Visual Random Encounters

I printed these out and taped them into my DM notebook...


Some pictures are worth at least a paragraph.

Like I wouldn't have put this picture in one of these here:
Nice as it is, it doesn't do much more work than the entry on the random encounter chart I already have that says "Manticore", whereas #19 above says "Creepy pseudo-asian potentate half-finished with some blasphemous sacrifice with a bunch of decapitations behind him" and it says it in half a second. Handy when you're trying to whip something up in the middle of a session.

Plus, with a lot of the more exotic concepts--like #14--words break down and the monster is fuck-all without the picture, so it's nice to be able to go "You see...this"
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