Monster Commute – a Traffic Novel

Monstru Random Highway Encounter Chart (d20) for the upcoming Monster Commute RPG.

You encounter:

1. A burnt out husk of a steamcar, blazing on fire. The smoke smells like cake.
2. A chain gang of sad goblins repairing a series of dastardly pot holes with hot tar
3. A blind troll beggar weeping on the curb holding an empty basket
4. A road barricade, complete with spinning blades and a CrowBot enforcer
5. A family of troll hellbillys, selling doomshine by the bucket
6. A cloud of wretched fumes pouring from some unknown source up ahead (Illness? Drugs?)
7. A unit of CrowBot soldiers, marching in formation, crushing everything in their path
8. A roadside shrine to the Unforgivable Engine God. (Engine block covered in fake flowers.)
9. A darkened sky, as a legion of CrowBot Sky Patrolers drifts over head.
10. A sudden burst of traffic as one lane opens up, and everyone races for a spot.
11. A massive sinkhole, already swallowing three dozen vehicles. (Yours is next!)
12. A gang of ugly Krampus/Mechans, apparently beating someone/something to the edge of their life.
13. A massive green limousine, perhaps carrying a Lursu dignitary?
14. A troll/daemon/Vend-o-Mat/zombie dragging a corpse down the street, looking very angry.
15. A vehicle being carried off (flying) by a horde of enraged haunts. (Screams?)
16. A group of darkly robed warlocks, quietly chanting and waving incense about. One is wearing white.
17. A Krampus sitting on an old barrel, playing a tuneless banjo and chewing cud. (Darello Saghorn)
18. A broke down rig on the side of the road, with a rag-tag crew trying to figure out how to change the flat tire.
19. A Vend-o-mat sadly attempting to sell a pile of mildewed, antique newspapers. (Step right up. Get your news here! Monstru World News. Sigh…”
20. A metal wing falling from the sky, smashes into the ground just in front of your rig. Above, you can only see smog. And fire.

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This is hopefully one of many such charts. I might as well use this blogging opportunity to develop the RPG too!

I hope that you enjoyed it, even if RPGs aren’t your cup of tea. They can give you a feel for a world, at the very least.

This one is for very general use; my hope is to make some more specific ones for specific regions and roads.

- Daniel

Related posts:

1. Highway encounter chart
2. Troll Cola
3. Dungeontown
4. Troll Jazz TJZZ
5. Doomshine