It's october and I thought it would be fun to create some #Horror #AdventureHooks for modern and #UrbanFantasy #TTRPG games. I have #DarkStreetsAndDarkerSecrets in mind with these, but they can easily be used with other games, such as #EsotericEnterprises, #NightShift, etc.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 01: The ghost of a drag racer is terrorizing the highway in the outskirts of the city, killing drivers in the night. Full of hate, he desires revenge against those that killed him. His former partner sabotaged his car to get away with other crimes.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 02: In the local university, students bring back an old and banned cult, worshipping a demon of secrets. Sacrifices are made in exchange of knowledge and influence. But someone decides it’s too not enough and now harbor a demon inside them.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 03: A teacher from a conservative school is actually a warlock. To punish kids, he locks their soul into dolls and place complacent spirits in their bodies. The school is praised for the discipline but some parents suspect something is wrong.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 04: In an abandoned old house, a tragedy happened. Now, the ghosts of the children who died there enthrall people who pass nearby to be their parents. However, being ghosts and children, they don’t know what they are doing and more people are dying.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 05: The road upstate has been covered by a thick fog for days, and many people are disappearing in it. The new Queen of the Unseelie Court found a way to take mortals for her entertainment and they are being played with in the Dreamlands.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 06: A chaos infused mushroom is being sold in the streets. It makes you experience your wildest dreams. But the dreams never stop, and people are getting stuck in their subconscious even while awake. Where does this comes from? How to make it stop?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 07: A powerful and wicked sorcerer is using their spells to bind the lives of powerful and corrupt people into magical candles. If the candles burn out, they die. The sorcerer is demanding change. Is this the right way?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 08: After the governor turned a former protected forest into a gold course, the ancient spirits of nature woke up to enact their vengeance, summoned by a sorcerer. Now, where the blood of people is spilled, new and stronger trees grow at great speed.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 09: A demon is stealing the faces of famous individuals to live their lives for a few days until they begin to rot. The demon wants to experience life besides the constant torment in hell and is unaware of the problems in their methods.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 10: The Blood Moon is in the sky and powered by the spells of the Cult Of Hate. People are becoming more and more violent, vengeful, and blood is flowing in the streets. Can the spell be undone?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 11: Unfaithful people are disappearing after meeting a seductive individual and now police suspect their former companions. They’ve met the Black Widow, an entity that devours their victims after they’re done with them.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 12: Everyone fear something, and now these fears are constantly manifesting in the city. Every night, the worst nightmare of someone comes to life and wreck their lives, and the lives of many others that are nearby. How’s this happening?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 13: Under the city, something stirred. Pollution, blood, suffering and anger that is washed down the drain made a creature of sewage and anger, and it can’t control itself. People wishing violence on others suddenly see their wish come true.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 14: People in a reformed building are disappearing. They are taken to a shadow world, where they are stuck, alone and afraid. Only the moon light reveals their presence. They can make only escape if the place is abandoned again.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 15: Darkness reign over earth, as the sub hasn’t appeared for more than 2 weeks. People are starting to feel the psychological effects of living in the shadows and no one knows why this is happening. In the shadows, something is being created.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 16: A Minotaur was summoned by a sorcerer and accidentally let loose in the streets. Now, alleys don’t take you where they should and people are getting lost in their own neighborhoods, just to be devoured by the foul beast. This needs to stop.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 17: A ambitious scientist, trying to cure “death” creates a serum to bring back the recently diseased. The problem is that those that are brought back are changed forever, marked by their bleak experiences, and desire to bring back their masters.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 18: A guitarist desperate for fame and success discovers the demon chord and now enthralls millions with their music. Little do they know each song slowly consumes their souls, and the demons are coming to collect what’s theirs soon.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 19: A cannibal cult is hunting down people they deem exceptional to eat them and absorb their talent. They have a wish list and rituals to get what they want.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 20: After a number if people died burned in a poorly maintained building, their anger and frustration gave life to the smoke. It now seeks to kill those responsible. Landlords, caretakers and inspectors are targeted.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 21: People are being completely erased from the world. They suddenly wake up and for the rest of the world, they never existed. Someone took their place. Someone do their work. Someone is with their loved ones. What will bring them back?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 22: A demon is collecting human skulls. People who have had life changing and extraordinary experiences are targeted, as the creature can read their memories on their skulls. Their corpses are found almost unharmed but the the skull missing.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 23: A powerful entity thar feeds on hope is tricking people into leaving this world to enter the creatures’ realm and becoming lost forever. The world becomes a bleaker and colorless place after every disappearance. Can they be rescued?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 24: There’s a world on the other side of the mirror, and their inhabitants are invading our own. Taking the place of their reflections, these beings are the antithesis of life as we know it. But can you tell them apart from yourself?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 25: After a outrageous night out, the characters wake up the next day and the world is completely changed. Humanity is gone. Cities were reclaimed by nature. But there’s something out there, watching them. Hunting them. Something they can’t see.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 26: A warlock summons powers beyond their understanding and binds a demon to an old camera. Now, people captured by its pictures are permanently locked in the moments and places the pictures were taken. The warlock is using this to eliminate rivals.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 27: It’s raining blood and anyone who gets drenched by this strange phenomena becomes completely overwhelmed with their deepest emotions, releasing suppresses desires long forgotten. What’s causing this?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 28: A thick fog covers the city and magically lock each space in itself. People cannot leave the place they are in, always weirdly walking in circles. Only those with a vision beyond the vail of false reality can see the paths between places.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 29: A devil of influence is using social media and influencers to mind control people into doing heinous acts. Afterwards, these individuals have very little memory of what happened and why they did what they did.
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 30: A reporter is receiving cassettes with recording of themself giving terrible and violent news that haven’t happened yet. One by one the news become true, but they kind feel responsible for what’s happening. Who are sending these and why?
#Horror #TTRPG #AdventureHook 31: A new highly addictive video-game is released and there’s something inside it that can really kill you outside of the game. A number of players are dying and authorities have no idea how is this happening.
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