This week’s entry into our role-playing encounter ideas topic is – the upset parent. A few weeks back I posted an idea concerning a runaway and as anyone who’s watched the news, when a child runs away or goes missing there’s an upset parent as well. The party could be approached by a parent who…
Regardless of which role-playing system you play there is always some mode of transportation that can be abandoned; wagon, car, hovercraft, or motorcycle to name just a few. There are many ways to use this as a jump off point for an encounter: – The vehicle’s owner approaches as the party is looking it and…
Our fifth entry into the encounter idea file is ‘The wallet’ and while this might seem a bit strange for a role-playing encounter it lends itself very well to interaction between the characters and their surroundings. The wallet could actually take many different shapes and forms from the typical bi-fold/tri-fold men’s wallet of today, a…
Our fourth role-playing encounter takes place on Anystreet in Anywhere (you’ve got to like the generic value there). As the group is walking they encounter a street peddler, you could use the stereo-type – where they open their overcoat and ask “Do you want to but a watch?” Or maybe you could try something a…
The third in the encounter series – sorry it’s a bit later in the week than normal. As the party is sitting at their favorite watering hole a teenager comes through the door, scans the room and heads for the party’s table. The teenager is running away from home and has singled out the party…
Here’s the second in my year long weekly series of encounter ideas for your role-playing enjoyment, this week we encounter the cat. While the party is sitting at the favorite watering hole, inn or simply walking down the street a cat wanders by. The cat might be a calico, a persian, a short or long…
