101 Reasons to adventure

[Excession]

- Because someone stole your boots.

- Because you stole someone's boots, and now they won't stop chasing you.

[asnys]

Let's just say that if you owed the elvish mafia twenty thousand gold, you'd fake your death and go "adventuring" too.

[TheTeaMustFlow]

Demarcation.
You were looking for the Real Orcish Ale society meeting, but got the wrong pub and met 3-5 friendly strangers of the same level.
Your Inevitable drinking buddy accidentally put a geas on you after too many shots of machine vodka.
You're an Inevitable, and you accidentally put a geas on your drinking buddy after too many shots of machine vodka, and Mechanus made you go along with him as punishment.
Your insane adventurer grandma made it a condition of the 1,000,000 gp bequest in her will.
Affirmative Action.
You didn't read the fine print. On a Contract of Nepthas.
You're doing it to raise awareness of/money for Gnomish Thaumaturgical Cancer.
`Hi, I'd like to tell you about the Blood of Vol!`
HM Revenue and Customs (or the IRS for colonial heathens, or whichever other foul taxing agency you like) are on to you, and you need to get Improved Tax Evasion, quickly.

[Rater202]

You and the other members of your club just keep getting into trouble, thugs doing a scooby doo hoax, a prank gone wrong turned to accidental poisoning, one of your friends got kidnapped by dragons, ancient ruins with active traps turning up in your home town, a haunted carnival with a crazy voodoo lady, all in a days work for you. Sometimes though, you wish you could act your age and just be a kid.

[DigoDragon]

* You still haven't picked up milk from the store and the alternative is to come back empty handed and get the doghouse.
** You're pretty sure that doghouse is a mimic.

[Emperordaniel]

*** The doghouse ate your dog, and you want revenge.
**** The doghouse is a polymorphed tarrasque.

[Rater202]

You need to find out the answer to a question that is decades old: Who let the dogs out?

[Dr_Dinosaur]

*Because your overbearing mother won't stop nagging you to go out and make something of yourself.
*You want adventure in the great, wide somewhere. You want it more than you can tell. And for once, it might be grand to have someone understand that you want so much more than they've got in your poor provincial town!
*To break the curse a witch put on you before your 21st birthday comes and you're stuck.

[Emperordaniel]

* Because you want to see the flying lanterns a neighboring city keeps launching into the air every year on your birthday.

[Excession]

- Adventure Tourism.

[Rater202]

The king has offered the hand of his plump posteriored princess to whomever can slay the dragon assaulting the kingdom. Normally you wouldn't do something so dangerous, but, well, you like big butts and you can not lie.

[TheCountAlucard]

you like big butts and you can not lie…

…because you're a Paladin.

[braveheart]

-Because the innumerable voices in your head told you to take the path of the helix
-To bring glory to Lord Helix
-To resurrect Lord Helix in full from the fossil

[Emperordaniel]

* Because you're a cleric of Snuggles the Doomkitty, and you want to spread the word (that all deities are merely Snuggles in disguise).

[Lord Raziere]

* You know the real reason why the gods created us all: to have people to troll forever, and you want to spread the word.

[asnys]

- Going through a mid-life crisis.

[Earthwalker]

You hunting down your own father, you want revenge on him naming you Sue.

[DigoDragon]

Normally you wouldn't do something so dangerous, but, well, you like big butts and you can not lie.

…because you're a Paladin.

...and Lay on Hands is a class feature.

[DisguisedShaman]

That college tuition ain't gonna pay itself.

[Gritmonger]

...and Lay on Hands is a class feature.

...and why else do you think your name would be "Sir" Mixalot?

[Rater202]

...and why else do you think your name would be "Sir" Mixalot?

I've created a monster.

*single manly tear* So proud.

[Loxagn]

-What else are you going to do? When the other kids hit puberty they got acne and body hair. You woke up one morning and your head was fire!
-You adventure to teach yourself magic. No wizard college worth their salt wants a student with a speech impediment.
-People keep saying you'll amount to nothing, and you're sick of that.
-You feel necromancy has an unjustly despised reputation, and you're writing a dissertation to prove it!

[SgtCarnage92]

- You're an emancipated slave out to get your beloved wife back.
- You like the smell of horse
- You must construct additional pylons.
- Beloved kidnapped by giant turtle. Use plumbing skills to find the right castle.
- You fled into the desert, and gunslinger followed...
- Escaped from jail/boat/execution and in need of some way to make ends meet.
- The Halibut
- There are no more quests in the starting area.
- Hunting for a long-rumored Vault left behind by an ancient race.
- You woke up...bound, gagged, naked, and in a barrel.
- You're in search of the crappy town where you can be the hero.
- Joined Hero's guild

[asnys]

- Killing a dragon is on your bucket list.

[Rater202]

- Killing a dragon is on your bucket list.

Screwing a dragon is on your bucket list.

Because doing that got your mother pregnant, and there's not much else for a half dragon to do but adventure. Sides, it runs in the family.

Because you're a quarter dragon and a by this point you're third generation adventurer.

Because you're a fourth generation professional ass-kicker. At this point, adventure is all your family knows.

all four are the reasons for adventure for one of my actual (N)PCs and her mother, grandfather, and great grandmother

[Taet]

You bought the adventure route from a guy who was retiring. You bought the two year schedule of towns to visit. And the maps of the giant ant nests and the kobold tunnels. And the extra secret map of the queen ant room and queen kobold room saying Do Not Kill. So after two years the giant ants and kobolds have had enough babies and the towns will have to hire you again.

You kept putting off that trip around the world until next year. Then the fortune guaranteed that you will die this year. And you will not wait to die behind a desk, filling out Form 20B over and over.

He went one way and you went the other. Both of you have a story to tell. The stories are opposites. You are going to find out once and for all which travels quicker, truth or lies.

Not a good idea to swear in church. About how you are going to do xyz even if you are going to have to walk to hell and back to do it.

[HunterOfJello]

You were roped into going on adventures by surly bar patrons due to a case of mistaken identity. You are still too embarrassed to correct them. That was 12 years ago.

Being slowly devoured inside of an acidic ooze monsters still sounds better than marrying Ugly Peggy from your home town.

You have quit adventuring 83 times already but your archnemesis, the party bard, knows the spell Glibness and you fall for it every time.

You are the child of prophecy who is prophecied to one day take down the Demilich Overlord of your homeland. Adventuring on other planes of existence instead just sounded safer.

An enemy wizard once broke through your will and mind-controlled you into becoming an adventurer. The wizard also forced you to pay others to recast the spell on you so that your quest would never end. You have been quietly hoping an enemy will properly hit you with a Dispel Magic spell for years now.

Bards are such popular support members lately that adventurers will kidnap them to help out with quests. Additionally, it appears that most adventurers do not understand that not all tavern entertainers possess magical powers.

Your uncle is a mobster and this seemed like a good way to launder money at the time.

You want to be the world's first doctor for monsters, but you need to know how their insides work first.

You went into necromancy at the age of 13 because you thought it sounded cool. Later you realized that being a necromancer adventurer is alright with the populace but being a necromancer non-adventurer is punishable by death.

After a spell went wrong, active adventurers are the only people who can see you and you can't handle the lonliness any longer.

No one seems to realize that you aren't a murderhobo and are just a normal hobo.

[Emperordaniel]

- Someone keeps wrecking your cabbages, and you will make them pay.

[BootStrapTommy]

- Because you stole someone's boots, and now they won't stop chasing you.

- Because someone stole your boots, and now they won't stop chasing you. And stealing your new ones.

[Rad Mage]

Because the cultists decided you would be the perfect spouse of their god's avatar... And they worship Juiblex.