{"product_id":"encounters-lairs-d20","title":"Classic Play Book of Encounters \u0026 Lairs d20","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eThe third in the ‘Classic Play’ series from Mongoose Publishing, The Book of Encounters \u0026amp; Lairs covers a field of central importance to any d20 game in unprecedented depth and detail. This series forms a collection of definitive works on subjects relevant to any gaming group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eIt is going to happen sooner or later. For many gaming groups, it happens all the time. The characters are going to wander out of the safe places of the world and go looking for trouble. They will pack up their things, kiss their loved ones goodbye and head into the ‘great unknown’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eFor the prepared Games Master, this is not a problem. There are hundreds of creatures and thousands of situations that can be encountered while travelling. If the Games Master has planned ahead of time, setting up what befalls the party is as easy as getting out the dice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eUnfortunately, this level of preparation is almost impossible to achieve on a constant basis. Players, being players, have a distressing tendency to step outside the boundaries of any given plot line. That is where The Book of Encounters \u0026amp; Lairs comes in. Within these pages, Games Masters will find encounter tables, pre-made scenarios for a variety of monsters and pages of advice for Games Masters looking to make their campaign’s encounters more enjoyable, more believable and more exciting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eFeaturing pre-written scenarios that focus on a variety of monsters, some common and others remarkably under-utilised, that show them in two different lights, both as an encounter and at home in their lairs. These encounters can be placed in any appropriate setting and show the creature out of its typical habitat or roaming through a suitable type of terrain. Meanwhile, their lairs, though not always ones commonly associated with the creature in question, provide all the elements for adventure in and around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eEncounter charts, broken up by terrain types and Challenge Ratings, allow a Games Master to select an interesting and challenging encounter for any level of play. Each table entry provides, a basic idea of how to scale creatures or Non-Player Characters to an appropriate difficulty, taking the guesswork out of figuring out how many orcs, and at what level of experience, constitute a suitable challenge for their band of adventurers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eWith a Help for Games Masters section specifically dealing with how to run better encounters, design logical - though not stereotypical - lairs and plan out the ecology of different areas in a campaign world, linking seemingly unrelated scenarios into a coherent campaign plot line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-family: soleil, Hevletica, sans-serif; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: 300; color: var(--clr-site-txt); display: block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"\u003eWith The Book of Encounters \u0026amp; Lairs at his side a Games Master could run an entire campaign and never need another source of scenarios!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Mongoose Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43786249109659,"sku":"MGP 8803","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/0774\/8507\/files\/classicPlayBookOfEncounters_Lairs.jpg?v=1719510401","url":"https:\/\/dragonsdengames.com\/products\/encounters-lairs-d20","provider":"Dragon's Den Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}