Wherein Lies a Description of a Method To Populate Random Encounter Tables Via Word Association Oily Marsh, Unpopulated with Encounters Step The First: Select a Location. Oily Marsh. Step the Second: Choose a source of random nouns. This may be a book, flipped to a random page and pointed at, an online generator, whatever is handy. Here, Pythagoras chooses this random noun generator . Step the Third: Generate a set of random nouns. With the Location in mind, choose one noun from this set as a Theme. Given this set: media finding alcohol possibility sympathy student idea leader energy debt Pythagoras has chosen ‘alcohol’ as the Theme. Step the Fourth: With the Location and Theme in mind, use each of the words in the set of nouns to come up with an Encounter. Look up archaic definitions or etymologies of words for additional inspiration. Combine these results with your usual 'monster' encounter tables. Oily Marsh Encounters (theme: a...