Dragon's Demand Side Quest Assistance *SPOILERS*


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Good morning folks!

I am running Dragon's Demand this weekend for my group and am scratching my head a little bit coming up with enough side quests to interest my group in what is surely going to become a giant sandbox.

I am going to be adapting the encounters from the back of all of the PF comics that had them (been looking for an excuse to use the cool maps and monsters from them), but am looking for some more ideas for simple fedex or quick combat concepts that my players can undertake to help shift alignments for the townsfolk.

A few of them I figure can be as simple as skill checks to upright a cart, collect a stray flock of sheep, mend a fishing net, etc. but I am curious if anyone has come up with any other clever ideas that your players enjoyed.

Ideally I am looking for about a dozen more encounters that should take no more than 10 or 15 minutes to achieve, I am thinking maybe one or two larger quests that can shift alignment for NPC's of an entire faction.

Thanks for any advice you might have.

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I am also open to picking up any sort of 3PP encounter PDF that anyone knows might be floating around that might offer some ideas.


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Here's a quest I've come up with for my own campaign.

-drowning cow, a cow has fallen into the river. The pc's must roll swim checks dc 15 to avoid being swept down the river and possibly start to drown. Handle animal or wild empathy dc 13 to calm the animal and avoid being attacked (hoof -2, dmg 1d6+2), and strength check dc 17 to pull it ashore.


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-Barrels of ale and cases of liquor has gone missing from the inn. The culprits is a bunch of teenagers planning to have a party at an abandoned barn.

-Something has been breaking into the chicken coop of one of the local farmers. The culprit is an outcast kobold which can be tracked back to its lair in an abandoned cave. The kobold is terrified of the pc's and pretty harmless. He's not evil and was exiled from his tribe because he was a coward.

-A barn has caught fire with livestock or even people inside. Someone needs to go in and save them before it is to late.

-A local boy addicted to a rare drug created from herbs found in the woods have gone into recession and is desperately in need of another fix. Usually the local druid used to supply him with the herb, but he's gone missing. He asks the pc's to find the herb (or the druid) for him

-A flock of ravens has been ruining one of the farmers crops. The usual scarecrows doesn't work. the pc's are asked to help the farmer get rid of the birds.

-A couple of housewives are arguing over who makes the best pies. One is with the Shelyn faction the other with the Abadar faction. The pc's are asked to taste the pies and vote on which one they thought was the best.

-One of the locals asks the pc's if they would like to help him break in some horses and propose a friendly riding competition.

-Some kids challenge the pc's to a stone skipping contest.

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Thanks, I like it! I am working on a broken wagon axle for one, and will probably have an incident with a lycanthrope and the town's sheep flock.

It is all to easy to fall in to overused stereotypical town quests... still looking for more unique ieas like Mort's!


If you're willing to spend a few bucks there's plenty of ready made encounters from various 3rd party publisher's found HERE. I especially like the RANDOM ENCOUNTER series from Raging swan press.


Some more ideas:

-Strange noises has been coming from an old well. The locals think it is haunted and wants the pc's to investigate. The truth is that an animal (or non-intelligent monster, choose something appropriate for the pc's level) has fallen into the well and can't get out.

-An othyugh has taken up residence at the local dumping site and people has been dumping their trash in their neighbors yard, the surrounding wilderness and even in the town itself. The locals ask the pc's to help defeat the othyugh and clean up the town.

-A farmer has been secretly breeding stirges and let them loose on his neighbors livestock right before the annual farmer's market

-The mayor is offering a reward for anyone that manage to capture a pixie who's been pulling elaborate (but harmless) pranks on the locals for months.

-The local priests asks the pc's to find out who's been digging up graves and removing corpses. Their research leads them to one of the locals who's keeping a ghoul (which is his uncle) in his cellar and occasionally goes on grave-robbing expeditions to feed his uncle's insatiable hunger.

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