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

Player: Oh, and I like your apothecary. NPC: What apothecary? Player: The one over- [As the player turns to point, the apothecary's shop is simply gone, building and all] Player: -there?

Does cause a few issues if there are any people who need to escape the fire, though…

that's a possiblity?

@@gtstudios7507 The random encounter tables are divided by gameplay tier (1-4, 5-10, 11-16, 17+) so the CR of an encounter can vary from fair to definitely intended for higher levels. 44-45 on a d100 in 1-4 Urban Encounter is "3d6" bandits. Yes, about 3-6 bandits would fit a level 1-2 party. 12-18 bandits would not fit a level 1-2 party unless you want to rob the party blind. Similar with 15: 3d6 Kobolds, which have Pack Tactics btw. 5-10 (which I misremembered slightly) has things like: "Bandit Captain with 3d8 Bandits," "1d10 half-ogres," "3d6 Shadows," "2d4 Vampire Spawn or 1d4 Oni," and tops out with things like "1 Mage with 1 Shield Guardian" or "1 Rakshasa or 1 Vampire." FIVE TO TEN

@@BeaglzRok1 wow.....thx man. I can't wait to terrorise my party :)

@@gtstudios7507 And WotC expects people to put a party through that 6-8 times between long rests. Yo, if I wanted to play AD&D I would bro XD

@@BeaglzRok1 I would say four encounters a day would be enough

I mean, it sounds like the town had a serious problem with guards abusing authority. Perhaps shouldn’t have killed them, and were a bit hasty in their decision of how to address social issues since they didn’t have an actual solution other than killing them all. It sounds like all of the guards fought to the death, which is weird.

That kinda shows the problem with the first encounter-abuse of power is something that many players have experienced, and therefore really raises the hackles of many players, and they would in fact rather go murderhobo than play along with perceived power-abuse

@@Delmworks Only because DnD as a hobby is riddled with socially awkward nerds who have plenty of imagination for power and yet zero social skills to be likable by other people in real life. So what, couple of guards were power tripping power abusers, but to other 95% of guards that came to fight the PCs, the party as actual legitimate threat that is attacking the town. There are so many creative ways to grit your teeth but still come on top. 1. Talk your way out of it, letting Paladin/Bard/Warlock enjoy their CHA stat. 2. Run away screaming. 3. Pay your due and then reach their captain, logging in a report. If he's corrupted too, you can go further, and make this side mission for the party, especially because they've been wronged by the guards instead of just being goodie two shoes helping citizens cause "we're heroes". 4. Pay your due then have rogue follow the guards, find out where they live, steal the due back. Hell, I'd even allow my players to kill every single one of the corrupt guards silently, and have them pay little investigation as majority of people either hated them or the investigators got caught in "they had too many enemies" so by the time it comes to interrogating the party they're long gone. 5. Pretty much anything else to be honest, as long as it takes planning. But nooooo, we're acne riddled cringe outcasts that want to feel powerful. Ah, you've gave me "moral superiority" by extorting me, time to die. What's that, guards are reacting to people being killed in their city, hah, they're just as corrupt, time to die. Otherwise you'll treat my cities as a joke. And yes, some are going to be good and help you, some are going to be great and befriend you, but some are going to extort you, they're all different people too, not just random automatons. And if they try to extort you, find your way out, or grit your f*cking teeth and bare it, like you would in real life, then get your revenge, fix the issue, or cut your losses and leave. If you kill my guards you're spitting in my face, because what you're basically saying is "Laws don't apply to me, I'm special" and I'll be damned if I let you power trip over random level 1 commoners cause your life is sad outside of the game. Otherwise you'll treat my cities as a joke. tl;dr If you let your players kill guards willy nilly and don't kill them for it, you're a f*cking p*ssy and you deserve murderhobos you've let run loose.

Actually sounds like a great, cliché encounter introducing the criminal underbelly

Check out the curious owlbear. He has a huge amount of encounter ideas

Yeah

Fighter > Barbarian > Rogue > Paladin > Monk > Ranger > Warlock > Artificer > Cleric > Bard > Wizard > Sorcerer > Druid This would be my rough list of easiest to most difficult to play. Basically martials are pretty simple, spell casters are more confusing to play but this would also shift depending on your subclass.

I think he’s working on that one.