[To ][/To] Can I request this get moved to Resources, I think it applies there better.

Do you have trouble coming up with ideas for quests? Well, maybe this site can help you out.

http://dreamweavedworlds.com

Specifically these generators:

Event generator that gives ideas of events that could happen in an rpg world. Great basis for quests.
http://dreamweavedworlds.com/Generator_Events.html

Same thing, they direct it as for cavern settings but a lot of this is open-ended.
http://dreamweavedworlds.com/Generator_Caves.html

Ideas for what you might encounter in an inn or tavern:
http://dreamweavedworlds.com/Generator_TavernsandInnsEncounters.html

Generate names for organizations like "The Bone Kinship"
http://dreamweavedworlds.com/Generator_OrganisationsNames.html

This website also offers maps and images for free use, story-line bases for the writer impaired, and even dungeon tiles if your maker can handle them. The images wouldn't work easily if at all with RPGMaker engines, but I know many people here use different devices.

I find it difficult to come across actually useful sites in regards to general RPG resources. Anyone else have any interesting ones they'd like to share?

Man, letting some site randomly generate important aspects of your game for you is awful.  If it's something that has to be randomly generated (unless it's a game based solely around like PROCEDURAL DUNGEONS or something), then it's going to feel like it's tacked on instead of actually part of the game.

Well I did say it's useful as a basis for quests. It certainly doesn't give enough detail that people wouldn't have to expand on it. I'm thought I'd point this out because I've seen many posts in the past where someone is trying to get this community to come up with quest ideas for them. Personally, I very much enjoy coming up with some very unique quests, but I'm not about to give up all the ideas when I can put them in a game instead.

Here is another site that lists a large number of basic plots with basic twists.
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/plots.htm

Yet another site. This one is very useful for item ideas with a price and weight list too (for those using encumbrance in their games.) I'm still having trouble finding what I'm actually looking for.

I'm glad someone found it useful. =)

yea..ideas are ideas, it doesn't need to retain its shape when you put it into your own creation.. i think you should steal what they call 'inspiration' from resources made by other people.

This idea was clearly meant for generating spontaneity out of common paper and pen rpg playing situations.

Which is where the application of this software should stay. Although thinking about it in terms of some kind of procedurally generated side-quest system does make the idea seem more intriguing from a game coding standpoint. (It would certainly make the game diverse if you not only got different dungeons each time, but different quests too.)

(It would certainly make the game diverse if you not only got different dungeons each time, but different quests too.)

I can't remember the name of it, but I played on online text-based game that had this feature. When traveling you would stumble across people or objects randomly that would give quests. It was quite entertaining.

i think you should steal what they call 'inspiration' from resources made by other people.

I sense sarcasm. I believe the entire RPG Maker series inspires game creativity even with the intended free graphics that come with the program (made by other people). Is that wrong? Or is it wrong when we rip graphics from commercial games like FF to use in "our" games? If it is, please let the rest of the community know so we can be sure to delete all the graphics we have off our systems, less the few of us who make some of our own.

People take this stuff way too seriously. Most of us aren't making games for commercial use. Most of us aren't even finishing projects we start. I hardly think forming a quest off of a randomly generated plot like, "A group of guards enters and sit at a table" would be considered stealing.

Besides, the links I gave were to the free stuff section of the website, which is intended for just such endeavors. Da Vinci invented scissors for cutting paper, but I doubt he would get upset if someone used them to cut cloth.

If my sarcasm detector misfired, my apologies.