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Help Needed: Side Mission Ideas

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#1
bb2dgree
Apr 08, 2010 15:51:21 My players should end up in frontier village working as Gaurdians of said village. I am trying to think of some good side quests for the party to pursue. Ideally, each side quest would be fairly short consisting of up to two or three encounters or skill challenges, as well as provide a small reward for each. I am struggling to think of some good quests for lvl 1-2 players.

My second question is how to present these quest hooks. I don't want to beat my players over the head with a "SIDE QUEST HERE" sign. Instead, I would like for these quests to be purely optional and require some initiative out of the party to discover. If they miss them, no biggie, they can just move on to the main quest.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks for the help.
#2
ganryu
Apr 08, 2010 17:27:49 What about this? A wizard is hastily forced to leave his tower as he gets a call to urgent business elsewhere. Before he teleports away he sends a request to the PCs if they could possibly watch over his tower or something. If they decide to protect it have some rival wizard or something attack it. If they decide to decline, nothing happens.
#3
diggles
Apr 08, 2010 17:42:05
If they decide to decline, nothing happens.

If they decline the Wizard comes back later and accuses them of robbing his tower (rival did it) and they either fight him or convince him it was his rival and go seek him out.

#4
ganryu
Apr 08, 2010 18:36:11 Good one, Diggles. I didn't actually think of that one :D
#5
strand0
Apr 08, 2010 20:42:08
Many option already posted around here someplace.

101 Adventure Hooks
----- & -----
1001 Strange/Humorous Adventure Plots

Edit/Note: Sorry the links aren't working. I'll investigate.

I guess those addresses don't exist anymore.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 bb2dgree Apr 08, 2010 15:51:21	My players should end up in frontier village working as Gaurdians of said village. I am trying to think of some good side quests for the party to pursue. Ideally, each side quest would be fairly short consisting of up to two or three encounters or skill challenges, as well as provide a small reward for each. I am struggling to think of some good quests for lvl 1-2 players. My second question is how to present these quest hooks. I don't want to beat my players over the head with a "SIDE QUEST HERE" sign. Instead, I would like for these quests to be purely optional and require some initiative out of the party to discover. If they miss them, no biggie, they can just move on to the main quest. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks for the help.
#2 ganryu Apr 08, 2010 17:27:49	What about this? A wizard is hastily forced to leave his tower as he gets a call to urgent business elsewhere. Before he teleports away he sends a request to the PCs if they could possibly watch over his tower or something. If they decide to protect it have some rival wizard or something attack it. If they decide to decline, nothing happens.
#3 diggles Apr 08, 2010 17:42:05	If they decide to decline, nothing happens. If they decline the Wizard comes back later and accuses them of robbing his tower (rival did it) and they either fight him or convince him it was his rival and go seek him out.
#4 ganryu Apr 08, 2010 18:36:11	Good one, Diggles. I didn't actually think of that one :D
#5 strand0 Apr 08, 2010 20:42:08	Many option already posted around here someplace. 101 Adventure Hooks ----- & ----- 1001 Strange/Humorous Adventure Plots *Edit/Note: Sorry the links aren't working. I'll investigate.* I guess those addresses don't exist anymore.