Oh fuck, /tg/. I'm DM'ing tomorrow and I've spent all week ignoring my duties to play Fallout.
I need quests. Simple town quests to give to my PCs until they level up and take on their first dungeon. Gimme some ideas that don't completely suck.I have to sleep for now but I'll read them all when I wake up.
Take a quest from Fallout 4, change names and creatures and location. Add or remove what is needed. Stop posting on /tg/ asking to GM for you.
>>43635945
Never fear, /tg/ is here, to fix all your GMing fuck-ups.
A rebellious child has wandered away from the village. The players must find the young vagabond and escort him back home. There's all sorts of variations you can tack onto that premise.
>>43635945
>Several guards tired of low wages and long hours have taken an entire tavern hostage.
>A tiefling orphan compulsively kills and tortures small animals, and needs either a good home or a stern talking to so they walk away from the path of evil.
>Otyugh in the sewers, players will have to position themselves carefully so that it doesn't get a chance to hit them.
>Several farmers in the fields have been infected with tetanus.
>A critically wounded demon falls from a gate in the sky, and begins to rampage. The only cold iron weapon is at the museum, and is the only thing for miles that can kill him.
>A ghoul who works an honest gravedigging job is tired of being harassed on a nightly basis by a zealous cleric.
>>43635945
The 3.5 and Pathfinder DMG all have a handy-dandy d100 chart of plot hooks. Don't roll on it, because most of them are mid-level stuff, but look at them for inspiration.
>>43635968
Do this only if your players haven't YET played Fallout 4, so you can spoil the juiciest twists and ruin their fun when they realize what you did.
A pack of wolves has interbred with stray dogs, and lost their fear of man.
A pack of wolves is tired of low wages and have conducted a corporate merger with the local bar. Patrons are complaining.
>>43636017
If he can do it well enough they won't be able to tell.
HEY FUCKER
You want an entire town+map+every single fucking thing you might need?
Are you ready?
>>43636054
So everyone! I have been using a comination of random generators from 3e and 5e to create a home base and start of campaign for my players. I would like opinions on what I have! I apologize for shitty map quality.
Ostston:
Town type small town
Population 1738
GP Limit 659
Wealth 114797
PC:
1 Barbarian - lvl 2
1 Bard – lvl 3
1 Cleric – lvl 5
2 Cleric – lvl 2
4 Cleric – lvl 1
1 Druid - lvl 5
2 Druid - lvl 2
4 Druid – lvl 1
1 Fighter – lvl 2
2 Fighter – lvl 1
1 Monk - lvl 3
2 Monk – lvl 1
1 Paladin – lvl 2
2 Paladin – lvl 1
1 Ranger – lvl 2
2 Ranger – lvl 1
1 Rogue - lvl 1
1 Sorcerer – lvl 3
2 Sorcerer – lvl 1
1 Wizard – lvl 2
2 Wizard – lvl 1
1 Warlock – lvl 3
2 Warlock – lvl 1
NPC:
1 Adept – lvl 2
8 Adept - lvl 1
1 Aristocrat – lvl 3
9 Aristocrat – lvl 1
1 Commoner – lvl 11
2 Commoner – lvl 5
4 Commoner – lvl 2
1533 Commoner – lvl 1
1 Expert – lvl 8
2 Expert – lvl 4
4 Expert – lvl 2
50 Expert – lvl 1
1 Warrior – lvl 2
84 Warrior – lvl 1
>>43636063
Important Information:
The city is a trade hub for the local area, with numerous merchants moving through its gates each day to set up market in the square and resupply before moving on towards the center of the nation. Two of the most lucrative things to come through the city are furs brought in from Vertmist, a smaller community on the edges Dorhill forest. The city is ruled over by Viscount Hopyc and his family, who rule from their fortified manor house. Rumors persist that the Hopyc family has some form of magic blood running through their veins, but these are merely whispers spread from drunk men to naïve boys. Their enforcers are lead by a man who does not use weapon or armor, but has in the past wrestled a man twice his size to the ground putting him in irons.
The local Druid Circle and Church are at odds. The clerics of Helm are lead Ralphye Wake, an old Halfling with a long running animosity with elves. The druids, who call themselves the circle of trout and tail and lead by a haughty wood elf named Quennasaer. Though their distaste for each other has not yet come to blows it could at any time.
On the edge of town the tanneries constantly dump their putrid chemicals into the river flow down towards the sea. Among them are the more poor of the city. Living here is an old man named Narder Giles, an spiteful senior who has in the past brought in on multiple occasions for starting fires and casting spells illegally. Occasionally the young and ambitious go to him asking to be taught magic, but nearly all are turned away.
>>43636075
Additional Information and Gossip:
The halflings under the leadership of Ralphye do not like the elves of the city. The elves do not have a strong similar animosity.
Viscount Hopyc is respected as a just ruler, keeping the peace in his city at all costs.
In the center of the town a massive statue on an elf holding a branch stands, eroded and chipped from time. Rumors says it was part of an ancient elven city that stood in this very spot. It has been graffitied multiple times as of late.
The merchants are known to be greedy and squeeze every penny of the citizens that they can manage.
Lately there have been several deaths of men on the edge of the city, this corpses seemingly mauled by a wild animal. A few people have claimed to have spotted an enormous owlbear.
The black dog is a quiet bar often frequented by off duty guards who want to enjoy some drinks before stumbling back to their homes.
The Weary Toad is a large loud bar right next to the druid’s lodge on the south side of town. It is often visited by merchants and men seeking work as guards for the wealthy travelers.
The town’s two brothels are The King’s Pinkie and Quivering Hills, one in the merchant’s quarter and the other in the slums. The former is rather high end with a clientele including the fatter merchants and occasionally, it is rumored, the eldest son if the Viscount. The other has a shadier visitors, thieves and vagabonds, and supposedly connections to a smuggling ring
>>43636078
Massive owlbear been mauling people on the edge of the slums. Rumor has it that it is supernaturally large. People are blaming the druids for meddling with nature, and in particular the priests of Helm are supporting this theory.
Traveler came into town recently claiming something has moved into the old mill upriver and has been dumping things into it. I'm gonna have the tanneries (big buildings near the river) dredge up a course a few days into the campaign.
The township of Vertmist has been taken over by a gang of bandits that are now forcing the trappers that live there to pay enormous protection fees. This in turn is driving fur prices up as they pass through Ostston. Several merchants have come together to offer a reward for the gang leader's head.
To the east lies an abandoned fort, which once stood on the boarder between the empire and another country. However after the last war land grabs have caused its once strategic location to lose significance and it has fallen into disrepair. A messenger from the capital has come with a missive, offering a reward for whoever can clean the place out of what ever had taken up residence and restore it to working order.
There is a secretive family of shepards who have a sort of 'innsmouth' look to them. But they fuck sheep instead. All the half breed sheep-men too abnormal to go out in the daylight stay in the cellar.
>>43636063
>>43635945
Their quest is toCome up with a quest and some tasks for a group of young school children to complete because the teacher at the old schoolhouse was too fucking lazy to do it
>>43636017
What twists?
>>43635945
The Inn keeper has a rat problem.
The adventurer have to kill 20 giant rats.
Haunted mansion.
They need to figure out how to exorcise the poltergeist throwing furniture at them.
>>43635945
Mercenaries are laying siege outside the walls and are demanding payment.
>>43636063
>1 Commoner – lvl 11
Mongo?
>>43636204
That's gold
>>43636323
>the innkeeper has a rat problem
We /Vermintide/ now
>>43637906
>>43635945
Actually, vermintide wouldn't be a bad thing to emulate
>keeps npcs needed to a minimum
>a lot of room to RP still because of people in hiding
>need to figure what's causing the infestation
>lot of places to explore
>>43637922
That's a pretty common setup for a Dark Heresy campaign. But usually you start out easy and have plotting happen before you break out the full blown heresy.
Alternatively, suddenly Orks.
>>43636441
One badass lumberjack
>>43635945
Dude. You only have one option.
>>43639779
Rolling for adventure, hoping to get
>Barbarian hordes burn down the Sun.
Rolled 96 (1d100)
>>43639971
Goddamned stupid dice
Rolled 59 (1d100)
>>43639779
Rolling
Rolled 100 (1d100)
>>43639779
>>43640008
Well done
Rolled 48 (1d100)
>>43639982
>Party endlessly pursues dastardly villain who wields a bronzed hammerhead shark and bleeds shotgun shells.
That's a fun BBEG. Throw in some action movie style shenanigans and I'm sold.
>>43639993
>Bored Buddha launches aerial raids
An entire campaign based around stopping Buddha's air raids by desteoying his factories and airfields? Sounds great.
>>43640008
You win. Everything. Forever.
>>43640008
We have a winner
Rolled 29 (1d100)
>>43639779
Rolling.
>>43640138
Was thinking in something more like a bald and fatter Kim Jo-un and the players are trying to stop a air strike in south Korea
>>43640008
You are winner.
>>43640008
/thread
Rolled 16 (1d100)
>>43640190
>Earth elemental and Gelatinous cube harbour forbidden love.
Gentlemen, we have a new set of supermonsters to challenge the party.
The weak, but numerous Earth Jellies.
The powerful and resilient Earth Cubes.
And the deadliest of all, theCube Elemental.
Halfling uprising.
>The princess is actually the dragon
>The entire royal family is actually dragons
>The entire quest was to find her a proper suitor
>>43635945
Just go in with zero prep, an open mind, and an MM. You'd be surprised what comes out, and it's often better than anything you plan.
>>43635945
Go to UESP.net
Got to morrowind quests
Then mix and match some story points and viola!
>>43639779
>Local baker seeks perfect ingredients for ultimate cake, secretly constructs powerful Cake Golem.
So his only mistake was using too much cinnamon, right?
>>43645582
His only mistake was that in his quest to create the Perfect Cake Golem he forgot the secret ingredient.Love
>>43635945
Improvise. I don't know shit about your setting to improvise for you.
>>43639779
OP, this is your best bet. Tons of good hooks in here.
Rolled 33, 47, 59 = 139 (3d100)
>>43639779
I need more of these...
In the meantime, I propose the following:
>roll thrice
>make campaign from the result
>if you roll 100 on any of them you choose either to make campaign 1-100 in order, or all 100 at random plus the other two rolls
>if you roll 3 100's all players can make whatever, with whatever they want, at whatever level they want, as long as everything is RAW+whatever house rules you have
>???
>profit
>if profit cannot be had, proceed anyway with no fucks given and a large quantity of your favorite alcoholic beverage
>>43651410
>Ancient lich seeks new thrills by competing in biathlon; disqualified for using machine gun.
>Desert warlord sends party to blue dragon's lair to retrieve the keys to his camel.
>Bored Buddah launches aerial raids.
...well shit... I'm glad I have enough extra cash this week for a good bottle of rum or two...gonna need a whole lotta drink for this one.
Local Innkeeper complains of rat problem, asks adventurers to kill the rats in his cellar. The moment the party is down there he locks them in and his fellow cultists attempt to sacrifice you all to awaken the demon lord whose underground tomb complex the cellar drops into.
Rolled 29 (1d100)
>>43639779
Rolled 51 (1d100)
>>43639779
I've had some fun with this one.
The leg-breaker of a local moneylender drunkenly offers them his cut of the proceeds if they'll go to the local family of troublemakers to collect this months repayment and find out whether they were involved in the recent disappearance of his employer. The moneylender disappeared under a week ago and the leg-breaker strongly suspects their involvement but doesn't trust his own temper enough to verify it himself.
The local law is aware of the leg-breaker's concerns but doesn't share them and are pursuing other avenues of investigation. The family - an extended household of dirt farmers and inter-married siblings - will resist paying with every excuse under the sun (the family member responsible for the accounts is away right now, they already paid this month, etc.) and suggestion of their involvement in the disappearance will result in indignant rage directed at anyone with the gall to impugn their honor.
Possible Outcomes:
A. The moneylender was killed by a relative of the local law and it is being covered up (in this scenario they are looking more closely at the family as potential patsies, but not letting on to the PCs). As things progress they may decide the PCs look like better potential suspects.
B. The leg-breaker killed the moneylender in a spur of the moment murder when he was caught skimming money by demanding larger payments from customers he figured were less likely to dare complain. The moneylender's body is currently hidden in a disused privy in an alley near his house which has been nailed shut. The leg-breaker will follow the PCs and try to use their actions to implicate the family without exposing himself.
C. The moneylender has been kidnapped by a third party who intends to ransom him. When the demand for payment comes in after the PC's initial actions, the family catches wind and will attempt to scoop the ransom money and sour the trade, hoping to rid themselves of their outstanding debt simultaneously.
Rolled 47, 26, 94 = 167 (3d100)
>>43651410
Let me try this.
>>43653238
>Desert Warlord sends party to blue dragon's lair to retrieve the keys to his camel.
That's sidequest material, I guess.
>Dwarves threatened by serial barber.
Alright, an adventure hook, something to get them started on the path of the larger campaign.
>Fledgeling Lich captures our hearts with his story of ambition, hot blackguards and flying zombie sharks.
This is it. It's perfect. I know exactly how to make this happen.
All I need to do is find a nice picture for the hot Blackguard, add in a young inventor-mage to invent cinema and film everyone's exploits and a way to convince the players not to try to kill the lich on sight.
>>43635945
Players have to break up a gambling ring for either justice or profit. Have the bookie bolt for the door as soon as the fight goes south, forcing them to choose between a chase or a cleanup.
>>43653301
Hot blackguard already has art.
Look up Drew the Lich
>>43653673
I looked it up, and it seems very nice and entertaining, but the blckguard needs to be hotter.
Way hotter and also competent-looking.
giant maggots of doom crawling out of an underground cave system below the canalisation... and the further the players get , the more grotesque and bigger the creatures get
the everyone dies and you dont have to worry anymore
