Generic Plot Master List
I've started a list of generic plots for a campaign built off of one shots. I thought it could be helpful for others ( and I'm looking to add some ). In this campaign there's always three options on the quest board, and I roll on this chart to develop them.
**Updated for typos
- A civilian has fallen in love with a monster
- A monster has fallen in love with a civilian
- Charlatan has monster(s) that steal through a scheme
- Civilians are hiding from a monster and need to be moved to a new hiding spot
- An entire village has been turned into monsters and needs to be turned back.
- Intelligent monster is trying to be a hero
- Villain is trying to reform
- Intelligent creatures are being consumed as exotic food and kept in cruel environments
- Intelligent creatures are being farmed for food. don’t realize it, and need to be rescued
- Intelligent monster has hidden themselves within a civilian population to fit in and be left alone
- Intelligent monster is trying to get rich
- Intelligent monster is trying to become mayor
- Intelligent monsters enslave civilians
- Intelligent monsters enslaving other monsters
- Intelligent monsters enslaved
- Dungeon has been discovered and someone needs something inside or someone needs something inside neutralized
- Monster has captured a leader
- Monster hunt as a competition
- Monster hunt for its use in medicine
- Monster protecting its family from encroaching development by civilians
- Monster protecting its family from encroaching development by villains
- Monsters are being bred for weapons in war
- Monsters are actively destroying a towns by being used as siege weapons
- Monsters are controlled by a villain competitor to the businessperson who hires the party
- Monsters are eating a prized crop
- Monsters are eating civilian travelers
- Monsters are environmentally destructive to a mine
- Monsters are environmentally destructive to a waterway is becoming unable to be traveled
- Monsters are environmentally destructive to drinking water
- Monsters are environmentally destructive to farmland
- Monsters are now living in an area containing a resource that is coveted for greed. Get the resource.
- Monsters are now living in an area containing a resource that is coveted for greed. Protect the resource
- Monsters are now living in an area containing a resource that is necessary for survival
- Monsters are used as enforcers for villains
- Monsters being used as farm animals (don't want to be)
- Monsters being used as farm animals have been stolen by competitors
- Monsters beneficial to the area are under threat and the civilians that care for them ask for help
- Monsters fighting other monsters is harming civilians
- Move monster from where it is to somewhere beneficial to civilization
- Move monster from where it is to somewhere beneficial to the environment
- Rare harmless monsters beneficial to the environment are hunted for magic ingredients. Party has to stop the hunters.
- Smuggling people due to the BBEG
- Smuggling supplies due to the BBEG
- Someone wants to keep a monster as a pet but it's eating something it shouldn't
- Unintelligent monsters enslaved
- Villain is training / has trained monsters to harass
- Villain is training / has trained monsters to steal
- Someone is collecting monsters for fun or greed and it goes wrong
- Someone is breeding monsters for survival or profit and it goes wrong