McMindflayer
2007-12-03, 07:35 AM
An idea hit me after posting "A Pleadful Message (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65350)"
This idea is that there are others out there who just cannot think up a new idea or need a good jump start for next weeks campaign and have just hit a wall.
This is a thread for fully formed plot hooks or just half baked ones that aren't fully thought out. New ones with a twist, old ones you thought were cool. Essentially posting for other people's sakes or so you have somewhere to bounce ideas off of. You can just post your own or comment on others (Though I must ask others to refrain from saying something is a bad idea. Instead try to think of ways to improve it.)
To get the ball rolling, I had one in my head that I plan to toss into one of my campaigns eventually.
A king of some country hires the Pc's to go get a relic for a collection of his. The reason he can't do it himself: It's supposedly haunted and not even his gaurds will dare enter. So the Pc's go there on the info of the King. go through the place, and come back with the item. The king looks at it and finds it to be a fake! (THe painting is wrong a crack in the "unbreakable item" ,etc.) You can then do more with it: The King refuses to pay the PC's for time rendered since they didn't actually get him what he desired. He might rehire the pc's to find the original, or at least why that ones a fake. Maybe the king lied and only said it was a fake just to get out of paying the PC's...
Anybody else have good plot hooks?
This idea is that there are others out there who just cannot think up a new idea or need a good jump start for next weeks campaign and have just hit a wall.
This is a thread for fully formed plot hooks or just half baked ones that aren't fully thought out. New ones with a twist, old ones you thought were cool. Essentially posting for other people's sakes or so you have somewhere to bounce ideas off of. You can just post your own or comment on others (Though I must ask others to refrain from saying something is a bad idea. Instead try to think of ways to improve it.)
To get the ball rolling, I had one in my head that I plan to toss into one of my campaigns eventually.
A king of some country hires the Pc's to go get a relic for a collection of his. The reason he can't do it himself: It's supposedly haunted and not even his gaurds will dare enter. So the Pc's go there on the info of the King. go through the place, and come back with the item. The king looks at it and finds it to be a fake! (THe painting is wrong a crack in the "unbreakable item" ,etc.) You can then do more with it: The King refuses to pay the PC's for time rendered since they didn't actually get him what he desired. He might rehire the pc's to find the original, or at least why that ones a fake. Maybe the king lied and only said it was a fake just to get out of paying the PC's...
Anybody else have good plot hooks?