For all your gaming needs! Well, for all your super-hero gaming needs! Well, okay, for probably none of your *actual* gaming needs, but if you want to generate plotbits on the spur of the moment, I have a chart for you!

This does not require:
1) Specific character knowledge
2) Villains with character sheets
3) Any particular team size (works for solos or teams)

This will work best with:
1) 2d6 and at least one d10 (You can roll them online)
2) An urban setting
3) A non-gritty-realism setting

Instructions: Roll 2d6, and read them as X-and-Y, rather than adding them. (So: 2 - 3, or 5 - 5, or whatever.) Consult Column 1 for source or cause of The Event. Roll again; consult Column 2 for the actual Event. Roll again and check Column 3 for some random other detail to incorporate--potentially, this is what drew the hero's attention to The Event.

If more detail is desired, roll in the (etc) column with a 10-sider (or 6-sider). Etc. breakdown for Column 2 contains 4 sections: People, Places, Things, and Organizations.

THE PLOT GENERATOR

1. Roll	(etc.)	2. Cause/Source	3. Event	4. Weird Bonus Details
1 and 1	1	A mad scientist	Bomb explosion	Glitter *everywhere*
1 and 2	2	A lost child	Forcible abduction	Living green fuzz
1 and 3	3	A band of jazz musicians	Amnesia	Sonic booms
1 and 4	4	A gang lord	Body-swap	Shrapnel in the streets
1 and 5	5	A barrista	Hyperactive violence	Huge clouds of smoke
1 and 6	6	A businessman	Giant rats/ants	Sun changes color
2 and 1	7	A spandex-clad villain	Clone(s)	Bloody cars
2 and 2	8	A spaceship full of aliens	Blindness	Leaflets fall from the sky
2 and 3	9	A government agent	Mass combat/gang war	Lab equipment at the scene
2 and 4	10	Group of frat boys	Wild animal attacks	Rivers of coffee
2 and 5	1	A pizzaria	Sleep/unconsciousness	Government interference
2 and 6	2	A whole city block	Armed robbery	Non-stop loud music
3 and 1	3	A shop in the mall	Teleportation	Meteor dust/residue
3 and 2	4	Cinemaplex	Large fire	Small useless magic items
3 and 3	5	Private residence	Escaped prisoner(s)	Bells hung all over the place
3 and 4	6	Storage facility	Virus/infection	Mountain of aluminum cans
3 and 5	7	The sewers	Objects turning to dust	Dome over the city
3 and 6	8	A school	Portal/gate opens	Kittens in trees
4 and 1	9	Grocery store parking lot	Horde of demons	Diplomatic immunity
4 and 2	10	Bridge or overpass	Public orgy	Going out of business
4 and 3	1	Freighter-truck full of cargo	De-aging	People's hair turns white
4 and 4	2	Several trees	Turned to glass	Language problems
4 and 5	3	Bundle of newspapers	Localized blizzard	Corporate promo activity
4 and 6	4	A CD or DVD	Defenestration	Powers don’t work right
5 and 1	5	Pair of tennis shoes	High-speed car chase	Tarred and feathered
5 and 2	6	A Greyhound bus	Mutated plants or animals	Coins hidden under things
5 and 3	7	An ancient book	Soldier/knight from another era	Meditation sit-in
5 and 4	8	Strange new drug	Hostage situation	Giant pool of quicksand
5 and 5	9	Exotic gun	Fantastic creature(s)	Lizard-men
5 and 6	10	Piece of jewelry	Power plant failure	Buildings talk to people
6 and 1	1	Dep't Homeland Security	Wizard combat circle	Cloven hoofprints
6 and 2	2	MGM (or similar)	Low-flying helicopter	Rain of pencils
6 and 3	3	anonymous	LSD in the drinks	Anti-gravity in some buildings
6 and 4	4	Political activism group	Violent political protest	Unicorns
6 and 5	5	University staff	Time-travel problems	Strobe light effects
6 and 6	6	A church	Zombie attack	Stoner witnesses