City Streets Variants

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A
ll manner of people pass by as you make your way
along the packed street. The evening is setting in, stall-
holders are packing away their wares, street hustlers
are moving from person to person trying to find their
next mark, while urchins dart in and out of the crowd.
You slowly scan the throng of people, trying to pick
out any suspicious activity. Your client walks at the center of your com-
panions, glancing at him you notice a bead of sweat run down his neck.

The city guard assigned to escort your client to the safehouse wer-
en’t pleased you insisted on coming along but your client refused
to leave without you. Now you glance back and find to your horror
the four guards to your rear have vanished, the guards in front have
pulled ahead and as you watch they peel off into the crowd and van-
ish. You swear under your breath, city guards can always be trusted
to take a bribe.

Your companions don’t need to be alerted to the deteriorating

situation, they have already closed ranks around your client and
drawn their weapons. Ahead the crowd parts to reveal a group
of very large armed men standing in the middle of the street. To
your left and right more thugs materialise from alleyways and shop
entrances. You look back up the street to find your escape blocked
by a giant of a man, grinning while pounding a huge cudgel into his
palm. “Good evening” he growls. “The Broker sends his regards”.

Notes and Tips

• 30x30 grid map
Individual street maps vary, see file names for grid size.
• City encounters can be hugely diverse, try thinking
out of the box.
• A group of hunters have captured a griffin and are taking it to the
arena. If the party doesn’t want to free it, maybe it escapes and
starts attacking the hunters or civilians.
• You meet a drunken band of adventurers that seem to have a
vendetta against the party, they want to fight!
• Someone is being beaten up in an alleyway, what does the
party do about it?
• Two gangs are having a fight and the party walk in on it, it
could be something really fun like a scene from
Big Trouble in Little China.
• Things can appear from the sewers, for example, your party hears
melodic flute music shortly followed by rats swarming out of the
sewer grates or after heavy rain slimes start to ooze
from the sewers.
• A circus is in town and during the parade an animal goes berserk.

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