12 March 2022

Review: Mostly Harmless Meetings

A delightful zine from Dan Sumption that Kickstarted in Dec 2021 - pitched as "A zine full of whimsical random encounters set in the countryside, suitable for most TTRPGs" it turned up today.

I am very pleased with the results, it has a nice heft to it, with ink-splotch designs and public domain art in a surprisingly solid feeling zine. The hand-addressed delivery envelope was a nice touch.

The contents within are a d100 table of countryside encounters that are, as the name says, mostly harmless. Laid out in alphabetical order, running from Ants and Ash trees to Wrens and Writers, each entry is a few lines, sometimes an adventure hook, sometimes a strange bit of lore associated with the creature or plant in question. A nice flavour injection for encounters or low stakes encounters by themselves.

I like it, I reckon it will find place at my table. A short, sweet zine, like this review.

1 comment:

  1. It's difficult to achieve a 'low-stakes but rather awkward' encounter, but Mostly Harmless Meetings does it quite well. The entry titles with their handwriting on printed text titles are nice.

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