Encounter type
1d6 Roll    Result
1-2        Wild Animals
3-4        The Poor
5        The Powers That Be
6        Supernatural

Wild Animals
Roll    Result

• maned wolf
• 1d12 wild horses
• 2d6 bush dogs
• 1d6 vultures
• 1d6 deer
• 2d6 monkeys
• giant anaconda
• 1d6 crocodiles
• jaguar
• puma
• jaguarundi
• 2d6 armadillos
• lancehead viper
• 1d6 tapirs
• 6d6 marmosets
• 5d6 noisy macaws
• 1d20 cane toads
• 1d3 foxes
• 3d6 pigeons
• 1d20 crows

The Poor
1d20 Roll         Result

• Herder leading 1d10 cattle to water
• 1d6 farmhands leading 1d6 captured wild horses
• Ox Rites festival in progress
• Travelling pedlar
• 3d6 cangaceiros on a raid
• 1d4 poachers
• 2d4 jagunsos lynching someone
• 1d4 farm workers trying to repair a broken wagon
• 1d6 travellers camped by the road
• 1d6 deserters from the Imperial Army
• 1d4 subsistence farmers searching for abducted relative
• 1d6 escaped slaves
• 2d6 cangaceiros robbing 2d6 peasants
• 1d10 pilgrims
• 1d6 herders in pursuit of escaped livestock (1d6 pigs / 1d12 sheep / 1d10 cattle)
• herd of cattle blocking the road, with 2d6 frustrated herders
• 1d4 farmers driving wagons of produce to market
• 2d6 villagers on their way to pick fruit, herbs or grasses (or on their way back)
• 2d4 refugees fleeing a cangaceiro raid on their settlement
• 2d10 miners escorting a shipment of ore

The Powers That Be
1d12 Roll         Result

• Wagon carrying cash shipment, guarded by 2d6 jagunsos
• 4d10 volantes on patrol
• 2d6 jagunsos looking for a fight
• Wealthy colonel accompanied by 1d6+1 jagunso bodyguards
• 1d4 aristocrats touring their family lands
• 2d10+10 volantes on official business
• 1d10 volantes on leave
• Trader taking 4d6 slaves to market, accompanied by 1d6 guards
• Merchant caravan with 1d4 wagons of goods (1d6 x 100 dinars' worth each), 1d10 jagunsos per wagon
• Police chief and 2d6 jagunsos in pursuit of fugitive(s)
• Banner Knight with entourage of 2d6 hangers-on
• Family of new settlers from the coastal provinces

Supernatural
1d12 Roll     Result

• Headless Mule
• Dry-Body
• Boitata
• Boiuna
• Lobisomem
• Encantado
• Boto
• The Grazing Boy
• Saci
• Satanic Head
• Shaman and 1d4-1 assistants undertaking a ritual
• The Devil

Note on Supernatural entries: There is only one of each of these (except the encantado and shaman) in the Sertão. After you have used a result on the Supernatural table, cross it off. The PCs will (usually) only meet each kind of creature once. So if you roll a crossed-out result a second time, go to the next highest result unless you prefer to bring back the same creature for a recurring guest-star appearance.

Size
2d6
2-4    Hamlet (population 2d6)
5-7    Village (pop. 3d6+10)
8-9    Small Town (pop. 3d6 x 10
10    Medium Town (pop. 3d6 x 20)
11    Bustling Town (pop. 3d10 x 100)
12     Major Town (pop. 2d6 x 1000)

Church (1 per 500 population, minimum 1)
Dedicated to (roll 1d10):

• São Bento
• Santo Antônio
• São Francisco
• Nossa Senhora das Dores
• The Sacred Heart
• São Paulo
• São José
• Santo Ivo
• Santa Rita
• Santa Barbara

What's going on? (2d6)
2 = At war with another nearby settlement
3 = A sage or shaman lives here, protected by the citizens
4 = Peculiar population (eg. no children, no adults, no men, no women etc). Why?
5 = The inhabitants live in peace and tranquility, for now
6 = Regularly attacked by a monster
7 = Someone here hides a terrible secret. Is magic involved?
8 = Bandits regularly plunder this place
9 = Boomtown - there's gold/silver/something else nearby!
10 = Extremely distrustful of outsiders
11 = There is a festival currently underway
12 = Under sway of evil spirit/witch/monster


Any settlement will have 1d4 roads leading to it. If the PCs arrived by road, that's one of them. Hook up the other roads to any other existing nearby settlements you see fit, but leave at least one undetermined if possible -  there's always somewhere new to go.

Roll 1d6 to decide which direction undetermined roads lead: each one leads to another settlement 1d6+2 hexes away (roll 1d3 to see which opposite hex face it exits from, if you want). The PCs can get rough information about the route and these neighbouring places if they ask in the settlement.

Ruins table (1d6)

• Pyramid (1-5 stepped, 6 sloped / 1-2 tomb, 3-4 temple, 5 palace, 6 observatory)
• Mound (1-2 sacrificial, 3-6 burial)
• Totem Carving (1 mammal, 2 human, 3 god, 4 monster, 5 bird, 6 snake)
• Fountain (2d6: 2 poisoned, 3-4 healing, 5-9 refreshing, 10 causes hallucinations, 11 causes psychic projection, 12 turns you into an animal for 1d6 hours)
• Monolith
• Ruined Village (2d6 huts or cave dwellings, 1d3-1 shrines)

Roll 1d6 to see how much of the ruin is covered over: 1 partially covered, 2 completely covered, 3 above ground, 4 inside cavern, 5 in a crevice, 6 beneath a rocky overhang.


Farm table (2d6)
2-4 Single family subsistence farm
5-6 Tenant farming (1d3 families)
7-9 Cattle ranch
10 Cashew plantation
11-12 Cotton plantation

Encampment table (1d6)

• Cangaceiro hideout -  natural (cave/canyon, etc.)
• Cangaceiro hideout -  abandoned (mine/village, etc.)
• Volante temporary camp (30+2d10 volantes, tents, campfires)
• Volante fort (2d10+30 volantes, wooden walls, watchtower)
• Jagunso guard post (3d6 jagunsos on the edge of a colonel's territory)
• Jagunco temporary camp (2d10+10 jagunsos on some kind of extended mission)

Mystical Site table (2d6)
2 Oracle's cavern
3 Hermit's sanctuary
4 Spirit-haunted grove
6 Sacred spring
6 Huge ancient statue
7 Shrine (with 2d6 pilgrims visiting)
8 Prehistoric carvings
9 Stone circle
10 Sky-burial mound
11 Cavern network (extends underground for 1d6 hexes, with 1d6 exits)
12 Necropolis

Typical Bounties
300 dinars - Robbing a stagecoach (offered by the coach owner)
200 dinars - Robbing the mail (offered by the Empire)
250 dinars - Cattle rustling (offered by the owner or a confederation of ranchers)
Banks typically offer 25% of the value for  recovering stolen gold bars.