Anyone else have story prompts they can add? I’m always looking for good jumping off points for adventures 🙂
Story Style:
Typically, each style is going to want to have a Beginning (Set-Up), Middle (Area of Exploration/Growth), and End (Conclusion). Remember that those that have power want to keep it and those that don’t want to get it. 🙂
– 1 & Done
– Graphic Novel: A longer one and done story.
– Event: 2+ Episodes of a fairly stand alone story possibly bringing together outside help to stop a cataclysmic event or major villain and usually self contained.
– Arc: 5-6 Episodes Building to a Conclusion and with hooks beginning in the last episode or 2 that lead to the start of the next Arc.
– Season: 12-24 Episodes Building to a Conclusion and with hooks throughout that can lead to the stories of the following Seasons.
Tropes (You can always start off with one and twist the story in a new direction with another):
– Enemy of the Week
– Time Travel-Fix the Past
– Time Travel-From the Future to fix the Present
– End of the World Battle
– Doomsday Plague/Event (Zombies, Disease, etc.)
– Unstoppable Force
– Immovable Object
– Heroes as Villains
– Villains as Heroes
– Epic Journey-Someone Comes to Town (New Sheriff in Town)
– Epic Journey-Someone Leaves Town (Road Trip)
– Origin Story/Explore the Past (Bourne Identity)
– Pass the Torch/End of an Era
– New Powers Threats Responsibilities
– Vengeance, Pay-Back or Justice
– Redemption (Making up for the Past)
– Any of the Deadly Sins (Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, or Sloth)
– Terror Attack
– Conspiracy Theories (Aliens, Illuminate, Big Brother, etc)
– Heist (ala Oceans 11)
– Chase
– Mystery
– Enemy of My Enemy/Strange Bedfellows
– Survival on a ‘Desert Island’
– Battle Royal/Fight Club
– Time to Train
– Mind-Control/Pod People/Taken Over
– Love Triangle
– Someone Cashes in a Chip
– Hostage Negotiations
– Lost Powers
– Swapped Powers
– Framed for Something You Didn’t Do
– Secret Identity Crisis
– Running the Gauntlet
– Caught in a Trap/Prisoner
– Moral Conundrum/Impossible Choice
– Easter Egg Hunt (ala National Treasure, Da Vinci Code)