TheSword
Legend
By adding risk to an action that wouldn’t otherwise have risk then you are punishing searching. I would assume that has a discouraging factor.If the proposed approach and goal by the player meet the criteria, I'm calling for a check. How is that punishing them? It just reflects something about what they are doing in that scene is uncertain and there is a meaningful consequence for failure.
I’m not in favour of having wandering monsters appear as a consequence of a bad roll. I’m not a big fan of wandering monsters to be honest unless it’s justified with patrols and the like. I’ve always seen it as a fairly blunt instrument.