Party got a hankering for the low dives and dens on the dark side of town? Don't bother to call for the town watch, they've got bigger fish to fry (with much heavier purses). You're on your own here tonight.

- A berserker is being mocked by street urchins, with possibly tragic consequences
- The PCs see an amazon accost a woman in the street
- A cheap trollop approaches a PC, she wants help because she is being harassed by a rich panderer from a brothel
- The town watch rounds up some prostitutes
- A drunken caravan master accidentally bumps a PC, he accuses the PC of thievery
- PCs see two neanderthals accost a couple in the street
- A aged madame approaches a PC, trying to drum up business for a massage parlor catering to exotic tastes
- The PCs observe a 6th-lvl Magic-User taunting and hounding a scruffy-looking Illusionist in the street.
- A holy man is preaching a new religion and is hauled off by the town watch or regular soldiers for inciting to riot
- A pack of 6 feral cats chasing rats
- A deformed madman falls frothing at the feet of the PCs, he was the subject of a sorceror's experiments
- A Fighter working as muscle for the Monarchists seems to recognize a PC and vaguely warns him of some impending doom
- The PCs see a fight between two finely-attired concubines, from different entourages that have insulted each other
- A drugged and drunken dwarf bumps into a PC and demands an apology
- 3 beggars sham drunkenness to bump into PCs and try to rob them
- A drunken gentleman thinks they recognize a PC as a famous person
- A pregnant woman who was just mugged approaches the PCs and begs for help
- A donkey recognizes a PC as its former master
- A PC sees a drunken foreign mercenary being robbed but not physically mistreated
- A pack of 3 mangy hounds begin barking at the PCs

Cool list.  Thanks!

Plot hooks. I like them.

This topic attracted quite a few new encounters over at the K&K Alehouse. I'll repost them here, with apologies to the original posters:

- From a window someone shouts "Night water!" and empties their bed pan into the street.
- The press gang tries to pummel the PC's into service in the King's Navy
- A street urchin offers the PC's the best seat at the hanging
- A dancing bear breaks loose and attacks the public
- Punters line up to watch the badger baiting (badger with broken back-legs fighting dogs)
- An officer of the law requires that the PC's let him measure their swords. Declaring them longer than the legal limit, he demands that they pay a ridiculous fine.
- Several children play with a dead cat
- A lost nobleman in fancy dress finds himself being beset by a band of teenage boys
- The local toughs bully a student magic user, till they see the professor coming...
- A disreputable type tries to sell them a horse 1-2: nag 3-4 stolen 5-6 wild/unbroken
- A band of mercenaries, loaded with gold, on the look out for a good time and the locals eager to get that gold.
- A pack of giant rats chasing cats
- A rat catcher with terrier recruiting street urchins
- A woman and man in trial by combat - the man hip deep in a pit and wielding a club, while the woman is free and armed with a scarf with a brick in it (actually practiced this way in 15th Century Germany)
- A player character wakes up in the gutter with no memory of the previous night, no money in his or her wallet and an unpleasant itch in a very personal area. If he or she is a paladin, paladinhood has been lost. What happened last night? The character has a vague memory of signing a parchment of some kind in a tavern. 50% chance that the character has eaten a kebab and will need cure disease unless he or she plans to spend the next two days within 100 ft of a toilet.
- A beggar approaches the player characters and requests alms. A refusal may cause alignment change for good characters, while giving alms will result in a swarm of beggars following the unfortunate donor around for days.
- Press gang activity.
- Smuggler activity.
- The player characters overhear a man knocking on a nondescript door and giving what's clearly a secret password of some kind. Will they investigate?
- The player characters come across extortionists running a granny farming operation.