Matthew Finch has lifted a burden from the shoulders of game masters with this invaluable little volume. Here in one place are 600 daytime encounters, 100 nighttime encounters, detailed tables for units of city guards, random magic users (of varying levels), tables of assorted names and titles, and charts to determine attitudes of strangers.

The encounters vary from the benign, to humorous, strange, all the way to dangerous. Some are excellent lead-ins to adventures. Others are simply the embellishment that makes a game world seemed "lived-in".

The layout and organization are the high level one excepts from Matthew Finch, and the write-ups of the denizens is often hilarious. I find myself wanting to run "a day in the life" sessions in our game just to make the players interact with all these interesting "people", rather than ransacking dungeons.

A most worthy acquisition for any game master, especially those of the Old School.