/tg/, I need ideas. I need ideas for random encounters during

>>54834222
People.
Chinese people.

>>54834222
Dragons!
Chinese dragons!

A group of peasants look troubled, they say bandits have camped the road ahead.
A group of Chinese peasants look troubled, they say Chinese bandits have camped the road ahead.

A foreigner wishes to travel with you.
A gwailo wishes to travel with you.

>>54834222
Hate to say it, but
>DEPENDS ON THE SETTING

Are you running historical fantasy, chinese legendary high fantasy, 1920's "gangster in Shanghai" criminal game, cyberpunk, etc?

Have the players encounter eachother, make them roll initiative and refuse to let them leave combat until only 1 person is left standing.

>>54835385
Standard fantasy.

>>54835649
In which case the traditional "wandering monk" is always a good standby, also travelling scribes, tax gatherers and escorts (or other beaurocrats) and the Imperial army messenger service's mounted couriers.

>>54835385
Alright /tg/ time to make a gangster in shanghai campaign, who are the major power players and whare their themes?

>>54834222
a road cop you need to bribe

Inquisition was a huge thing in Asia when Christianity was introduced.
Seen samurai champloon? They would make people step on a plate depicting Jesus, do something like that with a good or some thing

>>54836382

I've never heard that before. Sounds reasonable, 'cause that was a common thing wherever Christianity got introduced, but do you have a source that's not your animes?

>>54834222
One particularly foggy night, your PCs come across a caravan laying abandoned and destroyed in the middle of the road. It looks as if they came from a far away land, and had been carrying a variety of exotic antiques and such for trade. There is no sign of the caravan's owners, but in their search the PCs discover an ancient wooden coffin covered in strange paper charms but eerily empty.

The party must now contend with a Jiangshi or Chinese Vampire stalking them.

>>54836382
>>54836903
That was a Japanese thing, though. Chinese were much more open, until the cultural revolution.
I read about that too happening in Japan, but that was in a National Geographic on paper, sorry. There was some about the persecutions they endured centuries ago, some about modern day still hidden Japanese christians.

>>54836903
Term for them is Fumie (or Fumi-e), they also appear in Silence.
>>54837003
Don't forget the Boxers

>>54837070
Yeah but the Boxer Rebellion IIRC was more generally against foreigners than christians themselves and started from the bottom, unlike in Japan where expressly the top targeted Japanese christians. Feel free to prove me wrong tho.

>>54836094
Triads, corrupt western officials and senior police officers, smugglers of opium and/or chinese antiques...

>>54834912
>gwalio is literally a ghost

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>>54834222

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>>54834222
>Chinese dude declares himself the Brother of Jesus
>Founds a Heavenly Kingdom of Christ in China
>Fights central government
>Gets wiped out
>Total dead: 20–30 million dead (best estimate).
>20 MILLION

Fantasy has nothing on fucking reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

A horde of chinks kill *the first person in the party* then they yell "rice, rice, give us rice." Then they kill the rest of the party or get rice.

>>54836382
>>54836903
The last time Christianity got big in China, the Euros actually helped the Qing dynasty put them down

>>54839579
No shit. It also means European, because of our ghostly pale skin.

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>>54834222
This should help.

>>54840455
No, no, that's the twist. You think it's a pale skinned foreigner, but he's actually a ghost. If you treat him kindly, he will leave some gold after you leave him at a cemetery.

>>54837139
You're mostly right, tho the the fact that the Boxers were fine with the Muslim, non Chinese Uyghurs always raises some questions (though I may be confusing them with another Muslim group the Boxers aligned with)

>>54840169
Bonus points include...
>Chinese dude is renegade school teacher
>Tries to set himself and some family members up as a literal holy trinity
>Bans polygamy but has several wives anyway
>Believes manchus to be literal demons
>Took three countries to put him down

>>54843184
>the Boxers were fine with the Muslim, non Chinese Uyghurs
Because they considered them to be "Chinese", as in subjects of Imperial China, not foreigners.

>>54834222

Hard mode is, in fact, Easy mode:

Bandits, Yet More Bandits, How The Fuck Is an Entire Village We Are Staying The Night At A Bandit Encounter, Bandits

>>54843634
Armies of bandits numbering in the millions.

>>54843634
>Fight bbeg
>Giant humanoid monster in traditional armor
>Halfway through the fight.
>Bbeg suddenly revealed to be twenty or so bandits making up the arms, legs, everything else of the beast.

>>54843714
They're not just plaguing the country, by this point they are holding it ransom.

>>54843596
Though you may have proven me wrong, I must say that you are indeed my nigger.

One member of the teams sees a goblin on the road, no one else sees it. They are (minorly?) cursed until they find a way to appease it. The party may have to backtrack to the location they met it.


The team meets a monk with a broken cart along the road. it's actually a monster. If they help stops to him he grants them a boon.

The teams meets a monk with a broken cart along the road. It's actually a monster. If they stop to help him he challenge them to trial by combat with all the food in their bags as a wager.

I'm basically misremembering Japanese myth or trawling wikipedia, but I like this one.

> Taishi Mountain Yao Grass
> Another type of Yao Grass grew at Taishi Mountain: this type when used produced an affect of mental clarity, preventing confusion of the mind. This type was similar to the Atractylodes, with white flowers and black fruits.

From Japan but probably applicable because I don't give a fuck about historical locations:
>http://matthewmeyer.net/blog/2012/10/12/a-yokai-a-day-imori/
The players manage to piss off a gecko spirit who summons an army to hound them until they make peace. You can also include the second half where they have to lay the spirits to rest.