Enounters

Encounters

WILDERNESS ENCOUNTER LIST

If they are hunting, use this list and instructions.
To determine what the encounter will be, locate the terrain column that best describes what the party is in.
Roll % and find what row within the terrain is indicated. Click on the link in the 1st column to go to the Encounter Type table. Roll again as indicated within that table.
THE DM SHOULD MODIFY THE RANDOM RESULT TO BEST FIT THE PARTIES LOCATION!
If an indicated encounter would be impossible or even improbable, the DM should read the entries closest to the one indicated until something appropriate is found.

Rolling for a Random Encounter, Random Encounter Information
Location Encounter Charts
Main Chart, Arctic, Etherial, Astral, Planer Humans, Castle, Fish, Freshwater Surface, Fresh Waterborn, Sea Surface, Salt Underwater, Underdark, Dungeon undead, Sylvan Forest, Wilderness Monuments

Wilderness Random Encounters

Encounter Type	Grassland	Hills	Forest	Jungle	Swamp	Mountains	Desert	High Mountains	Arctic
1 Weather	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2 Event	2-3	2-3	2-3	2-3	2-3	2-3	2-3	2-3	2-3
3 Human Races	4-5	4-5	4-5	4-5	4-5	4-5	4-5	4-5	4-5
4 Human Jobs	6-10	6-10	6-10	6-9	6-9	6-10	6-12	10-14	6-15
5 Humanoids	11-14	11-14	11-14	10-12	10-12	11-15	13-15
6 Classes		15-20				20-25		15-17
7 Snakes	15-20		11-20	13-14
8 Reptiles		21-22		15	13	26-28		18
9 Ruminant	21-28		21-27	16-17	14-15	29
10 Equine	29-32	23-25	28-29	18-22	16-20		16-30
11 Feline	33-38	26-28	30-35	23	21	30	31-33
12 Canine	39-45	29-33	36-39	24-25	22-23	31-38	34	19-30
13 Arachnid	46-50	33-35	40-46	26-29	24-25	39-44	35	31-35
14 Insectoid	51-54	36	47-52	30-35	26-30	45	36-39
16 Avian	55-59	37-41	53-59	36-40	31-45	45-47		36-37
17 Plant	60-65	42-45	60-66	41-44	46-51	48	40	38-45
18 Dragon	66-68	46-50	67-68	45-47	52-54	49	41-48	46-50
19 Mammals	69-72	51-56	69-70	48	55	50-55	49-51	51-53	15-25
20 Mammals 2	73-76	57-61	71-73	49-53	56-63	56-58	52-57	54-56
21 Salt Water	77-80	62-66	74-77	54-60	64-75	59-67	59-65	57-65	26-35
22 Fresh Water	81-82	83-85	78-79	61-64	76-80	68-72	66-77	66-70	36-45
23 Undead	83-84	86-87	80-81	65-69			78-80		45-50
24 Dragon	84-89	88-89	82-83	70-75	81	73-76	81	71-80	51-55
25 Aberations	89-92	90-92	84-86	76-81	82	77-79	82-85	81-84	56
26 Monsters	93-96	93-96	87-90	82-90	83-98	80-93	86-98	85-95	57-93
27 Extincts	96-97	96-98	91-92	91		94-98		96-98	94-98
28 Elementals	98		93-98	92-98
29 Giants	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	99
30 Friendlies	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

Main Encounter Chart

Weather Roll Normal Weather Changes in the Weather-2d6 2 Strong wind (20+3d20 MPH) 3 Light Rain/Snow (1+1d4") 4 Wind (10+2d20 MPH) 5 Sprinkles/Flurries (1d3") 6 Temp. goes up (10+1d20 deg) 7 Heavy Overcast 8 Temp. goes down (10+1d20 deg) 9 Heat wave (temp + 20+1d20) 10 Cold Snap (temp - 20+1d20) 11 Heavy Rain/Snow(if temp <32) (2+2d4") 12 Special Weather (roll below) Special Weather - 1d8 1 Hurricane 2 Gale 3 Twister/Funnel Cloud 4 Moonsoone/Blizzard 5 Drought 6 Lightning Storm nearby 7 Hale Storm 8 DM Choice	Event - 1d10 Sinkhole Lava Eruptions Ash Eruptions Explosive Eruptions Earthquakes Tidal Waves Floods Falling Snow, Rock, Mud Quicksand Forest Fire Funeral Pilgrimage Group Refugees Family mini-adventure(pdf) Monster Lair(pdf) Find adventure map(pdf)	5 Humanoid Races Dragonborn Dwarf Mountain Dwarf Hill Elf High Elf Wood Elf Drow Gnome Rock Gnome Forest Half-Elf Half-Orc Halfling Lightfoot Halfling Stout Human Tiefling Filli Caine Ape Midget Lizard Man Ape Baboon	Humanoid Jobs Bandits Brigands Berserkers Buccaneer (Pirate) Pirate Caveman Tribesman Nomad Merchant Assassin Beggar Cleric Druid Drunk Gentleman Goodwife Harlot Laborer Mercenary Merchant Noble Pilgrim Press gang Rake Ruffian Thief Tradesman Bandit Captain Farmers Priests
Humanoid Bugbear Duergar Glabrezu Green hag Grimlock Harpy Goblin Hobgoblin Night hag Nymph Ogre Satyr Sea hag Swanmays Bird Maidens Orc Pigmy Rakshasa CR 10 Werebear CR 5 Wereboar CR 4 Wererat CR 2 Weretiger CR 5 Werewolf CR 3	Classes Barbarian Bard Cleric Druid Fighter Monk Paladin Ranger Rogue Sorcerer Warlock Wizard	10 Snakes Constrictor Snake Giant Constrictor Snake Flying Snake Poisonous Snake Amphisbaena, Boalisk, Constrictor Snake, Giant Constrictor Snake, Snow serpents , Heway, Poisonous Snake, Giant Poisonous Snake, Giant Sea Snake, Spitting Snake, Jaculi, Elder Serpents, Herald Serpent, Teak Serpent, Snake, Sewerm, Heway Behir Hydra Salamander	Reptiles Crocodile Amphibian Crocodilian Archer Frog Iguana Lizard Giant Toad Giant Turtle Giant Sea Turtle Giant Snapping Turtle Poisonous Frogs Neotropical Toad Giantic Toads Fire Toad Ice Toad Poisonous Toad Lizardfolk Lizard
9 Ruminant Bison Camel Elephant Cattle Antelope Sheep Rhinoceros Cattle Buffalo Antelope Sheep Bull Caribou Goat, Giant Llama Ram, Giant Rhinoceros Stag, wild Giant Stag Kip Z’tal	11 Equine Centaur CR 3 Mule CR 1 Pony CR 1/4 Unicorn CR 3 Celestial Charger CR Draft Horse Riding Horse Nars Raurin Semphari Steppe Sosser Draft Horse War Horse Pony Wild Horse Riding Horse Mule Steppe Pony Av Andaluari, Akhal-Tara Balserran Cyaddar Dales Pony Duquala Ranger Horse Fordskin Fell Pony Bahtel Kiita Vor Wandega Fiendish Horse Fiendish Warhorse	13 Feline Cat CR 1/4 Cheetah Jaguar Leopard Lion Mountain Lion Spotted Lion Giant Lynx Tiger Smilodon	12 Canine Blink Dog CR 2 Dog CR 1/3 Hell Hound CR 3 Nessian Warhound CR Hyena CR 1 Wyvern CR 6 Winter Wolf CR 5 Wolf CR 1 Worg CR 2 Domesticated Dog Wild Dogs War Dogs Blink Dogs Death dog Bloodhounds Vos Hound Silver Dog Domestic Dogs Wild Dogs Coyote Dhole Dingo Feral Dog Fox Hunting Dog Jackal Wolf Prehistoric Canids Cave Hyena Cave Hyena Short-faced Hyena Spotted Hyena Striped Hyena Hyaenodons Blink Dog Weisshund Worg
17 Arachnid Phase Spider CR 5 Hairy Spider Large Spider Huge Spider Giant Spider Giant trapdoor spider Phase Spider Sword Spider Gargantuan Spider Whisper Spider Giant Trap Door Spider Dark Spider Mountain Spider Silt Spiders	14 Insectoid Giant ants Swarm Aspis Aspis Larvae Aspis Cows Scarab Beetle Giant Scarab Monstrous Scarab Ant, Giant Ant Lion, Giant Aratha Aspis, Cow Aspis, Drone Aspis, Larva Assassin Bug Bee, Worker Bee, Soldier Bumblebee Cave Cricket Dragonfly Dragonfly, Larva Ear Seeker Firefriend (Giant Firefly) Fly, Giant Bluebottle Fly, Giant Horsefly Fyrefly Horax Hornet, Giant Pernicon Praying Mantis, Gargantuan Termite, Giant Harvester Tick, Giant Wasp, Giant Ant, Giant Ant Lion, Giant Aratha Aspis, Cow Aspis, Drone Aspis, Larva Assassin Bug Bee, Worker Bee, Soldier Bumblebee Cave Cricket Dragonfly Dragonfly, Larva Ear Seeker Firefriend (Giant Firefly) Fly, Giant Bluebottle Fly, Giant Horsefly Fyrefly Horax Hornet, Giant Pernicon Praying Mantis, Gargantuan Termite, Giant Harvester Tick, Giant Wasp, Giant	25 Avian blood hawk eagle giant eagle giant owl giant vulture hawk Albatross Canary Cockerel owl raven vulture Harpy Hippogriff Pegacorn Pegasus Roc Boobrie Condor Eblis Falcon Flightless Bird Owl, Talking Raven (Crow) Raven, Giant Raven, Huge Swan Emre Magpie Piranha Bird Sprackle Flightless Bird Boobrie Eblis	16 Plant Awakened Tree Awakenen Shrub Shambling Mound Treant Shrieker Violet Fungus Black Pudding Gray Ooze Ochre Jelly Shambling Mound Treant CR 8 Choke Creeper Mantrap Retch Plant Snapper-Saw Thornslinger Tri-flower Frond Yellow Musk Creeper Hangman Tree Kelpie Quickwood Shambling Mound Strangleweed Giant Sundew Thorny
26 Wild Mammal Bat Large Bat Huge Bat (Mobat) Azmyth Bat Night Hunter Bat Sinister Bat Badger Bat Rat Weasel Beavers Chipmunks Ermines Ferrets Foxes Gophers Hedgehogs Moles Monkey Mice Minks Muskrats Opossum Otters Pigs Rabbits Raccoons Squirrels Flying squirrels Giant black squirrels Woodchucks Porcupine Brown porcupines black porcupine Giant Porcupine Skunk Giant Skunks Ape, Carnivorous: Baboon, Wild: Badger: Banderlog: Bhaergala: Boar, Wild: Chattur: Cooshee: Dakon: Debbi: Goat: Gorilla: Hsing-sing:	27 More Animals Hyena: Losel: Monkey Spider: Rothé: Sleek: Stag, Wild: Stench Kow: Taer: Tyrg: Warthog: Weasel: Minimal Mammals: Weasel Giant Weasel Wolverine Giant Wolverines Bear, Brown CR 2 Bear, Black CR 4 Bear, Polar CR 4 Homunculus CR 1 Satyr Sprite Bat Large Bat Huge Bat (Mobat) Azmyth Night Hunter Sinister Swarm of bats Swarm of insects Swarm of quippers Swarm of rats	Fresh Water Fish Electric Ray Fish (Great Glacier) Bloatfish Black Burner Spiny Sleeper Icetail Crystal Nipper Fish, Ascallion Shadow (Male Ascallion) Jellyfish, Giant Ray Manta Ray Pungi Ray Sting Ray Ixitxachitl Sea Lion Eel, Giant Moray Barracuda Clam, Giant Giant Carnivorous Scallop Angler Fish Death Minnow Gulper Viperfish Dolphin Dolphin (Athas) Nautilus, Giant Octopus, Giant Squid, Giant Kraken Kreel Death Minnow Damselfish, Giant	Salt Water Fish Aboleth Kraken Merfolk, Octopus Sahuagin Giant Sea Horse Giant Shark Dragon Turtle Sea Hag Sea Horse Reef Shark Giant Catfish Giant Gar Giant Pike Wattley Lemon Fish Iridescent Pleco Floating Eye Hetfish Verme Archerfish, Giant Electric Eels Giant Eels Marine Eels Weed Eels Carp, Giant Land Lamprey Piranha Giant Piranha Crustacean, Giant Giant Crabs Giant Crayfish Giant Grouper Morena Porcupine fish
0 Undead Ghost (template) Ghoul CR 1 Ghast CR 3 Lich (template) Mummy Skeleton (template) Spectre CR 7 Vampire (template) Vampire Spawn CR 4 Wight CR 3 Wraith CR 5 Dread Wraith CR 11 Zombie (template) Shadow Crawling Claw Will-o-wisp Mummy Lord Banshee Flameskull	19 Dragon adult black dragon adult blue dragon adult brass dragon adult bronze dragon adult copper dragon adult gold dragon adult green dragon adult red dragon adult silver dragon adult white dragon Pseudodragon Wyvern young black dragon young blue dragon young brass dragon young bronze dragon young copper dragon young gold dragon young green dragon young red dragon young silver dragon young white dragon	Aberations Gibbering Mouther Intellect Devourer Grell Otyugh Cloaker Chuul Aboleth Cloker	Monsters Androsphinx Basilisk Boobrie Bulette Chimera Cockatrice Couatl Dire wolf Ettercap Grick Griffon Harpy Hippogriff Homunculus Hydra Manticore Minotaur Otyugh Owlbear Pit fiend Purple worm Remorhaz Roc Spirit naga Tarrasque Vrock Wyvern Xorn
Extinct Animals Ankylosaurus Deinonychus Diplodocus Elasmosaurus Lambeosaurus Pteranodon Stegosaurus Triceratops Tyrannosaurus Allosaurus Brontosaurus Ceratosaurus Composognathus Dimetrodon Euparkeria Gorgosaurus Iguanodon Monoclonius Plateosaurus Struthiomimus Tanystropheus Teratosaurus Trachodon Archelon (Ischyras) Dinichthys Mosasaurus Nothosaurus Plesiosaurus Temnodontosaurus Axebeak Balucitherium Irish Deer Megatherium Phororhacos Wooly Rhinoceros Titanothere Savannah Bear Bear Dog Pike-tusked Elephant Giant Long-jawed Hyena Camel, giant Elephant, dwarf Eucladoceros Hippopotamus, giant Marsupials Giant Plains Lizard Giant Warthog Long-horned Buffalo Long-tailed Bear	Elementals Air elemental Earth elemental Fire elemental Water elemental Dust mephit Ice mephit Magmin Azer Clay golem Stone golem Flesh golem Iron golem Xorn Invisible stalker Djinni Efreeti	Giants Cloud giant Fire giant Frost giant Hill giant Stone giant Storm giant Giant Insects Giant Leech Giant Mammal Giant ape Giant badger Giant bat Giant boar Giant centipede Giant constrictor snake Giant crab Giant crocodile Giant eagle Giant elk Giant fire beetle Giant frog Giant goat Giant hyena Giant lizard Giant owl Giant poisonous snake Giant rat Giant scorpion Giant sea horse Giant shark Giant spider Giant toad Giant vulture Giant wasp Giant weasel Giant wolf spider Cyclops Ettin	Friendly Animals Hurrum Critic Renk Ock’n Erdlu Inix Kank Mekillot Aprig Carru Mulworm Sygra Feystag

Rolling for Random Encounters
This is intended to be a encounter list that could be used in any campaign, in any terrain and for any strength party. In order to do this, it is necessary to group encounters together in several different ways. It will also require the make up of the encounter to be handled in a flexible manor. The climate has a lot to do with the types of encounters, and the weather at the time will also effect the encounters. Therefore, it is necessary to have additional chartsfeline to take this variable into account. There are several division in a hierarchical structure. This list is for situations where the party is simply travelling.
Daylight hours consist of morning, noon, and evening; night consists of night, midnight, and pre-dawn. These times equate to periods of about an hour after the party sets forth for the day, the mid-point of the journey, and near the end when camp is being made with respect to day-light hours. During hours of darkness, equate the periods to first, middle and end sleep periods. Where only 1 or 2 chances for encounter exist, you may vary the time as you see fit in order to avoid player reliance on information which they should not be privy to. When an encounter check is indicated, roll the appropriate die, and if a 1 results, an encounter takes place. In this event, go to the appropriate table for the terrain, and determine randomly what sort of monster is being encountered. Note: In areas where you have detailed the monster population, a random determination should not be necessory, as this information should be recorded by you.

Population Density-Encounter Chance
relatively dense - 1 in20
moderate to sparse/patrolled - 1 in12
uninhabited/wilderness - 1 in 10

Check For Random Wilderness Encounter At

Terrain Type	Morning	Noon	Evening	Night	Midnight	Pre-Dawn
Plain	*		*		*
Scrub	*		*	*		*
Forest	*	*	*	*	*	*
Desert	*			*		*
Hills		*		*		*
Mountains	*			*
Marsh	*	*	*	*	*	*

* Indicates a encounter

Funeral

Racial Variations of funeral observances
Dragonborn - The body is taken on a decorated cart to a spot determined by the residents and the breath weapons of the family are used to reduce the body to nothing. Fire is used if the body is not consumed
Dwarf - Usually they are carried on a "Last Journeys Plank" (a door sized piece of highly carved thin stone.) to the a forge commonly used by the persons family who follow behind with their faces blackened with coal or charcoal.
Elf - A high elf is dressed in white robes and carried on the shoulders of 4 or 6 friends or family to either a family burial plot or a mausoleum.
A wood elf wears the persons best clothing and carried in a stretcher to a place in the woods or in a tree that the person loved and either buried or cremated there.
Gnome - Rock gnomes are carried by family and friends to a place where the other bodies lie and rocks are piled on top of them. This pile of rocks grows with every body.
Forest Gnomes are carried to a tree designated by the family and friends then placed on a lattice of rope high in the limbs.
Half-Elf - as either human or elf depending on the persons preference in life
Half-Orc - a Orc funeral is a unattended cremation and a wake party
Halfling- the body of the person is placed in a coffin or a table covered with fancy cloth in the room where a wake is celebrated. It is then buried in a communal graveyard
Human - You should already know! Choose burial, cremation or mausoleum if available.
Tiefling - the body is placed in a grave by the friends and family and a wake is performed after
Filli - Usually buried as a human burial in a family plot

The cost of a funeral service varies depending on the lifestyle that was maintained by the deceased. Any level of service can be arranged by the deceased's family or estate. However, diverging from what is appropriate will negatively affect the social standing of the family or estate. Charitable individuals or groups may pay for a Poor funeral to those who cannot afford it. The values below includes the costs for the interment, clergy, food, and rituals (such as bell-ringing, lighting candles or other religious rites). These examples indicate what kind of funerary container the body is placed in, but some cultures and races will favor cremation or cannibalism.In some religions, burial and ritual must be fulfilled in order for a person's soul to pass on to the afterlife (else wander some undesirable outer plane). Criminals and heretics may not be allowed this service at all.

Wretched. 0 gp. Thrown in an unmarked grave or mass grave, with the bare minimum of ritual if they are lucky.
Squalid. 7 sp. Wrapped and buried in a burial field, often unmarked.
Poor. 1 gp 4 sp. Interment in casket placed in a common graveyard with a simple tombstone.
Modest. 70 gp. Interment in coffin placed in graveyard, public crypt or simple tumulus. A decent meal and a wake may be held.
Comfortable. 140 gp. Interment in sarcophagus placed in a family tumulus, mausoleum, burial vault or crypt, with burial goods.
Wealthy. 280 gp. As above, with a grand feast; commemorative works of art may be established.
Aristocratic. 700 gp minimum. Interment in a gilded tomb (with effigy if enough is spent) placed in a dedicated chapel or burial structure, with burial goods; lavish feasts; professional mourners lamenting, keening or delivering eulogies; ritual services held over several days

Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
Variations on this are:(1d4)

Religious - Pick a god
Self discovery - pick an area of personality that the person is trying to understand
Walk about - looking for a Revelation of some sort
Honor - Spreading the word about a revered person or organization.

Refugee
This indicates a group of people (d30) who are running away from their home. They are usually very poor and mistrustful. Often there are wounded or sickly people in the group.
They are running from: (1d4)

A monster who has taken residence in their area
A evil person or tribe has move in
They are afraid of something
There is a drought or blight in their area

Wilderness Monuments d20

Sealed burial mound or pyramid
Plundered burial mound or pyramid
Faces carved into a mountainside or cliff
Giant statues carved out of a mountainside or cliff
Intact obelisk etched with a warning, historical lore, dedication , or religious iconography
Ruined or toppled obelisk
Intact statue of a person or deity
Ruined or toppled statue of a person or deity
Great stone wall, intact, with tower fortifications spaced at one-mile intervals
Great stone wall in ruins
Great stone arch
Fountain
Intact circle of standing stones
Ruined or toppled circle of standing stones
Totem pole
Grove of trees all the same kind
Very deep artificial pit
Stone tablet with illegible carved words
Ruined Abby
Fallen Wizards Tower

Sylvan Forest Encounters 1d20

Unicorn
1 displacer beast
1 gnoll pack lord and 2d4 gnolls
1d4 gnolls and 2d4 hyenas
A grove of burned trees. Characters searching the area and succeeding on a DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check find gnoll tracks. Following the tracks for 1 d4 hours leads to an encounter with gnolls, or the discovery of dead gnolls with elven arrows sticking out of their flea-ridden corpses.
1 giant owl
An ivy-covered statue of an elven deity or hero.
1 dryad (50%) or 1d4 satyrs (50%)
1 d4 centaurs
2d4 scouts (elves). One scout carries a horn and can use its action to blow it. If the horn is blown within the forest, roll on this table again. If the result indicates a monster encounter, the indicated monster or monsters arrive in 1d4 minutes. New arrivals other than gnolls, hyenas, owl bears, and displacer beasts are friendly toward the scouts.
2d4 pixies (50%) or 2d4 sprites (50%)
1 owlbear
1d4 elks (75%) or 1 giant elk (25%)
1d4 blink dogs
A magical plant with 2d4 glowing berries. A creature that ingests a berry becomes invisible for 1 hour, or until it attacks or casts a spell. Once picked, a berry loses its magic after 12 hours. Berries regrow at midnight, but if all its berries are picked , the plant becomes nonmagical and grows no more berries.
An elven tune carried on a gentle breeze
1d4 orange (75%) or blue (25%) faerie dragons
1 druid (elf). The druid is initially indifferent toward the party but becomes friendly if the characters agree to rid the forest of its gnoll infestation.
1 treant. The treant is friendly if the party includes one or more elves or is accompanied by a visible fey creature. The treant is hostile if the characters are carrying open flames. Otherwise, it is indifferent and doesn 't announce its presence as the party passes by
1 Unicorn

Arctic Encounters - 3d20

Unused
Unused
Constrictor snake,
giant lizard
Commoner,
White owl
poisonous snake,
giant wolf spider,
Bandit,
blood hawk,
kobold,
pseudodragon,
Dust mephit,
gnoll,
hobgoblin,
Giant owl
swarm of insects
Ice mephit,
Death dog,
giant hyena,
giant spider
Brown bear,
half-ogre
giant toad,
giant vulture,
half-ogre,
lion,
thri-kreen,
yuan-ti
griffon ,
ogre,
polar bear,
saber-toothed tiger
giant constrictor snake,
gnoll pack
Manticore,
winter wolf,
yeti
ogre
Revenant,
troll,
werebear,
remorhaz
phase spider,
wight
Mammoth,
young white dragon
Frost giant
Couatl,
gnoll
Abominable yeti
weretiger
Remorhaz,
roc
Adult white dragon
Cyclops,
medusa
Ancient white dragon
Mobat
Shadow

Underdark Encounters - 3d20

Unused
Unused
Giant fire beetle,
shrieker,
myconid 0 (10 XP)
Quipper 0 (10 XP)
Flumph,
giant rat,
kobold,
stirge,
steam mephit
tribal warrior
Giant sea horse,
reef shark,
sahuagin
Drow,
giant bat,
giant centipede,
Giant octopus,
swarm of quippers
giant poisonous snake,
Giant constrictor snake,
goblin,
grimlock,
kuo-toa,
swarm shark,
merrow,
plesiosaurus ,
Swarm of bats,
troglodyte,
violet fungus,
sahuagin priestess,
sea hag
Killer whale
Darkmantle,
deep gnome,
Giant shark,
sahuagin
spore,
gray ooze,
hobgoblin,
magma
water elemental
mephit,
myconid adult,
piercer,
Marid
rust monster,
shadow
Storm giant
Swarm of insects
Dragon turtle
Bugbear,
duergar,
fire snake,
ghoul,
giant spider,
giant toad ,
half-ogre,
quaggoth

Fish Encounters

Salt Water Fish

Fresh Water Fish

Fresh Waterborn Encounters

Beaver, giant 1
Crocodile 2
Hippopotamus 2
Kelpie
Lizard man 4
Nixie 1
Nymph
Otter, giant
Thork
Throat leech
Water weird
Crayfish, giant
Crocodile, giant 2
Gar, giant
Lacedon (ghoul)
Man, merchant
Man, pirate
Naga, water
Turtle, snapping, giant
Water weird

Sea Surface Encounters
dl2 + d8 Encounter

2 Sunken ship covered in barnacles (25 percent chance-roll randomly on the treasure tables in chapter 7)
3 Sunken ship with reef sharks (shallow waters) or hunter sharks (deep waters) circling around it (50 percent chance that the ship contains treasure; roll randomly on the treasure tables in chapter 7)
4 Bed of giant oysters (each oyster has a 1 percent chance of having a giant 5,000 gp pearl inside)
5 Underwater steam vent (25 percent chance that the vent is a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire)
6 Sunken ruin (uninhabited)
7 Sunken ruin (inhabited or haunted)
8 Sunken statue or monolith
9 Friendly and curious giant sea horse
10 Patrol offriendly merfolk
11 Patrol of hostile merrow (coastal waters) or sahuagin (deep waters)
12 Enormous kelp bed (roll again on the table to determine what's hidden in the kelp bed)
13 Undersea cave (empty)
14 Undersea cave (sea hag la ir)
15 Undersea cave (merfolk lair)
16 Undersea cave (giant octopus lair)
17 Undersea cave (dragon turtle lair)
18 Bronze dragon searching for treasure
19 Storm giant walking on the ocean floor
20 Sunken treasure chest (25 percent chance - roll treasure randomly using the tables in chapter 7)

Salt Underwater Encounters

Shallow Water Encounters (to 100)

Dice Score
01 -02
03-05
06
07-08
09-12
13
14-17
18-1 9
20-21
22
23-26
27-28
29-34
35-36
37--38
39-41
42-43
44-46
47
48-49
50-51
52-54
55-56
57-58
59-60
61 -65
66
67-72
73-78
79-81
82
83
84
85-87
88-90
91
92
93
94-96
97
98
99-00

Creature Encountered
Barracuda
Crab, giant
Crayfish (lobster), giant
Dinosaur -Subtable
Dolphin
Eel, giant
Eel, weed
Elf, aquatic
Eye, floating
Giant, storm
Hippocampus
lxitxachitl
Koalinth (hobgoblin)
Kopoacinth (gargoyle)
Lacedon (ghoul)
Locathah
Masher
Merman
Nymph
Ochre jelly
Octopus, giant
Port. man-0-war, giant
Ray, manta
Ray;pungi
Ray, sting
Sahuagin
Sea hag
Sea horse
Sea lion
Shark
Shark, giant
Snoke, sea
Squid, giant
Strangle weed
Triton
Turtle, giant, sea
Whale, carnivorous, large
Whale, carnivorous, med. Whale, carnivorous, small
Whale, large
Whale, medium
Whale. small

Deep Water Encounters (below 100)

Dice Score
01 -03
04-05
06-12
13-20
21
22-23
24
25
26-30
31 -33
34-35
36-38
39-40
41 -42
43-44
45
46-50
51 -52
53-54
55-57
58-61
62-63
64-68
69-73
74-78
79-80
81 -82
83-85
86
89-90
91 -92
93-95
96-98
99-00
87-88

Creature Encountered
Crayfish (lobster), giant
Crocodile, giant
Dinosaur- see Dinosaur Subtable
Dolphin
Dragon Turtle
Eel, giant
Eye of the deep
Giant, storm
Hippocampus
lxitxachitl
Koalinth (hobgoblin)
Kopoacinth (gargoyle)
Lacedon (ghoul)
Lamprey, giant
Masher
Merman
Morkoth
Octopus, giant
Ray, manta
Sahuagin
Sea hag
Sea horse
Sea lion
Shark, giant
Snake, sea
Squid, giant
Triton
Turtle, giant, sea
Whale, carnivorous, large
Whale, carnivorous, med.
Whale, carnivorous, small
Whale, large
Whale, medium
Whale, small

ASTRAL 8 ETHEREAL ENCOUNTERS
Encounters occur 1 in 20; check at the beginning, midpoint, and end of the journey. If an encounter is indicated (usually 20 on the die), consult the appropriate table and roll percentile dice. Read to the right on the table to find the creature encountered and the number encountered. Evasion is possible only if the adventurers are able to move more quickly than the monster encountered.

Psychic Wind & Ether Cyclone
While you can threaten the dire effects of the Psychic Wind and the Ether Cyclone, these devices cannot be fully employed unless you have developed extensive information on the various planes, or else you have obtained commercial offerings on the subject. Becoming lost or injured is always possible, of course, and this is detailed below:
Chance For Wind Or Cyclone Blowing:
The chance of a delayed or dis- rupted journey is 5% per plane crossed (including alternate worlds) or solar system travelled to. Effects of these forces are shown prior to the encounter tables.

Note: If astral projection does not involve a silver cord attachment, then the party concerned is both lost and arrives at a different destination when struck by a psychic storm wind.

Astral Encounter Table

D20
1	ASTRAL WIND (if on astral plane) ASTRALLY PROJECTED: PSYCHIC WIND Dice Score Effect Of Wind 1-12 Slows travel only, incurs 1 additional check for random encounter. 13-16 Blows off course, and party is lost for 2-20 days’ time, then must return to starting place. 17-19 Blows off course so that party arrives at a different destination as determined by random method. 20 Storm blows, and unless a saving throw versus magic is made, the silver cord is broken, and the party is killed. If a save is successful, the party is lost for 4-40 days and must return to the starting place thereafter.
d20	Creature Encountered	NumbersFound
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Aerial servant Demon, major Demon, minor Demon, prince Devil, arch- Devil, greater- Devil, lesser- Dragon, chromatic Dragon, platinum see Humans in the planes Intellect devourer Invisible stalker Ki-rin Medusa* Night hag Nightmare Rakshasa Shedu Deva	1 1 -2 1-4 1 1 1 1-3 1 1 1-8 1 1 1-2 1 1 1 1 1 1

Ethereal Encounter d20

1	ETHERIAL CYCLONE Dice Score Effect Of Cyclone 1-10 Blows so as to move party in random direction at 120’ per round, and if travelling is involved, party is slowed so as to incur 1 additional encounter check. 11-15 Blows to o different plane than that the party is on or desires to travel to; usual encounter checks must be made. 16-18 Blows so as to cause party to be lost for 5-60 days, and when no longer lost the party will arrive at a different plane as determined by random means. 19-20 Storm cyclone causes party to be lost for 10-120 days, and unless saving throw versus magic is made, the party is blown to the Astral Plane. If a save is successful, then party will still arrive at a randomly determined plane touched by the ether.
	Creature Encountered	# Found
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Aerial servant Couatl Djinni Dragon, chromatic Efreeti Elemental, air Elemental, earth Elemental, fire Elemental, water Ghost Groaning spirit see Humans in the planes Intellect devourer Invisible stalker Ki-rin Lammasu Nightmare Spider, phase Wind walkers	Numbers 1 1-2 1-4 1 -4 1 -6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-4 1

These creatures’ perceptions extend into the astral and ethereal planes (as do their magical attack forms), but they do not actually travel ther5ein. Their possible appearance applies only to situations in which the encounter allows effect to extend from the Prime Material Plane6; otherwise, ignore the encounter result and roll again.

Humans in the Planes (2d4 in the group)

CLERIC
Druid
FIGHTER
Paladin
Ranger
MAGIC-USER
illusionist
THIEF
Assassin
MONK
BARD

9th - 18th
7th - 14th
8th - 15th
7th - 16th
7th - 16th
11 th - 20th
10th - 17th
loth - 15th
8th - 17th
11th - 18th
9th - 16th

Do Not Use!

PSlONlC ENCOUNTERS
If you opt to include psionic powers in your campaign, then certain random encounters will be with psionically-empowered creatures. Check for random encounters as is normal, but if the player party has used psionic powers during the last turn, or spells resembling psionic powers during the last round, then the chance for a psionic encounter will be 1 in 4 if an encounter is otherwise indicated. After checking for a random encounter, roll d4 to find if the encounter is psionic. If the second table is positive, go to the PSlONlC ENCOUNTER TABLE and check thereon to find what creature is involved. The encounter otherwise occurs as normal, although certain creatures will not be detected by the party.

PSlONlC ENCOUNTER TABLE

Dice Score
01 -05
06-1 2
13-15
16-18
19-24
25-26
27-28
29-34
35-38
39-48
49-51
52-56
57-62
63-69
70-72
73-82
83-92
93-98
99-00

Creature Encountered
Brain mole
Cerebral parasite
Couatl
Demon, major*
Demon, minor*
Demon, prince*
Devil, arch-*
Devil, greater-*
Gray ooze
Intellect devourer
Ki-rin
Lich
Men (human psionic)
Mind flayer
Mold, yellow
Shedu
Su-monster
Titan
Triton (1-3 of total are psionic)

Numbers
1-3
3-1 2
1-4
1-2
1-4
1
1
1-2
1-3
1-2
1
1
1-4
2-8
1-12
1 -2
10-60
-
-

Dice for type or select.
** See DUNGEON RANDOM MONSTER TABLE, Character Subtable.
Roll until an appropriate encounter occurs, ignoring inappropriate results
(or optionally considering it as no encounter).

Castle Inhabitants

Dice Roll	Castle Size	Inhabitants
01 -45	Small	Totally deserted
46-60	Small	Deserted (monster therein)*
61 -70	Small	Humans
71 -00	Small	Character-types
01 -30	Medium	Totally deserted
31-50	Medium	Deserted (monster therein)*
51 -65	Medium	Humans
66-00	Medium	Character-types
01-15	Large	Totally deserted
16-40	Large	Deserted (monster therein)*
41 -60	Large	Humans
61 -00	Large	Character-types

Artic Conditions

Creature Type
Bear, brown
Dragon, white
Giant, frost
Herd animal
Men, tribesmen
Owl, giant
Remorhaz
Snake, Giant, Contsrictor
Toad Ice
Wolf
Wolf, winter
Yeti

Plain
01-10
11-12
13-15
16-55
56-65
66-70
71-72
73-74
75-80
81 -90
91-95
96-00

Rough
01 -09
10-12
13-15
16-55
56-60
61 -70
71-75
76-80
81-83
84-91
92-95
96-00

Terrain Mountains
01 -07
08- 15
16-20
21-55
56-60
61 -70
71-72
73-75
76-80
81 -86
87-90
91-00

RANDOM ENCOUNTERS

When characters explore a wilderness area or dungeon complex, they are bound to encounter the unexpected. Random encounters are a way to deliver the unexpected. They are usually presented in the form of a table. When a random encounter occurs, you roll a die and consult the table to determine what the party encounters. Some players and DMs view random encounters in an adventure as time-wasters, yet well-designed random encounters can serve a variety of useful purposes:

Create urgency. Adventurers don't tend to dawdle if the threat of random encounters is hanging over their heads. Wanting to avoid wandering monsters creates a strong incentive to look for a safe place to rest. (Rolling dice behind the DM screen can often accomplish this even without an actual encounter.)
Establish atmosphere. The appearance of thematically linked creatures as random encounters helps to create a consistent tone and atmosphere for an adventure. For example, an encounter table filled with bats, wraiths, giant spiders, and zombies creates a sense of horror, and tells the adventurers to prepare for battle with even more powerful creatures of the night.
Drain character resources. Random encounters can drain the party's hit points and spell slots, leaving the adventurers feeling underpowered and vulnerable. This creates tension, as players are forced to make decisions based on the fact that their characters aren't at full strength.
Provide assistance. Some random encounters can benefit the characters instead of hindering or harming them. Helpful creatures or NPCs might provide the adventurers with useful information or assistance when they need it most.
Add interest. Random encounters can reveal details about your world. They can foreshadow danger or provide hints that will help the adventurers prepare for the encounters to come.
Reinforce campaign themes. Random encounters can remind the players of the major themes of the campaign. For example, if your campaign features an ongoing war between two nations, you might design random encounter tables to reinforce the ever-present nature of the conflict. In friendly territory, your tables might include bedraggled troops returning from battle, refugees fleeing invading forces, heavily guarded caravans full of weapons, and lone messengers on horseback riding for the front lines. While characters are in hostile territory, the tables might include battlefields littered with the recently slain, armies of evil humanoids on the march, and improvised gibbets holding the bodies of deserters who tried to flee the conflict.
Random encounters should never be tiresome to you or your players. You don't want the players to feel as if they aren't making progress because another random encounter brings their progress to a halt whenever they try to move forward. Likewise, you don't want to spend time distracted by random encounters that add nothing to the adventure narrative or that interfere with the overall pace you're trying to set. Not every DM likes to use random encounters. You might find that they distract from your game or are otherwise causing more trouble than you want. If random encounters don't work for you, don't use them.

TRIGGERING RANDOM ENCOUNTERS
Because you want random encounters to build on the intended narrative of a game session, not compete with it, you should choose the placement of those encounters carefully. Think about a random encounter under any of the following circumstances:

The players are getting off track and slowing down the game.
The characters stop for a short or long rest.
The characters are undertaking a long,uneventful journey.
The characters draw attention to themselves when they should be keeping a low profile.

CHECKING FOR RANDOM ENCOUNTERS
You decide when a random encounter happens, or you roll. Consider checking for a random encounter once every hour, once every 4 to 8 hours, or once during the day and once during a long rest-whatever makes the most sense based on how active the area is. If you roll, do so with a d20. If the result is 18 or higher, a random encounter occurs. You then roll on an appropriate random encounter table to determine what the adventurers meet, rerolling if the die result doesn't make sense given the circumstances. Random encounter tables might be provided as part of the adventure you're running, or you can use the information in this chapter to build your own. Creating your own tables is the best way to reinforce the themes and flavor of your home campaign.
Not every run-in with another creature counts as a random encounter. Encounter tables don't usually include rabbits hopping through the undergrowth, harmless rats scurrying through dungeon halls, or average citizens walking through the streets of a city. Random encounter tables present obstacles and events that advance the plot, foreshadow important elements or themes of the adventure, and provide fun distractions.

Random Encounter Tables
Creating your own random encounter tables is straightforward. Determine what sort of encounters might occur in a given dungeon area, figure out the likelihood of a particular encounter occurring, then arrange the results. An "encounter" in this case could be a single monster or NPC, a group of monsters or NPCs, a random event (such as an earth tremor or a parade), or a random discovery (such as a charred corpse or a message scrawled on a wall).

Assemble Your Encounters. Once you've established a location through which the adventurers are likely to pass, be it a wilderness area or dungeon complex, make a list of creatures that might be found wandering there. If you're not sure which creatures to include, appendix B has lists of monsters organized by terrain type. For a sylvan woodland, you might create a table that includes centaurs, faerie dragons, pixies, sprites, dryads, satyrs, blink dogs, elks, owlbears, treants, giant owls, and a unicorn. If elves inhabit the forest, the table might also include elf druids and elf scouts. Perhaps gnolls are threatening the woods, so adding gnolls and hyenas to the table would be a fun surprise for players. Another fun surprise would be a wandering predator, such as a displacer beast that likes to hunt blink dogs. The table could also use a few random encounters of a less monstrous nature, such as a grove of burned trees (the handiwork of the gnolls), an ivy-covered elven statue, and a plant with glowing berries that turn creatures invisible when ingested.
When choosing monsters for a random encounter table, try to imagine why the monsters would be encountered outside their lairs. What is each monster up to? Is it on patrol? Hunting for food? Searching for something? Also consider whether a creature is moving stealthily as it travels through the area. As with planned encounters, random encounters are more interesting when they happen in memorable locations. Outdoors the adventurers might be crossing a forest clearing when they encounter a unicorn or be pushing through a dense section of forest when they come across a nest of spiders. Crossing a desert, characters might discover an oasis haunted by wights or a rocky outcropping on which a blue dragon perches.
Probabilities. A random encounter table can be created in a number of ways, ranging from simple (roll ld6 for one of six possible encounters) to complicated (roll percentile dice, modify for time of day, and crossindex the modified number with the dungeon level). The sample encounter table presented here uses a range of 2 to 20 (nineteen entries total), generated using 1d12 + 1d8. The probability curve ensures that encounters appearing in the middle of the table are more likely to occur than encounters placed at the beginning or end of the table. A roll of 2 or 20 is rare (about a 1 percent chance of either), while each of the rolls from 9 to 13 occurs a little over 8 percent of the time.

RANDOM ENCOUNTER CHALLENGE
Random encounters need not be level-appropriate
challenges for the adventurers, but it's considered bad form to slaughter a party using a random encounter, since most players consider this ending to be an unsatisfying one.
Not all random encounters with monsters need to be resolved through combat. A 1st-level party of adventurers could have a random encounter with a young dragon circling above a forest canopy in search of a quick meal, but the characters should have the option to hide or bargain for their lives if the dragon spots them. Similarly, the party might encounter a stone giant roaming the hills, but it might have no intention of harming anyone. In fact, it might shy away from the party because of its reclusive nature. The giant might attack only characters who annoy it.
That said, a random encounter table usually includes hostile (though not necessarily evil) monsters that are meant to be fought. The following monsters are considered appropriate combat challenges:
•A single monster with a challenge rating equal to or lower than the party's level.
A group of monsters whose adjusted XP value constitutes an easy, medium, or hard challenge for the party, as determined using the encounter-building guidelines earlier in this chapter.