Three Plot Hooks Per Monster

[Mark]

Owlbear - A traveling circus is looking to expand their menagerie. They need someone to track down and capture a fearsome creature said to live in a nearby forest.

 

[the Jester]

Aboleth: The city's sewer maintenance staff has been disappearing one by one whenever they try to clear a large blocked area that drains into some 'uninhabited' caves below.

 

[kenjib]

Rakshasa

A great city is ruled behind the scenes by a single, immensely powerful, crime cartel that holds the nobility under it's power through an intricate web of extortion, bribery, intimidation, and blackmail. Furtive, paranoid, whispers heard in the back alleys in the more seedy parts of town indicate that the mastermind behind the organization, who has only been seen by a rare few, is not entirely human.

 

[willpax]

Aboleth--A slaver brood of aboleths has dominated many key players in a small town near a spring. They have (through their dominated underlings) spread word that the spring has miraculous healing powers, attracting many people who then become food or skum. The players have to first figure out nthat all is not right in this town, and then try to stop it.

 

[rounser]

Skeleton: Panicked rumours spread of an animated castle of bones which is walking across the land. Regional militia, knights and adventurers who have attacked the castle report that segments of it dismantle into skeleton troops, and that the walls of bone claw and swing weapons at those who venture too close.

 

[alsih2o]

girallon- an evil mage wants an improved familiar that can play bango AND bass for his band..

o.k., that was in poor taste, and i will retract it....

 

[rounser]

Giants: Giants have been gathering in large numbers in the region, and taking crops and herds for their enormous appetites. Unsurprisingly, famine threatens for the human populace. Spies report that the giant cultural equivalent of an Olympic Games is occuring in the area. Local lords send out negotiators to the giants, seeking to avoid war. To the negotiators, the giant lord offers a bet; if the puny folk win a given number of events in the games, the giants will work their fields for a year. The smug giant lord has few worries about losing this bet.

 

[Breakstone]

Noble Djinni (Genie): There is a rumor flying around the higher level NPCs and characters in a large city that a Noble Djinni's lamp has been discovered in the dungeons below. Both good and evil are interested in obtaining said Djinni. Who will the PC's join with, and who will they fight?

 

[jester47]

Gnolls:

1. A trade caravan arrives selling wares out of the desert.
2. At the same time a ranger arrives in town hunting a band of gnolls.
3. In the countryside a band of gnolls is preparing to raid the town for an item that the caravan is carrying.

You pick the item.

Aaron.

 

[Reynard]

Ogre Magi

One day, a group of mysterious strangers from a far off land arrive at a small village nestled below the cliffs upon which an old monastary rests. When the monk in charge refuses to admit them as students, the strangers disappear in a flash. Soon after, the assaults begin...