6174067 Have you tried using your time machine powers to save yourself the time after you've spent it so you come to a net 0 of time usage?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6174092 Something MIGHT be happening.
Adlershorst
Anonymous
i miss the well crafted hoodlum @mulet quest, and the grand hype of initial versequest threads. i need more drawquests.
Anonymous
I'm paranoid about how many of my Quest voters are actually bots and I'm considering just ditching.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
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>>6174224 It is almost certainly not bots. There is no incentive to use bots for /qst/ voting, as there is no money to be made from voting or infiltration for the purposes of manufactured consent.
There IS an incentive to multi-box or samefag for specific votes, but at the very least it would be a human doing that for the purposes of steering a quest in a specific direction.
Anonymous
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>>6174224 Well, In *my* case, I don't think i've even had a 'controversial' vote as of now, so I don't think anyone would have bothered to samefag.
HijackerQM !PWjG5TYZFg
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Hijacking a quest someone flaked on:
>>6165751 new Quest here:
>>6174244 >>6174244 >>6174244 Anonymous
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>>6174224 There are probably extremely few bots on /qst/, there’s little incentive to set this up on a low-volume Finnish sauna forum for fairy tales
Moloch !!fqcSo3h+it7
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>>6173348 I took some time off over the holidays because I'm a lazy bitch. Assuming I can secure some free time, I'm planning to resume next Friday. If not, it'll probably be the following Saturday.
Adlershorst
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New update, something is revealed of about the past of your favoured weapon, and there seems to be a labour dispute brewing
>>6174278 >>6174279 Anonymous
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>>6174217 I hope Versequest or Downerquest comes back soon.
Anonymous
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>>6174224 Hold a meta vote asking for input on characters and meta-direction, and you'll probably get more distinctive, lengthy replies to affirm the humanity of your audience.
Anonymous
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>>6174224 The only time I've ever seen a bot here was when a quest accidentally triggered an /a/ spambot due to it's name some years ago.
Anonymous
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>>6174217 >@mulet don't remind me
Meepis was amazing, too.
Anonymous
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>>6174224 Why would robots be interested in a dinky place like this? Traffic is zilch and any ballot stuffing would be for votes that come and go relatively quickly. Only way I could see them being here in large quantities is from some spiteful script kiddy.
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6174224 Buddy we barely get enough traffic to justify being kept AS a board.
The only 'bots' being used on here is people spamming AI generated text quests but that's still a human manually doing it.
The only time I suspected a 'bot' of doing something is when an autist was nuking the ratings of everything on suptg to be like -100 or something
Anonymous
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>>6174224 ????? Read what you have written are you serious. Paranoid. About. Bots. On. Quest. On quest, get real. Get a breath of fresh air instead of thinking about something this absurd.
If you want your anons to talk instead of just placing a vote, then have the conditions for that to happen. Like asking
questions or creating discussion. Otherwise most are just putting their vote, and then do something else.
Anonymous
>>6174377 >Buddy we barely get enough traffic to justify being kept AS a board Mate, we're not even close to being the slowest board. No risk there, I'd say.
Anonymous
>>6174377 >Buddy we barely get enough traffic to justify being kept AS a board. Meanwhile, /po/ has active threads that were started under the Obama administration.
RQM
>>6174847 Surely that's an exaggera--
>3160 days ago Holy shit.
Anonymous
>>6174847 >>6174857 had to see it myself. damn. what the fuck are they doing over there, other than y'know nothing?
Anonymous
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>>6174864 Getting confused for /pol/
HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5
>>6174430 I know, I know, I was just repeating what others were saying that this place doesn't warrant botting.
>>6174847 >>6174857 You weren't joking, eh?
Guess it makes sense since papercraft is a niche hobby but wow.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>game is updated
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
How do you feel about genre saturation and QMs trying to avoid making things too stale and similar?
Anonymous
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>>6175082 >It would feel like a waste of thread to just do the same thing with different set dressing Oh THAT'S what would make it feel like a waste of a thread? The similar curtains? :^)
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>>6175082 I think that include Sci-fi and fantasy are broad enough, as general categories, to accommodate a wide variety of different stories. Nobody would accuse the various greats of that genre of telling redundant stories just because they were all in some way. Related to magic or space. I don't think anyone is out there saying
>sorry, no Interstellar for me, thanks; I already watched Inception and Man of Steel, so it's redundant. And anyway, Transformers: Age of Extinction and the new Robocop already came out this year, and they're pretty much the same thing, too. Put another way, there are many sci-fi quests, but if it's not a multigenerational sci-fi civilization quest (of which there are far fewer) it's not going to feel like a retread of Space Monke, or like it's sharing a niche with that or Simple Space Empire. There are tons fo fantasy quests, but far fewer have the specific elements yours have had (like maritime trade and whaling as central motifs, or spooky anomalous hallways and aspects of influencer culture).
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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Finally, after an almost week long hiatus, a new update for The Caretaker quest.
Our girl needs to get that other girl´s attention somehow...and she has one crazy idea, will it work out? roll the dice to find out!
>>6159531 >>6159531 >>6159531 Anonymous
Would anyone be interested in another Halo quest? I'm deep into the weeds of development at this point, but kinda just realized that I might be stepping on 404s toes.
ReptoidQM
>>6175334 Given we typically have multiple Dragon Ball, 40k, Harry Potter, and DC Comics running at any time, I don't see why not...
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
>>6175334 Yea, what Rep said! Run what you like--I'm sure you'll get some readers.
>>6175082 Again, just run what you like. Genre, setting... none of it really matters if you put some effort into running it.
Anonymous
>>6175334 It really doesn't matter. You'll get a lot of players who plays both. At its peak we had 3 or 4 ASOIAF quests running simultaneously with a lot of player crossover.
Bonfire !!aZ7/idoiqNc
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Hello /qtg/.
As promised, I started a short 25-day quest in late December. It is about a slave gnoll escaping to freedom and doing various things like studying demonic seals and living like a hermit in the mountains.
It is a wide-scope (?) quest, with descriptions of events taking place over a long time and not a lot of zoomed in scenes, with the exception of the beginning parts. There are no rolls, and luck comes and leaves intermittently with players picking the exact advantages and misfortunes befalling the player character.
In the current update Vukgat, the gnoll you're playing as, has spent months campaigning and uniting the desert gnoll packs using demonic magic, only to have his army heavily damaged by a suddenly awakened toxic dragon (wingless). It is now time to decide what the next course of action will be.
There is 0% AI writing, I write everything manually, the only aid being a spellchecker dictionary in the web browser.
There are about 10 days left to join until the conclusion. I would be delighted to see your input. Here is the link to the latest vote and update:
>>6173645 >>6173645 >>6173645 Adlershorst
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Update, you get some more information about the past, both historical and personal, as well as some lore about magical application, and then you set off to the top of the tower.
>>6175381 >>6175382 >>6175388 PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Mon 13 Jan 2025 02:58:02 No. 6175626 Report Quoted By:
>>6175082 I can understand taking it into account, and I can't lie and say I don't mind there being 3+ quests of one specific franchise with similar premises being up on the board at the same time, but I run a fucking Pokémon quest and I'm sharing that honor with two (arguably three) more QMs lol.
I'm not a hypocrite; the topic isn't too relevant to me. As long as the premise is different enough from existing (active) quests, it barely matters. Something as broad as "sci-fi" or "fantasy" especially is a complete nonissue.
Unless you're talking about writing fatigue, in which case I'd strongly recommend against writing 2+ stories that cover similar ground at the same time because it's horribly inefficient and will quickly lead to burnout. pic vaguely rel
Anonymous
>>6150243 how many updates do you think is good for a run?
Anonymous
>>6175657 Huh? Like, for a thread? For a session-style day of continual QMing?
Anonymous
>>6175674 for a session, how many updates would you say is good for a session?
Anonymous
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as a consequence of a close ally being badly injured, there's an important vote up in With Great Power
>>6175687 Anonymous
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>>6175700 If you're getting a lot of engagement, and you can do it, I'd shoot for 6 to 8 updates, depending on length. if you only have a voter or two, 3 or 4 if probably fine. I don't really run session-style, but on days off I shoot for two or three depending how quickly votes come in; I also usually write long posts, though.
TreeHouses QM
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After a nice holiday break, Sorcerer Kingdom is back with a new thread!
>>6175744 GrandDragonQM !!YgSxLM4WPvL
GrandDragonQM !!YgSxLM4WPvL ID:0L/byrJ3 Mon 13 Jan 2025 05:45:17 No. 6175750 Report Quoted By:
>>6175657 Until the story progresses enough to either get you to a satisfying cliffhanger to leave off on, or to give enough new information that your players will be talking and discussing the revelations until the next session.
DetectQM
JOIN US as Gotham Beat Cop Returns for the week.
Come along as we march into the Mayor's office and deliver him his weekly ounce of weed along with a warning about malevolent psychic spirits that only we know about, no really just trust me.
>>6175834 Anonymous
>>6175349 >>6175344 >>6175339 Already, get ready for some ONI sanctioned ODST kill team type shenanigans. I may or may not bounce ideas off of here once I start finalizing work.
404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44
404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:wCfc/Ufk Mon 13 Jan 2025 11:00:12 No. 6175848 Report >>6175845 Based, can't wait.
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6175837 Dent, the brain ghosts are real Dent. You gotta toke this shit harder. If you're too lit you'll sleep right through them Dent. Puff Puff Pass that shit I need a hit too, damn.
>>6175845 >>6175848 >This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them! Neat.
Adlershorst
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Update: you have the pleasure of meeting another inhabitant of the mysterious palace in which you are currently residing.
>>6175889 >>6175890 >>6175889 >>6175890 Anonymous
>>6175344 >just run what you like This is the best possible piece of advice to give, because it's so broad and there's zero accountability for the person giving the advice.
If the quest goes well, the wise sage appears to be a genius, because he appealed to the writer's personal preference and advocated for writing for fun instead of mindless bandwagoning. Good job, everyone's happy!
But then things get suspect and the goalposts start getting moved when things go wrong.
No audience for the type of quest you want to run? lol that's what you get for not knowing what people want to see or it's your fault for not running what they do want to see. It isn't the wise sage's fault there's no audience for what you want to write, after all.
Didn't get any engagement despite running something people do want to see? lol you just didn't put in enough effort. It isn't the wise sage's fault you didn't put in enough effort, especially since there are tons of low-effort quests with loads of engagement. You just didn't try hard enough!
And calling out this "drink something if you're thirsty" advice just opens you up to shitty responses of how obvious it is despite how non-specific it is, as the wise sage deflects from the actual points. It isn't his fault you wrote what you wanted after he told you to write what you want, after all.
But this is just whining and doomsaying, they'll respond, despite ignoring the whining and doomsaying from the likes of QMs like Bananas and Mojique. It's not about whether or not it's whining, though, it's about squelching criticism against their faultless, perfect advice.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Anonymous
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>>6175933 Stop projecting. Nobody guranteed you success, they just said genre overlap doesn't really matter, which is demonstrably true in the sense that multiple quests are running simultaneously in the same genre, even the same universe or with similar premises.
I taie it your quests have been doing poorly and you're bitter? Which oens were they? Maybe the "wise sages" can offer you more specific, actionable advice if you let them know which ones are yours without hiding behind a shield of passive-aggressive 1post whining?
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc
DrDragonfagQM !2gxW5JDLSc ID:Y/BgBbIE Mon 13 Jan 2025 15:32:57 No. 6175948 Report Quoted By:
Anonymous
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>>6175845 Go for it man, always room for more Halo. Maybe all the extra attention push Thunderhead into making another Wolfpack thread too.
Anonymous
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>>6175933 This is a good post
Anonymous
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>>6175933 >And calling out this "drink something if you're thirsty" advice Heh
DemBones !!ehWv9n5C1mz
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>>6175933 Sheesh, someone woke up cranky today. The guy asked if he should run another Halo quest so I said 'yea, write what you enjoy'. Happy to give him some more tips and advice once he gets started on it--wouldn't be the first time I've shared some!
Anonymous
is Rise of the Awakened coming back?
Anonymous
Anonymous
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>>6176069 Should have known it was Sojourner.
IlvermoryQM !kCM7IdCDew
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Something very sub-optimal is going down at the Finest School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the world, but you have a head start at least.
After an unexpected holiday hiatus, Ilvermorny is back, bitches.
>>6175906 >>6175906 >>6175906 Anonymous
>>6175933 Retard take because there should be a happy medium between QM happiness and player happiness. Most quests do decent if they are at least somewhat well-written and the plot is good, which contributes to player happiness.
Quests like B*nanas are outliers and have tons of voters because they have art and are /pol/bait, while Forgotten always has a ton of voters due to being a GOOD fantasy quest.
People will read your lovey dovey heartfelt homo quest if you make it good enough. Same with any other quest that the QM puts enough effort into and loves.
Anonymous
>>6176363 >people will play weird shit if you out in effort Can confirm. I honestly wasn't sure my current quest would get votes, but here I am. It's not as popular as the last two, but I have a solid group of loyal regulars I appreciate, and at least a couple of them are even newcomers to my stuff. I've also personally played aome oddball quests.
Anonymous
>>6176363 >People will read your lovey dovey heartfelt homo quest if you make it good enough link?
Anonymous
>>6176369 You can't handle my homoerotic tension traveler. It's too STRONG for you. You better go to a different website that writes WEAKER HOMOS
Anonymous
>>6176366 What's your quest(s) boss?
Anonymous
lowkey thinking of starting a quest but never drawing anything so no one knows its me
Anonymous
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>>6175334 >>6175845 my anon
There are people waiting here (me for example) for Thunderhead return of Halo Wolfpack that with open arms encouraged the making of the Halo: Spartan II War Reports quest and throwed ideas for how to name it when asked.
You are welcome in making a quest !
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
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>>6176375 >>6176375 >>6176375 Solarpunk update! Kiikoinen has a chill morning and Fiona is spending her last day before a suicide mission.
Anonymous
Adlershorst
Update: With knowledge from the stars and the date of the winter solstice acquired, it is time to decide how to spend the remaining time.
>>6176447 >>6176448 >>6176449 Anonymous
>>6176379 >strong vs weak homo homosexuality is not acceptable
Anonymous
>>6176379 >>6176458 >strong vs weak HOMO ...unless...??
Anonymous
>>6176069 >Sister Of Battle white hair, pauldrons, wax scroll purity seal etc I quite liked this fan rendition of the Adepta Sororitas (mp4 posed model here)
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rJvBl6 which is in contrast to the stereotypical portrayal, though looking back at it now I do realise the facial expression resembles a grimdark thunder and lightning version of the open mouth pointing meme lol. But nearly all girls look better when a bit tousled in the rain with MUD ON THEIR FACE. It would be cool if someone animated that old fan graphic novel of Ephrael Stern / Daemonifuge / Screaming Cage, I really liked that 40k story, though it was never completed. But this artstation fan creation made me imagine a bit how a high production value adaptation of Ephrael / Daemonifuge might look etc
Anonymous
>>6176466 hmmm I guess maybe the Ephrael Stern / Daemonifuge Screaming Cage chaos orb of souls thing has been used already. For reference, here is that scene from the graphic novel... (attached pic)
Anonymous
>>6176386 Well you do run a good quest, even if you don't always stick the landing. I'm sure I'd probably enjoy it, even without art.
>>6176380 Reptilian Infiltrator, Dragonborn Antipaladin, Seekers of the Esoteric, and now Cambion Quest.
Anonymous
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>>6176466 >>6176477 ...and this is the chaos orb thing scene that sucks in all the space marines from that youtube fan film ASTARTES, from the guy who also helped with the amzn 40k Secret Level episodes.
>>6169706 hmmm well I suppose it would have been cooler to see Ephrael and Sisters Of Battle in this instead of space marines hmmm hmmm
Anonymous
>>6176386 too late! I know your dysgraphic idiolect and homoerotic conations. I can smell you a mile away
Anonymous
>>6176386 >>6176479 anon I just realised your id is wHY fAp? I hope we all know the answer to this profound teleological conundrum, yay
Adlershorst
>>6176450 Righty-ho, I have need of voters, so if anyone would be kind enough to vote, I would be grateful.
Anonymous
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>>6176576 >>6176450 This is another quest I should have read but didnt
Anonymous
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currently in With Great Power Quest:
>>6176674 Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6176683 >asexual protagonist >gay What?
RQM
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>>6176684 Maybe there's two protags, or maybe the protagonist likes kissing/snuggling men, and not women, but is repulsed by or indifferent to sex with anyone?
Anonymous
Does anyone know what the maximum number of lines per post is? I've run into it a couple times but I don't remember exactly what the number was.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6176700 There's a 3000 character limit.
Anonymous
>>6176717 Yeah, but there's also a maximum limit of lines. I have a lot of linebreaks in my game and occasionally the system tells me that I'm using too many lines (not too many characters).
Anonymous
>>6176724 I've had posts that are nothing but turn resolution blow by blows for individual units that hit character cap but not this line cap, so I can't imagine what the hell kind of post you're trying to make.
Anonymous
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>>6176744 Do you remember when 4chan wouldn't show you the entirety of a very long post until you clicked the 'CLICK HERE TO EXPAND'? This was back before the native catalog.
I wouldn't be surprised if the line limit is a legacy restriction left over from some vestigial code that the devs never bothered to change.
Anonymous
Yup... thought this might happen.
Anonymous
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>>6176803 Seems like the limit is 100 lines.
Anonymous
Bathtub anus finger rapist Neil Gaiman, who is allegedly also an acclaimed fantasy author and traumatised former scientologist, has now become ensnared in the same sordid ignominy that befell Harvey Weinstein and Joss Whedon.
Look at this completely innocuous innocent picture I found of Neil Gaiman who appears utterly unpredatory and unperverted, how could you ever tell?
These days you simply cannot establish yourself as a fantasy author unless you enjoy beating women, forcing them to lick poo off the floor?? and also encouraging your young son to address them as a slave, according to this extremely lengthy and detailed article which I welcome you all to read
https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-allegations-controversy-amanda-palmer-sandman-madoc.html https://archive.is/vQshe >After she said “no,” Gaiman backed off briefly and went into the kitchen. When he returned, he brought butter to use as lubricant. She continued to scream until Gaiman was finished. When it was over, he called her “slave” and ordered her to “clean him up.” She protested that it wasn’t hygienic. “He said, ‘Are you defying your master?’” (...) This extremely long article is super detailed it is the best literature I have read in 2025 I recommend it for the burgeoning "romantasy" subgenre. Gaiman preys upon these completely innocent virginal vulnerable homeless women so of course all these allegations are completely nonfabricated and entirely true, they are incontrovertible, look, there is even a photo of the bathtub
I am very disappointed because I used to recommend the Gaiman Stardust film to everyone I knew, this was my special secret comfort innocent happy escapist fantasy film, it is just such a happy and blissful fairytale fulfilment story, now that Neil Gaiman bdsm persona has been exposed I feel it would have been more appropriate to recommend early 2000s insex .rm videos instead
Anonymous
>>6176909 Beyond watching that enjoyable Stardust (2007) film, I don't actually know very much about Neil Gaiman he is apparently famous for comic books? This excerpt section from the Vulture Jan 2025 website allegations article linked above makes reference to one of his comic book storylines. Just like with Joss Whedon, how could you ever tell if someone is a secret perverted bdsm torture maniac, this is utterly impossible...??
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>In The Sandman, the DC comic-book series that ran from 1989 to 1996 and made Gaiman famous, he tells a story about a writer named Richard Madoc. After Madoc’s first book proves a success, he sits down to write his second and finds that he can’t come up with a single decent idea. This difficulty recedes after he accepts an unusual gift from an older author: a naked woman, of a kind, who has been kept locked in a room in his house for 60 years. She is Calliope, the youngest of the Nine Muses. Madoc rapes her, again and again, and his career blossoms in the most extraordinary way. A stylish young beauty tells him how much she loved his characterization of a strong female character, prompting him to remark, “Actually, I do tend to regard myself as a feminist writer.” His downfall comes only when the titular hero, the Sandman, also known as the Prince of Stories, frees Calliope from bondage. A being of boundless charisma and creativity, the Sandman rules the Dreaming, the realm we visit in our sleep, where “stories are spun.” Older and more powerful than the most powerful gods, he can reward us with exquisite delights or punish us with unending nightmares, depending on what he feels we deserve. To punish the rapist, the Sandman floods Madoc’s mind with such a wild torrent of ideas that he’s powerless to write them down, let alone profit from them. As allegations of Gaiman’s sexual misconduct emerged this past summer, some observers noticed Gaiman and Madoc have certain things in common. (...)
Anonymous
>>6176909 >She protested that it wasn’t hygienic. “He said, ‘Are you defying your master?’” You know there comes a point where you really should just gouge someone's eyes out. Just hit them with a shovel. Drive a railroad spike into their 5th vertebra. Smother them in their sleep with a pillow. Slip antifreeze into their soup. Like I'm sorry but really people, start brutalizing others when they fuck with you. Damn.
Anonymous
>>6176909 >>6176912 I have a theory all fictional storytelling is actually rooted in some unspoken and suppressed trauma, if you examine throughout history many of the famous author biographies, eg Charles Dickens just endlessly retells the story of his absent imprisoned father / debtor prison escapades (this motif recurs in variations across every Dickens novel) if you read Jane Eyre / Bronte sisters the childhood religious boarding school section just recounts a litany of malnutrition cold and abuse, meanwhile Dostoyevsky endured an actual mock execution lol and imprisonment in a Siberian penal colony etc lol basically all fictional ordeals are rooted in some unspoken real-life torment that cannot be directly narrated and retold because of societal shame and is thereby refracted/distorted transposed augmented and embellished into some fantastical fictional or imaginary retelling, perhaps even unknowingly and unconsciously to release the emotion in a psychologically camouflaged manner, so that the author can experience consolation or the attainment of some cathartic psychological equilibrium in their inner sense of wellbeing. This is the MORAL PURPOSE
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>>6176914 >RAILWAY SPIKE You get this gif of the Fallout railway rifle I did spend ages gathering and assembling the components of this in Fallout 3 I seem to recall the actual gun was a bit disappointing I did enjoy the choo choo steam train noises it made though lol, I don't remember even using this gun in Fallout 4 however. In this class of impalement / wall nailing weapons the best implementation has to be the stakegun from Painkiller, followed by the HV Penetrator from FEAR, the Fallout railway gun was a cool idea but for me the feel of the actual weapon never lived up to the promise of the concept
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>>6176909 >>6176912 >>6176915 >>6176914 >why not just fight back against the rapist etc? I was thinking about this as well, outside of the 1970s rape-revenge exploitation genre or maybe some extreme horror films, that Last House On The Left sort of thing (the one I saw - which I do not recommend, I Spit On Your Grave 2 the 2013 one, the actress deserves some sort of award / therapy, counselling) this isn't really depicted much or encouraged lol or seen as an acceptable mainstream storyline theme or behaviour. Bernard Cornwell does it in all his historical novels, David Gemmell did an enjoyable fantasy series I remember (I think the only one of his with a female warrior protagonist) called Hawk Queen ? / Ironhand's Daughter which had this storyline, and of course in history you had Boudicca and her daughters vs Rome etc. Shakespeare does it in Titus Andronicus, arguably he overdid it lol with far too much mutilation. I even watched all of that Sony film studio 1820s Dahomey African / Agojie film Woman King lol for this tantalising premise (they treated it in a somewhat tame/sterile fashion lol)
I think perhaps outside of the exploitation/horror genres people are just too ashamed to explore it, the emotions unleashed are too horrifying, primal / bestial and overwhelming, it hearkens back to some tribal savage age of barbaric lusts etc in civilised society no-one wants to remember, imagine or even entertain the slightest possibility of these consequences, they prefer the formalism of the Arthur Miller Crucible etc Salem witch-hunt accusation flinging, media/journalistic revelation feeding frenzy and legalistic rites and abasements instead which appear at least to embody a veneer of propriety and moral authority. It gets a bit Foucault Discipline and Punish lol it is in fact very philosophical when you scrutinise what manifestations of behaviour society in aggregate excoriates and castigates versus what it condones, what behaviour is seen as shameful versus what behaviour is seen as exemplary or vaunted and highly valued. As you know Peter Thiel and all his Silicon Valley technomilitaristic venture funded war disciples are all very enthralled with the mimetic theories of Rene Girard, the Scapegoat Theory etc there is a lot of energy to be harnessed here hehe, all of these people will soon be in government now, of course the very best thing to rape is all of government and all of society, yay
Adlershorst
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With your return from a short holiday to paradisal palace, we find ourselves once more involved in the politicking that so plagues this poor land
>>6176947 >>6176948 >>6176950 Anonymous
Hi, ODST fag again. Mulled over titles and figured that I should probably follow in the wake of the other Halo quests on the board.
Anonymous
>>6177042 Sounds fun, I’m in.
>powerwankery Sometimes shattering the expectations of your players and punishing them for overreach is justified
Anonymous
>>6177055 They're not over Reach though.
Anonymous
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>>6177060 Damn it, Carlos.
Anonymous
>make formatting mistake on update >can't delete it, it just keeps saying 'you must wait longer to delete this post' and then 'this post is too old to be deleted'
Mojique !!4RCLTCHgFJV
>>6177126 If you have 4chanx there's a button in a dropdown that automatically deletes your post once it's off the 60s cooldown
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Wed 15 Jan 2025 23:56:30 No. 6177130 Report Why does Moot want this site dead so bad?
Anonymous
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>>6177128 Anon, I do have it, it just didn't work.
Anonymous
>>6177130 But don't you see? With the extra revenue they can afford to add more features that everyone asked for like
and
but let's not forget
just to name a few.
Anonymous
For those of you who like drawn quests, how bad can the sketches get before they need to be burned with fire?
Anonymous
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>>6177175 They can be garbage. Any art is an advantage over no art.
Anonymous
>>6176914 >>6176909 Goddamnit, I really hope this comes to nothing credible. I like so much of his body of work. if he actually did some of the shit he's accused of here and elsewhere, I hope he at least has the good dignity to admit fault, settle up, disappear from the spotlight, and die soon so I can just enjoy his stuff without having to worry about what creepy, shady nonsense I'd be supporting with my purchases or views.
Sometimes it feels like it just doesn't pay to admire anyone while they're alive.
Ugh, time to write...
Anonymous
>>6177197 I admire you, anon.
Anonymous
>>6176915 >I have a theory all fictional storytelling is actually rooted in some unspoken and suppressed trauma >basically all fictional ordeals are rooted in some unspoken real-life torment that cannot be directly narrated and retold because of societal shame and is thereby refracted/distorted transposed augmented and embellished into some fantastical fictional or imaginary retelling, perhaps even unknowingly and unconsciously to release the emotion in a psychologically camouflaged manner, so that the author can experience consolation or the attainment of some cathartic psychological equilibrium in their inner sense of wellbeing. This is the MORAL PURPOSE That's way more accurate than I'm comfortable with and also why I've never published anything under my own name
Anonymous
>>6177218 I present this meme without further comment
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>>6177126 I know that feel, bro.
>>6177202 You really shouldn't, though at least I'm just sort of a boring loser rather than a sex-pest. I'll take it, I guess? Thank you.
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
Anonymous
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>>6177135 I'd pay $30/yr if I could get an edit function. See also:
>>6177126 >>6177175 I would never complain about even lousy art with an update, provided the update itself is good. If the quest is fun, you'll end up providing a basis for commissions, anyway.. And maybe discovering you actually like drawing, and becoming good enough to not NEED commissions! Hells, maybe you can even TAKE commissions someday.
Anonymous
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>>6150243 >just reread HMQ again Make it hurt less, anon... I just want to make her smile again...
Moloch !!fqcSo3h+it7
Do YOU like mystery? Gothic horror? Toxic Women?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>6177197 Just pirate grigga
Anonymous
>>6177306 >>6173033 >>6173034 >...."-igga" suffix >>6168202 >>6168215 >>6168186 >>6167312 >>6170069 >stealing all the Anglo Saxon words...? The other day as I was reading this glossary of Anglo Saxon words and investigating the etymology, I discovered that apparently a term for a "shield-warrior" in Anglo Saxon is RANDWIGGA
Not sure how accurate or reliable this random online compiled glossary I found is lol or the source, but it seems believable
rand, shield or brim / boss (circular reinforced central metal bulge thing) of shield;
wigga seems possible, I know in Beowulf when he is dying his companion / inheritor's name is Wiglaf, ie war-left, Remnant of War
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>>6177388 Incidentally for those anons who enjoy reading and collecting obscure RPG setting rulesets and pdfs, I can recommend one that I stumbled upon...
This is a high production value setting, a lot of effort went into this one it is called WULFWALD basically imagine a very hardcore Anglo Saxon world that literally resembles that historical glossary I linked above lol except combined with elves (Aelfcynnn, elf-kin) and dwarves (Dweorg Scildgebrodor, dwarf shield brother) etc.
As far as I can tell and I checked lol all the Anglo Saxon nomenclature appears fairly accurate for example a sorceror is a scinnlaec (scinn, as in skin or sheen, appaearance; laec sort of means play as in swordplay or possibly also the -lock bit of warlock etc, so scinnlaec is like a conjuror or enchanter of appearances).
The word Wulfwald itself derives from an old dark ages / medieval term which I already knew of where a Wolfshead, Wulfesheafod, refers to an outcast or outlaw (think of those violent and shunned berserkers wearing the funny fur wolf hat head armour things from Mount And Blade Warband Viking Conquest, ie the ulfhedinn
>>6168186 )
The art and layout of this WULFWALD rpg is very cool in that OSR sparse black and white ink illustration style, even if the world itself is just the standard fantasy dwarf elf etc with some hardcore Anglo Saxon historical nomenclature. I found it to be a very charming and atmospheric lorebook
Anonymous
>>6177218 >>6176915 The reason why I find this Neil Gaiman article
>>6176909 so fascinating is it depicts the permeability between imagination / fictional recreation and real experience.
Just where does the fantasy come from, when does the fantasy stray into something reproachable or shameful or culpable? I also found this section very interesting:
>Throughout his career, Gaiman has written about terror from the point of view of a child. (...) >His most recent novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, tells the story of a quiet and bookish 7-year-old boy. Through various unfortunate events, he ends up with a hole in his heart that can never be healed, a doorway through which nightmares from distant realms enter our world. Over the course of the tale, the boy suffers terribly, sometimes at the hands of his own family. (...) >While much of it is fantastical, Gaiman has said “that kid is me.” Of course, many novels and youthful adventures adopt the bildungsroman form, whether it is Great Expectations David Copperfield Jane Eyre or the standard fantasy orphan village massacre incitement against the Dark Lord etc
I always wonder if this was because the Victorian novel evolved from the purpose of moral instruction (similar to a more elaborate retelling of an Aesop's fable, a parable or say Ancient Egyptian or Mesopotamian "wisdom literature" on gods, divine virtue etc)
If any of your game settings invoke childhood / rite of passage, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??? (shock) (gasp) show me where on the doll the bad person hurt you etc.
How can we encourage our imaginations to evade the exposure of this nefarious psychological shame?
Here are some methods of AUTHORIAL DISGUISE
1/ The Marquis de Sade at Charenton. Your tale will be an inversion of moral instruction whereby you categorically delineate every enactment of filth pain and perversion conceivable. Ideally you should also scrawl it upon the walls of your confinement in faeces
2/ Perhaps establish a safe psychological distance / dissociation and sense of separation, by never writing anything that you have experienced in life eg write stories about middle-aged fund managers attending IPO roadshows etc. Beware as sometimes the childhood / rite of passage bildungsroman pattern can reassert itself, through surrogate roles (eg the young eager and naive intern who seeks to establish their nascent career...)
3/ You must bifurcate or splinter your psyche into multiple shards of personality, in a byzantine and fractured manner such that it can never be reconstituted in its coherent entirety. A bit like a Christopher Nolan film except, not shit. A method of stochastic camouflage, populate all narrative possibilities within a random table and roll dice for every outcome. No one will be able to make any inference of your personality if it is independently and identically distributed. Your sexuality now looks like a speckled grey field of static noise
Anonymous
Work. I hate it. I got bored and did something I would've never do just to stave it off. I read a web novel that was mentioned by a few friends when they were making fun of stuff. Boy oh boy, it wasn't unjustified.
Kektus !!J2DVx8oxjPt
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A new update for The Caretaker quest is up!
After a quick change of plans (due to my mistake, sorry) and some VERY cursed rolls, the plan to save MC is in executed.
how will it go? what will happen after that?
come and find out!
>>6159531 >>6159531 >>6159531 BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6177404 Could you please run a quest dude
Anonymous
>>6176915 I get what you're going for, but isn't expressing any kind of idea that's difficult or offensive to express without abstraction just like... having a theme? You can do that stuff with or without some kind of dark past purpose.
Adlershorst
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Update: The Dodge would be very honoured if you would dine with him.
>>6177446 >>6177447 Anonymous
>>6177416 >>6177404 This, please channel your autism into a quest and stop flooding the qtg
Anonymous
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>>6176492 Pretty sure it spells "wHQY9fAp" but ok
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>>6176909 >She protested that it wasn’t hygienic. “He said, ‘Are you defying your master?’” At some point you just have to kill someone. Holy shit.
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>>6177130 I will not give gookmoot money. Maybe if he used those funds to get this website out of the stone age and not make bullshit timers in the name of fighting spam, I might reconsider my stance.
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>>6177416 >>6177450 >>6168407 >why don't you just run a quest? etc As you know, 4chan is rampant with all manner of racism, extremism, false information and surveillance occult cognitive warfare Eglin etc after my last game setting UPYR caused the Californian wildfire
>>6172526 I decided I must combat this, /pol is very dangerous it is filled with offensive, violent and shocking Indian dung manure memes some of which are AI generated, but also railway mutilation corpse gore.
I myself am not racist I like to believe I am a very sensitive and tolerant and welcoming individual (not gay) I like to promote cross-cultural understanding (but not cross-dressing) I have even read Bhartrihari poems and the Bhagavad Gita translations, these are all excellent beautiful lyrical works of literature.
So to counteract the barrage of Indian faeces webms, I thought, I must immerse myself in the diametrical opposite, some awardwinning Cannes Prize international auteur cinema, the highest aesthetic and artistic form of cultural refinement and edification to broaden my horizons.
So the film I watched was this one, All We Imagine As Light (2024)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_We_Imagine_as_Light The cinematography and lighting in this film (mostly night scenes) is excellent it is a very poignant, subdued yet humanistic film, it is pretty feminist it is a sort of maiden mother crone theme hehe about three nurses from different age generations in Mumbai. Yes there are some NUDE BREASTS, but also a tale of separated love and longing, dating Muslim people and developers trying to evict you from your property, these are basically the core elements of the entire genre.
So I settled down to watch this foreign film, this awardwinning film which hopefully is not Cannes Prize western propaganda trying to meme the Indo Pacific into happening, this film surely will counteract all the /pol racism and India faeces videos.
And I watched it, and this film, the actual opening voiceover, is mainly about the women COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW INDIA SMELLS
Also, the main nurse lady (she is actually a very good actress) that lady you see at the end of my attached pic related sequence, she does a poo outside, this is the Cannes prize film
>>6177416 This is my explanation of why I have not run a quest BananasQM I hope you understand now, thank you
Anonymous
>>6177405 When the fuck did I make this post
BananasQM !!41PmzC6RLY4
>>6177470 I'll forgive you if you talk about quests maybe?
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Why say something in ten words when you could say it in ten thousand words
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>>6177042 I am HYPE anonymous ODST-FAG
>Are you hype? The answer better be YES
Anonymous
>>6177444 >just a theme...? >suppressed anxieties, desires, guilt / shame subconsciously manifesting in imagination, fiction So in every narrative there is typically some form of trial or ordeal (cringe euphemism being the Hero Journey lol) this could be any of the elements of PERIL DANGER or hazard that the protagonist encounters, any obstacle, antagonist, adverse circumstance, enemy, complication, inconvenience or challenge etc.
The question is where do these elements come from? Just the stale apparatus and permutations of the constructed genre convention eg whether it is a dragon lair in a dungeon, the marauding barbarian invaders of the Dark Lord pillaging your village or the inevitable rapacious luxury property developer trying to evict you from your home in Cannes Prize foreign cinema lol. (Sometimes I wonder if that is a subtle form of propaganda that encourages developing countries to remain underdeveloped, clinging to the past, with decaying squalor, backwards infrastructure, hehe)
If you are writing and imagining into believable existence these emotionally wrenching and harrowing scenarios and encounters, (the "themes" etc) where are you pulling these feelings from? If you can answer this question, you have discovered THE MORAL PURPOSE
Maybe the situation you imagine is one you have never experienced, but to convey a believable evocation of the emotions at stake you must draw upon the deepest recesses and psychological reserves of traumatic intensity, some situation that corresponds to similarly heightened feeling.
To some extent whatever you are capable of feeling and imagining yourself is in itself a derivation or culmination of your own experiences, it is path dependent upon the vicissitudes of regret, embarrassment, meandering conflict and turmoil imprinted upon your own memory (you may encounter the experiences of others but you don't remember them or discard them as they leave no impression upon your behaviour whenever you cannot relate to them etc, there is no affinity or sympathy)
This is why so often there is a regression to childhood / the bildungsroman rite of passage form, the orphan from the pillaged settlement etc. Basically there are two mechanisms that govern desire and action it is just the regulation of guilt and shame, taught by parents (or parent figure surrogates) all words arise from the first words between parent and child (I learnt this from reading KUBARK lol) so people often return to the formative experiences.
Maybe don't do it like Neil Gaiman did with his homeless babysitter lady master-slave relationship thing, it is all a bit sick and wrong but I do find it fascinating
Anonymous
>>6177476 >"I'll forgive you if you talk about quests maybe...?" >BananasQM idea of "punk culture" eg from the Concrete Stratosphere quest
>>6174022 >(...)"You call this Punk Culture, though it's not really that complicated. It's like the law of the jungle, the strongest are well respected, and men fight for dominance. Those not a part of the culture are not allowed to participate, and are sometimes preyed upon, but aren't expected to fight back and aren't held to its rules."(...) BananasQM I would like to correct a misunderstanding and I refer you to my attached pic related section of that Neil Gaiman article I linked tee hee hee
>>6176909 are you aware of what this "punk culture" actually entails. I did not know that Neil Gaiman apparently started off his career as a punk rock music writer for magazines, this and also the scientology is obviously how it all began
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404TormentedCache !!c/h3nPgDT44 ID:wCfc/Ufk Thu 16 Jan 2025 14:27:03 No. 6177506 Report Quoted By:
>>6177042 Kick ass title, brother, can't wait to jump feet first into hell. I'll be there when you start
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>>6177504 The only QM I would teust to have an actual understanding of punk culture IRL is maybe Fae Smelter, wherever he is.
Anonymous
>>6176915 >>6177218 >>6177444 >>6177503 >PAIN From the KUBARK manual. I have to say, the CIA here did a really good job
Why torture people, when you can instead just let them use their own inner guilt and shame to torture themselves, for the rest of their entire life?
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/KUBARK_Counterintelligence_Interrogation ***
It has been plausibly suggested that, whereas pain inflicted on a person from outside himself may actually focus or intensify his will to resist, his resistance is likelier to be sapped by pain which he seems to inflict upon himself. In the simple torture situation the contest is one between the individual and his tormentor (and he can frequently endure). (...)
Interrogatees who are withholding but who feel qualms of guilt and a secret desire to yield are likely to become intractable if made to endure pain. The reason is that they can then interpret the pain as punishment and hence as expiation. There are also persons who enjoy pain and its anticipation and who will keep back information that they might otherwise divulge if they are given reason to expect that withholding will result in the punishment that they want. Persons of considerable moral or intellectual stature often find in pain inflicted by others a confirmation of the belief that they are in the hands of inferiors, and their resolve not to submit is strengthened. (...)
If an interrogatee is caused to suffer pain rather late in the interrogation process and after other tactics have failed, he is almost certain to conclude that the interrogator is becoming desperate. He may then decide that if he can just hold out against this final assault, he will win the struggle and his freedom. And he is likely to be right. Interrogatees who have withstood pain are more difficult to handle by other methods. The effect has been not to repress the subject but to restore his confidence and maturity. (...)
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The paraphrasis I mentioned about all words coming from the first words between parent and child is from this source
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It is important to understand that interrogation, as both situation and process, does of itself exert significant external pressure upon the interrogatee as long as he is not permitted to accustom himself to it. Some psychologists trace this effect back to infantile relationships. Meerlo, for example, says that every verbal relationship repeats to some degree the pattern of early verbal relationships between child and parent. (27) An interrogatee, in particular, is likely to see the interrogator as a parent or parent-symbol, an object of suspicion and resistance or of submissive acceptance. If the interrogator is unaware of this unconcsious process, the result can be a confused battle of submerged attitudes, in which the spoken words are often merely a cover for the unrelated struggle being waged at lower levels of both personalities (...)
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>>6177476 I would, but nobody likes the quest that I like.
Anonymous
>>6177535 >>6176379 >>6176458 >>6176461 >>6176915 >>6177503 >>6177404 >>6176909 >be CIA >declassify former interrogation torture manual KUBARK for public transparency >entire manual is written with masculine pronouns, male interrogation torture victims instead of hot passionate female bdsm enthusiasts >inadvertently the entire world then discovers, the CIA is gay I hope Trump changes this. I was very disappointed please see this JJ Abrams film documentary as to how it should be done. Of course in many film depictions the true agony and unbearable torture arises from how JJ Abrams is constantly strobing the audience eyes with his cinematic LENS FLARES
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I don't know man, I like long running quests.
Adlershorst
Adlershorst dynasty update: Intrigue, intrigue and more intrigue.
>>6177652 >>6177655 >>6177656 1204 was an act of self-defence Anonymous
>>6177661 You know, it's funny, in my quest, it's the
Milanese? Doge that is the one getting coup'd, and the protagonist is supporting it.
Anonymous
>>6177550 Alright Souv, I'm with Bananas, you gotta get back on track. You've drifted too far from quests, and the digressions are too obscure.
Adlershorst
>>6177674 To be honest, the character notes on the doge just read: 'like Dandolo but with an eye for the long term and no grudge against the not!byzantines' Anonymous
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>>6177677 Well, to be fair, we haven't met either the current doge or the ones we're supposed to reinstate either. I just think it's funny that both quests about playing an medieval (early modern in my case) noble are dealing with coups and doges at the same time. I actually haven't read yours, though i've been meaning to whanever i got the time. And honestly, your character notes are more than what i've got. I only have like a few words per character...and only for the very main ones. And even then, I'm not sure my characters feel like they have different personalities.I'm having a hard time showing those while maintaining ye olde 'fancy court etiquette' speech. Anonymous
>>6177550 Booo, when is the /pol/ episode over
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>>6177175 People are pretty easy here. Seen plenty of successful draw quests with art that would be called shit if sent too a major publisher. I've seen players vote on shitty stick figure quests. Your more likely to fail because you put up an option you can't think of how to implement.
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PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Fri 17 Jan 2025 00:02:10 No. 6177747 Report Happy 18th birthday (presumably in advance), suptg! Thank you for keeping the board alive.
Anonymous
>>6177747 LL is the bro-est of bros.
Anonymous
Made a song about Souv's and BananasQM digital love affair.
https://suno.com/song/f8b6d642-736d-4bdc-bf99-50507443f6fe Fixer !!iI8oeQD1M5m
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>>6177777 >>6177777 >>6177777 I LOVE THE CITY THAT I LIVE IN. QUINTS, YAHOO!!!
Anonymous
>>6177839 I ship it. Let there be love.
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>>6177747 >>6177787 What would we do without him, eh?
>>6177839 Wuxian just discovered AI music.
Anonymous
Is light trolling going to be called Wuxian /qst/ forever? The griggas were the one who took him down. Without the griggas he would still be mass reporting quests and getting them taken down.
Anonymous
>>6177872 My bad
? , he's just the only person I know of who's obsessed with me and Bananas, and also the notion of my ethnicity.
Anonymous
>>6177875 Which is to say...
>>6177872 I assume
>>6177860 was also you?
Anonymous
>>6177876 Yes. I wanted to support a goblin-protag quest on the board. It's important to have diversity. Frankly the lack of goblin quests is quite concerning.
Anonymous
>>6177878 still waiting on a GOOD goblin quest
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>>6177889 Sir this is a Tesco.
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Writing GOOD filler updates is so difficult. If you can't think of a good think to vote on, it's just low stakes character building.
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Update, the Doge explains his reasoning and want your help with his plans.
>>6178023 >>6178023 >>6178023 Anonymous
>>6177839 >>6177865 >LOVE AFFAIR This is how I conduct romance
Anonymous
Trojan War Quest will return. Teukros will learn of Nikon's sacrifice, and they will be as BROTHERS for life and for death! And having learned the saddest of lessons, both Lesches and us anons will sing a story that will fill our hearts with something beautiful - and meaningful.
Lesches !!oJEPr0mjkw6
>>6178074 Seven Against Thebes returns within 72 hours Anonymous
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Moloch !!fqcSo3h+it7
Small Captcha delay, but The Pale Inheritance, part four, is now live!
>>6178118 Anonymous
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>>6178122 Truly, the new year spoils us!
>>6167988 Hopefully even more, soon?
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While you declined the Doge's offer, it is now time to find out who Maurus exactly is.
>>6178153 Anonymous
>>6177675 >>6177712 Well to summarise, my train of thought was this
1/ Why do people write fiction / invent the fantasy stories?
>>6176915 >>6177218 Obviously this necessitates inordinate effort / exertion etc. I postulate it is because deep down, they are trying to retell or reconcile themselves with some unspeakable trauma / regret / ordeal, which cannot be communicated in ordinary society because of guilt / shame / pain etc, so they must then reformulate these feelings as a fictional story. I mentioned it before on a past qtg, but just look at JK Rowling lol many people read Harry Potter and think OH MY GOD VOLDEMORT SO EVIL it must be like Ukraine lol or Mark Hamill as opposed to the psychological trauma of her Portuguese husband abuse episode / escape to Scotland (it's Hogwarts lol) at least in her retelling of it hehe
2/ Where does THE PAIN come from? Why relive it again and again?
Well this is why I cite that KUBARK manual lol
>>6177535 I suppose you could point to any psychology textbook hehe but according to the torture interrogators, pain is far more effective and enduring when it is supplied and constantly reinforced from WITHIN YOURSELF, ie using / turning your own internal shame, guilt etc mechanisms against you as opposed to outside pain (which can be resisted / externalised / rationalised / dissociated from, blame the outside entity etc) The KUBARK manual suggests the guilt shame regulation mechanisms originate in the authority / hierarchy of parent-child relationships. So why do this to yourself? And that leads to...
3/ What is THE MORAL PURPOSE?
I mentioned before I believe the moral purpose resides at the boundary of whenever fiction bleeds into reality (and vice versa), at some level it is the transference of your experience / memory, life wisdom learnings regrets etc into the imaginary realm, back and forth both ways.
>>6177404 Possibly the pain can only end or be transcended when you overcome the established authority / hierarchy that is the structural source of your internalised guilt / shame architecture etc. This is like the final videogame boss fight. I don't really know how to do this, it probably involves bdsm things but my best attempt at it was just calling the CIA gay.
>>6177550 Is it really that controversial?
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>>6178157 If I were Voldemort I would give a long soliloquy which would go something like this: Harry Potter you are nothing without me! By destroying me you will relinquish everything you have become! All your accomplishments, friends, fame, purpose will dwindle into nothing; you will diminish, you will languish in obscurity! etc etc. What you should do is instead keep Voldemort alive, support and secretly nourish him. Whenever people start forgetting about your past great deeds overcoming THE EVIL, then you should unleash the Voldemort permit some atrocities to be perpetrated so that they will clamour for your return, for salvation the great Harry Potter saviour of wizards etc. Maybe we can also discuss a rebrand like Al-Sharaa or something. Also Harry Potter why would you date that ugly Chinese girl her name literally means Long And Smelly
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>>6178157 >>6178159 >moral negotiation vs conflict >the MORAL PURPOSE? I included this image sequence
>>6178049 from Bernard Cornwell The Last Kingdom (my recommendation: stop watching after the first two seasons, from the third season onwards nflx bought it, the storytelling quality noticeably drops) my understanding is that the tv adaptation departs from his books but I was fascinated by this scene with the Skorpa character.
The backstory here, the main hero Uhtred he was born Saxon/Christian but gets orphaned and raised as a pagan/Dane, he is tricked into swearing fealty to the Christian King Alfred and cannot break his oath but resents having to follow all his orders etc.
One day Uhtred has enough of taking King Alfred's orders, he decides to just leave and take some of his loyal warriors and companions to raid Cornwall with them all disguised as Danes. In Cornwall he encounters an impoverished Cornish king who offers him gold if he can recapture his fortress the Cornish king also dangles the enticing prospect of offering his beautiful Seer Queen temptress companion hehe as a sex ? reward for battle victory. Uhtred agrees to retake the stronghold, but it turns out to be occupied by actual Danes (outmatching his disguised men) led by the insane Skorpa, but Skorpa knows if he fights Uhtred and his followers, he will lose many men even if he ultimately prevails and thus his leadership over his own marauder warband will be weakened. So Skorpa, who is demented and insane (he basically fights by biting into people's necks in berserk rage lol with bloodstained teeth) Skorpa offers Uhtred a deal, to renege on his promise to the Cornish King, they can join forces and massacre the pathetic King's meagre warband together, and divide the plunder, women and the attractive Seer Queen between them. And Uhtred accepts! He just agrees and completely acquiesces lol.
I just thought that this storyline was interesting, it was an unusual occurrence and rare depiction of a morally "good" hero negotiating with and completely collaborating and working with an "evil" character hehe. It made me think of all those dnd or OSR type encounters where you actually effectively negotiate with the enemy. Sadly after a few more episodes it does not end too well for the pretty seer Queen prophetess love interest lady though
>>6178049 Anonymous
So we’re spouting nonsense now? Cool, let me do it too.
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>>6178173 The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
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>>6178173 Instead of posting things you don't like, you should post things you do like.
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>>6178185 But Anon, I did!
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>>6178183 >least verbose slice of life manga title PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG
PoképocalypseQM !!w58WRl7ypiG ID:aUu5YmKq Fri 17 Jan 2025 22:07:30 No. 6178227 Report Quoted By:
Walter R. Buchanan just got a very fun letter from his family! Come help him choose how to cope.
>>6177831 >>6177833 >>6177834 >>6177835 Anonymous
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>>6178159 >keep Voldemort alive >what will Harry Potter become without his nemesis? Read the best Harry Potter sequel, Disappearing Hogwarts, to address both these questions AND explore all-new themes of terror, shame, guilt, and trauma!
>>6158641 >>6158641 >>6158641 As for the theory of fantasy (or fiction/roleplaying more broadly) as a way to express and exorcise repressed desires, angsts, and issues, I think you're right... But also isn't that pretty widely acknowlegded? "Art comes from pain," is pretty much a cliche at this point, as is the notion of roleplaying games as wish fulfillment surrogates. I don't think it's universally that, though; sometimes people like exploring weird things without a deep personal stake in the subject matter, or sometimes they make art about stuff (weird or otherwise) that they're openly and unabashedly into.
