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Post by hengest on Jan 2, 2022 22:04:39 GMT -5
On this thread, I will try to come up with mini-hooks. If you want to riff on or develop one, please feel free to post! Or if you want to post your own mini-hook.
I'm allowing basically anything that fits into a reasonable sentence or sentence fragment (this is just a rule for myself).
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Post by hengest on Jan 2, 2022 22:10:59 GMT -5
1) Two English sparrows, one turning to gold while the other turns back to flesh.
2) When you wake in the treehouse in the morning, you see the forest has been flooded almost beyond recognition.
3) Clay knuckles that encourage you to pull your punches.
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Post by hengest on Jan 2, 2022 22:19:05 GMT -5
4) Modern but pre-automobile city (London or Moscow, 1870) but has only medieval European music.
5) Race with nails that grow "backwards" out of all knuckles but not on fingertips.
6) Human-sized rats with their own developed culture living alongside human settlements.
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Post by hengest on Jan 2, 2022 22:25:42 GMT -5
7) Intelligent ball lightning.
8) Steel is an alloy composed mostly of gold.
9) St. Elmo's fire as a sign of winter coming.
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Post by hengest on Jan 2, 2022 22:31:49 GMT -5
10) City-state where the ability to fly is a recessive characteristic.
11) River runs the other way sometimes.
12) Trap designed as a trap that has failed and become a boon.
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Post by hengest on Jan 2, 2022 22:35:40 GMT -5
13) Firearm-like weapons conceived of, but the users have thought only of bladed projectiles.
14) Dead pond begins refilling.
15) A race that bleeds flowers.
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Post by hengest on Jan 2, 2022 22:38:55 GMT -5
16) Honey harvested from termites.
17) Cave adventure hook with practical mining task.
18) Occasional phenomenon where night sky looks like a lava lamp.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 10:43:07 GMT -5
19) Teleporting turtles.
20) A house built from a gigantic acorn.
21) A potion that causes the drinker to glow in the eyes of all who have less power
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 20:17:58 GMT -5
22) Gazing into a flower is the key to planar travel.
23) Rain oozes up from the ground itself, though snow still falls from the sky.
24) A sentient throne.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 20:22:27 GMT -5
25) The heart is a vestigial organ since magic has sustained everyone for so many generations.
26) A curse that prevents the body from sleeping, although the mind still needs to.
27) The Hall of Rain, a structure where it rains whenever the skies are clear outside.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 20:26:33 GMT -5
28) [x] causes bones to become briefly very soft.
29) The attribute of Insight with mechanical functions.
30) Tower of Optics.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 20:31:38 GMT -5
31) Patterfoot spell that makes the target sound like many people walking.
32) Slightenfluff, an edible but useless substance that can be dressed up or simply added to real food to stretch a meal.
33) Mask of Aston, a mask that conforms almost perfectly to the face of a woman for one month, conferring benefits and drawbacks.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 21:32:15 GMT -5
34) A town whose main trade good is soap. 35) A dragon crashed to earth midflight a thousand years ago. Even now, the plants that grow where its body was... 36) An abandoned kingdom where all stone has been "un-fossilized" and turned to / colonized by living wood.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 22:00:26 GMT -5
37) A kingdom where all jewelry is made with polished river rocks.
38) Cauldron that adds the most nutritious local herbs to any soup cooked in it.
39) Living solar flare.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 22:17:55 GMT -5
40) Wood that burns with a cold flame.
41) Farming lily pads.
42) Stone beauty.
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Post by hengest on Jan 3, 2022 22:46:02 GMT -5
43) Setting where PCs are marked in early childhood by understanding the speech of at least one animal. 44) Fish migrate by flying. 45) Setting where magic cannot act directly on living things.
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Post by hengest on Jan 4, 2022 20:51:03 GMT -5
46) Abandoned doorless grass huts.
47) Rainwater tea heals up to 2 HP.
48) Criminals may walk into a shining circle of light in a disused tunnel under the town in place of their sentence.
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Post by hengest on Jan 4, 2022 21:04:20 GMT -5
49) It is said that the shallow inland sea holds a kraken wiser than any man.
50) A dream of livestock that eat gemstones.
51) A young woman with heads of garlic woven into her hair.
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Post by hengest on Jan 4, 2022 21:11:32 GMT -5
52) A border which, when crossed, turns gold to dirt.
53) The positive afterlife is imagined to be a specific place on earth.
54) Muscle to Stone, a progressive curse, affects the strong more terribly.
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Post by hengest on Jan 5, 2022 18:27:47 GMT -5
55) Findable dome of sky.
56) FM and MU are not separate classes, but a FM slowly becomes a MU.
57) City cursed to diminish with time until at last it sits on the workbench of the great-grandson of the mage who cursed it.
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Post by hengest on Jan 5, 2022 18:32:37 GMT -5
58) A winding stair that seems never to end as you ascend, and takes just as long to go back down.
59) Armor that may damage the melee weapon that strikes it.
60) NPC Class: Shepherd
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Post by hengest on Jan 5, 2022 18:37:05 GMT -5
61) A strange race that seem to be reborn as humans days after they die.
62) Stone walls which, when penetrated by magical means, are seen to contain a whole inset world, distinct from the exterior landscape as well as from the interior of the structure.
63) A single very old man living in the ruins of this town that you know to have been abandoned for decades, if not a century.
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Post by hengest on Jan 5, 2022 21:17:43 GMT -5
64) Kingdom where feral horses are a real problem. 65) A ring that forces you to make a wish when you put it on.
66) Cursed flight means you can never land.
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Post by hengest on Jan 6, 2022 15:03:22 GMT -5
67) Forest of mirror-trees.
68) A pond that always stays frozen.
69) Air-fish.
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Post by hengest on Jan 6, 2022 22:25:10 GMT -5
70) The mining of soft stone for pillows.
71) A cave descends deep into the earth and then opens onto another world lit by another sun.
72) Three gems of trivial power, guarded jealousy by the girl queen well into her middle years.
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Post by hengest on Jan 7, 2022 0:25:49 GMT -5
73) Casting spells requires the time and resources usually imagined for research or item creation.
74) A magical mishap that shatters all ceramics in the kingdom.
75) A long cavern that branches into many side passages, all too small for a human, many of which have some kind of glow coming from deep within them.
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Post by hengest on Jan 7, 2022 0:42:41 GMT -5
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"Ride, ride, rider, Or bide where ye be, Ride, ride, rider, But ne'er seek ye me."
78) Healing magic practiced only by unspeaking ascetics.
79) Main settlement underground, although surface seems habitable.
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Post by hengest on Jan 7, 2022 0:49:45 GMT -5
80) The folk of the woods rule by fear.
81) Ripple magic and still magic.
82) No edged weapons exist.
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Post by hengest on Jan 7, 2022 18:04:03 GMT -5
83) WWII-era submarine washes up on the shore of the Duchy of the Green.
84) Saddle sores mark coming of age.
85) You know something is up when you see the reverse rainbow.
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Post by hengest on Jan 7, 2022 18:43:26 GMT -5
86) An ancient book written in the language of the flowers.
87) A huge, freshly dug pit with an ancient oak growing it in, its crown at the level of the earth above the pit.
88) A repeated screech that the locals do not discuss.
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