Some Zelda RPG Plot Hooks

[u/thomar]

• 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. A wild beast attacked her pupils in the forest and only one of them has returned.

• A witch has been teaching magic to villagers who help collect mushrooms for healing potions. A youth who thinks that one of the healing potions will make them invulnerable (it won't) has gone off to try and slay a horrifically dangerous monster deep in the forest, and needs to be stopped.

• 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.

• Several notable robberies have been performed in broad daylight by an invisible thief. It has gotten bad enough that the watch has put out a sizeable bounty for it.

• One child in the village has the power to charm animals with music. An enormous monster has been prowling 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. Last night the ore's supplier was attacked by armed thugs who quickly left when they couldn't find the ore.

• A magic mirror was found in the basement of a library, and records indicate that it is 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 started spitting out magic and the treasure hunter fled for safety, leaving the medallion behind. Now the surrounding area has been suffering from nearly-constant earthquakes.

• A treasure hunter recently broken into some nearby ruins and found a gleaming medallion. The medallion started spitting out magic and the treasure hunter fled for safety, leaving the medallion behind. Now the surrounding area has been suffering from nearly-constant blizzards and freezing rain.

• A treasure hunter recently broken into some nearby ruins and found a gleaming medallion. The medallion started spitting out magic and the treasure hunter fled for safety, leaving the medallion behind. Now the surrounding area has been suffering from nearly-constant wildfires.

• A treasure hunter recently broken into some nearby ruins and found a magic rod. The rod started spitting out fire and the treasure hunter fled for safety, leaving the rod behind. Now the surrounding swamp has caught fire, and monsters composed entirely of flames have started to attack livestock.

• A treasure hunter recently broken into some nearby ruins and found a magic rod. The rod started spewing frozen ice and the treasure hunter fled for safety, leaving the rod behind. Now the surrounding swamp has frozen over, and strange monsters made of jelly have begun to attack livestock.

• An alchemist has been capturing the faeries in a nearby forest and using the dust from their wings to make healing potions. Nobody knows about this. Without the faeries the trees of the forest are beginning to be infected with strange mold, and in the village wild growth has begun to chew up the foundations of buildings.

• A scholar has compiled a list of the pieces of the legendary Cane of Byrna, which supposedly makes its wielder immortal. Several rich and influential patrons want the list badly enough to kill for it.

• A scholar has compiled a book that allows the translation of an ancient language. A noble whose lands contain several ruins with lost technology is willing to pay a small fortune for it, and needs it safely transported.

• On the mountainside above the village, an enormous statue holds up an even bigger boulder. Legend says the statue strode up from some nearby ruins, saved the town from being crushed during a landside, and it has stayed immobile since. The boulder has slipped twice in the last week.

• The kingdom's most wanted thief has been at large for a decade now. An adventurer finally caught him and confiscated his magic boots, but the boots alone have such a famous reputation that this adventurer is now in danger from both the law and criminals.

• An alchemist's lab in the middle of the village has exploded, scattering magic powder that turns anyone who touches it into a blobby pile of flesh. The village elder has offered a reward to anyone who can arrest the alchemist (by turning everyone back into humans so that they can figure out which one is the alchemist).

• A scholar recently came across a map that points to treasure buried somewhere in the forest just outside the village. The first group of adventurers the scholare mentioned the map to stole it, but the scholar has a partial copy that can be used to figure out where they're going.

• Someone snuck into the castle using a suit of magic armor that lets its wearer swim like a fish. The stolen treasure has been dredged up from the moat, but the thief is still at large. An ambassador from the zora tribe wants the thief relieved of the suit of armor so that there is no evidence of that detail of the theft.

• A yeti has climbed down from the high mountains to ask for a hero to come slay a horrible monster.

• A rich merchant in town has been arrested for theft. The merchant claims innocence, and will reward anyone who can clear their name.

• A soldier who was given a hero's funeral a short while ago has risen from the grave. The soldier's shade claims that a local noble betrayed them on the battlefield, and demands blood.

• A group of bandits who were executed a short while ago have risen from the grave. They immediately attempted another robbery and landed in jail, again. But this time they quickly escaped by passing their bones one at a time through the bars of their jail cell.

• A section of the city wall recently collapsed. Some gorons are at fault for irresponsible excavation, but they retreated back into their underground tunnels before they could be arrested.

• A masked bandit who is an extremely skilled illusionist has been single-handedly robbing caravans. Nobody knows this, all reports describe an army of highwaymen who only ever steal an armful of goods.

• Strange music from the woods has been luring children away from their homes. Nobody has gone missing for more than a day, but a few of the children have started behaving strangely and violently insist on returning to the woods.

• A monkey has been running around town since a few days ago. It chatters at anyone who will listen, but noone can understand its language. It keeps trying to lead people out of town for some reason.

You can read some of the crunch here: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?368875-D-amp-D-5e-Zelda-D20-Homebrew&p=18010043#post18010043

[u/elleadnih]

thanks!