Symbiotic Relationships and Random Encounter Tables
Symbiotic Relationships and Random Encounter Tables
Here’s an article about a frog that gets protection from a giant tarantula. I can see the random encounter table now.
1. 1 Giant viper
2. 2d8 Giant ants
3. 1 Giant frog and 1 giant tarantula
4. 1d3 Axe beaks
There’s a little ecosystem here. The frog eats the ants that want the spider’s eggs. The tarantula keeps away the snakes and axe beaks that would otherwise eat the frog. This is how you get weird seemingly mismatched encounters in dungeons too.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends
Here’s an article about a frog that gets protection from a giant tarantula. I can see the random encounter table now.
1. 1 Giant viper
2. 2d8 Giant ants
3. 1 Giant frog and 1 giant tarantula
4. 1d3 Axe beaks
There’s a little ecosystem here. The frog eats the ants that want the spider’s eggs. The tarantula keeps away the snakes and axe beaks that would otherwise eat the frog. This is how you get weird seemingly mismatched encounters in dungeons too.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends/
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends
Now 5 and 6 should be wild kingdom interactions in the ecosystem!
ReplyDelete5. A dead capybara. Roll 1d4 twice. The resulting creatures will arrive to investigate the corpse in 1d4 rounds.
ReplyDelete6. 1d4 Swarms of baby tarantulas being preyed upon by 4d4 giant ants. A giant frog will arrive in 1d4 rounds.
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