Looking for Urban Encounter Tables

[Zen]

My game is about to enter a phase where the players will be traveling between a number of cities fairly often. I'm looking for a good set of random urban encounter tables to spice things up. I had some great fun with the old Chaosium Press Thieves' World box set tables, but I was hoping to move onto something new--with different encounters for the good/bad parts of town, and so on.

Any recommendations?

 

[philreed]

Any recommendations?

While not tables you might find my PDFs of rumors very useful.

A Dozen Troubling Rumors

A Dozen Disturbing Rumors


Both are written as elements for fleshing out a campaign and/or basing adventures on. Each rumor includes two read-aloud sections (one for a failed Gather Information check, one for a successful check), and two NPC sources of information.

 

[MerricB]

"Cities" by Midkemia Press, or Chaosium (whichever version you can find) has what you're looking for, I think.

However, actually finding it may be a challenge.

Cheers!

 

[Zen]

Thanks, Merric! I'll give finding it a go.

--G

 

[der_kluge]

You could pick up City State of the Invincible Overlord by Necromancer Games. It's a Lawful Evil city, so a lot of the locations might not be applicable for what you want, but it has a ton of city locations.

Likewise, Bluffside (available as a pdf) has a ton of city-based locations which are generic enought o apply to any city.

 

[Zen]

Thanks! Locations I got-- I am actually using Sigil and a heavily modified Freeport.

What I was looking for are encounter tables for when the team is out wandering the streets-- they are accosted by beggars, witness a crime, a nobleman almost runs them over with his carriage, etc.

There doesn't seem to be anything like this currently in print, really, apart from a few pages in The Mother of All Encounter Tables.