Social encounters can be randomly rolled along with monster encounters and exploration challenges. Individual names and heritages for people met on the road can be chosen or rolled randomly.

When the adventurers overcome a great obstacle or are triumphant in the face of a difficult struggle they deserve to be rewarded. Boons and discoveries are a different way for Narrators to reward the party, and although they sometimes result in coin or an enchanted trinket, their greater purpose is to make journeys all the more memorable.

An occupied nation, or one amidst a civil war, is a dubious place populated with aggressive soldiers, desperate commoners, and merciless opportunists. Adventurers journeying through this region have many social encounters, combat encounters against NPCs, and both circumstance and natural terrain exploration challenges as they navigate the country in conflict.

So named because time seems to slow to a crawl while traversing its swamps, this area is rife with dangerous predators, lethal fauna, and ground best left untrusted. Adventurers journeying through this region have frequent combat encounters, a few social encounters, and many natural terrain exploration challenges.

There is no map—even among the subterranean cultures that dwell within—that accurately depicts all of these enormous tunnels, which range from natural caverns and dwarven mines to shadow elf cities. Adventurers journeying through this region have combat encounters, some social encounters, and many constructed terrain, natural terrain, and supernatural exploration challenges.

From mighty sprawling cities to smaller bustling towns, these areas are full of people—and more people means more accidents, more conflict, and more action. Adventurers journeying through urban areas have many social encounters, combat encounters against NPCs, and both circumstance and constructed terrain exploration challenges.

From temperate forests and woodlands which harbor bandit encampments to lush tropical jungles home to giant apes and mighty dinosaurs, these regions are covered with trees and undergrowth. Adventurers journeying through regions like this contend with frequent monster encounters and natural terrain and supernatural exploration challenges.

Terrains. Forest, jungle, mountains, ruins, settlement, subterranean, swamp, temple, tomb.

There is great prosperity among the people that call these fields and rolling hills home. Adventurers journeying through this region have frequent social encounters, few combat encounters, and several circumstance exploration challenges.

Rapid currents and quick trade routes make these waters popular with merchants, but only the bravest and most skilled sailors are willing to chance the frequent, dangerous, and unpredictable waves. Adventurers journeying through this region or along its coast have to overcome an unusually high number of weather event exploration challenges, as well as some combat encounters and social encounters.

Endless dunes and the baking sun make these deserts difficult and dangerous places in which to survive. Adventurers journeying through this region have very few social encounters.