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Does anyone have any suggestions on reasonably simple quests that can be run by a DM?

Something beyond "slay X monster, which I just summoned"

Here's an example...

Players race to see who can carry a special (DM Created) 200+ Kg boulder from a specific area in Scorn to level 3 of Raffle 1 and drop it on a temporary altar.

Other suggestions or ideas?

As I wrote in crossfire.jyu.fi forum earlier, some kind of "search for unique item a and return it to place b" quests could be nice. The item to be searched could be on any of the maps in Crossfire, but of course the dm should give some tips to start with.

Or, there could be several places with a hint of the next target and the dm could tell the competitors about the first one..

Something like this could be done by using unique items that can't be picked up, right?

Some quests that could be run by a DM could be to help newbie players without them really knowing it. You could tell them of a "new" map (to them) and then replace the default treasure with something they need, i.e. holy word for a priest who failed to learn it a few times, etc. Or a potion of life for someone who keeps on getting killed.

I'm looking forward to see quests like that.. or something like it

Actualy those quests was the ones I "invented" on jyu.fi more than a year ago. I had can organize much more on them, with varuois types and riddles.. and so on... I simply need "load map" plugin..
I can consider myself "expert" in organizing quests, and cf, belive me, lack a dynamycaly loadable map support.
I mean i have in mind "The Race" quest from ages.. and no may to organize it apart having a map permanetly included in the server... that i bad, since it will be a "one use" map that must be changed and tuned on player power.
Another problem is that as it is now it taked too much to create custom things. And the problem is that id you make bindings for game and bindings for dm (to speed up creation process) you end up with the whole keyboard (and shift-key) binded... at least gtk client need a loadable keybindings setting.. like loadbindings <file> and it load different bindings.. so when you become dm you can have more free keys to bind various cf objects, like walls, floors, some monsters...
Ok this is the start.
Personaly I was going to make quests again on jyu.fi (because I'm dm only there) but then rower disappered and server gone down.. so my verve disapeared.. and I'm pissed off again..

dark.schneider wrote:I mean i have in mind "The Race" quest from ages..

What was that?

dark.schneider wrote: at least gtk client need a loadable keybindings setting.. like loadbindings <file> and it load different bindings..

True.. also, per character keybinding files could be pretty cool. This should definitely be discussed more.

"The Race" is a secret
It is a new type of quest, since search quest was invented for smart players, this one was pure power.
But I think we will never see it any early.

dark.schneider wrote:search qyest was invented for smart players

Where, and when was it held?

I done the first of them, lot of time ago.. I think about 1 year. The reward given was a custom weapon called "Mystical Darkblade", I do not remerb the precise stats of it, anyway it nice feature was drain+depletion, but the rest was the typical for a mid-level weapon.
I can remember about 9-11 players attended to it, since I have advertized it for a few days. Server was jyu.fi naturaly. A player named Mystic helped me in iding the object to find, while I was hiding the 2nd prize.

What about a quest where you change the dialogue of some of the NPC's in the game, to make a temporary quests?