20 D&D Rogue Quest Ideas
This week’s guest blogger is author, Thomas Biehl. He has prepared 20 quest ideas for the party’s rogue.
- An adventuring group asks you to open a chest for them, it’s empty, but they don’t believe you and think you stole its contents.
- The local magistrate wants someone to be gotten rid of ‘quietly’, so they hire you, but then you realize you are the intended target.
- You use Mage Hand to pickpocket a wizard’s spell book, which contains dark magic; you think nothing of it until someone close to you dies under mysterious circumstances.
- A local noble hires you to spy on his enemy who is gathering righteous forces; to do so you have to impersonate a paladin.
- A healer needs money; she asks you wound, but not kill, several people so that she can heal them and split the profits with you.
- A party hired you to deal with traps, then left you for dead; you escaped and are ready to get even.
- A ranger scout on an opposing side spots you alone in a thick forest, and a deadly game of hide and seek ensues.
- A party is auditioning for a thief; the task, steal the jeweled necklace of a local nobleman’s wife, which she never takes off.
- Members of your old guild are disappearing when a mysterious note appears in handwriting you recognize and asks you to meet.
- A fellow Rogue inadvertently tries out a new form of poison on you…
- You awake stripped of all your equipment and weapons; you must escape using only your skills.
- A lout at a bar challenges you to a dagger throwing contest, and you win his dagger only to find out that it is cursed.
- The only way to get to something you need to steal is by an opening only a child could fit through, what do you do?
- A man is certain that his wife is cheating on him and wants proof, he will only pay you for proof. You find out that she isn’t cheating, but is rather attractive…
- A dragon suspects a rogue stole from his hoard and tells you to find out who or he’ll roast you.
- A lord hires you to attend a dinner party for his noble. He wants you to steal something special from each one of the guests.
- You are hired to assassinate a local rabble-rouser; when you got to his home, he isn’t there, but his daughter catches you there.
- A member of your party finds things of theirs missing and blames you; you scoff, but the items are found among your belongings.
- An anonymous person hires you to test out the traps they set to protect their dungeon, but it turns out to be an old rival who is trying to trap you.
- You wake up, hung over, to find out several people were stabbed by daggers, a few died, in a tavern brawl and you are being blamed.
About the author:
Thomas Biehl is a writer, teacher, parent, and petty dabbler in theoretical physics, metaphysical philosophy, and abnormal psychology. Read more at biehlsnotebook.wordpress.com.
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January 11, 2019 at 2:17 pm
I really like #5 and I can’t wait to try it out in my own campaign. Great work!
January 15, 2019 at 6:43 pm
2. sounds like a plot hook I once had for our party rogue. The rogue gets hired to kill someone, but when he gets to the target, he finds the person already dead, and the police are already at the door (a la Watchmen). also 12, sounds hilarious. A dagger that always misses know matter how well you roll to attack, and you can’t sheath it, and it always returns to you, no matter where you throw it, but never when you expect it. lmao
January 22, 2019 at 10:31 pm
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