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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jedi_Solo" data-source="post: 3616342" data-attributes="member: 40245">Add my voice to the others that have 'I wouldn't mind discovering that the MacGuffin didn't exist but I would want the quest to have a purpose'.So I discover the Uber-Maga-Weapon of Mega-Uberness didn't exist; that's fine.  I still want the quest to have had a useful purpose though.  I want my Hero who is traveleing with the Band Of Heroes to have a meaning to have gone on the quest and I would want the fact that we went on the quest to have an impact on the events we were trying to stop.  otherwise, what was the point of the last X sessions?Maybe we learn that we can't kill the Darkened Evil of Darkness itself but we learn a way to stop THIS attack that it had planned.  The next generation is on their own though.Maybe we learn that the Evil itself never really existed but was a ploy by the real BBEG to get the town to follow him.Maybe we learn that it wasn't the weapon itself but what the weapon did that made the difference (it wasn't that it was Hero's Sword that was special but the fact that the sword was on fire - so any flaming weapon will fit the bill).Any of these would be fine substitutes to finding the MacGuffin.  At leats with these the quest was worthwhile and the good guys benefited from the fact that the quest took place.  If the entire quest turned out to be pointless I would likely not be happy.</blockquote>