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2. Well dryies up must go look for water
3. House burned down time to look for a new place to live
4. Can't afford to pay that loan shark, better leave before they come back
5. Got drunk, woke up in another town
6. Chased out of town by mob for selling fake magic scrolls
7. A lamma tells you to
8. After a flood the mine is close, no work no reason to stay
9. Your grandmother's back in town.
10: Your tavern bill is due... gotta go make some cash!
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11. Everyone's dead.
12. Everyone's undead.
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13. ADVENTURE!!!
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14. You buy two golems and discover that they have secret plans to an evil fortress, a local druid tells you your father was a powerful sorcerer, and then Chelish Hellknights kill your aunt and uncle. Time to book passage out of there on a junky-but-fast sloop captained by a roguish smuggler and his shaggy-but-lovable monster sidekick!
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10. It's on goddamn FIRE
11. There's a terrible omen of misfortune over the whole place
12. The new ruler declares your race to be un-people
13. As you become more powerful, the people turn against you out of fear and envy
14. Your real identity comes to light
15. Your family's throats are slit in the night and the symbol of your old nemesis is carved into your door
16. Rumours abound of a hidden treasure hoard beneath the Sharp Mountains of Probable Death
17. Taxes sky-rocket
18. You are drafted to fight against the dwarf menace
19. To your great confusion, the watch are putting up wanted posters identifying you as a rapist
20. A doppleganger has stolen your identity in your absence. She has you hunted for being a doppleganger
21. Your old adventuring buddy calls in the big favour you hoped he'd forgotten.
22. It was never a very nice town in the first place and you've finally got the money together
23. A talking weasel insists that you follow it
24. The reining monarch whispers something in your significant other's ear and gets a punch in jaw for their trouble
25. The plague is spreading!
26. You just robbed the bank
27. You have fallen in love with a member of the wrong social class
28. You have fallen in love with a member of the wrong race
29. You have fallen in love with a member of the wrong gender
30. You awake one morning in the body of a terrifying monster.
31. To get to the dungeon.
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32. Towns on fire. You did it.
32.A. Because you're a burgeoning sorcerer. It was an accident (or not)
Off a bit on numbers.
36. The local church brands you a heretic.
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39. You find the baker you are apprenticed to cooked in his oven.
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40. Plague that causes all who die from it to rise as zombies slays half the town in 24 hours.
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42. Mayor's daughter is pregnant, guess who's the dad? Not to mention that she's going to require a certain standard of living...
43. Wide-ranging caravan needs guards, and they've heard you are pretty good in a fight.
44. Dad's dead, mom is sick, and you're going to need money to pay that apothecary bill.
45. Bill the Blacksmith's prize mare has gone missing, and an unsavory type not from around these parts was sizing her up just last night. Go track'm down!
46. You're lucky with cards. Sometimes too lucky. And sometimes, well, not so lucky but you manage to win anyway. Last night a drunk called you on it, and now he's seeing the local healer. Problem is he's the son of the local bigwig, and you have nothing.
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46. one of the local gangs keeps asking you to join, because you're pretty good with a bo staff
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9. Your grandmother's back in town.
9a. The Inlaws are back in town.
9b. Your ex is back in town.9c. Your creditors are back in town.
9d. The boys are back in town.
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49 (Metagame Artifact)
The Tankards of Adventure
After drinking from these, a group of neophytes who have never met before, and have nothing in common, immediately grab their gear and leave town in search of adventure, excitement and realy wild things!
Reggie
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50 Mum and Dad change the locks...
Reggie
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51. This old man in the tavern gave you some story about a treasure and a map, and you and your friends needed a vacation anyway...
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52. Your GM went with a new system you hate so you wrote up a new town. (Shining Jewel.)
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??) The Empress is pregnant, The Emperor wants the daddy dead (might be you).
??) The Princess is pregnant, The King/Emperor either wants the daddy dead, or to take his responsibilities.
??) Sorry. the (X) is in another hamlet/village/town/castle.
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57. If you're a cross eyed pegasus pony, move to a game world where a small rider can handle your stearing problem. (Yes, I'm making fun of people trying to ponyize Pathfinder. What of it?)
58. You've started seeing things. Everyone says you're going mad, but you're not. You know there's a message, something to be found, something to be learned. And you can't find it here. The visions tell you to go somewhere. You go.
59. You opened the wrong door. You never meant to leave home but now you're somewhere else.
60. The local mage guild had an accident.
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57. If you're a cross eyed pegasus pony, move to a game world where a small rider can handle your stearing problem. (Yes, I'm making fun of people trying to ponyize Pathfinder. What of it?)
61 - Taxes. You don't have to pay them if you steal a dragon's hoard and build your own kingdom.
5. Got drunk, woke up in another town
5a. Got drunk while at port, and woke up in a jail 400 miles inland (I was a very confused sailor).
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63) The local druid says Hurricane Elspeth is going to flood the town in a matter of days.
64) Your town has a dark secret and you want no part of it.
or
65) Your town has a dark secret, YOU.
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66) People in town have been acting stranger and stranger over the last few weeks, staying indoors on all but overcast days, wearing hooded cloaks pulled up over their faces, and clustering together, unspeaking, as if communicating in some language that you can't hear. One morning you notice while walking to market that everyone is wearing hoods now, and they all turn to look at you as you pass, tracking your progress before returning to their huddled non-conversations.
Whatever the heck is going on, you are pretty sure that you want no part of it...
71) You burnt down the town. Everything. now someone has raised it back up again. People included. you know when you are not welcome.
72) Your pet goblin has started growing horns, his eyes are glowing orange and his skin is starting to turn red. People are not complaining about the stink anymore, they are complaining about the smell of brimstone. Problem is you are attached, that and you did it...
73) You are the local surgeon/alchemist, and you found out that you can implant bombs in people. that was years ago and now people are starting to get old... You dont want to be around when someone has a heart attack at the market...
66) People in town have been acting stranger and stranger over the last few weeks, staying indoors on all but overcast days, wearing hooded cloaks pulled up over their faces, and clustering together, unspeaking, as if communicating in some language that you can't hear. One morning you notice while walking to market that everyone is wearing hoods now, and they all turn to look at you as you pass, tracking your progress before returning to their huddled non-conversations.
Whatever the heck is going on, you are pretty sure that you want no part of it...
66) -> 74)...you realized there and then, that you've been in Nidal all along. All the more reason to get out of there!
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75) The Baron, The Baroness, and the Baron's Daughter all compare notes and each realizes you've been carrying on a torrid affair with the other two behind their back.
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75) You know about this cabin in the woods; it's KINDA remote but your girlfirend Linda is down. Besides, you have this necklace you want to give her, you're even thinking about proposing.
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76) You were studying the theory of teleportation spells with a classmate. He chants and gestures and before you can duck out of the way, you appear in a room where a group of strangers are attacking a fire elemental. You have no memory of the past week.
77) A tannery opened next door. Pee-ew!
82 Town collapsed into subterranean ruins, you had to get away from the now city-wide dungeon. Get supplies, a team and maybe consider coming back.
83 Your favourite tavern went down with it, time to find a new watering hole.
84 The attractive individual you've had your eyes on across the tavern many a cold night is leaving town, you've finally introduced yourself and offer your services as an escort.
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Sel, that is all sorts of serial killer trucker creepy.
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90 The voices tell you to.