* A warforge bandit leader named Bulrick Rickshod and his crew have been robbing caravans along a major road. He wields the nightmare blade in battle.

* An Erathis monk named Surgat has the nightmare blade and seeks to destroy it. He needs a party of adventurers to accompany him into a cavern that supposedly leads to the dream realm in order to confront the fright that controls the blade.

* The players arrive in the town of Sweethaven to discover it is cursed. No one in the town has been able to get a good night’s sleep in weeks. Everyone stumbles around feeling exhausted. The mayor, a halfling named Porvick Puddlesmere, has hired an incompetent cleric named Esmeralda Windwalker who is currently creating a huge effigy of the lord of nightmares in order to burn it and vanquish the curse. The effigy is modeled after her former boyfriend, a bard named Fayer Ward, who is none-to-pleased about his exes current project. He spends a lot of his time in the local tavern making up cruel songs about the witch-queen Esmarldo (no relation to anyone alive or preferably dead). Suffice to say, the real culprit is one of the town guards named Dale who recently vanquished a goblin camp and is currently considered a hero to the town. Dale has the nightmare blade and is unaware of what it is doing to his fellow townsfolk. He suspects but doesn’t want to give up his newfound power.

* Odrick has a task for the players. Odick’s Oddities is currently in a major city and there’s a secret auction about to take place. The auction will be run by the Silversnatchers, the town’s thief guild, which is run by an elven arcane trickster named Selena Solace. Odrick can’t really leave his shop and Josef is sick so the old man needs someone to go to the auction and bid on a sword for him. The sword is the nightmare blade. Odrick will pay well. He offers 20,000 gp to bid on the sword. Whatever is left over from the bidding, the player’s can keep. However, if the player’s steal the blade, they can keep the commission. The auction is invitation only so the players will need to either infiltrate the thief’s guild and get permission or they can steal/buy an invitation. There are a number of nobles in town for the auction, which will take place in a large music hall called “The Songbird.”

* A rich, old dwarven woman named Valencia Rockvin has died. Her heirs have all gathered to the woman’s house for the division of her vast property. Valencia was stingy and mean-spirited and none of her relatives liked her. She hated all of them and considered them ingrates and fools. In one last act of spite, she has given them a challenge to earn her fortune. They must spend a whole night in Rockvin Manor, an immense mansion built into the side of a mountain. One of the heirs, a nephew named Jack Rockvin, suspects a trap and so he hires the players to serve as his guards during the night. There will be seven heirs in total of various ages and genders but all them are dwarves. During the night, each one will be hunted down and killed by Valencia, who has had herself resurrected as a death night (see monster manual) wielding the nightmare blade.