The Disaster Story
There are a lot of ways that you can create adventure in a story, but one of the easiest convention and widely used it through the disaster scenario. Some cataclysmic event has happened or is about to happen and the hero and other characters must react.
The run the gambit from the mundane such as hurricanes, tornadoes and volcanoes to the more esoteric such as meteors and global events. You can get away with a simple adventure plot for stories that don't have an impact on a large area. Think of movies like Twister. Tornadoes only effect a small population, so you can concentrate more on the characters.



