History Main / ForumQuest

* Website/SufficientVelocity has an entire section of its forums for these.

* Website/{{Questden}} was created to host these.

A type of PlayByPostGame heavily inspired by InteractiveFiction and {{Gamebooks}}, the Forum Quest, Quest Thread, or simply Quest, is a unique style of roleplaying that first appeared at the tail end of the TurnOfTheMillennium, and started spreading across the internet over the course of TheNewTens. As in tabletop roleplaying, the protagonists are controlled by the players and the rest of the world is controlled by the [[GameMaster Quest Master]], but in a Quest there is usually only a single protagonist, with every player calling out potential actions. A "player" in this sense is simply anyone who visits the thread that the Quest is taking place in, with the playerbase as a whole collectively deciding the actions of their shared character. The QM has the liberty of interpreting these commands as they wish, whether they take the one with the most votes, combine every non-conflicting input, or use the one that they feel would best serve the story.

Is the {{Roleplay}} version of InteractiveFiction (for VideoGames) and {{Gamebooks}} ({{Literature}}). In particular, there's a lot of overlap between this trope and {{Interactive Comic}}s ({{Webcomic}}s) when the QM draws images for the Quest.

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A type of PlayByPostGame heavily inspired by InteractiveFiction and {{Gamebooks}}, the Forum Quest, Quest Thread, or simply Quest, is a unique style of roleplaying that first appeared at the tail end of the TurnOfTheMillennium, and started spreading across the internet over the course of TheNewTens. As in tabletop roleplaying the protagonists are controlled by the players and the rest of the world is controlled by the [[GameMaster Quest Master]], but in a Quest there is usually only a single protagonist, with every player calling out potential actions. A "player" in this sense is simply anyone who visits the thread that the Quest is taking place in, with the playerbase as a whole collectively deciding the actions of their shared character. The QM has the liberty of interpreting these commands as they wish, whether they take the one with the most votes, combine every non-conflicting input, or use the one that they feel would best serve the story.

* Webcomic/Dungeoneer

* Webcomic/RubyQuest was the TropeCodifier, making the format popular and breaking it out of its original home on [[ImageBoards 4chan's /tg/ board]].

Are often titled "<subject> Quest", a tradition dating back to the TropeCodifier ''Webcomic/RubyQuest''.

* Roleplay/BatterUp

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!!Indices:

* Main/WebOriginal
* Main/OnlineGames (under play-by-post)
* Main/PlayByPostGames