The RPG a Day Blog 2016 Day 22

August 22: What are some random events in your games that keep happening?

Looks like I'm set up for another short entry. They can't always be long ones. Nowadays, the groups I play with are all using 5E with various different settings. Those differences make the games feel unique although the system is the same. I still intend to shake things up with my Curse of Strahd campaign by using Dungeon Crawl Classic rules--at least in the magic system if not completely. DCC has tons of random tables in it, so I expect next year I would have a better answer for this question. As it stands it is the magic in 5E that has a strange reoccurring event. For some reason both at the live table and online the sorcerer's wild magic keeps coming up '41-42': you turn into a potted plant until the start of your next turn...' for one particular guy it happened for him twice in one combat. You're rolling on a D100 for this BTW. I also had a funny one when going oldskool and playing Dragon*Quest. I ran the  politically incorrect titled story 'The Camp of Allah Akbar'. To get to the camp the characters have to travel from their town through a vast desert. In this system their are X-number of random encounters per hour of travel. You roll under a certain number on percentile dice or you have an encounter. The guys kept getting encounters no problem, but there is a second step where you roll for the disposition of monster encountered. It's like every one of them were friendly. First, you bizarrely think a friendly rhino?  That leads you to thinking, 'What's a rhino doing in the desert in the first place?' They ran into bandits, a rival party, the rhino and an actual army all friendly and all leaving the oasis camp of the thief  'Allah Akbar'. I guess he was quite the charismatic thief to have so many prominent visitors. There was a huge monster called a 'Sand Golem' on the list that would show up if you rolled a '100'. Of course they roll a '100' eventually...it has to be. He wasn't friendly...only 'indifferent' and the party was wise enough to let him walk on by. Its current whereabouts remain unknown.