DnD 5e Encounter Tables — Complete Bundle

All five volumes of the encounter tables in one download, plus a master index that only exists here. 73 kinds of ground, 281 d100 tables, 5620 rated encounters.

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🔑 THE MASTER INDEX — ONLY IN THIS BUNDLE

Five books cannot see each other. Open the wrong one and the ground you want is in another file, and there is no way to know which without opening all five.

This bundle adds a four-page index that solves that:

▪ Every one of the 73 grounds in one alphabet, with the volume and the page it is printed on

▪ A reverse lookup — what is built out of what

Every ground in books II to V is one or more of the thirteen plain grounds of book I, with its own creatures added and the ones that did not belong taken out. Look up Swamp and you get all eight versions of it in the series, with volume and page: Moorland and Heath, Jungle, Rivers and Lakes, Peat Bog and Fen, Mangrove and Delta, Reef and Shallows, Fungal Depths, The Grey Lands.

⭐ That second list is the one to read before you write a table yourself. Most places you are about to build are already in here under a different name.

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📚 WHAT IS IN IT — 5 books, 281 tables, 5620 encounters

▪ Volume I — the thirteen plain grounds. 51 tables, 1020 encounters

▪ Volume II — Travel and Terrain. Roads, farms, frontier, rivers, sewers, the deep roads and nine more. 58 tables, 1160 encounters

▪ Volume III — City and Settlement. Taverns, markets, docks, castles, arenas, graveyards. 56 tables, 1120 encounters

▪ Volume IV — Extreme Terrain. Glaciers, canyons, salt flats, mangroves, geysers. 57 tables, 1140 encounters

▪ Volume V — Planar and Ocean. Storms at sea, the Nine Hells, the Abyss, floating islands. 59 tables, 1180 encounters

Across 73 grounds, drawing on the full SRD bestiary.

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⚖️ THE LAST COLUMN IS THE POINT

Every row says how it lands for four characters in the middle of that tier: easy, fair, hard or deadly.

Those are not estimates. Each was computed from the creature and the number rolled — and no roll on any table in any of these books can produce a fight a competent party cannot walk away from. Not even the highest roll of the biggest die.

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🎲 FOUR ROLLS MAKE A SCENE

▪ d100 — who is there, and how many

▪ d12 — what they were doing before you arrived

▪ d8 — what the party notices first

▪ d8 — what makes this awkward

All four sit on the spread for that place, so nothing is looked up in two places.

Every volume after the first writes all twenty-eight of those lines for each ground on its own. A glacier is empty and a mangrove is not, and a line that reads well on one reads like filler on the other.

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🧭 GROUND THAT IS TWO THINGS AT ONCE

No book has a table for the exact place in your world. A marsh is a swamp with older graves in it; a mining town is a mine with people living on top.

Every volume carries a page on how to run ground that sits between two of ours, and the master index tells you which two.

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📖 HOW TO USE THIS BUNDLE

1️⃣ Open the index PDF first. It names the exact volume and page for every one of the 73 grounds.

2️⃣ Turn to that volume and page, then roll as described under Four Rolls Make a Scene.

3️⃣ Can't find the exact place? Check the reverse lookup — most places are already in here under a different name.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You want dnd random tables that tell you how hard the fight actually is

▪ Your party goes somewhere you did not prepare, most sessions

▪ You are tired of rolling a random encounter and then working out whether it will kill them

▪ You want the ground your world actually has, not just forest and dungeon

▪ You run on a laptop and want one index instead of five open files

▪ You are buying dungeon master gifts and want something used every session

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📄 THE FILES

Five files. One PDF — the master index, so the first thing you open tells you where everything is. Then four zip archives, one per paper format, each holding all five volumes and the index again in that format.

▪ A4 — colour

▪ A4 — printer-friendly

▪ US Letter — colour

▪ US Letter — printer-friendly

165 pages in total per format. The printer-friendly build is the same document in pure white, nothing removed. Print the two pages for the place you are in tonight and leave the rest.

⬇️ Instant digital download. Nothing is posted to you.

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📜 THE SMALL PRINT

Compatible with Fifth Edition.

Made with AI assistance: the layout and supporting text of these tables were designed with AI assistance, then edited, checked and laid out by hand. The creature statistics behind the ratings are licensed SRD 5.1 content, reproduced under CC-BY-4.0 with the attribution included in every file.

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🕯️ ONE GOOD EVENING

Games for a table, and for a chair by the fire.