Recently, a comment from Jack Headland reminded me that I hadn't ever posted the table for "savage" encounters from my encounter series, though I did show the silhouettes and make some kind of rambling nostalgic semi-related post about dinosaurs. This table is just for every kind of prehistoric beast and other outlandish creature you might find in a lost world or very hairy wilderness. Others in series can be found
in this tag.
I've gone to percentiles along the top because they're more accessible and also fit well with the percentile system I've adopted to tell you which chart and row to use in the first place. Maybe I'll share that one later this week.
Well sunuvagun, I practically forgot about this series. Cool.
ReplyDeleteOh, will the old charts be amended to use percentile as well?
DeleteYep. I have the whole thing in a coherent doc but of course it's not getting released because of the need to perfectionize - currently about 3 slides into my terrain and lair generation system, with 52pp taking precedence ...
DeleteThings I noticed looking through the old charts:
ReplyDelete1) I feel like the notation could be a little more straightforward, but I'm not sure how.
2) None of your wetland or water entries have crocodiles. That surprises me.
3) There are, however, several tiny (if I understand correctly) but still possibly dangerous-sounding things, like poison toads, killer frogs, scorpions, lampreys, eels, leeches (and the giant equivalents of those three), biting insects, torpor remoras, spitting striders, undead mussel swarms, black willows. What's the situation with them?
3a) Also, fossils.
4) How do you handle the purely environmental stuff like quicksand and icebergs?
5) I notice you have Eyes of the Deep but I don't think I saw any other sort of beholder.
...Durr, and then I notice the remoras and striders in Varlets and Vermin
Delete1. Hm. Maybe suns and moons instead of D and N (with "A" being the default?)
Delete2. Argh! I also never posted my "Tropical Natural" table which has crocs galore.
3&4. Black willows are in MM2. I think the final release will have to have annotations for how to handle the other things. Fossils are from the Hamsterish Hoard blog, but the picture pretty much says it all.
5. Yeah, I figured beholders only make sense as a dungeon monster, not wilderness. I probably have enough silhouettes now that filling in the dungeon table ("Old School Dungeon Encounters") with them would be a viable project.
Alright, cool on all counts. That makes sense then, MM2 is the 1e monster book I know the least well. I look forward to the final release.
DeleteThanks a lot, Roger! And thanks a lot, ME, for asking!
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