What is the best motivation for a fetch quest?
>>44323588
It was supposed to be given to the party, but it got stolen.
>>44323588
Death
Money
Fame
Love
Death
>>44323588
You were never supposed to succeed.
>>44323588
"These other guys killed this super-evil lich necromancer, but the cunts didn't remember to destroy his Phylactery. Go there and get it to back to me. Should be a milk run since the other group already killed all the monsters and traps."
Plot twist: the quest giver is a servant to the vanquished Lich.
>>44323588
"You get money!"
>>44323588
A blowjob
Stop trying to make fetch quests happen! They're not gonna happen!
>>44323588
Option 1: Steal from the party.
Option 2: Show a monster they cannot beat, let it run away.
>>44323650 Or he could be trying to make a Grisgol?
Breeding
>>44323588
The players actually want it and it's not just the pretext for adventuring in the first place.
>"You know what I wanna find? The Book of Ultimate Enlightment."
vs
>"Oh, so the NPC wants us to find The Book of Ultimate Enlightment? Okay."
>>44323588
fetch some medicine within a short space of time or this innocent npc will die.
make the innocent mean something to the party in the first place by helping the group or whatever.
>>44323588
Money.
It was always money.
It will, until the last atom of the last dollar bill from the last bit of gold dissipates into the nothingness of eternity, be money.
>>44323588
Power
>>44325237
What is the plot to JOJO pt 3?
>>44323626
This is good, especially if they reap its benefits briefly before it gets yoinked.
>>44323588
The interesting locations and quaint native practices you find along the way to the fetch location.
>>44323588
Someone threw the stick?
The PCs are dogs.
>Bring me the heads of the enemy lieutenants, but leave the bodies where you found them.
>>44323588
Players want to perform [insert ridiculous ritual] that accomplishes [insert ridiculous goal] but requires [insert esoteric reagent]
Having the default of powerful ritual magic being "needs X gold worth of stuff you can buy in town, and Y quest mcguffin" helps keep the game going while still allowing the players to come up with weird and creative solutions to problems (in the form of crazy custom rituals.)
>>44323588
getting your exp back.
>>44323588
Mone
>>44329434
>"I'm chaotic evil!"
>"Nope, you're a dog, you're Lawful good and you'll like it."
>b-but...
All the players have been poisoned by the BBEG, and they must go find the antidote before it kills them.
>>44323588
Not a goddamn fucking key ring.
