1001 Plot Hooks [Archive] - Wizards Community

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JudgeDeadd

07-07-07, 02:44 AM
1. An azer expedition to find gems on the Material Plane turns horribly wrong when athaches begin demanding to get 50% of all gems.
2. Patients at an asylum claim that a strange man is walking the corridors at night, but the personnel claims they didn't see anything.
Silais

07-07-07, 08:56 AM
3. The party walks into a bar and a man in a black cloak offers them work. (WHAT? someone had to say it.)
glorfon

07-07-07, 11:16 AM
4. While on a mission from the king to recover a stolen gem from a cave the adventurers find four members of the Royal speleological(spelunking) society held hostage.
Adrez Nesnsid

07-09-07, 06:18 PM
:bump:
metalmayhem80110

07-09-07, 09:25 PM
5) Lol I hve to do it.... The party gets a messege from a courier. He hands the messege to the party mage. When the mage touches it his essence flows through the run that was on the inside of the messege. A "holographic" figure go before the party and says "Help me -Insert Mage/Characters names here-, you are my only hope".

6) Ummm du!!! The princess gets kidnapped.....

7) One of the pc's (if he's anything like a player I know) goes to a bar and starts trying to flirt with one of the wenches. A few weeks later you have her inform him that he will now be role-playing fatherhood.

8) "Seal the Gates!!!! We're under attack!!!" (The party helps defend so and so stronghold, with their success they are quickly recruited to plan the counter-attack)
Devil Gnasher

07-09-07, 09:35 PM
Originally from the Bad Plot Hooks Thread

9. A few months ago you were on a foreign mission, in a country similar to feudal Japan, battling a pit fiend commander. During this quest you learned the local language and fell in love with an intelligent and beautiful native woman in her early to mid 20's (your age group as well). Well, you had sex with this woman and now she's pregnant and you have four options. Option number 1, go find this woman marry her and keep your paladin status (yes, this guy's a paladin). Option number 2, go find this woman pay for her upkeep and that of your child and keep your paladin status. Option number 3, refuse to go lose your paladin status and get tossed from the highest window of the castle then used for archery practice by your fellow paladins. Option number 4 run and hide. Since the paladin is in love with this woman I suggest option number 1.
PainTrain

07-09-07, 09:36 PM
9. she wasn't a she... she had a... Penor :D
Sci_fi__Messiah

07-09-07, 10:16 PM
10) The players first quest takes them to a cavern of mystery and wonder. There they fight a dragon with a CR equal to double the party's average level. They die. They must now venture through the spirit realm to return to the Material Plane.

11) They players touch a mysterious altar, transporting them to a futuristic world of lasers, mechs and spaceships.

12)The party enters a portal which leads to the BBEG's dreams. They must find his weakness, defeat him, using dream logic and make it out before wakking him!!!
shadzar

07-09-07, 10:17 PM
13. While walking through a forest the party meets a homely gentleman that is half exhausted. He barely is able to talk, but asks for help. He is quite parched and there is a river a ways into the forest that can be heard. once near the sound of the river a waterfall can be seen. below the water fall comes grotesque screams and splashing sounds. on the edge of the waterfall there is pieces of cloth that resembles what the man found in the woods was wearing. either by man or investigation the party learns of a group of giants that has kidnapped his family while they were travelling through the forest. the giants are fishing at the base of the waterfall for the large carnivorous fish that live there. they are using his family as bait and placing them on the hooks and tossing them out one at a time to catch the giant fish they wish to eat. currently only one family member (the mans brother) is completely missing, and another man [or parts thereof] (his other brother) is impaled on the hook they are reeling in and casting out now. 3 giants are taking turns fishing with the one rod (small tree) and the other 6 family members (wife and 5 kids) are gagged and tied in a net hanging from a nearby tree. what will the PCs do when they learn of what is going on?

maybe not the most pleasant hook (no pun intended), but is a good one. you could always replace the family with another species or fantastical creature.
Nevercme

07-09-07, 10:45 PM
14. They eat some food and are transported to a realm where Koblods rule the world.
15. They eat some food and are transported to a realm where somethings other than kobolds rule the world.
16. They run out of food and must go to the local farm to raid it.
(Sorry apple pie sounds very good at the moment)
17. The [insert good class] here has a baby with a [insert evil likely monster to have a baby with] and must now kill the child or never be able to go to heaven.
18. Anyone who drinks milk from a mutated cow turns into a vampire under its control. The cow MUST be stopped.
Orchomenos

07-10-07, 09:45 AM
10) The players first quest takes them to a cavern of mystery and wonder. There they fight a dragon with a CR equal to double the party's average level. They die. They must now venture through the spirit realm to return to the Material Plane.


Nice idea, but instead of planning a TPK, you should keep it in hand in case a TPK happens...

19. The PCs are walking in the wild, and are suddenly attacked by an Ankheg. One of them is grabbed, and the Ankheg retreate bellow ground. Since the PCs are largely higher level than the Ankheg, they follow it. After killing it and rescuing their buddy, they realise they are in an ancient temple to some demonic figure, who was just waiting some humanoids telling HIS name to manifest once again...