Blue Event

These events are roleplay scenarios. They could range from a chance to meet a new helpful NPC to a tense negotiation with a hostile one. Roleplay events can be as high-stakes as combat events, and because they do not need to be balanced in the same way as combat needs to be, the stakes can be much higher for the party. Roleplay events are also the perfect way to showcase something that is often ignored when worldbuilding; just as worldbuilding involves coming up with geography, fauna, and flora, it also involves coming up with different cultures and their mores. A roleplay encounter could go south because of culture-specific etiquette rules that the party fails to follow. god don’t I know it

Examples:

• The party meets a fellow travelling band of adventurers with a very similar goal to theirs. A rivalry naturally emerges between the two groups that will continue throughout the campaign.
• The party runs into a procession of knights defending a gilded carriage. A very powerful noble is travelling from one city to the next, and invites the party inside their carriage for tea and to make them an offer they simply cannot refuse.
• It appears that the party has walked right into an area where the ghosts of the deceased cannot move on. Some sort of evil magic traps all those who pass through this place, and if the party cannot figure out a way out, they’ll suffer the same fate as the spirits cursed to remain anchored to this land forever. How will they convince the ghosts to help them?
• A travelling merchant seems to be making their way toward the party. As the party takes a look at the merchant’s wares, they cannot shake the feeling something is off about them. All their prices are extremely low, but every time they ask for something, the merchant offhandedly mentions that it will cost “some gold and a favour”.