Every profession can be dangerous. PCs don't need to be FBI agents, or Roman soldiers, or starship commanders to get into hazardous situations and adventures. Try these on for size:
- Librarian: A mysterious figure drops an overdue book in the library's after-hours returns slot. Long overdue. 90 years overdue. It's a book about the occult, and contains incantations and recipes for drastically extending life. The borrower's last known address is that old "haunted" house on the hill outside town. Someone need to go investigate to recover the overdue fees...
- Chef: A restaurant gets into an escalating rivalry with another establishment across the street. Discounts, special new recipes, and increasingly gourmet offerings fly thick and fast. Unfortunately, all the media attention is not to the liking of the local mob bosses who just want a decent pasta like they used to get...
- Plumber: An inner city office building makes several calls about blocked pipes in the same week. Then while working a job, an accountant from the seventh floor vanishes in the bathroom. There's something lurking in the drains...
Transcript
Bail Organa: Yo, Yoda, great job you Jedi did sticking it to the Man.
Yoda: It's not my fault! Everyone wanted to fight!
R2-D2: Hey, have you read Doctor Dolittle? He was pretty awesome; he could talk to animals and—
Yoda: Catch up, Pete. I don't want to be a vet any more. Vets get bitten all the time!
R2-D2: Oh? What do you want to be?
Yoda: I haven't decided! I'm just a kid - I don't have to make those sort of decisions yet!
GM: Ahem. Obi-Wan arrives in the ship with Padmé and the droids.
{Obi-Wan carries Padmé off the ship}
Obi-Wan: Padmé needs urgent medical attention!
Yoda: If only there was someone who actually wanted to be a doctor...
Padmé: I'll be fine, I stabilised on -8 hit points.
GM: You go into labour.
Padmé: Medic!