Quest Making Template and Explanations
Jul 18, 2015 18:34:55 GMT -5
Post by Yggdrasil on Jul 18, 2015 18:34:55 GMT -5
Quest NamePerson giving Said Quest (In this section, write the user name with which you signed up and place an @ before it. In my case, it'd be @ followed by admin)
Category: Personal/Global/Catastrophe [Explained further down]
Description: Explain briefly what the quest is about. You can include the backstory to this quest to help people understand more
Reward: For personal and certain global quest categories, it is the player that submits the quest that must pay. For Catastrophe level and certain global, the system will take care of the reward.
Objective: What does the player have to do to complete the quest? List everything here.
Time: How long does the player have to complete the quest, from the moment he made the quest thread? We're talking about IRL time, not in-forum time.
Number of participants: How many players do you want to have in your quest? Certain globals and Catastrophe level will be unlimited.
Requirements: Special skills, certain digimon level and such? Post it here.
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I believe Quest name is fairly obvious, but please be creative in names. We love puns by the way, or references to existing stuff. Person giving the quest should also be self explanatory. Unless it's the staff that post it, in which case it'll be written Central Command.
For the category, we have decided to divide it into 3 clear sections: Personal, Global and Catastrophe
Personal types of quest are mostly related to a single individual or one group's personal gain: Make me a sammich, find my wallet, get rid of that pest for me, stuff like that. The players posting those quests will be submitting the rewards themselves. Some times, NPCs will put quests like those, maybe doing them will give you something special?
Global type rarely benefit only 1 individual but more of a group or the world. Some times, players will host it, but other times it will be the staff, using an NPC or the Central Command. Some times, if players post a Global quest, Staff may decide to take it upon them if they believe it can be interesting, help the situation on the forum and stuff.
Catastrophe type are rare, and for a reason. THEIR OUTCOME AFFECTS THE FORUM AS A WHOLE! Do I need to repeat it? Fail and you might lose a continent. Win and you might have gained access to Vandrakemon's basement. Some examples are Fox's existence, John's urges of marrying all females in the world, Queen of Catastrophe and her army of ESP users, Gravity holes appearing all around the world and the dark army marching on Asuka City. Those quests are important and will only be made by the staff. But don,t assume that all events are in that section, because certain events will be only available through the data board and will still affect the forum as a whole.
Description shouldn't be too lenghty as you'll cover all the infos in the other sections. Objectives must be straight to the point: Arrest that guy, find the hotdog that had a bit in it, stuff like that. Time is meant so that a quest doesn't stay idle for ages and the guy just casually returns after a year, completes it then goes away again (Unless there was an issue, in which case we'll be ok with it). Still, the lowest you can go is 3 days to make sure that people still have a safety cushion if something comes up. If people fail to finish the quest by the time limit, the quest is considered a failure and put back up again.
Number of participants if self explanatory (I hope). Requirements can be anything, so long as it doesn't say Have a Character named Jolly Rogers. Stuff like that will be denied from the get go. You need to let people play in them, otherwise just don't create any.
Now, when participating in a quest, we ask that you have some lenght to your quest. A single post of 100 words for a quest judged to be global? That won,t do. Explain what your character does, what he endured to finish the quest, what he and his partner (If any) shared to strenghten their bond (Or weaken it). 1 liner post will be deleted without warning.
Here is the code used for the template, but you can change it however you want, so long as all the fields are there:
[blockquote][b][div align="center"][font face="terminal"][font size="12"]Quest Name[/font][/font][/div][/b][/blockquote][i]Person giving Said Quest[/i] (In this section, write the user name with which you signed up and place an @ before it. In my case, it'd be @ followed by admin)
[i]Category:[/i] Personal/Global/Catastrophe [Explained further down]
[i]Description:[/i] Explain briefly what the quest is about. You can include the backstory to this quest to help people understand more
[i]Reward:[/i] For personal and certain global quest categories, it is the player that submits the quest that must pay. For Catastrophe level and certain global, the system will take care of the reward.
[i]Objective:[/i] What does the player have to do to complete the quest? List everything here.
[i]Time:[/i] How long does the player have to complete the quest, from the moment he made the quest thread? We're talking about IRL time, not in-forum time.
[i]Number of participants:[/i] How many players do you want to have in your quest? Certain globals and Catastrophe level will be unlimited.
[i]Requirements:[/i] Special skills, certain digimon level and such? Post it here.[/blockquote]