Random Wilderness Encounters - How do you use them?

[genshou]

Further, random tables can be expanded beyond what you meet to include what they are doing. RuneQuest Cities is a good supplement for this, and 2nd Ed. Jorune had a similar thing. In RQC (which can be expanded beyond Cities, it's just that most of the encounters are human types), you might roll and encounter with... Barbarians. So then roll on a sub-table and the Barbarians are... Drunk and Looking for Fight, or... Wanting to Hire Adventurers to help them (which might lead to a further set of sub tables - very useful for adventures on the fly which would give you an adventure like ... Doing What? - Steal. To What? A Book. From Where? A Graveyard. Eh? Well, perhaps there's..er..a Lich involved. Etc.

Well, Korgan was a Fighter rather than a Barbarian (I think that was a mistake given his personality), but the rest of that "randomly rolled situation" matches up with his side-quest in Baldur's Gate II.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

These AD&D 2e products were awesome for encounters of the random kind for all types of terrain, including urban and dungeon.

Deck of Encounters set 1
Deck of Encounters set 2

They are presented as little mini-adventures and many of them involved more than or something other than combat to defeat.

 

[genshou]

Anyone have a way to randomly generate terrain for these random wilderness encounters?