WWN Wilderness Encounters

Citation

Kevin Crawford, Worlds Without Number

Result

Human Encounters:

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Nonhuman Sapient Encounters:

Roll on "Nonhuman Sapient Encounters"

Beasts and Monsters

Roll on "Beasts and Monsters"

What’s Happening with the Sapients?

Roll on "What’s Happening with the Sapients?"

What’s Happening with the Beasts?

Roll on "What’s Happening with the Beasts?"


Subcharts

Human Encounters (d12)

d12 Result

1

Hopelessly lost merchant or peddler

2

Hermit with a good reason to stay alone

3

Escaped slave or prisoner

4

Peasant perhaps moonlighting as a bandit

5

Dangerous outlaw or outcast

6

Explorer, scout, or surveyor

7

Patrol of the local authorities

8

Miners, woodsmen, hunters, or other workers

9

Common traveler, perhaps lost

10

Noble or other gentry on a journey

11

Pilgrim, perhaps of a malevolent god

12

Bandits, marauders, or other adventurers

Nonhuman Sapient Encounters (d12)

d12 Result

1

Raiders on their way to pillage a site

2

Scouts out surveilling the territory

3

Patrol to drive off troublesome intruders

4

Campsite of the nonhumans

5

Nonhuman workers or resource gatherers

6

Religious figure conducting some rite

7

Nonhumans chasing a human escapee

8

Site of a bloody battle with nonhumans

9

Nonhuman traders with valuable goods

10

Outcast or deranged nonhuman

11

Nonhuman magic-user and attendants

12

Hunters pursuing their prey

Beasts and Monsters (d12)

d12 Result

1

Harmless but annoying local creature

2

Hungry pack hunters

3

Stalking predator looking for an opening

4

Sick or somehow enraged predator

5

An ambush predator lying in wait

6

Large, dangerously aggressive herbivore

7

Uncanny or eldritch monster

8

A swarm of dangerous vermin

9

A flying monster or beast

10

Mated pair of team hunters

11

Ghost, animate corpse, or other undead

12

Something far too dangerous to confront

What’s Happening with the Sapients? (d12)

d12 Result

1

They’re arguing hotly over something

2

They’re pausing for a meal

3

They’re making far too much noise for stealth

4

They’re interrogating a prisoner

5

They’re examining recent loot or a finding

6

They’re camping here for an interval

7

They’re fleeing a fearsome pursuer

8

They’re looking for something to steal

9

They need healing or help with a situation

10

They’re hiding from something hunting them

11

They’re in an affable and friendly mood

12

They’re chasing enemies of theirs

What’s Happening with the Beasts? (d12)

d12 Result

1

It’s wounded from a recent hunt

2

It’s magically warped somehow

3

It’s being chased by something bigger

4

Remnants of its last prey are obvious nearby

5

It’s attacking someone right now

6

It’s well-fed and disinclined to hunt

7

It looks deceptively harmless or weak

8

It’s something’s pet or hunting beast

9

It’s fighting over a mate

10

It’s using bait to lure in humans

11

It’s currently eating its last unfortunate prey

12

It’s old or crippled and acting unpredictably


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