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In short, the Users' Choice Awards are about celebrating the best and most beloved quests, stories, and other creative wonderfulness on SV, as decided by SV users. The Awards take place in two phases. During the Nomination Phase, almost four hundred nominations were made across nine categories. These have been narrowed down to only five* in each category.
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Nominees
And now, without further ado, the User Choice Awards Nominee for Best Ongoing Quest:
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Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism is not just possibly the largest quest on this site. It is incredibly well developed as a world, the characters are many, detailed, funny and infuriating and inspiring and tragic. You laugh, you cry, you FEEL so much for these people, and you come to appreciate the world the quest is built on as a result More than any other quest made for Warhammer Fantasy.
Arsonist's Lullaby has some of the best prose I've ever read, full-stop. I actually forgot to vote for it in the nominations phase, because I think of it as a story first – the interactive elements are so masterfully woven in, one would assume the author wrote exactly what they wanted without giving a care for the voting, but somehow they've managed to do both.
One of the defining moments of Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism that cemented it as awesome, forever captured in art such was the enticing nature and quality of the quest:
Ostland: A northern province of the Empire, and the homeland of the ancient Udoses. Out of the many different parts of the Empire, much sets you apart. The massive Forest of Shadows which is filled to the brim with beastmen and goblins. The fact that your province is has the heaviest drinkers...
[] Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism
All of them are decently written; DoDA is the only quest I've read on any of the three - SB, SV, and QQ - to definitively achieve three things for me;
---Encapsulate the "Let's get this done so we can go home for booze and good company" aspect of the human spirit.
---Tolerably accurately portray just what it means to Do Good in Bad Times, in a vein similar to the classic novel "The Sea-Wolf" by Jack London
---Make me willing to keep reading after some of the characters I've loved the most in any work, fanfic or otherwise, died, were mutilated, miserably failed, or were otherwise completely broken.
I've read at least ten updates of all of them. There is no contest in my mind. Sorry not sorry.
The world of The Long March is a world that has been plagued by the evils of Fascism and yet all is not lost. It is up to the questers to rid this world off of Fascism and frankly, we've done a good job at that considering the red flags of labor now fly from Santiago to Vladivostok. One of the interesting aspects of The Long March is that unlike many other quests (no offense to them) the Comintern here is dominant which creates unique issues. It's no longer just fending off against reactionary armies but it's also dealing with a border dispute between member states, negotiating with protesters, infrastructure projects and many more.
The Long March also does a great job at depicting a world plagued by Fascism whether it be through officials updates or the skillfully written omakes written by it's questers. The Long March is also special to me as it is the first quest I've ever engaged in on this site. And for those reasons I'd like to vote for The Long March as the best ongoing quest.
I am shocked that Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism has not won this earlier. That needs to be corrected.
ADoDA is a symphony of feelings. Joy and frustration, triumph and perseverance. A truly Epic story about a family fighting against a world and rebuilding against all odds. Along the way we meet a hundred interesting characters worthy of their own stories, pulling you from threadmark to threadmark.
A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism redefines the standard for the Dynasty Quest genre, and it is a shockingly high standard.
Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism is one of the best pieces of fiction I've read full stop. It is Warhammer Fantasy trough and trough but without the Leninist railroading the canon had and has.
As such unlike in most other grimdark settings victories can be had that reverberate trough the history of this AU setting, yet even after decades of work the risk of losing them and more is still there and that makes it worth fighting to keep and gain more.
Edit: If you ever wanted a story that embodies this trailer:
Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism is great when it's good, but most of the time it's an awkward quest getting carried hard by fantastic writing. A decade on this forum has made me wary of dice in general, but in DoDA I genuinely find myself often hoping for the D100s to just land averagly so the pacing doesn't get derailed.
There's also too much respect for canon. Warhammer has five stupid ideas for each good one, and reading stories that just elect to ignore the stupid has made DoDA feel kinda antiquated. It doesn't even take the less bold step of just steering the narrative away from the mid parts of the setting. Like, the current arc has a dual focus on Beastmen and infiltrating currently-peaceful Druuchi. Does either of these actually sound like its the coolest Warhammer thing you could be reading right now?
I still like the quest a lot. When circumstances align and torroar gets to apply their strengths it's awesome, but the average DoDA chapter just isn't really something I actually get excited about.
Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism is great when it's good, but most of the time it's an awkward quest getting carried hard by fantastic writing. A decade on this forum has made me wary of dice in general, but in DoDA I genuinely find myself often hoping for the D100s to just land averagly so the pacing doesn't get derailed.
There's also too much respect for canon. Warhammer has five stupid ideas for each good one, and reading stories that just elect to ignore the stupid has made DoDA feel kinda antiquated. It doesn't even take the less bold step of just steering the narrative away from the mid parts of the setting. Like, the current arc has a dual focus on Beastmen and infiltrating currently-peaceful Druuchi. Does either of these actually sound like it's the coolest Warhammer thing you could be reading right now?
Everything you're saying is predicated on personal inclinations. Not liking stuff about the setting, stuff that tends to happen in set setting often, stuff that isn't personally "cool"…I'll freely admit I'm biased but this just plain isn't a good judge of it as a quest on its own. It also is disingenuous in that neither of the ongoing events are canon or normal and applies your personal belief on what constitutes "cool"
There's also too much respect for canon. Warhammer has five stupid ideas for each good one, and reading stories that just elect to ignore the stupid has made DoDA feel kinda antiquated. It doesn't even take the less bold step of just steering the narrative away from the mid parts of the setting. Like, the current arc has a dual focus on Beastmen and infiltrating currently-peaceful Druuchi. Does either of these actually sound like its the coolest Warhammer thing you could be reading right now?
What...Just what. The current arc is focused on three things:
-The Druchii invasion of the North of the Empire and its consequences. I have no idea where you got currently-peaceful Druchii when there is a literal civil war currently happening caused by a Slaaneshi Pleasure Cult that infiltrated the Ark the Main Character got trapped on after counter-invading it.
- The Siege of Karaz Ankor by a Black Ork WAAAGH! that drew in Orks from everywhere in the world before starting the Siege and the fact that the existence of Chaos Dwarfs was revealed to the Imperial Troops that came south to help their allies in their time of need by the Orks themselves causing a massive political clusterfuck in the middle of an already hard to process for Dwarfs siege.
- The coordinated Beastmen uprising caused by Malagor the Dark Omen because he is desperate to make Beastmen still matter in the eyes of the Chaos Gods. If the Beastmen lose this fight badly enough they get knocked down the power ladder of Chaos to sit where the Fimir are in canon because oh yeah the Fimir got knocked down even lower on that ladder in the quest itself.
How did you miss the entire Siege of Karaz Ankor thing? Especially when it was focused on in the main Threadmarks whenever Logan got to be the PoV character recently.
[X] Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism
No other story on this side comes close. A decade of work, consistent quality that has never dipped, almost 3 million words, an epicness that is not only found in the greatest of fanfics and quests but the greatest of stories period.
A faithfullness to the setting and dice that gives it true uniqueness. In no other quest have i experienced such setbacks and subsequently such heights at final victory.
It's really good. The side stories are by turns ridiculously funny and intensely serious and the actual quest is a fast updating journey of trying to get the various factions, idealists, and problems of the Comintern to work together. And also dealing with the fachists (punching Nazis included) as well as trying to prevent nuking. Tremendous fun to read and tremendous fun to play. The government voting is especially fun because it feels like all the parties are shouting at each other but still respect each other and that's being played out by the questers.
Everyone is sleeping on this and they shouldn't. This is an intense character study of Azula as both a person and the Fire nation as a whole through that lens. It's very intense and very fun to read Azula be dragged unwillingly towards redemption and self reflection. It's darkly halirious and also very impressive. If you read nothing else, read the Second Loop part 2, the festival scene. One of the best prices of writing I've yet read.
Everyone is sleeping on this and they shouldn't. This is an intense character study of Azula as both a person and the Fire nation as a whole through that lens. It's very intense and very fun to read Azula be dragged unwillingly towards redemption and self reflection. It's darkly halirious and also very impressive. If you read nothing else, read the Second Loop part 2, the festival scene. One of the best prices of writing I've yet read.
Humans can't be dragged unwillingly towards redemption and self-reflection. The fact that the quest is premised on that idea breaks my willing suspension of disbelief.
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