Connorsrpg
Adventurer
Encounters
I was just reading over this and noted that I said that I had included some wilderness encounters in the session.
I would just like to point out, very few of the encounters in this game were pre-determined.
I had a Random Encounter chart for the Ravine & surrounding forrest, and another for the Thornwaste (the desert to the south of the road used).
I had players roll for encounters, so they knew I had not predetermined their fate and the enemies they WOULD meet. FOr eg, I was just going to have the KotB abandoned, but the PCs rolled 1 for the random encounter check, so I then rolled on the sheet and got a mixed humanoid group from the CoC. (It turned into the goblin and ogre encounter).
I am very comfortable putting these together on the spot, and I have a large compiled Encounter document that helps me put together Creature, Event or Place encounters.
Even the gnoll, orc and zombies on poles was made up 'on the spot'. (We had a short break, so I wanted the players to return to a cool encounter. Having the time to set up, I positioned the orcs on the ledge, bushes for the gnolls to hide, then with a glance at my DM Box I saw the people on ple minis I had from a Dracula set and quickly added them).
For creatures, the document also has 'actions' - so it helps to determine what the creatures are doing. Edit: Attached this doc below.
I was just reading over this and noted that I said that I had included some wilderness encounters in the session.
I would just like to point out, very few of the encounters in this game were pre-determined.
I had a Random Encounter chart for the Ravine & surrounding forrest, and another for the Thornwaste (the desert to the south of the road used).
I had players roll for encounters, so they knew I had not predetermined their fate and the enemies they WOULD meet. FOr eg, I was just going to have the KotB abandoned, but the PCs rolled 1 for the random encounter check, so I then rolled on the sheet and got a mixed humanoid group from the CoC. (It turned into the goblin and ogre encounter).
I am very comfortable putting these together on the spot, and I have a large compiled Encounter document that helps me put together Creature, Event or Place encounters.
Even the gnoll, orc and zombies on poles was made up 'on the spot'. (We had a short break, so I wanted the players to return to a cool encounter. Having the time to set up, I positioned the orcs on the ledge, bushes for the gnolls to hide, then with a glance at my DM Box I saw the people on ple minis I had from a Dracula set and quickly added them).
For creatures, the document also has 'actions' - so it helps to determine what the creatures are doing. Edit: Attached this doc below.