1

Money

Money is owed to a ruthless creditor

Organized crime wants it

2

Money

Money was stolen from someone

Corrupt officials want it

3

Money

A sudden profit opportunity arises

A sympathetic NPC needs it

4

Money

There’s a hidden stash of wealth

The PCs are owed it

5

Money

Money is offered from an evil source

It will disappear very soon

6

Revenge

Someone was murdered

It was wholly justified

7

Revenge

Someone was stripped of rank

The wrong person is targeted

8

Revenge

Someone lost all their wealth

The reaction is excessive

9

Revenge

Someone lost someone’s love

The PCs are somehow blamed

10

Revenge

Someone was framed for a crime

Both sides were wronged

11

Power

An influential political leader

They’ve betrayed their own

12

Power

A stern community elder

Someone’s gunning for them

13

Power

A ruling patriarch of a large family

They made a terrible choice

14

Power

A star expert in a particular industry

They usurped their position

15

Power

A criminal boss or outcast leader

They’re oppressing their own

16

Natural Danger

A cyclical planetary phenomenon

Anti-helpful bureaucrats

17

Natural Danger

A sudden natural disaster

Religious zealots panic

18

Natural Danger

Sudden loss of vital infrastructure

Bandits and looters strike

19

Natural Danger

Catastrophe from outside meddling

The government hushes it up

20

Natural Danger

Formerly-unknown planetary peril

There’s money in exploiting it

21

Religion

Sects that hate each other bitterly

Charismatic new leader

22

Religion

Zealot reformers forcing new things

Mandatory state religion

23

Religion

Radical traditionalists fighting back

Heavy foreign influence

24

Religion

Ethnic religious divisions

Religious purging underway

25

Religion

Corrupt and decadent institutions

Fighting for holy ground

26

 Ideology

A universally-despised fringe group

Terrorist attack

27

 Ideology

Terrorists with widespread support

Street rioting

28

 Ideology

A political party’s goon squads

Police state crackdown

29

 Ideology

Dead-end former regime supporters

Forced expulsions

30

 Ideology

Ruthless ascendant political group

Territory under hostile rule

31

Ethnicity

A traditionally subordinate group

Forced immigration

32

Ethnicity

An ethnic group from offworld

Official ethnic ghettos

33

Ethnicity

A dominant caste or ethnicity

Rigid separation of groups

34

Ethnicity

An alien or transhuman group

Group statuses have changed

35

Ethnicity

 Two groups that hate each other

Rising ethnic violence

36

Resources

There’s a cache of illegal materials

Someone thinks they own it

37

Resources

A hidden strike of rare resources

The state is looking for it

38

Resources

Cargo has been abandoned as lost

It has its own protectors

39

Resources

Land ownership is disputed

Rights to it were stolen

40

Resources

A resource is desperately necessary

Offworlders want it badly