DnD-esque Fantasy Adventure: 55 Plotlines You Can Use

  1. Necromancer raising an army of the dead
  2. A dragon stealing sheep
  3. Putting a troubled soul to rest
  4. Hot Springs Episode
  5. Beach Episode
  6. The Prince needs to go home
  7. Party finds a treasure map
  8. Stolen hearts
  9. Transporting children between towns
  10. Cursed forest guardian
  11. Goblins terrorizing a town
  12. Killing rats
  13. Escorting a caravan
  14. Cafe desperately in need of workers due to a sickness group needs to do it because they trashed the store
  15. Breaking up slave ring
  16. Pied piper stealing children
  17. Guarding a scholar that wants to study an ancient ruin
  18. Lift a curse off a person
  19. A bride for the centaur
  20. What happened last night?
  21. A horse with no rider, but fully equipped is walking in the opposite direction of the party. There is a note pinned to its saddlebags, “send help!”
  22. A farmer asks for help. His crops are constantly getting trashed. He wants the group/player to keep watch over the night. It ends up being that the poor farmers’ trusty scarecrow has been brought to life by dark magic. 
  23. Heal a unicorn
  24. Escorting Shepherds
  25. Return a stolen creature to its rampaging mother
  26. The players rescue a young child from a party of orcs. She tells them her family is being held captive in an orc stronghold to the East.
  27. Bandit capture
  28. Pirate attack while traveling
  29. Quest from the king: capture or execute a corrupt lord
  30. The group enters a tournament
  31. Cult arena battles
  32. A Mage summons a demon but is unable to control it and is possessed.
  33. A witch’s curse is causing a farmer’s crops and livestock to die.
  34. The daughter of a nobleman has run off with a seedy, disreputable commoner.
  35. Group vs Kraken!
  36. A prideful orc is challenged by his friends to arm wrestle the strongest member of the group. From the looks of things they aren’t giving you a choice, and they are forcing a wager.
  37. A powerful arachnomancer attempts to conquer the area with his spider minions; the party is sent to kill him.
  38. Chosen one impostor
  39. A powerful Demon offers each of the party members their greatest wish. This is too good to be true.
  40. The party is sent to deliver a package to a private residence, it turns out to be a humiliating task (think pizza delivery). Will the party put up with the insult?
  41. Every night, fey creatures from a nearby grove kidnap a person in their sleep and force them to take part in a drinking contest.
  42. A potent curse placed on a pious priestess has a succubus manifest through her body at inopportune times. Each is conscious of what the other does when she’s controlling the body, and while they’ve gone over the initial shock, their differences always lead them to argue and struggle for control.
  43. Escorting a bride through a mountain passage
  44. A cult sets up a false god and must be stopped before they screw up the balance of the world
  45. Find a dullahan’s head
  46. The party meets a shy hill giant whose beloved pet goat has been kidnapped by some nasty ogres who are threatening to eat it. The hill giant is too scared to fight the ogres himself, so he asks the party to rescue his goat.
  47. Bar brawl
  48. Rescue a slumbering princess protected by a dragon
  49. Claim the holy sword
  50. Festival
  51. Deliver a message for a dying soldier, perhaps to his true love.
  52. A Quest to an Observatory (You look through the scope to see a meteor fall to Earth a few miles away, and finding the meteor is the next mission).
  53. A group member gets kidnapped and is going to be sold to a major villain before the group is strong enough to fight them.
  54. Transporting a coffin to a burial ground
  55. Mailmen

These can be mixed and matched any which way and are good for episodic adventures with your party.

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