Urban Encounters

Citation

Stars Without Number by Kevin Crawford

Result

General Venue of the Event

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Why are the PCs Involved?

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What’s the Nature of the Event?

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What’s the Conflict About?

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What Antagonists are Involved?

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Relevant Urban Features

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Subcharts

General Venue of the Event (d6)

d6 Result

1

In the middle of the street

2

In a public plaza

3

Down a side alley

4

Inside a local business

5

Next to or in a public park

6

At a mass-transit station

Why are the PCs Involved? (d8)

d8 Result

1

A sympathetic participant appeals to them

2

Ways around it are all dangerous/blocked

3

It happens immediately around them

4

A valuable thing looks snatchable amid it

5

A participant offers a reward for help

6

Someone mistakenly involves the PCs in it

7

The seeming way out just leads deeper in

8

Responsibility is somehow pinned on them

What's the Nature of the Event? (d10)

d10 Result

1

A parade or festival is being disrupted

2

Innocents are being assaulted

3

An establishment is being robbed

4

A disturbance over local politics happens

5

Someone is being blamed for something

6

Fires or building collapses are happening

7

A medical emergency is happening

8

Someone’s trying to cheat the PCs

9

A vehicle accident is happening

10

A religious ceremony is being disrupted

What's the Conflict About? (d4)

d4 Result

1

Money, extortion, payment due, debts

2

Respect, submission to social authority

3

Grudges, ethnic resentment, gang payback

4

Politics, religion, or other ideology

What Antagonists are Involved? (d12)

d12 Result

1

A local bully and their thugs

2

A ruthless political boss and their zealots

3

Violent criminals

4

Religious fanatics

5

A blisteringly obnoxious offworlder

6

Corrupt or over-strict government official

7

A mob of intoxicated locals

8

A ranting demagogue and their followers

9

A stupidly bull-headed local grandee

10

A very capable assassin or strong-arm

11

11 A self-centered local scion of power

12

12 A confused foreigner or backwoodsman

Relevant Urban Features (d20)

d20 Result

1

Heavy traffic running through the place

2

Music blaring at deafening volumes

3

Two groups present that detest each other

4

Large delivery taking place right there

5

Swarm of schoolkids or feral youth

6

Insistent soapbox preacher here

7

Several pickpockets working the crowd

8

A kiosk is tipping over and spilling things

9

Streetlights are out or visibility is low

10

A cop patrol is here and reluctant to act

11

PC-hostile reporters are recording here

12

Someone’s trying to sell something to PCs

13

Feral dogs or other animals crowd here

14

Unrelated activists are protesting here

15

Street kids are trying to steal from the PCs

16

GPS maps are dangerously wrong here

17

Downed power lines are a danger here

18

Numerous open manholes and utility holes

19

The street’s blockaded by something

20

Crowds so thick one can barely move