Unapproachable East.pdf - The Forgotten Realms

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lost a bet with a demon prince and paid with the death by
drowning of all they held dear. Umlaor lies less than fifty
miles west of the Alaor, once part of the same chain of islands.
Today, local sahuagin live in the upper levels of this sunken
island, but the caverns farther below are filled with creatures
so noxious as to turn the waters black with their passage.
Val-Murthag: Once the religious capital of demon-haunted
Narfell, this sprawling city was leveled by the battle magic of
the Raumathari in the last war between those two ancient
realms. Its cyclopean walls and shattered towers lie two days’
march from Bezentil, in a wild and lonely corner of the Great
Dale. Little is left on the surface, but deep vaults filled with
imprisoned demons and restless Nar ghosts lie beneath the
city’s numerous keeps.
Wilderness
Encounter Tables
The East is a vast region encompassing nearly 500,000 square
miles. Outside the plateau of Thay, the Golden Way, and the
coasts of Aglarond and the Easting Reach, much of this area
is wilderness.
ADVENTURING IN THE EAST
A Rashemi berserker encounters an ice troll
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Encounter Chance
As a party travels across the lands of the Unapproachable East,
there is a chance per hour of travel of a wilderness encounter,
as set out in Table 7–1: Wilderness Encounter Chance. The
first number in a column is for a single hour of travel in that
type of terrain; the second (in parentheses) is the chance of a
single encounter in 8 hours of travel in that terrain. If the terrain
does not change in the course of a day’s travel, it’s much
easier to make a single check and then determine randomly
when during the day the encounter takes place.
TABLE 7–1:
WILDERNESS ENCOUNTER CHANCE
Open
Camping/ Concealed
Normal Cautious Camping/
Terrain Travel Travel Hiding
Desolate 5% (33%) 2% (15%) 1% (8%)
Wilderness 8% (49%) 4% (28%) 2% (15%)
Frontier 10% (57%) 5% (33%) 2% (15%)
Settled 12% (64%) 6% (40%) 3% (20%)
Parties moving at half their best possible speed or slower are
treated as using cautious travel; open camping describes those