Reisezufallsbegegnung

[+] Reisezufallsbegegnung Englisch: Random Wilderness Encounters

Für Ländliche Zufallsbegegnungen ist es empfohen das vorherrschende Terrain, in dem sich die Spielgruppe gerade bewegt, zu nutzen. Das heißt, wenn die Spielgruppe sich gerade in den Vorhöhen eines Gebirgszuges befindet, also größtenteils Anhöhen und wenig Berge, so wäre "Anhöhen" die richtige Zufallstabelle.

With a little imagination, these tables should allow the GM to generate interesting and chal-lenging encounters. The user should bear in mind that many terrain types encompass many different lands and dice may dictate an encounter the GM feels inappropriate to the situa-tion. If this should happen feel free to reroll, choose arbitrarily from the list, or fi nd a way to make an unusual encounter work. The “Special” encounter column included with each terrain type is aimed specif i cally at introducing these chaotic types of encounters into your milieu.

Unlike dungeon encounters, wilderness encounters are not keyed to party level or strength. As a rule of thumb, the GM should use the “No. Encountered” entry in the rulebook to generate specif i c numbers. Players, for their part, should learn and develop the fi ne art of running away. Wandering about the wilderness of most campaign milieus is a hazardous pastime. The Human (and Demi-Human) Encounter Table lists various settlements and strongholds. These may be used to insert ad-venture hooks into the campaign, or give the party a relatively safe place to rest and re-equip. They may, of course, be ignored if they do not fi t with the your plans. We have limited the en-counters to hamlets, villages, and small keeps in order to not interfere with the GM’s carefully designed maps.

The NPC Tables, explained more fully below, may be used to generate lone NPCs or complete adventuring NPC parties. Tables are provided for generating NPCs and NPC parties in the Dungeon Encounter Tables section of these rules.

Zufallsbegegnungen in der verlorene Welt

Lost Worlds settings are chaotic places. OSRIC adds a little cha-os into the tables but feel free to expand upon this idea. You may wish to add encounters with UFO aliens, Tarzan™, present day humans from non-magical and high science worlds, even a giant ape which fancies itself a King. The Past, Present, and Future time travellers are labels relative to the player-character’s “normal” time. Dinosaurids are man-sized evolved dinosaurs roughly equiva-lent to humans in terms of stats, particularly intelligence. Cavemen are roughly equivalent to Neanderthal proto-hu-mans. The advanced cavemen referred to by the tables are akin to Cro-Magnon proto-humans. The Time-Lost Village encounter refers to a settlement of humans or demi-humans that is “unstuck in time” and randomly relocates to various eras, perhaps even changing physical location when time-shifting. One may look to various sources for inspiration, including the musical “Brigadoon”, the UK television series “Dr. Who”, and the US television series “The Time Tunnel.”

Erklärung von NSC-Typen

• decoys: serve either to distract the party from something else, or put the party at ease and lure them into a dangerous situation. For example: a group of charmed humans who seek to lure the PC party into the den of a rakshasa.
• escapees: these NPCs have escaped from imprisonment by some nearby entity. The NPCs may have little or no equipment or weapons and are either under pursuit from their captors or will be shortly.
• Joiners: seek to join the PCs. The GM is free to manufacture motivation appropriate to his or her needs, either malevolent or benevolent.
• Runners: The NPCs are fleeing or avoiding an encounter. Whatever they are fleeing is probably chasing them, whatever they are avoiding may or may not be aware of their presence. Unlike escapees, these NPCs will be appropriately armed, armoured, and equipped.
• Searchers: are looking for something, usually an item or per-son. The possibilities are myriad, a few examples are: seeking a powerful artifact, weapon, stolen item; or, seeking a friend, arch-enemy, or kidnapped daughter of the local woodcutter.
• Survivors: 1 or 2 demoralized survivors of an otherwise wiped out adventuring party. They may have limited equipment and be in need of healing.
• wolves (in sheep’s clothing): an encounter with something that appears human but is not. This category includes were-creatures, doppelgängers, polymorphed creatures, and the like. The disguised creature may not necessarily mean the party harm, the avatar of a benevolent deity who doesn’t wish to reveal his or her divinity to the party is one example that comes to mind.

Zufallstabellen

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