d100 Frontier Town News

These are events for that frontier town near the dungeon you stay in every time your spells and HP run low. Just to give some variety and more hooks. It assumes a typical adventurer village beset by monster, humanoid species and worse.

d10 Quick Types
1 Local problem - peety common problems
2 Marketplace - market variations
3 Crime - someone local is dishonest!
4 Workers wanted

5 Fueds & Fights
6 New arrival

7 Gossip

8 Scandal

9 Raiders

10 Supernatural

d100 Frontier Town News
01 Farmer has lost an important animal

02 Well is blocked or needs a dead animal removed

03 Moles ruining the common and eating gardens

04 Rats in cellars increasingly aggressive

05 Someone stole a farmers dragon shaped weather vane

06 Scarecrows have been stolen

07 Someone stealing apples from the orchard

08 Some creature living an attic

09 Wolves have been heard howling 

10 Nasty crows attacking baby animals and blinding them
11 Shortage or surplus of food affecting prices

12 Shortage or surplus of weapons and armour

13 Shortage or surplus of tools and equipment

14 Shortage or surplus of building supplies

15 Merchant late for several days and shortage of many goods

16 Travelling salesman buys and sells junk and trinkets

17 Alchemist here to buy exotic ingredients needed in the city

18 Shifty man offers to buy poor-quality weapons, armour and scrap

19 Animal trader willing to buy monsters for city fighting pits

20 Special market day with many out-of-town traders

21 Notorious horse thieves in the area

22 Rustlers steal livestock from goats to sheep to cattle

23 Somone is stealing chicken and their camps and remains have been found

24 A pickpocket is in town

25 Sherrif announces a hanging of bandits (sometimes the gang attempts a rescue)

26 Famour highway robber with the gang and famous horse in the area

27 Someone beat up and robbed drunk farmers on the way home from a pub

28 Someone has been stealing tools from farms and workshops

29 Someone is stealing pies, biscuits, scones and pancakes left out to cool

30 Someone stole a key of an important location
31 Workers needed to improve local defences

32 Tavernkeeper needs some help bottling beer and cleaning brew vats

33 Farmer needs muckraking for the seasons crops

34 Workers needed to collect building stone from a ruin

35 Extra temporary servants needed for posh visitors to richest local

36 Sherrif needs deputies to help hunt a criminal

37 Shearers needed for a few days, good food and accommodation included

38 Help hunters herd wild goats into a pen to combine with village herd

39 Farmer needs help butchering livestock for a few days

40 Farmer wants some help moving standing stones from field

41 Several farming family heads had a brawl and now both clans vindictive

42 A youth ran away to avoid arranged marriage and families feuding

43 Farmers fight over the line between fields

44 Farmers have a fistfight in front of a judge to decide who is guilty

45 Women demand a creepy labourer to be banished

46 Divorce case has split the village and all have an opinion

47 Farmer accuses neighbor of d4 1=witchcraft 2=lycanthropy 3=cult member 4=crime guild member and demands a proper investigation is called in

48 Children fighting over inheritance

49 Local faiths develop a conflict stiring up everyone 

50 Villagers play violent ball game with a rival village taking a d4+1 days or until someone dies
51 Priests of a new religion arrived and looking for accommodation

52 Knight and servants has come to stay in town

53 Secretive stranger always on lookout staying locally and seldom goes out

54 Charismatic scholar interested in local ruins and history

55 Pilgrims on a trek (are they legit or a cult)

56 Wounded stranger found and being cared for until lucid

57 Lost youth claims family perished 

58 Artist arrived for peace and inspiration 

59 Cook arrives seeking exotic meat and ingredients and rustic recipies

60 Moody stranger rents a shack and keeps to themselves. Village children very curious and speculate wildly
61 Wild rumours that humanoids are about to attack

62 Wild stories of a secret cult at work stealing clogs and cursing chickens

63 Locals convinced a sinister shapeshifter is among them 

64 Farmer saw a strange creature he thinks and villagers add to details each telling

65 Wild speculation of a food or water shortage coming

66 Everyone in the village putting up hex signs to ward away witches

67 Villagers convinced animals are up to something and assemble a court to interrogate animals accused of crimes against nature

68 Wild stories of the plague panic everyone

69 Wild ghost stories claim a spirit stalks the street but it's just someone local up to something 

70 Locals are convinced the area is cursed and all miserable
71 Someone has had an embarrassing affair

72 A surprise heir turned up to claim their inheritance

73 Priest passed out drunk giving a sermon

74 Local lovers have feuding families

75 Trader accused of having a fraudulent scale or clipping coins

76 Rude traveller was tarred and feathered and chased out of town by an angry mob

77 Local guard drunk on duty awaiting trial for possible execution

78 Criminal in prison claimed they had high connections and then found murdered

79 Outbreak of sexually transmitted goblin pox has embarrassed a few locals 

80 Important locals accused of murder and awaiting trial
81 Some humanoids from a dungeon have killed some farmers

82 A monster followed adventurers from a dungeon and killed some livestock

83 Regular monster patrols in the area and everyone in the village ready for an attack

84 A dungeon faction declares the village enemies and makes attacking it their primary purpose

85 The dungeon unifies and steps up its attacks and raids on villagers

86 The local dungeon boss hires same famous monster warriors to menace the village

87 Monster warband approaching the village surely to attack

88 Famous weird beast seen in the area by several locals

89 Huge creatures are seen in the area by hunters who warn everyone

90 Monster flew over and snatched an animal from the village scaring everyone
91 Locals find a hideous slime trail all over the countryside leading into a cave

92 An empty house or ruin has had strange lights seen from it

93 Undead seen walking in the area and the priest wants help to destroy

94 Several incidents of faerie mischief have been happening and people are unsure if fair or naughty faeries of the village offended them

95 New magician has settled in the region and many have heard rumours about this spell user and how will affect the area

96 Several lycanthropes have been reported and people want them rooted out

97 Shapeshifter has moved into town and has got themself into a high position of trust quickly. Are they a spy or in it for themselves?

98 Several people report having seen cackling witches flying by the full moon

99 Magician and minions attacked the village with spells then fled cackling 

100 Cultist were caught holding a ritual by the militia and scattered and now everyone is suspicious about secrets cults