101 Reasons to adventure

[Durkoala]

* You really like swords and there's no reason in having so many and not using them.

* Some dudes think that swords are inferior to shurikan/spells/fists. You're going to prove them wrong.

* There's a fighting tournament and everyone's invited.
** The guitar-playing Super Saiyan Zombie who killed your girlfriend is in this tournament.

* Storms are raging, seas are rising, giant cats are running amok, you've met a hot chick with awesome spells/hot guy with cool swords, and the world's probably ending. What else are you going to do?

* You like swords/spells. Many things don't like you. There's fighting, and a Super Saiyan Zombie who has been caught by a Pokémon. The world might be ending. Something like that, but it's going to be Epic.
** You were brutally murdered in a fighting tournament, but got better. It's time for revenge.

* The world is in a terrible state and you've made it your duty to fix it.
** Some guy is destroying the world in the name of fixing it and you're going to stop him.
*** You were defeated by murderhobos and they've made you their cute mascot, willingly or not.

* You decided to poke a sealed demon to see what would happen. It didn't turn out very well.
** You're trying to atone for your past sins... this might not be the best way to do so, but it's definitely fun.

* Your kleptomaniac tendencies have caught up with you and now you have to retrieve an artefact that everybody thinks you stole, and they won't believe that it wasn't you this time.
** Murderhobos have the attention spans of caffinated gnats: sending them on a retrival quest with no personal stakes is an exercise in futility, so somebody has to keep them on track. Congratulations on your new job!
*** Hot chicks, sweet loot and beer.

These are all from the same series.

[Bucky]

Here's a couple I've used:

*You're a construct philosopher who was challenged to figure out the meaning of life. So you {find living person, follow them around until they die, repeat} until you understand it.

*You were abducted from your homeworld by a very badly worded Wish. Adventuring is the only plan that might earn you a favor from someone powerful enough to provide a return trip.

[Totema]

- your kids kicked you out of the house

- The house kicked you out of itself.

[Fable Wright]

-'Tis better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Might as well get a head start on reaping the damned souls for your army.

-You heard that Abyssal parties vrock, but the dancing will ruin you. You'll need to become a real party demon if you want to survive your invite.

-You've been stuck with someone narrating your actions sprinkled with horrible puns in your head all your life, and you decided that they might as well start telling you something interesting for once.

-You woke up one day and realized that everything you've ever loved were spiders. Your wife in bed next to you was a swarm of spiders. Your bed was a giant spider with a web on its back. Your house was the hollowed-out spinneret of a living, colossal spider. You don't know what happened to your son, or why you thought any of these things weren't made of spiders, but right now you're really freaked out and the only people who believe you are murderhobos.

[JAL_1138]

-You woke up one day and realized that everything you've ever loved were spiders. Your wife in bed next to you was a swarm of spiders. Your bed was a giant spider with a web on its back. Your house was the hollowed-out spinneret of a living, colossal spider. You don't know what happened to your son, or why you thought any of these things weren't made of spiders, but right now you're really freaked out and the only people who believe you are murderhobos.

----You woke up one day and caught your wife shapeshifting into a spider, because you live near Herath on the Savage Coast (Mystara) and it turns out she's an aranea. Because of the deep cultural taboo around being found out by members of another race, she panicked and fled from you. Whether you're horrified and bathe for a week straight in lye then drink the strongest booze you can find until your liver dissolves, or whether you're okay with that and want to find her and try to work things out, either way, you sure as heck aren't going to stay home.

[Emperordaniel]

- Because a royal prince was assigned to be your squire, and you want to teach him about how the common people live.

[goto124]

- Because you're a prince who made your father made, and now you're a squire. Whoops.
- Who wants to stay in a glided cage forever anyway?

[dramatic flare]

- Your favorite author just put out the new book in the series, but not in your region, and so to avoid spoilers you've gone to great lengths to find the only adventuring party within which no one has read that book.

- You bought a wayward caravan dowsing rod, and now seek to make a return on your investment.

- You'e actually a play wright and will be producing a piece on your adventures.

- You desire to find the world's GREATEST CUP OF COFFEE (tm).

- Cheaper than college.

- Went to the store to buy milk, but the store only possessed polearms.

- Your cape kept billowing dramatically in the breeze, and you figured that if you had a thing going you might as well take advantage of it.

- Waiting for the statute of limitations to run out in your home town.

- "Adventuring" is too cliché. You think of yourself more as a vagabond dungeon-delver for hire, and you were into killing goblins before it was cool. Also, all of your armor and weapons are bronze, which is a way more retro material than that steel everyone is using.

- Parents demanded you get a job.

- Discovered it's more fun to curse in Draconic, now attempting to find all draconic curse words.

- Banned from entering any town within three hundred miles after the noodle incident.

- Desire to understand why we can't have nice things.

- Not actually a wziard, just think the staves are cool looking.

- General desire to improve hearing and sight as you get older instead of visa versa

- Compensating.

- Just in it to watch spells go off.

[Illithid]

*You are a Devil Bunny, and you need a ham. You are under the erroneous impression that this will get you one.

*Nothing good on TV.

*THEY TUK ARR JURBS!!!!

*Finished season 5 of Walking Dead, miss seeing zombies.

*Tired of everyone on that show refusing to call them "zombies".

*Dressed up for Renfair, can't get chainmail bikini off.

[Raimun]

101: And because it's f*****g fun!

[TheTeaMustFlow]

-You heard that Abyssal parties vrock, but the dancing will ruin you. You'll need to become a real party demon if you want to survive your invite.

* The Inevitable charged with hunting down those responsible for excessive punning has you marked for death, but Olidammara managed to stick an adventurer's exception into the interplanar anti-punning-proliferation treaties.

[TurboGhast]

- The house kicked you out of itself.

Your house is currently chasing you and you need to get stronger to fight it off.

[JAL_1138]

Your house is currently chasing you and you need to get stronger to fight it off.

While you were gone to market one day, a Hermit Elephant stole your house to use as a shell, and now you have to track it down.

[Rater202]

You're a hag. some jackass murdered your house and roasted up it's giant chicken legs to feed to his dragon friend. Hunt down and kill the bastard and his dragon, then gather up enough money to buy a new house.