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Pyram King's Guide to Random Encounters

Added 2022-02-14 18:27:10 +0000 UTC

Hi folks! The wonderful Pyram King has released a free module for random encounters in Barovia, and it features my Old Svalich Road Campsite map!

You can check out the Guide to Random Encounters on his Patreon, and you can also see his breakdown of the encounters on YouTube. He was also kind enough to give me permission to host the PDF guide here - you can download it at the bottom of this post.

I'm a big fan of random encounters that tell a story or add something to the campaign, and there are some really great ideas here for hinting towards different aspects of the adventure.

Just to point out a very minor detail that I really love - one of the encounters (Grave) included can present the players with a copy of John Keats' La Belle Dame sans Merci, which is one of my favorite 19th century poems, and feels like a really good fit for Barovia. For those who might not know, I actually studied English and philosophy in university, and did a masters in writing with a heavy focus on poetry. So, yeah - I like poetry a lot, and that was a neat little Easter egg for me!