d20 4e Big Finger Games GM's Cookbook Random Events 1.pdf

Random and unexpected events can help give

your campaign a realistic verisimilitude. It gives

the players the idea their characters exist in a real

breathing world and things are occurring outside

the scope of their limited perceptions. ey can

hear snippets of conversation, witness strange

actions that make little sense when you don’t know

their context, or have unexpected encounters with

denizens of the campaign world.

ese random events should be used judiciously;

you don’t want to derail the adventurers while

they’re doggedly pursuing clues in their quest to

uncover the location of the Lost Temple of the

Blind Rodent King. But you do want to add some

spice when the action slacks of, or the adventurers

are kicking their heels trying to igure out what

their next move should be.

e random events listed in this installment of

the GM’s Cookbook take place in settlements, such

as hamlets, villages, and cities. ese events are left

open-ended; you’ll have to improvise if the players

wish to involve themselves in the event but isn’t

that when some of the most memorable

roleplaying moments occur? When

things go of the rails and something

unexpected and unpredictable just

happens.

A wild-eyed man, scurry-

ing along half-crouched

is looking desperately

for something on

the ground. He stops when he sees the adven-

turers’ feet in front of him and looks up. “Have

you seen it,” he demands. If the characters

question him he only responds loudly, “You’ll

know when you see it”, and scurries of con-

tinuing his search.

characters’ direction. He can be heard repeating

“right, right, right” in a hoarse whisper. He

manages to step out of the characters’ way

before stumbling and falling. e oversize

coat spills open to reveal it actually contains

three hallings all dressed in the garb of circus

acrobats.

A temple bell is sounding the hour when, on

the last sounding of the bell, instead of the

expected “bong” the characters hear a shrill

scream. Something has befallen the acolyte

who was ringing the bell.

10 A passing trader warns the adventurers to stay

away from the inn up the road with the “sign

with a badger on it”. He tells them it’s a den of

outlaws and cutthroats.

A farmer’s cart careens dangerously past, with

the white-haired farmer slumped at the reins.

11 A stray dog snatches a cooling pie of a nearby

windowsill and drops it at the adventurers’ feet

before bolting in the other direction.

A tailor steps from his shop and begins sizing

up a passing adventurer, quoting measurements

of the character’s chest, legs and arms just by

looking. A passing casket maker overhears the

tailor and the two begin arguing about the

character’s height and width.

12 A crow settles on a nearby fencepost and

begins pecking at something grasped in its

claw – a bloody human eyeball.

13 A trio of workers, busy repairing the roof of a

nearby building, leap to safety as the building

falls into a sinkhole.

A young man strings his lute and begins

serenading a young woman in a second story

window.

14 A dwarf woman pitches the contents of a

bucket containing spoiled fruits and vegetables

out a window and it lands in the adventurers’

path.

Two heavily armed warriors escorting a third

man in stocks stop the adventurers and ask

where the nearest inn is.

15 A woman who appears to be a drunken wizard

lurches from the entrance to a tavern. She

pauses in front of the one of the adventurers,

languidly circling a inger in front of his face

and slurs, “I’m going to cast a spell on you, I’m

going to cast a spell on you”.

An outlandishly dressed artist with easel and

pallet in hand stops an adventurer, insisting he

be allowed to paint a portrait of him or her. e

artist claims it will be greater than the portrait

of the Weeping Princess of Willingham.

A sudden gust of wind blows a tumbleweed

across the road, where it tumbles into a smithy

and promptly catches ire.

16 Two town guards approach the characters

and ask bluntly if they’re ailiated with the

“Brotherhood of the Broken Crescent”. e

guards tell the characters not to start any

trouble and proceed to follow them for as long

as they stay in town or the rest of the day.

A tall man in a large coat, his face hidden

behind a wide brimmed hat, stumbles in the

17 A decrepit old man missing a leg hobbles up to

the adventurers, tells them he lost his leg in “the

wars” and pleads with them for a few coppers,

or something to eat. If the adventurers indulge

him, he leans in close and tells them “actually,

they took my leg”, and points a bony inger

at a group of gnomes who are nearby selling

magical salves and tonics out of the back of a

dilapidated cart.

GM’S COOKBOOK: RANDOM EVENTS #1

By Michael Todd

Todd. Reference to other copyrighted material in no way constitutes

a challenge to the respective copyright holders of that material. Some

artwork is from the Image Portfolio series.

Big Finger Games, the Big Finger Games logo are trademarks

work of iction. Any similarity to actual people, organizations, places,

or events is purely coincidental.

18 A roguish looking man wearing an foppish hat

with a peacock feather in it, wielding a rapier

storms up to one of the adventurers, opens his

mouth, raises his free hand, and then stops

short. He says, “Sorry old fruit, wrong person,”

and walks past continuing purposefully up the

street.

19 A jester standing atop a table outside a busy

tavern is telling ribald jokes about maidens and

unicorns to a crowd of laughing drunks when

the adventurers walk by. He stops his joke

to poke fun at the adventurers, pointing out

anything out of the ordinary about their dress

or characteristics. e jester goes on to belittle

some recent mishap or failure the characters

endured, listing details with inexplicable

accuracy.

20 A man bursts up from the doors of a nearby

root cellar, carrying various scrolls and

parchments. He stumbles, dropping his

papers, and shattering his spectacles. He wails

“No, no”, pulls a holy symbol from beneath his

shirt, clutches it tight and runs lat out for a

nearby copse of trees. As the characters puzzle

over the papers that contain scribbled notes in

a dead tongue, and complicated mathematical

formulae, a solar eclipse begins.

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: