frontmatter

title: Witchwood Wandering Encounters
foundry:
  base: RollTable
  # Defining the table once in frontmatter gives Foundry a real RollTable
  # the GM can roll on, and the page body re-uses the same data via `fm:`
  # so the wiki rendering can't drift from the Foundry doc.
  data:
    name: Witchwood Wandering Encounters
    formula: 1d6
    description: What you meet at the Witchwood's edge after dark.
    results:
      - { type: "text", range: [1, 1], weight: 1, name: "A weary ranger sharpening arrows by lamplight (Aelar, on patrol)." }
      - { type: "text", range: [2, 2], weight: 1, name: "Three goblin scouts arguing over a dropped boot. Disadvantage to surprise them." }
      - { type: "text", range: [3, 3], weight: 1, name: "A lone owlbear, half-asleep, gnawing on a deer haunch." }
      - { type: "text", range: [4, 4], weight: 1, name: "Two cultists in bone-white masks, scratching sigils into a birch trunk." }
      - { type: "text", range: [5, 5], weight: 1, name: "A merchant's overturned cart. The horses are gone; the strongbox isn't." }
      - { type: "text", range: [6, 6], weight: 1, name: "Nothing. Only the wind, and the feeling of being watched." }

Witchwood Wandering Encounters

A 1d6 encounter table for the dark hours along the Witchwood border. The table data lives once in this page's foundry: block, so Foundry gets a real, rollable RollTable and the prose below stays in sync via the fm: handler dot-pathing into foundry.data.results[N].name.

Roll . What you meet at the Witchwood's edge after dark.

Roll	Encounter
1	A weary ranger sharpening arrows by lamplight (Aelar, on patrol).
2	Three goblin scouts arguing over a dropped boot. Disadvantage to surprise them.
3	A lone owlbear, half-asleep, gnawing on a deer haunch.
4	Two cultists in bone-white masks, scratching sigils into a birch trunk.
5	A merchant's overturned cart. The horses are gone; the strongbox isn't.
6	Nothing. Only the wind, and the feeling of being watched.

How this page works

The foundry.base: RollTable line tells the Foundry module to spawn a blank RollTable document keyed to this page; foundry.data is deep-merged onto it, so the GM ends up with a real rollable table whose formula is 1d6 and whose results are the six entries above.

The body table reuses the same data: each row is just an fm: lookup into foundry.data.results.N.name. The fm: handler walks dot-paths and treats numeric segments as array indices, so editing the frontmatter updates both the Foundry RollTable on next sync and the prose rendering on next build, with no hand-syncing.

If you'd rather author your tables in the body and have a small custom handler render them, see Features/Handlers.

Updated May 9, 2026