![]() ![]() Stories of Drow patrols at night, once used to frighten children, now give all ages pause. A small village has reported that small fissures have opened up in the ground in the local forest. The PCs feel like they are being followed as they stroll through the woods. Is it an invitation to enter? Or did something exit?Ģ0. The door has been locked for centuries, but one morning the door is wide open. The trees!” Three days later, a young farm girl whispers, “The trees speak and I listen.”ġ9. A door has appeared in the base of a mighty willow tree. An old man from a local village recently murdered his wife in cold blood, screaming that, “The trees told me to do it. An evil wizard is found slumped against a tree, the body still smoking.ġ8. No one has been able to decipher their meaning.ġ7. Lizardfolk have been seen carving strange runes into the trees of the forest. Though the pranks the Boggle has been employing have been mostly harmless, things are changing…ġ6. A mischievous Boggle has taken up residence in a small valley where locals pick herbs and plants for potions and magical components. A naked bard asks for directions to the nearest inn where he left his clothes and money.ġ5. Investigation yields that they’re all interconnected with a complex network of tunnels, and one tunnel goes much deeper underground than the rest…ġ4. Goblin hovels are popping up throughout the woods. They require an escort to get them safely through the mysterious forest to the next larger town.ġ3. Time for an exposition dump!ġ2. There have been threats against a local noble. A smiling stranger roasts rats, frogs, and squirrels on sticks. ![]() However, a mysterious visitor to the area is offering an equal reward for keeping it safe.ġ0. They offer a reward for proof of its destruction. ![]() There is a rare elusive creature inhabiting the local forest. The local potentate has declared a hunting contest. A monstrous mount lumbers across the trail. The house is protected by a magical ward, but what is triggered when a single apple is taken?Ĩ. A homestead has delicious apples drooping just over a fence. But this simple task leads them somewhere where they don’t belong.ħ. A child asks the PCs to help him find his pet dog. They seem altered somehow and they tell stories of a witch who has been using them in her strange magics.ĥ. They’re found wandering on the edge of the woods. Now, the trees around it are dying and rotting on the spot, and light appears to struggle to reach the glade.Ĥ. In the middle of a deep forest, a well sits among what appears to have once been a lovely glade. Now a large bubble is rising to the surface…ģ. Not only are the crops gigantic, but the pond’s surface is a thick sludge. The local alchemist has been discarding expired potion bottles by mixing them into his garden compost and dumping them into the stagnant pond behind his house. Suddenly, the butterflies then open and close their wings, spelling out the word “Teeth” before flying away.Ģ. A flutter of crimson butterflies blocks the dirt path to the creek, going into a maddening frenzy whenever someone approaches. 100 Dungeons and Dragons Forest Encountersġ. ![]() You can read through them to work as inspiration for encounters you want to spring on your players, or you can roll 2d10 and take your campaign off the rails by letting chance dictate. And, you know, some actually will lead to the words “roll initiative,” so that’s nice. You’ll note that few of these lead immediately to “roll initiative.” Instead, these are meant to add intrigue, introduce an important NPC, or perhaps serve as a red herring when you’ve left the keep and are exploring the borderlands. But it doesn’t have to be! Here are 100 Dungeons and Dragons forest encounters to make that trip to the woods behind grandma’s house a little more enjoyable. Mindlessly exploring the woods in Dungeons and Dragons can be boring. ![]()
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