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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 7956952" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Not at all.'Your mission is to [do thing] by [time X] or else [bad thing Y] happens.'I suppose you could have a quest of just 'do thing' but that sounds awfully boring. Like... why are they doing it? What happens if they fail? How long do they have to do the thing?Compare the following quests:1) You need to recover/ destroy/ locate/ stop the Mcguffin. Whenever you get around to it. Time is not of the essence.2) You need to recover/ destroy/ locate/ stop the Mcguffin before [time X] or else [bad thing Y] happens. Time is of the essence. Which is more impactful, gives the Players a feeling that they've accomplished something, and exercised their agency to affect the game world (stopping a bad thing from happening, via performing the quest).Heroes in movies dont have all the time in the world to defuse the bomb, save their daughter from evil mercenaries, blow up the Death Star before it destroys Yavin IV,&nbsp; recover the Ark of the Covenant etc, so why should your heroes?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 7956952, member: 6788736"] Not at all. 'Your mission is to [do thing] by [time X] or else [bad thing Y] happens.' I suppose you could have a quest of just 'do thing' but that sounds awfully boring. Like... [I]why [/I]are they doing it? [I]What [/I]happens if they fail? [I]How[/I] long do they have to do the thing? Compare the following quests: 1) You need to recover/ destroy/ locate/ stop the Mcguffin. Whenever you get around to it. Time is not of the essence. 2) You need to recover/ destroy/ locate/ stop the Mcguffin before [time X] or else [bad thing Y] happens. Time is of the essence. Which is more impactful, gives the Players a feeling that they've accomplished something, and exercised their agency to affect the game world (stopping a bad thing from happening, via performing the quest). Heroes in movies dont have all the time in the world to defuse the bomb, save their daughter from evil mercenaries, blow up the Death Star before it destroys Yavin IV, recover the Ark of the Covenant etc, so why should your heroes? [/QUOTE]

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