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Result
Weather and Lighting
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Basic Nature of the Encounter
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Type of Friendly Creatures
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Initial Encounter Range
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Types of Hostile Creatures
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Specific Nearby Feature of Relevance
Subcharts
Weather and Lighting (d6)
| d6 | Result |
|---|---|
1 |
Takes place in daylight and clear weather |
2 |
Daylight, but fog, mist, rain or the like |
3 |
Daylight, but harsh seasonal weather |
4 |
Night encounter, but clear weather |
5 |
Night, with rain or other obscuring effects |
6 |
Night, with terrible weather and wind |
Basic Nature of the Encounter (d8)
| d8 | Result |
|---|---|
1 |
Attack by pack of hostiles |
2 |
Ambush by single lone hostile |
3 |
Meet people who don’t want to be met |
4 |
Encounter people in need of aid |
5 |
Encounter hostile creatures |
6 |
Nearby feature is somehow dangerous |
7 |
Nearby feature promises useful loot |
8 |
Meet hostiles that aren’t immediately so |
Types of Friendly Creatures (d10)
| d10 | Result |
|---|---|
1 |
Affable but reclusive hermit |
2 |
Local herd animal let loose to graze |
3 |
Government ranger or circuit judge |
4 |
Curious local animal |
5 |
Remote homesteader and family |
6 |
Working trapper or hunter |
7 |
Back-country villager or native |
8 |
Hiker or wilderness tourist |
9 |
Religious recluse or holy person |
10 |
Impoverished social exile |
Initial Encounter Range (d4)
| d4 | Result |
|---|---|
1 |
Visible from a long distance away |
2 |
Noticed 1d4 hundred meters away |
3 |
Noticed only within 1d6 x 10 meters |
4 |
Noticed only when adjacent to the event |
Types of Hostile Creatures (d12)
| d12 | Result |
|---|---|
1 |
Bandits in their wilderness hideout |
2 |
Dangerous locals looking for easy marks |
3 |
Rabid or diseased large predator |
4 |
Pack of hungry hunting beasts |
5 |
Herd of potentially dangerous prey animals |
6 |
Swarm of dangerous vermin |
7 |
Criminal seeking to evade the law |
8 |
Brutal local landowner and their men |
9 |
Crazed hermit seeking enforced solitude |
10 |
Friendly-seeming guide into lethal danger |
11 |
Harmless-looking but dangerous beast |
12 |
Confidence man seeking to gull the PCs |
Specific Nearby Features of Relevance (d20)
| d20 | Result |
|---|---|
1 |
Overgrown homestead |
2 |
Stream prone to flash-flooding |
3 |
Narrow bridge or beam over deep cleft |
4 |
Box canyon with steep sides |
5 |
Unstable hillside that slides if disturbed |
6 |
Long-lost crash site of a gravflyer |
7 |
Once-inhabited cave or tunnel |
8 |
Steep and dangerous cliff |
9 |
Quicksand-laden swamp or dust pit |
10 |
Ruins of a ghost town or lost hamlet |
11 |
Hunting cabin with necessities |
12 |
Ill-tended graveyard of a lost family stead |
13 |
Narrow pass that’s easily blocked |
14 |
Dilapidated resort building |
15 |
Remote government monitoring outpost |
16 |
Illicit substance farm or processing center |
17 |
Old and forgotten battleground |
18 |
Zone overrun by dangerous plants |
19 |
Thick growth that lights up at a spark |
20 |
Abandoned vehicle |