Lower-level adventures can be hard to write for- you don't want to have world-shaking or even kingdom-threatening threats, but you want players to feel like their actions have meaning and importance. Here are a few quick hooks which you can use to populate a bounty board, or offer to your players if they're looking for work.
1 - Bandits have been attacking travellers on the Western Road. They seem to have attacked multiple caravans at once, and are clearly more than just a single, disorganized band. 500 gold pieces have been offered for bringing their leader in alive, and ending the threat. 2 - A Manticore has been preying on sheep from the town of Redhill, and has taken over a dozen from shepherds' flocks this month. A purse of 300 gold coins to anyone who brings in its head. 3 - A thief took the armour from the body of Father Adwun, a priest who fell in battle recently. 100 gold for returning the armour, double that if the thief is brought to justice as well. 4 - Sir Agraine, a knight of the crown, has gone missing while on quest to find an ancient banner of the kingdom. A gold coin for words of his location, a hundred gold coins for finding his body, another fifty if he lives. 5 - A pair of thieves have been deceiving and stealing from nobles, taking valuable pieces of jewellery. One-tenth of the jewellery's value is the reward for returning each piece, and an extra hundred gold pieces for capturing the thieves. 6 - A family of vicious Bugbears, the Zarrunk clan, have long lived in the Photus Woods, setting terrible traps and ambushes for travellers. They are skilled trappers and survivalists, and experts at stalking their prey. In the ast twenty years, three major bands of hunters have gone after them, and only two survivors have returned, babbling of skulls staked into trees and grim warnings to those who would pursue them. A thousand gold pieces have been offered for burning their homes to the ground and exterminating the entire clan. Also posted on Game Masters Stash on 14 May 2021. Comments are closed.
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