101 Reasons to adventure

[kaoskonfety]

- Desperate to get out of pig farming and or/marrying a pig farmer...
- Murder is easier than doing my taxes...
- SOMEONE has to sex up all the green space ladies...
- Need to find Luke and give him **** for skipping out on going to Tosche Station with the gang to pick up power converters, he was our ride man...
- ANYTHING to make the visions of our doomed future stop, god they are SO annoying...
- Prove to my kids that they are exaggerating how tough dragons are...
- To show up the neighbours, they haven't slain the Tarraque, ha!...
- can't do housework today dear, I'm going to the land of Greth to over throw the tyranny of Lord Drax. Housework is HARD...
- Murder hobo or call centre job? no contest...
- Retirement was getting dull...

[Trevortni]

Let's see how many spouse-related ideas we can come up with....

Your spouse:
- is the new BEG in town.
- rolled a rather bizarre roll on the "love dice" they bought from a traveling salesman.
- confessed to being you from the future.
- revealed him/her/itself to actually be the evil twin of who you thought you married
- is dying of a mysterious illness
- is dying of a non-mysterious illness
- already died
- is aging backwards
- turned out to be a dragon
- went out for a gallon of milk and never returned
- turned out to be a spy for an enemy kingdom
- turned out to be the leader of the local Thieves' Guild
- wants you to get in shape
- has extremely expensive tastes in fashion
- doesn't remember marrying you
- thinks you murdered his/her brother/sister/the king
- thinks you are the new BEG in town
- has more than one spouse
- isn't your only spouse
- is pregnant. Which is quite odd, given your respective genders.
- wants you to become celestial
- is manifesting magic powers without the ability to control them
- was the victim of an attack in a nearby town
- is from a parallel universe (and cannot meet twin from this universe?)
- needs material components to make the ultimate spice garden
- is a deity in disguise/disgrace/hiding
- suddenly started speaking only Orc
- turned out to be substantially younger than you thought he/she would be
- was a mail-order bride/groom and told you stories of unspeakable horrors in the country he/she came from
- was a mail-order bride/groom with criminal intent
- is blackmailing you
- is a nag
- went adventuring first
- was an adventurer before marrying you; suggested you try it
- had an unusual request for what should be done with his/her ashes
- was formerly a different species
- accidentally gave you his/her bucket list instead of shopping list

Maybe I'd better stop before I start damaging reality....

[Lakaz]

-You're a photographer and realised that underground dungeons often have the most beautiful of scenery...
-You're out for revenge against a specific race or group- and an amnesiac. After killing a dozen of them as revenge for the death of your friends... you forget, and decide to kill ANOTHER dozen.
-You're a biologist and want an excuse to study the internal anatomy of exotic species. Especially sentient ones.
-You're the mayor and your popularity in the polls seems to drop every time your citizens are slaughtered by an angry bugbear (I have a player who is basically using this, actually)
-You're a human with Dwarfism, who is too embarassed to admit he isn't actually a wandering Dwarven adventurer.
-You picked up the magical macguffin, sold it to the adventuring party and then found out what it was worth later and that you got ripped off and set out to get it back (Or more money. Either way works)

[BootStrapTommy]

- you're the bastard offspring of some ******* who left your mother in a ditch and now your out to get your old man

- you fled the scene after knocking up some girl, and now this hooded stranger is pursuing you across the countryside

A hooded stranger who happens to be the first AND a time traveler!

-You're a sociopath

-To make the world embrace your people's peaceful way. By force!

- To travel to exotic lands, meet exotic people, and kill them.

[Emperordaniel]

- A mad sorcerer killed your father's master, and now you want to fulfill your father's sworn Blood Oath of Vengeance against him.

[DigoDragon]

- Your spouse kicked you out of the house

- your kids kicked you out of the house

- Your kids kicked your spouse out of the house.

- Your house kicked your kids out of you.

[Lord Raziere]

- Your house kicked your kids out of you.

-You kicked your house out of your kids
-Your house kicked you out of your spouse
-Your spouse kicked your house out of you

[GorinichSerpant]

-You kicked your house out of your kids
-Your house kicked you out of your spouse
-Your spouse kicked your house out of you

-your trying to figure out who kicked who out of what

[goto124]

-You're a photographer and realised that underground dungeons often have the most beautiful of scenery..
-You're a biologist and want an excuse to study the internal anatomy of exotic species. Especially sentient ones

I want these guys in a campaign.

'Hey, pretty necromancer, wanna post for a photograph?'

'Could you hurry up? I wanna see her insides!'

[Trevortni]

I want these guys in a campaign.

'Hey, pretty necromancer, wanna post for a photograph?'

'Could you hurry up? I wanna see her insides!'

Hmmmm..... maybe it's time to make a sig.....

[asnys]

- "Adventurer" sounds better on a resume then "unemployed."

- Going through a phase. A stabby phase.

- Seeking power to take vengeance on those who ruined your childhood: the neighborhood Homeowner's Association.

- An extremely specific sexual fetish.

[Psykenthrope]

- to roar through the land, unstoppable and unchallenged, travelling the world to see the rich diversity of wonders which fill it... and consume them!

This train is the best metaphor for player characters, ever. Following the rails? That is what a stupid train does!

^ This is so true it's not even funny. (Oh wait, yes it is. It's hilarious.)

Reasons for Adventuring:

- You want your teeth back.
- You're running from the guy whose teeth you punched out and then stole.
- You're running from the DRAGON whose teeth you stole.

- You want nothing to do with any prophecies about saving the world, and so are doing everything in your power to avoid becoming part of one. (Seriously, those things are a dime a dozen now)

- Your sword is demanding to be oiled with the blubber of a whale.

[Kodr]

- Destroy the group that got your favorite tavern shut down.

This sounds like the making of a Three Flavours Cornetto adventure. I'm so down for the debauchery.

[Lakaz]

-You lack any and all other qualifications for any job.
-You rolled a 20 on the random profession selector table
-You want to test out your pokem- Ahem, i mean, magical animal familiars in combat
-Somebody told you to.

[Brookshw]

Be your own boss! Set your own hours! Adventulax!

[Kami2awa]

- You're employed under the king's scheme to get the unemployed back to work... or at least reduce their numbers by any means necessary.
- The Chosen One Who Will Redeem The World got run over by a cart while you were nearby. You happen to look exactly like him and got dragged along in a case of mistaken identity.
- You want to see mountains again, mountains!
- You're researching an anthropology thesis on the habits of the common adventuring party.
- You're an embedded reporter, charged with reporting back all the party's mighty deeds.
- You're an undercover cop, charged with reporting back all the party's evil deeds.
- Your dad left you nothing but a sword, a map, and a 10' pole, so this was the obvious career choice.
- For the passion!
- For the glory!
- For the memories!
- For the money!

[asnys]

- You're actually a doppleganger who replaced a party member in the last dungeon, but who decided that tagging along seemed like more fun then stabbing them in the back.

[Grim Portent]

- To spread famine and plague across the land. Because you can.

- To buy more booze.

- Your evil empire won't build itself.

- You are on a sacred quest to exterminate all door-to-door salesmen.

[DigoDragon]

- You saw some weird ideas on a messageboard and thought 'Hey, I can do that!'

[Emperordaniel]

- You're a carpenter who has made it his life's goal to go from town to town and carve pro-adventuring messages on random boards.

[Milodiah]

• Sent to prison by a military court for a crime you didn't commit; escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
• Afflicted with severe case of a playercharactritis; symptoms include delusions of grandeur, acute kleptomania, and obsessive hoarding of weapons, equipment, and potions.
• Bought this stupid sword anyway, figured you'd try to get some use out of it.
• Dungeon crawling currently a trendy fitness routine.
• Previous full-time adventurers levelled up, became disinterested in you peasants and your low-CR crises.
• College of the Arcane looking for strong extracurricular involvement on applications nowadays.
• Discovered earlier that princess was in another castle.
• Not much work in town after the last adventuring party burned down the whole forest while fighting a dragon.
• Decided that since you're already killing giant spiders with a sword, might as well go ahead and introduce yourself as an adventurer rather than an exterminator.
• President kidnapped by ninjas; suspected you were a bad enough dude to rescue the President.

[Talyn]

From my current adventuring group:

- because you want to marry the princess, and her father the King isn't going to give you his blessing unless you become rich, famous and/or powerful (the paladin)
- because your father disapproves of your life choices, so you are going to be the best there ever was! That'll show him (the monk)
- because after four hundred years of being unhappily married, you just need a break from your nagging wife (the elf ranger)
- because in order to finish your doctoral dissertation at the Mage College, you need to do some field work (the wizard)
- because you are the second son of a nobleman, and your brother exiled you for being too competent and threatening his inheritance (the cleric)
- because a bunch of heavily-armed maniacs picked a fight with some orcs who were raiding your caravan, and basically swept you up into following them over your objections (the rogue)

[Trevortni]

All the kids in your village's playground were killed by a Giant.

[veti]

Ten reasons, in no particular order:

- Dad died, looking for Grandma's remains in the Tomb of Horrors. I'm going to beat that thing one day!
- I need to raise $(sum) to ransom my dad/pay the property taxes on my old orphanage/buy back the Muppet Studios from the evil oil baron
- They can't take the sky from me!
- I was playing hide and seek when I stumbled through the back of this wardrobe
- Uncle Bilbo left me this stupid ring, and this old firework peddlar says it's painted a target on my back
- I'm too tall to work in a dwarven mine
- I'm a claustrophobic dwarf
- I'm an elf with hayfever
- I've always wanted to take other people's stuff without getting arrested
- The careers advisor said it was this or banking

[Brookshw]

All the kids in your village's playground were killed by a Giant.

Some kids cut down the beanstock causing your brother to plummet to his doom. Revenge time!

[Raimun]

- Some people just really like fighting and since they are proactive, they go and find fights. I mean, it is better than having a fight find you.

[Rater202]

You are a proud norseman and a mighty warrior. You're trying to hunt down and avenge yourself on the milk drinker of a witch who stole your clothes.

[asnys]

- Your dungeon raiding is actually an elaborate performance art piece.

- You're engaged in a long-term plot to overthrow the obsolete feudal order by pumping huge amounts of gold into the economy, causing rampant inflation and economic collapse. It's brilliant, I tell you!

[BootStrapTommy]

- Because someone stole your boots.

- Because you want some pie.

[Gritmonger]

- Magnets!

- You need to decorate, and nothing in town is nearly suitable.

- Nails done, hair up - time for some murder!

- Somebody plucked you out of reality to be the embodiment of rage - and that just made you mad.

- Somebody called you a "Murderhobo" and you'll be damned if you'll take that from anybody, so let's just see how smart they are when you get out of this cardboard box and cleave them in twain!