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Well, no time like the present for answering this, I guess. I don't necessarily think you'll like what I have to say, though.
>there was a second, but looking back it was never converted into a module, it was available as a flash thingy at Cockholes FA but it is gone now.
>I have a lot of trouble getting Oken to look right, her body shape even more so. I've tried making ref sheets in the past, but anything that involves Oken wearing less than bulky clothes turns out wrong and inconsistent
Things like expressions and gesture are pretty decent, however. From what I've seen, she emotes and gestures pretty consistently, and that's what's really important in capturing a character. Model consistency isn't as important as you might think, it's nice to have, but isn't exactly the most important thing. So long as you stay within a reasonable range of your character's body type and scale. Which I think you have, for the most part. I've never looked at a drawing you've done of Oken, and thought "that doesn't look like Oken."
Though, I'm curious, what is oken supposed to look like, if you've apparently been drawing her, as far as you're concerned, wrong.
>the other problem is that when doing strip poker modules I always try to make them as in character as possible.
>however Oken really wouldn't enjoy the situation, so she'd be unpleasant through out the whole thing and the game would just be kind of depressing and sad.
>I also have no good ideas for Oken to be in that sort of situation.
Fair enough. If it can't work, it can't work.
>unfortunately my quests are already slow as molasses, side stories are probably not a wise idea
I'd argue, at least in the case of Crash Quest, that's more due to update rate than pacing. Though, I may go reread some of your work, then come back later with my findings. If you're cool with that. I might anyway, since it's been awhile since I've read most of it.
>I've tried to work some comedy into the mix(though i'm not very funny, there's even a fair bit of underwear fanservice, but nudity still doesn't fit
You don't necessarily have to be funny to lighten the tone of the work. Just having more friendly interactions between characters in low-stakes moments can work just fine too. Out and out comedy probably wouldn't work for Crash Quest anyway. It's a bit too dark for that. And given that they were being strip-searched in that scene, for the ending of that iteration of the quest, I'm not entirely sure how that's a slower moment or fanservice.
>one of the main reasons I avoid sexual encounter or nudity in my quests, it's rarely ever warranted
Fair enough. I was just providing input how how you might go about doing it if you decided to do so.
>especially when none of the character are conventionally attractive
>I don't think I'll ever understand Kirska's "sex appeal" as such don't expect much in the way of fanservice from her
Honestly, if you're using a character's "Conventional Attractiveness" or "Sex Appeal" as a gauge to decide whether or not they're "deserving" of being shown in fanservicey sorts of moments, you probably shouldn't be touching fanservice with a twenty-foot pole. Especially when most of your characters (Crash Quest cast included) are actually pretty appealing, even if they're not "Conventionally Attractive". Which they usually are anyway, they're just not fucking supermodels. Not that it's really relevant, since that shouldn't factor into the decision anyway. I'm going to be blunt here, picking characters based on conventional attractiveness to be shown off to the readerbase like a goddamn piece of meat is going to come across a pretty sleazy, and that's because it is.
I'll use my mistakes, experiences, and (at the risk of spoiling some details) plans with SCDA as an example here. I'll start with mistakes, since I'm less liable to look like a huge hypocrite that way. I'll be the first to say that what I've done with it isn't perfect, and to an extent, I've fallen victim to some of the things I'm railing against here. Too many characters major characters are conventionally attractive, and the gender ratio is currently kind of fucked. Even with as much nudity as there is though, I work pretty hard to make sure that the quest is never leering at it's characters in a lewd manner.
Not to say it's not sexually charged at times, but it's almost never there purely for the reader's benefit. The quest should not care whether or not the readership (or for that matter, the author) thinks a character is "sexy". When characters are conventionally sexy that's simply a characteristic that they happen to possess, as opposed to something the quest is specifically "showing them off" for. If you do that, it crosses from just being fanservice into outright objectification. Which is bad.
As I've said, I've partially failed at this by messing up the ratios, so I'm currently planning to rectify that by introducing more of the stranger characters that have been waiting in the wings, and revealing certain details about Cher I really shouldn't have withheld to begin with. I'll say more about that when the time comes. But I will post a post a sketch of one of said characters as an example of this, though there are already a few sketches sitting in the old SCDA thread. The art isn't the best because it's an old sketch, but I think it gets the point across pretty well. It obviously wouldn't haven't to be as extreme as this, but you're doing fanservice, the kind of body a character has should not matter.
Once again, I do legitimately like your work and want to see more of it, but if you do or say something fucked up, I have no reservations about calling you on it. I would hope you would do the same for me. I look forward to more Crash Quest.
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