Wilderness Encounters

If there is an encounter in the Wilderness, roll on the appropriate table depending on terrain type, then roll on the Creature category table indicated.

Encounter for Terrain Tables

Encounter Creature Type Tables

General Animals

No complete stats? Remove?

Spiders Centipedes Lizards Toads Ants Weasels Apes Beetles Scorpions Lions Boars Snakes

Swimmers

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Giant Crabs Nixies Giant Octopi Giant Squid Sea Creature Giant Snakes Crocodiles Giant Leeches Mermen Nixies Giant Fish Dragon Turtle

Woodland Animals

Centaurs Unicorns Minotaurs Gorgons Pixies Manticores Dryads Medusae

Swamp Animals

Tyrannosaurus Rex Pterodactyl Triceratops Brontosaurus Stegosaurus Tyrannosaurus Rex Pterodactyl Triceratops

Arid Plains

Apts Banths Thoats Calots White Apes Thoats Orluks Sith Tharks Darseen Banths Tharks

Mountain Animals

Cave Bears Dire Wolves Sabre Tooth Tigers Mastodons Spotted Lions Woolly Rhinos Titanotheres Cave Bears Mammoths Sabre Tooth Tigers Dire Wolves Spotted Lions

Humans of a Specific Vocation

There will be 2d6 humans with any Fighter, Mage, or Cleric encountered in the wilderness.

They will be level 1d4 of the same Vocation as the one they accompany.

In addition there will be other magical items they might have depending on their Vocation as follows:

Wilderness Creature Encounters

Sighting Creatures

In Wilderness Encounters Characters can move up to 20 times their Movement number in yards per Turn.

Character movement is 10 yards per inch. What does this mean in relation to the sentence above?

Players will see Creatures at 4d6 * 10 yards unless they are surprised by them.

If the player Characters are surprised then they will see the Creatures at 1d3 * 10 yards.

Surprise

If a party (the player party or a Creature party) is unaware of the presence of another party then the unaware party might be surprised when they encounter the other party.

Roll 1d6 for each party that might be surprised by the presence of another party. A roll of 1 or 2 indicates they in fact are surprised!

For each Character in the surprised party, there is a 25% chance that they drop one of the item they are holding. If they do drop an item, roll to randomly determine which of the items that they are holding is dropped.

Characters that are shedding light or making noise will not surprise Creatures.

Surprise gives the advantage of acting first, and an additional round of combat turns.

If Creatures surprise the characters, and if there are three or more Creatures, they will use their turn to moved into a circle around the player characters.

If the Creatures are intelligent and Player Characters are obviously too strong, the Creatures will not approach.

Creatures at 10 yards distance will be able to attack. This is melee range.

Evading in the Wilderness

To see if the Player Party can evade the encountered Creatures use the following table.

If the player party surprises the other then the evasion chances of the player party is doubled.

Surprise by Creatures negates all chance of the player party’s evasion, unless the player party is able to use some form of magic, or the terrain is woods.

Woods add 25% to evasion chances and give a 10% chance of evasion even if surprised.

If the comparative speed of the two parties is such that one is at least twice as fast as the other, the faster will have the effect of increasing or decreasing evasion chances by 25%. This includes surprise situations.

Pursuit

Pursuit will take place when a party is unable to evade Creatures, or when castle inhabitants pursue.

• 1d6 is rolled, and the pursuit then goes in that random direction.
  • If the Creature is faster than the party involved there is a 50% chance it will catch the party.
• The party now moves another hex in a random direction
• 1d6 is rolled to determine if pursuit will continue.
  • If pursuit continues the chances for being caught by a faster Creature is 50%, and the same procedure is repeated if the party is not caught.

This procedure continues until pursuit is ended or melee occurs.

Woods or swamp will reduce the chance of being caught by 25%.

For each hex moved in pursuit, a party must spend half a day (AKA half a turn) resting.

During a day at rest two dice are thrown for determining if wandering Creatures are encountered, rather than but one.

Wilderness Combat

Land combat is conducted with the combat tables given previously.

Aerial combat and naval combat have their own dedicated sections.

Castles

If the party enters a certain proximity to a castle, there is a chance the inhabitants will come out to engage with them:

• If entering the castle hex roll 1d6. On a 1 to 3 they come out.
• If entering one hex away from the castle roll 1d6. On a 1 or 2 they come out.
• If entering a hex two away from the castle roll 1d6. On a 1 they come out.

If the party is on the castle hex and hails the castle, the occupants will always come forth if the party is not obviously very strong and warlike.

Determine the occupant of a castle as follows

Roll 1d6 on the following table to determine the lead occupant:

Each will have guards or retainers. Roll 1d4 on the corresponding table below:

Castle Occupant alignments

Patriarchs are always Lawful.

Evil High Priests are always Chaotic.

For other castle occupants roll 1d6 to determine their alignment:

Fighters

Fighters within castles will demand a jousting match with Fighters in the player character party.

If a joust takes place (use rules from CHAINMAIL) Use what rules without CHAINMAIL??

the occupant of the castle will take the loser’s armour if they win, but if the player character wins, the castle owner will host all in the party for up to one month, supply them with two weeks of rations, and provide warhorses (Heavy meaningless without CHAINMAIL??) if the party so requires.

If there are no Fighters in the party the Fighter castle occupants will demand a toll of 1d6 * 100 Gold Pieces instead of a joust.

Mages

If the party is not hostile, then the Mage will send them after treasure by casting the Geas spell on them. When the party returns with treasure, the Mage will take at least half of it. The Mage will have first choice of magical items. They will prioritise their choices of magic items in the following order:

1. Miscellaneous Magic
2. Wands or Staves
3. Rings
4. Other

If the party is hostile, then the Mage will require a toll: A magic item that the Mage can use if the party has any, or 1d4 * 1000 Gold Pieces.

Clerics

They will require passers-by to give a tithe of 10% of all their money and jewels.

If the party cannot pay the tithe, then the Clerics action depends on alignment as follows:

Lawful Cleric will cast Quest on the party.

Chaotic Cleric will cast Quest on a Chaotic party, or attack a Lawful or Neutral party.

Guards

In addition to those guards and retainers detailed above, there will be other Normal Humans defending a castle:

3d6 * 10 humans will guard the walls.

Half of them will be crossbow armed light foot, and the other half will be heavy foot. How to define light foot or heavy foot without CHAINMAIL??

Castle residents will be mounted on horseback, as will their Normal Humans, if and only if they are Creatures that are capable of riding.

There is a chance that there will be others Characters in the castle’s party depending on the lead occupant of the castle:

Pursuit

Castle inhabitants may pursue the party through the wilderness. Roll 1d6: