Category: Random Encounters
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Random Encounters: Remote Frontier Starport
Today's Random Encounter Table takes us to a distant star system at the edge of explored space. The spaceport can be either an orbital station or an outpost on the surface of a planet. Because this is the frontier, equipment is patched-together and law enforcement is lax and ad-hoc. Use this table to generate roleplaying…
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Random Encounters: Accursed Leng
Where does the horror-haunted Plateau of Leng lie? In Central Asia? Past the Mountains of Madness in Antarctica? Or is it outside of waking reality altogether, in the dimension of nightmares? The city of sinister temples and forbidden magic draws visitors from all space and time. ENCOUNTERS IN LENG (Roll d20 when moving, d10 when…
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Random Encounters: Post-Apocalyptic Houston
ENCOUNTERS IN POST-APOCALYPTIC HOUSTON (Roll d20 if the party is moving, d10 if they are staying in one place.) Roll Twice and Combine Plot-Advancing Encounter: Something or someone related to whatever brought the adventurers to Post-Apocalyptic Houston in the first place. (If they're just passing through then this is an adventure hook: someone who knows…
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Random Encounters: Steampunk Paris
I'm starting a new feature of the 'blog this week: your Weekly Random Encounters. Each week I'm going to post a new random encounter table for a particular setting. Use these for roleplaying games, story prompts, or as a kind of I Ching to predict your week. I'm also appending the Situation generator to each…
The Cambias Digression 