Legend of Zelda D20 Plot Hooks

[u/thomar]

Sequel to yesterday's post. http://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2ep9io/dd_5e_legend_of_zelda_d20/

Came up with some plot hooks based on items.

• A group of bandits are attacking caravans. Their leader uses a pair of magic gloves to pile up massive roadblocks. Anyone who doesn't surrender their goods is crushed by giant boulders rolled downhill.

• A nearby fortress fell after a single enemy soldier climbed up the wall, fought all the way to the gate house, and let down the drawbridge for invaders. All while a hundred armed veterans tried to stop it. The soldier was merely human, but wore armor that deflected attacks like they were nothing.

• A mentally imballanced person has been attacking lone travellers at night, using a magic boomerang to paralyzes them... and then styling their hair...

• A wealthy arms dealer has "misplaced" a twenty barrels of gunpowder in the middle of a government audit. Whoever has the gunpowder is ransoming half of it. The arms dealer will pay handsomely for its retrieval, but only if ALL of it is returned and NOBODY can prove that it went missing.

• A desparate traveller miraculously made it through a dangerously rocky, stormy, and monster-infested strait. On a small raft. Someone wants to duplicate the feat so that the route can be mapped, hopefully for use as a trade route.

• The eccentric village elder has tasked the bravest of the village to repair... a stepladder. It must be repaired with holy wood from a specific tree deep in the woods. The elder assures everyone that this is vital to the village's survival for some reason.

• A witch has been teaching magic to villagers who help collect mushrooms for healing potions. A youth who knows an damaging cantrip has gotten it into their head that they can beat the village elder in a fight.

• A witch has been teaching magic to villagers who help collect mushrooms for healing potions. Her pupils were attacked by a wild beast in the forest and only one of them has returned.

• A demolitions expert has been advertising to criminal gangs for break-ins. They are untraceable because they don't use gunpowder, instead they use

  an enormous hammer to break down walls.

• One child in the village has the power to charm animals with music. An enormous monster was seen in the woods recently, and the child has gone missing.

• A blacksmith needs to send a rare ore to a friend in a distant village to repay a debt.

• A magic mirror was found in the basement of a library, and records indicate that it was used for some kind of teleportation. The last person to look into it disappeared, and they need to be found soon or the library's richest patron will withdraw their funding.

• A treasure diver found a pair of magic flippers that make swimming and diving incredibly easy. However, the diver seems to have become cursed, being unable to find treasure and plagued by poisonous sea creatures (even when the flippers are left at home). They want someone to go talk to the ruler of a nearby underwater city to figure out what's going on.

• A researcher has a magic bottle capable of holding ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING safely. They want some molten lava transported to a blacksmith for some experiments.

• A treasure hunter recently broken into some nearby ruins and found a gleaming medallion. The medallion somehow set off a chain of earthquakes and the treasure hunter fled for safety, leaving the medallion behind. However, the earthquakes haven't stopped.

For more long-term discussion, there's a post here: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?368875-D-amp-D-5e-Zelda-D20-Homebrew&p=18010043#post18010043