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100 Forest Finds For Your Fantasy RPG

A d100 list of curious objects, strange sights, and interesting encounters for your players to stumble across while traveling through a wooded area

John Teehan
8 min readJan 10, 2020

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What’s in your forest?

A forest can be much more than a boring terrain sprinkled with occasional encounters. A forest exists whether the party is there or not and, therefore, has a life of its own. It is full of animals, creatures both mundane and fanciful, areas of magic and mystery, and places with a history all its own.

People have passed through this forest before your party, and some may still be in the area. People drop the oddest things in forests. Anyone who has been deep in a New England woods has come across the odd abandoned shell of an old truck, or maybe an old wire station foundation from World War II days, or a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance forgotten on an old tree stump and now subject to the elements.

In your game, you can break up the monotony of forest terrain travel with some of these items. Roll some dice, or just pick out something that seems like fun. Use an item below as described, or apply your own twist. It can be a passing sort of thing, or you might decide to weave it into your adventure.

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John Teehan

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