Your players have wandered off the map, and the night's plan has gone with them. Critsmith keeps a table of two hundred encounters ready for exactly this moment.
Roll an encounter
From your campaign's Build screen, open Encounters.
EncountersPrepare scenes ahead of time, written yourself or imported from the community, so they're ready to drop into a session.also in Run
Encounters on the Build screen
Choose Auto generate. Then press Roll a random encounter.
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Roll a random encounterRolls one from Critsmith's built-in table of 200, skipping any you have already used, and opens it to read outBrowse player-submitted encountersVote, comment, or add one to this campaign
Auto generate, with Roll a random encounter
There's your encounter. A wooden confession booth, alone at a crossroads, where someone has been using its magic to launder far worse than petty guilt. Read it out to your table, and you're away.
Roadside Confession Booth
A wooden confession booth stands alone at a crossroads with no chapel attached. Whoever confesses inside is quietly, magically absolved - and someone has been using it to launder far worse than petty guilt.
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Save to my encounters
A rolled encounter, ready to read out
Not the one you want? Close it, and roll again. Critsmith skips any encounter you've marked as used in this campaign.
Vote and mark it used
Under Was this useful, give it a vote. Votes from every Game Master add up, and an encounter voted well down stops turning up in rolls.
Mark used keeps it out of future rolls for this campaign.
Last Request of the Roadside Ghost
A ghost haunting a specific bend in the road has one small, oddly mundane unfinished task it desperately wants completed, having long since forgotten whatever bigger tragedy actually killed it.
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Save to my encounters
An encounter voted up, with Mark used beside the vote
Keep it
To keep it, press Save to my encounters. It becomes one of your own encounters, marked as used, and opens so you can fill in the rest: difficulty, creatures and rewards.
1. Basics
2. Difficulty & place
3. Scene
4. Plays out
5. Soundscape
6. Review
Name
What shows in your encounters list. Keep it short enough to spot at a glance.
Last Request of the Roadside Ghost
Summary
A one-line hook you can read straight off the list, e.g. "an ambush on the toll bridge at dusk."
A one-line hook, e.g. “an ambush on the toll bridge at dusk”
Next
The saved encounter, open to fill in the rest
When you've rolled them all
Rolled through all two hundred? Critsmith will offer Reset and roll, and the whole table is yours again.
You have used every encounter in this campaign. Reset the used markers to draw from the full table again?
Reset and rollNot now
Reset and roll, once every encounter is used
Roll straight into a scene
You can also roll an encounter straight into a scene, from the scene's encounter box or the Run screen.
Roll one straight into a scene
From the scene's encounter box
From the Run screen
The two other places to roll an encounter
Next time the party takes the scenic route, you'll be ready.