General Making Animal Encounter tables

[Spinward Scout]

Making a local wildlife table.

I live out in the country surrounded by cornfields. I made a post a while back for teaching how to create a 2d6 table. Well, I've thought about it since then and I think I should embellish on it.

So, I thought about the animals I see in the area and added to the list from before:

Critter list:
Pack of Coyote (usually hear them at night)
Herd of Deer (5 - 15)
A Couple of Turkey
Two or three Rabbit
Lone Opossum
Outside Cats (two adults and a litter of 5 kittens)
Stray Dog
Various Birds or a Flock
Ground or Tree Squirells
Frog or Toad or Snake
Bugs (depending on the time of year)

There are 11 of them. Which is perfect for a 2d6 table. And I'm going to use these two tables to place the critters.

How Common the Creature is:
2 6th Most Common
3 5th Most Common
4 4th Most Common
5 Third Most Common
6 Second Most Common
7 Most Likely Common
8 Second Most Common
9 Third Most Common
10 4th Most Common
11 5th Most Common
12 6th Most Common

The odds of seeing each creature:
2 - 1 in 36 chance
3 - 2 in 36 chance
4 - 3 in 36 chance
5 - 4 in 36 chance
6 - 5 in 36 chance
7 - 6 in 36 chance
8 - 5 in 36 chance
9 - 4 in 36 chance
10 - 3 in 36 chance
11 - 2 in 36 chance
12 - 1 in 36 chance

So, if I place them using those two charts:

Local Wildlife
2 - Stray Dog
3 - Herd of Deer (5 - 15)
4 - Lone Opossum
5 - Two or three Rabbit
6 - Various Birds or a Flock in the sky
7 - Outside Cats (two adults and a litter of 5 kittens)
8 - Bugs (depending on the time of year)
9 - Ground or Tree Squirrels
10 - Pack of Coyote (usually hear them at night)
11 - A Couple of Turkey
12 - Frog or Toad or Snake

And that is the Local Wildlife Animal Encounter table for my yard and visible surroundings.

You can use these tables for creating your Animal Encounters. Or for other things, too.

EDIT: I almost forgot - does anyone want a cat?

 

[atpollard]

I like it.

 

[kilemall]

I preferred the CT animal supplement tables, which had 10 animals and an environmental event.

 

[Spinward Scout]

I preferred the CT animal supplement tables, which had 10 animals and an environmental event.

Have you seen my Events list?

Events for your Game

EVENTS Roll 1d6 1.) Background Imagery (roll or pick one) 2.) Encounter (use normal Encounter Tables in the rule book) 3.) Event 4.) Encount...

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[Grav_Moped]

does anyone want a cat?

I'm good,, we have one already.

But good luck!

 

[coliver988]

I saw "a couple of turkeys" and I rarely see just 1 or two. Yesterday drove through (rather I slowed down, they got out of the way, no animals were hurt) a flock of at least 20 turkeys. I live in what I guess is semi-rural: farms are around me, horse pastures and the like. I have to drive carefully in the morning as there are usually deer, sometimes a bear, and I also hear coyotes. Funnily enough there was a bear lounging on my front porch last year, so I finally figured out where the large claw marks came from. Sadly way too much construction and new places going up.

And already have 3 cats - the CDN always works out well here (Cat Delivery Network. All 3 cats are basically rescues).

But encounter tables are always fun to mine for ideas.

 

[kilemall]

Have you seen my Events list?

Events for your Game

EVENTS Roll 1d6 1.) Background Imagery (roll or pick one) 2.) Encounter (use normal Encounter Tables in the rule book) 3.) Event 4.) Encount...

sswstation.blogspot.com

Hmmm good enough for quick general background living events/news. But the animal encounters ones were unique to each biome (terrain type/atmosphere/size) and directly encountered out there in the wild.

Some were unique animal encounters, other events like earthquakes or meteor showers, or dangerous plants.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Some were unique animal encounters, other events like earthquakes or meteor showers, or dangerous plants.

Yes, you can build the Animal Encounter table like I showed above. With the animals from that world that you are using the Encounter table for.

And use the Events tables for Quakes and Meteor Showers. They're on the many lists in that link. Earthquakes would only happen on Earth.

Hmmm... Now I've got to work on a Plants Encounter table.