Game Master's Book of Random Encounters, The: 500+ customizable maps, tables and story hooks to create 5th edition adventures on demand Hardcover – Illustrated, 15 Oct. 2020

A great tool to create locations, stories and encounters with.

I bought this product on a whim, browsing for items useful for D&D. For such a nicely presented hardback, this book was a great price. Many Game Masters might be hoping for a big book of random roll tables. This is not that book, although there are some of those presented here. What this book really provides is a large selection of locations with accompanying maps, and optional short adventures that can be plugged into your game. Need a thieves guild/cave/tavern etc, complete with NPC's? Look no further! need a short adventure to go with it? Its got that too.It won't suit every gaming group. The maps presented here are nice, but they are not full colour, and the map keys are printed right on the page. I'd have loved thos book to include download codes for digital printable versions of these maps though.All in all, a really useful tool though. I've had it a couple of weeks and have already stolen pieces of it for a couple of my recent gaming sessions. I spend a lot on useless stuff for D&D, but I'm actually using this.

A lot of the scenarios in the book are very adaptable there’s a bunch of things to help you make them your own.

A well made book full of great and useful material.Constructed to a very high quality I highly recommend this product

I am relatively new to DMing and am running a homebrew campaign for some friends. I have some general ideas and some initial locations/adventures/NPCs planned out, however filling out the world beyond the core details can be hugely time consuming and having backup ideas for when your players go entirely off your carefully laid routes is always a worry. I've spent many an hour trawling the Internet forums for ideas and useful resources.This book is a perfect resource to help with this. It's got loads of great location and encounter ideas with maps and there's plenty of ways provided to link these into your campaign or make them lead to standalone quests. Location and shop designs are often what I find to be most time-consuming to come up with, so this is a great way to quickly give a town some sense of life. No more shall my players catch me short when they desire a shop or tavern.I think what some people rate this down for is that you can't always literally just drag and drop all the stuff from the book into your campaign, but why would you want to? As a DM what I am after is new and fun ideas and inspiration, but I'll always want to tweak the details to suit my campaign.I also really like that it includes some one-shot adventures which you can either use as they are or adjust to fit your own campaign.Some people also rate down the maps, as they are not easy to use from the book in a campaign. This again doesn't bother me, as I like to create my maps in my own format and I view these as a design guide to what the map layout and key elements should be and I make my own version.Overall, I think the amount of effort and content here is fantastic and it's presented beautifully, with lovely illustrations and a lovely cover.I would whole-heartedly recommend this to any would-be DMs out there as a source of inspiration.

I bought this on sale on a whim and I'm pleased with it.Has decent maps and background for them and even contains several small adventures that can be easily dropped into almost any campaign (mostly D&D 5E, but also other systems).Has statblocks for NPCs related to the locations and quests - saving even more prep time.

Can honestly say that I love this book. It’s incredibly creative, brimming with amazing ideas for scenarios, encounters, and places, with beautiful battlemaps for every location. I bought this for a little bit of inspiration and I feel like it’s amazing value for money, considering it contains at least 5 oneshot games, as well as all of the randomising tables and pre-made places. Shipping was quicker than expected and the book is hardback and good quality. Would definitely buy more from this creator - and highly recommend if you’re looking for something to bring a bit of excitement to your game prep AND your players’ experience!

Not only well designed with a wide array of encounters with detailed maps, the quality is better than any of the official dnd5e books I have. Can't wait to use some of these ideas