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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 6536989" data-attributes="member: 221">You want to know how and where to get plots?That's easy - you steal them. There's only so many actual plots, the key is learning how to reuse the plots in interesting ways. I'm not sure such a thing can actually be taught, but you might try some exercises that can help.Firstly, try the Iron DM method (look for the thread if you want to fully understand) which essentially boils down to giving yourself some random ingredients and then see how you can get them to fit together. Practically, this means that when creating an adventure you come up with the elements of the adventure first and the story second, then polish the elements to fit the story. Look through the monster manuals, the bestiaries, books with templates and then drag out ones you find interesting. Add in an interesting treasure or two and then some random motivations. Let these things stew in your head a while and see what you come up with.Second Exercise. Create a villain. Give him a goal. Put him in the world and ask yourself what ramifications said villain would have upon the world. Then working out from there try and think what adventures might introduce a group of PCs to this villain, what they would need to overcome him, and what stories might be told in said struggle. Third exercise. Create a magic item. Give it a name and a few unique properties. Then ask yourself what might make an interesting adventure to find this item. Ask yourself what might be the ramifications of owning this item.Fourth exercise. Create a unique group of individuals, either a guild, a gang, an army, etc. Give it a structure and some motivations. Give it some leaders. Are they good or bad? How might this group interact with the world you want to create?With these sorts of exercises you can begin the process of coming up with situations and challenges.Having said that, when writing adventures, make sure to remember that adventures are not about what happened in the past, but about things the PCs get to do right now. Campaigns are just individual adventures strung together with perhaps a recurring cast of characters.</blockquote>

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