However, not every story needs that much time to be completed.

Are you putting a team together?

Here are some of the best adventure hooks you might use for a heist in Dungeons & Dragons.

Three rogues infiltrate a vault and steal a gem while attacking a pair of guards in Dungeons & Dragons.

When making a long campaign, some story concepts work better than others.

Something big that affects the whole world around them can be effective for this punch in of idea.

So, we have some suggestions to kickstart your plans.

Split image featuring a thief carrying a sack of gold, an adventuring party having a feast, and minsc dancing from dungeons and dragons.

Updated on April 30, 2025, by Lucas Olah:Brainstorming ideas is always useful.

15War

It’s Fantastic!

you could also give the players a choice in what side they wish to support, if any.

The Tomb of Horrors in Dungeons & Dragons, featuring a decaying skeleton.

Either scenario can be its own great story.

You don’t always need to meet in a tavern in the city.

11Evil Ruler

Fight The Empire

InsertCurse of Strahdhere, and you get the idea.

Split images of Dungeons & Dragons art.

Many suffer under such a ruler; taking them down is the only salvation.

Their presence and actions throughout the campaign will even make them more terrifying.

Still, they can all be killed - or worse, expelled.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing several hobgoblins.

Art by Taras Susak

8Monster Hunting

Good For Enemy Diversity

Powerful creatures roam through the world.

Few see them and live to tell the tale; even fewer can vanquish such beasts.

It’s all about survival of the fittest with these Dungeons & Dragons monsters for fifth edition.

Pirates from Dungeons & Dragons.

Art by Alexandre Honoré

Or maybe a free-use wish spell.

Either way, it’s something the players can use for themselves or sell to the highest bidder.

Is there a more proper endgame boss fight than taking down a deity?

A violet fungus necrohulk attacking a group of solders in Dungeons & Dragons.

Violet Fungus Necrohulk by Viktor Titov

A variety of adventurers shopping in a bustling metropolis in Dungeons & Dragons.

Life In A City by Sam Keiser

DND art of Strahd von Zarovich looking down from Castle Ravenloft.

via Wizards of the Coast

Bandits raiding a tavern by Katerina Ladon

Bandits by Katerina Ladon

Two magic users study a textbok in a dark library in Dungeons & Dragons

Candlekeep Mysteries art via Wizards of the Coast

A warrior uses a firearm in Dungeons & Dragons.

Firearms by Chris Seaman

Dungeons & Dragons image showing an arcanaloth.

Art by John Patrick Gañas

Dungeons & Dragons, a death cultist and his followers summoning orcus by Aurore Folny.

Death Cultists by Aurore Folny

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