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Quest Idea: Reverse murder mystery. The party is paid by a wealthy individual to pin a homicide on one of the partygoers during a party, train ride, or some other limited space. (The number of suspects has to be limited- that's what I mean. A ranch in the middle of nowhere would be as efficient as an invite-only gala.)
Quest ideas for fantasy stories (turned into a rant, oh no)
The classic “quest to find a magical item that’s going to save the day and the entire world.” Might be a lil’ bit cliché, but do I care? Nope.
It’s...um, a good goal. You know, save the day, stop the entire world from being destroyed by some terrifying force? I don’t care how overused stuff like this. I have absolutely nothing against clichés and I will die on that hill.
Or, on a similar note, a quest to find a magical item for a goal that’s less life-or-death.
The thing is, it doesn’t have to save the entire world. I love more specific, more heartfelt, smaller stories. For example, the movie Onward. Ian and Bailey don’t have to find the Phoenix Gem to save the entire world. They have to find it so they can see their late father for one last time, and in Ian’s case, for the first time.
To find a missing person.
Maybe they ran away years ago. Maybe they’ve been kidnapped for a sinister purpose, or maybe the villain kidnapped said person for a reason they believe is truly good. Maybe they disappeared through the use of magic and no one knows why them. Or the characters need to find a witch who can help them with their ultimate goal.
To destroy an item.
The best example I can think of this is Lord of the Rings, of course. It’s a quest to cast the Ring into the bowels of Mount Doom so it will be obliterated, because it can only be destroyed in the place it was made.
To learn something new.
Maybe they have to go to X to learn about X, which can help them with their ultimate goal. Could be a series or a standalone, of course. But I love it when quests send characters on a journey that just kind of...falls apart, and bam. Not really a quest anymore, but there’s a huge problem that now needs to be dealt with.
To assassinate someone or to commit some other crime.
Why not make the MC a villain? Make it a quest for vengeance, justice, make them feel like they need to teach another character a lesson.
There’s so much room to play with the character arcs. Combine a few of these quest ideas and make something up. Go ahead!
Rambling a little, but maybe a character was wronged by another character and now needs to find a magical item that will give them the power to kill the other character, and then because they both do things that are wrong, they can both have redemption arcs.
Seriously, villain MCs? *chef’s kiss*
Don’t just think big, think small too.
Like I said before, I love the small quests. A goal that’s really close to the MC, a goal that ultimately doesn’t make or break the entire world’s fate. Make it really personal. Think about the small things, the details, the other characters. What would really hurt that character, not the world? Make that happen. If the only thing that breaks your character is the world falling apart, then that’s what needs to happen. But, if it can be something smaller and more personal, then I would love to see it.
I go on a quest to help a villager who’s wife has been cursed into a rampaging beast. After calming her down and getting the curse lifted she proceeds to glow and float up into the air as she turns back to normal and bright flash happens. She looks exactly the same as when she was cursed but is now friendly.
The couple thanks me for saving them as I realize the curse was simply behavioral.
3 LANCER RPG campaign Ideas:
Planetary Politics Can Get Crazy: On the planet Wiz-Guy, political parties can get permits from the global government to own mechs for both security and voter-outreach purposes. Players are pilots working for the Hardsell City Utility Workers Party. The parties popularity/electoral success depends on Hardsell City’s utilities not breaking down, so the pilots will primarily have to respond to disruptions that may have been caused by sabotage. Pilots will also have to distribute holographic posters, protect UWP VIP’s, and deal with problems facing constituents.
Basically Darkest Dungeon but with Mechs: The Patriarch of The House of Fading Embers has disappeared after bequeathing his isolated estate to his three surviving grandchildren. Players are adventurer pilots recruited by The Heirs to help them salvage the estate in exchange for treasure, fame, and other foolish notions. They will be fighting against mega-fauna bioweapons, renegade mercenaries, malfunctioning robots, and paracausal cultists that have taken over the estate. As the campaign goes on, The Patriarch’s connection to every evil faction is revealed. Also, the player’s characters will gain stress points and deal with emotional breakdowns.
Siege of Starport City: HugeTech Corporation has conquered most of the continent except for the independent Starport City, this is a situation that HT Corp’s Board of Directors don’t like and are going to change with violence. Players are pilots that are working for Starport City’s Office of Crisis Management on the day The Siege Started. They will have to defend various sections of the city from a myriad of HugeTech Security Task Force Groups. The players and all other city dwellers have to hold out until Albatross and other allies arrive to break the siege.
𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙄𝙙𝙚𝙖 𝟲 | 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙈𝙖𝙯𝙚
An innkeeper hires the party to "deal with a rat problem" in the cellar. When the party descends into the cellar, the door slams shut behind them. They find they are not in an ordinary cellar; it is a vast labyrinth.
Hello everyone! As the light goes out in our sumptuous jack o lanterns and the autumn leaves begin to make their final terminal spirals to the ground to herald the blankets of winter, a treat bag stand alone and beckoning...
The Marker Slinger Trick or Treat Bag is a FREE bundle of digital and printable goods! Inside you’ll find;
A zine of NON BRAND CANDIES, over 30 pages of 31 different candies of no known maker that can give you anomalous powers!
The TREAT TROTTER FOLIO, a small folio that introduced the walking magical piñata that is the Treat Trotter!
A page of 12 paper minis to print out and mess around with! 10 regular minis and 2 UNIT sized guys! Are they friends? Enemies? You decide!
And a sheet of 8 printable creature tokens for a popular magical card game!
It’s all FREE and it’s up till Nov 5 where it will promptly disappear into the aether again!
So spread the word to everyone you know! Put my name in their mouths like a full sized bar into a friend’s mouth that you need to silence so the wraiths don’t find you!
GET THE TREAT OF TREAT BAG HERE FOR FREE!
-M
Hello everyone! As the light goes out in our sumptuous jack o lanterns and the autumn leaves begin to make their final terminal spirals to the ground to herald the blankets of winter, a treat bag stand alone and beckoning...
The Marker Slinger Trick or Treat Bag is a FREE bundle of digital and printable goods! Inside you’ll find;
A zine of NON BRAND CANDIES, over 30 pages of 31 different candies of no known maker that can give you anomalous powers!
The TREAT TROTTER FOLIO, a small folio that introduced the walking magical piñata that is the Treat Trotter!
A page of 12 paper minis to print out and mess around with! 10 regular minis and 2 UNIT sized guys! Are they friends? Enemies? You decide!
And a sheet of 8 printable creature tokens for a popular magical card game!
It’s all FREE and it’s up till Nov 5 where it will promptly disappear into the aether again!
So spread the word to everyone you know! Put my name in their mouths like a full sized bar into a friend’s mouth that you need to silence so the wraiths don’t find you!
GET THE TREAT OF TREAT BAG HERE FOR FREE!
-M
The Paper Menagerie Inspired by listening to The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. Seriously read or listen to that before reading my half baked quest concept based mostly on listening to half of it and some tweaks afterwards. Tamiyo's Story Scroll One Shots - These are one shots I will be littering my Innistrad campaign with, echoing the story scrolls Tamiyo carries, set on different planes. Unknown Plane, possibly Tarkir Lonely old wizard from another land creates their own kingdom of paper complete with creatures and people to fill the void of loneliness left by her lost family, surrounded by a great corrugated forest to keep them in and the world out. Her husband resented her magic and foreign traditions, despite her efforts to share her joy of the Art and her culture with her family, while her son resented how different she was and how that made him different too. She created little folded paper pets and companions for her son and shared wondrous tales of her travels with her husband, but he nurtured the deed of his jealousy and frustration so that it bloomed into bitter resentment. One night he abandoned her, taking their son and leaving no explanation or note. For a while she lives a quiet life with her paper kingdom, but the the her anger and sadness infused her creations, and eventually paper people and creatures became bitter and frustrated. They started fighting one another in wars of a thousand cuts, until a powerful leader united them. They locked their creator away in a great paper spire and set out to vent the hatred that had grown within them like a cancer on the people like those that had hurt their creator so. With her created army setting out with brim purpose, she wove her tears into a spell and called down a great rainstorm that decimated the majority of her paper children, breaking her heart again. Those that survived still dwell in the origami forest and attack anyone who enters their cardboard wood. Time passed and everyone forgot about the old wizard, except in the stories to scare the kids away from the Zhezhi forest and the wicked spirits that dwell there, viciously cutting those who come close. Their handed down stories cast the wizard as a wicked witch who created her paper monstrosities to terrorise the good people of the nearby villages. Some even said that she killed her husband and son, using her black magic to bind their souls to her foul creations. *** Many years have passed and the remaining paper creations have discovered a way to bring down parts of the forest to reinforce themselves and build greater warriors to finally bring their long sought war to bare. This is where the party come in, the few survivors of an attack on the nearest village to the wood, enlist the heroes to take back their village from the paper monsters, destroy the Zhezhi forest and put an end to the evil witch and her machinations. Once they reach the tower and vanquish the mighty paper dragon guardian, they are set to put an end to this evil once and for all, but what they find is a desperately sad old woman lying on a paper cot, watching the ragged and faded toys she made her son do their best to dance and play on the floor. She is desiccated and dry as paper without any magic, having cried it all away many years ago. She reveals to the heroes that she was once a Planeswalker and danced across the blind eternities, visiting countless planes, before falling in love, starting and family and letting her spark go out, so she could settle down. This is her last tale of her adventures and she passes away with the comfort of other people for the first time in millennia. A spark of the Wizard spirit infuses into the paper toys on the floor and they look and move renewed for a moment, before climbing into a lavish envelope on the desk. Inside is a letter written to her long lost son: Son we haven't talked in a long time... (I'll rework a shorter version of the one from the story for the quest) The envelope and folded creatures are a magic item. A unique folded paper Bag of Tricks with a bright red and green tiger in it as well as other unique folded paper creatures, including a water buffalo and a tinfoil shark. I cannot recommend reading or listening to The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu more strongly. It is heartbreaking and breathtakingly beautiful and made me cry so much. O don't think I would have come up with this idea of I hadn't been so inspired half way through because I was such an emotional wreck by the end. Tiger - Front Cover of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu Paper Drake by butterfrog butterfrog.deviantart.com
