Editing Big List of RPG Plots (section)

== Quest For the Sparkly Hoozits ==

Somebody needs a dingus (to fulfill a prophecy, heal the monarch, prevent a war, cure a disease, or what have you). The PCs must find a dingus. Often an old dingus, a mysterious dingus, and a powerful dingus. The PCs must learn more about it to track it down, and then deal with taking it from wherever it is.
* The dingus is incomplete when found (one of the most irritating and un-fun plot twists in the universe). 
* Somebody already owns it (or recently stole it, sometimes with legitimate claim or cause). 
* The dingus is information, or an idea, or a substance, not a specific dingus. 
* The PCs must "go undercover" or otherwise infiltrate a group or society, gaining the dingus by guile or stealth.