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- Desert Encounters (Levels 1—4)
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Desert Encounters (Levels 1—4)
Source: Xanathar’s Guide to Everything p. 95
Desert Encounters (Levels 1—4)
| dice: d100 | Encounter |
|---|---|
| 01 | 3d8 scorpions |
| 02 | 2d4 vultures |
| 03 | 1 abandoned mule |
| 04 | 2d6 commoners with 2d4 camels bound for a distant city |
| 05 | 1d6 flying snakes |
| 06 | 2d6 hyenas or 2d6 jackals |
| 07 | 1d6 guards escorting a noble to the edge of the desert, all of them astride camels |
| 08 | 1d6 cats |
| 09 | 1 pseudodragon |
| 10 | 1d4 poisonous snakes |
| 11-13 | 2d4 stirges |
| 14-15 | 1d6 + 2 giant wolf spiders |
| 16-17 | 1 scout |
| 18-20 | 2d4 giant poisonous snakes |
| 21-25 | Single-file tracks marching deeper into the desert |
| 26-27 | 4d4 kobolds |
| 28-29 | 1 jackalwere |
| 30-31 | 3d6 tribal warriors |
| 32-33 | 1d6 giant lizards |
| 34-35 | 1 swarm of insects |
| 36-40 | An oasis surrounded by palm trees and containing the remnants of an old camp |
| 41-44 | 3d6 bandits |
| 45-46 | 1d4 constrictor snakes |
| 47-48 | 2d4 winged kobold |
| 49-50 | 1 dust mephit |
| 51-52 | 1d3 + 1 giant toads |
| 53-54 | 1d4 giant spiders |
| 55 | 1 druid |
| 56-57 | 2d4 hobgoblins |
| 58 | 1 wight |
| 59-60 | 1 ogre |
| 61-65 | A brass lamp lying on the ground |
| 66-67 | 1d4 giant vultures |
| 68 | 1 phase spider |
| 69 | 1 giant constrictor snake |
| 70-71 | 1 gnoll pack lord with 1d3 giant hyenas |
| 72 | 1d6 + 2 gnolls |
| 73-74 | 1 mummy |
| 75 | 1d3 half-ogres |
| 76-80 | A pile of humanoid bones wrapped in rotting cloth |
| 81-82 | 1 lamia |
| 83 | 1 hobgoblin captain with 2d6 hobgoblins |
| 84 | 2d4 death dogs |
| 85-86 | 1d4 giant scorpions |
| 87 | 1 yuan-ti malison with 1d4 + 1 yuan-ti purebloods |
| 88-89 | 1 bandit captain with 1 druid and 3d6 bandits |
| 90 | 2d4 thri-kreen |
| 91 | 1 air elemental |
| 92 | 1d3 couatls |
| 93 | 1 fire elemental |
| 94 | 1d4 gnoll fangs of Yeenoghu |
| 95 | 1 revenant |
| 96 | 1d4 weretigers |
| 97 | 1 cyclops |
| 98 | 1 young brass dragon |
| 99 | 1 medusa |
| 00 | 1 yuan-ti abomination |
| ^desert-encounters-levels-14 |