1001 Bad Plot Hooks

[Drglenn]

588: You spent your entire life in an underground cave. You're best friends with the Ruler's daughter. She wakes you up one day saying that your father has left the cave (which no one ever does...EVER). The ruler is now after you, and probably plans on killing you. Escape and find your father.

Fallout 3

589: The gods made an artifact that will grant anyone who touches it a single wish. The king had seven Sages seal the artifact to protect it from falling into evil hands. An evil wizard has already kidnapped and broken the seal of six of the sages. The only way to kill the wizard is to find an enchanted sword. The only problem the sword is also sealed away and you need to find 3 gems - a sapphire, a ruby, and an emerald - to claim the sword for yourself. Go find those gems and kill the wizard!

589-b: You got the sword and fought the wizard, but it was already to late. He teleported away and made his wish to rule the world. The world is now an evil, twisted version of its former self. Go rescue the Sages so they can bind his power again and save the world!

Not sure but sounds like a Legend of Zelda game

590: The village patron summons you to see him. He tells you that he is cursed and that you are prophesied to be a hero. You enter a dungeon to remove the curse from him and get a magical gem from the dungeon. It's to late for the patron though, and he dies. Right before he croaks he tells you to go see the princes. You leave, sneak into the castle and find the princes. After seeing the gem you carry the princes tells you that an evil man is trying to collect three magical gems to unlock a secret door that holds great power. Get those gems yourself so he can't have them!

590-b: Turns out the BBEG was just waiting for you to collect the gems and open the door yourself, just so he can waltz in and take the power. You awaken seven years later to find the world ruled by said evil man and everything in ruins. Now, go use your magical sword to travel back and forth in time to awaken the seven Sages to seal his power and save the world!

(589 and 590 are different, even though they sound exactly the same.)

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

591: Your village is running out of clean water! Go out into the world and find a new way to purify your villages water source, but hurry! You only have 150 days!

No Idea

592: You are members of a (not so) secret organization who kills important leaders on both sides of a holy war to try to promote peace. Go get killing!

Assassins Creed (from Altair's perspective)?

592: You are a descendant of a ancient hero. An evil paladin has captured you and is using a magical device to read ancestor's life in search of an all powerful artifact. Once the paladin has the information he needs, there's no more need for you. Relive the life of your ancestor and try to escape!

Assassin's Creed (from Desmond's Perspective)?

593: You are sitting in a tavern when you hear a massive crashing noise outside. You head outside to notice that the building opposite has been completely destroyed. An Earth Elemental is emerging from the ruins! You can also see similar looking rocks about to land in your city. The aforementioned elemental's first attack criticals and kills one of the party members...

594: The mayor of the city calls you to his residence. He reveals that his amulet has been stolen. This amulet is needed to supress the natural effects of the region you're in (incredibly loud noise that would destroy anything in the region except the main tower in the region). Go fetch it.

Yea, these are campaigns that I've run...

[JysusCryst]

588: Fallout 3 is correct, sir!

589: Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The SNES one.

590: Correct again!

591: The 150 days is the big clue.

592: I didn't realize I did the same thing twice, or even numbered it the same, but yes, Assassin's Creed.

(It's 2:30 am, give me a break.)

[zorba1994]

595: Can you cross the treacherous lengths of The Hallway, dodging monsters lurking in closets and under beds to find the All-Powerful-Glass-Of-Water?

[JysusCryst]

596: An evil wizard has an artifact that will grant him the power of his god. Put a band of heroes together and retrieve the artifact! (Play this campaign three times before you finally beat it.)

597: Deliver 10 pizza's before the other ninja, all while avoiding pirates! Because everything's better with pirates.

[The Glyphstone]

591 is also Fallout, either 1 or 2.

[JysusCryst]

591 is also Fallout, either 1 or 2.

It is indeed Fallout 1. I haven't played enough of 2 to try to rip a plot hook off of it. I'm glad mine were so easy.

EDIT: 593, Rocks fall, everyone dies?

[Drglenn]

No, 593 and 594 were campaigns, of my own design, that I actually ran... The first hit kinda set the tone for the campaign in 593 so yea, the everyone dies was somewhat correct...

[Acanous]

596, Eternal Darkness
597, Ninja Burger.

598 Your new PC is introduced with a massive debt to the local thieve's guild. Hitch on with the player party and get out of this desert backwater.

[JysusCryst]

596, Eternal Darkness
597, Ninja Burger.

596: Nope. Well, at least it's not what I was thinking. It is a pretty general description though. The artifact is a mask, if that helps at all. (Never played Eternal Darkness.)

597: Huh...I didn't know Ninja Burger was an actual game...I got the idea from 596's movie. So uh, yeah, Ninja Burger seems to be correct. Lol.

[Andre]

599. A wicked empire has imprisoned you for public urination and thrown you in the gladiatorial pits. Survive the arena. Be a legend.

600. There are another eleven subraces of elves in the Forgotten Realms, but they are hiding particularly well in several different places. Can you discover them all?

601. A very evil botched spell has warped your party of non-humans in the Warhammer 40k Universe, and straight in the headquarters of the Inquisition at that.
Attempt to escape and survive Roll new character sheets.

[Dust]

602. After your players finally convince you to run a world written by them, give them a few game sessions where they can sit down and flesh out the details and breathe life into their creation.
At the start of the first official game session, the planet is destroyed to make way for an interstellar bypass.

[Drglenn]

603

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You are called together to meet at a certain time of place by the leader of your adventuring group. When you get there and finish exchanging plesantries a strange man who your leader appears to recognise also turns up and another, heavily masked man also appears. The masked man kills your leader then dissappears. Find out why your leader has been killed

[Garwain]

604

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You are travelling on a dark desert highway and a cool wind runs through your hair. Up in the distance you see a shimmering light. Your head grows heavy, so you want to stop for the night. A figure with high charisma leads you to your room, so you follow her, only lit by a candle. Your low religion check reveals that this could be the way to Heaven or Hell.

[Shade Kerrin]

604a

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You've been called to the Master's room for a feast. There, you find a creature with DR 500/Not steel.

[nedz]

604b

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You run towards the door. Behind which you find a passageway. The passageway leads back the room you started in. A fiend tells you to relax as your memory is wiped.

[Wardog]

I've only read to page six, so forgive me if this has already been done:

605: After almost a century of brutal foreign occupation, your country has only recently won its freedom. However, a charismatic but sinister stranger has convinced the naiive young king to invite the former occupiers back, under the pretext of helping defeat a relatively minor army of monsters. The hero who masterminded your country's liberation requires your help to stop the king's foolishness and prevent your nation from being reconquered, by any means necessary.

[davidpetersjk]

605 is Dragon Age from Logain's perspective, correct?

[nedz]

606: Everyday an old man stands on the corner selling printed sheets of plot hooks for a copper.

[Combat Reflexes]

607: A charismatic man in the tavern holding a green glowing wand has lost his blue box. Go fetch it.

608: Meteor man arrives! Kill him.

[RndmNumGen]

599. A wicked empire has imprisoned you for public urination and thrown you in the gladiatorial pits. Survive the arena. Be a legend.

Thog, obviously.

[Lonely Tylenol]

609. Your services have been employed by Carl, King of the land of Burger, and his wife, the Dairy Queen. You are summoned to the White Castle, where Carl explains that his son, Carl Jr., was kidnapped on the eve of his marriage to Wendy by his court jesters, Ronald McDonald and Jack, who have been driven insane with greed. Join Carl Jr.'s guard, Colonel Sanders, in an epic quest to save Carl Jr. and "put a smile on" the Burger King's face!

I was actually planning on making a one-off module of this quest... Just because.

[Wardog]

605 is Dragon Age from Logain's perspective, correct?

That is correct.

[BlackestOfMages]

609 is win. end of all conversations.

610

the random anime-geek has got his hands on a muggufin that lets him reshape the world into whatever he feels it should be. fight your way through ninja cheerleader bbodyguards, random wizards and robots and an array of naughty tentacles before the world turns into his badly written slash fan-fiction

[Feriority]

603

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You are called together to meet at a certain time of place by the leader of your adventuring group. When you get there and finish exchanging plesantries a strange man who your leader appears to recognise also turns up and another, heavily masked man also appears. The masked man kills your leader then dissappears. Find out why your leader has been killed

"Spoilers!", yes?

[squeekenator]

611. You, a girl, want to be a warrior, but girls aren't allowed to be knights. Your twin brother wants to be a mage. Also, you're going to have to kill a wizard-duke. Twice.

612. You join a group of rebels and attack the evil empire, until the rebel leader betrays your love interest and leaves her to die at the hands of an evil alien swarm. Stop your now half-human half-alien ex-love interest from taking over the universe, while getting revenge on the rebel leader.

613. A fairy from the magical land the Goddess resides in has possessed you and has convinced you and your two companions to save the world. She tells you to gather the eight elemental spirits and try to use their power to enter the Goddess's plane so you can recover an artifact sword of infinite power, but the BBEG manages to get there first, take it off you and corrupt the sword.

614. Your city is destroyed by a giant flying whale-monster which then sucks you and your mysterious friend 1000 years into the future. You then discover that the 'future' is actually the present, the world leaders and one of your party members were dead all along, that you and your city were just a dream, that the flying whale-monster was your father and that another party member attacks monsters by throwing a ball at them. Survive the ensuing mind-****.

615. Find out what a +2 ghost touch hand axe is.

[Combat Reflexes]

615. Find out what a +2 ghost touch hand axe is.

Easy. It's 9000 free gp

[BlackestOfMages]

611: not sure

612: might be brutal Legend, as that's kinda what happesn to ophenia, though I cant fully remember

613: some legend of Zelda, not twilight princess or Ocarina, but it could be one of the other ones

614: final fantasy X

615: do not challange the impossible

[dromer]

599. A wicked empire has imprisoned you for public urination and thrown you in the gladiatorial pits. Survive the arena. Be a legend.

612. A wicked Ur-Deity has imprisoned your multiverse in gladiatorial combat with other universes. Every multiverse is a planet of hats. Survive the ensuing ****-storm. No, literally. Your first opponent is the Waste Multiverse.

[nedz]

613 Whilst being distracted by some workmen who have arrived to demolish your house, ..., some more workmen arrive to demolish your planet.

[Chess435]

613 Whilst being distracted by some workmen who have arrived to demolish your house, ..., some more workmen arrive to demolish your planet.

613-a: After surviving the whole ordeal, you find yourself very hungry. Just then, you remember about this great restaurant at the end of the universe. However, you can't seem to remember which end. Go and find directions!