Hi, first off, I just want to shamelessly gush about how much I'm loving this game - it's really brought the fun back into our sessions. Anyhoo, a goal that came out of one of our first games could be fun - "having stumbled across the dead body of a famous hero you can't help stealing their identity. However, this isn't all free beers and wenches..."

Not to brown-nose, kiznit, but I thought the prepackaged goal list was pretty sweet already. It has good variety for a d12 list. Many classic call-to-adventure tropes are represented, and yet they're also vague enough to let players add details and embellishments to personalize them for their own characters. Where you see anemia, I see flexible scaffolding. I'll be perfectly happy to leave the list in its skeletal form and let my players (TBA) flesh out whatever they pick or roll for themselves -- or ignore it entirely if they have their own 'better' ideas.

Maybe that would make a good by-law for the goal list: "Thou Shalt Flesh Out the Goal Selected for Thine Character with Details." As I understand it, the goals are there to give the DM a motivational hook for luring the PCs to their horrible deaths... I mean ADVENTURES. Yeah. Like I was saying, details make the DM's job that much easier. And I'm always in favor of giving everybody at the table a stake in world-building, however small.

For DPoNI I've come up with 10 adventuring goals each for Pirates, Ninjas, Natives and Imperials.

When running adventures, I always provide a set of adventuring goals for the adventure itself. If I can.