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Ionik Knight
Learned Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 05 Sep 2010 : 03:57:18
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Greetings all,
I come to you hat in hand as my scrying and divining efforts have failed. I am looking for a geographical breakdown of the general monster population and/or geographical encounter tables. I'm especially interested in the area from Impiltur to Murghom to Lurien to Chessenta and all area in between. I'm doing background on an adventuring company that targets specific monsters.
Thanks Heaps
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Gray Richardson
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 05 Sep 2010 : 23:02:05
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| Check Elminster's Ecologies and also the booklet that came with the 3e Forgotten Realms DM Screen is very good. That booklet was very thick and had wonderful encounter charts for every type of environment and for specific regions. I have gleaned tons of interesting adventure ideas just from perusing those charts. |
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Ionik Knight
Learned Scribe
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 05 Sep 2010 : 23:45:04
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Originally posted by Gray Richardson
Check Elminster's Ecologies and also the booklet that came with the 3e Forgotten Realms DM Screen is very good. That booklet was very thick and had wonderful encounter charts for every type of environment and for specific regions. I have gleaned tons of interesting adventure ideas just from perusing those charts.
Bless you, I had forgotten all about that booklet. It was on the bottom of the....pile... |
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Dewaint
Learned Scribe
Germany
148 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2010 : 12:03:48
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As far as I remember there are two Elimnster Ecologies published. One describing the Dalelands/Cormyr Region the other some parts of the Western Heartlands.
other 3e Sources with IMO good tables are:
The Silver Marches
Unapproachable East
and The Underdark
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 09 Sep 2010 : 12:53:25
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Originally posted by Dewaint
As far as I remember there are two Elimnster Ecologies published. One describing the Dalelands/Cormyr Region the other some parts of the Western Heartlands.
There was a boxed set with many booklets, and then two appendices with two books each. |
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Jakuta Khan
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 01 Mar 2011 : 10:03:09
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in general, i think it much more interesting, that certain monsters, like dragons for example, are very likely encounters in every terrain.
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Caladan Brood
Senior Scribe
Norway
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Posted - 12 Mar 2013 : 20:15:51
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Would it be an idea to create a scroll where we collectively made encounter tables for various regions of Faerun? (Maybe it's already done, what do I know, I'm a noob here) Would be lovely to have a PDF or a thread to look through depending on where characters are. I know, I know, I could just sit down and make my own, but with input from everyone around here we could tailor these tables to near perfection (TM).
The more the merrier and also the more the more different tables (like, you could have different tables, if only slightly, for relatively close areas - say, the Cloakwood and the Wood of Sharp Teeth), or tables suitable for different time periods etc...
Tables for roads, rivers, mountain passes...
This also leads me to wonder, does there exist a map of the Realms by population? You know, giants here, dragons there and here and also there, here live the wild elves, here the leucrotta..
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 12 Mar 2013 : 20:36:42
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Originally posted by Caladan Brood
Would it be an idea to create a scroll where we collectively made encounter tables for various regions of Faerun? (Maybe it's already done, what do I know, I'm a noob here) Would be lovely to have a PDF or a thread to look through depending on where characters are. I know, I know, I could just sit down and make my own, but with input from everyone around here we could tailor these tables to near perfection (TM).
The more the merrier and also the more the more different tables (like, you could have different tables, if only slightly, for relatively close areas - say, the Cloakwood and the Wood of Sharp Teeth), or tables suitable for different time periods etc...
Tables for roads, rivers, mountain passes...
This also leads me to wonder, does there exist a map of the Realms by population? You know, giants here, dragons there and here and also there, here live the wild elves, here the leucrotta..
I think that is an excellent idea...with one major obstacle:
time dependent variables
Monsters are an ever changing population all over the Realms.
So you would need to pick a particular time to work with.
Solid idea though! |
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Caladan Brood
Senior Scribe
Norway
410 Posts |
Posted - 12 Mar 2013 : 20:49:18
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Yes, that is the one problem - what we could do was to separate the encounter tables in three general groups - 2nd Ed, 3rd Ed, 4th Ed (and probably a fourth for 5 Ed down the road). Or call them, say, "1300-1370", "1450-1480" etc.
As a combined effort we could make encounter tables that reflected the areas of Faerun too, with homebrew NPCs for example. Encounter tables for, say, Cormyr, could include Cormyr-specific encounters ("Purple Dragon Patrol", "Hilp Merchants", "Tilverton Family" etc), or use NPCs from sourcebooks etc. What do you think? |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 12 Mar 2013 : 22:33:49
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| As I said, wonderful idea...but I would be the last that could help with a monster like this! lol |
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Quale
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Monster Populations and Encounter Tables?
