Races of Wild

APPENDIX 1: ONE HUNDREDADVENTURE IDEAS01 Game animals of all kinds seem to have vanishedfrom the forest where elves, halflings, or raptorans areaccustomed to hunt.02 No word has come from an elf, halfling, or raptorancommunity since a recent unusually harsh winter.03 A missing person of some notoriety was seen travelingwith a halfling caravan, but the caravan has vanishedwithout a trace.04 Someone or something is felling trees and destroyingbridges.05 Unusually large numbers of awakened trees infest a forest.06 A lone halfling has turned up with a staggering amount ofgold nuggets, prompting a gold rush into a forest wherethe local elves and raptorans resent the intrusion.07 Dark elf raiders have plagued a woodland community forweeks.08 Something or someone has dammed a river, depriving anelf settlement of its water source.09 A band of druids has vowed to rid the forests of allcreatures that walk on two legs.10 Someone has stolen a clutch of raptoran eggs.11 Some merchants have engaged a group of halflings toconvey their goods, but the halflings have halted in thewilderness and refuse to complete the trip.12 A captured drow boasts of a coming “reign of death.”13 Elves or raptorans refuse to allow passage of a paladin’sarmy through their forest.14 A halfling burglar has stolen a perilous artifact, and a greatcurse will descend over the land if it is not recovered.15 Dwarves refuse to curtail harvests of lumber from aforest near their citadel.16 A troupe of halfling circus performers have accidentallyreleased several valuable (and potentially dangerous)animals and magical beasts.17 A renowned animal trainer wishes to secure a breedingstock of brixashulties, chordevocs, and elven hounds.18 An elf community’s saelas groves are inexplicably dying.19 A wounded wildrunner staggers into town and giveswarning of a coming raid by evil humanoids or giants.20 A landowner claims to have found a document grantinghim ownership of the land where the local halflingenclave is located.21 A deadly plague that can be cured only with an infusionmade from the bark of rare tree sweeps over the land.22 A halfling caravan actually contains only doppelgangers.23 A group of settlers needs a guide to take them through aforest.24 A group of dwarves claim that the elves hold a relativeprisoner and want someone to rescue the captive (ornegotiate a release)25 Halfling brigands mounted on male brixas have made akey trade route unusable.26 A group of deep halflings begins burrowing under a townor city so aggressively that their delvings threaten toundermine the streets and buildings.27 Strange noises echo though a wooded hollow at night,and the locals fear a haunting.28 Woodcutters want to clear a stand of trees containingdozens of raptoran sky burials.29 A band of orcs start setting forest fires during a spell ofdry weather.30 A raptoran ranger needs help slaying a green dragon thathas driven her flock from its hunting grounds.31 Dancing satyrs trample a farmer’s crops.32 A druid has created a deadly maze of carnivorous plants.33 Someone planted a valuable stolen item on a PC to avoidgetting caught with it. Now the owner and the thief bothwant it back.34 Elf hunters fi nd the remains of a famous human exploreralong with her map to a lost elf city.35 An elven monarch wishes to present carefully tendedminiature trees from the royal saelas grove to anotherruler as a symbol of friendship.36 To get even for a slight (real or imagined), a gang of grigsis causing as much chaos and confusion as possible in asmall village.37 An elf paladin must assemble the scattered pieces of asuit of ancient armor to fulfill a favorable prophecy.38 A halfling bard has been reciting verses and related storesfrom a lost book of elven lore.39 Upon retiring, a halfling burglar circulates a set of cluesto a cleverly hidden treasure.40 A wizard offers a princely sum for flowers gathered froma singular plant that grows deep in the forest and bloomsonly once a century.41 A pack of digesters is making life miserable for a group ofpixies.42 A raptoran flock chief has died, and the high chief hasannounced an all-out competition for the offi ce.43 A splinter group of elves seeks a site for a new community.44 Night raiders riding silent, flying mounts harass a town.Renegade raptorans are suspected.45 A wildrunner proposes an expedition to find a new routethrough the wilderness to a distant area ripe for settlement.46 Several merchants at a halfling-sponsored trade fair aremurdered for no apparent reason.47 An elf wizard or raptoran cleric organizes an expeditionto a distant place to observe a rare celestial event (aneclipse, comet, or similar phenomenon).48 Halfling “soothsayers” have proven remarkably adept oflate at predicting fortune or misfortune for people theyseemingly meet at random.49 Companies of dire apes have moved into an area, drivingoff game and menacing residents and travelers.50 Treants who once tended the trees in an elf city and alsohelped guard it have vanished into the woods.51 A family of humans has vowed revenge on a group ofhalflings for a swindle or prank.52 A particularly large and well-organized group ofettercaps has been ambushing the people in a woodlandcommunity and even infi ltrating the community at nightto rob and murder.53 An evil wizard creates a device that can control theweather over a vast area and then proceeds to unleashdevastating storms.54 An army of orcs led by a green half dragon/half hill giantinvades, destroying everything in its path.55 A series of earthquakes and volcanoes in the mountainssend dwarf, gnome, and giant refugees streamingthrough the wilds.56 An infamous elf wizard from long ago returns as a lich.57 A flock of raptorans living deep in the forest are actuallyall vampires.58 Halflings have created a vast illusory “lake” and are nowcharging tolls to ferry travelers across.59 The master of a halfling burglars guild is revealed to be asimulacrum.60 A spring deep in the forest is reputed to have magicalproperties, but a copper dragon jealously guards it.APPENDIX191