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Rizon.net >QM Question Is there such a thing as doing too much preparation for a quest?
>Player Question What is your favorite moment and most hated moment in your favorite quest?
>Bonus Question What would you do if your favorite quest suddenly stopped running?
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>>43376041 Totemist Quest is a beloved long running /tg/ favorite. It's been running for six hours and it hasn't broken a hundred posts.
Save it for after the holiday.
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>>43376089 >If you try it, the players will make him not delusional. And how would they do that if the narration is unreliable and they're pressed to act nonetheless?
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>>43376167 While that's a good idea in theory, most players would whine about it.
Or maybe I'm just cynical, but you should try it if you have faith in it.
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What does /tg/ think about anything-punk quest? I've always wanted to do a certain quest of mine but I dont know if people would read it just because I want the setting to be desertpunk-esque
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>>43376167 >REEEEEEE >MUH AGENCY Anonymous
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>>43375978 The QM in these situations should just write the diplomance as an intellectually overbearing villain monologue about why the character should join him, while the opponents use that time to try to do something sneaky.
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Can a non-diplomancer character be run in a quest? Or will players always vote for talking, hugs and waifus?
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>>43376470 >>43376258 Dunno, I've actually never really seen that in any quest, apart from a handful of people.
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>>43376540 Good question, I would like to hear ideas.
Don't see how to do it without making all the NPCs irredeemably evil and making it about crime and punishment.
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>>43376540 There have to be a few but I can't think of any right now, so maybe not.
Nightmare Goose !.k0.F7XyHc
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KOF quest is back! hopefully a lot of people hop in!
>>43376610 Anonymous
How would you pull a noir detective quest? Been interested in making one for a while now
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>>43376671 Firstly, have a solid knowledge of what makes noir, noir.
Then write as usual and keep to the usual themes and tone.
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>>43376632 The three most 'evil' themed quests I can think of right now are Doppelganger Damacy, Blatant Fetish and Feral Necromancer and all of them went full friendship.
I suppose you could argue Orc Warlord is pretty non-diplomacy, but aside from all the rape it is.
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>>43376695 Wait, how the blueberry biscuits did Feral Necromancer go friendly?
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>>43376732 Protagonist encounters antagonist-->antagonist attacks protagonist--->protagonist talks to antagonist until antagonist listens--->repeat until friendship.
Vlad's diplomacy is double his next highest skill.
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>>43376695 >Doppelganger Damacy I wouldn't call it full friendship.
If I remember correctly, there was a huge divide over the playerbase over whether to EAT EVERYTHING or to EAT MOST THINGS, MAKE USEFUL ALLIES.
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>>43376391 short, quick
>>43376540 Always hugs and waifu. Just say something (Fae) cursed it so that whenever it grows too close to something it will be driven to kill it's love. And not with rage, but a careful, methodical approach to make sure whoever it is dies.
>>43376671 art.
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>>43376809 I suppose it just felt like it because of how dark the start was. The difference in attitude between first and 20th thread was ridiculous.
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>>43376695 >I suppose you could argue Orc Warlord is pretty non-diplomacy, but aside from all the rape it is. Orc Warlord diplomacy only really extends to recruiting clans, and even then they've killed off a few other clan chieftains because they wouldn't accept being absorbed into the MC's clan peaceably. Add to that that all of the clan's contact with other cultures has involved raiding and pillaging them and I'd say the diplomacy is pretty limited.
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>Dracula war >Big Boss standing on the cliff
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>>43376762 ...that's not something I'd expect of a supposedly evil Necromancer.
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>>43376955 I mean, I guess Vlad was never EVIL evil. But yeah, it can be kind of grating thematically when elves keep shooting arrows at him the first few times they meet and the players vote to talk to the m Every. Single. Time.
I think the QM even stopped making it an option at one point and it STILL won.
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>>43377014 /tg/ likes to talk a brutal game, but when it gets down to it...
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Evilness or not aside, how is Feral Necromancer Quest? I keep being tempted to check it out, but never seen to do so. Is it worth it?
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>>43374828 >>43374866 I literally got Soma and EGO mixed up the other day because I know nothing about either of them. Why would #SWQ be salty about Soma? Or anyone else, for that matter?
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>>43375175 >WN's? Web Novels. RE: Monster and most reincarnation stories first started as web novels posted by people on their blogs and later got officially novelized.
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RE: Lizard quest is one the way to the ultimate bad end, with us transcending lizardry and becoming that which we hate the most... A bird. We should have been more careful.
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>>43377337 ah, those.
I've read a couple. It seems like people go out of their way to be as masturbatory as possible for those.
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>>43377359 The quest threads here have been a bit better, especially since everyone fears becoming The QM that ruins everything. So far it hasn't quite happened yet as far as I am aware. Although RIP Argent and Whatshisname from RE: Snake quest.
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>>43377359 >It seems like people go out of their way to be as masturbatory as possible for those. Because being masturbatory is to Web Novels what being hysteric is for the yellow press, i.e raison d'etre and measuring stick.
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What's the difference between a web novel and a quest besides structure?
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>>43377597 The quests are shit is a very verbal minority. The Web Novels are usually masturbatory and/or blatant smut.
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>>43377597 Web Novels are generally just guilty pleasures. There are a few exceptions, of course, but those are in the minority.
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>>43374086 >mfw starting to feel like planefag is right most of the time It doesn't feel right but I guess Soma always was a shit. And planefag is a level headed moderate who just happens to like anthro-ship witches or something. Damn.
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>>43377274 because obviously you are
now let me put on my fedora and masturbate to my derivative yet "original" setting while angrily lamenting how my shitty writing isn't appreciated against fanfiction quests
feelthyHornet !!McLtsKOsrVy
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>>43377274 To be fair, I personally hate Soma, and I may be fat enough to count as an entire IRC channel.
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I have never run a quest before. I'm thinking saturday night since I will be off work. Should I just start it and see what happens?
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There have been some good Marvel Universe quests.
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>>43378690 Not a bad idea but it might be tough to hold onto players when you're competing against more established quests in the Marvelverse.
However I'm biased and like original setting quests more, so grain of salt, etc
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>>43378684 Only if you have a fairly solid starting premise. You can wing the bulk of a quest, but you should know the basics of the universe it's going to be taking place in and the broad role the qmc has in that world, either societal or professional depending on the setting.
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>>43378715 I wouldn't see it as being in competition with other MU quests.
I just like the Marvel 616 Universe and would love to run a quest in that setting.
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>>43378769 Maybe SHIELD grunt would be better. A lot simpler and less time consuming.
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>reQM silent >scorpion quest long finished
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>>43378873 any thread on the board
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>>43378906 I think you might be exaggerating a slight bit.
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>>43378847 This.
I'd definitely follow a quest about a rookie SHIELD agent, assuming it plays up the whole wacky pulp spy shenanigans.
I think HMQ is the only MU quest running right now, and I don't think you have to worry too much about overlap. Being a high-plying super spy for the highest intelligence agency on the planet is pretty far from being a mutant hobo king.
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>>43379166 Don't forget the whole meat-SHIELD agent angle to it. Where you have a handgun, a taser, a pair of cuffs, and some pepper spray if you're lucky and sent after super powered madmen.
