Random Encounters: Season Two, Episode Four: Still more ideas for your tabletop role-playing game.

by Jason Brick, Jeb Brack

The best part of any gaming book is the little ideas. Great NPCs. Intriguing locations. Small, elegant rules. Campaign or adventure ideas. It doesn't matter which game or genre it's originally for, we can throw those ideas into any game we want. Random Encounters is a series of gaming books consisting of just the ideas. 20 short essays about cool stuff to try in your games. Character stuff. Monster stuff. Campaign arcs. Adventure ideas. Encounters. Play at table. House rules. All kinds of little ideas for you to read, take, use and alter to make your game all it can be. In this *How to design actual random encounter tables for more mystery and engagement *Making chases more excitement and less math *Dealing with massive hordes of enemies *Rules for jousting and similar nonlethal combat competitions *A location where time of day takes on deadly importance *An adventure where deep-sea divers emerge to a horrific new reality *Inspirations from the real-life "Batman Building" in Singapore *Advice on making clerics more fun to play *A sinister trapped hallway *Thoughts on handling PVP conflict without breaking the game (or game group) *A suite of intelligent magic items, complete with personalities and neuroses *Review of the new "The Expanse" game by Green Ronin *An encounter where the PCs face spelunking, giant spiders, and a flash flood simultaneously *Profile of Minucius, the gnome crime boss *A map of a mine dug into a fossilized dragon corpse *A campaign climax at the bottom of a frothing whirlpool *"The Door In The Sky": a campaign framework combining ideas from several past issues *Introducing "Negative Sessions" to add context and connection as you begin a campaign *A classic wizard's tower adventure with a twist *A campaign framework set after the rebels beat the empire, only to discover that was the least of their problems All 20 ideas ready to drop in your campaign, whatever rules and whatever genre!

50 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2020

About the author

Jason Brick started wrestling just after his 11th birthday. He has studied and taught martial arts for the thirty-plus years between now and then. His fascination with Japanese mythology began while training in karate and magnified while living in Japan. When not writing or practicing, he cooks, plays table-top games and tries hard to spoil his wife, two sons and cats in the lush and rainy Pacific Northwest.