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“Red Dragon” by Jeff Easley

1. Tiny dolls made of wheat sheaves are attacking the village at night, made by the children of the town being taught how to construct them by a night hag who disguises herself as a fairy godmother.
2. Three old ladies wander into town, and set up shop as adventurers, and knitting sweaters for their clients. Every quest the party goes on, they’ve somehow managed to skip to the end and defeat the big boss. Now they’re looking for a fight.
3. Two rival houses enlist the aid of the party in poisoning the leader of the other.
4. A rat catcher stumbles into the street and collapse. His body is covered in vicious bites. The terrified man can only speak a single, “Grokk”.
5. The PC’s fall asleep and are astral projected to an ancient alien temple/ruin/structure filled with bizarre traps, treasure, and creatures. If the survive they must try to find the great treasures, they left behind and the mystery of who sent them there.
6. A war has broken out between the guild of barber surgeons and a newly founded college of surgery. The city/town/region is in turmoil as the wounded flood temples and exhaust the resources of the clerics with mundane injuries.
7. A PC is trapped inside a Mirror of Life Trapping, and in freeing their party member, the players release a score of horrible creatures.
8. A fountain in a local park/garden is turning people’s tongues/hair/skin various colors as a precocious fey has taken up residence nearby.
9. A pit fiend will grant a wish to any who help him defect from the Bloodwar.
10. The books in a local temple/library/guild/shop have begun talking to one another, but never to people.
11. Seven townsfolk that disappeared seven years ago to the day have returned with no memory of where they have been.
12. The PC’s are hired to retrieve a valuable item from the flooded basement of a local inn/tavern/temple that has become invested with a swarm of angry, and very hungry, quippers.
13. The heraldic banner of an unknown lord/family/house flies in the middle of the town/city/fort and no one knows he planted it or why it is there.
14. A dim-witted flower seller is said to be wandering the city/town/region selling a rare and priceless, and believed to be extinct, flower known for its curative/magical properties for a copper each to the peasantry.
15. A jeweler is found murdered in his locked shop. A Necklace of Strangulation is the culprit.
16. A missing woodsman’s trail leads into the forest and ends next to a beautifully carved wooden throne that acts as a portal to the Feywild.
17. A troll spotted in the wilderness nearby is reported to speak common and offers sound advice to the terrified travelers that happen onto its path.
18. Every bird flown by the royal falconer disappears moments after being set loose.
19. Bards all over the region/town/city are being found turned to stone.
20. A wizard trapped for years on another plane/in stone/Imprisoned returns to find all his belongings sold off and he hires the PC’s to track down his notes/spellbook/research
21. The rare beasts being sold in town by a traveling merchant are just polymorphed cats that revert to their natural state an hour after purchase when the merchant is long gone.
22. The grave of a local hero has been desecrated and the corpse is missing.
23. A noble family’s new wet-nurse/servant is a member of a feuding family that goes back generations.
24. A famous playwright is found stabbed through the eye a week after being mysteriously arrested without cause.
25. A young maiden is drawing a fearsome red dragon on the cobblestones nearby and some villagers swear they’ve seen the dragon moving. What will happen when she finishes?
26. Panic ensues when every lock in the castle/city/town springs open at once as if from the Knock spell.
27. An antimagic field has appeared in the center of the town/city/temple and it is growing at an alarming rate.
28. A gang of valuable gladiators has escaped the fighting pits and must be captured alive.
29. An alluring belly dancer has been captivating crowds while her pickpocket lover robs them blind.
30. PC’s are drafted to lead an unprepared militia against a horde of orcs/gnolls/One Direction fans.
31. A sailing ship carrying the royal heir was destroyed by a kraken and the PC’s must recover the body, so he/she can be raised before the next in line can claim the throne.
32. Blood hawks have taken up nests in the town/city/temple/castle and are creating a nuisance as they protect their nests. Violence cannot be used as the blood hawk is the crest of a powerful noble/hero/family in the region.
33. Lizardmen/bullywugs have dammed a vital water source to create a new home as theirs has been claimed by a black dragon/band of harpies
34. All the player’s attuned items break their bonds with their owners
35. An arch mage needs help unleashing a plague of rust monsters on Dispater’s Iron Tower to rescue the Chalice of Heironeroius.
36. A NPC is convinced that their wife/husband is a doppelganger.
37. The city’s rat catchers are on strike and a plague threatens the populace is a diplomatic solution can’t be reached.
38. Cities are being raided by warforged marauders seeking something for their awakened iron golem “god”.
39. A dwarven hold has gone silent and ceased trading. Pc’s discover that the hold’s leaders have been replaced by simulacrums controlled by the Drow.
40. The pillars of the local temples want the PCs to kill or run off a mysterious cabal that is offering magical healing (and potions) for free.
41. The king/mayor/noble’s dog has run off to become the animal companion/familiar of a wandering ranger/wizard/druid and the PCs are offered a huge sum to return it at any cost.
42. A white, divine rank zero, stag has appeared in a local wood and the fey/elves/druids want to the PCs to help stop a band of orcs trying to claim the beast’s divinity for themselves.
43. As a newly opened university grows in size and influence divine and arcane magic in the area start to decline in effectiveness as local move towards science.
44. The king has died, and he was the only person who knew the location of the heir who was placed in status to protect him/her from political rivals.
45. A curse/plague/ randomly changes the language of everyone affected.
46. A thief running from the law hides in a manor house occupied by two sisters. The sisters turn out to be vampires/cultists/witches and kill him. Now the thieves’ guild hires the PCs to recover the stolen item from the manor.
47. Something is eating missionaries who are building a temple in a nearby swamp.
48. Each new moon, one of the players is contacted telepathically by an entity claiming to be trapped on the dark side of the moon.
49. You are invited to dinner/drinks by an old friend who keeps steering the conversation to a seemingly irrelevant item you acquired years ago on an adventure. He/she seem obsessed with finding the item, though they are evasion if questioned.
50. The party must obtain a recently crash meteorite made of adamantine that is currently being worshipped by a tribe of monstrous beings.

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