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Random Scenario Generator

Get a situation and the complication that makes it interesting, in one line, ready to act out or write about.

Scenarios3 generated
  1. A storm cuts the power on the night of the annual meeting. You brought the wrong bag.
  2. You are the only person in the building who knows where the stopcock is. You have three matches left.
  3. The archive you need closes permanently at the end of the day. Someone has already signed the register in your handwriting.
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About the Random Scenario Generator

Every scenario is built in two halves. The first sets the situation in the second person, such as being handed a map of a building you are already standing inside. The second adds a complication drawn from a separate list of 62, such as the gate locking behind you or the recording still running. Because the halves are chosen independently, you get 3844 combinations and most of them land somewhere unexpected.

The setups avoid violence and horror and stay in the ordinary world of ferries, allotments, village halls and delivery drivers. That restraint is deliberate: prompts anchored in mundane detail push a group towards character and problem solving, while dramatic openings tempt everyone into the same action film. Nothing in the list needs a fantasy setting to make sense, although it will happily survive one.

Improv teachers use these as scene starts, roleplay groups use them as session hooks, and training facilitators use them to open a discussion about how a team would react. Writers use one as the first paragraph of a short story and throw the rest away. When you want the location described rather than the situation, use the Random Setting Generator, and for a moment already in motion try the Random Scene Generator.

How to use

  1. Pick how many scenarios you want, one per player or one per round.
  2. Leave the separator on Blank line between so each prompt is easy to read aloud.
  3. Press Generate, discard any that do not suit the group, and reroll.

Common questions

How many different scenarios can it make?
Sixty-two openings against sixty-two complications gives 3844 combinations, which is far more than a session will get through.
Are the prompts suitable for younger groups?
Yes. Nothing in the list involves violence, horror or adult themes, so it works in a classroom or youth group.
Why is everything written as you?
Second person puts the reader inside the situation immediately, which is what makes a prompt usable for improv and roleplay.
Can I use them as story openings?
That is one of the main uses. Take the pairing as your first paragraph and keep writing from there.