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Rivotech
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Hello everyone! I have come here in hopes of joining the Skyrim Team as a Quest writer. I hope this is the right area! I have only been writing quests using Word and have not been able to put them 'in-game' yet. I had played ol' skool D&D way back in the 70's/80's and have a little bit of knowledge on lore. I hope to be able to write quests again as I had done before (as a DM). My first question is 'What kind of structure do writers follow?' I mean, how do others write it on paper first? I have a structure that I follow now, but would like to compare it against others. My second question is 'Is there help to put my quests 'in-game'? My third question is 'Do any form 'local' groups? Again, I am new here and not sure where to start so if you all can help a little and maybe point me in the right direction(s), I would appreciate it. I can, if needed, upload a sample quest to those who want to help and/or give me advice on my structure. I also can be considered an 'idea' guy, well, becuase I have many for this game. Thanks again for any help and not 'burning the noob' Blush

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Hi Rivotech and welcome to the Skyrim for Oblivion team! Jump

I'm glad to hear you have quest writing experience, we need some experienced writers to throw out ideas for good questlines. In answer to your questions:

1) "What kind of structure do writers follow?"
Well to tell you the truth we don't really have a set structure Blush if someone gets an idea for a quest they just lay it out however they please, so feel free to use any format that you like.

2) "Is there help to put my quests in-game?"
Yes there is, we have scripters/NPC makers who will implement the quests when necessary (though quests and the people who implement them are quite scarce right now), its not an overly big deal just now though because we aren't even bringing quests in-game yet. So you don't need to bring them in-game yourself, but if you could learn how to that would be tremendous.

3) "Do any form 'local' groups form?"
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this Confused could you explain?

The best place to start would be to start reading up on past posts, especially the ones marked as important, to better familiarize yourself with our project. For quests just type up a post and put it on the quest board. Feel free to contact me if you have any other questions :)

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Welcome, Rivotech! It's nice to have a little more maturity here (if you were playing D&D in the 70's, you've gotta be nearing 50!) Anyway, the quests are usually quite linear with four to eight nodes. eg:

1) hear a rumor that Joe has a problem
2) find joe to learn that Sue is missing
3) ask around to find that Sue was captured by vampires
4) find the vampire den
5) rescue Sue and take her back to Joe
6) receive Joe and Sue's undying gratitude (and a fancy robe!)

The artistry is in how it all plays out. I think my favorite in TES4 is the painting quest in Cheydinhall. It's straight-forward, but very entertaining. Yes

If you're up to playing around with some quests, let me know - I have a half-dozen to work up for Haerter's Gap. =)
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Rivotech
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Thank you all for the warm welcome. I currently have a 'finished' quest that I would like to upload so I may recieve feedback and the such...This quest has 3 'parts' to the main quest and has 8 'side' quests, which in turn, lead to other quests I had planned on writing. The 'quest' is not really written as a story, but more less as I would have done in D&D...Its hard to explain :) , but I do believe the 'structure' I use is very productive as it will allow the scripter easy access to all info in the quest. So, were can I post it? Might one of the Elders get it from me to look it over? Should I just 'jump in' any given topic and through down my 2 cents? I dont want to be rude or pushy. I do feel that I can contribute great amounts to the Skyrim Project or any project for that matter. I had stated in the previous post that I was looking for a 'local' group, by this I mean peeps in my geological area to form a group. This way ideas can be more easily exchanged and we could work together at one location. I currently reside in the San Fransisco Bay Area. Well, guess I will just 'jump in' on a topic and see were it goes :)

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Just post it up on this board, the Quest Dev board, and then the whole team will give feedback on it. I see what you mean by local area groups now, as far as I know we don't have any, it would probably just be as easy to communicate over AIM or something right? If you find someone who wants to get together thats fine, but for the record, I don't know about this (got to be careful on the internet with people asking to meet up Wink no offense meant towards you Rivo, just if there ever is some kind of a gathering between anyone from the team and something bad happens, as the one in charge of the place where the gathering was arranged I would likely get in trouble for it, so I need to cover myself).
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