>QM Question
Not particularly, no. I run what I want to run and it has worked out well enough for me. I don't think trend chasing is worthwhile here considering the smaller playerbase. Maybe if we were talking about akun or RR, maybe, but I don't see the point.
I think trend chasing would only matter in a context where you'd make money off it, and there's like one dude on here who makes any money off of it. He only makes $13.85 a month.

>Player Question
It's about the characters for me. The setting is important, yes, but interesting character dynamics are always going to be easier for me to get invested in. Dark Quest is an example of an active quest that I really like the characters of.

>BLUE
Truly, it is the most fitting outcome that the BLUE MONKEY QTG gets hit with an accidental smear of blue.

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>QM Question
No, I prefer to sit in my own corner and run the quest in a way i see fit, what is 'trendy' or 'popular' doesn't concern me.

>Player Question
An ideal quest has a good balance of all, of course I am content with what most quest I play seem to offer, though I do like it if the world/setting feels rich and colourful.

>General Question
I don't know, I've never participated in one, though if I had to nominate someone I suppose it would be one of the Aldershorsts or Celairgalvorn.

>>6364991
>>6364992
The sultan is dead, presumed poisoned by foreign elements, now you must choose who will get the blame.
>>6364974
>>6364975
The crownprince of Greifswald has come to the lands his father had conquered so painstakingly five years ago.

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>>6365137
MIA Questrunners (that I participate in, add your own), NOW WITH FLAG PICTURE IN POST TO MAKE IT OBVIOUS FOR REAL THIS TIME

>Kaz (again…)(Knights of Nothing, Star Wars: Interregnum)
>Greenwood (Forgotten Realms Adventures)
>StrangeQM (The Isekai Inquisition)

Fuck 4chan bitching about how it can’t upload a goddamn jpg without having to convert it right back into a jpg…

And fuck phoneposting too.

>>6365167
>90s MG Villainess (Mahou Shoujo Villainess Quest)
he went into hiding nearly a year ago due to some economic stuff leading to him losing his job, but I haven't seen him since
I know he read Solarpunk when he was still questing, I've seen him there (he namefagged by accident once), so I assume he uses the site in his free time
I don't expect a return to form, but a head's up that he still lives would be nice

>>6365176
>>6365190
replied to a deleted post, reeee

>>6365176
Greenwood is coming back: >>6364556

For me, it's
>Chartman (Voidship Bridge Simulator)
>IdolQM (Matunso Idol Agency)
>StoryQM (Versequest, Downerquest)
>Gorilla (1 Man vs 100 Gorillas)
>Lesches (Seven Against Thebes)
>Not Bathsalts (My Government Issued Small Titty Tomboy GF)

>>6365137
Do you worry much about board preferences and tastes when coming up with or running a quest? Do you make active efforts to tailor your output to what is "popular," or do you just do your own thing?
I'm sort of academically interested in /qst/ trends, but in the end I can only run what I'm excited to run and enjoy running. Why else bother? As Handler said, we do it for free.

>What do you look for an appreciate most in a quest: quality of prose/artwork, an appealing setting or world, an interesting plothook, or is it all about the waifus characters for you?
It's usually the setting or premise that hooks me, the characters that keep me, and the rest can be whatever as long as they're not so bad they interfere with me enjoying what I'm there for.

>Do you think /qst/ has enough activity, and has had enough good candidates, for anotehr king/queen tourney this year? Who would you nominate?
I think so, especially since last time we did it we had really old ones like Ruby Quest get nominated anyway. As for who I'd nominate... Probably Argia from Silver Knight or someone from hatch That Egg? or one of my characters if nobody else did, and especially if it's not me running this time

>>6365196
Oh, and actually
>GenkaiQM (Dragon Ball: legacy)
>BathSalts (PKMN Quest)

>>6365176
Bentus if you're not fucking dead for real then come out

I miss Lessons in Knighthood.

>>6365137
>Player Question:
>What do you look for an appreciate most in a quest: quality of prose/artwork, an appealing setting or world, an interesting plothook, or is it all about the waifus characters for you ?
I'd say it's at least 70/30 for quests that'll last long & 50/50 for short ones, since /qst/'s format doesn't allow it to pull an akun

>>General Question:
>Do you think /qst/ has enough activity, and has had enough good candidates, for another king/queen tourney this year? Who would you nominate?
I'd say yes, we had a good number for another tournament and I'd nominate Argia from Silver Knight QST Although since she's a popular choice I'll end up choosing other queen
>>6365176
I really miss:
>EvilQM (Dreadknight Quest)
>I Just Love Lady Knights (The Lady Knight's Quest)
>Koko (VENGEANCE BURNS RED)
>ShortTrip (What The Fuck Quest)
>Otakun (Another BS Isekai Quest)

Special mentions:
>usurper (The Dogbusters' March)
finished, but I miss the QM
>Levelman (CHAOS: The Quest for Redemption)
Can't wait for it to return

>>6365137
The op confirms bananas owns this board

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>>6365137
>QM Question:
Nope. Write what you enjoy, you'll last longer that way.
>Player:
Characters and writing, mostly. Art can be a nice strawberry on top of the cake, but if the quest isn't enjoyable to read then the art ain't gonna salvage it.
>General:
It could work, but /qst/ gets alarmingly butthurt whenever we try to run something fun like that. I was brewing up ideas for a kind of '/qst/io Kart' Tourney thing, but it's always tricky balancing mechanics for those kinds of events. I figure we could take a page from King/Queen of /v/ with a few modifications. Short answer: I've thought about it in the past--will I run one? Hard to say!
>Lurker:
I try to try out a new quest every week just to keep things fresh--giving them a vote only takes a moment, so I say go for it!

>>6361939
>>6361939
>>6361939

By the way, are YOU a fan of fantasy? DARK QUEST is on Thread 8, but it ain't too late to catch up! Join mild-mannered Anton Peas as he fights to free a world shrouded in perpetual darkness from mad mages, beastly barbarians, menacing mobsters, and the occasional hellspawn! If you're into rules-light mechanics, plenty of write-in opportunities, and something resembling humor, then come check it out!

>>6365137
>QM Question:
>Do you worry much about board preferences and tastes when coming up with or running a quest? Do you make active efforts to tailor your output to what is "popular," or do you just do your own thing?
Quest threads last for like three months now. It'd better be a long trend or fad to be worth it on its own, and for the time investment alone, it's best for it to be something with not only staying power but a personal attachment to the concept.

>Player Question:
>What do you look for an appreciate most in a quest: quality of prose/artwork, an appealing setting or world, an interesting plothook, or is it all about the waifus characters for you?
The setting and world and its movement are what matter most to me, the ability of characters to move through the plot, or interact with each other, though admittedly very few settings actually appeal to my narrow interests range.

>General Question:
>Do you think /qst/ has enough activity, and has had enough good candidates, for another king/queen tourney this year? Who would you nominate?
There's always enough if you cast the net wide enough. I don't know if the support needed to widen that net is readily available though, at bare minimum the qms have to be willing to participate in the rounds themselves.

>>6365203
>last time we did it we had really old ones like Ruby Quest get nominated anyway.
Definitely an indefinite moratorium on this sort of thing. I shouldn't even have to explain how utterly ridiculous it is. This board is already limping badly enough without the new blood having to compete with stuff that never even touched this place.

>Lurker Question:
>Why not at least +1 or comment on the updates so the QM knows someone is appreciating their work?
I never +1 because it's not something I appreciate myself. I know sometimes people feel like they don't really have much to add, but whenever a vote is cast like that it's really hard to know how they even feel about the choice, if anything.

>>6365176
Let's dredge up the nostalgic titles.....
>YouAndYourWaifu (The Prophecy Names Me[...])
I miss stupid birb demon shenanigans. It's always tragic when an ETA for a thread comes and goes.
>Bentus (The False-Woman / Child Of A Dead Empire)
You're still not off the hook unless you're actually fucking dead!
>ContinuousQM (The Fall Of Hyrule)
Will we save Hyrule? Find out never!
>Thunderhead (Operation Moonshot)
For some reason, fighting Nazis in space stuck with me
>WolfAnon (The Wolf Lady)
It was a creative idea that promised much cute antics

There are a few more who I miss but don't consider MIA because I know what happened to them or still see them around elsewhere.
>Levelman (Chaos Quest)
Just not running it right now. Regular on the qtgcord.
>Chartman (Voidship Bridge Simulator)
Not sure why, but occasionally seen on the qtgcord.
>GnollQM (Gnoll Quest)
Everyone knows them. No further explanation needed.
>NewbQM (Theseus/Broken Empire)
Currently writing a book
>Hivemind-Chan (Synthetic Gods Quest)
Fucked over by Russian internet censorship

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>>6365251
>>6365251
>>6365251

Legend of Zuzo is rolling again! Offer your prayers to the Spirit Stone...

After-Bloom update coming later tonight, maybe tomorrow.

>>6365137
>QM question
I do a bit, definitely. The way I launched After-Bloom was directly influenced by answers to questions I asked in the previous /qtg/, after having folded my Changeling quest due to low player engagement that made it feel like more of a chore to take care of than a game to play. A big part of my enjoyment as a QM comes from getting to describe scenes and characters and explore ideas I have, and I have a LOT of ideas - but another huge part of it is engagement from my players. Speculation, discussion, banter, just shooting the shit a little here and there, stuff like that. I really like the social aspect of these games, it'd be why I prefer this format to just penning fanfiction or writing a novel. I've already worked professionally as a writer, and don't have anything to prove there. But if I have only one or two people being entertained by what I am doing here, and I am only getting the minimal entertainment of something that low-key, I feel an urge to move towards one of my (many) other ideas to perhaps entertain a higher number of people, and generate more engagement and entertainment for myself.

>Player question
I don't care about art at all for this stuff, I mean if it's good then that rules, but I would play a quest with only text. I don't care too much about game mechanics either. Good prose and good FORMATTING matter a lot, though. I won't name names, but some quests here are challenging for me because the writing is too densely formatted, and the grammar/diction is harder for me to follow or get into. I care a lot about the quality of characters and narratives also, stuff with meaning, characters with depth, I just won't bother if I can't find some real meaning somewhere.

>General
I'm not sure what that truly entails, but I don't see why someone wouldn't try.

>>6365241
>Will we save Hyrule? Find out never!
We're getting there(:

>>6365137
>QM Question (continued)
I wanna add to my answer above that I wouldn't try to confirm to genre or theme preferences, or certain proclivities like the frequent fixation with waifus. I am glad to be running a fantasy adventure quest, I am enjoying it a lot, but my heart is always going to be more with horror, Southern gothic, and mystery, which I usually dress up with survival/post-apoc, cyberpunk, or some other elements to keep it feeling fresh. I think those things on the whole are less popular around here.

I also want to add that I am experimenting a lot with mechanics, sequencing, and puzzles as I run LoZ, and see what can gel with a format that hinges on democratic engagement, slow pace, written updates. When I run into a wall, and it seems that a way of doing something isn't fun for me and the players, or even is just detracting from the story we are trying to tell, I shelve it and wait for the next opportunity to try something. My other quest, on the other hand, is relying on the tried and true 1d100 BO3, which I've learned to use in the two other quests I have run. I doubt I will do any tinkering there because I want it to be more narrative focused.

>>6365282
Conform**

Drunk QM - Sunbelt Crusaders
Warden - Enclave Remnant
Damashi / Naive - Mortal Kombat: Kaito's Konquest
Lesches, as mentioned by another anon
That One QM who Ran a Joan of Arc Qst & Entombed
Kaz - Start Warz: Interregnum
Stoker from Stoker Qst

Off topic, but where can I go to discuss the Cal Kestis Jedi Series? VRPG is out since it's an Action-Adventure, & VG looks like it's all generals & possibly bots.

>>6365285
Ponty, you told me to run more post-apoc, but I can't tell if you have checked out After-Bloom yet? It's still real early, and I am working on an update now as we just moved on to our second protag. I think it might be up your alley. Even if not, I hope January treated you well.

>>6365289
Thanks boss, you too. I went on a playing videogames bender for the first time in a long time, so haven't been Qsting much. I'll check it out.

>>6365298
>>6365298
>>6365298
The final update for this thread of Fog of War is here! It's time to make a very important choice.

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>>6365266
>formatting challenges

>I'm not sure what that truly entails, but I don't see why someone wouldn't try.
In 2021 and 2024, people here ran some board events where QMs and players got together to vote/roll/argue about who should be /qst/'s top waifu or husbando or king/queen when I did it, because I wanted characters that were cool for non-romance reasons to be able to join in, too

>>6365241
Continuous and YayW are good shouts. Sloucho's Legend of Zelda quest is a VERY good idea to check out if you're missing The Fall of Hyrule. Umbral Tower even stars a lone Sheikah-tribe guy as its protag, sort of like where Matthias ended up before we switched perspective to the Hylian royal family.

>>6365282
>>6365289
Post-Apoc has a pretty big base here, I think. I see popular quests in that sort of sphere crop up and stick around fairly often. I REALLY like 'Old West' and horror quests myself, so if you do one of those, expect me to join in.

If you're looking for stuff in that vein to check out, One Life (>>6364407) could use more players, and it's such a slow one to update right now that catching up is a lot less daunting than the thread-count makes it seem.

>No Naruto quests on the catalogue
Crazy

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I LOVE new threads because you get a new IP and can shit post hardcore style without anyone knowing you are bananas QM!

>>6365190
I am alive.... I just post a far more casual game without complicated background mechanics like 'will your rival kings/knights/ladies/queens die because they screwed up' and 'what faction of Meeps is getting powerful and up to goatish shenanigans' or 'what sort of relics should I create if you find something'.

New quest is Giri and Jingi.

>>6365336
Nice op dude

>>6365266
Here's the threads from when the King and Queen tournament was run best part of two years ago. They were some of the best threads to grace the board in a very long time.
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2024/5961634/
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2024/5997910/
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2024/6014808/

>>6365272
>>6365311
You best believe I'm all over Legend of Zuzo

>>6365272
Can confirm Legend of Zuzo kicks ass, holy shit

>>6365330
Giri and Jingi is great so far, btw.

>>6365311
Clearly we need a biggest asshole tournament. Where the winner must be a character who is able to convince you, the reader, that the author is a fucking piece of shit for spawning such a rat bastard of a character into existence.

>>6365337
Took me a second to realize that was Monkelania, I anticipate fifty gorillion tickets sold worldwide this weekend.
>>6365343
Thank you sensei, means a lot!
>>6365341
>>6365311
Appreciate the kind words so so much guys. Very excited for what's next now that we are over the prep-hump and about to head out on our adventure with intention. If the Shadow Temple/pirates was like Windwaker's Forsaken Fortress, leaving the Atoll will be like heading from Windfall to Dragon's Roost, or finally leaving Ordon for the Forest Temple in TP...

>>6365330
HE LIVES, HE LIVES!
"Meep, I always knew that man would endure the trials the great gods laid upon his path like bloody caltrops!"
>New quest is Giri and Jingi.
Nice, I will be reading it and voting in it if it strikes my fancy. By the by, have you read Digimon Quest: The Tower? As well as Pokemon Fork And Spoon also by the same QM? That that QM in particular seems to have set a trend for themselves in writing independent and fiercely surviving female protag reminded me a lot of your Kuroda Haruka as I read both of those quests. It might interest you should you ever come back to MSV

>>6365370
>>6365370
>>6365370

new post

>>6365360
Always nice to get feedback.
I worry my quests are boring or not unique enough.

>>6365365
Kek, now that's an idea.

>>6365233
/qst/io kart is also an amazing and fun idea.

>>6365367
Prep can be its own kind of fun, but I am excited for the next stage of exploring your version of that world.

>>6365403
There is quite literally nothing else quite like that in the catalog. It is very cool and distinctive. Essentially playing someone who was a villain's hapless mook from a Magical Girl show is such a cool idea.

>>6365417
>>6365417
>>6365417
A new post for the new Homeless Mutant Quest!

>>6365403
HEY FAGGOT
I POSTED AT YOU >>6365378
I ACTUALLY VOTED IN MSV QUEST AND GOT INVESTED BACK THEN
PLEASE RESPOND

Thank you

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>>6365336

>>6365336
>>6365452
Guys... which one is the real bananas? They're practically identical.

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>>6364946
>Mutant!Quest

Um... Uh...

A namedrop was not on my bingo card.
Sorry for not getting back to my quest, RobotQM. I've just been burnt out with college leading straight into wageshittery directly after graduating, as well as personal health problems getting more frequent, and then other life events happening that are affecting me very negatively. I thought graduating would solve all my problems, but unfortunately life is more complicated.

That being said, I'm very glad you've enjoyed my quest as well, and, while I'm not very happy about leaving the story unconcluded, I'm simply not in a good frame of mind at all.

However, I *have* improved at art as well, and I do agree Clip Studio is GOATed for making cool OC art :)

In any case, pardon the quasi-dump in the spoilertext.

Please enjoy this drawing.

What 3 months of no Monke does to am MF

>>6365241
>Currently writing a book
what's the book?

>>6365467
Something called My Struggle or Fight of Mine or along those lines.

>>6365330
yipeeee

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I miss The Little Dungeon That Could.

well, that took longer tha expected, but there is finally a new update for The Caretaker Quest!
You decided to go to the mausoleum...now you must face Salazar, for real this time!
will you be able to come out on top? or will your adventure end there? so close yet so far...
Come roll and find out!
>>6358384
>>6358384
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>>6365459
Glad to see you're still around, and hope life gets better for you and your family doesn't find more of your autism tomes. Health problems always suck, hope you're able to stay healthy as well. Hopefully one day we'll both be free enough to return to our quests.

Also that art is pretty great, very nice work!

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>>6365137
>QM Question:
well, i´ve only ran 1 quest so far, so i dont think im qualified to answer that question yet, however, for what i´ve seen i think i would be ok with doing my own thing later in the future, after all, variety is the spice of life, doing "the same thing" than everyone else is doing would get boring fast.

>Player Question:
cant really put anything above anything, its all a combination of everything that makes the quest stand out.

>General Question:
>Another King/Queen tourney
oh man, im still salty about Arty not making it last time...i dont think i could endure another one

>Lurker Question:
i always make sure to vote, even if its just a simple +1, tho i do try to engage in discussion and give points and reasoning for my votes

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>>6365498
>>6365498
To fly to war or stay at home...
>>6365537
>>6365538
>>6365540
And so you come unto the hall of the elven prince..

>>6365429
Oh hey, sorry.

I'm glad you enjoyed my quest so much. It's nice to know so many found it interesting and the effort in building the world of Avalon was so well received.

I haven't read the Digimon quest. I've been following Silver Knight avidly.

I don't think I have the time to spare for going back to my older magical girl quest. As I said, there's a lot of background things happening while Haruka goes off doing her own things. The world is made more dynamic and much more unexpected but it also is far more work.

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>QM Question
Generally not, but I do somewhat take into consideration how fun or feasible something would be in the format. I love mysteries, but I couldn't think of a good, satisfying way to make a whodunnit style quest fun without getting boring or repetitive. I also made the executive decision to drop Escape the Maw since it wasn't getting all that many votes and I was already stretched pretty thin running Olympus.

>Player question

Depends on the quest. Each one inhabits an entirely different genre with a different set of draws and appeals. If I'm readinf Versequest or Downerquest (come back story please) I'd be most taken by the complex character work and really impressive depictions of mental unwellness. If I'm reading Drowned, I'm taken by the prose and dialogue, and if I'm reading Solstice, I can't help but admire the absolutely insane 3d animation work the QM does.

That said, generally across my various works under various names, people tend to get a lot more excited about ky writing than my art. Could just be because I'm more skilled at writing, but my intuition is that that's just the general preference of the board.

>General Question

Yeah, I think there's tons of candidates. My girl Atë got eliminated pretty early last time, so if they did it again maybe enough people will be attracted to danger to win this time

>>6365600
The tags got switched with the description on the archive for your last thread of Olympus incarnation quest.

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>>6365137

>QM Question:
>Do you worry much about board preferences and tastes when coming up with or running a quest? Do you make active efforts to tailor your output to what is "popular," or do you just do your own thing?

My own thing. If I like writing it, it's fine. The audience is negligible here anyways. On QST you either run a fandom quest, write smut or get no votes. I don't like writing either, so I resign myself to the drought.

>Player Question:
What do you look for an appreciate most in a quest: quality of prose/artwork, an appealing setting or world, an interesting plothook, or is it all about the waifus characters for you?

I like cool characters. I like a cool premise. But most of all, I want a QM who can shape it all into a good visual style. JerkcityQM take me back...

>General Question:
Do you think /qst/ has enough activity, and has had enough good candidates, for anotehr king/queen tourney this year? Who would you nominate?

No, and no thanks.

>Lurker Question:
Why not at least +1 or comment on the updates so the QM knows someone is appreciating their work?

+1's are atrocious and infest every quest I see. At least comment and give your own insights if you agree with someone, you sloth.

>>6365241
>>Hivemind-Chan (Synthetic Gods Quest)
He moved to SV. You can find the reboot version there.

>>6365777
>>6365777
>>6365777
Another update for fog of war...the thread ends!

That one took a long while.

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Can I get a quick rundown on Drowned Quest?

>>6365137
>QMQ
Not really, I just quest when I get a good idea. And boy have I stockpiled some. Including an idea about playing as the assassins/bounty hunters/captors of a high value target in a cyberpunkish setting, and another about first contacts.

>PQ
As long as it ticks two of any of them, I'll read em

>GQ
Probably? I haven't run a new quest since then so I'd probably pass on nominating, unless others wanna nominate my characters. If that's possible, I'll nominate Swordboy and Khyber.

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>>6365836
Drowned Quest is a short-lived quest that ran from January through April 2019. It followed a guy who drowned in the post-post-apocalyptic ocean, then woke up on the seafloor with glass lungs and a copy of himself in his head. He then went through a string of harrowing, mostly improvised adventures before the whole thing got dropped unceremoniously because it kind of sucked.

Maybe you're thinking of its successor, Drowned Quest Redux?

>>6365848
QRD on Drowned Redux?

>>6365855
Drowned Quest Redux is a finished, extremely long quest that ran from September 2019 through November 2025, broken up by a handful of short hiatuses here and there. It followed the many adventures of Charlotte Fawkins, an obnoxious and delusional young noblewoman, as she attempted to use a magic family heirloom to escape from surreal underwater purgatory and instead went on 500 sidequests, explored a bunch of mind dungeons, unraveled a massive conspiracy, and saved the world. She was aided by Richard, the evil talking snake in her brain; her retainer Gil Wallace, a self-loathing man made of 400 beetles; and like 25 other freaks of varying levels of importance, most of whom start off the quest hating her. There's a lot of talking and weird stuff happens constantly.

You can read the archive here: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=drowned%20quest%20redux

Or, if the size of the archive is a little too daunting, you can read the repost here, with chapters (1 chapter = ~2-3 updates) posted daily: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/95822/drowned-quest-surreal-underwater-misadventures

>>6365864
But do people drown?

>>6365871
The question is do people drown "again".

>>6365871
Maybe you should read it and find out? :^)

>>6365644
I'm aware, but there's not a ton to be done. Consider it an easter egg for the final thread or something

>>6365871
Hell yeah they do. Or, well, did, I suppose.

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This is a shill post for VANGUARD quest. If you like customizing mechs and super simple combat mechanics mixed with some gambling it might be for you.

>>6365459
I genuinely hope that things get better and you can run the quest, dude. Mutant is a killer quest and the art is wonderful.

>>6365871
I think so. Sometime between thread 1 and thread 50 they end up underwater I believe.

>>6365459
oh my god dude, i was fucking grieving you already thinking you'd seizured into concrete at some point these last few years. sorry, i'm glad you are here, lots of love

We have two options that are even. need a tie breaker
>>6365375

>>6365876
>I'm aware, but there's not a ton to be done.
Just ask Lord Licorice on Discord and he'll fix it for you most likely.

>>6365137
>Do you worry much about board preferences and tastes when coming up with or running a quest? Do you make active efforts to tailor your output to what is "popular," or do you just do your own thing?
Not really. I tend to do my own thing although if I see something interesting in someone else’s quest I might add it to my setting and story (assuming that it fits).

>What do you look for an appreciate most in a quest: quality of prose/artwork, an appealing setting or world, an interesting plothook, or is it all about the waifus characters for you?
Interesting characters and plots. Then prose. Then setting and world. The most memorable parts of quests I played tend to have interesting dialogue or prose. Kaz’s Tales of Tatamu prologue fight and Elf Maiden 3’s baron’s heart attack & gold heart transplant as an example.

>Do you think /qst/ has enough activity, and has had enough good candidates, for anotehr king/queen tourney this year? Who would you nominate?
I’m more worried about the people that would run it. RQM seems to have a good head on his shoulders but I don’t know if he’s willing to commission art again, and if he doesn’t, would the tourney still ‘feel’ the same?

>Why not at least +1 or comment on the updates so the QM knows someone is appreciating their work?
If the other person has my train of thought exactly, I usually +1. Most of the time he doesn’t, so I post my own comment with my own explanation as to why I chose that option.

And as for the other question, Ekaterine from Antipaladin dragonborn / Seekers of the Esoteric quest.

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>>6365893
>I don’t know if he’s willing to commission art again
Ask me when my stocks rally again, kek. But maybe when my current quest wraps and I've had some time to relax. I have no idea how I found the time for pretty much two months straight on top of a quest back then... The fundraising and commissioning process was the easiest part.

>Ekaterine
What, not Glowie? lol

The pet acquisition is a seeming success with My-chan the mynock getting an official nametag, and Cady realizes that one of her isekai cheat powers might be unethical as well as completely broken... all that and more, on this update of I Woke Up As A Jedi Princess?

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>>6365996
The war is about to begin, the armies shall cross the borders very soon....
>>6366020
>>6366020
The master wishes to teach, do not disappoint him too much...

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>>6366072
>>6366072
>>6366072

Annnnnd After-Bloom is back! After his ordeal in the forest and being hired by the mayor, Roy has headed down to the local watering hole for a stiff drink.

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Oh man I'm not running a Quest right now haha oh the urge to run one again omg what quest should I run though woooowwwww I just can't decide woah maybe I'll run a quest oh but I don't know lol the commitment ahhhh wowee

>>6366420
Noosequest.

>>6366420
attentionquest

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>>6365897
She a cute

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>>Player Question:
The following are my priorities as a player in descending order of importance:
>Setting
>Premise
>Characters
>Prose
This may sound shallow, but I'm more than likely going to overlook your quest if it's not in a setting I'm not only familiar with, but find appealing. For example, I know what Touhou is, but I would never play in a Touhou quest simply because I don't find it that appealing as a setting. In that regard, you'd have a higher chance of reeling me in with an entirely new setting.
However, in my experience, my list of priorities gets completely reversed as time goes on and I keep reading a quest. While I won't say this is universal among other players and readers, I know I'm not the only one this applies to. If the characters we're interacting with aren't that interesting and the actual writing is flat and grammatically abhorrent, I find it much harder to keep up with a quest even if it does have a good setting and premise.
>Do you think /qst/ has enough activity, and has had enough good candidates, for another king/queen tourney this year? Who would you nominate?
I think there's enough activity and good enough candidates, yeah.
I would nominate Chilli, Son of Karn, first Saiyan Archmage, former Reaper of Jergal, loving husband, and father of 2 (and counting) from Saiyan Conqueror Quest. People seemed to like his older sister and father well enough last year, and I think Chilli has more than distinguished himself from them in terms of history, personality, and ability enough to be a novel candidate for King.
As for my Queen nomination, I'd nominate The Lady in Red, from Gotham City Beat Cop quest. She does a lot for her sons, even if she can never truly interact with most of them. Also the whole flapper girl aesthetic in tandem with her unknowable metaphysical entity gimmick is fairly interesting.

>>6366074
Woo!

>>6366420
Black Ocean 2.

>>6366450
Thanks again for the art, Schiz!

>>6366420
Run a GOOD fantasy quest.

>>6366465
He can't

>>6366420
Write a COOM quest (:<

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### Silver Knight Quest Thread 8 Update 11 ###

>>6366515

turns out Willow might be useful for once.
but what else can you offer the AnCap Devil in exchange for her help?

New General, so quick shill moment: come read Silver Knight Quest! We have cute knight waifus, demonic forces about to open the Door to the Knight, the AnCap Devil who will lecture you on financial independence, and the end of the world. But mostly cute knight waifus!

(for new readers: you can find a handy summary at the start of the thread, as well as archives. Come and play, the quest might wrap up soon-ish!)

# # # # # #

>QM Question:

I usually do my own thing, even if this is my first quest, I mostly followed an idea and tried to realize it the best I could.

>Player Question

I think it's a mix of those elements.

>General Question

I'd love another tournament. I opened the quest right when the last one was wrapping up.

>>6365215
>>6365557

>and I'd nominate Argia from Silver Knight QST
>I've been following Silver Knight avidly.

thanks anons!

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Hello! I'm... still alive, technically!

So: I've been quiet on Pokepocalypse, mainly because my luck is still legendarily abysmal, but I do still plan on bringing it back this month. I'm considering bringing it back this weekend (possibly earlier; I've got a light amount of work this week and only one exam the next), but I'm split between jumping right back into Pokepocalypse and doing a one-shot first.

I know that's maybe a bit blasphemous, and I'm aware of the temptations some QMs get to ditch their long-running quests for endless one-shots instead, but I have to admit that I think it might do me some good. I've written basically nothing but Pokepocalypse for nearly a year and a half now (almost straight, if we're including background work), and I think it's giving me a bit of tunnel vision. I feel like I'm starting to flanderize my cast, Steele especially, and it's messing up my priorities something fierce. My thinking is that, with a one-shot, I'll get some practice QMing while simultaneously stretching my creative muscles in a way that doesn't entail affecting the main quest. It'll also make for a change of scenery, which I've been missing more than I'd like to admit (as much as I enjoy plumbing the depths of history for cool factoids about the 1880s, it's somewhat irritating to have to constantly confirm whether any given modern comfort exists by 1884), and possibly help attract new players to Pokepocalypse by detaching my writing from an IP that's garnered something of a reputation as of late.

Therefore, I am here to ask /qtg/ for opinions! Very important opinions. Opinions I shall coagulate into some kind of answer by, hopefully, this Friday.

If I were to return to questing this weekend, and do it through an unrelated oneshot, would you prefer:
>Something entirely original, detached from any historical context or commercial property, even if only for one thread
>Another big IP
(of the options I'm considering, please choose from either:
>Digimon
or
>Marvel comics, seventh cosmos)

If you just want Pokepocalypse, would you prefer:
>A straightforward return to Pokepocalypse, no strings attached
or
>A oneshot set within Pokepocalypse's wider universe, detached from Walter but still within his world?

I'll elaborate if poked and probably tally up the results of this in ~72 hours. If nothing appears this weekend, expect it the next. I'm serious about sticking around.

Pic unrelated, I just like this bear's optimism.

>>6366526
I have no idea who you are, but if you're an experienced QM I'd probably be most interested in a Marvel oneshot.

>>6365137
>QM Question:
>board preferences and taste
Oh, definitely! Part of it is just that I seem to take any excuse to worry, part of it is also just me being new here. It doesn't feel like I am, since I've lurked this place for years now and posted for almost half as long, but I'm honestly still wet behind the ears and I never really forget that. I sometimes wonder if I ever will.

>active effort to tailor my quest
Absolutely not, I'm too stubborn a bitch to bother. I just do my own thing and end up comically embarrassed when someone confesses to liking it. I'm pretty sure I'd have thrown in a few cute waifus by now if I were trying to pander, but alas. The closest my quest has is a very affectionate sheep.

>Player Question:
Ugh, I wish I could be more definitive about this. I haven't read another quest in months, unfortunately. Life just hit me like a brick and I completely fell off of even my favorites from a few months back. From what I remember, in order of importance:
>Interesting plothook
>Good characterization
>Quality of prose
>Appealing setting/world
is somewhat how my priorities went. I'm very picky, so I probably wouldn't read any quest that didn't have at least two of these attributes. It's also important that the mechanics of the quest aren't convoluted/are easy to pick up and understand, because I generally do not want to devote a huge amount of time to learning a system no matter the quality of a thread. It's a huge reason why I stay away from all civ threads and most game-focused threads, and part of why I tend to keep my one quest (and likely any future ones) rather mechanics-light.
Waifu/husbando importance is negative. I want to care for the characters, not imagine myself fucking them. If waifu qualities overlap with sympathetic qualities, then so be it. I'm pretty sure Arty was meant mostly as a waifu, but I found myself caring for her as a character so it didn't matter.

>General Question:
>has enough activity
God, I hope so. I'm hesitant to say whether it does or does not, because I haven't kept up with it for around a month now, but last I saw it really wasn't doing too well. Any tourneys that went up would probably last a week minimum with how quiet the board seems to be.

>has enough good candidates
Another thing I can't comment on, but if our cutoff date is "from the last tourney" instead of "from the last year" then I'd say so yeah.

>Who would you nominate?
I honestly don't know the criteria. If we were talking favorite characters, I suppose it'd be blasé to nominate Elliot Hallaster given his participation in the last one... but I'll do it anyways, because he got snubbed and his quest still technically ran after it. Marnie from the Tower is another one I'd mention, and I remember liking the egg girl from Hatch That Egg while it was still running. (I'm not sure if I just don't remember her name, or if I didn't get far enough into the quest to learn it.)

Ahem. If I shall interject, fellow board members... I think a second waifu tourney would not have anywhere near the same impact as the 1st one.

Think about it. What has changed since then? There are only so many quests that occupy a spot in the collective psyche of our little community, and an even smaller number of characters who we actually, unironically, consider waifuable.

So my proposal is this: if there is another tourney, it should have actual stakes. A reward for the victor! Everyone on board MUST draw fanart of the winner waifu, regardless of their drawing skills or how much they like the winning character herself. Now THAT is some real incentive to participate!

>>6366538
You know it's gonna be the exact same characters with...what, one or two additions? How many popular female characters have been created since the tourney?

>>6366543
It's not like there aren't more popular female characters among the quests that competed last year.

>>6366538
We need a "dumbest character" contest. Which character either makes the least sense, or eats the most rocks. As dumb as possible without veering into actual mental retardation.

>>6366526
Medabots, someone has to do it at one point.

Digimon. I'll need it since The Tower is ending and I want to see what this board can cook. You could make it an spin off of The Tower.
If you want to run capeshit, make an original setting.
If you're epic, Medabots or Tremors.

>>6366538
Someone should make a one shot crossover quest with the top five girls of the tournament.

>>6366544
There were other characters yes but all popular characters have already participated. This might not be a problem in other boards where they've got thousands of characters with dozens of new ones every year, but here, it'd just be a re-do of the most popular quests.

Unless you eliminate all the girls that participated last year, which obviously people wouldn't want, it'll end up the exact same.

How many threads does a character need under their belt to even be a fair consideration for the tourney? I've only got one quest on its second thread, but I have been running 1-2 quests consistently for like... Four months? I think? Idunno if I personally feel like anyone in LoZ is fleshed out enough to 'compete'. I think Roy from After-Bloom could end up really special, and I think Percy and Vincent could have gone to some really interesting places in my Changeling quest, but they def didn't get there.

Is the tourney for waifus only, or were there other (or could there be other) categories?
Oshi might be able to hold his own in a competition reserved for animal companions, for example.
If we had a tournament category for good or bad luck (based on die rolls), I actually think Thomas from Ratpocalypse could carry the contest for worst luck - the number of consecutive single digit rolls across the climax was unlike anything I have ever seen anywhere.

>>6366548
I was honestly considering some smaller monster-catching franchises (namely Fossil Fighters or MH Stories), but they generally do not have enough to work with. I'm unfamiliar with Medabots completely, so I doubt running a quest based around it would go very well. It might also have a similar problem of not really having enough material. The only reason I'm even able to run a Pokémon quest is because of extended media + the odd setting keeping a lot of the less coherent aspects out of sight and mind.
As for capeshit: an original setting would probably need more than one thread to work, but I'll consider it regardless.

(What exactly is Tremors? I've never heard of it, and search engines are being obtuse about specifics. Just bringing up geological phenomena and medical symptoms.)

>>6366550
yeah, pretty much this, unless all previous participants arent allowed to enter, then none of the new ones will have a chance

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>>6366558
>What exactly is Tremors?
Pic related, a masterclass in writing creature features and thrillers. Ignore literally everything that came after it, you can just watch the first one.

>>6366548
I too am in favor of a TREMORS quest
>>6366553
It's a moot point until someone actually decides to run a tourney, but if I recall correctly some of the past ideas folks agreed on were that the candidates should be from a relatively-recent quest and shouldn't be any of the previous winners. Again, doesn't matter too much until someone actually puts it together.
>>6366538
>>6366549
>Fanart
>Crossover
These are kinda cute ideas, yea! Even the losers and runner-ups from the previous tourneys got some good fanart, so I'd say this would be a positive way to spin it. The only hiccup is that not every QM/contestant might feel confident in their artistry skills. I'm sure we could all think up something creative, though!

>>6366563
Hey the second one was still okay. Not great, but it had some fun moments. The first really is the best though.

>>6366572
I work under the premise that everybody's time is limited, doubly so for leisurely pursuits. To that end, if I'm going to make any recommendations for media, it's only going to be the good shit if I can help it.

>>6366564
Ok, so since this is just bouncing around, what if I proposed categories:

>Top waifus
>Top husbando
>Biggest bastard
>Biggest sweetie
>Dumbest dumbo
>Best luck
>Worst luck

Spent two weeks gathering noms for each category (allowing characters from any thread that was active in 2025 for at least 200 posts), set up brackets (cap each category at 12 noms, did a vote every 24 hours (should be easy? Because no 'update' is being written, it's just the vote being announced and tallied).

I could squeeze that in probably, and I would be willing to toss some cash in for commissioning an art of certain winners?

How do anons feel about this? Would anyone be willing to help me?

>>6366582
Categories aren't bad, but I don't know about those in particular
>Biggest bastard
Yeah sure, that's fine
>Biggest sweetie
This feels like a category that's way too specific to matter.
>Dumbest dumbo
See above
>Best luck, Worst Luck
What does this even mean?

>>6366579
Fair enough man.

>>6366586
>Sweetie being too specific
Idunno, it seems to me a minority of characters in quests are Really Nice and Kind, and idrc if it is just a quick tournament before like 6 or even 4 characters. I am also including NPC's in this, ftr, not just MC's. I am not sure I even know what you mean by 'too specific to matter', none of this matters, yaknow?
>Dumbo
I mean, another anon proposed that one first and I like the idea. Courier Six from No Gods No Masters would be someone I nominate for Dumdum award lol.
>What does best/worst luck mean?
To me this seems like the easiest and most obvious to quantify objectively - which character tends to have really bad luck, versus which tends to have good luck, measured by their literal dice rolls. I have seen quests where the MC racked up a string of successes and critsz and ones where they fumble and fail (forwards and backwards) with consecutive crit fails and low rolls. It'd be cool to get together and figure out who has the worst run of it, and best, in that regard. I am sure there are quests I don't play in that would surprise me with their dice, yaknow?

>>6366594
>Aizen from improvAizen quest with absolutely bonkers good luck
>Nikandros from Trojan War quest with his sentient (and malicious) dumpster fire bad luck

>>6366594
By 'too specific' I mean that it seems like it would just kinda fall into the waifu bracket and not really have anyone in specific for it, unless it's basically just an "this is where you vote for all the cute children and animals" thing.

>To me this seems like the easiest and most obvious to quantify objectively
Well, I guess if this is literally just an "go and count your quest rolls" I suppose it's interesting enough, though it seems to me like just generally making it a "luck" thing regardless of how they roll would allow for more characters to appear who are fortunate or unfortunate in the story.

Ultimately, though, if everyone else is fine with it, it doesn't really matter.

>>6366558
Between FF and MHH, I'd go with MHS. Wider appeal.
There's also World of Final Fantasy and Megaten. But Megaten is quite similar to Digimon.
I'm just throwing ideas.

>>6366563
I'd loved the second movie when I was a kid. Because dinosaurs.

>>6366600
>generally making it a "luck" thing regardless of how they roll would allow for more characters to appear who are fortunate or unfortunate in the story.
I don't see why not, at the end of the day people would be voting and could choose for themselves how they weigh actual dice failures with adverse effects. Some QM's, after all, aren't always very generous with big/crit successes, and others are creative about failures in order to keep the narrative on track or because they are running a lighter story. I'd burn that bridge when I crossed it.

And yeah, I think if we have a category for characters that are Nasty Evil Bastard Fucks we should deliberate on who is Wholesome Pure And Kind - and I think plenty of the 'waifus' here are actually hostile or malicious, and this would make space for characters like kids/animals/old people/etc that aren't lusted after, exactly, but are still really liked.

>>6366603
I guess I will tack on: I imagine casting a wider net both by category and entry, you could get more participation since people seem worried about it being a rote repeat, and I imagine part of the benefit of this tourney is that it gets players to go back and read quests (or at least cited posts in them) they otherwise might not, for context as they vote, maybe broadening a horizon here or there and generating more engagement for different QM's.

>>6366603
>>6366606
Well, if someone's willing to run it, it's up to them. And I definitely like the idea categories more than "challenges", since "Queen/Ms." tournies were always popularity challenges.

>>6366606
I will say it's sensible to have differing categories specifically for that reason. Not all characters are applicable for all contests. Sometimes a character is really well written, but they are not a character anyone actually likes because of it. So they would never win a popularity contest, but they very well may win a "I want to stab this person in the heart eighteen times" competition. Some characters are just goofy little whatsits that are fun but not really engaging enough to win a contest against characters written by seasoned writers, but they might win a "I want to protect it's smile" competition. To dispense of the hyperbole and melodrama, variety of categories allows for more thoughtful entries.

>>6366609
So the deal is, I'm a mobilefag phone poster, because my job keeps me on my feet most of the time. But I have space/time to think/write/read when I am not actively busy on a call with caseworkers/orgs or doing crisis de-escalation.
With that said, I would be willing to host the thread and tally votes, but would want to deputize a tripfag (or two) to handle bare bones graphics or take over in a pinch, bearing in mind I am already running two quests.
So I am definitely looking for feedback as much as I am general interest. The tourney idea seems to have been kicked around since I rocked up months ago, but I appreciate no one wanting to spend very much time or energy on it when those things are at a premium these days.

>>6366538
I wont win because I don't same fag its that simple. Once again, the most autistic and deplorable person will get what he wants

You know, rather than a queen or King, why not do a "Best Easily Killed Enemy" Contest, to have a list of the so easily forgotten early quest mooks that got one tapped to introduce combat mechanics OR bosses that had the bad luck of being on the losing end of a lucky roll streak.

And for the other side, have "Biggest pain in the ass" contest, for annoying NPCs or Antagonists that just would not die or who drove the conflict for most of the threads

I think that'd be fun.

test

>>6366672
>Once again, the most autistic and deplorable person will get what he wants
Hey I didn't win last time. Don't spread libel.

>>6366677
That'd be pretty fun. The biggest loser.

>>6366685
I know right. Like, the failed rivals that never could stand up to player luck or were never taken seriously, or the poor bastards that got humiliated/ cucked by Thad Macthunderkuk. They deserve some recognition and fan art

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>>6365495
Thanks man, and I hope you keep up with the art because the new style is cute and soulful (yes, I throw that word around a lot, but I do mean it in the sense that it has a very comfy feel to it).

Me mum has not found anymore autism tomes-- I have tons more art, self-made and otherwise, that I am very proud of :)
>>6365877
Thanks man. It's unfortunately going to get worse before it gets better, but I hope that I can get to a point in my life where I feel a little bit better about stuff in general. Still, I refuse to give into negative thinking!
>>6365879
>seizured into concrete
Funny you mention that, anon, because I almost did just that today in my office while my one of my folks was instructing my boss via phone on how to prevent me from aspirating (choking on my own saliva, in layman's terms). I am certainly alive though, albeit a bit scrambled in the brain.
I've definitely had more seizures outside of college than when I did back when I was still a student :c
All the best and thanks to you too as well, man!
>>6365871
Depends on what you would consider "drowning" and would best be clarified by reading it.

>>6366526
>I've been quiet on Pokepocalypse, mainly because my luck is still legendarily abysmal, but I do still plan on bringing it back this month.
Oh happy day!

>but I'm split between jumping right back into Pokepocalypse and doing a one-shot first.
Also cool, but as Digimon Tower's QM learned, one-shots don't always stay on-shots, lol.

>A oneshot set within Pokepocalypse's wider universe, detached from Walter but still within his world
This could be cool, or...
>Something entirely original, detached from any historical context or commercial property, even if only for one thread
I do like seeing what anons dream up.

>>6366534
>Hatch That Egg while it was still running
Oh, btw, good news: >>6358836

>>6366538
Teechncially it would be the third. Speaking of the tournament, I guess it probably makes sense for me to weigh in on this since I ran the last one, even if it wasn't universally beloved by any means.

>>6366543
There's a reason that when I ran it I chose "king" and 'queen" rather than waifu/husbando, and that was exactly why. i know that especially for female characters, the romantic plays a role in how some anons vote, but I wanted kids and weirdos to be allowed to participate and stuff rather than just "waifushit". I think it helps to expand the pool.

>>6366550
That said, wanting to avoid just rehashing the last tourney is also why I barred characters from the prior tournament when I ran mine.

>>6366553
>>6366582
I don't think there's any hard and fast rule about eligibility criteria, since we've only even had two tournaments and the tourney-runners (me included) kind of made it up as we went. For mine, I'd said that a quest should have had at least three threads, or have completed (so one-shots were eligible as long as they had a proper ending). I just didn't want it clogged by quests that were flashes in the pan. Nowadays, threads last a lot longer, though, so your 200-post criteria makes sense, too. I also really like your cateories, and I had personally been toying with the idea of others like "Most likely to [X]", "Scariest", "Cutest", "Sexiest", "Most Stylish", "Smelliest", "Strongest", stuff like that. Just to give runners up a few amusing titles under their belt and encourage participation and recognition more broadly!

>How do anons feel about this? Would anyone be willing to help me?
All that is to say I'd certainly be willing to throw in some dosh and lend a hand, insofar as scheduling allows.

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>>6366742
As a participating QM in your tourney, it was a lot of fun. Would definitely recommend/engage with the same rules, no previous entrants allowed and maybe different categories. Would definitely be interesting to write my characters' interactions with some of /qst/s denizens again. And I offer up for the nomination of "Greatest GILF" Meloka, Karn's five foot tall (mostly calmed down) yandere wife and one of the most dangerous fighters in the entire quest.

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>>6366538
>1 post by this ID
Eh, I'm kind of braindead right now so I'll bite.

You'd need to put some effort forth to make sure we don't get ample samefaggotry and a new and fresh rotation of characters, like a lot of other anons are saying.

>blah blah blah everyone must draw yadda yadda
While that's all fine and dandy, how would you get the artistic board collective to agree to this?

Furthermore, how would you make this more interesting than the prior tournaments? The first waifu tournament was buzzing on the account of the board being a whole lot less dead, the first husbando games had Indonesian Gentleman drawing out a literal Hunger Games for the second, and RQM literally ran the last two on his own, which I am going to assume you know this.

I think that /qst/io kart thing that someone mentioned earlier this thread had some merit, but who wants to tardwrangle an entire board of autists who will lose their shit when their candidate of choice loses miserably? It's happened at least once every tournament (well, not really the husbando tournaments. Those are substantially more chill).

>>6366545
There really isn't a better candidate than Stanley Parble from Bones Quest for this.

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>>6366526
>Something entirely original, detached from any historical context or commercial property, even if only for one thread
You got something ready to go?
>it's somewhat irritating to have to constantly confirm whether any given modern comfort exists by 1884
Seems like an original where you write the rules is best. Next pick would be Digimon.

>>6366874
>>6366874
You have returned to the mainland after your island trip, though a bit more eastward than planned.....
>>6366849
>>6366849
Your first military operation, independent and alone, try not to cause too much havoc.

There is a new update for The Caretaker Quest!
The boss battle continues!
You had a great start! But will you be able to keep the momentum?
If you roll high enough, you might be able to finish the battle right now!
Will you be able to beat Salazar? Roll the dice and find out!
>>6358384
>>6358384
>>6358384

What I got from your post, mutie boy, is "we should run a boring ass tourney that nobody cares enough to samefag in". But then what's the point of running such a tourney?

You could sorta fight samefaggotry with ForgottenQM's voting system, but again the idea that we should keep the stakes low so that even anons willing and able to samefag won't do it out of sheer disinterest is self-defeating.

Just adopt some measures and have fun.

Hoping for a tie-breaker vote for the Monster Girl Facility Quest, because this is an important one.

You're about to enter the 'leisure centre' for the first time, a place where subjects and staff used to relax in the past. Now though, it has become a hotbed for depravity, death squad action and lawlessness. Therefore, it is important to decide where you'll be heading, given what threats might await you. Will you just follow the quickest route given to you by Annie, or will you take detours to the more eerie, depraved and potentially inhabited areas?

>>6366530
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>>6366904
QRD on ForgottenQM's voting system?

>>6366814
>Stanley
Volka from Dark Quest could give her a run for her money, but is even better suited to "sweetest."

>>6366962
I believe that Forgotten spends the first couple days of each new thread allowing people to register an ID for a trip, and then after that, new IDs or people without trips cannot vote. I think there might be some more nuance to it. I haven't actually played one of their quests yet, but that is my impression.

"Registering IDs" don't really stop samefagging, but it does stop people who don't have static IDs from voting.

I guess I can't say I got a much better idea, most King tourneys just use a google docs.

>>6367099
I was thinking about making people tripfag but I think that will just torpedo engagement

>>6367108
>>6367112
There's no real foolproof way around vote fraud. it's the price we pay for anonymity. I usually only discount 1post IDs when they would swing a vote, and usually afford some lenience with a trip or backlink. I've found it seems to deter the most egregious samefags. People say it doesn't work, and I know there are ways to get a couple extra votes out of it if you're dedicated and have multiple static IPs you can access, but I think the idea that it does nothing is a little overstated and fatalistic.

The first chapter of I Woke Up As A Jedi Princess? has concluded!

>>6336109
>>6336109

If you like romantic comedies with a spattering of Star Wars autism, the next thread will start on Friday, making right now a GREAT time to marathon the entire thread!

>>6365176
>>6365196
It's true. I'm hoping to conclude the quest not that things have settled down a bit.

I'd also like to bring some more tabletop-inspired content to the board in the future.

>>6366582
I don't know about best luck or worst luck.

Perhaps we could put in 'funniest post'? Though humor is subjective...

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>>6365137
>QM Question:
No. I'm not good enough to have wide appeal. I'm happy with the minimum player base, I'll do this for the grinding mostly.

>Player Question:
Quests need to appeal to my fetishes or my childish interests. Otherwise I just get bored.
Unless it's really really good quest like After Bloom.

>General Question:
Dunno. I nominate Marnie the Spiteful from Digimon the Tower. She should rank high.
>Lurker Question:
If you like a quest then vote and let a comment about your decision. It should be basic etiquette.
+1 are ok if you let the reason of your +1

>>6366582

Does >Biggest Bastard occupy the same space that something like >Most Evil Villain or >Best Antagonist would cover? Cause there's been a good series of bad guys for quests recently that I've noticed.

>>6367299
I feel like protagonists OR antagonists could be nominated for Biggest Bastard, and I feel like that's a better category than Best Villain both for its broadness and because I think it's easier to quantify who is the most bastardous than it is which bad guy is the 'best', though idk if that makes sense. I guess I am also considering how an antagonist could be Most Sweetest, depending on the quest, some MC's are the 'villain' of their story, though I notice that isn't as common.

>>6367181
>really good quest like After Bloom
Thank you anon, I have been really humbled by the enthusiasm for this quest, it's been crazy to regularly get 7+ players participating. Working on After-Bloom in particular has really helped me start to shake the seasonal depression.

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>>6367301
One of our residents drew this great collage of a huge number of Quest villains previously; I'd love a biggest bastard quest tourney as it'd be more unique then a best hubando/waifu tournment that we've done before. I just wouldn't take it too serious giving the track record of previous tournaments.

>>6367304
Woh....

That RULES

Can anyone explain to me a few of these guys? I am curious about:

>Second from the left, pale figure with #1 Dad shirt
>Four from the left, in the middle, behind the lich; the giant black behemoth with the white cat mask
>Fourth from the right, front row, anthropomorph with the glasses, trenchcoat, and knife
>Giant hulking plant monster in the back row, on the right, with the flowers on its horns and multiple rows of eyes
>The corporate looking dude in the back row on the right, just behind the plant monster, with the yellow tie

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>>6367304
Wasn't it Levelman from CHAOS and the Beerus Food Reviews quest? He did one with a few more add-ons, too!

>>6367309
>Fourth from the right, front row, anthropomorph with the glasses, trenchcoat, and knife
From Jail Quest, or rather I guess from an earlier quest that happened in the same multiverse and later he reappeared in Jail Quest? His name was Orville, but he was driven mad by some past experiments and then became a merc or associate of a sinister dimension-endangering cult.

>The corporate looking dude in the back row on the right, just behind the plant monster, with the yellow tie
Richard from Drowned Quest. I never played it, but from the last King of /QST/ tournament I gather he's some sort of demon snake ghost of the protagonist's dad?

>feel tired lately
>finally got the last update drawn last night for Jail Quest's current thread
>about to post update today
>thread slipped under to page 11
Argrgrg, at least I managed to finish this year's Goblin Week. Will post em here real quick

And oh, Jail Quest thread 13's archived:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2026/6322745

>>6367309
>>6367311
Yeah, Orville was from a past quest I ran (and dropped) in tgchan called Ouroboros Parable. Same one from which Millie and James Baxter's from.

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Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #1 - Mushroom Walker

Part hobby gardener, part ecosystem maintainer, part food vendor; the Mushroom Walker not only provides fresh fungal protein to their local neighborhood, but also helps disseminate spores of edible fungi around. Shrooms for everyone!

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Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #2: Ear Appraiser

To a goblin, the ear is a sensitive thing; and there are gobs whose duty is to classify, groom, and decorate them. From filing errant callouses to applying the latest trend of earwear, the ear appraiser must know their way around ears.

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Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #3: Gibberlinguist

Goblins adapt quickly to their environment, and thus there is a myriad of goblin languages - some only goblins understand. The Gibberlinguist is there to record and translate these lingoes, even as they bubble up from slangs and patois.

On the left gobbo's shoulder is the symbol of the Eternal Empire, which was where Gibberlinguistics was born; they tried to assimilate their native universe's goblins to little effect, until semi-educated goblins volunteered to be the first Gibberlinguists.

Since then the Empire has conquered or assimilated a few other universes (Hinomaru, Libertad, Tmavy Les, Central Node, Pandemonium...), that is until their home universe got hit by a reality storm. So yeah, not that eternal, actually. The gobbos, already dispersed all over, survived.

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Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #4: Vibration Coder

Ever since goblins got exposed to the idea of computers from the Central Node realm, they've since created their own using sound as the main programming component. The Vibration Coder's job is to make sure the frequencies doesn't clash.

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>>6367350
Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #5: Trap Poker

Due to their historical tendency to squat in abandoned ruins of their original realm, goblins often come across traps left behind by its former inhabitants. Thus, crews of Trap Pokers clear them out carefully so goblin families can live inside.

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Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #6: Grovekeeper

Goblins who died of natural causes will grow into a tree, and so the Grovekeepers tend these ancestral trees with reverence. Some are even descendants of the same tree they are taking care of, taking the term 'family tree' in a very goblin way.

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Goblin Week 2026: Uniquely Goblin Jobs #7: Branegineer

While this job won't be goblin-exclusive for long, the Branegineer's duty of maintaining the membrane of realities is crucial. Braving Nowhere, the chaotic is-not between realms, the goblins' innate self-affirmation deter them from unraveling.