Terrain: Temperate Deciduous Forest

Temperate Deciduous forests, like those that are found in Appollonia, are ‘dominated' by trees that lose their leaves each year but have a healthy mix of evergreen trees as well. Oaks, birch, beech, aspen, elm, poplar, maple, and pine are the primary tree types. Significant low-level foliage is found as well, however, it is not overly dense and allows for easy travel for the most part.

Temperatures in these forests are far more tolerable than most areas. The temperature ranges from -20s during the winter to the comfortable mid 80s during the summer.

Example Temperate Deciduous Forests video.

Typical animals in the deciduous forest include timber wolves, bears, mountain lions, bobcats, deer, moose, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, raccoons, skunks, possums, jays, woodpeckers, robins. Toads, wood frogs and salamanders live on the forest floor and reptiles such as box turtles and rat snakes are present. A wide variety of insects also live in the deciduous forest; the tree leaves provide food for the caterpillars of moths and butterflies, and their wood a home for termites and carpenter bees. Katydids and walking sticks blend themselves in with the foliage, and cicadas spend long periods of their lives burrowed underground, feeding on roots of plants.

Temperate Deciduous Forests also make perfect landscapes for orcs, kobolds, ogres, bugbears, and other sentient humanoids who are able to find abundant resources in the forest.

Random Encounter Die Type

d10

Frequency for Random Encounter Checks

Day: 1 every 6 hours

Night: 2 every 6 hours

Additional Encounter Information

Undead Plague: Due to the rise of Karza, any encounter has a 33% chance of being an Undead Encounter Variation (d6: 1 Zombie variant, 2 Ghoul variant, 3-4 Skeleton variant, 5 Mummy variant, 6 Ghost variant)