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Make an RPG city encounter as if it were a Tarot reading with these picture cards! Ever have your PCs wandering about town on various errands and not have a random encounter idea ready? Or maybe you'd like some ideas for planning out random encounters to use later as the PCs visit a town. This deck would also be great for open-ended solo RPG games where you're looking to craft a random encounter based on a source of inspiration.

This deck has two sister decks: Wilderness Scenes and the brand new Dungeon Scenes.


With this deck, just shuffle and lay out a handful of cards and see what ideas come to mind. The 50 card deck has a full color image on each side of each card for 100 sources of ideas.  The images are broken down into events, locations, and people. So a card of an explosion, another of a rough looking person, a third showing an alleyway, and a fourth card displaying a death might tell you that the PCs spot an explosion down an alleyway where one person lies dead and another was seen running away.

With 100 images the possibilities are already nearly endless.  But because all the inspiration comes from art cards, every time you look at the images you might key in on a different aspect of the image.

Note: The PDF is set up to be printed duplex (two-sided), 4 cards per page.  So the upper right card on the front side of each page matches up to the upper left card on the back side. There are also white marks near the corners of each card which are guides to use when cutting the cards.  This extra area (1/8") on the edge of each card is called a "bleed" which is intended to be cut away. It allows a card to still look good even if the cut isn't perfect or if the front and back prints aren't perfectly aligned.  A PDF is also included with each side of each card as a 3.75"x2.75" page (3.5"x2.5" plus a 1/8" bleed) so you can lay it out as you wish.



Inkwell Ideas makes many useful tabletop RPG accessories, including the following:

Sidequest Decks

Almost every card is a mini adventure.  One side has an outline (background GM info, story hooks, several encounter ideas, & a couple follow-ups) and the other side is the main map:

Sidequest Decks: After the Total Party Kill  Sidequest Decks: Arcane Academy  Sidequest Decks: Coastal Town Quests  Sidequest Decks: Dungeons, Caves, & Ruins Fantasy  Sidequest Decks: Frontier Town Quests  Sidequest Decks: High Seas, Pirates, & Ports  Sidequest Decks: Horror Fantasy  Sidequest Decks: Lovecraftian/Paranormal  Sidequest Decks: Modern Crime, Spies, & Supers  Sidequest Decks: Monster Hunts  Sidequest Decks: Political and Urban Fantasy  Sidequest Decks: Pulp Adventures!  Sidequest Decks: Science Fantasy  Sidequest Decks: Science Fiction  Sidequest Decks: Wilderness & Frontier Fantasy

NPC Portraits Decks

A character on almost every card. The front is a full color portrait, the back has system neutral personality & background information:

NPC Portraits Deck: Adventurers NPC Portraits Deck: Adventurers  NPC Portraits Deck: Animals  NPC Portraits Deck: Coastal Townsfolk  NPC Portraits Deck: Fantasy  NPC Portraits Deck: Fantasy 2  NPC Portraits Deck: Frontier Townsfolk  NPC Portraits Deck: Henchmen & Hirelings  NPC Portraits Deck: Monsters  NPC Portraits Deck: Science Fiction

VTT Tokens

Monster Stand-Ins Virtual Table Top Tokens v1  Monster Stand-Ins VTT Tokens: Adventurer NPCs  Monster Stand-Ins VTT Tokens: Animal Companions/Familiars  Monster Stand-Ins VTT Tokens: Coastal Townsfolk NPCs  Monster Stand-Ins VTT Tokens: Frontier Townsfolk NPCs  Monster Stand-Ins VTT Tokens: Henchmen & Hirelings NPCs

Map Icons for our Worldographer software (PNG images, usable with most image/map editors)

Worldographer is version 2 of our prior Hexographer, Cityographer, & Dungeonographer programs. All have free versions downloadable from each program's website.

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