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I am playing a heavily house ruled 3E campaign, but the entries should be applicable to other systems as well.
I am playing a heavily house ruled 3E campaign, but the entries should be applicable to other systems as well.
Adventure/encounter hooks I
Posted 4th September 2008 at 01:49 PM by Fenes
Updated 4th September 2008 at 05:07 PM by Fenes (typo)
Updated 4th September 2008 at 05:07 PM by Fenes (typo)
In a town, or at a faire:
A young woman is running from several men who chase her. She's the daughter of a wealthy merchant who wants to elope with her lover, a travelling performer, which she met at the games. The lover himself though just wants to use her to scout out her father's mansion to burglarize it later with his thief friends. He is pursued by bounty hunters from the last country he pulled this trick, which are to bring him back so he can wed the expecting daughter of the mayor he seduced there.
An acrobat is awing the crowd with daring balance acts supported by illusions from a mage. Pickpockets use this to fleece the crowd.
An impressionable and not too bright teenager hounds everyone with exotic looks to try to get them to apprentice him for a career as adventurer. He'll be picked up by some shady mercenary who needs expendable spear fodder to "guard" a scion of a noble family during his trip to his fiancee. The mercenary was paid by a rival family to leave them in the wilderness, where "orc marauders" will kill them all. To that end the mercenary doesn't hire any competent fighter, just greenhorns and similar people, which an experienced adventurer may pick up.
A young maid is accused of having stolen from a stall - the stall owner's assistant had been skimming the earnings, and needed a scapegoat.
A bard looking for more material for ballads is asking the party about their fight with the dragon. He/she is asking a bit too much details (and may even attempt to seduce a party member). In reality, the bard is working for an organisation wanting the get their hands on the treasure the party recently acquired.
A courtesan is trying to drain the party's more impressionable men of much of their new funds. She might try to pull the "attacked by thieves, and saved by the hero, but left penniless" scam.
A young woman is running from several men who chase her. She's the daughter of a wealthy merchant who wants to elope with her lover, a travelling performer, which she met at the games. The lover himself though just wants to use her to scout out her father's mansion to burglarize it later with his thief friends. He is pursued by bounty hunters from the last country he pulled this trick, which are to bring him back so he can wed the expecting daughter of the mayor he seduced there.
An acrobat is awing the crowd with daring balance acts supported by illusions from a mage. Pickpockets use this to fleece the crowd.
An impressionable and not too bright teenager hounds everyone with exotic looks to try to get them to apprentice him for a career as adventurer. He'll be picked up by some shady mercenary who needs expendable spear fodder to "guard" a scion of a noble family during his trip to his fiancee. The mercenary was paid by a rival family to leave them in the wilderness, where "orc marauders" will kill them all. To that end the mercenary doesn't hire any competent fighter, just greenhorns and similar people, which an experienced adventurer may pick up.
A young maid is accused of having stolen from a stall - the stall owner's assistant had been skimming the earnings, and needed a scapegoat.
A bard looking for more material for ballads is asking the party about their fight with the dragon. He/she is asking a bit too much details (and may even attempt to seduce a party member). In reality, the bard is working for an organisation wanting the get their hands on the treasure the party recently acquired.
A courtesan is trying to drain the party's more impressionable men of much of their new funds. She might try to pull the "attacked by thieves, and saved by the hero, but left penniless" scam.
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