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Roleplaying: Basic Components
Topic Started: Jul 25 2010, 12:44 PM (62 Views)
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Guidelines and Rules to Specific RP's
Dependent upon the type of quest you are running, you may find it useful or necessary to establish some ground rules, rules of engagement or possible penalties for rule infractions. Discuss these with the people involved with your quest. Make sure that everyone understands them. Write them out and make them available for future reference. This may prevent disaster down the road.

Types of quests

There is a variety of quest types that even the most novice roleplayer can undertake. Here are some basic examples:

Pursuits: Send players in search of objects or people.

Escorts: Have players escort a damsel in distress, a gate-shy priest or a caravan of goods from Point A to Point B.

Mysteries: Who-dunnits are an excellent roleplaying opportunity and a way to involve large casts and adventuring groups.

One-shot events: Start small and get a feel for how to do things on a larger scale. Typical one-shot events are: scavenger hunts, swap meets, market days and guild recruitment/symposiums. Though these shorter quests, you can build contact groups, gather information about what interest the people on your shard and collect ideas for future long-term quests.

These basic premises for plot ideas by Ozar were taken from the UO Interest Site:

Escort Quests:

* A caravan takes some items from Point A to Point B
* A person becomes sick and a healer is requested from another town. This healer needs an escort from that town to this one as it is not safe for him to travel alone and use of magic/gates will ruin the healing draught needed to cure the sick person.

Find the X:

* The location of someone or something is given in the form of hints or a riddle.
* An item X is needed for some reason. Players are enlisted to help retrieve/find the item.
* A group of X has taken thing Y and person Z wants it back.

Preserve the Peace:

* A person has escaped justice. Players are sought to kill/capture this person.
* A group of X is gathering near point Y. Players are sought to kill/capture the group.
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