Random Scenario and Story Generators

Scenarios and the use of Scenario-Based Learning (SBL) in courses allows learners to apply knowledge and experiment with skills in relevant situations by working through structured decision-making that resembles real-world challenges. Students are able to analyze issues, solve problems, and strategize to move forward in the story or sequence of events. Sometimes dreaming up the premise of a scenario can be a challenge in itself. There are a large number of free scenario generators available that may help you to get started writing:

• Big Huge Thesaurus’ Story Plot Generator - Presents six story-starting sentences with each button click.
• Plot Generator - Generates entire short stories after entering in a wide variety of nouns, adjectives, and character names.
• RanGen Plot Generator - Provides an outline for a scenario that includes beginning, middle and ending elements.
• RP Mini Scenario Generator - Creates a two-person scenario premise after the user provides character names. 
• Seventh Sanctum Story Generator - Offers three to five-sentence story ideas.
• Writer’s Exercise Generator - Generates random plot ideas, first lines, character names, exercises, and more.
• Writing Exercises’ Random Scenario Generator - Creates random “What if?” scenario premises. Also has generators for plots, dialogue, character names, and more.

Although the output from the above websites may not result in the greatest scenarios or stories ever made, using the generators may help you to start to formulate some ideas on how to begin your own scenario that aligns with your objectives and is relevant to your learners’ needs.