 Editor in Chief Bill   | 20 Feb 2017 9:15 p.m. PST |
If you were making a random encounter table for enemies in a typical fantasy woods, which creatures would you include? Wood nymphs… |
| chuck05 | 20 Feb 2017 10:13 p.m. PST |
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bandit86  | 20 Feb 2017 11:04 p.m. PST |
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| Editor in Chief Bill | 20 Feb 2017 11:22 p.m. PST |
Harry Potter has centaurs in the forest, which seems an odd place for centaurs to me. I would think centaurs would prefer the plains. Spiders?
Giant Wasps?
Wood Elves
Wolverines?
Bears
Badgers
Badgermen
Adventurers
Half-Elves???
Giant Owl
Boars
Dryads
Pixies
Kobolds
Wolves
Gnomes?
Orcs
Goblins… |
| Barenakedleadies | 21 Feb 2017 12:19 a.m. PST |
Brownies are always fun. Temperate forests and plains. |
| tkdguy | 21 Feb 2017 1:08 a.m. PST |
Satyrs, Dryads, Elves, Pixies, normal forest animals, guys looking for magic mushrooms.
What?
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| MHoxie | 21 Feb 2017 2:18 a.m. PST |
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| langobard | 21 Feb 2017 3:17 a.m. PST |
Wood (and assuming there is a stream running through it) water nymphs.
Wood elves.
Orcs/Goblins
Beastmen
Ents (or similar trees that can move and communicate should they wish, or simply stomp on you given that surprise is virtually guaranteed since your adventurers don't believe in them…)
Wizards.
Undead guardians of overgrown and forgotten barrows/graves/whatever.
Robin Hood type robbers.
Non-Robin Hood type robbers (altogether a more difficult and dangerous proposition).
Secret forest tribe (probably pygmy's using poisoned arrows) ruled by powerfully magically shaman.
Triffids (perfect hiding spot for the blighters).
Tarzan, king of the flesh eating ape tribe.
Friendly, yet highly superstitious locals who feel compelled to kill you the instant you break a previously unknown cultural taboo… Great things forests, lots of ways to get killed, and that's without even the simple mistake of turning yourself into lunch for the local carnivores… |
 ochoin | 21 Feb 2017 3:35 a.m. PST |
Dunnies
Ghillie Dhu
Cu Sith
Nic Nevin
Boggles
Pech
kelpie oh & giant earthworms
(they're icky) |
| langobard | 21 Feb 2017 4:13 a.m. PST |
@ochoin: Gaaaaah! You're right, that giant earthworm should have an ickyness rating off the scale! |
 Aurochs | 21 Feb 2017 4:21 a.m. PST |
The deadly aurochs of course. |
| Dark Fable | 21 Feb 2017 5:16 a.m. PST |
Its always cool to have strange and unusual plants/trees in your forests, carnivorous trees, magic mushrooms, vampiric vines, stinging thorn bushes, fruits and berries with assorted properties . . . |
 Jeff Ewing | 21 Feb 2017 8:46 a.m. PST |
As Bill noted and _The Walking Dead_ illustrates, the worst thing to encounter is another party of adventurers. |
| Zephyr1 | 21 Feb 2017 3:29 p.m. PST |
Giant squirrels (perfect for snatching the odd PC and burying them somewhere for later…) |
| Andy ONeill | 23 Feb 2017 5:13 a.m. PST |
Traps and hunters. I always wondered how people could survive to breeding age in a world so full of monsters you trip over em all the time.
I think random encounters should be rare. |
| steam flunky | 26 Feb 2017 11:32 p.m. PST |
That giant earthworm picture must be photoshopped because if it was real i would have seen it being used as a prop in porno films! |
| Das Sheep | 03 Mar 2017 7:07 a.m. PST |
Andy, I like to run my worlds where most of the world is safe (at least from monsters of the non human type), and that the danger and monsters are on the peripherals of civilization. |
| Footslogger | 03 Mar 2017 7:35 a.m. PST |
Park rangers? Environmental protestors? Re-enacters? |
