The Trouble

Generate the trouble that drives a western story, from what has gone wrong to what the town believes.

Generate the trouble at the heart of a frontier story: what has gone wrong, how it started, who is caught in it, and how bad it is getting. Fields cover What's Gone Wrong, How It Started, Who's Caught in It, What It's Done So Far, The Sign It's Getting Worse, and What the Town Believes About It. With the Weird West toggle on, a range war becomes the dead climbing out of boot hill, and a debt becomes a grave that should have stayed shut. Symptom and cause are generated separately, so you get both the crisis and what set it off. Use it as the engine of a one-shot or the slow-burn problem of a campaign.

This generator creates: What's Gone Wrong, How It Started, Who's Caught in It, What It's Done So Far, The Sign It's Getting Worse, What the Town Believes About It.

Example result:

Includes a Weird West toggle that reshapes the result.

Tags: plot generator, western conflict, weird west, dnd hook, frontier trouble

Type: Plot generator

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