plothooks

A plot hook every day in 2023. From @mikedaowrites

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For 2023, we are going to publish a TTRPG plot or a campaign hook every day for the entire year.

Come along for the ride.

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Lawful evil wizards use legal loopholes to seize power in a small nation.

Their strategy has been to enlist the media and fill town squares with "debate" centering about how it's not ideal, but that there is a process and that we all just need to respect the rule of law.

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The party is hired to deliver the ransom for a kidnapped noble's heir.

There was no kidnapping, the heir has hired bandits to kill the adventurers, and the ransom was to be their seed money in the start of their new life as a PIRATE. Bad news, the party makes short work of the bandits.

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The entire royal family of a small nation was wiped out in an unfortunate boating accident. The search starts to find an heir, and an illegitimate child was discovered in a far off land.

The party is hired to find them and escort them back to their kingdom so they can inherit the throne.

The heir is a commoner, and class hijinks ensue.

Bonus: Have the person who coordinated the search turn out to be closer in line to the throne, but he hides the fact that he is.

Go watch the movie King Ralph.

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The most ridiculous isekai situation.

The party finds themselves magically transported to the modern world and have to work service industry jobs.

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The party is hired by the local magistrate to investigate a series of serial killers.

The city has been victim to a series of serial killers, six as of last counting, and though they are all being caught, they all seem to originate from the same neighborhood.

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After a failed heist an NPC accomplice has been captured. They either have to rescue the NPC or come up with other ways in which they can ensure that they won’t talk and implicate the party.

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Let's genderbend the classics.

We have a prince who is being married to a woman from another family against his will. Through his butlers and grooms, he arranges for the adventurers to crash the wedding and to abscond with him.

However, during the festivities, he dies mysteriously and the adventurers are to blame.

Little do they know that this was a part of his plan all along, and that he faked is own death as a cover for him to escape.

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The adventurers are hired for a heist to grab a macguffin from a wealthy noble. The lynchpin to the plot involves getting an impostor to impersonate the noble's niece.

The sticky bit is that their impostor is a gutter urchin and you have to prepare her and train her to be able to fit into upper society. YES I JUST READ PYGMALION BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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The party is approached by a group of ragged kids who want to enlist their help in protecting their lemonade stand.

They set one up but are being harrassed by some NIMBY Karens who think that it is bringing down their property values.

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The party, upon entry to the tavern in the next town they arrive at, finds themselves embroiled in the middle of a heated debate.

Half the townspeople want to hire the adventurers to run one of the people living in the village out of town.

The other half want him left as is.

Why do people want the person run out of town? They're incredibly annoying.

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The party comes across a grievously wounded man. If they save him, they will find out that he is on the run. He was to be wed, but a rival family hired a young lady to seduce him, and on his wedding day, his bride to be stabs him, and the rest of his family is slaughtered.

The young scion asks the adventurers for aid in reclaiming his birthright offering them riches if they help him recover it, an inherited magical sword.

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The party is hired to explore and chart a previous unexplored region.

Upon arrival, they find a band of bandits, using their advanced technology ruling a tribe of indigenous people, purporting to be their gods.

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An wizard with less than altruistic designs has found a place of power in a relatively small village. The problem is that it's under the town hall and the people have no intention of giving up their hall.

He plans to rid the populace by setting up businesses in the village that all charge less than what the residents charge, driving them all out of business.

With this, we are back on schedule of having one plot hook a day. Thanks for your continued support. I am never moving again, this week has been terrible.

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The party meets an enterprising wizard who is studying on how to make a more powerful and longer lasting mage hand spell and put into scrolls in order to help people move.

Can you tell I am over moving?

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The players arrive in a new town and the talk of the town is how this well to do older gentleman is getting married for the fifth time. He appears to have a type, and his previous four spouses all died shortly after the marriage.

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A professional sports town in the big city hires the adventurers to spy on their competitors, trying to find an edge against their competitors for the big game. This is the brain child of their team captain, Bom Trady. If discovered, he retires and attempts to start a career traveling from tavern to tavern doing observational stand up comedy. He is not good at this.