these are short, sweet, and to the point one-offs. I've used these for "off days" and random encounters while running Ghosts of Saltmarsh and they've been great. I've found them easy to improv on top of, too.

I've been using this the past couple of weeks, they are more evocative of the setting than combat based, but for the evocative they are it's worth it, it really makes the world feel alive

This is a book of random encounters. The overview describes the intent "to complement the Ghosts of Saltmarsh adventure anthology", but it no more serves that goal than any other random encounter generator might. A table at the start of the book catagorises the encounters into twenty each of town, coastal and aquatic themed, but only one of the sixty makes any reference to a Ghosts of Saltmarsh character (and even that's an entirely superficial connection), and none correlate to any particular event or location specific to Saltmarsh. It appears this is branded to capture the eye of DMs hoping to expand their ideas beyond what's in the GoS publication, which it could be used for, but promoting it as tied to Saltmarsh is entirely misleading.

The presentation is polished and of a professional standard throughout but, if you were looking, as I was, for this book to add additional depth or flavour by extrapolating ideas from the official Salthmarsh campaign, you will be very disappointed. As I was.

Pros:

• 60 themed encounters themed for Saltmarsh, divided by town, coastal and aquatic locations.
• Most encounters feature d4 tables to further customize enemies, situations, or motivations.
• 7 new low-level magic items.

Cons:

• Only a third of the encounters are designed for ship travel, and they tend to be the weaker encounters.

THE VERDICT: SALTMARSH ENCOUNTERS FEATURES A SOLID AND HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE COLLECTION OF LOW-LEVEL, NAUTICALLY-THEMED EVENTS AND CHALLENGES.

Full review: https://roguewatson.com/2019/09/18/dms-guild-review-saltmarsh-encounters/

Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTlqgSQ8kpU

Contains great tools to make your campaign different to the others. I would recommend this as a must buy for a DMs toolkit as you can use it for any game not just Saltmarsh.

Many can lead to an extended play session so I recommend you select this in advance rather than roll randomly and play on the fly - unless thats the way you prefer to roll.

Runnin' this content through my review system.

Check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX9PNgop_6Q&t=4s

Great inspirations for encounters. Love all of them, but I have found few that are out of setting (looking at Big Game Hunters 1 and 4). I am definetly adding them to my game, especially the city ones. Please make more similar content, or short adventures ideas for between book chapters or during them.

The quality and appearance of this reads like part of the official book. I usually find random encounters frustrating distractions from the things I want to accomplish, but the ones in this book are much more than simply being attacked by randomly spawning monsters. Rather than taking away from the story, these add to it in small, simple ways. I also appreciate that as well as rolling for the encounter, most involve rolling a second time for the specifics of that encounter.

A couple of my favorites:

• The characters encounter guards who might be: trying to rescue a cat from a ledge, battling smugglers, or two other options. Helping the guards improves the characters' relations with them.
• They hear a song that might be: harpies luring prey, merfolk mourning a loss, a hag setting a trap, or (the best one) an awakened killer whale who might lead them to treasure.
• They come across a magic fountain that has wonderful effects the first two times they drink from it, but the third time is nearly deadly.

There's 60 more of these, most with at least 4 possibilities to roll within them!

Another great feature is the ability to roll based on location in the world, whether town, coastal, or aquatic. There are even notes for scaling the encounters past Tier 1. All in all, this is a wonderful book in concept and execution, and it's well worth the few dollars asked.

This is a godsend to DMs who want to liven up their games. While the adventures in Saltmarsh are interesting there are some times when the characters are traveling, exploring, or just utilizing downtime that can be rather boring. These adventures give a DM fantastic ways to spice up these times. Just drop them in and suddnely your walk across town goes from "you walk from point A to point B" to a memorable encounter with seagull poop or a foray with a wild Plesiosaurus.

This is a great way to add to exisitng campaings, and while most of the encounters are peripheral to existing stories, there are actually a few that could be used as prompts for side quests or woven in to exisiting adventures.

I really ejoyed these encounters and plan on using it in both my home game as well as on the podcast (https://dugongsandseadragons.weebly.com).

Random encounters seem to be a dying breed, but I love the authors' take on the encounters here. Each event is simple, compelling, and "adeptly" merges the three pillars of the game. These aren't just an ordinary list of monsters to fight, but events with deep story and compelling random die rolls to determine outcomes. Outstanding work, you guys!