What Are Those Creatures Doing?

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his d100 table provides a variety of activities What Are Those Creatures Doing? (Cont'd)
that a group of animals, monsters, or people d20 d100 d100 What are they doing?
might be engaged in. Use it in conjunction with 41-42 21 Caring for/watching over someone
a random encounter table to create unique
encounters. For mindless creatures like oozes 43-44 22 Chasing/pursuing
or zombies, use the d20 column. For animals, 45-46 23 Competing/challenging/tourneying
use the first d100 column. For intelligent
creatures, use the second d100 column. 47-48 24 Crying/mourning
49-50 25 Displaying/signaling/calling
What Are Those Creatures Doing? 51-52 26 Feasting/gorging
d20 d100 d100 What are they doing?
53-54 27 Fleeing/routing
1 1-2 1 Being eaten/consumed
55-56 28 Foraging/seeking food
2 3-4 2 Being killed/butchered/harvested
57-58 29 Gathering or marshalling resources
3 5-6 3 Blind/lame/insensate
59-60 30 Grooming/preening/dressing up
4 7-8 4 Congregating/amassing/clustering
61-62 31 Having a psychotic episode
5 9-10 5 Consuming/eating/feeding
63-64 32 Huddling/cuddling/comforting
6 11-12 6 Decoy/construct/fake/illusion
65-66 33 Marking territory/claiming land
7 13-14 7 Digging/burrowing
67-68 34 Mating/flirting/trysting
8 15-16 8 Diseased/sick/poisoned
69-70 35 Migrating/moving to a new home
9 17-18 9 Dismembering/taking apart
71-72 36 Patrolling/guarding/watching
10 19-20 10 Dying/dead
73-74 37 Playing/frolicking/gaming/sporting
11 21-22 11 Fighting/battling
75-76 38 Quarreling/scuffling/arguing
12 23-24 12 Frenzied/berserk/rabid
77-78 39 Resting/meditating
13 25-26 13 Giving birth/hatching/dividing
79-80 40 Searching/seeking
14 27-28 14 Going in circles/lost
81-82 41 Seeking shelter or higher ground
15 29-30 15 Killing/butchering
83-84 42 Sleeping/napping
16 31-32 16 Meandering aimlessly
85-86 43 Stalking/tracking
17 33-34 17 Mutated/conjoined/albino
87-88 44 Starving/begging
18 35-36 18 Nothing
89-90 45 Stumbling around disoriented
19 37-38 19 Tangled/stuck
91-92 46 Taking care of young/children
20 39-40 20 Trapped/caged
93-94 47 Training/trained/domesticated
95-96 48 Undead version of creature
97-98 49 Wandering/drifting
99-100 50 Wounded/injured
51 Bathing/bathroom break
52 Bestowing honors/awards
53 Betraying/backstabbing
54 Building/breaking ground
55 Bullying/taunting/teasing
56 Burying/having a funeral
57 Buying/arranging to purchase
58 Camping/making camp
59 Caring for/maintaining tools
60 Celebrating/partying/dancing

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 What Are Those Creatures Doing? (Cont'd) Twists
d20 d100 d100 What are they doing?
 d8/d20  Twist
61 Cheating/scamming/conning
1 Roll twice. The first roll is what seems to be
62 Cleaning/sweeping/clearing happening at first glance. The second is what is
63 Cooking/baking really happening.
64 Crafting trade goods 2 Roll twice. The creatures are somehow doing
both things at the same time.
65 Dueling/sparring
3 Roll twice. Two different groups of the same
66 Enslaving/kidnapping type of creature are doing two different things in
close proximity.
67 Experimenting/testing/cataloging
4 Roll twice. Two different types of creatures are
68 Gambling/betting doing two different things in close proximity.
69 Gardening/cultivating/planting 5 Roll twice. The creatures have just finished
70 Giving alms/doing acts of charity doing the first activity, and are now transitioning
to doing the second activity.
71 Going for a walk
6 The listed entry is not what the creatures are
72 Harvesting crops doing, but what is being done to them.
73 Initiating/hazing 7 They are only playacting or faking the listed
74 Looting/dividing up loot activity.

75 Making/sharpening weapons 8 The entire encounter is an illusion, dream, vision,

or omen projected to the PCs.
76 Marching/double-timing
9-20 No twist.
77 Mustering/preparing for war
78 Negotiating/debating
79 On a pilgrimage Credits
80 Organizing/logistics Artwork on page 1 by Earl Geier
Scroll artwork on page 2 by Luigi Castellani
81 Painting/drawing/sculpting/carving Blacksmith artwork on page 2 by Ede László
82 Performing/acting/singing Some entries taken from Telecanter:
http://recedingrules.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-
83 Planning/plotting/designing are-monsters-doing.html
84 Questing/investigating Some entries taken from Russ:
https://yumdm.com/dnd-encounters-what-are-
85 Questioning/interrogating the-monsters-doing/
86 Reading/studying/writing/researching Created with The Homebrewery
87 Repairing/fixing
88 Riding for pleasure
89 Riding hard
90 Robbing/banditry
91 Selling/hawking wares
92 Sewing/patching/laundering
93 Shearing/milking/shepherding
94 Swapping stories/bragging/reminiscing
95 Taking drugs/drunk/hung over
96 Trading/bartering/exchanging
97 Trapping/setting a trap
98 Traveling to see
99 Vacationing
100 Worshipping/praying/sacrificing