The Big List Of Plots

Freeform Plotline Compilation for Authors

A compilation of possible freeform plotlines from the uk-freeform list:

Items

• Someone has an item, someone else wants it
• Change-Chains
• item found/lost/bought
• more of the same items
• original and forgery,
• resource management (money)
• auction
• broken item (someone has inadvertently broken something precious to someone else)

Solve the mystery/puzzle/riddle (cooperative/competitive)

• What-the-hell-is-going-on?!
• Find the ritual
• decode something (message, ritual, diary)
• do the ritual
• completing a journey (marooned on an island and must work together to get back home)
• trapped (someone is looking for a means to escape, someone doesn't want anyone to leave)
• the End of the World (prevent a catastrophe that will kill everyone, responsible for the catastrophe, chance to save themselves.)

Society

• different (secret) goals
• different (secret) groups
• apply for membership
• vote for a new leader
• Gaining power or stopping someone gain power / Ambition
• arranging political alliances
• Trial
• Espionage / Infiltration
• search for secret information
• Protection Racket (new customers, law and order, victims)
• New Business (wants to set up a new business. someone opposes this)
• contest
• The Puppet (someone is a weak leader and the real power is wielded by someone else)

Personal

• revenge
• the affair
• romance/weddings/marriages
• Clearing your name of a false accusation
• Keeping something hidden (secret, scandalous past, crime) * does not motivate to play/talk/etc !!!
• Debts of honour/cash
• Romeo and Juliet (deeply in love, Unfortunately they need to keep this love secret. Sadly, someone knows)
• love child (someone is the love child of someone else who is married, but not to the other parent)
• Ill (somoene is terminally ill and will die soon. They will do anything for a cure. someone needs something from them before they die)
• Big Mistake (someone has made some kind of mistake, they wish to rectify the mistake. someone knows about the mistake, another has a means of dealing with the mistake, and another will act against the main character if they learn of the mistake.)
• Heresy/Belief/Quest (someone holds a belief that is exactly opposed to someone else)
• Pretender (is either a) not who they say they are, or b) not responsible for whatever it is they're taking credit for)
• Impress Me (approval to marry, a promotion, a reference, release of inheritance or trust)
• lost/abandoned children/relatives/friends/enemies
• someone have been thought dead
• Identical twins separated at birth
• previously unknown powers/abilities/authority
• lost memory

"Action"

• Thief
• Fortune * telling
• preparing an event
• events
• fax/telephone
• marking
• poisoning
• Deadline (deadline that means that the freeform will end at a particular point: trains arriving, boats docking, parties ending, day dawning)