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The splintered kingdoms of Berrellis have squabbled amongst themselves for decades or more, with no single kingdom gaining ground on any of the others. Shifting alliances among the rulers has kept the status quo very much the same all this time, but the arrival of fiendish extraplanar creatures, their evil-infused oozes, and their powerful blights and diseases threaten to upheave the forested lands of Berrellis. I have also heard rumors of a simultaneous shadowy power play carried out by a contingent of primal fey who intend to claim some of Berrellis for themselves.
—Melnor, second class Sage of Questhaven
Mike Welham's Design Notes.
101 Not So Random Encounters: Forest Kingdoms follows up 101 Not So Random Encounters: Winter, and with this new endeavor Steve Russell presented me with a new challenge for this book. Many of the encounters presented below derive from random encounter tables in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game’s most popular Kingdom Building adventure path, but the encounters still had to work together as a stand-alone narrative like the previous installments of 101 Not So Random Encounters. Since many of the encounters dealt with plants and fey, those would make obvious elements, and, in this case, I decided the fey would attempt to push the borders of their primal dimension into the mundane world, driving all humanoids out in the process. Fortunately, to help preserve the fey plan's subtlety, a daemon paragon devoted to Pestilence decided to wreak havoc in the same area, providing adventurers an obvious foe to fight, and allowing the fey to grant their own dubious assistance while they further their own plans. As per other installments, you can use this book to create a campaign in and of itself, or to augment existing adventure paths. At any rate, I hope this provides inspiration for your game sessions.
Steve says: This is in layout right now and I hope to have it out Thursday at the earliest, Monday at the latest.
