Need a new sidequest plot? Stuck looking at a dungeon and wondering how you’ll make the players have to go there? Don’t settle for just sticking a fedex quest in! One of the article columns on the Dungeons & Dragons website has plenty of rpg story ideas they’ll let you steal.

It’s called steal this hook, with over 30 articles. They were published monthly over a couple years and each is filled with interesting ideas. Here’s a few from there to get your brain wet:

• A blackguard constructs a massive chessboard in his lair, and then he collects prisoners to act as his living chess pieces.

• A bard appears out of thin air, wounded, in the center of a small town. He claims to have been transported from a brutal land full of vicious monsters. He asks for help before he is transported back again.
• A cultist secretly charms a local gang leader. He changes the gang’s agenda from general vandalism and theft to one of kidnapping and secret rituals.