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Eureka —From the Greek heurēka , loosely:

“I have found it!”

Credits

Dedications

Original Concept and Design: Martin Ralya

John —For my mom, who let me buy the 2nd Ed. AD&D books and

read them for hours in my room when I was younger, and for my

friends who stand by me and make me stronger.

Project Manager: Phil Vecchione

Design: John Arcadian, Patrick Benson, Walt Ciechanowski,

Scot Martin, Mathew Neagley, Kurt “Telas” Schneider,

Troy Taylor, Phil Vecchione

Genre Design: Kurt “Telas” Schneider

Tag Design: Mathew Neagley

Patrick —To my wife Karen who inspires me to be a beter person

every day, my daughter Calen who reminds me to be full of wonder,

and my son Liam who keeps my wits sharp.

Walt —For my wonderful (and gamer!) wife Helena, and our

beautiful children Leianna and Stephen, who have taught me that no

fantasy can beat the magic of being a daddy.

Authors: John Arcadian, Patrick Benson, Walt Ciechanowski,

Scot Martin, Mathew Neagley, Martin Ralya,

Kurt “Telas” Schneider, Troy Taylor, Phil Vecchione

Scot —For Dad, who introduced me to roleplaying when I was ten,

and for my wife Jennifer, who I plan to play with until we setle into

an old gamers’ home.

Lead Editor: Martin Ralya

Editors: Sara DeNunzio, Brian Nowak

Mathew —To my wife, the best GM ever, and my daughter,

whose imagination is limitless, and to the rest of the gnomes

for being a positive inluence on both my games and my

projects list.

Developer: Martin Ralya

Art Director: John Arcadian

Graphic Designer: Darren Hardy

Layout: Darren Hardy

Martin —To my patient wife, Alysia (who insists that we’ll be retir-

ing to Aruba on Eureka money), and my bright-eyed daughter Lark,

to my fantastic, imagination-nurturing parents, and to the many

friends I’ve made through gaming.

Cover Artist: Andrew McIntosh

Cover Designer: Darren Hardy

Kurt —For my non-gaming but patient and understanding wife

Christine, and our always-amazing daughter Erin, who enjoys

everything she does. And to all the players characters I’ve killed

over the years.

Interior Artists: Laine Garret, Avery Liell-Kok,

Andrew McIntosh, Philip Miller, Hugo Solis

Border Artwork: Darren Hardy

Troy —To Paula, who for years kept insisting that I ind a

hobby; and to Carolyn, our stargazer, Preston, our storyteller, and

Jonathan, king of the sandbox, for whom imagination knows no

boundaries.

Indexer: Mathew Neagley

Proofreaders: Scot Martin, Daniel Milne, Samuel Mustain

Capitalist Tool: Kurt “Telas” Schneider

Phil —To my wife Florence, who always helps me ind that

next idea, my children Dante and Rose, and to Spenser,

Sargon and all my other players, for making me strive to be a beter

GM.

With special thanks to Helena Ciechanowski for legal advice,

Laine Garret for suggesting the cover layout, Georges Polti

for his big brass ones, and Jason Kotke and Geof Manaugh

for the blog post that inspired this book

( kotke.org/09/06/ghostbusters-iii )

Last but most certainly not least, we’d like to collectively

dedicate this book to the readers of Gnome Stew, the best damned

community of sexy, brainy, downright inspirational GMs on the

web. You rock!

In memory of E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson

E urEka : 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters , Engine Publishing, the Engine Publishing

logo, and the truncated gear device are trademarks of Engine Publishing, LLC.

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Gnome Stew, The Game Mastering Blog, and the Gnome Stew logo are trademarks of Martin Ralya.

The Engine Publishing logo was designed by Darren Hardy.

Published by Engine Publishing, LLC in July 2010.

Contents

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Conlict with a God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Mistaken Jealousy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Erroneous Judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Remorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Recovery of a Lost One . . . . . . . . . . 108

Loss of Loved Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Supplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Deliverance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Crime Pursued by Vengeance . . . . 210

Vengeance Taken for

Kindred upon Kindred . . . . . 212

Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Falling Prey to

Cruelty or Misfortune . . . . . . 218

Revolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Daring Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Abduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

he Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Obtaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Enmity of Kinsmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Rivalry of Kinsmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Murderous Adultery . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Fatal Imprudence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Involuntary Crimes of Love . . . . . 246

Slaying of a

Kinsman Unrecognized . . . . 249

Self-Sacriice for an Ideal . . . . . . . . 252

Self-Sacriice for Kindred . . . . . . . . 255

All Sacriiced for Passion . . . . . . . . 258

Necessity of

Sacriicing Loved Ones . . . . . 261

Rivalry of Superior

and Inferior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Adultery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Crimes of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Discovery of the

Dishonor of a Loved One . . . 271

Obstacles to Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

An Enemy Loved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Ambition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Conlict with a God . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Mistaken Jealousy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Erroneous Judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Remorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Recovery of a Lost One . . . . . . . . . . 290

Loss of Loved Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Game Mastering Advice . . 6

How to Use his Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Turning Plots into Adventures . . . . 11

Adapting Plots to Your Game . . . . . 15

Genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

hemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

he 36 Dramatic Situations . . . . . . . 23

Sci-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Supplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Deliverance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Crime Pursued by Vengeance . . . . 122

Vengeance Taken for

Kindred upon Kindred . . . . . 124

Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Falling Prey to

Cruelty or Misfortune . . . . . . 131

Revolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Daring Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Abduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

he Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Obtaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Enmity of Kinsmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Rivalry of Kinsmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Murderous Adultery . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Fatal Imprudence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Involuntary Crimes of Love . . . . . 158

Slaying of a

Kinsman Unrecognized . . . . 160

Self-Sacriice for an Ideal . . . . . . . . 162

Self-Sacriice for Kindred . . . . . . . . 164

All Sacriiced for Passion . . . . . . . . 166

Necessity of

Sacriicing Loved Ones . . . . . 168

Rivalry of Superior

and Inferior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Adultery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Crimes of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Discovery of the

Dishonor of a Loved One . . . 178

Obstacles to Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

An Enemy Loved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Ambition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Conlict with a God . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Mistaken Jealousy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Erroneous Judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Remorse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Recovery of a Lost One . . . . . . . . . . 198

Loss of Loved Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Supplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Deliverance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Crime Pursued by Vengeance . . . . . 30

Vengeance Taken for

Kindred upon Kindred . . . . . . 32

Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Falling Prey to

Cruelty or Misfortune . . . . . . . 39

Revolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Daring Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Abduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

he Enigma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Obtaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Enmity of Kinsmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Rivalry of Kinsmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Murderous Adultery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Fatal Imprudence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Involuntary Crimes of Love . . . . . . 63

Slaying of a

Kinsman Unrecognized . . . . . 65

Self-Sacriice for an Ideal . . . . . . . . . 68

Self-Sacriice for Kindred . . . . . . . . . 70

All Sacriiced for Passion . . . . . . . . . 73

Necessity of

Sacriicing Loved Ones . . . . . . 75

Rivalry of

Superior and Inferior . . . . . . . . 78

Adultery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Crimes of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Discovery of the

Dishonor of a Loved One . . . . 86

Obstacles to Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

An Enemy Loved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Ambition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294

Plots by Genre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Plots by Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Plots by Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Plots by Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Contributor Bios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

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