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The Quest Machine

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Delve into an epic tabletop role-playing adventure where heroes sacrifice everything to achieve their goals. Test the unbreakable bonds of fellowship as you face darkness head-on, finding glimmers of triumph in the depths of despair.

About This Game: Embark on The Quest, a game that brings together a fellowship of heroes for an unforgettable journey through a fantastical world. Easy to learn yet brimming with depth, it draws inspiration from Dungeon World, Apocalypse World, and the timeless tales of Gemmell and Tolkien.

Mechanics: Similar to Powered By the Apocalypse games, with a unique advantage/disadvantage system that amps up the challenge without altering the result range. Plus, there's more under the hood to keep your quests thrilling and dynamic.

Features: Each quest is designed for 5-7 sessions, each lasting 2-3 hours, ensuring epic adventures without endless commitment. Unravel or twist the traditional hero's journey with storytelling guidelines inspired by the monomyth. Specs: In a sleek 6x8 format, this 177-page rulebook is designed for easy reading, whether on your table or on your phone. Enjoy fillable character sheets, rulebooks, and narrator guides for seamless gameplay.

Embark on The Quest and discover the true meaning of sacrifice, friendship, and triumph in the face of darkness.

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Matthew S January 04, 2022 2:14 am UTC
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Big design updated. Changed the design. Copy edited and updated rules for simplicity and clarity.
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Andrew M January 30, 2022 2:45 am UTC
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Very attractive update! Charming artwork.
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Matthew S November 17, 2021 6:51 am UTC
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Added a bestiary with some example baddies.
Added set pieces to help the narrator quickly set up the story.
Updated some rules, to simplify and clarify the system.
Updated the character sheet.
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Matthew S October 25, 2021 5:27 am UTC
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Reordered the chapters so character creation comes before the rules.
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Matthew S October 25, 2021 4:01 am UTC
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Formating update, rules clarifications.

I added chapters and reorganized the book more like a standard RPG. I had reasons for the initial unusual formatting, but I don't think they came across!

Some of the changes:

Clarified how tags work, how many tags a character starts with.
Clarified how the narrator should apply disadvantage to rolls.
Added village and city lists to help the narrator generate them.
Updated the character sheet to clean it up visually.
Clarified how quest generation works, added some lists of examples/choices to help create the quest.
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Matthew S September 12, 2021 6:29 am UTC
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Major update. Professionally edited in preparation for the POD edition.
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Matthew S August 13, 2021 5:48 am UTC
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Mostly cosmetic update in preparation for the print on demand release.
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Matthew S August 10, 2021 5:27 am UTC
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Updated how food and travel supplies work, by combining the two, to streamline bookkeeping, while (hopefully) maintaining some narrative supply based tension while traveling.

Corrected some layout and grammar.
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Matthew S July 28, 2021 6:00 am UTC
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Updated the cover.
Cleaned up the character sheet to improve readability.
Minor editing and formatting updates.
Updated Foraging rules for clarity and as a result of playtesting feedback.
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Matthew S July 26, 2021 6:01 am UTC
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After some extensive playtesting and trial and error the first major update is here. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Updated weapon augment abilities after playtesting feedback for clarity and function.
Updated how the weapons work so that weapon abilities triggered every attack.
Updated how starting weapons and armor is picked to streamline the process.
Updated the character sheet.
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Matthew S July 13, 2021 5:39 am UTC
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Minor updates:
Blast/Cleave. Suffer +2 disadvantage and deal 1 damage to all nearby enemies.

Aggressive. Suffer +1 disadvantage and on a partial success+, deal +1 damage to the target.

Buying Stuff. For basic stuff like a night’s stay at an inn, a meal at a restaurant, pay 1 loot.
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Matthew S July 12, 2021 3:58 am UTC
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Additional updates:

Corrected the bookmarks.​

Updated the once per rest items to 2 use items to even out the usefulness of each individual item.

Added the relative ranges to the range circle and added some additional rules/clarification for how to use the range circle.
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Matthew S July 11, 2021 6:41 pm UTC
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Added fillable books for the spaces I left available for adding new abilities, and the character and narrator sheets.
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Matthew S July 11, 2021 5:07 pm UTC
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Hey Andrew, thanks for the suggestion, I will start doing that!

Update to V1.3:

A few minor tweaks and updates:

Added a morale mechanic. To help the narrator determine if the monsters try to run away after getting hurt.
Updated character sheet with a friends toggle.
Updated the baddie sheet with a morale field.
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Andrew M July 11, 2021 6:49 pm UTC
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Thanks for taking it up! Great work, by the way. Very tight. Obviously worth trying out with a group.

Note: your bookmarks don't work correctly on my Android phone. The structure is off such that top-level marks repeat and a bunch of marks are actually paragraph text.
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Matthew S July 12, 2021 4:01 am UTC
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Thanks for letting me know about the bookmarks! They're fixed now, and took the opportunity to make a few more tweaks that I had been working on:

Updated the once per rest items to 2 use items to even out the usefulness of each individual item.

Added the relative ranges to the range circle and added some additional rules/clarification for how to use the range circle.
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Andrew M July 11, 2021 2:27 pm UTC
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Something that really helps is what the author of Lavender Hack does -- he adds a comment to his discussion thread detailing the content of any update.

You've done an update to v1.3, but I've already printed v1.2 and don't know whether it's worth reprinting.
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Matthew Sharkovitz, Alex Greeley
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