The New Player Experience

Acemvi

I think Hellz brings up a good point that the "New Player Experience" (NPE) should also teach a player about the setting. Starter quests should have dialogue that refers to the houses and other such factions in both positive and negative lights so that when a player is given the option to join one of them at the end of the quest chain, they already have some idea as to which sound like a good fit for their character.

Prof. Misclick

This is a neat idea. Anyone volunteering to take this on?

Acemvi

I'd be happy to write down some dialogue and submit it for review. Someone else would have to copy-paste it into the module, though.

Prof. Misclick

Perfect. If you want to string together an interesting quest progression and some IC guidance from a new player POV we can flesh out the details (if you are unsure) and add it to the module as we can.

Acemvi

Sounds good. I'll try to write something up over the next few days and PM you on Discord.

Prof. Misclick

:smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Puffy

Went ahead and updated the dialogues since it was taking a while.

Acemvi

Since it seems I’m back for the time being, I’d like to take a crack at this again, unless anyone has objections.

Echo

Puffy said she updated stuff, granted that was in July and maybe things have changed some.
Players still have the option of spawning in the Faceless where there is a fetch quest that gets the player to explore parts of the city.
There are "Help Wanted" signs in the middle of the first area players encounter after leaving the Faceless for the first time. There are also "Help Wanted" signs outside the north gate.
Several other quests say in their dialogue things like Lana (Potion Shop Quest): "Well, I can fix that up in a jiffy! Here's your reward! If you need more work, there is a nervous halfling just to the South of here needing some help."

So I think most of your idea has been implemented already.

Puffy

Yep, there is a little merry go-around of hints where to go

Acemvi

Missed that comment, lovely to see.