The Mother Of All Encounter Tables (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1931275548 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
One Table to Rule Them All! The Mother of All Encounter Tables is here! This utility is unlike any before conceived. After all, you never know when ants will infest your food, or when the cleric will get struck by lightning!. This is not just a random book of tables, but a well-thought-out dungeon master utility that will make wilderness travel, city streets, and dungeon corridors all more interesting. In addition to encounters with monsters and men, there are tables for unusual weather events, strange occurrences, accidents, and encounters with NPCs. It contains encounters for each t
"Want tables? Look no further" according to John J. Thomas III. This book has tables and tables and more tables. It has a lot of leeway in that a DM can easily replace something on the tables with something of their own invention. Have a favorite monster manual? Insert crearures from it onto the table. Don't have access to some of the creatures listed on a table? Just remove them and replace them with your favorite monsters. This book is more then about monster encounter tables though. Weather, strange occurances, finding some mundane item at the campsite the PC's chose, all can be encounters. Dms will find all kind of things they can use, some thi. Bruce Gray said Maybe not the Mother, but a first cousin. "The Mother of All Encounter Tables" authored by Greg Ragland and produced by Necromancer Games and distributed by Troll Lord Games definitely has the usual Necromancer Games "Third Edition Rules - First Edition Feel". After the Intro, there is a short section of how to customize the book, and then not one, not two, not even three, but no less than ten different examples of how to use the tables inside. Then there's a table index followed by the Master Tables charts. There are tables for: Arctic, Sub-Arctic, Temperate, Sub-Tropical, Tropical, (all of which have both day and night chart. Too hard to use. Ladydee2k Hated it. This book was too convoluted to understand well. they made the sections too large. You have to read thru so much material to use in a random encounter that is becomes unusable in a game situation.