D&D 5E Princes of the Apocalypse Adventure Hooks

[SilverBulletKY]

I'm having trouble trying to figure out how some of these would work? For example, the first one, Best Served Cold - You must find and defeat Windharrow. Why? Why does the character want to do this? Some of them make more sense, like being robbed by a certain character and wanting revenge.. but some are really open.

 

[pukunui]

Yeah, they're open so the DM and the player can flesh them out as they see fit.

 

[Rhenny]

I have an air genasi PC in my group, so I invented the story that Windharrow was suspected as engineering the theft of a great horn relic from the air genasi. (The horn that the air cult has in the adventure). I left the rumor unsubstantiated so the PC needs to investigate further. The player is into it!

 

[Rabbitbait]

I really didn't like any of the hooks provided, so I didn't use them. It worked out fine.

 

[Fishing_Minigame]

Try these, its a retooled version of the hooks designed to be handed out to the players without spoiling any of the adventure:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/slyflourish_content/princes_backgrounds.pdf

 

[ryan92084]

I had my players roll for them ( I nixed one I didn't like) and gave them a brief teaser of the information. They then had the option of incorporating it into their backstory or not. It actually ended up working better than I had expected.

That said the retooled list above does sound more intriguing.