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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5015492" data-attributes="member: 46713">Okay, given that definition, (mega)dungeons don't have a place in 4e. In 4e you're more likely to just describe travelling through extended 'encounter-free' areas or use skill challenges as an abstraction for the activities central to exploration.In 4e random encounters are typically a result of failing those skill challenges (or in rare cases resting in inappropriate places).Dungeons can still be dynamic (in fact many encounters are designed to assume that enemies arrive in waves and/or from several areas) but as a DM you'll have to be careful that combining encounters doesn't become completely overwhelming (unless that's what you want to achieve).Over time my preferences have changed. These days in 4e and to a lesser degree in 3e I prefer concentrating on the encounters that actually matter. This is partially caused by combat taking so long. In 4e random encounters just don't really have a point:While in 3e they were useful to drain some resources in 4e there's almost nothing to drain. Except for healing surges and daily powers they'll start every combat as if it was their first. Consequently random encounters usually don't grant treasure (making them even more pointless). I guess, for groups that still calculate xp for encounters they may be useful to grant those extra-xp required for a level-up, but that's about it.I don't even like them as a penalty for failing a skill challenge. I'd rather handwave the fight and tell the players their characters lose some healing surges because they had to fight something along the way.</blockquote>

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