Does anybody have any cool random encounters?

[Jeph]

Small, furry, paragon and psuedonatural creatures. Great for lv. 13-17. You'll never forget the look on your player's faces when the bunny leaps on their neck and deals 32 damage. Also works with squirrels, chipmunks, moles, voles, hedgehogs, sparrows, thrushes, wrens, rats, mice, cocroaches, ants, etc., etc, etc.

 

[Sanackranib]

small furry . . .

Small, furry, paragon and psuedonatural creatures. Great for lv. 13-17. You'll never forget the look on your player's faces when the bunny leaps on their neck and deals 32 damage. Also works with squirrels, chipmunks, moles, voles, hedgehogs, sparrows, thrushes, wrens, rats, mice, cocroaches, ants, etc., etc, etc.

I wondered how long it would be before I encountered the "vorpal bunny" here

 

[Gumby]

I DMed a fun one a while back where the party was ambushed by displacer beasts. After winning the encounter, the party tracked the pawprints back to their lair, where they killed the rest of the pack. When they started looking around for treasure, they noticed some large bearskins, some clubs, and other hill giant-sized goods. It dawned on them that the pack of displacer beasts were pets of hill giants.

The hill giants, of course, had just come home while the party was fighting the displacer beasts, and were waiting outside the cave, clubs raised, to attack the party when they left.

This was at around sixth-seventh level or so, IIRC.

 

[Sanackranib]

hill giants

sounds lethal, Hope the party had a necromancer!

 

[jdavis]

Small, furry, paragon and psuedonatural creatures. Great for lv. 13-17. You'll never forget the look on your player's faces when the bunny leaps on their neck and deals 32 damage. Also works with squirrels, chipmunks, moles, voles, hedgehogs, sparrows, thrushes, wrens, rats, mice, cocroaches, ants, etc., etc, etc.

Giant Weasels about did a whole party in, they wondered up on the camp site late at night and the guard didn't see them till it was too late, trying to fight half dressed with a giant weasel in your tent made for quite the battle. The attach special attack is a real pain in the butt. Just take weasels and turn them into dire weasels, I'm sure nobody will be expecting that.

Also any ape type creature is scary, 5 or 6 dire apes or a couple of angry Girallon's can turn into a ugly fight quick.

 

[Sammael99]

We had a nasty "outdoors" encounter that I GMed once to great effect. A word of warning : it's pretty gruesome.

One evening, while traveling in the wilderness, the characters meet a rotund and jovial man. He asks them if they want to share his meal. He's a chef from a nearby town and regularly travels the area to gather special cooking herbs. His meal is delicious and if asked about the region, he says that most people are hospitable, and that it's not infrequent to meet woodsmen or hunters who are most often very happy for the company. A small detail (mentioned in passing), he has a large iron ring on his finger.

Next morning they part company and the next night the PCs meet two sturdy woodsmen who offer to share their meal. The PCs accept, and they get handed the gruel from a large cooking pot. While one of the characters is munching on a bit of meat, he hurts his teeth on a hard chunk. He spits it out and it turns out to be... an iron ring.

When confronted with the evidence, the woodsmen turn into the werewolves that they really are.

One of my PCs was nearly sick when he realised what had happened (turns out cannibalism was one of his pet phobias..)

 

[Sanackranib]

what's for dinner?

Humans: the other white meat.
Eat them up Yum!


Thats a pretty cool ecounter!

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Sammael -> I am so going to steal that. Thanks!

 

[Lord Zardoz]

I had my players encounter a group of Ogre 'merchants', who had several 'customers' at the time. The Ogres were very proud to be business men.

However, they had a strange way of doing business. The would show a player some copper pots, and say "You buy Pots, 10 copper". The player would explain to the Ogre that he did not want them. The Ogre insisted. The Ogres also offered to sell the players a horse. The fact that the horse belonged to one of the other customers was really not at all relevant.

The Ogres were selling the belongings of other customers. Hell, the Ogres even tried to sell the players one of the Ogre Children. "This Thog. Thog a good boy. Thog can carry your stuff. You buy Thog for 2 silver."

Not really a fight, but very amusing non the less.

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[Sanackranib]

I'll have to try that one.

"Ogre merchants"

NOW THAT WAS REALLY FUNY!