Yellow Event

These events are an exploration scenario. There is no better event to show off the world than exploration events, as they shift the focus away from people and monsters and towards the land itself. They are an opportunity to make the fantastical locales your party travels into tangible things that the party can interact with and must figure out a way to traverse and conquer. Exploration events offer a great alternative to combat and roleplay encounters, as they shift the focus from characters that can solve problems with their might or their wiles and towards characters who rely on other skills like Survival, Stealth -- or even more obscure picks like Animal Handling and Vehicle Proficiencies -- to take the spotlight. It’s also a fantastic way to introduce the concept of Skill Challenges into your games.

Example:

• A rickety bridge stands over a deep chasm between the party and their destination. It does not seem stable.
• Millennia ago, wizards parted the seas to enable people to cross between these two islands by foot, but this ancient magic seems to be getting thinner and thinner with time, and random jets of water shoot from either of the two walls of water. What’s worse, monsters have taken to using these jets of water to attack those who pass through the strait. How will the party cross this watery death trap?
• What seemed like a normal mountain stirred to reveal itself to be the back of a dragon turtle. The whole forest shakes and trembles as the gargantuan beast stirs. The party must make a run for it immediately, but how do they get off a moving mountain?
• While travelling through an old battlefield, crows with human hands descend upon the party and, in the blink of an eye, steal one of their most prized possessions. The party gives chase, but will they be fast and cunning enough to take back what’s theirs?