Levels 1–4: Local Heroes; Levels 1–4 Adventure Situations

Source: Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024) p. 106

Levels 1–4 Adventure Situations

dice: 1d20	Situation
1	A dragon wyrmling has gathered a band of kobolds to help it amass a hoard.
2	Wererats living in a city’s sewers plot to take control of the governing council.
3	Bandit activity signals efforts to revive an evil cult long ago driven from the region.
4	A pack of gnolls is rampaging dangerously close to local farmlands.
5	A rivalry between two merchant families escalates from mischief to mayhem.
6	A new sinkhole has revealed a long-buried dungeon thought to hold treasure.
7	Miners discovered an underground ruin and were captured by monsters living there.
8	An innocent person is being framed for the crimes of a shape-shifting monster.
9	Ghouls are venturing out of the catacombs at night.
10	A notorious criminal hides from the law in an old ruin or abandoned mine.
11	A contagion in a forest is causing spiders to grow massive and become aggressive.
12	To take revenge against a village for an imagined slight, a necromancer has been animating the corpses in the village cemetery.
13	An evil cult is spreading in a village. Those who oppose the cult are marked for sacrifice.
14	An abandoned house on the edge of town is haunted by Undead because of a cursed item in the house.
15	Creatures from the Feywild enter the world and cause mischief and misfortune among villagers and their livestock.
16	A hag’s curse is making animals unusually aggressive.
17	Bullies have appointed themselves the village militia and are extorting money and food from villagers.
18	After a local fisher pulls a grotesque statue from the sea, aquatic monsters start attacking the waterfront at night.
19	The ruins on the hill near the village lie under a curse, so people don’t go there—except a scholar who wants to study the ruins.
20	A new captain has taken charge of a band of pirates or bandits and started raiding more frequently.
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