City Encounter Generator

Reinvent Your Taverns

Adventure Essentials: Inns, Taverns and Restaurants. On sale now.

The PCs arrive at the inn and find a large group (at least three times their number) of mercenaries leaving for the jail where they plan to execute all the prisoners. The party is connected to one of the inmates (an old, recurrent, but not particularly hated enemy, maybe they put him behind bars in the first place) and wishes him to remain alive for some reason. Do they face the killers, race to save the prisoner first, warn the prisoners or set them all free?

For a holiday, the city has a large scale scavenger hunt. The PCs mistake a coded time, location and target scavenger hunt message as an assassination order.

One benign item the PCs carry is considered taboo by the townsfolk. People either bow or kneel, avert their eyes, or leave the PCs' presence when said item is brandished. The item the population revere was lost, stolen or destroyed at some point in the town's history and it has now returned, thanks to the PCs.

Anyone drinking the water becomes ill. The sickness lasts for a few days and causes vomiting, aches, pains and delusions. Other towns in the area have also been affected. Investigating this, the PCs find out the same river flows past all the towns affected. The PCs must travel upstream to find the source of the sickness, which brings them to a coven of witches poisoning the water.

There is unrest in a city overrun with refugees. The mayor has enforced strict laws to maintain order, and there is talk of rebellion. Do they side with the rebels or the law?

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Gerald 10. Nov, 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 10. Nov, 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 30. Mar, 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 30. Mar, 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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Rohonos Firesmith 10. Apr, 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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