100 Urban Scenarios for Your Adventures

Your party reaches a new city—now what?

If you’re hunting campaign ideas or quick one shot ideas that feel local, alive, and steeped in myth, this folklore-driven collection delivers. Each page gives you a clean plot hook plus the history behind it—perfect story ideas you can run tonight, twist into a murder mystery, or expand into arcs and backstory ideas for NPCs and PCs alike. When inspiration runs low and you just need a sharp idea, open the book, point to a city scenario, and go.

How it helps GMs

• Plug-and-play structure. Each scenario outlines the core problem, consequences, origins/legend, ways to address it, and a crisp resolution—so your 5E campaign ideas turn into sessions fast.
• Multiple play styles. Hooks emphasize exploration, diplomacy, or combat, so you can match tonight’s mood.
• Story fuel everywhere. Short incantation-like poems, extra hooks, suggested solutions, and authentic folklore tidbits spark instant story ideas and backstory ideas.
• No level assumptions. Scale tension and rewards to fit a one-shot, side quest, or your main campaign.
• City after city. Make every settlement memorable with local legends, mysteries, curses, and love stories.

Why you’ll use it again and again

• Save prep time with ready one shot ideas and session-bridging scenes.
• Layer intrigue with a street-level murder mystery or a political scandal.
• Turn a single plot hook into a branching storyline players won’t forget.

Сampaign idea

Merchant Renald hires the party to escort his grief-stricken son Edrik to the Stone of the Broken Heart, said to heal sorrow. During the journey, they got into a skirmish with bandits. Edrik meets Fiona, the daughter of their leader Duncan MacRae—and falls in love with her. Fight, parley, or scheme your way to a truce—or a turf war. Possible outcomes: truce and wedding, bloody feud, or shattered trade.

100 Urban Scenarios in the Media

• Medium: "DnD Campaign Ideas: City Legends You Can Run Tonight"