Main Quests

Quests whose completion provides the main winning condition of games.

Main Quests are the ones that provide overarching goals for players in games structured around the fulfillment of quests. They are often tied to storylines in the games and provide a framework for smaller quests.

Examples

Main Quests have most common in Computer-based Roleplaying Games but not so in Tabletop due to the often open-ended narratives. Likewise, overarching quests may be present as story-telling devices in Category:Massively Multiplayer Online Games and large scale LARPS but can often not be completed or do not have rewards on a gameplay level.

Examples of Main Quests include saving the world of Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion by stop oblivion portals from opening, saving or diverting the intentions of project purity in Fallout 3, affect the outcome of the struggle between the mages and the templars in Dragon Age II, and

fellow non-humans, the Elves.

The Order path (with the Flaming rose insignia icon): on this path, Geralt allies himself with the Order of the Flaming Rose, knights who protect the residents of Vizima. The Witcher / neutral path (with the witcher medallion icon): on this path, the truest to The Witcher series, Geralt sides with neither the Elves nor the Order, but does what he feels is right.

Using the pattern

Note that although completing the Main Quests

Relations

Can Instantiate

Anticipation, Predetermined Story Structures, Quests

Can Modulate

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Can Be Instantiated By

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Can Be Modulated By

Hierarchy of Goals, Sidequests

Possible Closure Effects

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Potentially Conflicting With

Massively Online Multiplayer Games, Unwinnable Games

History

New pattern created in this wiki.