Flirty Feast and Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs

The noble who invites the characters to the feast is the widowed and wealthy Lady Maestra…with her is the gorgeous Lady Lissima, and the tall Lord Bellam. These two are married, but share little love for one another. There is also the pretty, yet dangerously petty Lady Colosa, and the jovial and handsome yet jealous Lord Brasso. These two are courting one another, but currently in a deep argument. Finally there is Anza – who is not a noble, but is intimately tied to each of the nobles at the feast.

And so the characters are introduced for the Flirty Feast – one of the thirty planned Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs! You can download the 1-page Flirty Feast encounter at the link near the bottom of this article.

Announcing Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs

Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs is a book full of 30 hand-designed 1-page encounters for overland travel in Fantasy RPGs.

Each encounter will include:

a unique encounter scenario
non-player character names and motivations
skill suggestions on how to handle the encounter (with an emphasis on less-used skills, and avoiding combat)
mechanics for what happens if a character succeeds or fails
encounter resolution

If you are interested, sign up for the mailing list here, or keep reading to download the 1 page encounter at the link near the bottom of this article.

Here is an image of Flirty Feast – an example road encounter:

How Can I Get It

Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs will be available on:

I’m hoping to finish everything up by late spring or early summer. In the meantime, you can:

Check out its sister product Distress Calls for Space RPGs (DriveThru and itch.io)
Download Flirty Feast, a one-page encounter which will be included in Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs (feedback encouraged through survey on the second page!)
Sign up for my mailing list to stay updated
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Why Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs

Most fantasy role playing games use encounter tables for overland travel that often include a creature, terrain type, and treasure type. The assumption is that the encounter will lead to combat, and that a reward of treasure is promised if the player characters are victorious in combat.

This type of gameplay is fun, but over the years I’ve found it to be quite one dimensional.

So I decided to make a resource with hand-designed, fun, exciting, and unique encounters that (mostly) avoid combat, and utilize skills that are used less frequently in fantasy role playing games.

These encounters will allow players to participate in feasts, act in a play and create poetry, save farmers (or not), and solve magical mysteries. Each encounter will feature a few less used skills that are often ignored in fantasy role playing games. The encounters are flexible enough for dungeon masters to plug into most settings and styles of play, yet directed enough so the dungeon master can avoid excess preparation.

Perhaps most importantly, the resolution of each encounter outlines the rewards (or consequences) of the player’s actions. These resolutions may include the favor of a noble at court, a folk-hero song sung about a player character, information about faerie magic in the region, or a dangerous enemy at the very next inn.

What’s Next

I have a fair amount of work remaining on this book. Here’s the remaining work as I see it, in no particular order:

Collect and incorporate feedback on Flirty Feast and rest of designed encounters (ongoing)
Brainstorm and complete the rest of the road encounters (I’m about 25% done, 50% concept complete, and 25% still brainstorming)
Order cover art
Index, and put book together
PDF usability – I want to make sure the book is easy to use
Proofreading
Release
Post-Release Updates – I always update my products after release!

If you want to stay up to date with how Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs is coming along, sign up for my mailing list! You can also check out Distress Calls for Space RPGs (DriveThru or itch.io) to see what the final product will look like.

Thanks for checking out Flirty Feast and Road Encounters for Fantasy RPGs – and as always, thank you for being a fan of games!