Table 1-10: Hooks and Motivations

Table 1-10: Hooks and Motivations (d100)

Motivations for players to choose adventure

Finally, there’s a table of possible motivations for the players/characters themselves. Players don’t like their characters to be “forced” into a particular adventure – which means you’ve got to offer a reason to choose one adventure over another. This table of motivations is quite useful no matter whether your initial creative spark comes from the Locations tables, the Mission tables, or the Villain’s Motivation tables.

Citation

Tome of Adventure Design, p. 26 (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/97423/Tome-of-Adventure-Design?affiliate_id=678287)

A random result will be collated from each column

d100	What Might Motivate Players to Choose this Adventure	How Characters Learn About the Opportunity
1-4	Ability to move inconspicuously in certain groups or places	A person offers to trade information about the opportunity in exchange for money
5-8	Additional form of movement: swim or breathe water, fly, teleport, etc	A person offers to trade information about the opportunity in exchange for money
9-12	Better equipment (possibly magical)	Dream or vision suggests the opportunity in symbols and metaphors
13-16	Bonuses to saving throws under certain circumstances	Friend, relative, or mentor of a character informs party of the opportunity
17-20	Cure disease	Inquiries in taverns lead to a rumor of this potential opportunity
21-24	Enhanced ability to cast spells	Inquiries in taverns lead to a rumor of this potential opportunity
25-28	Enhanced ability to see or hear	Inquiries in taverns lead to a rumor of this potential opportunity
29-32	Gain experience points or levels	Legend or prophesy suggests the opportunity
33-36	Gain forgiveness or pardons for prior actions	Letter or message is intercepted by characters (possibly due to mistaken identity, possibly overheard)
37-40	Gain hit points	Letter or message is sent to characters
41-44	Improve physical appearance	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
45-48	Improve initiative, rate of attacks or speed of actions	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
49-52	Improvement in movement rate	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
53-56	Improvement or bonus to class ability (turning undead, picking locks, etc)	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
57-60	Increased strength or other ability score	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
61-64	Learn additional language	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
65-68	Money	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
69-72	Noble status or improved social status	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
73-76	Permit travel (casting of teleport, creation of planar gate, opening of dimensional gateway, etc)	Potential employer contacts party to offer the opportunity
77-80	Permit travel (required documents, safe-passage, etc)	Potential employer has posted signs with some details of the opportunity
81-84	Provide needed equipment	Potential employer has posted signs with some details of the opportunity
85-88	Receive useful information	Recently arrived people bring back word of the opportunity
89-92	Remove a curse (or other problem lingering from a prior adventure)	Rumors are floating around with some details of the opportunity
93-96	Reverse aging	Rumors are floating around with some details of the opportunity
97-100	To-hit or damage bonus in certain circumstances	Sent dream suggests the opportunity in clear terms, but without revealing who sent the dream or why