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The Atlas of Talislanta: In an over four hundred page tome, this book includes all of the most important locations of Talislanta as well as a great deal of important lore, random encounter tables, and other useful items for the Gamemaster to use in their games.
The first and third chapter are heavily player focused while the middle chapter is specifically all about tools for the DM to use. That includes sections on sleep, random encounters, traps, and more. If you're familiar with the Unearthed Arcana books from previous modern editions, this treads similar territory for 5th Edition. The question most ...
D&D Beyond (DDB) is the official digital toolset and game companion for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition. [1] [2] DDB hosts online versions of the official Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition books, including rulebooks, adventures, and other supplements; it also provides digital tools like a character builder and digital character sheet, monster and spell listings that can be sorted and filtered ...
The first is "Encounters", a table of 28 encounters that might befall a party of adventurers — the town watch, an aristocrat, pilgrims, etc. Each encounter also has several specific events that can be used as story hooks to draw the characters into an adventure. For example, "Characters see a slaver beating a slave." [2]
An example random encounter table. Random encounters—sometimes called wandering monsters—were a feature of Dungeons & Dragons from its beginnings in the 1970s, and persist in that game and its offshoots to this day. Random encounters are usually determined by the gamemaster by rolling dice against a random encounter table. The tables are ...
In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, rule books contain all the elements of playing the game: rules to the game, how to play, options for gameplay, stat blocks and lore of monsters, and tables the Dungeon Master or player would roll dice for to add more of a random effect to the game. Options for gameplay mostly involve ...
The smaller 48-page booklet, the Glossography, contains reference tables for rates of movement, random encounter tables, and a list of rulers of each region. The booklet also contains a rewrite of David Axler's weather creation article from Dragon, although the number of tables is reduced from fourteen to ten. There are six examples of ...
A feature of the first edition Dungeon Masters Guide was the random dungeon generator. The generator allowed the Dungeon Master, by the rolling of dice, to generate a dungeon adventure "on the fly". A dungeon complete with passageways, rooms, treasure, monsters, and other encounters could easily and randomly be constructed as the player ...