101 Reasons to adventure

[Almaseti]

Silly/funny reasons someone might decide to become an adventurer.

-Boasted a little too loudly about made-up feats of valor, now magically compelled to constantly seek adventure until they live up to the hype or die trying.

-Keener freshman bard heard his/her advisor has a soft spot of autobiographical adventures, this is totally going to get them an A!

-Actually a cat magically transformed into human, seeks method of returning to original, superior form

-Come from a long line of legendary warriors, eventually caved in to parental nagging, would really rather be a hairdresser.

-Has some truly impressive gambling debts to repay.

-Convinced this will totally convince their ex they should get back together despite the many, many reasons they broke it off.

-Trying to win a drunken bet.

-Friends with one or more of the other idiots, just trying to keep them in one piece.

[TheCountAlucard]

-Because it's there!
-Cousin is the king, and is ordering you on various quests to atone for you murdering your wife and kids!
-You were just on your way home, but did a pretty epic job of ticking off the gods, who keep blowing you off-course!
-Trying to get weapons, allies, and immortality for all your little monkey friends!

[Zyzzyva]

-Because it's there!
-Cousin is the king, and is ordering you on various quests to atone for you murdering your wife and kids!
-You were just on your way home, but did a pretty epic job of ticking off the gods, who keep blowing you off-course!
-Trying to get weapons, allies, and immortality for all your little monkey friends!

I see what you did there.

Much more obscure one (but all the same single work):

- An opium addict normally BLITZED OUT OF YOUR MIND, you're not aware you've sobered up yet and assume the shoggoth is just, y'know, one of those things that happen when you're high.
- Revenge on the stupid English! Campaign world has no England? REVENGE HARDER!
- The stable time loop insists that you already were an adventurer.
- Sinister mind control has forced you to be an adventurer. Every morning, make a will save to escape and write poetry instead.

[YossarianLives]

- You left your hat somewhere and are determined to find it!

- You're apparently some kind of psychopath who likes murdering people and stripping them naked then selling all their belongings.

- You are a massive racist who decides all orcs deserve to be slaughtered because they killed one of your cousins.

[Frozen_Feet]

- have money, will travel

- you're the bastard offspring of some ******* who left your mother in a ditch and now your out to get your old man

- you fled the scene after knocking up some girl, and now this hooded stranger is pursuing you across the countryside

- your king wanted to get laid so he sent you to woo the princess

- you really wanted to finish that boat

- you made a mill of infinite wealth in exchange for a wife, and now she's dead and you want refunds

[Blackhawk748]

- for FREEDOM!!!

-Because you want to be able to legally kill stuff

-Because you murdered someone and its this or a short drop and a sudden stop

-Your parents nagged you to be a hairdresser when all you want to do is wear armor and fight things with a greatsword

- you're the bastard offspring of some ******* who left your mother in a ditch and now your out to get your old man

Using this

[slaydemons]

since we are doing references

• Revenge
• Loss of a loved one
• Wanderlust
• Forced out of your house
• For power and money

my reference is probably pretty easy to get but I might of also misremembered

[Drakeburn]

- Your spouse kicked you out of the house

[DigoDragon]

- Sent to store for gallon of milk, decided to take scenic route.

- Because science doesn't technically disprove the possibility of talking horses.

- Other route on GPS suggested to drive through Jersey.

[YossarianLives]

since we are doing references

• Revenge
• Loss of a loved one
• Wanderlust
• Forced out of your house
• For power and money

my reference is probably pretty easy to get but I might of also misremembered

Man, now I really feel like playing Mount & Blade.

[slaydemons]

Spoiler: to separate quotes from reasons

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Man, now I really feel like playing Mount & Blade.

+1 internet cookie

-you really want to own a castle
-The need for more magic items
-your out of Booze and you feel the need to punch someone

[LooseCannoneer]

Because they took yer wee gnomes.

[asnys]

- Is trying to raise enough money to afford a Guild license as a legitimate businessman (I actually had a character doing that once).

- Tourist from a post-singularity society, here to slum with the natives, doesn't really get that death is not always temporary.

- Born in a society with an adventuring-based economy, is honestly unaware that other career options exist.

- Combat anthropologist doing graduate thesis on orcs.

[russdm]

-Inherited a kingdom with wife/husband, plus the fact that the kingdom owns payments to a dragon who is very angry that your predecessor defaulted...

-The Gods have decided to make your life permanently interesting

-You accidently turned the king into a scroll

-You called a dragon something insulting and it heard you because it was standing behind you

-Death has owned you since that incident

-You're delusional and think that all of the flowers are out to get you

-Destiny has decided to mess with you

-Accidently picked up the Plot coupon instead of the hero who cannot get it back

[Nalak]

-Find the thief who stole your pants.

-Its that or world conquest.


- Pay off money owed to familiar over wrongful endangerment case.

[goto124]

-Find the thief who stole your pants.

I'm adventuring pantless?

[GorinichSerpant]

- you were double-dog dared

[Lord Raziere]

I'm adventuring pantless?

Not really, your wearing another pair of pants, in fact the pants your wearing is your favorite pair and ones that were stolen are actually your least favorite pair of pants, but that doesn't matter: you have principles! No one steals from you, no one! not even if its your least favorite pair of pants.

[Nalak]

- Stop the apocalypse you started...again

-Fleeing from your wife after an angel kissed you.

- Destroy the group that got your favorite tavern shut down.

- Have had your library privileges revoked until you clean up the last 4 Armageddons you started.

[GorinichSerpant]

-the flowers are literally trying to get here,you wish you were delusional but it's actually true.

[Frozen_Feet]

- Your spouse kicked you out of the house

- your kids kicked you out of the house

[goto124]

- Destroy the group that got your favorite tavern shut down.

What a way to start a campaign. 'You all meet in your favorite inn... and then a group of lawyers walk in and say the inn's getting shut down to make way for a castle. They must be stopped!'

[Frozen_Feet]

- to roar through the land, unstoppable and unchallenged, travelling the world to see the rich diversity of wonders which fill it... and consume them!

This train is the best metaphor for player characters, ever. Following the rails? That is what a stupid train does!

[TheCountAlucard]

- You're being dragged along by some crazy lady who thinks you hired an assassin to kill her kid.
- You're just trying to get home after your father was killed.
- You're ranging in the far north for your long-lost uncle.
- It all started when you got a trio of dragon eggs as a wedding present…
- You're trying to protect the captured enemy of your liege, then seek out her missing children.
- You're just trying to find a three-eyed crow.

[Brookshw]

The local store sold out of [ipods] before you could get yours. You must scour the globe for a way to one or you'll never be cool!

Your getting the band back together, if only you can find them.

[Tiri]

-You tried to save a man you felt you owed a favor from your tribe who wanted to eat him.

[Emperordaniel]

- A mad knight roped you along on his quest with promises of granting you an island of your own to rule.

[golentan]

-Tired of godlike supremacy, you've decided to follow around a loudmouth and make him look competent because it amuses you.

-Assassins jumped through your window one night and you don't know why.

-You just kind of want your own kingdom and you're going to beat up on people until they give you one.

[ImperatorV]

- You were blackmailed by a crime boss into escorting his adventurous daughter around
- You started playing a game with some friends and then the world ended
- The guard captain and local priest tried to sacrifice you to an archdevil and you killed them instead
- A group of renegade mages attacked your school, and your love interest has been framed as their inside contact
- Some adventures kidnapped a kobold that belonged to your employer as an extra party member, you follow them so you can watch them die in a hilarious manner

+1 internet to whoever can name every webcomic

[Trevortni]

- Your spouse kicked you out of the house

- your kids kicked you out of the house

- Your kids kicked your spouse out of the house.