Editing Quest (section)

==The Boards and Their Quest Cultures==

*/tg/ - The most popular (and only [[Moot]] blessed) place to run quests. Stories here are long, well attended, and cover just about every genre and theme. Despite being generally welcoming there is lingering resentment from the great quest migrations of 2012. Quests with heavy foreign elements (particularly /a/, /u/, and /d/) will be subjected to harsh criticism. How much of this is genuine antipathy and how much is just /tg/ [[skub|hating anything popular]] is unclear, but many such quests tend to garner massive audiences regardless. Explicit material is not banned but tends to be frowned upon, leading to a growing tack-on community of smut writers who attend regularly popular quests and then pastebin in their own lewd scenes. Has an inveterate fondness for drawquests, probably related to [[Ruby Quest]] nostalgia. Players here tend to think in /tg/ terms, and want to do things like build parties, romance princesses, found kingdoms, and [[Munchkin|powergame]] shamelessly. Arguments, particularly over any of the afore mentioned things, are common but usually manageable.
*/a/ - Bouncing back after the mods went full kristallnacht on it, the /a/ quest scene tends to focus on the things you'd expect. Stories usually involve romance, drama (with a tendency towards bathos), urban fantasy, and fanfic of /a/ settings. Still not fully rehabilitated. You'll likely get reported at least one or twice here, but generally there aren't problems. Players prefer simple game mechanics, involved story lines, and wish fulfillment MCs. If you don't deliver on these they can become frustrated and jump ship fairly quickly.
*/u/- All the lesbian smut that's (un)fit to print. Quests (known as CYOA here) are relatively popular. Though nowhere as prolific as places like /tg/, the slow nature of the board means threads can survive for days at a time. Arguments are rare here, since pretty much everybody attending knows what's up.
*/b/ - Like everything else quests here are a free for all. Don't expect to run anything long or involved, anything beyond a one shot is going to die a fast and confusing death. Pictures tend to keep them focused long enough to actually vote on something.
*/d/ - The newest addition to the questing family, quests here are exclusively <s>sins against humanity</s> fetish specific fapfics. While most QMs and readers don't care if a quest is anything more than a thinly veiled dickgirl railroad, recent additions have started to evolve into longer and more narratively complex offerings. Players on /d/ are a strange breed. One the one hand they can be fanatically dedicated to advancing their preferred fetish no matter how horrible or out of place it is. On the other hand, /d/ players are some of the most considerate, least judgmental, and most willing to compromise (in the tradition of a board seen as social pariahs even by /b/).
*/mlp/ - Since 2012 the horsefuckers have been running quests every now and again, but as of 2015 they have their own archive at http://anonpone.pineapplecomputing.com/ and a uniquly heretical questing culture. RenneQuest is probably the most well known still, and it was an early one.  Most of their quests are more about adventure and lewdness, and being too edgy is a cardinal sin.  Like /u/ quests are known as CYOAs here, and even have a much hated general thread dedicated to letting the QMs jerk each other off.
*/qst/ - The new quest board, and now the only board where quests can be posted on. See below for more details.