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High Fantasy
E NCOU N T E RS Odd Situations
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200 High Fantasy
Odd Situations
 Forest
1 A spider merchant, trying to sell clothes made of its own web.
2 An ogre getting ready to cook its prisoners: two young
children.
3 A wild child hiding in a tree.
4 A boar fallen in a pit dug by a hunter. It’s injured.
5 This part of the forest is covered in cobwebs hard as steel.
6 Bread crumbs leading to an ambush set up by goblins.
7 Mushroom people chanting and dancing around a silver idol.
8 An elven wedding.
9 A bear trying to get to a beehive.
10 A trail of fallen trees.
11 An hungry dog tied to a tree.
12 Lost adventurers exhausted by their last quest.
13 A kids’ treehouse containing wood swords.
14 A ranger inspecting fresh monster tracks.
15 A small pond inhabited by some fairies.
16 Ents having a council since a dozen years.
17 A rabbit fleeing an armed patrol.
18 An altar mostly covered by moss but with recent blood splats.
19 Someone shouting as they have ants under their clothes.
20 A mongoose fighting a dangerous snake.

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 Cave
1 A rolling boulder shaped like an icosahedron.
2 A room covered in glowing dust.
3 A giant vampire bat feeding on a cow.
4 Ancient paintings recounting the rise and fall of a lost city.
5 A sword cemetery: dozen of swords sealed in the ground.
6 Menacing large eggs about to hatch.
7 A labyrinth carved in sharp crystals.
8 A lava flow blocking the path.
9 Troglodytes having a feast.
10 Flammable gas pockets.
11 A giant snake digesting its last prey.
12 These stalagmites are actually the teeth of a sleeping monster.
13 Someone is trapped behind collapsed rocks.
14 A cylindrical tunnel of obvious magical origin.
15 Fungi people hiding in the shadow, afraid of light.
16 Feral dogs rummaging in piles of bones.
17 A dwarven outpost attacked by kobolds.
18 Someone carving statues out of the rocks.
19 An army of petrified soldiers waiting to be awaken.
20 Smugglers hiding illegal goods.

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 Dungeon
1 A tame mimic, acting like a cute puppy.
2 Crawling flesh on the ground and walls.
3 A golem blocking a doorway until a password is said.
4 A swarm of rats, acting like a single giant rat.
5 A big hole in the floor going through to all the levels.
6 A ghost seeking revenge on the person/monster who killed
him.
7 A hobbit prisoner of a chest.
8 A gagged prisoner. If freed, he won’t stop talking nonsense.
9 A basin full of undead body parts and organs.
10 A strange lullaby is heard.
11 A corpse lying on the floor with a backpack full of gold coin
mimics.
12 A small pool where a mermaid is trapped.
13 Levitating books replacing a missing stair.
14 An armory full of animated armor and sentient weapons.
15 An orcish tavern open to everyone loving a drink or two.
16 A fancy dining room with slimes passing as pudding.
17 A busy necromancer assembling body parts to create a flesh
golem.
18 A wizard searching after his lost spell book.
19 Tentacles coming out a pit.
20 A skeleton playing hide and seek with adventurers.

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 Village
1 A man in a pillory being mocked by children.
2 A really bad pickpocket gets caught and the guards are alerted.
3 A shady individual selling treasure maps.
4 A few stalls on the village place selling exotic items.
5 An urchin knows something of interest, in exchange of gold.
6 People are sick because of the water in the well.
7 A bell is ringing and the villagers are running to shelter.
8 The smith and the fishmonger are arguing, as usual.
9 The village festival is taking place like every year.
10 A beauty pageant offering a big money prize.
11 A town crier delivering an important message.
12 A cute but annoying dog following people around.
13 A house on fire and people trying to extinguish it.
14 A street musician playing to earn a few coins.
15 Kids playing bad taste pranks on passerby.
16 An outlander riding a giant lizard makes sensation.
17 There are sales in various stores for a special occasion.
18 People are mourning the death of the village elder.
19 There is an epidemic of a serious disease.
20 A tax collector furiously knocking on a door.

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 Road
1 An illegal chariot race.
2 A giant dung beetle rolling his giant dung ball.
3 A travelling merchant selling foul smelling potions.
4 A not so official looking toll.
5 The cart of a travelling princess with a broken wheel.
6 Wolves eating a dead horse.
7 Barrels of poisoned wine set up as a trap by highwaymen.
8 An armored cart moving convicts to a high security prison.
9 A farmer travelling to the nearest city to sell his crops.
10 Retired bandits trying to sell their autobiography to travelers.
11 A gorgeous man trying to sell a miracle diet.
12 A man riding an odd contraption with only two wheels.
13 Someone riding on a stubborn donkey.
14 A river has flooded and the road is underwater.
15 A woman resting her horse on the roadside.
16 People fleeing war and poverty.
17 A giant throwing boulders on the road from the top of a hill.
18 A signpost indicating a nearby natural point of interest.
19 A hobbit travelling with a backpack almost as big as him.
20 A young couple running away from their abusive families.

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 Marsh
1 A empty witch hut.
2 Drugged people left as a sacrifice to a sacred beast.
3 Frog people having a fishing contest.
4 Houses on stilts inhabited by people sick with a high fever.
5 Canoes carved in a tree trunk, with footprints leaving the area.
6 A swarm of hungry mosquitoes chasing a swearing dwarf.
7 A raft maneuvered by plague victims.
8 Two big eyes protruding from the surface of the water.
9 Almost naked people hunting with blowguns.
10 A boat with a dead body inside.
11 A snapping turtle fighting an alligator.
12 The nest of a hydra containing a few eggshells.
13 Fireflies following people making it difficult to go unnoticed.
14 Numerous wisps illuminating a safe path.
15 An alchemist collecting rare plants for a potion.
16 An opaque mist covering a dangerous area.
17 Going in the water guarantees to be covered in starving
leeches.
18 An Ankou collecting the souls of deceased travelers.
19 A craftsman skinning a snake.
20 A giant moth trapped in cobweb.

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 Lake
1 A knight admiring his reflection in the water.
2 An old hag energetically washing her clothes.
3 Children playing in the water.
4 Suspicious looking young lads skipping stones.
5 A fisherman sleeping in his boat.
6 A race of miniature boats about to begin.
7 A wizard fishing using explosion magic.
8 A peaceful but frightening aquatic monster lives here.
9 Migratory birds covering the surface of the water.
10 A giant kind of a waterlily grows here.
11 A small pagoda located on an island at the center of the lake.
12 Floating bodies being eaten by birds of prey.
13 A intoxicating song coming from the deeps of the lake.
14 A whirlpool slowing draining the lake.
15 People ice skating on the magically frozen water.
16 A band of orcs hiding underwater using reeds to breath.
17 Someone fishing with a magnet, trying to find some gold coins.
18 Lovers picnicking and watching wild ducks.
19 A man trying to give his dog a bath.
20 Gold panners hoping to get rich.

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 Mountains
1 Dwarves leaving their mine while singing an annoying song.
2 An avalanche roaring in the distance.
3 A snow golem building a snow fort.
4 A rescue dog furiously digging through the snow.
5 A naked old man passing by, unaffected by the cold.
6 Remains of a snowball fight.
7 Menacing footprints disturbing the perfection of the snow.
8 Frozen bodies of soldiers found here and there.
9 Big ice stalactites that will fall if helped a little.
10 A log cabin still warm.
11 A chained frost giant is blocking the path.
12 Tribesmen hunting a mammoth with spears and clubs.
13 A wyvern flying above, looking for its next prey.
14 Goats grazing peacefully in most improbable places.
15 A madman hurtling the slopes on a wooden board.
16 Undead wolves pursuing an injured adventurer.
17 A trail of blood leading to the depths of a cave.
18 Bear-riding soldiers of a close settlement patrolling the area.
19 A banshee crying, curled up.
20 A white stag leading a herd.

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 Tavern
1 An arm wrestling contest is taking place.
2 An awful lot of dice and card players.
3 Happy hour is on.
4 The god of wine himself is drinking here.
5 A dance contest will be held in a few days.
6 A quite wild bachelor(ette) party.
7 A newly-rich man buying everyone a drink.
8 Bounty hunters asking people around for someone.
9 Loud people playing role playing games while snacking.
10 People shouting at each others over a spilled drink.
11 A talented bard singing stories about past heroes.
12 A party of adventurers planning its next quest.
13 Wanted and job posters displayed near the entrance of the
building.
14 Masked men trying to rob the tavern.
15 The dish of the day looks tasty.
16 A man recruiting people for the local guard.
17 A storyteller telling the legend of a fabulous treasure.
18 An hooded man smoking his pipe and making lots of smoke.
19 The remnants of a tavern brawl.
20 A desperate kid without money looking for help.

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 Desert
1 A mirage.
2 Grave robbers trying to open an ancient tomb.
3 A sandworm led by a desert warrior.
4 Thirsty travelers begging for water.
5 An undead animal passing as a skeleton.
6 A band of warriors wearing the chitin of giant beetles as armor.
7 A traveller trapped in quicksands.
8 A sandship going at full speed on the horizon.
9 A broken clockwork scorpion.
10 A swarm of locusts devouring everything on its way.
11 Strong winds have revealed a temple, long forgotten.
12 Spice traders going to the nearest town to sale their goods.
13 An escaped slave seeking for protection and subsistence.
14 A sarcophagus containing a very well preserved mummy.
15 Jackals eating a carcass.
16 A tribe of lizardmen establishing a new encampment.
17 A crate full of cursed relics.
18 An inn carved in a giant cactus, only selling cactus juice.
19 An obelisk with an old prophecy written on it.
20 A box containing a card game played by ancient desert kings.

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Credits
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Ink Splats designed by kjpargeter / Freepik.
Scratch vector textures designed by Graphics Fuel.

Fonts
Edition (all caps version) designed by Mike Diehl & Paul Volk / Dafont.
Highway Gothic Wide designed by Tom Oetken / Dafont.

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