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<blockquote data-quote="Connorsrpg" data-source="post: 5955532" data-attributes="member: 19265"><p><strong>Encounters</strong></p><p></p><p>I was just reading over this and noted that I said that I had included some wilderness encounters in the session.</p><p></p><p>I would just like to point out, very few of the encounters in this game were pre-determined.</p><p></p><p>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).</p><p></p><p>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).</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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).</p><p></p><p>For creatures, the document also has 'actions' - so it helps to determine what the creatures are doing. Edit: Attached this doc below.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Connorsrpg, post: 5955532, member: 19265"] [b]Encounters[/b] 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. [/QUOTE]
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