roll d100 How the PC’s Know (of) One Another Where they Are Local Events Regional/Global Events

01-02 army buddies tavern! coronation coronation

03-04 grew up in same orphanage church or temple revolution revolution

05-06 common employer tea or coffee house book burning war

07-08 owe money to same bank / gangster brothel tournament civil war

09-10 created by same wizard tournament festival of st. whoever election

11-12 fishing off same bridge / pier public hanging execution religious reformation

13-14 secret society festival raiders! renaissance

15-16 betrothed to same woman battle assassination floods

17-18 from same town/village fire! circus / carnival in town tornados

19-20 members of cult or church foxhole lord/mayor in danger famine

21-22 found a dead body when kids legal court death of prominent citizen plague

23-24 related prison plague! an empire has taken over region

25-26 same tutor or academy ship famine war between pc races

27-28 by reputation grand ball floods new technology discovered

29-30 backed same candidate royal court earthquake or volcano adventuring fad booms

31-32 have been spying on one another for years well fire! adventuring fad fades

33-34 all named in a will the road new road built magic persecuted

35-36 part of travelling caravan city gates monsters in sewers religion persecuted

37-38 hunting witches together ashes of town/city city walls crumbling apocalypse

39-40 part of same acting troupe bath house giant attack! great evil has won

41-42 members of council or guild ruling body coliseum meteor strike great evil was defeated

43-44 held hostage by daimyo pit trap traitor caught new gods have appeared

45-46 gladiator school gallows (noosed next to one another) monster captured ruler dies without heir

47-48 customers of famous blacksmith/jeweler/bank garden local ruler dies without heir meteor headed for planet

49-50 rival snake oil salesmen zoo raiders caught portal to other planes discovered

51-52 explorers for rival nations (reputation) bank price on pc’s heads death has taken a holiday

53-54 claiming same discovery/patent simultaneously forge spaceship has landed magic is not working

55-56 same scientific/magic/academic field hobbit hole explorers from afar have landed magic working 2x power

57-58 escaped capture together armory expedition to foreign lands returns all citizens ordered to home town for census

59-60 remember one another from bardo state between lives docks oracle dies great wonder under construction

61-62 shared in a dragon kill guild house oracle announces dire fortune slavers invade

63-64 dog or horse show safe house hobbits settle nearby influx of slaves from war

65-66 all described in mysterious tome mine influx of immigrants barbarian hordes

67-68 all have same exact face, no idea why warehouse many residents emigrate elsewhere dead are walking

69-70 all appeared as characters in famous play / bard song charnel house megadungeon discovered great canyon opens, divides kingdom

71-72 suspects in same murder / crime graveyard wizard’s tower collapses mirror universe invades

73-74 met climbing same giant beanstalk physician’s house famous native returns ice age beginning or ending

75-76 in love with same woman / man artist’s workshop infamous native returns desertification beginning or ending

77-78 root for same sports team giant’s shirt pocket national sport championship plant growth unnaturally spurred

79-80 quarantined together mountain peak new art form premieres flying carpets invented

81-82 same forced migration / march undersea temple assassination attempt on noble family war with faerie

83-84 work camp sub-marine ship lake has frozen over in summer universal nightmares

85-86 part of a crackpot’s prophecy ether sailing ship new vermin has taken over mega tsunami

87-88 jury duty munitions dump many ghosts reported drought

89-90 university deserted island great maze completed birds disappear

91-92 were in an audience for show in their respective dreams children disappearing did you see “tremors”? those things.

93-94 applied for heraldry at same time in genie’s bottle caravan arrives! two days of lawless carnival

95-96 families are rival houses torture chamber heavy snows solar eclipse

97-98 don’t know each other at all a whale’s belly mining accident solar eclipse that didn’t end

99-00 seen one another somewhere, not sure where in a dungeon legendary big fish caught moon explodes