I've been asked numerous times how to build plots. After all you can only go bowling for orcs so many times before it gets boring. Just like looking for that ever lost piece of something, the girl/noble/valuable thing that gets kidnapped or stolen; or the worst used plot of all, which is the do it for coin since the gm has no other hook to get you involved.
So let me provide an easy bit of advice. Your simplest and most accessible source of plots is your newspaper, online or paper. People do the damnest things. And it gets reported usually in lavish detail. If you take the idea of the story it can form the genesis of a plot in your world.
An unpopular war, for instance. Or, economic issues. Scandals. Ufos if you want.
Take your pick and cast them in the clothes of your world.
