Random Cozy Encounters and Sketches

Over 400 cozy and peaceful encounters with fairies and other magical beings, taken from the Wander Witch Game.  Although these encounters were originally intended for a Belonging Outside Belonging Style Game they could be used for any TTRPG from 5e. 

These can also be used for hexcrawling, sandbox, and journaling games. 

Examples of Random Encounters:

You run into the ruler of the forest looking for someone to play cards with. You can win a new thing you can do in your playbook or a pet bumble, squirrel, or fish that gives you a +1 on your Find Score.

You smell a rich and delicious bread at the borders between two lands. If you mention how delicious the bread smells, you will find some left on a plate with butter for you by the fairies. Perhaps these are fairies you could make friends with.

You notice some pixies watching you as you travel.

You meet a giant snail which knows where some berries or herbs or some place of beauty is. It offers a trade to show you. What do you chat about while it plods slowly through the forest towards your goal?

Someone is injured, how did this happen and how can you help, or what fairy can you seek out to help?

A fairy stuck on one side of the river, unable to cross without someone’s help.

A fairy from the forest asks you to deliver a message to one of the fairies living as a cat in the village. What is the message and who are the fairies?

 A bard has been invited to play a festival for some fairies, they are nervous about going alone as this is one of their first actual paid performances, they ask you to join them.

A fairy calls out a warning that a storm is coming. Now you must warn everyone else and help them get ready.

You go to an elegant fairy dance. What is this like? Who do you talk to?

Bear cubs crawl in through a window left open a crack and are wrecking merry mischief in a kitchen. This can be at your house or someone else’s, who asks you for help.

A dobby has been guarding a treasure for over a hundred years and doesn’t realize the owner is never coming back. Bored he seeks some sort of release and starts causing trouble.

You discover a grove of dryads which need someone to take their acorns and plant them in a new grove. Do you agree to help? Where do you plant the new grove of trees?

You discover a witch who is trying to start a dairy where they milk moose. Moose milk is richer than cow’s milk and is said to have healing and strengthening properties.