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Spirit

A ghost or apparition, or some other sentient form of deceased thing, is looking for assistance.

Survive

The party must escape or weather some hostile force or place.

Dangerous Territory

An especially dangerous land.

Valuables

Something that is worth its weight in gold.

Royal

Someone with noble bearings is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Organization

One group is against the party.

Ally with the enemy

An adversary, by choice or by chance, will become an ally.

Destruction

To complete the adventure, an exorbitant amount of destruction will be unleashed.

2

Organization

A group is in need of adventurers. Roll again on this table or insert one of your own.

Hit

The party must rough up or kill a target.

Opulent Residence

An estate, mansion, or other well-to-be place.

Information

Knowledge can be worth more than its weight in gold.

Child

A young creature is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Royal

One person of noble descent is against the party.

Betrayed by contact

The contact, or some other ally if there is none, becomes an adversary.

Economic Harm

To complete the adventure, wealth and the economy will take a serious hit.

3

Artisan

A skilled craftsmen contacts the party.

Find

The party must find someone or something.

Fortress

A place of military might!

Creature

Some rare or dangerous entity.

Loved One

Someone who the party cares for is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Criminal

One lawbreaker is against the party.

Disaster

External disasters and circumstances interfere with the adventure.

Environmental Damage

To complete the adventure, the world and nature will be harmed.

4

Loved One

A precious NPC needs the party's help.

Subdue

The party must capture something or someone.

City

A bustling place, where many cultures meet.

Experiment

A magical or mechanical test, dangerous or otherwise.

Adventurer

A fellow adventurer is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Magic User

One wizard, cleric, or other caster is against the party.

It was a diversion!

The whole adventure up to a point was a goose chase, used to distract the party

Loved Ones

To complete the adventure, people the party cares about will be in danger or worse off.

5

Criminal

Someone or something on the wrong side of the law needs help.

Prevention

The party must stop an event from happening. At your discretion, it could be another entry on this table.

Prison

Whether criminals or enemies, people are held here.

Key

The linchpin to getting somewhere or something.

Pauper

Someone in squalid conditions is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Mercenary

One sellsword or hired adventurer is against the party.

Dodgy Ally

An ally doesn't support the party in a time of need, but doesn't necessarily backstab them.

Honor

To complete the adventure, the party must go back on a stance or a word.

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Royal

Someone or something of noble bearings is seeking out help.

Protection

The party must safeguard something, someone, or somewhere.

Underground

Basically the Underdark, but more broad.

Land

Territory is a strong motivation.

Beast

An animal or creature is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Religious Member

A pious individual, member of a cult, or priest is against the party.

False Pretenses

Enemies aren't enemies, and allies aren't allies! Nothing is as the party thought.

Bystanders

To complete the adventure, innocents will have to be caught in the crossfire.

7

Adventurer

A fellow adventurer is looking for like-minded individuals.

Subterfuge

The party must collect information via spying or surveillance.

Planetside

Your standard D&D wilderness and villages, with varied biomes

Medicine

People go to great lengths for healing and drugs.

Outlander

Someone who exists in the outskirts of civilization is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Common Monster

Standard monsters are against the party.

Technology

Some new invention or some unexpected boon makes the adventure even more difficult.

Loyalty

To complete the adventure, the party must abandon or even betray an ally.

8

Faction

An interplanetary, or even intersphere, organization needs the party.

Rescue

The party must free or retrieve someone from someone or something else.

Moon

A smaller satellite of planets. Typically your exotic locales are more common here.

Person

The coveted object is actually a person!

Criminal

Someone on the wrong side of the law is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Uncommon Monster

Nonstandard monsters are against the party.

Old Enemy

An old adversary returns, with or without vengeance in their heart.

Values

To complete the adventure, the values of PCs will be strained or broken outright.

9

Rumor

Word around town tips the party off to adventure.

Investigation

The party must collect information via interrogation, sleuthing, and exploration.

Debris Field

It could be asteroids, comets, or the shattered remains of a planet.

Sentimental Object

It's worth its weight in gold to the right person.

Refugee

Someone fleeing something awful is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Alien

A member of a nonstandard humanoid race is against the party.

Old Ally

An old ally returns, this time against the party.

Reputation

To complete the adventure, the party must make themselves worse in the public eye.

10

Mercenary

Someone or something hired for an adventure is looking for reinforcements.

Theft

The party must retrieve something from someone or something else.

Space Station

A free-floating location, detached from any planets. It could even be another entry from this list!

Technology

The next step in inventive thinking.

Spirit

An apparition of some kind is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Savage

A primitive, bestial person is against the party.

Third Force

An unexpected player in the adventure rears its head.

Truth

To complete the adventure, the truth must be suppressed or a lie must be spread.

11

Common Monster

A monster, such as an undead or a monstrosity, is looking for assistance.

Transportation

The party must move someone or something from one place to another.

Spelljamming Ship

A space-faring vessel.

Treasure

Historical and Magical Artifacts of the ages.

Common Monster

A standard monster is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Beast

An animal or other creature is against the party.

Time Limit

The adventure suddenly needs completed by a deadline.

Justice

To complete the adventure, someone or something will escape justice.

12

Uncommon Monster

A monster, such as an elemental or an Aberration, contacts the party.

Delving

The party must explore a ruined place.

Foreign Plane

A whole other dimension!

Spelljamming Ship

There are some rare and powerful models floating around.

Artisan

A skilled craftsman is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Extraplanar Entity

A denizen of another plane is against the party.

Its a trap!

The party was lead to their harm, or even their supposed death!

Wealth

To complete the adventure, the party itself will lose a substantial amount of wealth and resources.

13

Listing

An anonymous source is looking for adventurers. At your discretion, its identity may be one of the other entries on this list.

Fleet

The party must join a space attack from their ship.

Celestial Body

A single comet, asteroid, or other space object.

Weapon

Whether its a personal or siege weapon, someone wants it.

Ship

A Spelljamming Vessel is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Spirit

An apparition is against the party.

Reinforcements

The adversary is reinforced at the eleventh hour.

Ship

To complete the adventure, the party's ship will be harmed or destroyed.

14

Distress Signal

The party receives some form of urgent call for help.

Infantry

The party must join a combat force on foot.

Mine

Tapping the Prime Material for resources!

Magic Items

There's some overlap with Treasure, but these tend to be the magic items PCs think of.

City

A whole city is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Village

An entire village is against the party.

Roped into Politics

The party gets dragged into a bigger picture conflict than they expected.

Horror

To complete the adventure, the party and bystanders will be traumatized.

15

Commoner

An outwardly ordinary contact reaches out to the party.

Labor

The party must perform a mundane, typical job.

Meeting Place

A tavern, inn, or bar.

Resources

Lumber, Metals, Air, etc.

Celestial Body

An asteroid, comet, or planetoid is willing to help, or is getting helped.

City

An entire city is against the party.

Subdued

The party is captured, imprisoned, or their progress is otherwise slowed.

Sacrifice

To complete the adventure, something precious in the world or to the party will be sacrificed.

16

Civilization

A country, continent or planet reaches out to the party.

Hunt

The party must Subdue or Hit something or someone, but it will fight back.

Faction Building

A guildhall, statehouse, or palace.

Plant

A rare or dangerous strain of plantlife.

Old Enemy

A previous adversary is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Country

An entire country is against the party.

Ally in danger

An ally is in dire straits, and the party must help.

The Battle and The War

To complete the adventure, the party's goals will be halted.

17

Previous Contact

Someone who needed the party in the past needs them again.

Anomaly

The party must contend with some bizarre happenings, like a Modron march or a hallucinatory trip.

Star

It could be a rolling ball of fire, a portal to the Elemental Chaos, or a living being of pure energy.

Smoke Powder

The fantasy equivalent of gunpowder. Need I say more?

Uncommon Monster

A nonstandard monster is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Celestial Body

An entire planet, comet, or other body is against the party.

Ship Shook!

The party's ship gives out just when they hoped it wouldn't.

Damned if you don't

To complete the adventure, an adversary of the party will be forwarded directly.

18

Previous Enemy

Someone who was opposite the party in the past now needs their help.

Long Form

The party must perform some downtime activity, such as building a magic item or creating a stronghold.

Wildspace

The voids between celestial bodies.

Slaves

Sad as it is, they're a commodity in the era.

Alien

A member of a nonstandard humanoid race, such as Giff or Hadozee, is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Faction

An entire interplanetary group is against the party.

Incoming disaster

The party becomes aware of an incoming problem that drags their attention from the adventure.

Backpedaling

To complete the adventure, the party's goals will be reverted or harmed somehow.

19

Chance

Nothing actively pulls the party into the adventure. There is no contact.

Persuade

The party must convince someone or something to start, change, or reverse their actions. Talk them up, essentially.

Phlogiston

The rainbow colored void between spheres, which are the equivalent of systems.

Followers

The admiration of the masses.

Awakened Object or Creature

A sapient object or animal is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Natural Phenomena

Nature and its workings are against the party.

Damned if you do

The party's goals are suddenly opposite the path of the adventure.

Discovery

To complete the adventure, the party will draw unfriendly attention to itself or something else.

20

Hybrid contact

Roll twice, ignoring results of 20. Somehow, two contacts are involved.

Dissuade

The party must convince someone or something to stop, change, or reverse their actions. Talk them down, essentially.

Shopping Place

Vast, vibrant bazaars and close little markets alike.

Celestial Body

A planet, asteroid, or other mass on that scale.

Faction Leader

The head of a major, interplanetary group is willing to help, or is getting helped.

Commoner

An outwardly average person is against the party.

Wrench in the plans

The plans of the PCs or their allies are extravagantly ruined.

Lost

To complete the adventure, the party will become lost or derailed.