Aerial Encounters (d100)

A list of aerial encounters for those adventurers flying by airship.

The original source of this random table is at this reddit post, but was subsequent shared at r/d100.

Image has been sourced from Art Station artists Alejandro Olmedo

d100 Result

1

A flock of ravens, circling around and around a fixed point on the ground

2

A Giant Eagle, with something glinting in its talons

3

A cloud that appears to be moving in the opposite direction to the prevailing winds

4

A Harpy, burdened with a large urn cradled carefully in its claws

5

An inquisitive Brass Dragon, with a terrible sense of humour

6

A long piece of rope, which seems to be dangling from hole in thin air

7

An Aarakocra patrol, tracking an escapee from the Elemental Plane of Air

8

A Gnome on a home-made hang glider, frantically trying to work out how to get down

9

A weird glowing orb, about 3 ft across, moving and stopping at irregular intervals

10

A dark rain cloud, which appears to be keeping pace with something on the ground

11

A Flying Sword, hanging motionless in the air

12

A Flying Carpet, riderless but with what appears to be a bulging satchel on top of it

13

A collection of Flumphs, undergoing what appears to be a mating ritual

14

A swarm of Sprites, making huge signal patterns in the fading evening light

15

A column of dark smoke, rising up from an isolated village

16

A display of fireworks, marking a celebration

17

An Imp, painted with runes of binding and carrying a sealed scroll

18

An Air Elemental, injured and having difficulty maintaining height

19

A Djinni, moving directly towards you with purpose and at speed

20

A plume of greenish-blue gas, emanating from a Wizard’s tower

21

A Chimera and a Manticore, engaged in furious aerial battle

22

A Pseudodragon, with a tail tag and broken leather leg cuff

23

A collection of balloons, moving of their own volition and making strange noises

24

A pair of Silver Dragon Wyrmlings, practicing their breath attacks

25

An invisible sphere hanging in the sky, miles in diameter and slowly spinning

26

A Broom of Flying, drifting slowly with goggles and a leather helmet strapped to it

27

A large levitating stone platform, hidden from the ground by a cloud like illusion

28

A collection of Mephits, which appear to be frantically fleeing something

29

A migration of Cockatrices, flying to warmer climates

30

A ring of Quadrones, holding hands and rotating slowly around a point in space

31

A stone thrown by a Giant, whistling by REALLY fast

32

A pillar of white light, rising towards the heavens from a source on the ground

33

Dancing lights, twitching and moving erratically in the sky

34

An Elf riding a horseless, flying chariot, leaving fiery tracks as it moves

35

The drifting wreck of a large airship, listing and with claw and teeth marks all over it

36

A Roc carrying a live cow back to its nest for its chicks

37

A fierce electrical storm, with flashes of lightning projecting the silhouette of a humanoid

38

A Wizard, trying out his home-made Boots of Levitation

39

Hundreds of Gas Spores, slowly rising higher into the atmosphere

40

An unnaturally tall tree, rising out of the canopy of a forest

41

Several meteors, maneuvering all by themselves

42

A portable hole, suspended in the air with the sound of deep breathing coming from it

43

An Efreeti and a Marid, floating along arguing about a glowing stone carved with runes

44

A narrow, jagged rift to the elemental plane of air, with an arm reaching through it

45

An avatar of Remnis, god of Giant Eagles, lazily cruising on the breeze

46

A druid, flying along on a large and roughly worked piece of stone

47

A Storm Giant flying tower, seemingly abandoned

48

An Elf riding a Griffon, armed and armoured for battle

49

An Orc on a Wyvern, with a bow and an empty quiver

50

A Pegasus, flying calmly and fitted with a saddle and armour

51

A group of scared looking nobles in a hot air balloon

52

A merchant flying along on a magical carpet, towing their wares on a giant Tenser’s Floating Disk

53

A company of Dwarves, huddled together in a giant doorway in the middle of a cliff face

54

A collection of brightly coloured flags and streamers, planted around a black stone box on a snowy mountain top

55

A floating stone face, that will allow you to ask it any three questions

56

Two elderly mages, racing brooms around a tree top course marked by ribbons

57

A small yellowish toxic cloud, that if attacked becomes the mist form of a Yochlol

58

A flock of Gargoyles, taking off from a dark, decrepit fortress

59

A huge humanoid made of clouds, intelligent and conversant but with no clue about its origins

60

A carrier pigeon bearing a magic coin, being attacked by a hawk

61

A cloud of Sprites, chattering and arguing about a missed opportunity

62

A flock of magical books, speeding in all directions away from ancient ruins

63

Several Will-o’-Wisps, bobbing up and down excitedly at the top of a looming, ancient marker stone

64

A slender 90 ft spire of a brass-like material, slowly rotating and pushing up from the earth

65

A malfunctioning wand, gyrating through the air and firing Magic Missiles at random directions

66

A rainbow bridge into the sky, slowly fading but with the distinct tang of magic from the Astral Plane

67

A Winged Kobold, asking piteously if you have seen which direction his tribe went

68

A Homunculus, scouting out partially ruined tower of burned and blackened stone

69

A Pegasus, teaching its foal how to fly

70

A column of rising and expanding steam, with a pair of singed Gnomes underneath surrounded by wreckage

71

A weirdly glowing, stationary cloud that whispers as you approach it

72

A swarm of annoying biting insects, rushing ahead of an unusual storm front

73

A hawker’s gyrfalcon, flitting from tree to tree and ignoring the calls of its master

74

A pair of Imps, squabbling over an oversized dagger with a green gemstone in the pommel

75

A Young Green Dragon, flying slowly and obviously badly wounded

76

A series of tiles floating and tumbling in the air, each bearing runes in Jotunuvar (Sky Giant language)

77

A Green Hag on a barely working Flying Broom, crashing into everything in its path

78

Two Harpys, flying near the ground and carrying a brass bound chest between them

79

A royal messenger, wearing winged boots and carrying a wax-sealed scroll case

80

An unusually persistent dust devil, playing havoc with a travelling caravan

81

The image of a crown, projected by unknown means onto the base of nearby clouds

82

A raven flapping lazily along, with a leather hood and a message scroll tied to its leg

83

A wooden chest supported by dozens of tiny wings, heading very intensely in a straight line

84

Smoke signals, being made by a barbarian Orc tribe

85

Thousands of tiny wildflowers floating into the sky, released from the head of a Dryad

86

A Wasp construct, slightly larger than life and made of precious metals, bearing a maker’s mark ‘K.T.E.’

87

A Skywrite ritual spells out the words: BARRIER GONE, THE WAY HAS BEEN OPENED

88

A Wind Wall spell across a small valley, holding back a creeping finger of coloured fog

89

A Faerie Dragon, chasing what looks to be ball lightning

90

A haughty Dragonborn Wyvern rider, with a bound Orc prisoner slung across the back of his saddle

91

A young Human male, being born unwillingly along on wings sprouting from his back

92

A Djinni at leisure, lounging on a cloud and being served by a bonded Jann

93

A Sylph, travelling to a rare sylphmeet

94

A fading Air Elemental, bound to protect the body of a fallen Elven prince

95

An eccentric Cloud Giant runemage, reinforcing the glyphs holding up a magically solid cloud

96

Three black clad Gnomes, riding Giant Owls in daylight but hoping to remain unseen

97

A stunned looking Goliath, sprawled at the centre of a whirlwind

98

A Giant Bat, carrying the remains of an armoured humanoid in its claws

99

A small airship, with a captain and crew that obviously have no idea what they’re doing

100

A priest using Wind Walk for the first time, equal parts terrified and determined