City Encounter Generator

The characters are in a market when rival ethnic groups begin battling in the street. The initial incident escalates from insults and thrown rocks and might be stopped by the characters if quickly acted upon.

Two young nobles approach the noblest-looking pair of party members and demand the chosen PCs act as seconds in their duel. The PC seconds must negotiable the details of the duel. If the duel results in death, the seconds will be charged as accessories to murder, and the PCs may have to flee the city. On the other hand, if the duel is non-fatal, they could gain honor and respect by behaving in an honorable manner.

Brutal murders of the poor and homeless wrack the city. A wealthy nobleman hires the PCs to watch his wandering daughter, worried about where she goes when she sneaks out at night. Whilst she is always connected to the victims in some way and initially seems to be the killer, she is in fact trying to help the disadvantaged to bring some meaning to her jaded life. The real killer is an obsessed stalker, who follows her at night and erases the unworthy scum who are the recipients of her attention.

Upon returning to your room at the inn, you discover a body on the floor with a dagger lying beside it. Soon after, guards storm up the stairs and into your room.

A bad batch of purple hued fungus in the food has left the magistrate a little shorthanded as the guards are all bedridden. The PCs are asked to lend a hand until the guards are up and about. That night a rash of gnome thieves reign terror on the town, stealing anything not nailed down and leaving little clockwork surprises for the locals and the PCs.

City Square image: http://herbanicus.deviantart.com/ – Thanks Danny!

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Gerald says

November 10, 2010 at 8:26 pm

Great seeds, but just like a botanical seed catalogue, it would be great to have the option of having some “order” (or maybe “relevance” is a better word).
I don’t mean categories, as this is too rigid, but how about TAGS?
Make/gather a list of possible tags (with fairly broad names like “entrapment”, “magical”, “intrigue”… 10-20 at most so that it doesn’t fill the whole screen)and apply them (maybe crowd source the task?) to each of the 650 seeds.
Then provide the tag list as a series of check-boxes in the generator interface. Electing to check NONE will return the current result, ie. a completely random selection of ‘n’ seeds.

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- Johnn says
  
  November 10, 2010 at 10:22 pm
  
  Good comment Gerald. I was batting this idea around with Mike Bourke of CampaignMastery.com. The challenge is the time it would take to create a taxonomy and tag all the entries – time I do not have this year.
  
  We thought a wiki might work where gamers could help us tag the hooks….
  
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Lord Skudley says

March 30, 2011 at 8:33 pm

In issue 500 you mention that “All [720] entries will be available for download soon.” Are they? If so where can I find them?

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- Lord Skudley says
  
  March 30, 2011 at 9:54 pm
  
  Never mind I found it (accidently) you might want to put a link to it somewhere noticeable.
  
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  - Marques Jordan says
    
    January 7, 2014 at 1:39 pm
    
    I’m looking for the 720 that were to be made available but I can’t find it. Any chance you could post a link?
    
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Rohonos Firesmith says

April 10, 2012 at 7:43 pm

This is just awesome. I might have to try quite a few of these with my players!

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