Random encounters

This page is about one of the special rules.

For every four days or part thereof of travel across the Wasteland, one tests on:
(Luck + (Survival : 25)) using a D10.

If the test succeeds, there is a positive random encounter. If it fails, a negative one.

Caravans test on a fixed value of 5.

Groups of several characters use the best value within their group.

To determine what kind of positive or negative encounter happens, one can roll a D20 and go by the list below.

Positive encounters:	Negative encounters:
1 - 7: No encounters.	1: Deathclaws.
8 - 9: A small trading group that sells medical supplies and food.	2: Rats.
10 - 11: A small trading group selling weapons and armor.	3: Wolves or wild dogs.
12 - 13: A small trading group, selling luxury items, exotics and pre war devices.	4: Radskorpions.
14: A bard or several bards.	5: Praying mantises.
15: A friendly, but heavily armed group of mercenaries/bounty hunters.	6-9: Feral ghouls.
16: A herd of brahmin.	10 – 14: A band of Raiders or Slavers (not in NCR territory, here one would meet a patrolling group of Rangers).
17: A lone wanderer.	15 -16: Remnants of the Army of the Master.
18: A hermit.	17: Spore plants.
19-20: A traveller or tourist on his way to the next largest city.	18: A sand storm.
	19: Very strong rain.
	20: Incredible heat.