The great book of Random Encounters. v. 0.5 What is this book? encounters. Random encounters can break This text is considered to be an addition to up the monotony of long travel, provide Fallout Pencil & Paper Role-Playing Game combat and experience points (and, of currently available at course, loot), and even serve as comic relief. www.iamapsycho.com/fallout and written by The specific adventure modules will instruct Jason Mical. Any comments you have please the GM on how often to roll for an send to Michal Karpowicz Please forgive me encounter, and what chance the party has to my english- if you find any errors, please meet one. In general, random encounters are report them to me. usually terrain-specific; a party isn’t going to meet a bunch of desert lizards in the middle Description of Random Encounter and a short of a jungle. "manual". If the party does meet a random Much of the world has fallen into a state of encounter,then they have a chance to avoid complete disrepair in the years since the it. The “leader” of the party -the character War, and safe travel is never guaranteed in who is first in marching order,or at the front the wastes. When traveling between of the party -must make a roll against locations, there is a chance for random Outdoorsman. If the roll succeeds, the 1 character has spotted whatever the party will and the locals take one look at me and stick encounter and can decide whether or not to me back ON the cross..." You could come avoid it. out of this with either a robe like that worn Parties that meet random encounters will by the bridgekeeper and a karmic perk as start at a position of 5 hexes multiplied by "anti-christ- all good people hate and fear the “leader’s” Perception from the middle of you, but nasty people take a shine to you;" or the group the party is encountering. This profuse thanks, blessings, and "Holy means that if the leader’s perception is 6, the Champion" karmic perks-Tag skills receive party starts 30 hexes from the center of the bonuses, the better to perform great deeds. encounter (the middle of a caravan, for example). If the group the party encounters Chosen One is big enough, this can still plant them right The (low level) team meets up with a in the middle of everything. Starting position continual array of people helped or hindered in random encounters doesn’t matter as by the Chosen One and his/her band of much when encountering peaceful things, ragtag heroes. In the ensuing battles and but it matters a lot if you wandered into a quests to aid, they are perpetually compared radscorpion nest. to the Chosen One. Each time, they come This text was written by Jason Mical- within a hair's breadth of meeting the CO, Fallout P'n'P v. 2.0. but always just miss. Finally, at high levels, they meet the CO, to aid them in a climactic battle, or battle them in an apacolyptic duel worse than the showdown with Horrigan I.Special (after all, the CO BEAT Horrigan...), depending on everyone's Karmic ratings. encounters. New Enemy The team encounters a new kind of enemy. Depending on player's reactions to this new 1. Encounters devised by bunch, they could just be a one shot deal...or they could be the first in a new wave of Fallout P'n'P players and baddies assaulting all that remains of GM's. goodness. Not so much humorous, as a way to test out new ideas. Lots of encounters in this chapter I found in „Special Encounters” text, gathered by Predator Ausir, which I downloaded from The Predator shows up, looks down at the www.fallout.pl party, and says, "Excuse me, humans, but what happened to the hunting preserve?" Andrew Miller: Jesus Forrest Gump The party encounters a muscular, dark The party encounters a man running through skinned man in antique robes nailed to a the wastes at top speed, only pausing to eat wooden cross, muttering to himself, "This is and sleep. If questioned, he says, "Mah getting monotonous... Come back to usher in name's Forrest Gump, people call me Forrest a world of peace, Dad's creation is in ruins, Gump. Ah'm a little confused about what 2 happened to everything when ah was up strength of 10, Perception 1, Intelligence 1(if there at that there galactic conferance you think his ability to utter polysyllabic bringing peace to the cosmos like Mama words makes him intelligent, try would have wanted. So ah'm running until I DECIPHERING the stuff he says in the figure it all out. Or until ah get tired. Here, stories), End 5, Charisma 4, Luck 10 and they were smashing these things at the Agility 6. Beating him earns you a metal conferance, and ah thought ah'd keep one as armour, a wooden pole, and a "strange shield a souvenir. Here, you can have it." Party of unmarked character." This shield turns out ends up with an Alien Blaster... to be both a melee weapon that does 1-6 damage, and protection raising your AC by Galactus +15 over and above your armour, plus DT A spaceship the size of the moon appears. A percentage bonuses of, oh... +20% for all door the size of Mt. Everest opens up. "I AM types. Only usable with one handed GALACTUS, DEVOURER OF WORLDS, weapons, comes in pretty handy with a AND THE GREAT HUNGER IS UPON 10mm submachine gun or powerful pistol, or ME..." pauses to look around, "BUT NO SO as they're called, "hand cannons." MUCH THAT I SHALL CONSUME JUNK FOOD IN THE STEAD OF TRUE G.I.Joe NOURISHMENT. YOU PEOPLE The team encounters a large force of <REALLY> NEED TO WORK ON YOUR vehicles and infantry, running and top speed. ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION Atop a command carrier, a man wearing a PLANS..." He then gets back in the blue uniform with his face concealed by a spaceship and flies off, muttering, mask screams, "COBRA, RETREAT!" They "SURFER, I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS are hotly pursued by another bunch in WORLD WOULD SATE MY HUNGER!" vehicles screaming, "YO JOE!" as they blast "Sorry boss, it was looking FINE when I at Cobra with everything in their arsenal. I FOUND it..." thought of doing this one when I remembered an old Comic, where the evil Don Quixote Twins inform Cobra Commander that the Whilst wandering through the wastelands, Joes spotted in the middle east where they're the team encounters a grizzled old man atop planning an invasion of a rich country at the a swaybacked old nag. He wears metal invitation of a poor neighbor, have been armour, wields a wooden pole that would "dealt with." Sayeth C.C. "Good! I hope you qualify as a spear, save that the pointy end is escorted them to a nice, neutral border and as dull as the blunt end is sharp, a shield in let them go!" "Say wha?" "We certainly don't his other hand, a helmet that most likely need the Joes involved in this, certainly not would not survive a single blow. From his with a personal grudge!" "Well, uh... sir, one mouth spews forth poetry of exceedingly of our subordinates misinterpreted your large wordings and complete orders... with extreme prejudice, that is... he incomprehensibility. He decries one of the uh, shot seven of them." "WHAT!!! I'll team as the long awaited champion of the handle this myself, as soon as I've taken care nefarious wizard Freston, and challenges of things here!" And you just KNOW, off him to single combat. Alone or en mass, Don page somewhere, Destro came into C.C.'s Quixote turns out to be a pretty tough office a few minutes later and said, "Sir I- character, with Melee 150%, a madman's Cobra Commander! Why are you sitting 3 there crying like a child?" "Why? 'Cuz the Joes are coming and they're gonna WAIL on Fang: us!" "Pull yourself together, man! It can't be Robocop that bad!" "They're real pissed. They're Occurs around Detroit map area, you find a probably gonna send in Sgt. Slaughter." "Sgt. secret lab housing a Crime Protection Unit Slaughter?" And then Destro probably of an old era. It turns out to be Robocop! started crying. Basically you would get Robocop's kewl black gun that reverberating sound with that Jason Mical: HUGE muzzle flash. You could also fight a Fallout Troopers half dozen ED-209's in the backdrop of a Group comes across a platoon of failed OCP vault. Then you could access Brotherhood (or Enclave) soldiers called the files about Robocop, his last days on the Roughnecks holed up in a bunker. If they planet (probably containing riots in Detroit), stay for a while, the bunker is surrounded by and how in some ways he was the precursor thousands of GiAnts, Mantis', Roaches, and to Power Armor. any other bugs. The leader orders his troops to "give it everything they've got", even A-Team though there isn't nearly enough ammo for A group of Enclave commandoes were all the bugs. Resolution is up to the GM (a convicted of a crime they didn't commit. dropship to pull them out? :) ). They were in prison, but broke out. They currently are in hiding, constantly being Grok hunted by the Enclave.