Shadowbooks Shadowdark RPG Game MasterRandom Encounter Tables
Shadowdark RPG, p. 162
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Low District Low District d100 Details 01 3d6 zombies lurch out of a smoke-belching charnel house 02-03 A reaver and 4 bandits look for weaklings to shake down 04-05 2d6 pirates and 2d4 merchants (guards) fight on the docks 06-07 A grizzled sailor spits at the PCs and sneers, "landlubbers" 08-09 A half-orc is thrown through a tavern window into a PC 10-11 1d6 shifty ruffians linger outside a butcher's shop 12-13 A dyehouse dumps a boiling, toxic slurry into the street 14-15 Children throw mud pies at sputtering men in the stocks 16-17 A cloaked person sneaks between graveyard headstones 18-19 A backed-up sewer grate geysers waste at passersby 20-21 A man carts a thumping coffin toward the charnel house 22-23 A woman whispers, "play along" and chats as guards pass 24-25 Drunk sailors hang off the PCs and clumsily pick pockets 26-27 Masons unseal an old well, releasing 2d6 giant centipedes 28-29 Rival gangs of 2d4 dirt-streaked children bite and scratch 30-31 Four thugs loom over a woman who unlocks a warehouse 32-33 A wheezing beggar offers portents in exchange for coin 34-35 Thieves' Guild footpads tail the PCs from 20 paces back 36-37 The shell of a burned warehouse collapses into a tenement 38-39 2d4 kobolds rain stones down from a warehouse's eaves 40-41 Workers cart a yowling, caged tiger away from the docks 42-43 A young gravedigger slips and falls into a deep grave 44-45 Hidden thieves pull ropes up in a side alley to trip marks LOW DISTRICT ENCOUNTERS
d100 Details 46-47 A shop owner whispers about "exotic goods" for sale 48-49 1d6 Thieves' Guild toughs spoiling for a fight approach 50-53 A brawl of 2d6 drunk commoners spills out of a tavern 54-55 Clay shingles fall off the crumbling roof of a warehouse 56-57 A smith flings still-hot horseshoes onto a pile near the PCs 58-59 A blind old woman presents her "cat" (a vicious giant rat) 60-61 A troupe of jugglers swig ale and wildly flip daggers 62-63 A mercenary on a horse drags a lank man to debtor's court 64-65 Two beggars slap and scratch over a burned rat-on-a-stick 66-67 A pure spring bubbles up between cracked cobblestones 68-69 A feeble beggar turns out to be 3 kobolds in a burlap sack 70-71 A bailiff and four guards haul a struggling man along 72-73 Two rival dog fighters lose control of their mastiffs 74-75 Rival crawlers accuse the PCs of looting in "their territory" 76-77 A kingdom of cats gathers beneath the docks or porches 78-79 A wheedling torchbearer follows and begs for work 80-81 A shrill scream erupts from a row of moldy storage sheds 82-83 Lady Unwin asks the PCs directions to the seedy Red Rat 84-85 Three thugs in hoods drag a large bag from a tenement 86-87 A red-eyed being watches from a shadowed window 88-89 2d6 Bywater Barons (thugs) mob a City Watch patrol 90-91 A refinery discards a barrel of rancid blubber (10 oil vials) 92-93 Old Esmerelda hands out cups of mulled wine (heals 1d4) 94-95 A pox-marked beggar is actually the Duke in disguise 96-97 The Wandering Merchant sells the deed to an old shop 98-99 Roll two encounters and combine the results (reroll 98-99) 00 A dropped magic item glitters inside a filthy gutter LOW DISTRICT ENCOUNTERS