Template:Quest/doc

Documentation for the quest template and instructions on creating a standard quest page.

NOTE: Two of the tips given here require you to be in Source mode rather than Visual mode.

Infobox
Location: Can be from a Travel Map location (Dragonspine Mountains), a quest log (Devourer Saga), or an NPC. If the last, the appropriate dialogue path should be included (Twilly > Hello! > Heard any rumors?). Rare quests should be listed as such. Battles between heals: Both automatic and optional full heals count, but potion bags do not. Chain: Include if the quest is part of a story arc like the Dracopyre Legacy. Previous and Next: The appropriate quests in both the chain and the overarching storyline should be included if the two are separate.

All fields except Location can be omitted if they do not apply.

Dialogue
Our current standard is for speakers' names to be bolded, actions to be italicized, and locations to be in «double angle brackets» (e.g. «Scene: Battleon»). The Find + Replace feature in Notepad can be used to quickly bold all instances of an NPC's name (e.g. replace  with   and hit Replace All).

Note that while empty lines are recognized in Wikitext, simple newlines are not. For instance,

Yulgar: Artix! What took you so long? Artix: I had forgotten this jail was under the Guardian Tower basement. Yulgar: How is that guard doing that the huntress knocked out?

will yield

Yulgar: Artix! What took you so long? Artix: I had forgotten this jail was under the Guardian Tower basement. Yulgar: How is that guard doing that the huntress knocked out?

Newlines must instead be forced by using the  tag, like so:

Yulgar: Artix! What took you so long? Artix: I had forgotten this jail was under the Guardian Tower basement. Yulgar: How is that guard doing that the huntress knocked out?

Continuation buttons other than the standard "More" should be included as bullet points.

Battles
If a quest encounter draws from a pool, then in the transcript it should be listed like this:

X BATTLES Full Heal

The pool is listed under a separate Monsters heading, with subheadings for the various level brackets. remains very useful. Encounters which draw from a separate pool, use a specific enemy from a larger pool, or are so old that they don't use tiering at all are listed like this:

2 BATTLES Forest Monsters Full Heal

Nonrandom enemies that do not appear anywhere else in the quest (such as bosses) have their tiering listed in the transcript like this:

1 BATTLE Level 0-24: Piranha Level 25-50: Piranhas Level 51+: Hell Piranhas Full Heal

Rewards
Rewards should be given their own heading, with subheadings for each type (Armors, Shields, Weapons, etc.). Headings should be in alphabetical order while individual rewards are sorted by level. Again,  is your friend.

Quest Code Generator
Thanks to Rhowena we have a program that can help creating these pages faster and easier. The downloadable version is here: download and the web version is here: Website.