The Campaign Builder's Guild

Quote from: Gnome NachosWell I think you can still carry out a fetch quest without it being lame. Yes, if we sit here and farm boars it will be a little boring... However, if it was something like running into a battlefield and collect some of the fallen weapons from the dead bodies strewn around everywhere while dodging arrows, fireballs, etc...

If I were sending characters out into the middle of an active battlefield full of flying spells and arrows, I should hope to be sending them to do something more interesting than gathering up dead guys' swords for Questgiver Todd back at the home base. Typically, the most interesting thing happening on the battlefield is the battle itself. I mean, I really hate to quote myself but sometimes I

QuoteYou seem to be combining two things by taking some of the most frustrating and least rewarding aspects of each

feel like it's useful.

QuoteI want to play a male level 39 basement dweller equipped with a female Night Elf rogue!

could[/i] be interesting if you have the players stat out their, er, player:
Todd's playing a basement dweller, he's always connected but is petty and easily angered
Chris is playing the husband with kids, he has high diplomacy but may have to leave at any time.
Susan is playing the auctioner, she gets +X to equipment looting rolls
Or something along those lines.

You would definitely need a story, character development, and handwave irritating and repetitive moments, much like you'd do in a "normal" tabletop game. (In other words, you wouldn't make the last orc drop the quest item because that's how the dice rolled, you'd make the players fight 2-3 orcs and then say "3 hours later, the last living orc in the realm drops the quest item".)

Even so, Luminous Crayon is probably right and I don't want to make him repeat himself AGAIN. =)

Uh, I have to agree.

The greatest part about any video game is the speed and removal of need to bookkeep/calculate. The limitations that a video game place on you (mind you I've never really had interest in MMOs) are normally avoided in pen&paper.