Death on the Reik Riverine Encounter Generator

The One and Only, the Original...

As a precursor to working on the "Riverbank KNeE Table" for the Indicara jungle encounters I've been looking into riverine adventures and encounters in particular, so I went to one of the more famous adventures, the WFRP 1e module Death on the Reik, part of the fabled "The Enemy Within" campaign.

Note: the RPG module, *not* the Vermintide DLC!

The Cubicle 7 reprint is available in PDF from DriveThruRPG and includes OCR text thankfully, which made generating a Google Docs Spreadsheet encounter generator for the included random river encounters much easier to develop.

The generator is available via this link here or thanks to Jesse Burke, is also accessible over at Glitzmans Gallery in the "WFRP Resources" section (thanks to Jesse for his prompt posting at my suggestion - check out the amazing character sheets and the high-resolution world map).

The encounters and first paragraph descriptive text is drawn from the "River Life of the Empire" booklet included in the module - an excellent resource for any riverine based adventure or campaign. I'll definitely be returning to this slim booklet in the future, but for now, enjoy!

Design Notes

The generator was a bit fiddly to develop given the Boolean logic functions needed to account for not only Yes/No for encounters according to different frequencies depending on Day vs Night / Populated vs Remote. Also, the "centile" basis of the tables is mainly just a d20 roll expanded to 5 point intervals except for some rarer "Special" or "Hazard" encounters which required a sub-nested structure to work. The end result isn't as pretty as I'd like as I don't want to remap all the dependent cells just for cosmetic sake but it's functional and hopefully simple enough to use in play.