Encounters

Encounter ideas for RPGs.

Portal Prison maps

March 22, 2021

I recently ran The Portal Prison adventure from the Game Master's Book of Random Encounters. The middle of this short adventure has five random encounters rolled up entirely from contents found elsewhere in the book. Here are some of the maps recreated using Inkarnate, which we used as battle maps in the mighty Owlbear Rodeo. Town Graveyard The Portal Prison The Portal Prison, ruined The...


Porked lightning

March 27, 2016

Here's a light-hearted game you can throw at your PCs to add a little respite and amusement to their next visit to “town”. It uses a game I remember from years ago as a kid, a game where instead of rolling dice you get to roll two plastic pigs: Pass the Pigs from Winning Moves (MB in my day!). In Pass the Pigs, "each turn involves one player throwing two model pigs... The player gains or...