Top 10 Encounters That Can Happen In A City in DnD 5E

You can always do what FF1 did and have a gang of pirates show up

Defiantly gonna include some of them in my campaign, thanks a lot!

Great ideas to spice up play! Thanks 🙂

The only encounters on this list I approve of are: the Fire one, the Thieves one, the Beggar one, the Potion Shop, and maybe the Noble one IF the party/group has someone with Noble background.

I did something similar to the guard encounter but used a strong npc just following them, not hiding or anything just following. If they reacted first, the guards around the keep would think of them as the aggressors. But if they waited there was the threat of him doing something more dangerous.

I, for one, hate guard encounters. The social skills never work because of people in the party not trying to play face. And then, independent of the encounter's result we go to jail. And delay story progress.

no reason to flee the city if noone is left alive XD
Or there is no city left ....

Gust is a bad idea to put out fires.

Our DM put a dead dude in the street, we just take the money and leave...I see now there was other options hahaha.

Everyone remember that this is the same guy who also plays YuGiOh! With Hardleg and Jimbles.

The poor girl who stole from the party would die every time in my sessions :/

Get's to number 5

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Good video! If you gotta do Top Ten lists to get the views, do more like this.

Mr. Logs, could you ever do a "Homebrew Content" review on this channel, in the same vein you did Custom Card reviews on the Yu-Gi-Oh channel? I think those would be really fun and even more fitting, considering that in DnD you could use those items in any campaign depending on the DM while Custom Cards are mostly stuck to casual play or hipothetical scenarios

(English isn't my first language sorry)
So gueard harassment
Any help to not get things worst?

my party and I was entering a new town in our last session and one of us got pickpocketed. After catching the thief some guards mistaken our actions as harassment since we're travelers pinning down a local

I used minor ilusion to reanimate what happened and try to explain but the guards took it as me trying to do a harmful spell.

The session ends there atm and l would like some help

Great stuff. Could you please make videos on one shot ideas?

Personally, if the party has a Druid, or a Beastmaster Ranger, that are looking for more exotic beasts, I see setting up a zoo as a very simple way to allow this access. Although, I'd probably reskin Guards and Scouts to act as Zookeepers and the like, modifying their weapons to do Non-Lethal damage - as in the Scout's arrows act like a tranquillizer, with the target being knocked out within 1d4+1 rounds, and the Guard's spear can either add more tranquilizer, or act something like a mancatcher for animals, and thus restrain them. Also, thanks to Sidekick Rules, these simple Zookeepers might be more effective than they seem - although I'd make sure that they all got Animal Handling as a skill.

Alternative idea for the potion shop. Have it be a normal potion shop, but later when the party ask about it, the villagers note that there's never been a potion shop there.

Love the stock footage used throughout!

My favorite Urban Encounter that works well, have the city guard come into a tavern, give the party a bit of the ole suspicious glare, and then take one party member into custody for committing a crime. That party member is placed in jail and the party informed that there is a bounty on that member, and include a bounty poster showing that party member's picture and description for a crime that does NOT match anything the party has done. Next morning, a body is found, and a necromancer casts Speak with Dead and the party member is implicated... AGAIN.

Run an investigation that eventually reveals that a spell caster is using magic, a doppelganger, or some form of shifter is impersonating the party member. It always makes the party suspicious when they actually SEE the party member commit a crime while that party member is right there with them.

This is super helpful! I'm about to start a campaign where the players are pirates exploring an archipelago and there's a large city that they can go to. I was needing random things to happen in that city, although I definitely already planned the dead body one to spin it off into a Jack the Ripper style murder mystery

uhh, does it count as "a fire breaking out" if it was maybe kinda possibly caused by a giant metal dragon

Bro, My DM used the disappearing potion shop thing and made the shopkeeper the bbeg, I find that funny especially because he first planned this out almost 2 years ago

I remember a particularly memorable campaign where I ran that guards harassment scenario. Let's just say the players didn't take it well at all.
The players killed the guards, killed the guard reinforcements, then proceeded to systematically murder every single guard in the town, as the people fled in terror.
Next, I openly rolled a random encounter for a change of pace. Double-zeros, monster stampede. The players watched from afar, the town was defenseless, overrun.
Funny thing being, the group weren't murderhobos until that scenario took place. I was expecting a social situation or a combat using subdual damage rules. Nope.

murder hobos LOL

Top 10 best subclasses in the PHB.

DRUID : well i use wilshape and run

Thank you for the potion seller edit

This was great. More encounter ideas would be fantastic....top 10 forest? beach?

Wandering Merchants..... Little girls selling overpriced cookies from a small wagon....

Thx for the videos bro, you really help me.

Sleet Storm is an ELITE 3rd level combat spell and it can put out fires it reads "The area is heavily obscured, and EXPOSED FLAMES IN THE AREA ARE DOUSED"

Would it be possible to do a list ranking the classes from easiest to toughest to play

These are definitely the easiest encounters to make work. I've tried the Urban Encounters table and well, you can't exactly have the party be assaulted by nine (1d10) Shadows or a Vampire Spawn in broad daylight.

Oh I really love this video! This will help me out in my campaign.
If you could do other ones like this, but in different environments, that would be awesome.

Its bane people dont subscribe but at least you can brag you get views equal to half your subscribers everytime.

(I subscribed)

Killing half the city because there were too many witnesses

First! Love your content Hiru!!