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[Bohandas]

Alright, that's enough desert encounters, though people are of course free to come up with more. So for the next encounter table, I propose dungeons:

1) You meet a goblin, who offers to show you a secret passage in exchange for a bit of gold.
2) Troll stampede! (Or whatever kind of monster DM prefers.)
3) You come across a supply shop. Don't try anything funny.
4) You find an underground lake, which may or may not contain a giant squid.
5) You discover some sort of dungeon town or city, with houses made of scavenged bits and monster parts.

Wait. Dungeons or Underdark?

[nullBolt]

Gonna rip off one of the Glorantha books:

8.) The Black Lake: This colossal underground lake whirls and sloshes with eerie tides, as if the water is being churned by huge beasts below the impenetrable black waters.
8a.) Any sort of detection spell reveals naught but vast living ‘shapes’ roiling around in the depths here.
8b.) The water of the Black Lake is always hot to the touch, so hot that it nears boiling at times.
8c.) Those who taste it say it tastes salty but more with the taste of sweat rather than sea salt.

Put their goal on the other side and I promise you no fucking player is going to ever go near that lake. They will rather carve a tunnel to the other side of the lake than go across it.

[Sirus]

7a.) The party wizard can, should they have the right History knowledge, convince the orc bandit that pro wrestling is actually fake. The orc concedes he knew, and just really wanted to try out his pro wrestling moves.
 7aa.) Should the party pro wrestle him after the knowledge check, he kicks their ass into the goddamn ground and then gives them a sick greatsword after.

7b ) The Orc merely pretends to concede; in actuality his wrestling gear is enchanted so that he can effortlessly pull off the acrobatics required to perform pro-wrestling moves while inflicting real injuries on his foes.
7c ) The orc is fully aware that wrestling is fake; in order to win the "match" the chosen party member must be both athletic and able to put on an entertaining performance.

[Rolan7]

9) An orc wizard and cleric ask if you've seen their fighters and "that damn thief we let out of sight".
10) A row of manacles, skeletons, and cells...  Like a dungeon
11) A trapped chest containing nothing but a note in Giant.  "Your loot is in another pocket - Troll Face the Rogue"
12) An immaculately clean but unattended library under a silence spell.  All is well unless a book is harmed or removed.
13) Behind a secret door, a lead-lined chamber under antimagic.  A council of robed monks look up at your unwelcome disturbance.
14) There is a bridge over a channel of glowing green ooze.  The ooze is harmless, the bridge is a mimic.
15) A drow representative tries to hire you to retrieve an item of power from a "surface crawl".
16) Earth elementals perform an intricate, almost melodic dance in this chamber.  They insist it's of ritual importance.  Anyone crossing the chamber risks being crushed.  But their movements are theoretically predictable, a time based maze-puzzle.

[Bohandas]

A lot of these sound more like cave/underdark encounters

[nullBolt]

A lot of these sound more like cave/underdark encounters

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[SOLDIER First]

17.) An orc, a dragon and an elemental are all sitting in a room with suspiciously soft flooring. They are none too happy to see the party... at first. Their advances are clear but polite.

[nullBolt]

17.) An orc, a dragon and an elemental are all sitting in a room with a suspiciously soft flooring. They are none too happy to see the party... at first. Their advances are clear but polite.

Everything makes sense now.

[SOLDIER First]

Come on... You couldn't say no to that face, that snout, and that vaguely face-like conglomerate of magical energy, could you? It'll only be a few hours.

[nullBolt]

If D&D went by the Babylonian idea of genetics, you'd end up with a half-dragon, half-elemental templated half-orc who is half human. I'd say at that point you can go for a gestalt class since you're 200% of a person.

[SOLDIER First]

Assuming the party is more than just one person pretending to be every class at once, being 200% of a person is no issue.
Especially since an all-female party is rather unlikely.

[Rolan7]

A lot of these sound more like cave/underdark encounters

I dunno how it is in official material...  I always thought that Underdark creatures had a tendency to pop up in deep dungeons though.  Even though they just live nearby, not inside the dungeon like orcs and oozes and things.  Dunno though.

[FallacyofUrist]

18) The next room you enter is a rather large one. Full of top hats. Some enchanted, some... cursed. Some that will explode if you get near.
19) A tunnel, yeh? Seems normal- wait why am I in your body!
20) GM's Choice
21) You open the door and coffee floods out of it.
22) And behold, the mighty Coffee Archmage! He's lost and wants to join your party so he can get back to his tower on another plane.
23) Roll on the Desert Encounters table. Just do it.
24) Roll on the City Encounters table. Yes. Do it.
25) Roll twice on this table. And combine.

[My Name is Immaterial]

26. Roll on any table.
27. Roll on any two tables and combine.

[Bohandas]

A lot of these sound more like cave/underdark encounters

I dunno how it is in official material...  I always thought that Underdark creatures had a tendency to pop up in deep dungeons though.  Even though they just live nearby, not inside the dungeon like orcs and oozes and things.  Dunno though.

Only in Diablo I/Dwarf Fortress/Tower of Mzark style dungeons that penetrate into natural cave complezes