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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sporemine" data-source="post: 4858621" data-attributes="member: 80911">These are for when the players wander off in an unexpected direction, the adventure makes a strange turn or you just have ten minutes to prepare, the random encounter tables are always good to have. An encounter table follows a basic formula, all encounters are divided into four categories: Easy:Occur 15-20% of the time*Party level -2 or more Standard:Occur 60% of the timeParty level or party level +1 Hard:Occur 15-20% of the time*Party level +2 or +3 Impossible:Occur 5% of the timeParty level +4 or more *one needs to be 15% and the other needs to be 20%, this makes a table more or less challenging depending on which is chosen. Encounter tables can be (and usually are) devided into 5% increments so that encounters can be rolled on a D% or a D20. This also gives good variaton of encounters so that players don't keep fighting the same thing. Here is an example table for a wilderness setting table, built for a group of four level one adventurers: 0-5 (1)Easy:1 Dire rat and 4 giant rats200 exp total 6-10 (2)Easy:3 dire rats300 exp total 11-15 (3)Easy:2 kobold skirmishers and 1 kobold slinger300 exp total 16-20 (4)Standard:4 fire beetles400 exp 21-25 (5)Standard:4 stormclaw scorpions400 exp 26-30 (6)Standard:2 kobold skirmishers and 2 kobold warriors400 exp 31-35 (7)Standard:2 zombies and 6 decrepit skeletons400 exp 36-40 (8)Standard:16 giant rats400 exp 41-45 (9)Standard:3 goblin warriors and 1 goblin blackblade400 exp 46-50 (10)Standard:5 fire beetles500 exp 51-55 (11)Standard:20 (yes 20) decrepit skeletons500 exp 56-60 (12)Standard:4 zombies500 exp 61-65 (13)Standard:3 rat swarms and 4 giant rats500 exp 66-70 (14)Standard:3 kobold skirmisher and 2 kobold slingers500 exp 71-75 (15)Standard:4 needlefang drake swarms500 exp 76-80 (16)Hard:2 goblin hexers and 2 goblin skullcleavers600 exp 81-85 (17)Hard:4 orc raiders600 exp 86-90 (18)Hard:3 goblin blackblades and 4 goblin warriors700 exp 91-95 (19)Hard:4 zombies and 8 decrepit skeletons700 exp 96-100 (20)Impossible:4 kobold dragonshields 3 kobold slingers800 expThis is an example, if you want any other tables just ask or create your own. If you want any non-monster manual monsters, please include them. Also if you want to take a crack at this on your own, go ahead. Any feedback that anybody has will also be appreciated. Kudos -Sporemine</blockquote>

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